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Is there a list or tool that shows the top Wikiprojects by article numbers? I am particularly interested list of articles by country projects. I am sure the numbers are totally biased. But, how much? Something for WP:CSB to use. Aditya( talk • contribs) 20:30, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Table of top 50 wikiprojects by article count
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The code that does this (change NUM_TO_SHOW at the top if you want the table to be longer):
Code for above table
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import re
import urllib2
PROJECT_INDEX = "https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/pindex.fcgi?sec=%5BAll%5D"
TABLE_ROW_REGEX = r"<tr><td><b>(?:<a href=\"[^\"]+?\">(.+?)</a>|([^#<>\[\]\|\{\}_]+?))</b></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">([\d,]+)</td>"
NUM_TO_SHOW = 50
content = urllib2.urlopen(PROJECT_INDEX).read()
compiled_re = re.compile(TABLE_ROW_REGEX)
# Convert each wikiproject row to (name, count)
def entry_from_match(each_match):
name = each_match.group(1) if each_match.group(1) else each_match.group(2)
value = int(each_match.group(3).replace(",", ""))
return (name, value)
entries = map(entry_from_match, compiled_re.finditer(content))
entries.sort(key=lambda x: x1], reverse=True)
res = "{| class=\"wikitable sortable\"\n!Name!!Number of articles\n"
res += "\n|-\n".join("| {} || {:,d}".format(n, v) for n, v in entries[:NUM_TO_SHOW])
res += "\n|}"
print(res)
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Hope this helps! Enterprisey ( talk!) 03:14, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I'm GermanGamer77, and I would like my proposal, WikiProject Bettas, to be considered as a task force of WikiProject aquarium fish. Thanks, German Gamer 77 20:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Also posted in
WT:WPX
Should
Wikipedia:Help_Project be included in
WP:WPDIR/All? It seems it would make sense even though it doesn't have Wikiproject in the name (though is in
Category:Wikipedia_WikiProjects).
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)
talk 09:45, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, just like most WikiProject banners. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:17, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Journalism appears to be defunct or just dysfunctional. - Inowen ( talk) 06:53, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Channel Islands has:
Channel Islands-related articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
GA | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
B | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 27 | ||
C | 6 | 6 | 24 | 49 | 85 | ||
Start | 2 | 21 | 60 | 218 | 1 | 302 | |
Stub | 3 | 21 | 204 | 4 | 232 | ||
List | 3 | 8 | 47 | 1 | 59 | ||
Category | 529 | 529 | |||||
File | 18 | 18 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Template | 1 | 36 | 37 | ||||
NA | 1 | 4 | 66 | 71 | |||
Other | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
Assessed | 12 | 40 | 126 | 542 | 656 | 5 | 1,381 |
Unassessed | 9 | 9 | |||||
Total | 12 | 40 | 126 | 542 | 656 | 14 | 1,390 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 3,339 | Ω = 5.07 |
The
Wikipedia:WikiProject Jersey has:
Jersey articles by quality and importance | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |||
B | 2 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 29 | ||
C | 2 | 12 | 27 | 38 | 1 | 80 | |
Start | 1 | 17 | 97 | 258 | 8 | 381 | |
Stub | 1 | 6 | 45 | 279 | 4 | 335 | |
List | 4 | 12 | 28 | 1 | 45 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
NA | 1 | 2 | 9 | 734 | 746 | ||
Assessed | 6 | 45 | 195 | 630 | 736 | 13 | 1,625 |
Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Total | 6 | 45 | 195 | 630 | 737 | 16 | 1,629 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 4,336 | Ω = 5.21 |
How can I change the
Channel Islands (AKA
Guernsey) project to produce a Quality and Importance result like the one for Jersey?
