WIKIPEDIA:WIKIPROJECT IOWA COMMUNITIES

The current scope of the Communities Division Workgroup of Project Iowa includes those communities that have an established geographical boundary. Currently these are the State of Iowa, Counties, Incorporated cities, Unincorporated cities and Townships.
We are open to other types of communities in the future.

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Welcome to all who visit this page.

We very much appreciate volunteers.

The mission is to improve the articles of:
The state of Iowa to Featured Article status.
All 99 counties to C-Class or higher.
Cities with a population of 50,000 and more to A-Class.
Cities with a population of 25,000 and more to B-Class.
Cities with a population of 1000 and more to C-Class.
All other Incorporated cities to Start-Class or higher.
Select cities to attain Good or Featured article status.
All unincorporated cities to have articles created.
All townships to have articles created.

Milestones

MAJOR MILESTONES

2010-12-09 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched.
2010-12-18 Communities workgroup established.
2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles created.

ALL MILESTONES

2010-12-09 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched
2010-12-10 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched.
2010-12-10 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities page launched.
2010-12-10 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities page launched.
2010-12-18 Communities workgroup established.
2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles created.
2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles by importance created.
2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles by quality created.

Membership

Volunteers are appreciated Thank you

Explanation of ProjectIowa Communities Members table

You are encouraged to change your levels, city size, or activity choices at any time.

Level 1

1 I am interested in Iowa communities but don't ask me I will help when I want
2 I will commit to helping one or two days a month
3 I will commit to working on the project at least one or two days a week
4 I will commit to working on the project several days a week
5 I will be active on the project almost every day

Level 2

10 I do not want to participate on level 2
11 Patroller, I will schedule days to check list daily for new postings and verify information.
12 Call on me for special tasks
13 I have the expertise and the commitment to advance articles to GA and/or FA class.
14 I have the expertise and will evaluate articles for Class and Importance

Preferred Community Size to work on

1 No preference
2 Top 10 major cities
3 Bigger cities 6,000+ residents 60 cities
4 Smaller cities 1,000-6,000 residents 216 cities
5 Very small cities <1,000 residents 700 + (exact number to determined)
6 Townships (number to be determined)
7 Counties 99

Preferred activity

List your 1st and 2nd activity preference

1 General
2 Article building - Finding new information
3 Fact checking
4 Validating references
5 Referencing - Research and providing references for existing articles.
6 Edit for spelling, grammar, content flow
7 Structure - Restructuring existing information to conform to Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
8 Visual improvements pictures, maps, diagrams new and old

ProjectIowa Communities Members
#	Joined	Level 1st	Level 2nd	Comm Size	Activity 1st	Activity 2nd	Community	Username
1	2010-12-10	5	11	4	4	7	Hiawatha	RifeIdeas Talk
2	2010-12-21	4	11/13	2	1	2	Davenport	CTJF83 chat
3	2010-12-26	1	10	1	2	7	Cedar Rapids & Millville	User:cReep-cReep
4	2010-12-27	2	12	3/4	1/2	3/4	Marshalltown & Stone City	Kepper66 ( talk)
5	2011-02-07	1	12		Tagging	Articles		Philosopher ^{Let us reason together.}
6	0000-00-00	1	10	1	1	1	Community	Username
7	0000-00-00	1	10	1	1	1	Community	Username
8	0000-00-00	1	10	1	1	1	Community	Username

Classification of communities

The state of Iowa

State of Iowa – The state of Iowa is a community, we all think of ourselves as Iowans.
States articles that have achieved FA-Class Minnesota Oklahoma Virginia
States articles that have achieved GA-Class South Dakota Texas
Ideas discussed in Mid 2009 on how to improve the Iowa article can be found at User:Ctjf83/Iowa.

Counties

All 99 counties have at a minimum a stub articles started for them.
List of counties in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically, More than just a list
Falls under the jurisdiction of Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. counties has a structure guideline.
Template {{ Infobox U.S. county}}
Description and information County (United States)
For example a county article B-class Warren County, Indiana

Incorporated cities

All 949 incorporated cities have at a minimum a stub article started for them.
List of cities in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.
Falls under the jurisdiction of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
Template {{ Infobox settlement}}
Description and information City
For examples of incorporated city articles see the section Assessment.

