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Template:WikiProject Council Navigation

This page can be used to gauge support for potential WikiProjects before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.

Proposing a project
To propose a project, write a brief description, and add it along with your name to the list below (in alphabetical order by topic). Some boilerplate you can use:
== Name of project ==

; Description : [description here]

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [your name here]

; Comments
Expressing interest
If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.
Creating a project
If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects.
Requesting a project
There may be cases where you believe that there is a pronounced need for the creation of a project which does not yet exist which you may not personally feel qualified to join. Some examples might be certain countries, disciplines, etc. In the event you are aware of such a situation, please add the relevant name to the list of projects below and see if there are any individuals interested in creating such a project.

Projects

Admin Oversight Board

Description - To try to determine if it is feasible to create a board of administrators and non-administrators, possibly with wikipedia bureaucrats and staff as well, which could act in a judicial capacity to review behavior of administrators, specifically regarding the propriety of their actions, and how such a board could be specifically constituted. The existence of such a board composed of respected non-administrators and administrators alike may be sufficient to forestall questioning of whether a decision made by it is truly fair and independent, as opposed to being a group of administrators who might be seen as acting to reduce the possibility of being sanctioned for similar actions of their own. It also might be sufficient to preempt the possibility of disaffected editors from going so far as to bring civil complaints against wikipedia as an entity or against individual administrators in particular.

Temporary Project Page: User:Badbilltucker/Admin Oversight Board

Interested wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comments:

  • You might want to get some more feedback about this, even if others gain interest in the project. Maybe a note about this idea should be left on WP:AN? -- Ned Scott 10:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Ermm, sounds burocratic to me. -- Selmo (talk) 21:10, 14 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Sounds more like warmongering to me. "Warn me again, and I'll drag you in front of the Oversight committee!" --InShaneee 22:00, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Actually, I thought of it as more of the opposite. I personally imagine that most of the complaints would be dismissed summarily for lack of evidence or for perhaps small criticism of the admin in question (maybe for using a remotely potentially insulting phrase, for instance), but the simple fact of having an independent body doing so would, I hope, eliminate the number of complaints about admin collusion and suchlike. Much like the average police board, it might investigate a lot of complaints, but in almost all cases they find that there has been no real abuse of power. Also, I don't think that it would necessarily have any real authority, other than that given it by the community as a whole. However, the mere presence of the body and the rebukes it would offer over time would I think be enough to prove that it is independent, and thus hopefully avoid complainants indulging in other procedures, like lawsuits (as has been mentioned before by others), defamation of the admin in question, etc. etc. etc. Badbilltucker 02:38, 19 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • First of all, I can garentee you that the second this is created, there will be accusations that it's run by 'the cabal'. Secondly, this smacks of a judicial system. Regardless of what power it may or may not be given at creation, you're asking it's members to weigh judgement on other admins. We do have processes to determine this, and simply put, we need less lawyering around here, not more. --InShaneee 16:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • No disagreement to the last point. As stated above, the primary purpose of the group would be to create a body which by its existence would serve to help keep real lawyers and lawsuits getting involved in wikipedia's actions. Badbilltucker 16:23, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • That's what OFFICE does, though. --InShaneee 00:31, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • Actually, that restricts itself only to content. The possibility of a disgruntled editor who has been banned and later files a legal action based on that ban has been raised more than once, and in the event that any admin were named as a defendant in such a lawsuit even once, and has to hire council to defend his/her actions, I think there is a very real chance of total chaos erupting. That is what this proposal is trying to prevent ever happening. Badbilltucker 00:41, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Who currently does "oversight" for the admin? What made you want to create this, have you seen an admin that needed oversight? YaanchSpeak! 23:10, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


African art

Description WikiProject African art would be dedicated to creating and improving a battery of articles on African art, art movements, artists, curators, collectors, and museums. The area's woefully undercovered on Wikipedia, and while I've been trying to put a few things together, there's only so much I can do. --User:AlbertHerring Io son l'orecchio e tu la bocca: parla! 19:44, 16 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary Project Page: User:AlbertHerring/WikiProject African art

User: AlbertHerring

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested)

  1. General Eisenhower (t c) we need something like this for a WikiProject
  2. Szvest - Wiki me up ® 18:49, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: I think that this project should be included in WikiProject Africa, that is to say if WP Africa becomes an official project. // PoeticDecay 00:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

addendum, which it now is, Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa Chris 08:13, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Aircraft photo collection

Description
[This project will aim to collect and organise arcraft photo on wikipedia/wikicommons so that a single database for ref of pics can be made easliy.]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [yousaf465]
Comments

Alabama

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Alabama.

Temporary project page:

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. AlaGuy 20:20, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Rob C (Alarob) 17:17, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:


The Amazing Race

Description
A Wikipedia project for the reality TV show "The Amazing Race" in its current US incarnation as well as for international versions. The project is meant to help standardize the presentation of information for each season and the corresponding supporting pages.
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Masem --Masem 22:56, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
Per the note at the top of this page: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Amazing Race should be part of a reality show taskforce in my opinion. One show is too broad in my opinion. RobJ1981 23:20, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Analog Photography

Description : A wikiproject covering wet photographic processing, film, chemestry, paper, darkroom tools, and anything else releated to photography using silver and releated materials.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. Reub2000 00:51, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. jstraw623 01:21, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Kamope · talk · contributions 00:54, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

Ancestors of Modern Games

Description
Basicly this project will revolve around gathering information on older games. Games that were not classics but inspired them. In other words forgotten games. It will also be for placing new more detailed information into already exsisting games, as well as adding new titles that were never seen here but nonetheless inspired game developers to make better games! One small paragraph is not enough for a game that took months or years to develop! I am calling to all Old time gamers and those younger ones that have acctually played the game to speak up and participate on this project. Bring back the wisdom and dignity of our older and more forgotten games! If we dont then they will remain forgotten.Yes this project will include old computer games and counsle games, along with sport games and board and table games that exsisted even before video games were created. Tetris, checkers, and even jousting and games from midevil eras and eras older are to be included. If not for these Modern Game Ancestors people would of had a very boring evolution and many games today would more then likely not exsist! In other words All Old Games will be helped by this project. Maverick423 20:38, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Update I have checked the Gaming project and suggested doing this however they say that they cover this issue already; however whenever i adress them on such issues as far as updating and adding infomation to other older games, they are ignored. this is leading me to making a temporary project page as clearly the video gamming project doesnt care about older games as they state they do Maverick423 16:53, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary Project Page: Wikipedia: Wikiproject: Ancestors of Modern Games

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Maverick423 15:45, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
I might ask for maybe a bit more clearly defined scope. Will this project be limited to computer, board and/or table games, or would older sports-type games be included as well? Badbilltucker 19:05, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment of unassessed articles

Description
There is currently a great deal of work being done across projects to assess articles for the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, and that's great, but a great number of articles are not currently tagged by projects which assess for this, and may never be. Therefore, the purpose of this project would be to tag and assess articles not currently covered by an assessing project, for the purposes of the Version 1.0 Editorial Team.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 17:38, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Badbilltucker 18:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. John Carter 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Great idea. Questions come to mind, however. Specifically, would this group basically set up other projects which are not yet doing assessments, and do the assessments for them, or would it have it's own banner and include assessment criteria there? Personally, I would favor the former. If so, I would certainly welcome rolling the proposed Project Support Services project proposal into this one, one way or another. Badbilltucker 18:07, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I had originally planned the latter, however the former seems a better idea. The group could probably get away with also having it's own banner for articles with no project whatsoever, including some quite important ones; Hell comes to mind. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 18:36, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Actually, I myself am in the process of doing all the religion related articles, and just haven't gotten to Hell yet. However, I do enthusiastically support the idea. Badbilltucker 18:46, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Yep. In cases where there's an existing project banner to use, it would probably be better to add that than to create some generic one. Kirill Lokshin 19:32, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
However, the project could create it's own banner to use in addition to the other applicable project banners. Badbilltucker 17:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
What would be the point? The articles only need to get assessed by a single project in order to enter the system; having an additional banner that's not actually tied to a functional subject-area project doesn't seem useful. Kirill Lokshin 17:07, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I was thinking of something like the existing automatic stub template, possibly with even similar wording. Or maybe a similar addition to existing banners along the same lines as that. Or maybe a small one similar to those used by the Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors or similar to indicate that the work had been done by the project. I small three or four line ad, as it were. Also, some projects explicitly say only project members can assess articles, and they might want to know why outsiders assessed the articles for them.Badbilltucker 17:20, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
For articles not covered by any project wahtsoever, these would need a seperate banner until a suitible project could be found. I guess part of the scope of this project would be to locate projects for such articles. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 17:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
It would probably work best if we ran User:PockBot or something similar on a given category we know falls within the scope of a given project, and assess those articles which aren't listed as being assessed yet. Badbilltucker 17:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Please do! Certain projects would be very happy to have help with getting untagged articles tagged and/or assesed. :-) Kirill Lokshin 17:57, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not sure how mnay people we would need to get this to go, considering it isn't at this point so much a project as a function. There is now a {{AAA}} template which could be added to articles to indicate who did the assessment. We'd still need some sort of project page. I've contacted the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team regarding this, and am awaiting a response. Badbilltucker 15:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

(Unindent) Sorry I took a while to respond to the above request, I got distracted while working on this earlier. (We're also beta testing Version 0.5 :)). This idea would certainly be an excellent addition to the 1.0 project. We are moving from a manual system of picking articles (as used at Version 0.5) to an automated system (outlined here), to allow us to get much larger collection (V0.5 was only 2000 articles). One ongoing concern with the automated system is that there may be gaps in our selection, if we don't have projects representing that subject area. For example, we have about 2000 Pennsylvania articles (1000 assessed) to pick from, but no Maryland articles. This can affect even broader subject areas - we have Dance and Film covered, but many fine arts like painting and sculpture are not (I think!).

I think I would like to combine the efforts of this proposed group with WP:WVWP (Work via WikiProjects), which was very active (indeed WVWP + Oleg set up the bot assessment scheme), but which has lain dormant since the fall because of people's commitments elsewhere (e.g. to Version 0.5). People have also become less interested in contacting WikiProjects now that the projects are coming to us at the rate of about one per day! It is clear that the focus of WVWP should shift from trying to contact all projects, and switch to trying to focus inactive projects. Traditionally (i.e., last year!) many of these functions you describe have fallen to WVWP - we have recorded information manually from projects that are not using the bot, we have helped projects get started with the bot, and sometimes just given general guidance (the role now played by this council). We did a lot of assessments for projects that were new to the concept - Doctor Who, Adelaide, all sorts - just to help them get started. Once they had some examples of assessment of their own articles, they were able afterwards to perform their own assessments and start using the bot. Tagging articles that fell outside the jurisdiction of any active project was less relevant when we only had 50 projects using the bot; it is an excellent idea, and it is a natural evolution for WVWP to work on this.

Therefore I would like to propose that the 1.0 team and the Council collaborate closely on this, with perhaps a joint team. Two ways to do this:

  1. Rewrite the goals of WVWP to incorporate the new modus operandi, and also bring it under joint jurisdiction of WP:COUNCIL and WP:1.0. Much of the existing infrastructure can be used and adapted. (By the way, one of my next projects is to write a site map for the rabbit warren that is Wikipedia 1.0, that may help!).
  2. Set up a completely new project under WP:COUNCIL as described above, with a more narrow focus than WVWP, but work closely with WVWP.

I strongly favor the former, mainly because I think we don't want to multiply groups when we may only have a couple of active people in each! Also, despite our inactivity in recent months, there are still occasional edits to our manually listed tables and questions on our talk page. About a year ago we contacted all the WikiProjects ("all" as of Oct '05, much fewer than today) so the community has heard of us. Tables like Philosophy & Religion and (even worse) Humanities) desperately need updating, but there is a lot of valuable information on these tables that should be used. I'd like to find some way of expanding & updating lists like this bot list, which is (in effect) "All the Arts article assessments that come from projects not using the bot". It can be a lot of work, but in fact a couple of us were able to achieve a great deal when it was a major focus for us. What do others think? Walkerma 19:55, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think that sounds brilliant, probably by far the best way to do this. I too favour your former idea, much better to run as part of the project then to become a seperate one in our own right; it will probably get off the ground quicker that way, and gain more contributers, too. Also, the fact that the project has already existed for some time, and is well known, will greatly help us. Another deciding factor is that WVWP is on the verge (i.e. may do in a year or two, seems fine for now) of going inactive, which would be a great shame as it was a highly successful Wikipedia group, whereas this would keep the old project going, just under a new direction in adition to it's present duties. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 20:09, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Sounds great to me. Badbilltucker 16:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Great! Should the 3 of us (+ other interested parties, eg Tito or Kirill?) get together on IRC, or have a conference call on Skype, to work out the best way to do this? Or should we just thrash out our ideas over at Talk:WVWP? I'll try and do some cleanup at WVWP in the next few days, and also work on the site map I mentioned. Walkerma 18:14, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've never used IRC, and don't have Skype, so I would be much more comfortable over at Talk:WVWP. Blood Red Sandman Open Up Your Heart - Receive My EviLove 18:54, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, I've copied over this discussion to WVWP and started the ball rolling at least, please add comments to the new discussion - feel free to elaborate on what you think should be done. Also poke around the WVWP pages and see what we've done beside the bot work! I will try and do cleanup in the next few days, as well as writing a site map and contacting old WVWP members. Cheers, Walkerma 04:41, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I like the idea. But can anyone tell me if assessments are standard across the board? Also, what if anything do I do when I find an article assessed at two different levels, for instance, B and A classes? John Carter 22:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Anime conventions

Description : Basically with the amount of Anime conventions out there today, some of the articles are stubs and are horrible un-sourced. Anime Expo, Otakon, and Fanime would be all examples of large conventions that are most definitely notable, but do need some work.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. :: Colin Keigher (Talk) 06:31, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Confusing Manifestation 12:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 02:32, 27 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Phantasy Phanatik
Comments

Antarctica

Description: This proposed WikiProject would deal with the continent of Antarctica. As, seemingly, most of the information available relating to the continent is tied closely to the geography of the continent, I believe that the project will deal primarily with the geography of Antarctica, and, to a lesser extent, the climate, the scientific research taking place in Antarctica, the wildlife of the area, and some geological history.