All the Channel Islands articles have class and importance parameters. The talk page line {{WikiProject Channel Islands |class=C |importance=Top }} is an example from the
Guernsey article.--
Dthomsen8 (
talk) 02:24, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
How come Wiki Project Ancient Egypt is not on this page ? Shouldn't it be listed in the history section, or am I missunderstanding the classification ? The homepage of the project is here. Iry-Hor ( talk) 07:38, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I notice it reads: Q6: Who gets to decide whether a WikiProject is permitted to tag an article? A6: That is the exclusive right of the participants of the WikiProject. Editors at an article may neither force the group to tag an article nor refuse to permit them to tag an article. See WP:PROJGUIDE#OWN.
{{
WikiProject United States}}
being added in its place, albeit with the appropriate state-specific param (one of |CT=yes
|ME=yes
|NY=yes
etc.) being set. That WikiProject member (quite rightly imo) asserted that Kumioko could not unilaterally decide to remove the state's banner. But the main problem was that the state WikiProject member objected to {{
WikiProject United States}}
being used in addition for things of purely local significance. IIRC it was eventually agreed that for things of national relevance, such as an interstate highway, both {{
WikiProject United States}}
and the banners of each state traversed would be appropriate, but for a school, only the state's banner should be used. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:27, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed someone(s) here likes to really push female oriented WikiProjects apparently ahead of all others, which is by no means an appropriate thing to be doing. There's a lot more WikiProjects specifically about women than compared to, say, African Americans, or any other minority for that matter. Both examples of WikiProjects given on this page are female-centric, and I think this is overkill. Therefore, I've changed these areas to something that is much more universal to all people (ie, human rights). Alialiac ( talk) 01:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
There is a proposal for a new bot to automatically add WikiProjects and access article quality at Wikipedia:Bot requests/AutoAssessBot. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:25, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
What would be the best way of doing this? I've been thinking that for some WikiProjects there may be many editors that are interested but just don't know about the projects. For example I'd like to send a message to the 'Active Subject-Area Editors' on here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ukraine. This is because there are obviously many members who edit based on Ukraine but there are no active WikiProject contributors. – Craig Davison ( talk) 12:11, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
It appears that there hasn't been a lot of project management/stewardship at WP:Children's Literature, but I know there are several other editors who are doing work on these pages and I would like to at least see if I can put together a current membership list. Is there any sort of tool that would let me message members for a roll call or would I have to do a talk page edit for each listed member? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 21:44, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the article.. — SmokeyJoe ( talk) 01:35, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
I discovered this thing, WP:WikiProject Volkswagen Group / {{ User WikiProject Volkswagen Group}} / Category:WikiProject Volkswagen Group members -- it only has one member, no talk page, no project banner, no category, no activity since mid-2016 -- 70.51.203.56 ( talk) 08:30, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi! At WP:PHARM, we've had some discussion about how to best frame the project's participation list for the purposes of editor retention. Currently, the paradigm we have is split into two categories: "active" and "inactive." Inactivity is defined in a tiered system: at least 6 months without project-specific edits, "reasonably active" on Wikipedia but no project-specific edits for at least 3 months, "extremely active" on Wikipedia (>1000 edits in past month) but no project-specific edits for at least 1 month. Editors moved from active to inactive are to be notified on their talk page, and may add themselves back to the active list, as laid out on the participation page.
I was curious about getting feedback from other projects. What are your thoughts on this system? Do you think it is demotivating to be declared "inactive" based on this system, or do you think that editors may be spurred to action by an inactivity notice? How should an inactivity notice be formulated? Thank you in advance for your input! ― Biochemistry🙴❤ 23:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{ Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 10:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Add:
As with all essays, contents of WikiProject advice pages that contradict widespread consensus belong in the user namespace.
Thoughts? 12.86.159.170 ( talk) 23:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scuba diving#Proposal to rename the project to WikiProject Underwater diving:
If anyone has an opinion on this please comment on the project talk page linked above. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:34, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
I've recently done a lot of work on Bow Wow Wow articles. While editing Annabella Lwin's article, I added the Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe cover used for the album See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, and it was removed, citing Fair use issues.