Classification of incorporated cities for task tables

The breakdown for these classifications and therefore the tables are based on the 2000 census.

60 Large cities 6,001 and more residents 2 tables of 30 cities
216 Midsize cities 1,001–6,000 residents 5 tables - (4 of 43 cities & 1 of 44 cities)
441 Small towns 201–1,000 residents 9 tables - (8 of 50 cities & 1 of 41 cities)
232 Tiny towns 200 and less residents 5 tables - (4 of 50 cities & 1 of 32 Cities)

File:IowaMetros.pdf

Largest cities and their views statistics 12/10/2007 - 12/23/2010
City	2000 Population	2008-09est Population	Average views per day	Standard deviation
Des Moines	198,682	198,460	984	383
Cedar Rapids	120,758	128,056	400	416
Davenport	101,306	98,359	285	117
Sioux City	85,013	82,807	319	110
Waterloo	68,747	66,896	160	69
Iowa City	62,220	67,831	294	169
Council Bluffs	58,268	59,911	175	130
Dubuque	57,686	57,222	249	108
Ames	50,731	56,510	385	1331
West Des Moines	46,403	53,889	82	95

Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha) Over time with average views, has some flaws.
Wikipedia article traffic statistics (beta) A month by month view.

Tables

Archive of tables completed.

Bigger cities 30 Altoona-Indianola 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
Bigger cities 30 Iowa City-West Des Moines 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 27 A=16 B=11 2010-12-14 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 29 C=21 D=8 2010-12-14 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 28 E=11 F=4 G=13 2010-12-15 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 33 H=10 I=2 J=3 K=4 L=14 2010-12-15 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 36 M=22 N=7 O=7 2010-12-16 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 38 P=10 R=7 S=21 2010-12-16 RifeIdeas
Smaller cities 25 T=5 U=1 V=2 W=17 2010-12-16 RifeIdeas
Very small cities 8 tables of 50 cities and 1 table of 41 cities 2010-12-18 RifeIdeas
Rearrange the Smaller cities into even tables of 44 or 43 cities 2010-12-18 RifeIdeas
230 Tiny towns of less than 200 residents 5 tables 2010-12-31 RifeIdeas
Table of all 949 cities 2010-12-31 RifeIdeas

Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncALL CITIES

A searchable table of all 949 incorporated cities located on another page.
Searchable by Population, Land area, By county(ies) the city is located in.

Tasks to do

The Task tables is a system of notifying members of who is working on what table and priority. The theory is to elevate all communities in Iowa to respectable levels for the type of community and to avoid members working on the same table (city, county, township) at the same time. You are able to "check out" (like a library book) and then copy and paste the table into your own sandbox. When you have completed the task for that table or if decide to stop working on the task you can "check back in" the table with whatever progress you have made. We will then have a record so the next member can continue on.

Explanation of the table columns and abbreviated column headings.

These next 3 lines are in every table and explanations are in the column code.
The 1st line is title line , the 2nd line is description of maximum space requirements.
|Name of Community|| 2000 Pop. || 2010 Pop.|| P1 || P2 || P3 || I / C Class || I / C Scale || Notes
| use [[city, state]] || 0000,000 || 000,000 ||{{Done-t|xx}}||{{Done-t|xx}}||{{Done-t|xx}}||FA/FA||Top/High||blank

Name of Community = Name of Community (already in table)
2000 Pop = 2000 Population (already in table)
2010 Pop = 2010 Population (data to be inputted)

The Priorities explanation can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities
The first goal is raise all incorporated cities articles to Priority 1 level starting with the Large cities first.