Temporary Project Page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Antarctica

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

WikiProject:Appreciation

Description
This is a proposal for a WikiProject in which is similar to the random smiley award but it is not random award, it's main purpose would be to recognise peoples contributions to our encyclopedia, no matter how many or how minor they are, as-well as to make wikipedians know that all of the contributions are greatly appreciated and therefore creating optimism on wikipedia and encouraging further contributions. If there were enough active members I'd be willing to create templates for members to distribute onto other users' talk pages just saying about the project and thanks for their contributions. I'd be willing to help on this myself and create the project page etc and hopefully make it a success with many members.Tellyaddict 15:45, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Temporary project page
User:Greeves/WikiProject User appreciation
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Greeves (talk • contribs)
  2. Jerry_lavoie (talk • contribs • count)
Comments

Aviculture

Description
The purpose of this project is to help increase the amount and quality of content related to aviculture on wikipedia, and to maintain articles relating to the subject, eventually bringing as many as possible up to good- or featured-article status.
Proposed project page

  • None at this time.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Badbilltucker 16:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Snowman 16:30, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. jimfbleak 06:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. User:flash19901 23:31, 09 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
I'm all for improving articles, but I'm concerned that the goal of this project could end up being to supply "care sheet" type information to articles, which falls specifically under what Wikipedia is not, and there is already a draft project for bird related articles. This could easily be organized into a set of standards for those birds kept in captivity within that project. -Dawson 17:40, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think that ornithology is sufficiently different to aviculture to need a separate project. The project would aim provide verifiable information in an encyclopaedic format. It would not aim to give advice and it should not give advice on the wiki. Snowman 18:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
good idea, as long as the "how to" bits are rigorously expunged. jimfbleak 06:09, 29 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Backpacking

Description
A WikiProject to organize backpacking, hiking, equipment, and book related articles.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Leif902 10:19, 26 February 2007 (EST)
  2. LifeScience 06:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC) I'm an avid hiker and survivalist. I hope this project gets in the works.[reply]
Comments
  • I will begin this WikiProject if it finds support, however, I am not very good with Wikipedia syntax, and will need other editors to, design boxes, user boxes, information templates... etc.
  • I have started the project as I have received interest from several users... it can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking please help us get this new project off its feet!

Banners

Description
A WikiProject to set standards for, and help projects with, WikiProject banners.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Miketm 10:52, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Agathoclea 15:41, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Wouldn't this be something that the Council could assist with? I would help out with this new WikiProject if it was formed but I don't know if a Project with such a narrow focus is needed.↔NMajdan•talk 16:16, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Yeah, this seems like something that could be better done directly through the Council; we probably don't need more "meta-WikiProjects" at this stage. Kirill Lokshin 18:27, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Setting this up as a specific task for Council would probably be more efficient. -- Ned Scott 18:35, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • I don't think it's up to anyone but the projects to design, make, and handle their own banners. Any effort by the Council to manage the banners would have to be approved by all the projects, IMO. --MPD T / C 21:44, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • I was under the impression that this was intended as an effort to help projects with the technical aspects of banners, not an attempt to control them. (FWIW, I don't like the latter idea either.) Kirill Lokshin 21:53, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • The word "standards" in the description brings up thoughts of cookie-cutter banners. Technical aspects and help is perfectly fine and would be appreciated, I'm sure. Perhaps then, it could be a sub-project of the Council, rather than its own project. I define banners as the template at the top of a page...so it could be broadened to be a more "Templates" sub-project, which would help with all templates needed by a project(unless that's what's implied and I'm not on the same page). Just to clarify. :) --MPD T / C 22:03, 24 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • When I say standards I'm talking about a naming convention, a starter template that projects can expand and customize and things like that. This project would not tell projects what there banners should look like, or how they should work, but how they can improve and make them work more effectively.— miketm - Queen WikiProject - 02:51, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • In reply to Kirill, seeing as how unchecked wikiproject template spamming has now reached levels where it is starting to noticeably degrade the usability of talk pages, I think some measure of control/regulation is necessary. However, it is inappropriate for the wikiproject council to define those standards. As the TFD nomination has shown, the wikiproject council and its members have an obvious bias in favor of wikiprojects, and against what is in the best interests of the average reader and contributor (who are not wikiproject members). Or, as I previously noted, the NRA should not be writing gun control legislation. Raul654 15:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • There are some bold asseertions here. If this were an article I would definitely tag Raul's statement with {{fact}}. I'd like to see any evidence Raul can provide to back up the claim that "the wikiproject council and its members have an obvious bias...against waht is in the best interests of the average reader and contributor". I think that is a scandalous claim. Force10 15:09, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Nice to see that AGF is alive and well these days. Kirill Lokshin 15:50, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • It's not their good faith I doubt - I don't doubt that they mean well. It's the fact that they have an insurmountable conflict of interest. Already, there's at least one bot wikiproject-tagging hundreds of articles per day, and the best solution the wikiproject council has come up with to date is the small=yes non-solution. The *last* thing I want is the wikproject council forming some sort of banners meta-project with airs of authority, setting "standards" which obviously favor its own interests (that is, many large and obtrusive banners which are displayed by default) above the interests of the community at large (which prefers small, uncluttered talk pages). Raul654 16:03, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • Insurmountable conflict of interest indeed! It's not like Council members had any role in developing {{WikiProjectBanners}} or anything like that. I would have thought that our sincerity, at least, would not be in doubt; but it seems that I was mistaken. C'est la vie, as it were. Kirill Lokshin 16:21, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
        • I would only note to the above editor that the person to whom he seemingly directly addressed the above comment created the User:Kirill Lokshin/Sandbox/Template14 template, which if used would probably do more to decrease clutter than just about anything else I've seen to date. John Carter 16:19, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
          • "which if used would probably do more to decrease clutter than just about anything else I've seen to date." - then I guess you haven't seen Template:WikiProjectBanners, which ((unlike the above) is already deployed and used on 600-or-so articles. Raul654 16:23, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
            • No, actually, I have seen it, as is evidenced by my comment here. The template above referenced by me goes a step further, though, and actually displays the projects' names, something the example you cited does not do, and, at least potentially, decreases the need for interested parties to ever have to see the specific banners, and could, at least potentially, replace them in some cases somewhere down the road. John Carter 16:31, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Um... would WikiProject Banners have a banner? *head asplodes* No, seriously, I don't think this is a good idea. Not even a good idea for the Council, either. This should be done in the Village Pump. Titoxd(?!?) 23:10, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I don't think we should have this at all. It is not fair for one WikiProject to have authority over how other WikiProjects use banners. Johntex\talk 15:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I like this idea if and only if one of the goals of the project (besides regulating banner styles and whatnot) would be to assist WikiProjects in specializing their banners (with the complicated code most of us haven't learned) to best meet the needs of each project. I know my project could benefit from someone with technical expertise. KSchutte 22:03, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Berlin

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Berlin, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Berlin in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [your name here]
Comments

Bionicle

Description: A WikiProject for Lego's toy line Bionicle. To maintain and expand all the Bionicle articles on Wikipedia.

Temporary Project Page: User:Torritorri/WikiProject Bionicle

User: TorriTorri

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Note: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego already is already engaged in dealing with this subject. Badbilltucker 15:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, you might just want to see about collaborating with the existing Lego WikiProject on this one. Maybe making Bionicle a sub page on their project as apart of their group but with a dedicated to do list and talk page. -- Ned Scott 17:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bittorrent

Description: A Wikiproject for the bittorrent protocol, related technology, and clients. To maintain and expand all related articles, keeping existing articles up-to-date, and possibly putting together a standard how clients are presented. There might be an expansion in to other p2p clients if there is enough support.

User: Darthnader37 06:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below)

Comments

Bleach

Description: A WikiProject dedicated to the manga and anime series Bleach, not the cleaning product. The focus of this WikiProject would be to work on Bleach (manga) and get it to GA, or possibly even FA, status; copy-edit all Bleach-related pages in need; italicize and define terms borrowed from the Japanese (examples being: benihime = "crimson princess"; zangetsu = "moon cutter"; senbonzakura = "a thousand cherry blossoms"; etc.), as per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Foreign terms and italicize every instance of Bleach; and much more.

Temporary Project Page: User:Poetic Decay/Sandbox

User: Poetic Decay 15:23, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

  1. Tohru Honda13 (talk · contribs)
  2. Grimjaw (talk · contribs)
  3. SUIT (talk · contribs)
  4. Vee159 (talk · contribs)
  5. Hitsugaara (talk · contribs)

Comments:

  • And yes, I guess that major anime series could have their own WikiProject. That way, you could focus more on that series and look at the to-do stuff of that project, rather than have them bunched up on the main Anime project, I guess. And besides, the anime series that have their own project are very well known and are major. Note that there aren't that many of those kinds. — ♥Tohru Honda13♥ 16:41, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • There doesn't seem to be any real need for a separate Wikiproject. Centralized discussion can be mantained at the talk page for Bleach (manga) or the anime Wikiproject.
  • I agree with the others' sentiment: it makes more sense to be a task force under WP:ANIME than to make a new project. The focus of the proposed project is too narrow, IMHO, to be worth all the overhead an entirely new project requires. ···日本穣? · Talk to Nihonjoe 20:02, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Too broad of a project: should just be a subpage and/or taskforce as part of the anime project. Wikipedia isn't a fan club. Just because you like something enough, doesn't mean a project should exist for it. RobJ1981 08:23, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I personally don't see what's so wrong about it. Come on, we have a Digimon Wikiproject and we can't have a Bleach one? Give me a break. If this is rejected, there better not be a Naruto WP anytime soon. Hitsugaara 06:18, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • As a very active participant of WikiProject Digimon (that's right, I said it) I take issue with that comment. I've noted many times in the past that Digimon has an active project not because Digimon is important, but because there's a lot of stuff to clean up. The work load itself gave the project life. At one point we had almost 1,000 articles for Digimon.. right now we're doing a mass merge and helping all articles to comply with WP:WAF, WP:FICT, etc. It doesn't matter if the show is good or lame or small or big, sometimes there's a lot of stuff to clean up. I've even said that I could easily see the Digimon project becoming just a task force once the bulk of the work is done. If Bleach has that kind of work load, then go right ahead and make it a WikiProject. -- Ned Scott 07:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
      • Actually, thinking more about it, there's really no reason WP:DIGI couldn't do the same work as a task force. I guess you could say the real reason WP:DIGI is it's own project is because the idea of task forces has only recently been given major promotion, and wasn't known as an option when it was starting. -- Ned Scott 07:30, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
As per the note at the top of this page: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. What's the big issue with a taskforce instead? Not everything should have projects just because people propose it, and there is some interest for it. Also, the thought of "because this has it, this one should too" isn't reasonable logic to create a new project. RobJ1981 06:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That note was added after I proposed the project. With that aside, I already said above that I don't care if it's a task force or its own seperate WikiProject. // DecaimientoPoético 12:31, 2 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo

Description
To Attend to all artilces Recarding the Anime and manga Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Lego3400
  2. StrangerAtaru
  3. (your name here)
Comments

This is very needed. These pages are a MESS There are templates that are only used some times, images are only off site links. Yuck! Lego3400: The Sage of Time 15:44, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

  • I seconded it mostly due to the chaos this set of pages has become. I've been working on the Wiki for Bo-bobo for the last year and its been one thing after another in adding pages and information, with some pages with too much information and others with false stuff thrown in. While me and a few other editors have been working for a while to figure out what to do, I guess we've become as chaotic as the show. -StrangerAtaru 16:12, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • As per the top of the page: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. Wikipedia doesn't need projects for every anime. A taskforce can do the job just fine. RobJ1981 18:37, 16 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Boulder, Colorado

Description Hello. I believe that there should be a project about Boulder, Colorado. I see there are many mistakes in Boulder related articles, and inportant information is left out. Also, detailed atricles about schools in the area, and people who had influence in Boulder and people who were born there. Also, there would be a more detailed section about the JonBennet Ramsey case, and more.

Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name if interested)

Comment You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. Chris 05:00, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject: Careful Editing

Description
This is a Proposal for a WikiProject which supports careful editing while using Wikipedia. If there was enough members for this project I would be willing to create userboxes etc and totally create the project Page about this. As well as this, this project would support the use of taking your time and not hurrying edits on Wikipedia. This would also be a good help for new users on how to give them good article editing tips as well as helping to make Wikipedia written in a correct and formal tone with no mistakes. Tellyaddict 21:53, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. AxG (talk) (guest book) 22:18, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. [your name here]
Comments

Cambodia

Description : This is a wikiproject for those interested in cambodia, its people, its art and culture. This is to bring wikipedians together to make Cambodia more important in wikipedia. For those interested in Angkor Wat, or anything regarding Cambodian Culture please contribute.


Temporary Project Page
Cambodia Project

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. CanCanDuo 04:22, 1 January 2007 (UTC))[reply]
  2. NeoApsara 05:10, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Cantharellus 00:56, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. LaNicoya 02:12, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Chris 08:24, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Melanochromis 11:42, 5 March 2007 (UTC) Happy to help!! I have been maintaining Cambodia Portal for several months already.[reply]
  7. --William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC) been maintaining Cambodia and adding to Khmer language as well as Khmer Royalty and history.[reply]

Comments:

  • This is, in theory, a good idea. But it will have to be kept to some academic standards. I've been hoping for more educated Wikipedians taking an interest in Cambodia and adding to the articles. However, I find most of the people wishing to contribute to the Cambodia/Khmer articles are not familiar with WP:V, WP:NOR, or WP:RS. Most, in fact, seem to be Khmer high school students who add legends or beliefs as fact or Khmer POV pushers who blame the Thai or the Vietnamese for all of Cambodia's problems throughout history and want to remove anything percieved as "negative" from the articles. With so few academics specializing in Southeast Asia here at Wikipedia (or anywhere for that matter), I'm afraid that having a project like this will group those sorts of people into one place, giving them the power to dominate consensus. While projects are excellent vehicles for article improvement when there are many academics around, I fear, in this case, it may serve to bring down the quality of the articles. Please convince me otherwise, because I am excited about the opportunity to work with others to constructively build the Khmer-related articles.--William Thweatt Talk | Contribs 16:31, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • Hi William. Just want to let you know that I share your idea. We, as a wikiproject, have to prove ourselves be as much academic and neutral as possible. Unfortunutely, we Southeast Asian were taught and raised up in strong nationalistic and ethno-centric environments. As a Thai person, I have seen many nationalist-go-ugly kind of comments countless times, from Thai, Khmer, or other people. It is sad that this kind of thinking takes over academic standards sometimes. So, I think this issue has to be addressed somehow in the project page and make it clear that what our standards are. This is particularly crucial, as there are many online sources or even some mainstream Southeast Asian media that promote nationalist versions of history over the academic ones. It should be made clear that those sources are, in most cases, not credible or citable. Cheers. --Melanochromis 18:55, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
We have the exact same problem with WikiProject Myanmar (Burma). The high schoolers and those wishing to honestly contribute we encourage and direct as per Wikipedia method. Much more insidious is our resident POV pusher, made all the more so that our repeated attempts to bring sanction so that he acts reasonably have fallen on deaf ears. This is particularly bad as the nation is not free, and in our project this takes up a lot of time cleaning up after him, or fighting his constant attacks, that we could be spending doing something productive. If you can find some way to enforce a standard, please, we want in! Chris 06:52, 6 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Canadian Rock

Description: A wikiproject devoted to improving the many different artists and genres in Canadian rock. At this point I'm trying to figure out how many are interested and if such a project is really necessary.


