Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Arts

Let's get this party started

Ok, now that we've signed up, what can we do to start fostering a relationship between the all the arts on Wikipedia? What can we do to improve articles? Should we all introduce ourselves first? *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 22:04, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

BTW, who is maintaining the portal? *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 22:05, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

• I mostly work on art articles, and as Wikipedia:WikiProject Visual arts shows no signs of life I thought setting this up might be a good idea. I was also disappointed with the lack of support for some articles in COTW and AID which I thought might benefit from the attention of an arts project. As far as I can see, nobody's maintaining the portal regularly, other than Cyberjunkie occasionally changing the format. HAM File:Icons-flag-wales.png 22:26, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Greetings! Well, I'm a theatre person and spend much of time working on articles relating to it. I also help maintain Portal:Theatre and I created WikiProject Theatre and WikiProject Elizabethan theatre. Well, I just got back from a walk and while walking I thought about some things this Project might work on. Here are some ideas:

• First I think we need to redo the Project page. I jazzed up the page for WikiProject Theatre, just to make it more visually appealing; we're artists aren't we? In addition, we need to have a scope and mission statement as well as ways to help the project.
• Since we encompass such a large area, I think trying to work on individual articles might be difficult. Perhaps the purpose could be to enhance co-operation between projects and portals, certainly maintenance of all arts related portals, and perhaps an arts article collaboration (only if there is enough interest in this Project).
• One project this group might consider should be sorting out arts related catagories. Certainly working on a general arrangement of them and then working downwards. Being that they are so related, perhaps creating a model category for arts related fields and then working to bring other arts related categories in line with that.

Just some ideas in stream-of-conciousness order. On the re-design of the project page, I have very little time now, but I may be able to tackle it shortly and redesign it if you like. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 23:38, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Two more thoughts. Perhaps we might send some spies over to WikiProject Science and find out what they're doing to create attention. We also might consider an arts related assessment of arts coverage as a whole. Taken it piece by piece and looking at how the arts of covered. Of course we need people in all the arts disciplines to really be able to do this well. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 23:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Arts-related percentages

I just did a few calculations. Of Featured articles, arts-related articles comprise roghly 20%, while they comprise 19% of Good articles. *Exeunt* Ganymead | Dialogue? 01:23, 24 April 2006 (UTC)