P1 = Priority one (input the template {{Done-t|user# from the members table}} when completed)
P2 = Priority two (input the template {{Done-t|user# from the members table}} when completed)
P3 = Priority three (input the template {{Done-t|user# from the members table}} when completed)
I / C Class = Article class Project Iowa / Project Cities (default is stub, may be eliminated)
I / C Scale = Article Importance Scale Project Iowa / Project Cities ( may be eliminated)
Notes = Notes

Task #1) Raise all 937 Incorporated Cities to Priority Level 1
Task#1 Direct Link to Table names	Sign out Date	Return Date	Doing or Done
30 Large cities Altoona to Indianola
30 Large cities Iowa City to West Des Moines
44 Midsize cities Ackney to Conrad
43 Midsize cities Coon Rapids to Harlan
43 Midsize cities Hartley to Milford
43 Midsize cities Missouri Valley to Saylorville
43 Midsize cities Sergeant Bluff to Woodward
50 Small cities Adair to Bussey
50 Small cities Calamus to Donahue
50 Small cities Donnellson to Goose Lake
50 Small cities Graettinger to Klemme
50 Small cities La Motte to Martensdale
50 Small cities Massena to Orleans
50 Small cities Ossian to Rose Hill
50 Small cities Rowan to Truro
41 Small cities Underwood to Zearling
50 Tiny cities Ackworth to Coppock
50 Tiny cities Cotter to Jackson Junction
50 Tiny cities Jolley to Orchard
50 Tiny cities Osterdock to Struble
32 Tiny cities Superior to Zwingle

Unincorporated cities

Approximately 5% have articles started.
List of unincorporated communities in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.
Falls under the jurisdiction of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
Template {{ Infobox settlement}}
Description and information Unincorporated area and Town#United States
For example a unincorporated city article (need one)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/UnincALL CITIES

A table of all 1183 Unincorporated communities located on another page.
132 Article Stubs created before Communities Division was activated.
Currently there is 132 articles with the classification of Stub-Class
Currently there is no articles with the classification of Start-Class
Shows status of an article's individual development.

Townships

Approximately 20% have articles started.
List of townships in Iowa by county Alphabetically listed Counties first then townships
List of townships in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.
Falls under the jurisdiction of Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
Template {{ Infobox settlement}}
Description and information Township (United States)
For example a township article GA Class Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois
For example a township article B-Class Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan

Sources for information

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities#Resources
Some sources may require use of other programs like pdf reader, MS word, MS excel

State Library of Iowa Wealth of information.
American FactFinder
U.S. Census Bureau People, Business, Government finances (state, local, school) and more
Population estimates
State Historical Society of Iowa
Iowa Department of Public Health
Iowa GenWeb Project Genealogy and area History some lists of political positions.
National Register of Historic Places
50states Iowa Trivia
City-Data Comprehensive Statistical Data about most communities. - Can target a locale in a reference.

Coordinates for communities

The {{ Coord}} template is used to standardize the presentation of coordinates (latitude and longitude) in Wikipedia articles. Complete documentation for the {{ Coord}} template is at Template:Coord/doc. {{ Coord}} can place coordinates in the text of an article, in the title area (top right corner), or in both places. Coordinates can also appear in infoboxes.

Per Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline, if a community's article has an infobox, then the community's overall coordinates should appear there and not in the body of the article. (Coordinates of specific features within the community may still appear in the body.)

All incorporated cities of Iowa now have {{ Infobox settlement}}, so their coordinates should be coded there. Once this is done, any overall coordinates in the body of the article (including the Geography section) should be removed.
Articles about townships and unincorporated communities should eventually use {{ Infobox settlement}}. Please add infoboxes to these articles if they don't have it. Once the overall coordinates are coded in the infobox, they can be removed from the body of the article.
{{ Infobox U.S. county}}, however, does not provide parameters for specifying coordinates. Articles about counties should therefore use the {{ Coord}} template. {{ Coord}} can be placed anywhere in an article. It often appears in the Geography section or just before the categories. (See User:Dispenser for a partial explanation.)
The Geographic Names Information System is a good source for Iowa coordinates.
Please don't specify coordinates with excessive precision. Note that 0.0001 degree is less than 35 feet and 1 second is less than 100 ft.

