Wikipedia:WikiProject Council
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- This is not really a proposal, per se, and most certainly not a policy. It is merely an attempt at fostering better collaboration between already existing groups; what more it might produce or become depends entirely on the ideas and inclinations of the participants.
The WikiProject Council is a group of Wikipedians gathered to encourage—and assist with—the development of active WikiProjects, and to act as a central point for inter-WikiProject discussion and collaboration.
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[edit] Objectives
- Development
- Provide recommendations on current best practices in WikiProject structure and operation, and encourage and assist individual WikiProjects interested in adopting these ideas.
- Accept proposals or requests for new projects, and assist in their creation; or, alternately, point those making the requests to the appropriate existing projects when applicable ones already exist.
- Assist WikiProjects with taking a more active role in the development of the encyclopedia, particularly by encouraging the adoption of various ways of ensuring the production of high-quality articles.
- Coordination
- Maintain a comprehensive directory of active WikiProjects and the notable departments or programs (such as article assessments, peer reviews, or collaborations) associated with each.
- Assist in coordinating the work of independent sub-projects with their parent projects, and of projects having overlapping scopes with each other.
- Provide a central forum for discussions on issues of interest to a wide range of WikiProjects, including inter-project collaborations and Wikipedia-wide programs.
[edit] Recommendations and resources
- Directories
- Directory of WikiProjects
- Proposed WikiProjects, Task Forces and Work Groups
- WikiProject newsletters
- Guides
- FAQs
[edit] Participants
If you are interested in helping out with this project, please add your name to the participants page; please feel free to also indicate any WikiProjects where you are an active member. Central figures in the activity of a WikiProject or Portal are encouraged to also add their names to the list of contacts (we use this list to expedite contact between the various projects).
- .:Alex:. (t c) - WikiProject Video games
- Absolon (t c) Christian music WikiProject
- Bduke (t c) Wikipedia:WikiProject Physical Chemistry and Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry
- Bernstein2291 (t c) I belong to many wikiprojects.
- Branson03 (t c)
- candyo32 (t c) Wikiproject Soap Operas, Pokémon
- Casliber (t c) most active in WP dinosaurs, Birds, Banksia, Fungi and helped out with many others.
- Chrisisinchrist (t c) Wikiproject Television Good Articles Wikiproject, Wikiproject Sci-Fi and Heroes Wikiproject
- ClockworkSoul (t c) Wikipedia:WikiProject Molecular and Cellular Biology and Wikipedia:WikiProject Beer; also the developer of the Igor WikiProject Management Tool.
- Countincr (t c) (WP:MED, WP:CLINMED, WP:CSB)
- Doug (t c) (WikiProject Agriculture; WikiProject European History; WikiProject Portals; WikiProject Cooperatives; WikiProject Law, and several others.)
- DubaiTerminator (t c) Wikipedia:WikiProject Dubai ; Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers
- Electrical Experiment (t c)
- feydey (t c) (WP:BOOKS, WikiProject Beer)
- Gadget850 (t c) (WikiProject Scouting and WikiProject Military history)
- Ganeshk (t c) (WikiProject India)
- Gelston (t c) ((WP:MILHIST))
- Greeves (t c) (founder of WP:MMO and a member of WP:CVG)
- Happy-melon (t c) (work on project banners, banner shells and {{WPBannerMeta}})
- Hiddenvillage (t c) (Wikipedia:WikiProject Croatia and Wikipedia:WikiProject SpongeBob SquarePants)
- Hexagon1 (t c)
- Jamesontai (t c) (Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities contributor, started WP:UNI/COTF and help maintain Portal:University); Wikipedia:WikiProject Robotics
- Jc37 (t c) (Primarily: WP:CMC - WP:GH - WP:M-E - WP:SW - WP:UBX and several task forces at one time or other)
- Je_at_uwo (t c) (WikiProject Medicine, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Molecular_and_Cellular_Biology)
- Jerrch (t c) (WikiProject Taiwan)
- Jhfireboy (t c)
- John Carter (t c) – pretty much making a godawful mess of everything for everyone else, do a little with WP:SAINTS, WP:WPBIO, and WP:HISTORY
- JohnManuel (t c) I am interested in creating outreaching tools. I am very active in WikiProject Peru and somehow active in WikiProject Scotland and WikiProject Holland. -22:08, 21 June 2007 (UTC)
- Juthani1 (t c) I am a member of many wikiprojects and would like to help other users
- Khukri (t c) WikiProject user warnings
- Kirill Lokshin (t c) (Former Lead Coordinator of WikiProject Military history)
- Kironide (t c)
- Lighthead (t c) founder of (Wikipedia:WikiProject Kaballah)
- Manning Bartlett (t c) (Original architect of the Wikiproject concept)
- Mkdw (t c) Primarily active in WikiProject Vancouver, WikiProject Theatre, and WikiProject edit counters.