Temporary Project page
User talk:Scorpion0422/Canadian rock

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. icelandic hurricane #12 (talk) 12:26, 9 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. If they're willing to, they get to do all the hard administrative work, which I always thought was best avoided whenever possible anyway. Badbilltucker 21:03, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Cantopop Music

Description
My Wikiproject is based on information on Cantonese Music. (See Cantopop) This WikiProject includes information of Hong Kong singers, songs, and albums. This WikiProject would help Wikipedia by adding more information, and improving stub articles about Hong Kong's cantopop music.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Stephy100
  2. Smcafirst
Comments (Any questions? I would be glad to answer them.)
  • Is this WikiProject necessary? Express your opinion?

A:Yes,it will give more information on cantopop music and it will sure make people understand about cantopop music,it will also help Wikipedia because we will make more articles and improve the stubs.

  • How are you going to improve the stubs?

A:we will research on more in formation on the topic and extend the article to improve it.

  • How big is your coverage of this WikiProject? Does it extend to as far as 1930s, to the early developement? If not, this WikiProject, to me, would be seemed pointless, as the developement of Cantopop in the early ages is important.

A:My Wikiproject's coverage includes music of Hong Kong Singers and albums and chinese songs.We will include 1930's music,the history of Chinese songs and the development of music.we will include topics like singers,songs,albums,history of music and the music of long ago.To accomplish our goal,we need your help to work on this.

  • Wouldn't it be a better idea to expand it to Project Chinese Pop? That way you snag the Mandopop fans as well, which would get you more support for the project.

Charmed

Description
to maintain and improve quality on all Charmed related articles. Similar to WP:BUFFY
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Malevious Userpage •Talk Page• Contributions 20:15, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Maelwys 20:35, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. -- Huntster T • @ • C 23:12, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. NeilEvans 17:01, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Think outside the box 13:08, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Chile

Description: A project to deal with all articles relating to the country of Chile.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User
John Carter 19:34, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

WikiProject Cite

Description This project basically aims to find citations for articles in Category:Articles lacking sources with templates {{unreferenced}} and {{primarysources}}. Also, it would make a new template, ({{refformat}} or {{properref}} maybe) that would indicate an article with sources, but not in the proper references format. Many articles have their citations as external links like this [1]. This would put the article in a category and members of the this WikiProject could change it to the proper format. We could also work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations, a list of articles that woul be GA if they have citations.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User
Nauticashades (talk · contribs)
RICKistheBOSS 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Keesiewonder

Comments
I like the idea. --Ineffable3000 21:33, 3 January 2007 (UTC) --CyclePat 06:05, 14 January 2007 (UTC) Us Uni student have access to all the worlds biggest databases.! Sure.[reply]

If there's support and enthusiasm for this, this could be a really great thing for the whole wiki. --InShaneee 03:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

What about this? It's been dead since June though. Spookane 20:07, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Cold War History

Description
A project to foster better coordination and collaboration on articles relating to Cold War history.
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Nobs02 21:52, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. KarlBunker 22:44, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Eleland 13:50, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Jimbo Herndan 04:15, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. A mcmurray 09:48, 2 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Destructo 087 22:34, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Chris 04:55, 22 February 2007 (UTC) let's jumpstart this bad boy[reply]
  8. Crested Penguin 08:13, 14 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Cologne

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Cologne, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Cologne in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments

Comedians

Description: This would be a specific type of Biography project, specifically for working with comedians, living and dead, from all countries, etc. This would not include things such as sketch groups or comedy clubs, etc...

User: --Twintone 16:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments: There's just something funny about this category I can't quite put my finger on.... 8^) NDCompuGeek 02:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Note also similar project at Wikipedia:WikiProject Owarai Chris 02:53, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Color Cleanup

Description
The color articles are really messy with a lot of irrelevent or otherwise not encyclopedia worthy content, especially in the "culture" segments. These tend to assume a single culture for all of Humanity and have a lot of unnecessary information. The goal of this project would be to improve the quality of the color articles. Well written and cited sections for the symbolism of colors would be heavily cleaned up.
User
Demonesque
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Demonesque 04:45, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Colorado Rockies Baseball

Description
To help figure out what rumors and news articles are true and to help other Rockies or baseball fans understand that Colorado Baseball Team
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. rockiesfan4ever
Comments

You might want to check with Wikipedia:WikiProject Colorado to see if they might want to set it up as a subproject. Chris 04:59, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Columbia University

Description
In order to facilitate the expansion of Columbia projects (pun perhaps intended related to current events) as well as to mediate frequent controversies and disputes
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Valley2city 07:36, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Matan 01:42, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments


Consulting

Description
This is a proposal for a project that is aiming to coordinate efforts around articles that are related to consulting. All types of consulting are going to be included: management, IT, financial etc. Primary goals would be identifying all existing articles that fall under the scope of the project, creating a list of required articles, identifying criteria for importance of entries for this category, etc. Given that consulting business is heavily growing at the moment, this project has lots of potential.
User
Gimlei 18:02, 16 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments

Cosmetics

Description: To improve information on cosmetics, especially from the points of view of history, industry, biography and science. To remove the advertorial copy that affects many cosmetic industry articles at present, create NPOV, and add citations. To ensure a fuller context for cosmetics articles, linking to issues including feminism, culture, animal welfare, religion, social history, medical ethics and so on.

User: TinaSparkle 14:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary project page: available at my user page.

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments: How do we protect against advertorial vandalism? Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I guess that's where we chemists come in, isn't it?--Sam195 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, and we copyeditors too! I think diligence and a sharp eye are the best lines of defence, unless anyone has the skills to write a super cosmetics anti-vandalism bot. -- TinaSparkle 15:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Costa Rica

Description: This is a proposal for a project aiming to the improving and expanding of Costa Rica-related articles. Articles such as List of schools in Costa Rica and Battle of Rivas (which are extremely important to understand Costa Rica's history and social structure) are left in a permanent stub condition and left with none or vague info. Other institutions, such as Saint Mary High School, have taken of Wikipedia's lack of information about Costa Rica to set up personal web pages or biased articles about themselves. This project would aim to improve and radically change this articles until they are in a professional and unbiased format.

User: Bernalj90 18:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary project page: User:Bernalj90/WikiProject Costa Rica

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. Badbilltucker - will try to help as much as I can, which, regretably, may not be much.
  2. Darwinek - created many stubs about geography in the past, still many to write ... - Darwinek 14:59, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:


Cruise Ships

Description
This project seeks to organize all articles pertaining to cruising in a decent manner. There are many articles in wikipedia regarding cruising and cruise ships. This project also seeks to further develop the smaller articles as well as maintain the fully developed ones.
User
mmerali
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments


DaimlerChrysler

Description
This project will cover all branches and cars associated with DaimlerChrysler. The Chrysler area on Wikipedia is large, so it would be useful to organize it. Some important aspects would include Mercedes Benz, Chrysler, Plymouth, and Dodge.
User
JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 02:39, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments

De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Description: This is a proposal to make articles on mathematical concepts more accessible to a general audience through the use of analogies, diagrams, and examples.

Temporary project page: User:Mistercow/De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Linus M. I personally think that this project would be excellent.

Comments:

Dedicated Article Maintenance

Description: A project that encourages users to "adopt" one or more articles. They would then participate regularly in the maintenance and expansion of these articles.

Temporary project page: User:Linus M./WikiProject Dedicated Article Maintenance

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Linus M.

Comments: This is an interesting idea, but I doubt that it would be very productive unless you had membership out the wazoo. How long would the article be "adopted"? How would you select which articles need to be adopted? Why can't we leave this for the Article improvement drive? Diez2 14:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Delaware

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Delaware.

Temporary project page:
User:EaglesFanInTampa/WikiProject Delaware

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:


Comments:

Derbyshire

Description
I would like to set up my own project for the english county of Derbyshire. There is a similar one for Cheshire, here [[3]]].
Interested Wikipedians
  1. AxG (talk) (guest book)
  2. Erebus555 (talk · contribs)

Comments There are similar projects for other counties such as Cornwall and Cheshire and feel that one for Derbyshire would be neccesary. I have been living in the county all my life and so have the other interested wikipedians. We are all experianced wikipedians and we are all knowledgeable of the area and I am sure the project would work. JFBurton 14:03, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Devil May Cry

Description

I have interest in establishing an WikiProject based on the video game series Devil May Cry. The are similar projects for Digimon and The Legend of Zelda.

Interested Wikipedians
  1. Dark Dragon Flame (talk · contribs)
  2. Boradis (talk · contribs)
  3. Majinvegeta (talk · contribs)
  4. SUIT (talk · contribs)
  5. The Hybrid (talk · contribs)
  6. Heat P (talk · contribs)
  7. Alexlayer (talk · contribs)
  8. Quatreryukami (talk · contribs)

Comments

Devil May Cry is a growing series both in game numbers and popularity, sometimes it's a shame to see the status of some of the pages belonging to this saga, by creating this project I make an compromise to mantain the pages in top shape free of vandalism and speculation and hopefully raise some of them to Good Article status, thanks for your time. -Dark Dragon Flame 05:59, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

You guys might want to try becoming a task force (probably of WP:CVG), something we're trying to promote more often as an alternative to starting WikiProjects from the ground up. Basically you get all the benefits of a focused editing group, but with less hassle and not having to worry about starting from scratch. -- Ned Scott 07:58, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Let's wait longer to see how many people want to become part of a project if they aren't that many we become a task force, I consider project because of the growing tendency of the series you see now it's not only games but also manga, books, novels and anime the info on these will keep growing and they will eventually require their own pages thus expanding the focus of this, about the work part I really enjoy doing that kind of work so that's not really a worry, anyways thanks for your suggestion.-Dark Dragon Flame 08:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Too broad of a project: should just be a taskforce as part of the CVG project. Wikipedia isn't a fan club. Just because you like something enough, doesn't mean a project should exist for it. RobJ1981 08:22, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That would require fusing all existent projects only based in videogames that are actually smaller than what this can be, this isn't just video games the anime portion will have an own article and who knows how far that will extend and how many pages will be born from that and my aproach is for a serious project not a fan club fanboy edit fest. -Dark Dragon Flame 08:36, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If you really think it would work then go for it, but remember that sometimes making a narrow project can make things more complicated and spread out. In the past we've had many of these projects start up but didn't really go anywhere, and just made it harder to find active guidelines and discussion. You also don't always have to centralize something by topic, in that maybe the video game articles will be fine under WP:CVG and maybe the anime articles will be fine under WP:ANIME. So give it some thought and try to choose the path that will best serve the articles, and if you still think a WikiProject is the way to do it, then go for it. -- Ned Scott 08:55, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
After reading the discussion I am leaning more towards this "taskforce" idea. I haven't read up on what that entails yet, but to my mind what this topic needs is some kind of reviewable set of guidelines and a central page for discussion of the franchise. In other words, a structure of some sort for future editors to fall back on if and when those of us signing up are no longer able to contribute. --Boradis 21:03, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No point at making a Devil May Cry wikiproject. It's still a relatively small franchise compared to the likes of Resident Evil, Mega Man and Street Fighter (none which have wikiprojects). I do however propose a Capcom wikiproject, which is more broad (I know there's already a Capcom task force, but I think it could expanded to a Wikiproject).Jonny2x4 01:51, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I think Jonnny has a point. A Capcom project for all games that are by Capcom: Street Fighter, Mega Man, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry and so on, is a bigger scope and works much better than just a single series project. RobJ1981 02:18, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
No Support Sorry, but this would be a little pointless. The Devil May Cry articles, while they do require some work, can't be expanded much more than they have been. About the only things which *might* warrant an article would be the official manga they released and the upcoming anime, both of which could be covered by a Devil May Cry (series) article. There's also a Capcom Task Force already, and it'd be a simple matter to create templates for Devil May Cry. Starting a whole new Wikiproject would be far more work than it's worth. I'm pretty much finished with my wikibreak, and I'd prefer it if I spent that time improving the DMC2 article than organizing a Wikiproject to improve the DMC2 article. Cheers, Lankybugger 15:30, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I've gone ahead and added some useful information to the Capcom Task Force page. Cheers, Lankybugger 15:39, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
If DMC should not have a Wiki Project, why should individual anime like one piece get one ( I dont have the link, its on the talk page). I think if there is enough info and information, then it is justified. After all, there are characters, storylines, weapons, etc. that can be written on, and with more detail than a normal wiki article. Quatreryukami 20:25, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
That one's easy. One Piece, to use your example, is a LONG anime. It currently stands at a staggering 447 individual chapters (each as long as a monthly comic book release), with the anime having a similarily lengthy number of episodes at 299. The series has also seen the production of 8 movies (many, if not all of which have seen theatrical release), a Trading Card Game, and 26 seperate video game releases. This doesn't delve into artbooks, soundtracks, novels, action figures, or any of the other items typically released with an anime of this size. To put that on a scale you might be familiar with, One Piece is nearly as big as the entire Dragon Ball series.
Now, compare those figures to Devil May Cry's figures. Devil May Cry has seen the release of... [b]3[/b] video games. 4 if you count the Special Edition of DMC3 seperate from the regular edition, 5 if you include the upcoming DMC4, and 7 if you include the cameos Dante has in Viewtiful Joe 1 and Viewtiful Joe Red Hot Rumble. Devil May Cry has an anime in production which will likely last one season (if it's not just a feature-length). Likewise, it's seen the release of a very limited run Manga and a few action figures. The scope of the entire Devil May Cry series, unfortunately, is just a drop in the bucket compared to large scale manga/anime productions like Dragon Ball, One Piece, Naruto, Bleach, etc... Each series I've named beats the entire number of games the DMC series has released on pretty much ANY of the platforms for which they've had games produced. Cheers, Lankybugger 15:15, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Diplomatic Missions by Country

Description Listing all the diplomatic missions each country has.

Interested Wikipedians

  1. Kransky
Comments
About 82 countries done so far.
I think other editors might be more likely to support the possible project if it were to expand its scope a little. Certainly, I do not yet know of a Wikipedia:WikiProject Diplomacy, which could cover the existing diplomatic missions, former diplomatic missions, diplomats' biographies, diplomatic history, and so on. In the process, of course, specific articles relating to each nation's individual existing missions would be pivotal. Badbilltucker 17:02, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Thanks Badbilltucker. The intention would only to focus on the diplomatic networks of each country, i.e: where they are, and have a consistent and publically endorsed format. Additional details like current or prior ambassadors or other details is possible later (some articles have this information already) but it would be laborious to keep current. Kransky 10:43, 3 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Drum set and drumline

Description
When I looked at the drum set article, I was disappointed to see that there was no drum set project group to join.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. pikasneez27
Comments

EAScripting Collection

Description
The goal of this project is to find, document, catagorize, and complete everything there is to know about EAScripting. Its secondary goal would be to find all pages that should link to EAScripting and have them link to EAScripting.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. user:Comperr
Comments

Because there are so many different versions, modules, systems and such for EAScripting it would be wise to get as many people as possible working on documenting them all.