{{ Infobox settlement}} uses the following parameters:

|latd= // degrees of latitude (non-negative number)
|latm= // minutes of latitude (non-negative number less than 60)
|lats= // seconds of latitude (non-negative number less than 60)
|latNS= // N for "North"
|longd= // degrees of longitude (non-negative number)
|longm= // minutes of longitude (non-negative number less than 60)
|longs= // seconds of longitude (non-negative number less than 60)
|longEW= // W for "West"
|coor_pinpoint= // what coordinates refer to, if known (e.g. Town Hall)
|coordinates_type= // for township type:adm3rd_region:US-IA; otherwise leave blank
|coordinates_display= // inline,title
|coordinates_footnotes= // reference(s) for coordinates, placed within <ref> </ref>

{{ Coord}} recognizes many formats, including:

The basic degree-minute format, displayed in title area only:

{{Coord|degrees|minutes|latitude(N/S)| degrees|minutes |longitude(E/W)|display=title}}

The basic decimal-degree format, displayed in title area only:

{{ Coord}} also accepts an additional positional parameter containing coordinate parameters:

Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm1st for a state like Iowa
Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm2nd" for an Iowa county.
Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm3rd" for an Iowa township.
Use "|region:US-IA_type:city" for an Iowa city, town, or unincorporated community with unspecified population.
Use "|region:US-IA_type:city(nnn)" for an Iowa city, town, or unincorporated community with population nnn.

See the {{ Coord}} documentation at Template:Coord/doc for more coordinate parameters. There are 19 parameters just for type. Note that coordinate parameters may appear in any order, separated by underscores. They must not contain spaces, stiles, or equal-signs.

Examples

State of Iowa

{{Coord|display=title|42|N|93|W|region:US-IA_type:adm1st_scale:3000000}}
Note: "_scale:3000000" overrides the default map scale for type:adm1st.

Scott County, Iowa

{{coord|41|38|09|N|90|38|02|W|region:US-IA_type:adm2nd_source:dewiki|display=title}}
Note: "_source:dewiki" indicates that the coordinates were copied from the German Wikipedia.

Hiawatha, Iowa (incorporated city)

{{Infobox settlement
...
|coordinates_type    = region:US-IA_type:city
|coordinates_display = inline,title
|coordinates_footnotes = <ref>{{Cite gnis|2394368|Hiawatha}}</ref>
...
|latd = 42 |latm = 2 |lats = 52 |latNS = N
|longd = 91 |longm = 41 |longs = 12 |longEW = W
...

Berwick, Iowa (unincorporated community without an infobox)

{{coord|41|39|54|N|93|32|42|W|type:city_region:US-IA|display=title}}
Note: needs {{ Infobox settlement}}. Update: added infobox Kepper66 ( talk) 23:28, 22 January 2012 (UTC) reply

Carroll Township, Tama County, Iowa

{{coord|42.073928|-92.478991|display=title|type:adm3rd_region:US-IA}}
Note: needs {{ Infobox settlement}}.

Assessment

Iowa articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	2	4		2	9
FL			1	1	1		3
FM					7		7
A				1			1
GA	1	4	16	30			51
B	6	14	26	105		19	170
C	6	13	92	448		76	635
Start	6	23	323	3,411		287	4,050
Stub	1	13	112	5,651		450	6,227
List		6	38	190	1	15	250
Category				1	4,654		4,655
Disambig				2	21		23
File					1,273		1,273
Portal	1				29		30
Project					18		18
Redirect		2	3	56	719		780
Template		1		2	463		466
Other				1	11		12
Assessed	21	77	613	9,903	7,197	849	18,660
Unassessed				5		169	174
Total	21	77	613	9,908	7,197	1,018	18,834
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 60,765			Ω = 5.45

Assesment of the articles by Class and importance.

Table and information for the communities workgroup will be coming in the future.

Interesting assessment facts as of 2010-12-27

There is 49,215 articles under the Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities
60 have achieved Featured Article status. Category:FA-Class WikiProject Cities articles
FA to use as examples: Hillsboro, Oregon, Kent, Ohio, Grand Forks, North Dakota
118 have achieved Good Article status. Category:GA-Class WikiProject Cities articles
GA to use as examples: Harrisburg, Illinois, Columbia, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska
There are 7 in the A-Class category including Davenport, Iowa.
714 are classified as B-Class of which these are in Iowa:
Council Bluffs, Des Moines. Dubuque, Iowa City
Interesting also is Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/Top 25 US Cities Classes

Unincorporated communities and townships assessment

Classification of articles Stub to and through C-Class is subjective.
The following classifications are for communities division only.