To me, this isn't a violation of fair use. I'm sticking with the subject matter of the band, and the controversy this cover caused. Malcolm McLaren caused controversy by having a fourteen year old girl photographed nude for the cover of her album. Why wouldn't that image be in that 14 year old girl's article?
Follow up question: There are several Bow Wow Wow albums that weren't significant enough to merit their own articles. Would it be a violation of fair use to upload these images for inclusion in the band's article? Again, Perhaps an image next to the paragraph where the album is referenced. Johnny Spasm ( talk) 20:22, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Category:Bplus-Class articles, which is within the scope of this wikiproject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 17:30, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
As Per WikiProject Council, The Definition of a Inactive WikiProject is defined as follows "To qualify as "inactive", a project page should have had no directly project-related activity for at least three months. Comments from outside parties left on talk pages without response would not qualify as activity by this definition."
Following this WikiProject Education's Project pages have not received any substantial project related activity in the past three months.
Should this now be marked inactive? Nolan Perry Yell at me! 22:45, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
I need some help in cleaning up a move from "Los Angeles task force" to "Los Angeles area task force." Try this link: Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Los Angeles area task force. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 14:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer is tagged as possibly inactive, but marked as "yes" on the list in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society page. I am new to this, but what I have seen is that there is a distinction between "This WikiProject is defunct" tag and "This WikiProject is believed to be inactive" tag. So I am unsure if it is time or not to mark this project as a "no" in the Active column within the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society page. Thanks. ( talk) user:Al83tito 05:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi guys, I might be on the wrong page here, but I wonder if there is any bot the scans the wikipages for links and check if they change or die. In particular I am thinking about external links like references. It is quite common that these are outdated. Several actions could be taken; alert the wiki-author, cache a copy of the link until page has been updated. Just change the wiki entry and state the the link has been changed or died. Is this something of interest to the community?
Ravn ( talk) 16:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
I've just found Template:WikiProject Philippine Roads which is a mess. I've left a note at the talk page of its creator, HueMan1 ( talk · contribs). I cannot find evidence that it was proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 09:51, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Could someone on the council have a look at the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 26#Possible rules for top icons? and the project itself. Despite the claim that "the need for organisation led to 32 people joining the project within 2 days of its being founded", there appear to be only two members one of whom is active and trying to lay down regulations. Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 16:50, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
What's the problem with main page (Categories and other projects section)? Eurohunter ( talk) 12:35, 8 October 2018
{{
stack}}
template. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:09, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Comments please, on Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 26#Semi-automate DELSORT based on Project tags. Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 14:05, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. -- Izno Repeat ( talk) 21:33, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of newly-created project which was not proposed at WP:COUNCIL: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/WikiProject Warner. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:57, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
For a number of years we have been experiencing a steady decline in the number of administrators as a result of attrition and a declining number of editors willing to consider adminship. Things have reached a point where we are starting to experience chronic backlogs in important areas of the project including noticeboards, requests for closure, SPI, CSD & etc. If you are an experienced editor with around two years (or more) of tenure, 10k edits give or take and no record of seriously disruptive behavior, please consider if you might be willing to help out the community by becoming an administrator. The community can only function as well as we all are willing to participate. If you are interested start by reading WP:MOP and WP:RFAADVICE. Then go to WP:ORCP and open a discussion. Over the next few days experienced editors will take a look at your record and let you know what they think your chances are of passing RfA (the three most terrifying letters on Wikipedia) as well as provide you with feedback on areas that might be of concern and how to prepare yourself. You can find a list of experienced editors who may be willing to nominate you here. Finally, I may not have this page on my watchlist, so if you want to reply to me directly please ping me. Thank you and happy editing... - Ad Orientem ( talk) 21:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
1) There was a change from simply using wikiproject templates at article talk pages to a new extension which involves adding one special markup line to all these templates. This allowed to view new pages for this wikiproject and their class on a special page. What is the name of this extension?
