Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

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Imperial War Museum North by Daniel Libeskind

Debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament Building by Enric Miralles and Bernadetta Tagliabue

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in......" Le Corbusier, Vers une architecture, 1923

Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organize data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Message Board Week commencing July 24, 2006 - Feel free to add anything you think might be of interest. 
(Wiped once a week).
1. We now have nominations for article improvement drives - please comment here and feel free to add your own nominations.
2. We have an infant wikiproject- Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning 
   Please feel free to contribute in anyway you can.
3. Suggestion to establish a Wikiproject Architecure Peer Review process.
   Please comment here.
4. Baden-Powell House & IG Farben Building have received Featured Article Status. 
5. Portal:Architecture fails to receive featured portal status. Read about it Here.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to

To thoroughly explore Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space globally and historically.
Improve Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space related articles.
To provide a place to discuss common issues on Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space related pages.
Organise, discuss and categorise Category:Architecture
To ensure all pages meet the standards of Wikipedia:Cite sources. Non-referenced articles seem unprofessional and below the standard of even a high school research paper! See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
Develop standards and templates for Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space related articles.
To manage editing of the Architecture Wikiportal

How to help

How you can help depends on your time, resources and interest. Here are a variety of ideas for contributions ranging from simple to complex:

Check for factual and spelling errors on Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space pages.
Improve the quality of existing articles, see How to structure the content.
Check categorization of existing articles and help organize.
List needed pages and create new pages, see Wikipedia:Requested articles/Applied arts and sciences#Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space
Create and edit pages about architects. See Help for Authors for guidlines.
Upload and add images to the Wikimedia:Commons and all architecture pages.
Add Infoboxes to architecture or building related articles.
Add links to websites where more architecture can be viewed. Particularly with articles for which architecture is not public domain, thus uploading images to Wikipedia would be a copyright violation.
Update Portal:Architecture. The portal can hopefully be updated daily if not more often than that.
Expand architecture stubs and architect stubs into full articles.
Check references on Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space pages.
List questions, article requests and others on the talk page.
Inform members who have displayed interest in the subject of the project via their talk page or the talk page of project pages.
Contribute to conversations on articles listed here: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Media, art and literature.
Revert Vandalism on this portal and on articles to do with Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space.
Contribute to work listed on the portal's Things you can do section and the Tasks list.
Submit quality articles for Wikipedia:Peer review or Wikipedia:Featured article candidates.

Articles for deletion

It is important to have an input into Articles for deletion. There is now a special page for Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles, which needs to be maintained, updated and monitored. It can be found here: WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space. Articles need to be added manually: please add any AfD you want to draw attention to, and also put it on your watchlist.

Sidebar projects

Architecture Manual of Style. Suggestion only. Develop an Architecture Manual of Style.

Move architecture images to Wikicommons. Suggestion only. Move eligible (world-wide public domain) art images to Wikicommons

Categories. Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Categories has the Wikiproject policy list of categories. See also Portal:Architecture/Categories, Portal_talk:Architecture/Categories.

Daughter projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning newly created - lots of work needed.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Construction suggested.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Engineering suggested.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Landscape architecture suggested.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Architectural heritage suggested

Similar Wikiprojects

Commons: Since 5th March 2006 there is a Commons Project, organising the files in the Commons. If you like to help you're very welcome: CommonsProject_Architecture
DE: Since 27th July 2004 the german Wikipedia has a WikiProjekt Architecture and building industry. For coordination please look at the Discussion Page.
The parent of this wikiproject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts
Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning

Forums

Architecture forum
Urban studies and planning forum
Construction forum
Engineering forum
Building and Structures Forum
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Architecture/Categories for categorisation ideas.

Help for authors

Create new articles

Relevance: Is the Article you want to create relevant or importand for the Wikipedia? - see Wikipedia:Importance
Naming: Generally: use the common name! - See Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Architecture Manual of Style/Naming conventions
Using Starter Templates

The templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings, infoboxes etc. in your article. To use them follow this procedure:-

Create a blank article having first considered the the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
Edit the blank article and copy-paste
1. {{subst:Architect}} for articles about architects
2. {{subst:Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
3. {{subst:Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
Save the article
Edit the article again and write your article under the headings created.

