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===WikiClubWest and WA Project ''Editor of the Month''===
===WikiClubWest and WA Project awards===
=== Appreciation in May 2023 ===
As the meetings of the group edges toward 80 registered meetings in 2023, it was considered
that the named/identified, and anonymous editors that make the WA project what it is, needed


to see that their contributions are acknowledged. The meeting 78 was the point where the

tireless contributors were identified.


===''Editor of the Month'' in 2020===
* From 2020 - ''Editor of the Month'' for contributions to the Western Australian project in creating new material or improving content by substantial addition of text and images. In most cases edits that are recorded on the page [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia]] constitute basic criterion for consideration.
* From 2020 - ''Editor of the Month'' for contributions to the Western Australian project in creating new material or improving content by substantial addition of text and images. In most cases edits that are recorded on the page [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia]] constitute basic criterion for consideration.


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WikiProject Western Australia

Bishop Hale's house in Perth
Bishop Hale's house in Perth.


Shortcut

WikiProject Western Australia is a WikiProject dedicated to maintaining and improving articles relating to the state of Western Australia.

The project aims to:

Project scope

WikiProject Western Australia maintains and improves articles within the Western Australia category structure:

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Western Australia

Specific goals

To improve iconic and high-profile Western Australian articles to Featured Article quality. e.g.

To-do list

Here are some tasks you can do to help with WikiProject Western Australia:

Vital articles: 100 Most Influential Western Australians is a possible starting point
Requested articles: Nicholson, Western Australia  • Robin Sarah Greenburg (see Crimenet page)  • Indiana Teahouse
Missing topics: Peter M. Olde • Neil R. Marriott • Christopher J. French • 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Parade of Nations • See missing topics report for more
Draft articles: Search for Western Australia drafts • Search for Perth drafts • See draft articles listing for more
Split topic articles: See Split topic listing for more
Seeking sources: William Harris (Australian civil rights leader) • Michael Kailis
Expansion needed: David Parker • Economy of Western Australia • Bill Hassell • May Holman • Barry MacKinnon • PGA • Pilbara historical timeline • List of WA waterfalls • tourism sections needed in Western Australia • Thomas Hughes (Australian politician) - needs expansion from cultural sources
Requested images: Requested photographs in Western Australia • Requested photographs in Perth
Article cleanup: See Cleanup listing
Popular pages: See Popular pages listing (related changes) – improvements to (or vandalism of) these articles will impact a larger number of readers
Assessment: See Unassessed WA articles and Unknown-importance WA articles
Outreach projects: See § Outreach projects

Edit

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Articles requiring cleanup

The cleanup listing, linked to on the right, is an automatically generated list of articles using cleanup templates. The old unmaintained list (linked here as people have been using it as a worklist) is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Western Australia/Cleanup listing.

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

  • 16 Dec 2024 – Category:Marsh family of Western Australia (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Mike Selinker (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Good article nominees

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Resources

Useful resources for information on WA topics:

Templates

Project banner

A project banner is displayed on an article's talk page to flag the article as related to Western Australia. This is a parameter within the Australian banner:

  • {{WP Australia|WA=yes}} - instructions are here
    • If the article already has the WP Australia banner, just add WA=yes inside the brackets
  • {{WP Australia|Perth=yes}} - articles in the Perth Metropolitan area

It is possible to add, in addition to the project banner - specific sub projects with:

Stubs

This project's main stub template is {{WesternAustralia-stub}} – for all stub articles within the WA category tree. The following stub templates are available for more specific topics:

Cities:

Geographic places:

Infrastructure:

Other:

Request a photograph

Awards

This award can be given by any project member to any other editor who has made significant and useful contributions to Wikipedia's articles associated with Western Australia:

  • [[File:Barnstar-WA.png|frame|right|<text> ~~~~]]

Assessment progress

Of the 22,258 articles overseen by WikiProject Western Australia:

99.9% have been assessed for quality
See Category:Unassessed Western Australia articles for the 1 remaining articles

   

100% have known importance
See Category:Unknown-importance Western Australia articles for the 0 remaining articles

   

70.5% of prose articles are not stubs
See Category:Stub-Class Western Australia articles for the 5307 remaining articles

   

Western Australia articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Total
FA 2 5 41 48
FL 1 1
FM 1 1
A 2 2
GA 8 17 60 85
B 7 43 107 445 602
C 16 93 345 2,033 2,487
Start 8 68 499 8,900 9,475
Stub 10 77 5,218 5,305
List 9 65 812 886
Category 2,003 2,003
Disambig 41 41
File 48 48
Portal 6 6
Project 135 135
Redirect 1 839 840
Template 263 263
NA 15 15
Other 2 2
Assessed 31 233 1,117 17,511 3,353 22,245
Total 31 233 1,117 17,511 3,353 22,245
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 91,135 Ω = 5.06
Assessment log

Recognised content

  • Fremantle Prison inmates and main front Iwel jpeg convert
    Fremantle Prison inmates and main front Iwel jpeg convert

Good articles

Members

Active members

To publicise your membership of WikiProject Western Australia, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members may also place member identification on their user page.