2) Belonging of a page to categories is shown at the end of the text. Belonging of a page to WikiProjects could also be indicated in a similar way. (Like the banners at the top of the talk page of the article, but a more compact version. For example,
Categories: Stock car racing; Sports originating in the United States
WikiProjects ( what's this?): Motorsport, NASCAR, Appalachia
Here "WikiProjects ( what's this?): " could be written as " WikiProjects: " instead as a possibility.
Has this been considered before?
-- Gryllida ( talk) 20:27, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I propose changing WP:WikiProject California/Los Angeles area task force from a Task Force to a Project, as is the case with WP:WikiProject New York City. The Los Angeles area is simply too big to be a part of the California Project. How would I do this? Yours, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 21:59, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the deletion made on this page at [5]), which seems to violate the stricture “The basic rule—with exceptions outlined below—is to not edit or delete others' posts without their permission” ( Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Editing others' comments). I believe the deletion should be reverted. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 06:23, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
I know there was an RfC not too far back (can't find the link) proposing a full naming standardization of every WikiProject's page "tree", and it was rightly rejected, for being too WP:CREEPy and for other reasons. But I think there is value in having every project top page begin with "Wikipedia:WikiProject _____", as is almost universally standard already, which will allow us more easily (without having to navigate) to distinguish between WikiProjects and other content in the Wikipedia: namespace (such as essays), and will facilitate automated listbuilding/querying/searching of the projects. Can I get a sense of support vs. neutral vs. oppose for this? UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:22, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
It doesn't appear that "Women writers articles by quality and importance" table has updated in a while. What is the process to get it updated? JL-Bot appears to only update recognized content on the page, e.g. # of Featured Articles, etc. Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 20:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I thought it would make sense to get an audience from here as well. Please see this thread for discussions on a possible merger of the below three projects:
Thanks, Reh man 14:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects. We are designing a bot script to perform a few article assessment–related tasks and would appreciate your feedback. Qzekrom ( talk) 08:48, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects. As such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019. All users are invited to express their views and to add new topics for discussion. Individual WikiProjects may also consider creating their own requests for comment; instructions are at mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Participant group sign-up. (To keep discussion in one place, please don't reply to this comment.) Jc86035 ( talk) 14:59, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that the economics, business and finance WikiProjects are listed under Science, technology and engineering while the rest of the social sciences are listed only at History and society. I get that this might have been accidental, but listing only econ as a science (along with two fields that aren't sciences) is unfair to the other social sciences, including sociology and linguistics. It makes sense to keep all of the social sciences under History and society because there are so many of them and the boundaries between humanities and social sciences are fuzzy, but since some users will go to the sci+tech directory looking for the social sciences (like I just tried to do), we should figure out a way to list them consistently. Qzekrom ( talk) 05:56, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I need help at the Paramore WikiProject Here. Thanks a lot! Goveganplease ( talk) 00:13, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi all! I have created a new template that you can use to link to WikiProject pages at {{
WikiProject link}} (or {{
proj}} for short), analogous to {{
User link}}. For example, to link to WikiProject Biography, you can type {{
proj|Biography}}
, which produces
WikiProject Biography. Please use this template and leave feedback on the
template talk page. Also, feel free to modify or extend the template as long as you keep the basic interface the same. Thanks!
Qzekrom
💬 theythem 03:25, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Do we keep alternative names of WikiProjects or do we delete them? I'm not sure if they should exist. Mitchumch ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
<div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini" style="float:right; clear:right; margin:-1em 0.1em; display:none;"><ul><li class="nv-view">[[Template:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement|<abbr title="View this template">v</abbr>]]</li><li class="nv-talk">[[Template talk:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement|<abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr>]]</li><li class="nv-edit">[//en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:WikiProject_Civil_Rights_Movement&action=edit<abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr>]</li></ul></div>
. There is a wikilink "
v" to
Template:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement. It's not displayed due to display:none
but it still causes a WhatLinksHere entry. If it had linked to the redirect
Template:WikiProject American civil rights movement then it would also have caused a WhatLinksHere entry there.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:35, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Megrelian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia... I will write more :) -- ჯეო ( talk) 18:26, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
How I can extend related changes page to include changes in all categories from the main category? Currently it shows only edits from the main category. Eurohunter ( talk) 16:35, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject Council (or interested parties),
You might be aware that there is a huge dispute about Wikipedia Portals right now, culminating in an arbitration committee request which is currently undecided. People either love 'em or hate 'em. The main thrust of those who oppose portals is that their purpose is unclear and there are no provisions for updating or maintaining them.
