While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
This space has covered some more ebullient projects recently - Articles for creation, Urban studies and planning, and Microsoft, to name a few. However, we must sometimes remember to look at the other end of the spectrum, such as this WikiProject where a small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.
With 38 participants, the project, founded in 2009, is on the small side, but it is certainly active and looks after a large range of articles on all things death-y. From morgues, legal documents, and zombies to autopsies, cremations, and statistics, the topic is a sombre but necessary part of life that nobody outside of the "business" really talks too much about. To find out more, we spoke to the project founder Geniac, along with Boneyard90 and Cloptonson.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Death? As it is such a morbid-sounding topic, it seems an unusual project to join.
Have you contributed to any of the project's forty-one Featured or 113 Good articles, and are these sort of articles generally easier or harder to promote than other subjects?
Can you explain your scope: what sort of articles qualify to be tagged under this project and what areas you don't cover?
The "Suicide task force" is a named subdivision of this project. What specifically does that cover, and is there very much activity within the task force compared to WikiProject Death as a whole?
What is your most popular topic or article, measured by reader page views? Should it be a project aim to improve your highest visibility articles?
How can a new member help today?
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.
This space has covered some more ebullient projects recently - Articles for creation, Urban studies and planning, and Microsoft, to name a few. However, we must sometimes remember to look at the other end of the spectrum, such as this WikiProject where a small band of dedicated editors seek to improve articles relating to a less lively topic. If you haven't yet guessed, this week's focus is WikiProject Death.
With 38 participants, the project, founded in 2009, is on the small side, but it is certainly active and looks after a large range of articles on all things death-y. From morgues, legal documents, and zombies to autopsies, cremations, and statistics, the topic is a sombre but necessary part of life that nobody outside of the "business" really talks too much about. To find out more, we spoke to the project founder Geniac, along with Boneyard90 and Cloptonson.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Death? As it is such a morbid-sounding topic, it seems an unusual project to join.
Have you contributed to any of the project's forty-one Featured or 113 Good articles, and are these sort of articles generally easier or harder to promote than other subjects?
Can you explain your scope: what sort of articles qualify to be tagged under this project and what areas you don't cover?
The "Suicide task force" is a named subdivision of this project. What specifically does that cover, and is there very much activity within the task force compared to WikiProject Death as a whole?
What is your most popular topic or article, measured by reader page views? Should it be a project aim to improve your highest visibility articles?
How can a new member help today?
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This seems a somewhat short and limited interview with the project - it is important to note that the User:Good O'lfactory was an inspiration for the project - he had created a vast number of categories relating to death, and as typical of most category creators on the wikipedia front page main space, they are totally disinterested in the talk page or project tagging. As a result, the project was inspired by a large amount of material with categories - but no project supporting this. Also the portal was more or less User:Polinossis's doing, constructing designing and arranging. Also, the discussions towards the scope of the project seem even less understood now than they were at the time of creation. satusuro 03:50, 6 February 2015 (UTC) reply