  1. BoundaryRider (talk · contribs)
  2. Bjenks (talk · contribs)
  3. Calistemon (talk · contribs)
  4. Dan arndt (talk · contribs)
  5. Evad37 (talk · contribs)
  6. GDuwen (talk · contribs)
  7. Ghostieguide (talk · contribs)
  8. Gnangarra (talk · contribs)
  9. Gobeirne (talk · contribs)
  10. Graham87 (talk · contribs)
  11. Grant65 (talk · contribs) -- (thanks Hesp)
  12. Hack (talk · contribs)
  13. Hesperian (talk · contribs)
  14. Ingenious27 (talk · contribs)
  15. james.cole.w (talk · contribs)
  16. JarrahTree (talk · contribs)
  17. Leksut (talk · contribs)
  18. Luxure (talk · contribs) - May as well, you gropers are 2 hours behind ;)
  19. MargaretRDonald (talk · contribs)
  20. Moondyne (talk · contribs)
  21. Nevanderson (talk · contribs) - "A keen Interest in Australian History"
  22. Non-monic (talk · contribs)
  23. Orderinchaos (talk · contribs) - Fantastic idea!
  24. Petedavo (talk · contribs)
  25. philiphist (talk · contribs) - “Northwest and Kimberley”
  26. Somno (talk · contribs)
  27. Steelkamp (talk · contribs)
  28. The-Pope (talk · contribs)
  29. samwilson (talk · contribs) — Thought I was already a member (always have been, in spirit).
  30. Compusolus (talk · contribs)
  31. Adibutcool (talk · contribs)
  32. Adondai (talk · contribs) 00:20:33, 30 November 2022 (UTC)  - Planning and development of WA towns and cities[reply]

Deceased members

  1. Glen Dillon (talk · contribs)
  2. Morethangrass (talk · contribs)

Former members

Thank you for your help! Contributions to the project are always appreciated. Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. AdrianChadd (talk · contribs)
  2. Callophylla (talk · contribs)
  3. ColRad (talk · contribs)
  4. EpicGiantMan (talk · contribs) - Joined thanks to Orderinchaos
  5. Five Years (talk · contribs)
  6. Glory6164 (talk · contribs)
  7. Hezbolarki Fun Ship (talk · contribs)
  8. Hossen27 (talk · contribs)
  9. James086 (talk · contribs)
  10. John D. Croft (talk · contribs)
  11. KHS-Boab (talk · contribs)
  12. Longhair (talk · contribs) - why not. I plan to visit one day anyway :)
  13. Lukeduk1980 (talk · contribs) - Helping with some history of Australia. Can provide some good resources.
  14. Mark (talk · contribs)
  15. Mdavies 965 (talk · contribs)
  16. M Johnson (talk · contribs)
  17. Mod.torrentrealm (talk · contribs)
  18. Nachoman-au (talk · contribs)
  19. Outrune (talk · contribs)
  20. RaNdOm26 (talk · contribs)
  21. Renesis13 (talk · contribs)
  22. Rolinator (talk · contribs)
  23. Rund717 (talk · contribs)
  24. Sandstorm6299 (talk · contribs)
  25. Sarah (talk · contribs)
  26. Scoreed (talk · contribs)
  27. SpringSummerAutumn (talk · contribs)
  28. Tazkal (talk · contribs)
  29. Thewinchester (talk · contribs)
  30. Thompson.matthew (talk · contribs)
  31. Woddawik (talk · contribs)
  32. Yungur (talk · contribs)
  33. Zamphuor (talk · contribs)
  34. ZRFKAU (talk · contribs)

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Western Australia may place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Western Australia members.

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject Western Australia members]] none linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Western Australia}}
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Western Australia.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Western Australia}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Western Australia.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Western Australia|invite}}
This user invites you to join
WikiProject Western Australia.
 linked pages

For other Western Australia user templates see Category:Western Australia user templates.

Welcoming new participants and users

  • {{Welcome-au}} — a customised welcome note for new Australian users

Meetup notices

WikiClubWest logo Perth Meetup
See also: Australian events listed at Wikimedia.org.au (or on Facebook)

WikiClubWest and WA Project awards

Appreciation in May 2023

As the meetings of the group edges toward 80 registered meetings in 2023, it was considered that the named/identified, and anonymous editors that make the WA project what it is, needed

to see that their contributions are acknowledged. The meeting 78 was the point where the

tireless contributors were identified.


Editor of the Month in 2020

  • From 2020 - Editor of the Month for contributions to the Western Australian project in creating new material or improving content by substantial addition of text and images. In most cases edits that are recorded on the page Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Australia constitute basic criterion for consideration.
  • NOTE: - This does not generally include editing in project space, corrections, adjustments or maintenance issues in main space or talk page space
  • The allocation of the award is from the aggregation of positive and constructive edits and additions that are not strictly calendrical but approximate the overall benefit to the project, it has nothing to do with competition or winning it is a subjectively designated appreciation of positive contribution of content to the project
2020
  • January - Evad37 - for almost an article a day of Western Australian topics
  • February - The Drovers Wife - for creation of Local Government Authority historical articles
  • March - SamWilson - for regional maps of Western Australia
  • April - Callistemon - for heritage lists of Western Australia
  • May - Hughesdarren - for April and May work on Acacias of Western Australia

Random things of interest

Categories

That might have potential candidate articles or subjects in Western Australia which may not be obvious or apparent to a new editor.

Oddities and contenders for various accolades

Contenders for oddest and oldest articles and categories about Western Australia

Moondyne's reply (to the first entry in the list above) would have to be a strong contender for the most belated reply! (4.5 years) GlenDillon 07:18, 25 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

  • Parent:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia
  • Child:
Wikipedia:WikiProject Perth
  • Sister:
Wikipedia:WikiProject New South Wales
Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Territory
Wikipedia:WikiProject Queensland
Wikipedia:WikiProject South Australia
Wikipedia:WikiProject Tasmania
Wikipedia:WikiProject Victoria
  • Cousin:
Wikipedia:WikiProject British Columbia
Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand

Outreach projects

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