Stub would be any article started with a lede (lead for american english) statement.
Quality Stub
infobox with name, coordinate information, subdivisions information, time zone, Zip code, GNIS code #
history (brief - preferably date established and explanation of name choice)
transportation (main roads)
references
county template
Quality Stub for townships would also include a description of any communities located within it's borders
Start-Class would have an expanded history
geography (water ways, land formations)
demographics
expand transportation (railroads, airports trails)
demographics
parks and recreation
notable people if applicable.
Quality Start to be determined.
C-Class to be determined

Communities Page to do list

Administration

2010-12-08 Make patrollers schedule ✗ Not done Need somebody to make calendar setup
2010-12-10 Make a Project Iowa/Communities Barnstar and/or Award See talk page
2010-12-19 Make a table for quality and importance. Philosophor...

To do list Administration ARCHIVE

2010-12-08 Start WikiProject Iowa/Communities. 2010-12-09 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Start talk: WikiProject Iowa/Communities. 2010-12-09 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Make Description of Members level of activity. 2010-12-09 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Make Members table. 2010-12-09 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Make Project Iowa and invite message. 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Place message on Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa. 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Send Invite message to Project Iowa members. 2010-12-17 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Start WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities. 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Start talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities. 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Make Communities priority page. 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Make infobox for Project Iowa/Communities/Priorities. 2010-12-11 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Make To do list Administration "completed" into a collapsed list 2010-12-19 RifeIdeas
2010-12-10 Make To do list Article "completed" into a collapsed list 2010-12-22 RifeIdeas
2010-12-16 Make incorporated cities Tables into 3 collapsed categories. 2010-12-16 RifeIdeas
2010-12-18 Create incorporated cities tables page. 2010-12-20 RifeIdeas
2010-12-18 Create Communities workgroup. 2010-12-18 Philosophor
2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles. 2010-12-18 Philosophor
2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles by importance. 2010-12-18 Philosophor
2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles by quality. 2010-12-18 Philosophor

Article

2010-12-08 Discussion and consensus on priorities See example and discussion...
See detailed description at Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities
2010-12-31 Break up Unincorporated cities list into tables
2010-12-31 Break up Townships list into tables
2010-12-31 Break up Counties list into tables
2011-01-02 Establish assessement criteria for Stub through C-Class
2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all unincorporated communities 2011-01-05 RifeIdeas
2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all Townships RifeIdeas...
2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all Counties

To do list Article ARCHIVE

2010-12-08 Make Tasks into a table 2010-12-22 RifeIdeas
2010-12-08 Break up Incorporated cities list into tables 2010-12-31 RifeIdeas
Large 60 2010-12-10 RifeIdeas
Midsize 216 2010-12-16 RifeIdeas
Small 441 2010-12-19 RifeIdeas
Tiny 2010-12-31 RifeIdeas

Patrol schedule

Entire section needs development.

Calendar
Other ideas?
An Iowa incorporated cities patrolling link that shows recent changes to just those cities can be found at:
Patrolling Incorporated Cities
An Iowa Communities patrolling link that shows recent changes to all Iowa's communities can be found at:
Patrolling All Iowa Communities

Invite message

Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities is linked in the message, just not active on this page.
It will be "blue linked" on any other page.

GOOD NEWS The division of Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa
called Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities
has been activated.

Assorted information

Assorted Ideas without form. (dumping ground for suggestions)

Links

Iowa
Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha) Over time with average views, has some flaws.
Wikipedia article traffic statistics (beta) A month by month view.
City Data bigger cities
City Data smaller cities
City Data very small towns

Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities
Wikipedia :WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities
Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncCITIES
Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncALL CITIES
Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/UnincALL CITIES
User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Iowa (communities) Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/U.S. municipality notes

Lists

List of cities in Iowa Search Alphabetically
List of unincorporated communities in Iowa
List of townships in Iowa by county Alphabetically listed Counties first then townships
List of townships in Iowa Search Alphabetically
List of counties in Iowa More than just a list

Milestones

Membership