EAScripting Defaults

Description
The goal of this project is to convert all EAScripting programs on Wikipedia to the default compiler standards defined by this project. Its secondary goal would be to determine if the wikipedia standard is being used elsewhere and if not change the standard used to one that is being used.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. user:Comperr
Comments

The standard used on wiki would be chosen by this project and then this project would convert all existing programs to use this standard.

Eastern Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Burundi, Comoros, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rwanda, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Temporary Project Page:

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project.

  • Note that there's already Eritrean and Ethiopian WikiProjects up. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 10:10, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • So noted. This project, if created, would only try to supplement any existing projects within its scope, perhaps with assessment, peer review, and additional collaboration, and only actively involve themselves in the articles of another project if that other project becomes deleted or inactive. It's primary focus would only be for those countries whose articles are not yet supported by any project. Badbilltucker 20:43, 26 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • Please see my comment down at #Southern Africa about the inclusion of Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia in the scope of this project. This project has quite a wide scope already, and those countries are, in my experience, nearly always referred to as Southern Africa. (See also the article East Africa and its accompanying image.) Meanwhile, seeing as South Africa already has a project, and the other countries have few active contributors, a larger scope might benefit WikiProject Southern Africa. Picaroon 21:52, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Eastern Europe

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia and Ukraine.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Eastern Europe

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:


Comments This project would focus its efforts primarily on those Eastern European countries not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

I would suggest that the project should concentrate on issued whose scope is broader than one particular nation. Cooperation is particularly needed in articles about history (wars, battles, rulers etc.), politics (international relations), geography (transnational regions, border towns), culture (common traits in national cultures of the region), languages and the like. I also think that Central Europe would be a more appropriate name. And that German-speaking user should be invited. — Kpalion(talk) 10:54, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Maybe a good idea. However, the guy who first proposed the project seems to have gone bye-bye. On that basis, I am creating the project page, and I am more or less following the specs he gave above. As stated above, the project will deal primarily with articles that don't already fall within the scope of any specific national projects. In time, if specific national projects are created, that would probably eventually lead to the project focusing exclusively on trans-national issues. John Carter 00:28, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

El Salvador

Description
This Wikiproyecto has like purpose of extending, of improving, of organizing and of coordinating the creation and writing of all articles related to the republic of El Salvador..
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Juan Miguel (talk · contribs)
Comments ; (Feel free to add any comments)

Endangered languages (and language revitalization)

Brief proposal and discussion of scope: User:Ling.Nut#Current_Projects

Skeletal project page: see top of page for links to lists of endangered languages that I have been working on:

User: User:Ling.Nut

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Engineering

Description
A Wikiproject Centering on engineering with a deep base in mathematics and physics, and linked to the Engineering portal. This project would expand engineering knowledge.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Molinogi (talk · contribs)
Comments ; (Feel free to add any comments)

Entourage

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality and quantity of Entourage related articles, and decide and implement uniform editing guidelines on pages related to Entourage.

Temporary project page: User:Argash/WikiProject Entourage

User: Argash

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

  1. Sven Erixon (talk · contribs)
  2. Davey4 (talk · contribs)
  3. LoyolaDude (talk · contribs)


Festivals

Discription A wikiproject made for the better understanding of festivals from all over the world. these are to include reconized community festivals with 5 years of running and 15,000 or more participants, Notable state festivals, and National festivals from all countrys.

Temp Project Page User talk:Maverick423/Wikiproject:Festivals


Intrested Wikipedians

Comments

I have noticed that there isnt a project watching over festivals and since festivals are a important part of any community and or nation, its very importaint to make sure the data on them is up todate. This means providing the History of the festival, the reason it was made, and the people that participate on them. please be openminded and consider this project it can really help alot of people.Maverick423 16:39, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How would this project be different from Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays? John Carter 16:45, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

very easy. Holidays are usally reconized by the nation that holds them Ex. Christmas. what this project is about is Festivals that are held during the year that are ussally not reconized by the nation; (although some of them are but they are not a holiday) they are held by a community or state. these usally are based on the culture majority that are in the area where its held. therefore some people out of the community wont know about it unless they visit that community or are invited. this project will attempt to close that gap so that people from other communitys or even nations for that matter can learn about each other. Maverick423 16:58, 9 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Fishing

Description: A WikiProject for Fishing, and the multitudinous articles related thereto. I think scope is dependent on participants. Some organization of the many articles is definitely needed, and this is where group participation is particularly valuable. Plenty of grunt work in fleshing out and cleaning up articles is, of course, possible, too.

Temporary Project Page: User:ENeville/WikiProject Fishing

User: ENeville

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

User:CaptainXel

Ootmc

Fort Worth, Texas

Description: There is a need now for a WikiProject dealing with the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The article is of poor quality, as are all of the articles relating to it. (Look at History of Fort Worth, Texas for example. It is a recent article, and help is needed to improve its quality.) Dallas, Texas already has a WikiProject, and it's time Fort Worth got one as well.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

Comments

  • A comment from an obvious outsider, but wouldn't it be possible to contact the people at the Dallas project and see if they would be willing to expand it to include the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area? Considering that the two projects would have a very high degree of overlap, maybe that would be the most effective way to go. Badbilltucker 02:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
This has already been done, but it was voted to keep the article solely about Dallas itself. Stallions2010 02:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Not the *article*, the *project*. Stevage 22:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, my mistake. This is what I meant. On WikiProject Dallas, the vote differed between keeping the project about Dallas itself or Dallas and its suburbs. No one voted to expand the project to include Fort Worth as well, which was one of the options. --Stallions2010 22:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Football (soccer) in the United States of America and Canada

Please offer suggestions for a better name (preferably shorter.) The scope of the project includes improvement of all the soccer leauges, such as the MLS and USL, in Canada and the USA. Also included would be their national teams. The project would also develope articles on players, coaches, and other influencial figures in the game. XYZ CrVo 02:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comments Feel free to leave any comments
  • I agree with the name suggestion. I'm not clear on the structure of WikiProjects - when a subProject is better, when it should be its own thing, etc., so I'll defer to the experts on that. Bill Oaf 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • You don't want to say "the USA and Canada"; see guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations: "When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the “United States” (for example, “France and the United States”, not “France and the U.S.”)." I'm good with North America which you can easily defines as the United States and Canada. Existing articles on soccer specific to the United States and Canada use "soccer" rather than "football" and I think that is consistent with Wikipedia principles regarding spelling and usage, but that is certainly a good topic for discussion if we had a project page. Canadiana 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Foundation (skateboards)

Description
This project will be aimed to create, format, do basic edits, and link all Foundation skatebording related articles together.
Interested Wikipedians
  1. ClayteX 17:19, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

WikiProject Free images

Images can be divided between free and non-free ones. Recently, there has been a push to eliminate the non-free ones that, apparently, can be recreated. However, until now I have seen many places with suggestions about how to request free images, but not a project to coordinate efforts. Because of this I am giving the first push to WikiProject Free Images, aimed at centralizing discussion about free images. Currently, it is situated at User:ReyBrujo/WikiProject Free Images, but with enough positive feedback and help, it will be moved into the Wikipedia namespace.

The WikiProject aim is broad: first and foremost, educate users about the benefits of free images, but also to teach the differences between free licenses when applied to images. Aside this, the WikiProject will focus in replacing the current fair use images with free ones of good quality, by contacting the media, agencies, publishers or other copyright holders as necessary. It would keep a list of requested images to different organizations, with the different steps that had been taken and the different replies. It will also have an index of all the images that had been donated by these organizations, so that they are able to review their contributions. Also, the members of the WikiProject would review the usage of these images in Wikipedia, verifying that attributions are applied at all times when requested by the copyright holder.

This WikiProject was given as a thought during the Wikipedia:Elimination of Fair Use Rationale in Promotional Photos discussion, and since apparently there has not been a similar one, I decided to try it out. -- ReyBrujo 18:22, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Ned Scott 06:17, 24 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. NeilEvans 17:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Great idea, there needs to be co-ordinated effort to replace images if possible.--NeilEvans 17:19, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Gemology and Jewelry

Description
Articles related specifically to the study and trade of gems and jewelry are sadly lacking in need of guidance and direction. Wikipedia:WikiProject Gemology and Jewelry is a meeting place for the development of articles in this field. Please join in and have your say. The framework for the WP is largely in place and participants who can help categorise articles and assist in assessment would be appreciated.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. User:SauliH
Comments

List of Franchise Companies

An exhaustive list of every global franchise company in the world, and a description of what the company does
[description here]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [Shawnborgia]
I would like to make an exhaustive list on every franchise company in the world. These companies are known as 'franchisors'. I need help from people around the world.

Shawnborgia 04:21, 8 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Georgia (country)

Description
for the nation of Georgia, the only Transcaucasus nation not to have its own project
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Chris 08:36, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. [your name here]
Comments
Now that Wikipedia:WikiProject Georgia (U.S. state) is running, how about one for the country Georgia? Chris 22:16, 28 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Global Democracy

With the human rights portal in place, discussing human rights around the world, it seems right that there be a similar portal for democracy (or lack of). The voting rights or suffrage of every country on Earth could be profiled, with a chronological history of the spread of democracy. I'm relatively new here so technical help would be especially appreciated. Thoughts?

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Josh
Comments

Greenland

Description: This project will serve to increase the overall scope of awareness and knowledge of the island of Greenland and create and improve articles relating to it. It will serve, in an atmosphere of cooperation and diversity, as a guide and a model to assist fellow wikipedians who wish to improve the quality of their articles.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Greenland
Interested Wikipedians (please your add name below)

Grunge & Alternative

Description: This WikiProject will help to create, expand, and complete articles about grunge and alternative music. It will create articles for songs, albums, or artists/bands that fall under grunge or alternative. It will serve to help keep the music section of Wikipedia up-to-date and user-friendly.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Gulf Wars

Description: To create and improve articles relating to the Gulf Wars, spanning from the Iran-Iraq War, The First Gulf War (Operation Desert Sheild) and indepth work on the Second Gulf War (2003 War of Iraq) and the on-going conflict. Related topics include things such as the burning of Kuwaiti oil fields, Gulf War Syndrome and The Iraqi Republican Guard. Also included will be the improvement of related movies, documentaries and shows concerned with the Gulf Wars.

Intrested Wikipedians Add your names ::: 1. --Sharz 07:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You might contact WikiProject Military history to see if one or more of its existing task forces already deal in detail with this subject. Badbilltucker 18:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Indeed. We don't have anything explicit at the moment, but setting up a new task force should be much simpler than creating an entirely separate new WikiProject. Kirill Lokshin 18:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Half-Life

Description: To improve all Half-Life related articles, and maintain current FA articles such as Half-Life 2

Interested Wikipedians (Please Add Name Below)

Temporary project page: User:Selmo/WikiProject Half Life

Comments

Hall of Fame

Description
I had started this page as an effort to develop as a part of Wikipedia culture, but later decided it might be a good idea to convert it into a voluntary wikiproject rather than a process or policy. Thus I would request a fresh look and input on whether this is a good idea for a wikiproject (if judged not, I will delete it promptly). I just wanted a good way in which Wikipedians can celebrate the achievements and growth of Wikipedia together and feel proud of themselves and their colleagues for performing thankless jobs. A hall of fame seeks to remember and celebrate the contributions of those users who have helped fellow editors and this project in a way that should not be forgotten and deserves some form of permanent remembrance, especially as an example for future Wikipedians. I think such an endeavor is necessary in wake of the end of Esperanza and other civility projects. Rama's arrow 19:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Rama's Arrow
Comments

Hamburg

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Hamburg, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Hamburg in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. 亮HH
Comments
  • Itwould be great if someone ca ntake this on. There's already a format for the project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for format. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • In this case, I could agree. However, I personally think it would make more sense if these subprojects focused on states of Germany, rather than simply individual cities. Considering Hamburg is both a city and a state, though, that wouldn't apply here. Badbilltucker 14:12, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hertfordshire

Description
This project aims to help coordinate and improve all articles relating to the county of Hertfordshire, UK.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Simply south 08:48, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Historical People from Yellowknife

Description: The project will aim to create a category with working articles and links for active reference use on the history of Yellowknife, NT, Canada. It will contain a category page that "contains" all of the people that I/we have created articles on.

User:

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comment

  • I think that would be a good idea too. I am in the process of incorporating this project under Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada; as well, please note my change of username.

Homestar Runner

Description
[This project will try to improve all articles related to the flash cartoon series "Homestar Runner"]
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Wikizilla (Talk)signme! 20:59, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Comments

There are many Homestar fans out there, and if we joined up, we could benefit wikipedia.

Too broad of a scope. It should be a taskforce as per what the top of the page says: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. I don't understand why people just choose to ignore what it says. RobJ1981 21:41, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project

Description: The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project is a seminal project for English language policy and planning around the world. Although focused on Hong Kong government and society, its theoretical foundation can be applied to most East Asian countries and many countries in other regions where the English language is promoted as a mandatory universal second language in public school systems. The HKLNA-Project is about language quality and language diversity and the preservation of both. The project combines a variety of scientific disciplines including economics, linguistics, political science, statistics, as well as anthropology, sociology, and history. The project took two years to assemble, contains many hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables and a large number of links. If it has an important drawback, then it is the outdated software with which it was produced and a need for software updating and online maintenance.

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Hotels

Description: I'm proposing this WikiProject as I feel that the hotel articles on Wikipedia could benefit from such a coordinated effort. The project would aim to collaborate and direct the efforts of editors interested in improving and building upon hotel articles. The primary aim of this WikiProject would aim to establish a structure and consistency with hotel-related articles. I'm aiming to keep this as broad as possible at this time - open to suggestions.

Any comments regarding the proposed creation of this project would be much appreciated.

Temporary project page: User:Luckyluke/WikiProject Hotels

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments

  • I agree with Luckyluke. I think this Wikiproject would be very helpful to a lot of articles. I say get going and start it! Good luck with the creation. Chupper 23:33, 8 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Idaho

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Idaho.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

Iglesia ni Cristo

Description: This proposed WikiProject centers around Wikipedia articles about the religious organization known as Iglesia ni Cristo. We aim to create and maintain articles that are both well referenced and in a neutral point of view, keeping them at the level of quality Wikipedia intends all articles to be. The Wikiproject will also serve for centralized discussion and collaboration about such articles.

