Wikipedia:WikiProject Extreme sports

Please note that this WikiProject is very new, and could use all the help you can give

This WikiProject is a community of Wikipedians who share an interest in extreme sports and who wish to improve the general quality and accessibility of Wikipedia's extreme sports articles. It is an effort to coordinate the work of Wikipedians who are knowledgeable about extreme sports, to minimize the frequent damage done to extreme sports articles, and to improve the quality and range of articles on extreme sports.

The world of Extreme Sports is characterized by enormous amounts of individualism, talent, and courage. However, it is sometimes besieged by the media as something that only "rowdy teenagers" do. Here on Wikipedia, we want to set the example for the rest of the media world by writing and maintaining only the highest quality articles. It is likely that our participants will be younger than participants in other Wikiprojects, and may be more technologically savvy. We commit to using the unique talents of all our contributors to produce Gold Standard articles.

Scope and Goals

The scope of the project includes all extreme sports-related articles in this category.

The goals of this WikiProject are:

1. To create Extreme Sports articles that do not exist.
2. To improve Extreme Sports articles that already exist.
3. To protect Extreme Sports articles from vandalism.
4. To organize Extreme Sports articles into reasonable categories for browsing.

How you can help

To build the community:

• Join this project by adding your name to the list.
• Add this page and the Tasks to your watchlist.
• Find new members. Invite people to join us by adding {{XsportsInvit}} to their talk page.

To identify and improve extreme sports pages:

• Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the Tasks list.
• Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{XsportsTasksBox}} anywhere on the page.)
• Have a go at editing a page from the open tasks; check them off the list if you like the result.
• Vote for our collaboration of the month

To provide guidelines for writing about extreme sports topics

• Discuss guidelines here.

Participants

Please add your user name to the list below.

• Michael ^(talk) -- Aggressive rollerblader & WikiProject Creator.
• Solar Police►Talk X Sports fan
• Loudenvier - bodyboarder and first participant after creator
• ManekiNeko | Talk
• cobalt 01:44, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
• Justin - Old School skater
• Churchill67 - Aggressive Inline Skater
• Bwyard - skateboarder
• Dave - snowboarder
• The Dwarf_King 14:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC) - Skaterboarder
• Surfaced - soaper
• Grinder0-0 - Blader - mainly interested in articles about aggressive inline skating, but others too
• User:parisftoast-competitive rock climber, used to skate, love to atv and jet ski when i can, gonna start windsurfing hopefully
• Declanon - Bungee Jumping and old skater
• Dekots - Skiing (Freeskiing), Skateboard, Snowboarding, Aggressive Inline. Basically everything.
• Infamouse (talk · contribs) - Skateboarding, snurfing, backcountry travel, bikepacking, mountain biking
• hitheslopes -extreme skiing, longboarding, Flexboarding, cliff diving, kiteboarding

Don't forget to add the {{XsportsTasksBox}} to your user page.

Standards and practices

General practices

Extreme Sports articles should have the {{Xsports}} template placed at the top of their talk page.

Extreme Sports articles should be categorised as such. (Add [[Category:Extreme sports]] to the bottom of the page)

Discuss adding more general practices.

Readability

Must be clearly legible by members of the public, this means that we can't really use our own lingo like 'fakie zerospin souls', because they won't have a clue what we're on about.

Matt00matt

Open Tasks

Just add any tasks you think worth doing to the Extreme Sports Task List.

Add BASE Skiing

Custom Templates

Task Box

{{XsportsTasks}} is a list of open tasks.

To add the pretty boxed version seen, use {{XsportsTasksBox}} instead. (Note: Both are case-sensitive.) The task box looks like this:

Template:XsportsTasksBox

This list will be regularly updated by volunteers with pages that need attention.

Project pages

Putting {{Xsports}} at the top of a page will add this notice to it:

Template:Xsports

This message should be placed on talk pages of relevant articles.

Stubs

We need a stub tag to be made...

Invitation to join this project

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Extreme sports/invite}} Will add the Wikipedia:WikiProject Extreme sports/invite template to the page. This is how it looks:

You've edited a few Extreme Sports Articles -- you should consider joining the EXTREME SPORTS WIKIPROJECT

This is to be placed on the user:talk of potential participants. If you spot someone who might be interested in this project, bung this template on their talk page. Don't forget to sign it - it looks more personal. And check the member list first, just in case they are a member.

You can view a list of who has received invitations by clicking on What links here on the template page.

Award

The Golden X.

The Golden X will be given to major contributors in the project.

Recipients

None yet.

External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Extreme sports