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Welcome to the Festival WikiProject!

Goals
  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage festivals and celebrations from around the world.
  • Cover all festivals within the project's scope.
  • Create new articles about festivals that are notable.
Scope
  • The project covers articles, categories, lists and templates about festivals and celebrations.
Qualifying Festivals and Celebrations
  • Must have at least 5 years of existence.
  • Must have at least 15,000 participants any given year.
  • Includes community festivals, state festivals and national festivals that are not considered holidays.


Members

  1. Maverick423 17:11, 13 February 2007 (UTC) (Here to Spread the Knowledge)[reply]
  2. John Carter 14:14, 16 March 2007 (UTC) - Probably primarily with the various Christian and other religious festivals[reply]
  3. Aaron charles 00:51, 21 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Reedgunner 10:33, 22 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Current tasks

  • Add more to events to the List of festivals list.
  • Create templates for designating articles within our scope.
  • Establish an Award Template for exemplary edits and contributions to the project.
  • Start a newsletter.

Suggested tasks

Place tasks that you think might benefit the project below.

Templates in progress

{{WikiProject Festivals}} This template is for designating an article as part of the wikiproject. If a festival falls within the requirements for a notable festival then add this to the talk page of the article. Enter {{WikiProject Festivals}} on the article's talk page to add the banner.

{{Festival}} This template will designate the user as a participant in the Wikiproject Festivals. Add to your user page to add yourself to the participant page.

{{Star Festival Award}} name suggestions appreciated

  • suggested names----
  • Party-Hardy Award
  • Festival Star Award
  • (your suggestions)

{{Festival Newsletter}} This template will place the Festival Newsletter on the talk page of all users that wish to recive it. If the user wishes to recive the newsletter but does not want their page flooded; then imput the following command into the users' talk page {{tl|Festival Newsletter}}. Introduce the link in the talk page so as the user knows what the link is for.

Categories

  • National: Festivals held by a nation on a designated day, which is not considered a holiday, e.g., Mardi Gras, Super Bowl Festivals / tailgate parties.
  • State: Festivals held by a state on a designated day that represents an important event.
  • Local: Festivals, held and recognized by a community or city, that are not recognized by the state or nation in which it's held.
NOTE – Local festivals are common, yet are among the least known, which is why the minimum requirements (e.g., 5 years, 15,000 participants).

Articles needing attention

Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays (sister project)

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