Temporary project page: User:WikiLeon/WikiProject Iglesia ni Cristo

User: LBMixPro <Speak|on|it!> 09:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Saleem 01:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Da'jhan 20:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments I'm not sure if there is enough interest to start a separate project. However, I am relatively certain that the Christianity WikiProject would be willing to take on a work group or task force to focus on the subject. That might be the best way to go. Badbilltucker 19:30, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Interbank networks

Description: This project is intended to expand Wikipedia's current coverage of the world's various interbank networks (a.k.a. ATM networks or ATM consortiums). This involves writing about these interbank networks, their services, as well as where they provide their services, whether on an international, national or regional level.

Temporary project page: User:Sky Harbor/Interbank networks

User: Sky Harbor 14:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


Interwiki

Description
To coordinate the use of interwiki bots, limiting database load and increasing coverage of the entire wiki.
Temporary page
User:ST47/WikiProject Interwiki
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. ST47Talk
  2. User:Nuno Tavares talk 15:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Currently on a wikibreak, but would join on return. -- Sundar \talk \contribs 08:47, 13 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

IPA

Aim: To introduce IPA pronunciation guides to more articles, a feature that is currently sorely lacking on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Poolkris/Wikiproject IPA.

Interested Wikipedians:

1) Kris 15:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
2) Jaxten 00:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
3) Limetom 02:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

  • I'm not sure how this benefits from being a WikiProject. Guidelines for adding pronunciation information is already available at WP:PRON, and discussion of changes to the guidelines takes place on that article's talk page. --Safalra 12:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • IPA is pretty confusing for the people who don't understand it. Sure, we have guidelines for it, but I think it would be a good idea to have a group of people who understand it implementing said guidelines in some kind of an organized fashion. --Limetom 02:10, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Iraq, post-invasion

Description: This project would focus on cleaning up, restructuring and organising the various current articles that cover the post-invasion Iraq.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: User:AndrewRT

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

  • I can see the purpose in having a project working on articles relating to Iraq, but why limit the project to only articles relating to Iraq since the war started? Many of those same articles will clearly have content related to pre-war Iraq as well. Also, so far as I can tell, there is no project specifically dealing with Iraq as a whole. John Carter 16:52, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I agree with John Carter. I have been thinking of proposing the creation of a WikiProject Iraq. Iraq War-related articles would obviously be included. Cattus 20:42, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Journals

Description
This project will focus on improving the number and quality of articles about journals and other academic output.
Temporary Project Page
User:Jayvdb/Journals
Interested wikipedians (please add your name below)
Comments

Kansas

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Kansas.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: NapalmSunday, Candidhq

Comments: Just curious, what would happen if someone wanted to create a project for Kansas the band? icelandic hurricane #12 (talk) 15:09, 11 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Kinks, The

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to british rock band The Kinks.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Painbearer

Interested Wikipedians: Painbearer

Comments:

Kent

Description
Improving articles related to the county of Kent in South East England
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Olive Oil 20:48, 10 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

WikiProject Kent

Knowledge Games

Description
The project would plan and support knowledge games based on wikipedia content. Some games could require special content in Wikipedia (e.g. list of questions about articles for a quiz). Examples for games that try to provide more learning motivation, but that do not link to Wikipedia, are (e.g.) Genius - Task Force Biologie [4], Chemicus II and Mathica [5] [6]. Obviously games should aim to support the OLPC.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Fasten 14:47, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
see: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic_talk:Computer_Programming#Learning_Project:_Knowledge_Games

Kurds

Description: A project to encourage people to expand Kurdish related articles and to structure these articles on Wikipedia.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

It should be renamed to "Wikiproject Kurdish people" as per naming conventions. --Cat out 15:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I say we name it Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan, it's a shorter name. And as far as naming conventions go Wikipedia's policy clearly say's, "it is important to note that these are conventions, not rules carved in stone." --D.Kurdistani 18:41, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
"Wikiproject Kurdistan" would be fine however kurds in europe would be beyond the scope of such a wikiproject.
  • It would restrict wikiprojects to issues related to that geography rather than kurdish people as a whole. I'd in fact favor such a thing more as I dislike the "wikiproject for an ethnicity" idea somewhat.
  • Though Kurdistan is a contraversial term, s preferably something like "Wikproject Kurdish inhabited region" would be better.
Unless there is a good reason not to follow them, naming conventions need to be followed. Mind that I said "should" and not "must".
  • A wikiproject should not be named "plural". So it should be either "Wikiproject Kurd" or "Wikiproject Kurdish people", alternative suggestions are welcome.
  • A wikiproject's title preferably should be non-contraversial.
Why is "Kurdish people" bad as opposed to "Kurds"? Are kurds not people?
--Cat out 18:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We currently have some options to go with, these are: Kurds, Kurd, Kurdish People, Kurdish inhabited region. The problem with naming it Kurdish People is that we will not only work on articles that are about Kurdish people but Kurdish food, region, religion, culture... which obviously is connected with the Kurdish people. I chose 'Kurds' thinking that the term Kurdistan is a controversial term. for, Kurdish inhabited region, it just is long for a WikiProject title. In conclusion I think it should be either 'Kurds' or 'Kurdish People' or 'Kurdish'. Let's wait a little longer for different opinions. Ozgur Gerilla 15:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Anything related to Kurdish people weather it is food or culture would be in the scope of a "Kurdish people" wikiproject asuming the article is significant enough to Kurdish people. --Cat out 15:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I'm happy with Kurdish people. Ozgur Gerilla 22:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Kurdish People, Kurd or Kurds, Kurdistan and Kurdish inhabited regions are all fine for names but let’s wait a little longer to get more people onboard and then we can choose a name amongst our selves. For now I think it’s more important to think about getting people together for this project rather than thinking about a name for it. --D.Kurdistani 06:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I should have a proper name from the begining. Name changes can be complicated. --Cat out 09:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest Kurds & Kurdistan. The WikiProject should be both about people (Kurds/Kurdish people) and geography/history of the region(Kurdistan). Heja Helweda 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think we should go with Kurds. Ozgur Gerilla 23:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with Heja Helweda, the name Kurds & Kurdistan is a good name for this project as it covers the Kurdish people in general and the region of Kurdistan. --D.Kurdistani 00:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Guys are we ready? can we start this now; if yes, please let's all decide on the name and open the page. Ozgur Gerilla 02:32, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I suggest WP Kurdish people. Kurdistan would lead to many edit-wars, and somewhat rightly so: there are no specific borders. However, I also would like to know how many people will actually be participating in this project. I also suggest that people refrain from using the Kurdistan flag on the project template, just put something another image or so. It is not fair to be putting a flag to places when there actually doesn't exist one officially. If it were named Kurdistan, it would be the perfect invitation to remove the template from articles that fall outside the jurisdiction of the only official entity that uses the name Kurdistan, in Iraq. I am sorry but we cannot correct the geopolitical situation in the world, in Wikipedia we have to ask ourselves if names used coincide with an actual official entity. Kurdish people would be different however. On another note, can I get a roll call of people who are interested one more time? It has been a long time that the proposal was made, so what do the potential contributors think of the naming issue? Baristarim 17:28, 18 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Wikipedians who want to join this WikiProject / Name they would like to suggest for this WikiProject

For people who think WikiProject Kurdistan will create problems between users; well I think we need to understand that Kurdistan is a region not a country which is refered by nearly all historians. If a very good reason isn't given by users not to go with Kurdistan I think we should use it. I think it will also be a good reason for users who are not familiar with Kurds to understand the current situation and geographical position of Kurdistan. It will simply be attractive and informative. Plus let's not waste much time on naming the project as it's the content that matters more.

Latvia

Description This project would exist to create, expand and maintain articles related to the nation of Latvia.

Temporary project page:
User:Warlordjohncarter/WikiProject Latvia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

Lexical similarity index

Description
The website Phrasebase provides percentages of similarity between languages (see [7] for an example). I think it would be nice to put these data into either the language box template, or a new template similar to the one which lists the usage rankings of words in the English language. Also, maybe a page structured to somehow show language trees and the languages' lexical similarities.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your wiki handle)
  1. Alexnye
  2. Red_Phoenix
Comments

There are no citations provided on the website to document where the information is coming from. It seems to me that the conclusions violate WP:RS and WP:V. I would suggest it not be included.Nposs 18:04, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Actually, much of the information is copied and pasted from Ethnologue. See for example Anyin: Ethnologue vs. Phrasebook (region information) - no citation provided.Nposs 18:28, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I oppose this idea. As Nposs says, Phrasebase appears to be simply duplicating data from the Ethnologue. However, even if based on data from the Ethnologue this is not a good idea, since (1) frequently the Ethnologue doesn't cite its sources either; (2) lexical similarity counts are only available for a limited number of languages/lects; (3) a lexical similarity count is virtually useless without information on how exactly it was arrived at (Which lexical items were compared (see e.g. Swadesh list)? How were they collected? How was the similarity or distance calcuted (nearest neighbour, clustering)? — mark ✎ 19:56, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Lutheranism

Description: There is a huge number of articles dealing with Christianity in general. There is a sizable number of these articles which deal exclusively or primarily with Lutheranism. I would like to see a aWikiProject, or possibly a task force of the Christianity WikiProject, be created to deal primarily with the large number of articles dealing primarily with Lutheranism.

Temporary project page: None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker 00:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • I do most of my editing outside of Lutheranism, because I have found the central Lutheranism articles to be the dwelling places of trolls, but I would be more than happy to pitch in as I am able. Pastordavid 16:29, 25 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

  • Given the recent history of Justas Jonas and other sockpuppets of Ptmccain, I am hesitant to sign up at this time due to my Wikipedia involvement with JJ. I know JJ has been blocked; someone other than me should (please) strike out (rather than delete) his name from the roster. I am not a pastor. But, I can carry on civil, educated, respectful, intelligent dialog with clergy and non-clergy in a Lutheran, Christian or Interfaith arena; I am also an excellent (collaborative) editor, on and off Wikipedia ... (IMO, until proven otherwise). I would like to contribute, and will, whether I sign up here or not. I will also, naturally, be on the lookout for the next incarnation of Ptmccain, Justas Jonas, and anyone who may work closely with and/or know either of these folks. Kind Regards, Keesiewonder talk 11:13, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • Although the editor who placed the comment above is comparatively new to wikipedia, I have had the opportunity to have regular contact with her. I can and enthusiastically do vouch for quality of her work as an editor and for her conduct on wikipedia. Badbilltucker 17:19, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I am surprised by the lack of response here. Let me see if I can round up a few more folks. -- Pastordavid 22:28, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I've been working on Lutheranism related articles for years, so I would be happy to be in on such a project. My problem is time; I'm now knee deep in the development of online college classes and a few other library-related entertainments. I will, of course, help where I can. Beam me up, Scotty! --CTSWyneken(talk) 02:59, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Macau

Description: Just like Hong Kong, Macau is famous as a tourist area, this project aims to expand the articles related to the self administererd region of China.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Macau

User: Enlil Ninlil 07:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Martial Arts

Description A project centered around Martial Arts history, films, and the art itself.

Interested Wikipedians (Add your name if interested)

  1. --Jimbo Herndan 04:24, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Jmath666

Maine

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Maine.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Ventric
  2. icelandic hurricane #12 (talk)
  3. Lostvalley

Comments:

Mario Party

Description
This project will focus on maintaining the Mario Party articles and citing sources where they are needed. In this Wikiproject, users should discuss changes to "crufty lists" to prevent other users suddenly starting an edit war. It will also make sure users discuss tags and how to remove those already there.
Interested wikipedians
(Please sign your name)
  1. Henchman 2000
  2. Bowsy 11:12, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Math Verification and Improvement

Description: A WikiProject devoted to verifying articles in the mathematics portal and if at all possible, improving them as well. This will be a beneficial modification to WP:MATHCOTW, which is at best, inoperational. Not much progress is being made, hence the solution. The project is only devoted to math because it would be to lengthy and incapable of reaching every single article on Wikipedia. Sr13 (T|C) Editor review 04:06, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Temporary Project page
User:Sr13/Temporary

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Comments:


Micronesia

Description: This is intended to be a WikiProject dealing with the area of Micronesia, specifically including the Federated States of Micronesia, Marshall Islands, Palau, Northern Mariana Islands, Nauru, Kiribati, Guam, and Johnston Island.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Micronesia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: Given the existence of the Portal:Oceania, would people like to see the proposed Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia projects merge into one proposed Oceania Project, to develop a similar scope? Badbilltucker 21:15, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be in favour of doing that, yes. —Nightstallion (?) 01:10, 29 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Middle Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Rwanda, and São Tomé and Príncipe.

Temporary Project Page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Central Africa

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

  • I've joined WikiProjects in the past, but in the end, my time and energies have been diverted away. However, this is a project I could support wholeheartedly. My efforts would mostly be directed toward Cameroon-related articles. —
  • Like BrianSmithson, and as someone who has a strong personal interest in several of these countries, I would support this proposal. However, I do think that some thought needs to be given to how this new project will be coordinated with existing initiatives at continental (e.g. Africa regional notice board) and national (e.g. WikiProject Chad) level. -- Kahuzi 09:29, 5 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I support this effort one hundred percent. As someone that has added considerable content to this area, I am happy to see it finally proposed.--Thomas.macmillan 03:18, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • While the idea is very attractive, I'm afraid it may end like WikiProject Chad, i.e. instead of a collaborative project mostly a one-man's work. That said, the idea, as I said before is highly tempting, especially with regards to the part concerning peer-reviews and collaborations. As to my efforts, I will deliver them mostly to Chad-related articles, but will always be happy to help with other countries to. Just a note regarding the scope of the project: wouldn't it be better to keep Angola out, as culturally and historically little linked with the other countries, while include Rwanda and Burundi?-- Aldux 21:24, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Or maybe those countries could be included in more than one project, considering their "border" status. Personally, I am far from an expert in these matters myself. Badbilltucker 21:30, 20 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments

The project page is named Central Africa, actually. But right now I am working on consolidating a list of religions and denominations and gathering the data for a new revision to the Project Directory, so it might be the case that actually starting the project might have to wait a day or two. And I do think that the Africa proposal will probably be removed at the same time the other "subdivision" projects are, unless it is the case that one or two "subidisional" projects don't gather enough independent interest to take off on their own immediately. In that case, the Africa project might officially deal with all of Africa but practically deal only with those parts of Africa not already covered by smaller-scope projects. Again, I think that largely depends on how much support the various regional projects show. Badbilltucker 22:38, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project. So, basically, for existing projects like Wikipedia:WikiProject Chad, we would in no way seek to preempt any of their efforts, and only act in relation to them by providing support services, like maybe assessment, peer review, and collaboration, which they might not provide. Also, I personally hope that the project gets enough members to "spin off" other projects for other countries as well. A similar approach would be taken with the African notice board, with the proviso that this project might be seen, as a sense, in being the more "focused" group.

Mobile Phones

Description : This WikiProject would be for the improvement and standardisation of Mobile Phone articles. Many of the exisiting articles lack category boxes and there is a distinct mix of info boxes across the entire range. I therefore propose a project be created to offer standards for all mobile phone articles.