Templates

If you want to include a series box relating to architectural history then use {{Archhistory}}.
If you want to include a series box relating to Modern architecture use {{Modernarch}}.
If you want to include a series box relating to Postmodernism use {{Postmodernism}}.

For writing an article about architecture, buildings, structures, an architect or anything else related to this Wikiproject put this Template at the top of the articles talk page. {{Architecture}} which will display this:-

The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page. If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

Architecture NA‑class

	Architecture portal This page is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.ArchitectureWikipedia:WikiProject ArchitectureTemplate:WikiProject ArchitectureArchitecture
NA	This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

Infoboxes

If you haven't used one of the article skeleton drafts mentioned above then you can insert the following infoboxes into articles. (The skeleton drafts already have them embedded).

For writing an article about an architect please use the Template:Infobox Architect.
For writing an article about a structure or building please use the Template:Infobox Modern building or Template:Infobox Historic building.
If the structure is a Bridge please use Template:Infobox Bridge.
For a full list of Infoboxes including instructions on usage and examples, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/infobox

Stubs

If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

{{architecture-stub}} for architecure stubs
{{architect-stub}} for architect stubs.
For Building and structure stubs please refer to Category:Buildings and structures stubs or it's subcategories for a precise locational stub.
For Urban studies and planning stubs use:-
- {{UK-planning-stub}}

Other stubs can be found here - Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/stubs

The right Category

The Category:Architecture is the main Category for architecture-related articles. To get an overview and help to find the right category for your article please got to Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Categories

Edit Articles

Please use pictures and drawings in the article! You find many in the Category:Architecture in the Commons

Useful Sources:-

Pictures

Category:Architecture in the Commons
www.greatbuildings.com - Architecture database

Databases

www.archinform.net - Architecture database archINFORM (en/de), here you can find many literature links
www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro - SPIRO, an image database, from the Architecture Visual Resources Library at UC Berkeley
www.structurae.de - Database Structurae with engineer buildings (en/de/fr)
Online Catalogue of the Canadian Centre for Architecture - architects and architecture (photographs, prints, drawings)

Text

aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms

Pictures and Media Files

Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded not to any national Wikipedia, but to the Commons. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the Files in Commons:CommonsProject_Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

Participants

Warofdreams | talk
Isomorphic | talk
Secretlondon | talk
KRS | talk
Pinkville | talk
Burschik | talk
DVD+ R/W 15:32, 23 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
A Y Arktos | talk 10:25, 26 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dogears | talk 21:12, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Justinc | talk 10:16, 3 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
GUÐSÞEGN – U T E X – 05:41, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Wootking Tom | talk 00:16, 19 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mcginnly | Chinwag 11:24, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mach10 | talk 13:33, 2 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dahlis | talk 00:35, 4 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Hierophant | talk 11:45, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Dubud | talk 13:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Erebus555 | talk 15:59, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Bok269 | talk 21:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Blahm | talk 14:48, 18 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Mexicansky | talk 20:18, 27 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Garcilaso | talk 17:19, 16 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
M0llusk | talk 17:44, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

Code

Result

Usage

This user participates in
WikiProject Architecture.

WikiProject Architecture userbox

This user works in and/or appreciates Architecture

Userbox for those interested in architecture

This user works in and/or appreciates Architecture

Another userbox for those interested in architecture

This user is an architect.

Userbox for architects

Tasks

Monthly improvement drive

Expressionist architecture

Improvement drive nominations

Bauhaus

important article in need of expansion and improvement--Mcginnly 00:07, 17 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support

Support - I have some good references for this article, and will work on it when I have time. Warofdreams talk 22:57, 30 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose
Comment

De Stijl

important article in need of expansion and improvement--Mcginnly 11:20, 29 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Support

I am currently working on a translation/expansion of the Dutch article for De Stijl, to be merged into the English version. --Radioflux 21:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Oppose
Comment

Architecture of ancient Sri Lanka

A horribly written and formatted article, but with a substantial amount of content and probably an important topic.

Support
Oppose
Comment

Pages needing attention

Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.