It was proposed in February on the Portal Guidelines page that WikiProjects make determinations or which portals stay or go, which ones need to be merged or expanded. If WikiProjects wanted to take responsibility for determining the fate of portals that are under the subjects they cover, it would resolve what is an impasse right now. Any thoughts about this? Liz Read! Talk! 00:52, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
So, sometimes I'm surprised when I look at lists of WikiProject participants and sometimes see editors who haven't contributed in years still listed, or even users who have been banned. I wouldn't be upset if we took an active approach and start reviewing these lists to remove inactive and banned users, but at the same time, I can see how some projects might prefer to trim lists on their own. Thoughts? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
I would like to start a new project WikiProject Mysticism, looking at mystics of different faith traditions. I shall be happy if this becomes a task force in related WikiProjects, such as WikiProject Religion or WikiProject Spirituality. Vorbee ( talk) 08:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
The next mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase has two talks: "Group Membership and Contributions to Public Information Goods: The Case of WikiProject" and "Thanks for Stopping By: A Study of 'Thanks' Usage on Wikimedia". They'll begin on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 19:30 UTC (11:30 a.m. PDT). It will be recorded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb5LoJzOoE
This might be interesting to anyone who deals with groups or who uses the Thanks button. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
Hello, Is there an auto-generated list by most active WikiProjects? I remember being told that WP:WikiProject Women in Red was the most active at one time, but how do I check that? Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:03, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Assessment. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Trialpears ( talk) 21:37, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Men. Leviv ich 15:39, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects.
Phase 2 of the consultation has now begun; as such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 2. All users are invited to express their views. Individual WikiProjects, user groups and other communities may also consider creating their own requests for comment; instructions are at mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Participant group sign-up. (To keep discussion in one place, please don't reply to this comment.) Jc86035 ( talk) 14:48, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
I have just created this Wikiproject. However, it is a very excruciating and straining process to complete the page. Will someone please help? Or is there a template I can copy and just change names? -- Kailash29792 (talk) 15:37, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Oshwah started out as an April Fool's Day joke, but has since evolved into a fan page/social site. Should this be moved somewhere else, perhaps to userspace, or even outright deleted per WP:NOT? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 20:57, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I've proposed a new project and I'm finding some of the things I'm meant to put together on the proposal page to be somewhat arcane. Where can I get some hands-on help?
Many thanks!
Cadar ( talk) 14:56, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Quote: Newsletter delivery bots can help with delivering project newsletters to the project participants who have signed up.