Interested Wikipedians
  1. [User:ELaverick|ELaverick]
Comments


Monk

Description : This project would create episode data for the Monk episodes, as well as character updates, and other things of that sort.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. WTRiker-Talk to me
Comments



Mythbusters

Description
This project would focus on creating standards for recounting each show, giving biographical data for all hosts, describing each myth, and better organizing data for the Discovery Channel sho Mythbusters.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Jaypenguin150

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Jaypenguin150
Comments

MythBusters has only about 20 articles on Wikipedia. Now if it had more than 100 articles on Wikipedia, I would approve it, but MythBusters is way too small for a WikiProject right now. If this project was created anyway, it would probably be deleted (like WikiProject The Naked Brothers Band). Wait until MythBusters grows bigger. — JuWiki (Talk <> Resources) 21:43, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

NBC Universal

Description: The purpose of this project would be to create, update, and organize articles related to the company and its many facits (such as the theme parks, television stations, movies, etc.).

Temporary project page:User:Farquaadhnchmn/Universal

User:Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon)

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: A very narrow Wiki project. There is television and film projects already, there doesn't need to be a project for a certain company itself. RobJ1981 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  • In my opinion, an NBC Universal wikiproject would not just be about the production company, but also the theme parks, films, etc. as stated above. Disney has its own project and this would be similar albeit in a smaller scale. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  • I think the television and film aspect would be better served under the existing television and film projects. There is a real difference between the company/corporate infrastructure/physical assets and the creative assets, and they should be coordinated separately. --Ckatzchatspy 09:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nevada

Description: This project would focus on creating, developing, and maintaining articles related to the state of Nevada.

Temporary project page: User:Warlordjohncarter/WikiProject Nevada

User: John Carter 20:55, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Participants:

Comments:

New Mexico

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of New Mexico.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

New Wave music

Temporary Project Page: User:Krushsister/WikiProject_New_Wave_music

Description: The aim of this project would be to act as a central location for articles relating to New Wave music and genres that could be classified as "New Wave", e.g. synthpop, post-punk, and New Romantic music. This would lead to easier creation and maintenance of articles relating to this genre. New Wave is considered a part of the "punk" classification here on Wikipedia, but in all actuality is an offspring of punk rock, with New Wave artists being either directly or tangentially influenced by the varied aspects of punk.

User: krushsister

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. — Catherine\talk
  2. — Richard\talk
  3. — Matt\talk
  4. Phantasy Phanatik
  5. — ApolloBoy\talk

Nicaragua

Description
Wikiproject to create and advance pages related to Nicaragua. Also, in helping advance the Portal:Nicaragua that i recently created. There are alot of articles in need of expanding and creating.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. — User:LaNicoya\talk
Comments

Nine Inch Nails

Description
This WikiProject could be useful to anyone who is interested in Nine Inch Nails. The band is very notable, and I think it would support the band and the article in many ways.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. User:WereWolf
  2. Alex 03:11, 8 January 2007 (UTC) This band rocks! I enjoy listening their albums like Pretty Hate Machine, The Downward Spiral and With Teeth. I also just expanded the article about their upcoming album.[reply]
  3. User:Mathmo Possibly, I do like this band.
Comments

North American Motorsport

I think there a need for a WikiProject about all motorsports in North America that are not covered under other existing WikiProjects: WP:NASCAR, WP:IROC, WP:American Open Wheel Racing, Sports Car Racing, etc. The WikiProject would be similiar to Wikipedia:WikiProject British Motorsport in scope. The introduction would be "WikiProject North American Motorsport aims to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Motorsport in the North America." These other WikiProjects would take over the articles as drivers move up in the ranks, and would replace the article's marking template with their own.

I initially thought about proposing a WikiProject would encompass all motorsport articles in the United States. There is a fair bit of border hopping into Canada by NASCAR (especially with the new NASCAR Canadian Tire Series), and I would like to see the Baja 1000 included in the WikiProject.

It would be organized as an sibling WikiProject to WikiProject NASCAR/WikiProject IROC, etc. It would not do oversight of the WikiProjects, as that is covered by WikiProject Motorsport. Applicable articles would include notable racetracks, drivers, halls of fame, sanctioning bodies, etc. A sample of specific articles would include: ARCA, American Speed Association, IMCA, UMP, CORR, SODA (series), USAR Hooters Pro Cup, National Dirt Late Model Hall of Fame, Mike Eddy, Manzanita Speedway, Knoxville Raceway, Lake Geneva Raceway, Crandon International Off-Road Raceway, Berlin Raceway, Bonneville Speedway, Knoxville Nationals, Dirt track racing in the United States just to name a few. Other WikiProject could claim any of these articles as they see fit.

Proposed by Royalbroil T : C 15:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Royalbroil T : C 15:15, 6 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Barno 18:27, 20 December 2006 (UTC) (copied from WikiProject NASCAR)[reply]
  3. User:WhiteEcho 18 February 2007 (UTC) (copied from Royalbroil's talk page)
Comments

NPOV Backlog Taskforce

Description A group to work on the NPOV backlog (the group at WP:CLEAN seems to be inactive). In a majority of cases the dispute has been resolved, or is nonexistent, and the tag can be removed without much time and effort. Method: letter by letter, or by date. Also see Wikipedia:POV Cleanup. Currently 3.000 pages, plus another few hundred in Category:Articles which may be biased. Participants should know WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY, etc.

Temporary project page:' none

User: Steve Hart

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. NauticaShades 21:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Diez2 14:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Lead Paragraph Cleanups

Description

The problem of lenthy lead paragraphs here on wikipedia is becoming very serious, perhaps 20% of all articles open with very long segemented and complicated lead paragraphs. I propose to manage a group to work on tagging and cleaning up a large number of the articles with lead paragraphs that are either to long or too short in accords to WP:LEAD. Tasks will entail, tagging, editing and bringing discussions to a consensus on the issues relevant to the topic. The appropriate length of a lead depends on subject of the article. This is an important matter since the "lead" immediately grabs the attention of the reader. to meet quality standards.

User: Frummer

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. Frummer
  2. Filll
  3. Nishkid64
  4. Sam Dorrance
  5. Scholarus

Comments

WikiProject Living People

Description

Purpose: Because living persons may suffer personal harm from inappropriate information, we should watch their articles carefully. This category exists to help Wikipedia editors improve the quality of biographies of living persons by ensuring that the articles maintain a neutral point of view, maintain factual accuracy, and are properly sourced.


Interested Wikipedians
Comments


The Offspring

Description: This WikiProject has been around since December 2006. The project needs more users, who are intrested in this band. Recently, no one who joined the project have been involved in helping with the requests listed. Some information on The Offspring article needs to be organized, fixed and it may need cleanup.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Offspring

User: Alex 03:33, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. Alex - they're the best band I've ever listened to!
Comments

Oriental Orthodoxy

Description
This proposed WikiProject would deal with the various churches of the Oriental Orthodox Church, their history, adherents, beliefs, etc.
Temporary Project Page:
  • None at this time.
Interested Wikipedians:
Comments

Paranormalities

Description
A WikiProject dedicated to the unusual happenings and experiences around the world; such as haumtings, fortune telling, & Alchemy. As to bring together all the articles dealing with "unexplainable events & concepts". Therefore, articles of said events wont just be floating around meaninglessly & will be handled appropiately.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments

Pharmacology (and/or Medicinal Chemistry)

While looking for information on Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry I found that Wikipedia was woefully lacking - just look at the two title articles. With lots of stub articles lacking essential information. This is not about drugs or medicines but the fundamental basics for pharmacological science and drug discovery that could do with some major input. Anybody want to help out - it is essential these articles get sorted as they are the foundations for modern therapeutics?

Interested Wikipedians - please see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine

Proposer: User:Lethaniol 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

  1. bibliomaniac15
Comments

Philippines

Description
I noticed that there are some countries that have their own Wikiproject, and I just love the Philippines. Both of my parents are from there and I currently live in Virginia. I can't even begin to count how many filipino friends I have.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. pikasneez27
  2. BrokenSphere 17:51, 26 January 2007 (UTC) - There is an existing WikiProject Philippine LGUs, however their scope is limited to "the various political subdivisions of the Philippines or Local Government Units (LGUs), namely, regions, provinces, cities and municipalities." Something covering the history, culture, and notable citizens was what I had in mind.[reply]
Comments
There's a noticeboard for the Philippines and Filipino Wikipedians at Wikipedia:Tambayan Philippines. They've talked about making it a WikiProject (check their talk page archives), but they seem to prefer using the noticeboard instead. --Idont Havaname (Talk) 20:36, 26 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Photography

Description: This is a project to help users identify which articles need pictures which can and will help the viewers of the article get a better understanding of the article itself. Articles (or stubs) are being created every day on Wikipedia, and many do not have a single picture to illustrate the article's point of view.

Temporary Project Page: none at this time

User:
User:Keo Takamine

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)


Comments

Wikipedia:WikiProject Photography already exists Gnangarra 08:00, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Phrasing Improvement WikiProject

Objective
To improve the tone of the text in various articles whose tone is not encyclopedic. Wikipedia is an encyclopedia, which means that its articles should never read like an essay, a magazine article, a blurb, nor should they contain slang.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Orthologist
Comments

Feel free to add your comments.

Piracy

Description: This project is proposed as a means to create and expand articles about pirates and piracy, and improve them to a higher standard of quality. It would encompass everything from its history and origins, to collaborations on biographies of various famous pirates, all the way down to modern day piracy.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy

User:
User:Xertz

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

  1. YaanchSpeak! 17:09, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. AW 19:33, 28 February 2007 (UTC) - I thought I was already on here![reply]
  3. Pirate Dan 06:27, 1 March 2007 (UTC)Yo ho!

Comments OK, I'm new at this, but here's my newbie's idea about some things we all could work on.

I've just finished working on Stede Bonnet and Thomas Tew, so I think they're OK now.

Pages needing creation:

Articles of piracy (maybe should be called “Pirate articles”)

Israel Hands

“No Purchase, No Pay” (also “No Prey, No Pay”)

Nicholas Trott

Pierre Le Grand

Pirate Round

77 red links in the article List of pirate films


Pages needing expansion:

Adam Baldridge

Chalonor Ogle (Royal Navy officer)

Charles Eden

Charles Vane

Edward England

Edward Lowe

Emanuel Wynn

George Lowther

Henry Every

Robert Maynard

Roche Braziliano

Thomas Cocklyn

Walter Kennedy

William Rhett

Woodes Rogers


Pages tagged as needing work:

Alexandre Exquemelin (tagged for lack of sources)

Buccaneer (tagged as needing cleanup)

Golden age of piracy (tagged as confusing)

Pirate Dan 23:14, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

Polish heraldry

Description
A child project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Heraldry and vexillology concentrating on Polish heraldry, both family (arms of Polish clans) and civic (arms of Polish towns, regions etc.).
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. — Kpalion(talk)
  2. — //Halibutt
  3. Gustavo
Comments
  1. The only problem is that so far I see no changes to the articles on the topic we created years ago. Which means that, most likely, the project would be dead anyway. Or am I wrong? //Halibutt 13:10, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I hope you are. For a start, I added blazons in Polish and English to some images of Polish coats of arms on Commons (e.g.: Commons:Image:Herb Debno.jpg, Commons:Image:Herb Dabrowa.jpg). I'm ready to start working on the articles myself, but I would like to see some cooperation, especially with uploaders of the images. — Kpalion(talk) 13:36, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Dear Kpalion: what is your idea to do? --Gustavo Szwedowski de Korwin 04:27, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Polynesia

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of American Samoa, Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Niue, the Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu, and Wallis and Futuna.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Polynesia

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments It is I believe understood that this project would focus its efforts primarily on those countries which are not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

Project Support Services

Description: This WikiProject would serve primarily to provide some of the support services (assessment, peer review, newsletter, portal maintainance, etc.) for other WikiProjects, primarily aimed at being a stop-gap for projects when members who had been performing those duties have left and to help new projects with some of their start-up activities. Wikipedia's version of a temp agency, if you will.

Temporary project page: None at this time.

Interested Wikipedians: Badbilltucker 14:26, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Psych

Description: This is a WikiProject to organize articles about the television show Psych, such as articles about episodes, places, characters, etc.

Temporary project page (incomplete): User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox2

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments

  • We're starting to encourage TV-specific WikiProjects to becoming task forces of other projects, such as WP:TV, This makes things to get going as far as pre-existing templates, style guides, etc, but still allows for the larger focus on that specific show. -- Ned Scott 06:02, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Relativity

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

Temporary project page: User:MathPhys/WikiProject Relativity

User: MP (talk) 12:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Harald88 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
ems57fcva 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
JRSpriggs 05:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
ErNa 13:56, 17 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

... Do you want us to put our names at both places? Harald88 13:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC) ... Yes. :) MP (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

This looks like a bad idea to me. I fear that splitting discussion of relativity-related issues away from the physics project will increase our chances of collectively missing something. A relativity article collaboration within the physics project might make more sense. -- SCZenz 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Good point! It makes sense to me, yes. Certainly open for discussion. Harald88 19:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Might be better to make this a task force of WikiProject Physics. See how the Military History WikiProject does it. --Aguerriero (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Religious leaders

Description: Many religious leaders, particularly founders of new faiths, arise from an existing religious tradition. However, the wikipedia content relating to this figures will generally be added in primarily by adherents of the faith the person founded, not those from the faith s/he arose from. On that basis, I am proposing a group which I anticipate would be a work group of either (or both?) WikiProject Biography and WikiProject Religion to help ensure that these articles are addressed in a comprehensive and NPOV manner.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User:

  1. Badbilltucker 15:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:'

  1. I agree and think this is very important and needs to be put in place in order to help facilitate others having a better understanding of different religions and cultures. Scifiintel 23:08, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Revolutions of 1848

Description
In 1848, liberal, nationalist, idealistic and republican revolutions swept across Europe. All the revolutions eventually failed, but nevertheless, the years of 1848-49 were a monumental turning point in the history of Europe, and their repercussions are being felt to this very day. I am terribly dismayed that Wikipedia's coverage of these revolutions is so poor and I appeal to all Wikipedians interested in the history of Europe to join in this project. Next year marks the 160th anniversary, and I for one would like to see our set of 1848 articles vastly improved by that time.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. K. Lásztocska 21:51, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Chris 09:03, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. KissL 12:46, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Εξαίρετος (msg) 15:10, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. István 20:02, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Harrypotter 08:46, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Road transport

Description
There is currently a WikiProject Highways, but this focuses on the actual roads themselves, rather than road traffic. WikiProject road transport would focus on articles related to the vehicles and street furniture, covering articles such as bus, truck and traffic light.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Laïka 12:08, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments
  • Might just want to see if the Highways project might want to expand/rename to include this topic as well. Or make a broader project and then put both concepts as task forces of that project, so you can easily share over-lapping elements such as templates and related discussions. -- Ned Scott 06:04, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rhode Island

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Rhode Island.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Phantombantam 05:14, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Nick Lima 08:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Moodyboy11 00:51, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Loodog 02:05, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: Sounds like a good idea. --Moodyboy11 00:53, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Rhodesia

Description
to improve and preserve articles related specifically to this area prior to 1980
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Chris 07:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

With the proliferation of national WikiProjects, even one for Austria-Hungary, 90 years gone, would there be enough interest to justify such a project as this?