- Nauticashades (t c)
- Ned Scott (t c) (WP:ANIME, WP:TV, WP:DIGI)
- Nerguy (t c) (WP:Judaism, WP:OrthodoxJudaism, WP:JewishHistory, WP:Biography, WP:Spam, WP:StarTrek, WP:RedLinkRecovery, WP:Canada, WP:TypoTeam, WP:PoliticalpartiesandpoliticiansinCanada, WP:Ohio, WP:Toronto, WP:Schools, WP:Userboxes)
- Nightstallion (t c) (active in various WP, though currently only a little in all of them)
- Nmajdan (t c) (Wikipedia:WikiProject Oklahoma, Wikipedia:WikiProject College football, Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikify, Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates
- Orderinchaos (t c) – Involvement in Australian places subprojects (particularly Western Australia, Queensland, New South Wales and Victoria)
- Playstationdude (t c) Founder of PlayStation Project, Blu-ray Project, Insomniac Project, Blu-ray Portal, and Insomniac Games Portal.
- Roger Davies (t c) (WikiProject Military history)
- Seabird111 (t c) I'm part of six WikiProjects, and I think it would be cool to join the Council.
- Shruti14 (t c) multiple WikiProjects.
- Simply south (t c) (Helped found WP:TIS and WP:HERTS; active in WP:LT, WP:Rail, WP:LONDON; partially WP:UKW, WP:TUK)
- Slambo (t c) (Primarily active in WikiProject Trains, lead editor on Portal:Trains, also work on WikiProject Wisconsin articles)
- SMcCandlish (t c) (Founder of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cue sports, participant in numerous others (mostly WP-internal, like Stub sorting, NPP, RCP, etc.)
- Hiding (t c) (Primarily WP:COMIC but also have Wikipedia:WikiProject Comic strips, Wikipedia:WikiProject Comics Cleanup, Wikipedia:WikiProject Policy and Guidelines, Wikipedia:WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arts on my watchlist.)
- Stevietheman (t c) (WikiProject Louisville-founder, WikiProject Kentucky, and other projects)
- Taifarious1 (t c) – Founder of 2 WikiProjects, WikiProject Los Angeles and WikiProject Auckland
- Terra (t c)
- Texas Patriot (t c)
- The Duke of Waltham (t c) – Helped revive, and now active contributor in, WikiProject Succession Box Standardization (SBS)
- Tinucherian (t c) (Active in lots of projects)
- Titoxd (t c) (WikiProject Tropical cyclones, Work via Wikiprojects)
- Vinson (talk) 22:12, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
- Walkerma (t c) (WikiProject Chemistry, WikiProject Chemicals and Work via Wikiprojects)
- Zachary crimsonwolf (t c) (WikiProject Shannara) and (Wikipedia:WikiProject Cats)
[edit] Current notices
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WikiProject Council noticeboard |
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[edit] To-do
- Complete the Guide to WikiProject organization.
- Delete or merge abandoned or useless projects, as needed.
- Create a more streamlined and useful project proposal page.
- Encourage and assist WikiProjects in adopting the WP:1.0 article assessment program.
- Assist sub-projects interested in integrating their project banners with those of other projects
- Develop a system to funnel peer reviews and other requests to the appropriate WikiProjects.
[edit] Templates
Members:
You can show your support for this project by adding yet another userbox to your user page:
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Userbox}}
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This editor is a member of the WikiProject Council. |
- If you prefer to Keep It Simple you can use {{User label WPCouncil}} which displays:
WP:COUNCIL
Alternatively, to show membership, you can use this banner.
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This editor is a member of the WikiProject Council, a collaborative effort regarding WikiProjects in general. Please feel free to join us. |
To mark pages of interest to this project:
{{WPCouncil}} or {{WPCOUNCIL}}
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This page relates to the WikiProject Council, a collaborative effort regarding WikiProjects in general. If you would like to participate, please visit the project discussion page. |
Navigation bar:
{{WikiProject Council Navigation}}
Footer:
To recommend the use of this footer to be used at a WikiProject's main page, may increase spontaneous sign-up (recruitment), inter-projects collaboration and users responsible participation:
{{WPCouncilRec}}
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WikiProject Council would like to inform all Wikipedians that it may be advantageous to:
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[edit] Internal templates
These "template" subpages are used internally on various pages here. Some of them are quite fragile, so please be careful when modifying them.
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide header
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Header
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Links
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject footer
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject header
[edit] See also
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects (being slowly updated)
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/List of WikiProjects (incomplete at present)
- Proposal for WikiProject reform