Are there any guidelines besides
WP:COMMONSENSE on when is it OK to send a newsletter to the participants of a WikiProject? For example, since 7 June 2019 there have been a lot of notifications for userbox category discussions over at
WT:UB, but it seems that most participants either do not watch the project's page, don't check their watchlist, or just don't care enough to participate. Would it be OK to send out a big newsletter advertising these discussions? What about
inviting members to participate in
one of its tasks? Do the newsletters contain information on how to unsubscribe? Are there any recommendations on how to format a newsletter? —
andrybak (
talk) 23:08, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
What happens to the "task force" page when the group upgrades to stand-alone project status? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 03:57, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Wisdom of experienced project space eds is sought, on the question of why bother doing importance assessment, and how to convert prior assessments when a child task force grows up into a standalone (daughter) project? Please add your thoughts to the thread here. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 11:41, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure what's typically done with abandoned WikiProjects, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Myrtle Beach is completely inactive and the project's page has just become a spam magnet. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 18:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, There's talk about possibly merging WP:MCB, WP:GEN, WP:BIOP and possibly WP:COMBIO ( discussion). I've a few questions:
Let me know if there's anything else I'm not thinking of! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 05:11, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
@ DannyS712: I saw your offer to assist with automated tasks above. I'm curious, can you have bots do things like change uses of {{WikiProject Wikipedia Saves Public Art}} and {{WikiProject WSPA}} to {{WikiProject Public Art}}, and similar tasks? Seems like a minor request, since both redirect to the correct template, but I run across these all the time and I get tired of 'fixing' them manually? Just curious if you might someone I could ping for repeated tasks as such. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:17, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I would like to create an invitation template for WP:SOCIALISM. I went through a lot of different invitation templates to see examples. Is there any particular set of examples that you can recommend? Any advice on wording? Thank you! -- MarioGom ( talk) 08:12, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Folks, Recenlty a proposal to create Wikiproject climate change succeeded by way of an agreement to convert an inactive task force (under WikiProject Environment) into a stand alone WikiProject. Hooray! The old and (until recently) inactive task force, and all of its subpages, has been moved to WP:WikiProject Climate change.
Meanwhile, back at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals we still have two legacy pages
QUESTION and OBSERVATION The WikiProject Guide seems to omit a section on the nuts and bolts of closing a proposal. Question, does the hatted 2019 proposal hang out where it is? Does it get moved to a subpage of the project? Something else? Same question for the talk page, noting that the threads at the talk page might make the most sense (in a WP:MULTI sort of way) if the talk page were folded into the talk page at the former task force/current project talk page.
We need some wikignome/clerkish advice on keeping house from the project experts. Thanks! NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 10:40, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Just FYI, a few editors have decided to make WikiProject Sculpture active, and I've updated the project page accordingly. Also, I've asked a question here re: charting the # of articles associated with the project. Anyone able to help? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal underway to transfer the climate change task force into a WikiProject (now under the inactive WikiProject Environment). There are loads of articles tagged to belong the the task force. Is any of the current bots able to move all of these assessments to a new WikiProject? If not, would it be feasible for some of our programmer heros to make such a bot without much effort? Femke Nijsse ( talk) 18:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
code will behave much better if that is done, since it's not expecting to be used in Wikipedia: space. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)I have a relevant question posted at WikiProject Categories. If you can shed light please comment in the thread at the other venue. Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 11:42, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I am interested to participate to Wikiproject:Management and Wikiproject:Standards or something similar. None of these Wikiprojects exists at the moment, but in case you would create one or both of them, please let me know and I definitely will participate, because I am collaborating in this fields on it.wikipedia and would like to do the same here. There are thousands of pages to create, especially regarding standards (e.g.: pages related to certification marks in the world, members of IAF, ISO and IEC standards, etc.) and I could suggest a lot of other activities to do in these Wikiprojects. Thank you. -- Daniele Pugliesi ( talk) 14:07, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
:-)
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 05:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)It looks a bit confusing. It is hard to tell what is the recommended way to start (I assume {{ WPBannerMeta}}), what is its primary documentation and which methods are advanced or discouraged. I'm thinking about streamlining this documentation, but would like to hear your thoughts on the situation, what the recommendations should be, and where the primary documentation for them should live. -- MarioGom ( talk) 12:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello, my bot for removing infobox requests on articles with an infobox has just been aproved and any Wikiprojects that are interested in using this feature are welcome to contact me. It's currently operating on an opt-in basis to allow for customization for each WikiProject. For more details please see the BRFA and User:PearBOT/Infobox request/config. -- Trialpears ( talk) 22:39, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Maybe it is time to deprecate Directory of WikiProjects (manually maintained) in favor of WikiProject Directory (automated). The manual version could be marked as historical and incoming links replaced with the automated version. At least once User:Reports bot is up and running again with the updates. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Directory for potential outstanding problems with the automation. -- MarioGom ( talk) 17:27, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello I like to join the wikiproject council because I like to make Wikipedia a clean and safe place to go The Awesome Guy in the world ( talk) 21:45, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 63#Request for Comment - 1 November 2019 - Is WP:ANIME subordinate to other projects? could probably use some advice from people who are familiar with the difficulties that arise when WikiProject #1 says "must do X" and WikiProject #2 says "must do not-X" about the same article. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:38, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Which redirects should be tagged with WikiProject tags? Should any content in addition to the tags (e.g. {{ Talk page redirect}}) accompany these tags? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:42, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
FWIW, I did ask Koafv to get consensus on this, this matter has been on 2 user pages, half a dozen talkpages and 4 WP pages including here and Koavf reporting me for 3RR where the response was ‘'This is dumb. How about just redirecting the talk page like we do for all other redirects? In any case, No violation.'