You might want to check with the proposed Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Eastern Africa group first. Personally, it seems to me that there may be more editors with interests in Europe than Africa, and that might be why the Austria-Hungary project exists. It might be a better idea to create the larger group first, and then, when it is known whether there is enough interest, to create task forces of that larger group. Badbilltucker 15:45, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Robotics

Description
WikiProject Robotics- This project would incorporate all the robotics articles together and improve/clean them as with all WikiProjects. UAV's, industrial and domestic, as well as military robots would be covered. Developmental aspects would be covered. Also components of robots, (motors, microcontrollers, electronics) would be covered. Finally, locomotion systems, electronic theory, artificial intelligence and generally anything else in the scope of robotics would be covered. The regrettable thing is, I am nowhere near competent enough to do such a project. So if anyone is interested, and knows how, please start it up!
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. NightFalcon90909 19:42, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
  2. Maverick423 16:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

I used to make small robots and all that good stuff when i was younger. So i know i can help out here =) Maverick423 16:45, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Rolling Stones

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to the British rock band, The Rolling Stones.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject The Rolling Stones

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

Central California Schools

Description: I have noticed that schools, particularly in Central California, have aging information, disorganized articles, or just plain nothing. There needs to be a foundation to standardize these articles, and make sure that there is adewuate information for each one. If this succeeds, I will also submit proposals for WikiProjects for Northern and Southern Cal Schools.

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Wikimania1011

Comments: There would be seperate groups (within the Central Cal School WikiProject) dealing with the San Francisco Bay Area, the Stockton, CA-Sacramento, CA Area,the Lake Tahoe, CA-Yuba City, CA Area, the Merced, CA-Modesto, CA Area, the Mono Lake-Yosemite Village, CA Area, the San Rafael, CA-Cloverdale, CA Area, and finally, the San Andreas, CA-Toiyabe, CA Area.

Scifi Channel Original Films

Description
I've noticed many of the Scifi Channel Original films don't have articals this wikiproject would make and maintain articals on these films.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Superx 02:42, 26 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Senses Fail

Despcription: The project will hopefully update, organize, and expand all the articles relating to the New Jersey-rock band, Senses Fail.

Temporary Project Page: User:Mcr616/Senses Fail Wikiproject

User: icelandic hurricane #12 (talk)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. icelandic hurricane #12 (talk)
  2. Mcr616 15:39, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Shipwrecks

Temporary Project Page: User:Esoltas/WikiProject_Shipwrecks

Description: Project goals include creating pages for shipwrecks. There are literally hundred left. See List of shipwrecks, it's absolutely ridiculuous how many need to be done. There are so many wonderful books on shipwrecks to use as well. The project will be an excellent project for users experienced with infobox usage as well as newcomers, who haven't learned, necessary, how to improve an already decent article.

User: Evan(Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!) 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


Shopping Malls

Description: To make/unstub articles about famous shopping malls, as well as making sure that shopping mall articles are directed into the ri9ght places.

I am not going to be able to lead a wikiproject, therefore I would like someone else (if at all possible) to do this.

Comment - Actually, very few people "lead" projects, they simply help organize them. You might be very well qualified to do that. You can certainly find some suggestions of how to do so at the Project Directory. And, on a side note, there is an extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls, which covers the rather more moribund malls exclusively right now. Maybe you could contact them and see if, possibly with some help from you, they would be willing to expand their project to cover the living malls, too. Badbilltucker 22:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]


Soul Calibur

Description
to improve articles relating to the Soul Calibur video game series.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. User:Philip Laurence 2. Phantasy Phanatik

Comments as of this writing, many articles about the soul calibur series are very underappreciated. many, if not all character articles have copyvio content. --Philo 00
47, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
    • We're pushing the idea of making these kinds of project ideas as task forces, which allows those involved to put more of their time and effort into actual article improvements rather than starting a new project from scratch. -- Ned Scott 06:07, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

South America

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of South America, including Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Falkland Islands, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject South America

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: It is understood that this project would focus the bulk of its efforts on countries which are not yet included in the scope of any other existing projects.

Southern Africa

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of Southern Africa, including Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: It is understood that this project would focus the bulk of its efforts on countries which are not yet within the scope of any other regional or national projects.

  • At the #Eastern Africa section up there, you listed Malawi, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. If that project gets off the ground and this doesn't, then they should stay within it's range. But if the reverse happens, or both get off the ground, Zambia and Zimbabwe should definitely be within the scope of this project, and Malawi probably should. I'm unable to offer my support for this project at this time seeing as Malawi is the only one of these countries that piques my interest - even were it included, I couldn't guarantee my participation. Picaroon 21:33, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If I can offer my two cents (I once attempted organizing a WikiProject Zambia), I must agree with Picaroon; if this project passes, the three states he mentioned, for historical, geographical and cultural reasons, be placed with Southern Africa, possibly also with Angola (see Southern Africa). If the current range is kept, this project takes the serious risk of becoming a fork of the existing Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa, as the weight of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Swaziland combined is nut much compared to South Africa in terms of both sources available, demography and wikipedia coverage.--Aldux 22:10, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
    • So noted. As someone who just recently tried to partially revive the South Africa Project (it has a banner now), I can see the difficulty. However, given the lack of response to date, I'm not sure that we'll have anything to worry about anytime soon. Badbilltucker 22:14, 23 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • I'd potentially be interested but I couldn't see myself contributing to articles other than on Botswana. MLA 17:02, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Southern Europe

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nations and territories of Southern Europe, including Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Gibraltar, Greece, Italy, Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Portugal, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Vatican City, and Yugoslavia.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments: It is understood that this project would devote the majority of its efforts to those countries which are not already within the scope of another regional or national project.

Southern United States

Description: A WikiProject to improve articles related to the Southern United States. The project will deal with Southern states, cities, culture, literature, art, music, etc. Major organization of Southern-related articles is needed.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

Comments

  • I see a lot of potential for over-lapping projects here, and I'm not sure if this is the best way to break up articles. It's not a very efficient way to go about it, and can spread discussion across two projects for some articles, making collaboration harder. -- Ned Scott 05:57, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling Bee

Description
A WikiProject to improve articles related to spelling bees, especially those affliated with Scripps National Spelling Bee. Specific standards and guidelines for spelling bees and spelling bee winners/contestants are needed.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested)
  1. <3Clamster 03:56, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Sports Venues

Description: There are a lot of sports venues without quality articles. The scope of this project would be to take stubs and start rated articles to a far superior quality. This shouldn't be a hard project since some stuff already exist like Football (Soccer) stadiums. But be aware, even though other projects have this stuff, that doesn't mean anything has been done about it.

User: Kingjeff 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary project page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Sports Venues

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

me WillC 23:53, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Steely Dan

Description: This WikiProject is for (you guessed it) Steely Dan. Right now, only is the Steely Dan article itself lacking information, but the albums' articles are not formatted properly and disorganized. Finally, most songs are missing as articles (and the ones that do have articles don't have infoboxes and such), which is a shame, since most Steely Dan songs are quite deep and their unique lyrics make them interesting to analyze. So what do you say? All you Steely Dan fans out there sign up!

User:
Nauticashades (talk · contribs)

Temporay Page:
User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)
Sign up at User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan also

  1. BabuBhatt (talk · contribs)
  2. Daniel Case (talk · contribs)
  3. Theoldanarchist (talk · contribs)
  4. DrDevin (talk · contribs)
  5. Chadbryant (talk · contribs)
  6. Fenrir2000 (talk · contribs)

Comments:

WikiProject Student Affairs

Description
A Project that will better include information and articles about the field of student affairs and related information. Many authors, organizations, ideas, and concepts are missing from Wikipedia in this field.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Noetic Sage 17:29, 12 February 2007 (UTC)(talk)[reply]
Comments

Synthesizers

Description: This wikiproject aims to document synthesizers and their use in popular music. These instruments have played an increasingly important role in shaping the musical output of artists over the last 50 years. They have also spawned completely new genres of music as musicians work with electronic instruments exclusively. Unlike general classes of instruments, such as guitars, each model of synthesizer is engineered with the ability to create unique sounds and each is therefore a unique instrument in its own right.

User: Mperry 19:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary project page: There is no page as of this moment.

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
  1. Phantasy Phanatik
  • GreyCat: I'd like to join and help this project, starting with most basic theory about synthesizers - such as describing all major components, synthesis types, algorithms, then proceeding to individual pieces of equipment / software.

Comments:


Taiwanese Baseball

Description
A Wikiproject that would focus on the articles relating to baseball in Taiwan. It would try to maintain and improve the articles including the history, teams, leagues, and players of the Taiwanese baseball.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Jerrypp772000 21:25, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Kc0616 00:33, 31 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Textile Arts

Description
A WikiProject dedicated to textiles and the methods for working them. It would cover fabrics and their manufacture, sewing, clothing, fashion design, weaving, knitting, crochet, lace, etc. There is a Lace WikiProject already, but it appears to be inactive; this new project would build upon their work and have a broader scope. Having such a WikiProject would also allow us to assess scores of such articles using the Mathbot.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Willow 11:55, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. PKM 18:04, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. blahedo (t) 17:42, 12 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. DroEsperanto 18:03, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Alizera 23:24, 15 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Justinep 11:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Julie E. 18:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

I really only know about crocheting and a tad bit about knitting and I'm a new wikipedian, but I'd love to contribute. --Alizera

Thank you, Alizera, and welcome to Wikipedia! :) I'm tempted to wait a bit longer for more people to join, but now that you're here, maybe I'll start it up! :) Willow 19:59, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
OK, start assessing or just go crazy making articles :D See Talk:Knitting to see how to assess and follow the links to see what the various rankings mean. Thanks for your support; we're going to have fun! :) Willow 22:53, 16 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I've got almost no time to donate, but thanks for the idea, Willow. Justinep 11:48, 18 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'll be fairly inactive during the (US) school year, but I'll try to check in as often as I can. Julie E. 18:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The Football League: Season-By-Season

Description:

This WikiProject will be about creating and maintaining articles like The Football League 2006-07 instead of creating and maintaining articles like 2004-05 in English football.

Interested Wikipedians
  1. Kingjeff 21:31, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Permanent Page

WikiProject The Football League: Season-By-Season

  • Note: This project has already started.
Comments
  • Although articles like 2004-05 in English football are well developed they really don't serve the samething as The Football League 2006-07. Articles like 2004-05 in English football is really meant for a summary for all of English football for 1 paticular season whereas, The Football League 2006-07, is more about the tables and every little detail for the Season like goalscoring leaders, playoffs and so on.

Theme Parks

Description
A WikiProject which is dedicated to the updating and upkeep of new and existing Theme / Amusement parks across the world. A majority of theme park articles on Wikipedia are not up to standard and this project would fix the lack of information and quality of articles. --Lakeyboy November 30, 2006.
Temporary project page
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Idont Havaname (Talk) 03:32, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Lakeyboy
  3. saberwyn
  4. Rehcsif
  5. Branson03
  6. WillMcC
  7. Coasterman1234
  8. 04pricedl
Comments
I moved the page to User:WillMcC/WikiProject AmusementParks to reflect the correct category --WillMcC 03:04, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Three Stooges

Description: To Expand, Create, Fix, and verify Three Stooges related articles, including their shorts, films, co-stars, and crew.

Interested Wikipedians

  1. DTGardner 20:18, 21 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments: Existing Articles related to The Three Stooges:

As per the note at the top: If the scope of your project idea is very narrow (such as a TV show, music band, video game, etc) then you should start a task force of an existing project instead of starting a whole new WikiProject. It should be a task force for the films project in my opinion. RobJ1981 07:56, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Titanic

Description: Basically a WikiProject to improve the Titanic related articles, including the passengers and officers.

Interested Wikipedians

  1. Superior1 02:37, 4 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Trucks

Description
The purpose of this WikiProject is to co-ordinate articles on light, medium and heavy trucks. It aims to improve the coverage of manufacturers and models, and to make articles on trucks uniform and informative.
Rotten Stone 13:42, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Temporary project page
User:Rotten Stone/WikiProject Trucks
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Kieran T (talk | contribs)
  2. FabioTalk Definatly agree, there needs to be a more uniform article structure on trucks and i think a project may accomplish this.
  3. G®iffen likes to help, but it's probably not much from me as mentioned below
  4. Hasannur OK, I'm interested and willing to help
  5. Tepoo I agree with projects description. I'm willing to help but regrettably I don't have enormous amounts of time to contribute towards this project.
Comments
  1. Trucks
What's wrong with the current article that we need a new project? Peter Horn 16:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
Copy and paste of a comment on Rotten Stone Peter Horn 16:40, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Compare Automobile and Wikipedia:WikiProject Automobiles to see the worth of a project which draws people in to the breadth of the field. – Kieran T (talk) 17:15, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not saying that there is anything wrong with the main article about trucks. However, if you compare with the coverage of automobiles, aircrafts and trains, there are surprisingly few articles about various truck models. To be honest I also find most articles on truck manufacturers rather thin (example). Of course this won't be solved by just adding a new project, but a project will help make new articles more conform and thereby of grater value to the readers. It will also be easier for users to add new information or new articles if there are suitable templates, like infoboxes, to pick from. Rotten Stone 17:47, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Following the example link I see that Unimog is well overdone compared to the other models...
I miss some more country-specific details on rules etc. to the truck-article. About models I see that Volvo is even worse, I actually started up one model with a photo only in the hope that sby would feel provoked to write the text to it (since I don't have the faintest idea of model history - I only drive the things). My problem on a truck project would be that
  1. I have a work without computer
  2. I have 2 small kids taking a lot of my home time
  3. I work mostly at the da:Wiki, especially when it comes to technical articles, since my school-english didn't include technical terms.
Anyway I think a project could help this subject, but I am afraid I cant help as much as I would like to :-( --G®iffen 17:14, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  • If it covered road going trucks, trailers, buses, motorhomes and perhaps implements (ie everything not covered by the existing automobile and motorbike wikiprojects), I think that it would have more chance of gaining the member numbers needed for viability. I've looked at this proposed project several times and concluded that, as currently proposed, its scope is too narrow. --Athol Mullen 06:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Tunisia

Description: This project would have as its primary work the creation, expansion, and maintainance of articles related to the nation of Tunisia.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Tunisia

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Darwinek - created many stubs on geography in the past. - Darwinek 15:04, 22 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --escondites 06:17, 10 February 2007 (UTC) - I would be interested in it.[reply]
  3. Chris 05:13, 22 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comments:

Television children's shows

Description
I've noticed that TV show articles are vandalized a lot, and since children's shows hold a startlingly high percent of this; some have not had articles made. Users in this project would monitor children's show articles that they know well and make sure that everything is in check and has not been vandalized, and create pages for shows lacking them and monitor them. P.S. I would need help making this. Superx 00:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Superx 00:26, 15 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

Expressing interest

Having just spell-checked and copy-edited the above description, I would anticipate that if this project did go ahead it should be under Children's television shows although it doesn't have much support yet... Mdcollins1984 14:13, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


UK Roads

Description
This wikiproject aims to improve the standard and quality of the UK road articles, i have noticed that there is lots of roads missing, so if you are a roadfan like myself I suggest you support this wikiproject and help me complete the major road articles for the UK- thanks

p.s I might need someone else to lead the project someone a bit more experienced than me. DINOMAN 11:14, 20 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians
Comments

Unassessed Articles

Description
The excellence of many articles (including some Featured articles) goes unappreciated because they have no sponsoring WikiProject to assess their quality and importance by the Mathbot. This WikiProject would offer a temporary home to all such homeless articles until they find their own Wikiproject, and allow them to be assessed.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Willow
Comments
#Assessment of unassessed articles, perhaps? Kirill Lokshin 02:11, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
(edit conflict) It's already been suggested! Please see the result - come and join us! We're just starting (with VA tagging) and we'd really appreciate your help! Walkerma 02:12, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I'm really embarrassed that I didn't notice your earlier suggestion, and will be glad to help out — way to go, guys! But I still think that there's a need for a WikiProject for "homeless" articles, articles that do not fall under any presently existing WikiProject. For example, until we got our Textile Arts WikiProject a few days ago, that was the case for hundreds of articles on knitting, weaving, spinning, fashion, etc. It'd be nice to have a temporary home for such articles until their field reaches "critical mass" for forming a WikiProject. What do you all think? Willow 02:22, 19 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
PS. Perhaps the name of this Wikiproject should be changed, though, to prevent confusion?

Unicycling

Description
This project would help promote and coordinate articles related to unicycling and unicycles. It would provide a location to outline and enhance the structure of existing and future articles, and it would perhaps be similar to the existing projects: Wikipedia:WikiProject Cycling and Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorcycling.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. AndrewDressel 18:34, 13 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. User:Mathmo
Comments

Existing articles include:

  • Events
  • People

And The Unicyclopedia


Veterinary medicine

There are currently a number of projects dealing with specific species and kinds of animals. Almost by definition, many of these projects treat, at least peripherally, the health matters of these animals. Regretfully, there is no coordination of these efforts, and the number of true experts in the field who are best qualified to address the matters of veterinary medicine are thus often spread about among these groups. This project proposes to provide some degree of coordination of these editors, and more generally, to create, improve, and maintain articles dealing with matters of veterniary medicine.

User: Badbilltucker 23:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC) - Not one of the most qualified editors to address this matter, but will do what I can, probably primarily in support of the more expert editors.[reply]

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Veterniary Medicine - yeah, once in a while my spelling sucks. It'll get corrected on the move.

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
  1. Joelmills - I'll do what I can as far as organizing and the actual writing.
  2. Montanabw 00:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Maybe, at least, I know where a lot of existing articles on various horse diseases are...[reply]
  • Comments


Weezer

Description
Weezer is considered one of the most important and influential bands of recent times.[citation needed] There is so much to be written about the band. I feel albums like Pinkerton (album) and Weezer (The Blue Album) have enough potential to be feature articles.
The Person who proposed it
User:wikiwonka12
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments
  • You might want to try this idea via task force. We've been trying to promote this idea as an alternative to starting a whole new WikiProject, as it still allows the focus of editing but a lot less hassle in starting up. -- Ned Scott 07:27, 5 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Western Africa

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Saint Helena, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo.

Temporary Project Page:
User:/WikiProject Western Africa

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments I believe that a regional focused project for this area of Africa might have a better chance of drawing members than a continent-wide project.

Western Asia

Description This is a project to create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the nations and territories of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Cyprus, Georgia, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen, and possibly Iran, dependent upon the opinion of the potential participants.

Temporary Project Page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Western Asia

User:
User:Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

  1. Eshcorp 18:13, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Orionist 20:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comments It is I believe understood that this project would focus its efforts primarily on those countries which are not already included within the scope of other WikiProjects.

  • I think the project should include Iran as it is located in West Asia. As for Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Cyprus, aren't they considered a part of Europe?Orionist 06:20, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
    • Regarding the status of Georgia, et al., the countries in this group were selected on the basis of the existing UN world regions. They also include Iran in southern Asia. However, this is a proposed project and everything is open to change. There is an extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran, which presumably deals with all the Iranian issues, but part of the intention of this proposed project is to provide back-up if any national project goes inactive, so, basically, if you want to include Iran here, we could probably fairly easily do so. Badbilltucker 15:09, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
      • That is a weird classification by the UN as all geography books and atlases put Iran in West Asia (it also competes in the West Asia soccer championship). However, they have they're own project. What I hope is, maybe including Iran will draw some Iranian users to the project (we may contact their project?). This area needs much work as it seems neglected by most, and because Iran has always been a part of it historically, we might get some good contributions from Iranian users about their neighbors. Just my two cents. Orionist 16:24, 21 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
        • I see the logic of your position, and acknwoledge that there is absolutely no reason why the members of that project should not be contacted, nor any reason why a message regarding this project could not be included on the Talk: Iran page. Please tell me if you want me to make such a contact, or, if you prefere, feel free to contact them yourself. Thank you for the suggestion. Badbilltucker 22:33, 22 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]
          • Thanks! I hope we can make this real so soon. This is a region that really needs much work (having a tough time working on it myself!). I've just added my name (how did I forget to do that?). Orionist 20:08, 24 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Markup Standardization

The idea behind this is to develop standards for wiki markup. Hopefully, in order to offset the MediaWiki markup POV so rampantly prevalent here, we would be able to recruit a large number of users of other wiki software to provide their own input. I'd also be happy to accept ideas for shorter/more creative names for the project :)

Temporary Project Page: User:Dinoguy1000/Wikiproject Wiki Markup Standardization

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

WorldCat Identities - external links

Description
The recently prototyped WorldCat Identities provides pages - linked to the WorldCat union catalog - for 20 million 'identities', mainly authors and persons who are the subjects of published titles. This project would aim systematically to provide external links from biographical pages in Wikipedia to their WorldCat Identities page.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [your name here]
Comments

Tim O'Reilly's reaction to WorldCat Identities was to call for a project like this: “I'd really love to see this tied in programmatically to wikipedia. There ought to be an automatic link to this site for every identity in wikipedia!” WorldCat Identities currently provides thousands of links in the reverse direction, i.e. to en:Wikipedia. Of the over 200,000 biographical articles on Wikipedia, around 20% are reliably automatically matchable to Wikipedia Identities via the Library of Congress Name Authority file (see User:Dsp13). Once WorldCat Identities is stabilized with 'cool' URLs, this project could proceed at full throttle: it would allow easy passage from Wikipedia biographical articles to associated library holdings. Dsp13 15:02, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How precisely would they be linked from Wikipedia articles? External links, special metadata templates like WP:PERSON, or what? --Gwern (contribs) 21:36 20 February 2007 (GMT)
I was envisaging external links, though that's not incompatible with an external link template like these. Dsp13 23:00, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure external links is the best solution. It runs afoul of some peoples sense of SPAM, it's a lot of work to create new entries, and there is no guarantee someone in the future won't just delete it - it won't be very consistent. I think the way Wikipedia handles ISBN's would be a better solution to finding library holdings. So long as an author has an ISBN listed, the user is directed to an internal Wikipedia page that lists 100s of sources for books. For example ISBN 0198114915 takes us to a page with WorldCat listed as the first entry. This seems like a cleaner, more consistent solution already in place. -- Stbalbach 15:12, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, ISBNs are excellent, and very clean. However, two points. First, ISBNs have only been assigned for recently published works. (For historical works, an OCLC number is emerging as a sort of stand-in.) Second, WorldCat Identities gathers together titles by/about a single individual: adding a single external link is certainly no more work than adding several ISBNs (though I see the two as complementary). You're right, though, that external links (especially if not backed by an external link template) run foul of some people's sense of spam. Dsp13 15:25, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
I really don't like them. The pages are nice enough, but they don't really show anything remarkable - certainly they don't seem to be expansive on the subject in the same way that linking to IMDB for films is. We should think very hard before rolling out a comprehensive project to link to a single external site across tens of thousands of pages - like it or not, it constitutes a pretty significant statement on our part as to the importance, usability and significance of their material.
The information on them is automatically generated, not cleaned up by human oversight, and it shows - the Kipling page tells us he wrote "Adventure fiction" and worked as a "Author, Bibliographic antecedent, Lyricist, Translator, Performer, Illustrator, Correspondent". (I am unaware of any notable levels of translating, performing or illustrating - plus what use is 'bibliographic antecedent' to a nonspecialist? - and he wrote a damn sight more than 'Kim'!) The major biography on him is apparently by "Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Birkenhead", a name that only an authority catalogue could love. The cataloguing graph can't handle the fairly standard "19--" and has at least two or three completely wrong datapoints manual oversight would have caught, and the list of works is confusingly arranged and bizzarely constituted. (I am really not convinced the two named collections of poetry represent identifiably distinct groups of work... one being dated 1956 and "published between 1890 and 2006" seems dubious)
Really, there doesn't seem to be any major content on these external pages that we couldn't do better just writing into the article, and it doesn't serve as a gateway to anything much more than the holdings of a single self-selecting consortium of libraries (which is a lot less comprehensive than it can seem at first glance).
There is a use for these - their aggregate figures on the number of editions of different works is promising, and would be good to cite in passing for a lot of works - but I think we'd be doing our readers and editors a disservice to imagine that these are universally helpful external links. Shimgray | talk | 22:31, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
To call WorldCat nothing 'much more than the holdings of a single self-selected consortium of libraries (which is a lot less comprehensive than it can seem at first glance)' seems entirely misleading to me: it's by far the biggest union catalog ever attempted, includes some major academic libraries and has over 1.1 billion holdings: just watch it grow. As far as your careful criticisms of a WorldCat Identities page goes, though, perhaps I was premature to make this project proposal while WorldCat Identities is such a recent beta project: several of these issues seem teething problems which I hope will get ironed out. What do others think? Dsp13 15:57, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wyoming

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the state of Wyoming.

Temporary project page:
User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Wyoming

User: Badbilltucker

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

Yorkshire

Description
A project to build a exclusive and accurate guide to the a known as Yorkshire in the North of England. Including the counties of north Yorkshire, east Yorkshire, west Yorkshire, and South Yorkshire. Including the cities of York, Sheffield, Leeds and Bradford. The region is populated with 6 million people. Contains the large rural areas of the Yorkshire dales and moors, and is generally well known and famous, I don't know why they haven't made a project on it yet. Retiono Virginian 17:45, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Tellyaddict 19:00, 28 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2.  Adam J Hepton   Talk  09:12, 1 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Aaronsharpe 10:57, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Willow177 15:53, 10 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Derek R Bullamore 18:40, 13 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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WikiProject Secrets of Droon

Description
This WikiProject would focus on the children's book series, The Secrets of Droon, which would greatly benefit if there is more info added to its relevant articles.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [Aidofight]

Comments: I just wish to let everyone know that of course if you feel that my proposal is unreasonable and does not abide by wikipedian rules, then of couse you do not have to accept it. I merely wanted for these Droon articles to improve. Thank you very much. Aidoflight 16:47, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oh, it's not that, you are free to start such efforts if you wish, but sometimes the editors you are trying to reach aren't watching pages like this and don't know about your proposal. You might want to mention the idea on related article talk pages. Also, you might want to try this idea via task force, something we're trying to promote more often as an alternative to starting WikiProjects from the ground up. Basically you get all the benefits of a focused editing group, but with less hassle and not having to worry about starting from scratch. -- Ned Scott 08:01, 25 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Geometry

Description
A WikiProject covering polygons, polyhedrons, geometric shapes, angles, and any other mathematical topics related to geometry.
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Kamope · talk · contributions 22:11, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

I think this is a good idea (I'm surprised it already didn't exist), but I'm afraid I'm not particularly interested in Geometry. :-P | AndonicO Talk · Sign Here 00:50, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

This would be better off integrated into Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics (as a task force or otherwise), I think. Kirill Lokshin 23:35, 9 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure what's intended to be included in this WikiProject's scope. The examples in the description above — "polygons, polyhedrons, geometric shapes, angles" — are all covered in high-school Euclidean geometry. There's a lot more to geometry than that: see the article Geometry for a taste, or the list of geometry topics for a partial list. So I'm not sure whether the description above is meant to imply that these topics are not in the scope of this WikiProject, or if they were merely chosen as examples of topics that will also include Bruhat-Tits buildings, the Hodge conjecture, and so forth. (I'm just seeking clarification, not meaning offense.) —msh210℠ 04:00, 27 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Neopets

Description
A WikiProject covering neopets
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

1. IAmTheCoinMan 14:00, 6 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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WikiProject Matt Groening

Description
A Project About Matt Groening. Articles Included In This Project Would Include The Simpsons, Futurama e.t.c
Interested Wikipedians
  1. ACBest 17:33, 7 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

You may want to check out Wikipedia:WikiProject The Simpsons, perhaps this could be a child project or division of that project.A mcmurray 13:32, 14 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]


Given Names

Description
When researching some information on particular given names, I realized many very common names do not have articles devoted to them. Many articles with common names are either biographies or redirects to biographies (e.g. Tristan, Aaron) and there may be little or no encyclopedic information about the names (their meanings, their popularity, their translations). A good example of a name which I've come across (only because it happens to be my name) is the page for Michael. It's very informative and has a link to the angel.
Never started a WikiProject before, and I'm relatively new to Wikipedia (200-250 edits), but I'm of course willing to try. I'd like it, though, if some more experienced users could take the project on with me. Basically, given names interest me, but I have no personal qualifications. Ideally this project could take advantage of a user who has studied given names and a user who has a lot of experience in Wikipedia. — atchius (msg) 05:52, 5 March 2007 (UTC) [reply]
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. — atchius (msg) 05:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Comments

After reading WP:WINAD more thoroughly, it seems that WP policy makes this entire project proposal a policy violation. :-( — atchius (msg) 23:32, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, it seems my project might find a home over at Wiktionary… — atchius (msg) 23:44, 15 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

District of Columbia

Description: This project would focus on the creation, expansion, and maintainace of articles related to the District of Columbia.

Temporary project page:
None at this time.

User: Ebyabe

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. [your name here]

Comments:

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