The real argument and discussion is not whether redirects should be tagged for projects as Koafv claims here, if it was, we wouldn’t have a dispute, but should misprints, incorrect titles, incomplete titles, unnecessary disambiguation and other errata be project tagged?
Our ongoing argument with has centred round WPSongs and I give you 2 examples:
1. Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield song) which is tagged as “R avoided double redirect|Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield Three song) and Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield Three song), which is tagged as a song & with a WPSongs tag. Koafv thinks both should be project tagged, I say only the ‘correct’ title
2. Similarly, List of Doris Day songs is tagged as ‘unprintworthy redirect’ and is directed to where the article is, at List of songs recorded by Doris Day. Both are tagged for projects Song, List and Pop. I say only the active page. The redirect on the talkpage is sufficient. Adding and arguing with other editors there should be tags is pointless.
FWIW, If I thought it would gain traction I’d nominate a fair percentage of these errors for deletion.-- Richhoncho ( talk) 12:10, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
I wasn't sure where to pose this, and appreciate any guidance. Would it be okay to make updates as follows?
The reason I'm interested is to ensure the information hierarchy is the same. Practically speaking, I'm doing some work on identification of topic mapping for some metrics (see phab:T234839 for some context) and one of the scripts involved in the process noticed the mismatch in the labels and for now I've just manually overridden the mismatch, but would think it nice to update the source pages.
@ Ajpolino and Andrei Kuryan: mentioning you here for visibility based on the diffs in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Council%2FDirectory%2FScience&type=revision&diff=919381413&oldid=919275054.
I'm doing my work as a paid Wikimedia Foundation staff member, so I also wanted to check on whether this contribution would be okay for me to make under my work handle, if I should use my volunteer handle, or if someone else might be okay making the update on my behalf, as it's not exactly article content, but does speak to some level of curatorial judgment, however benign the terminology.
-- ABaso (WMF) ( talk) 18:30, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
I stumbled upon Wikipedia: WikiProject Black Women Creatives which seems to have been created in 2016, but never listed anywhere. Can someone go about an regularize this WPP? (ie. list it, add it to the category tree, check activity status, etc) -- 67.70.33.184 ( talk) 07:15, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
{{
Project}}
at the top, which categorizes it into
Category:Active WikiProjects. It's not in the
manually updated project directory yet, but I'm hoping to go through and update the (seriously outdated) directory in the next few months. Thanks for bringing it up here. Feel free to post at other talk pages to try to drum up support for picking up where
Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Women Creatives has left off.
Ajpolino (
talk) 15:58, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello all! I'm writing a WikiProject Report for the Signpost, and I was wondering if there is a place I can view recently created wikiprojects, as I would like to write about a new one. Thanks! (BTW, please respond here and ping me. Thank you all! Puddleglum2.0 Have a talk? 02:46, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Following a successful proposal, WikiProject A Cappella has begun work! If you are interested in joining, please do! You can read the instructions on our main page. Thanks! Puddleglum 2.0 19:32, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I am a new coordinator page admin at WikiProject History. I took that role simply by vounteering for it. none of the other past coordinators are active there any more. I have posted the notice below on the project's main page, and a similar one on the
project's talk page. if anyone here would like to get involved, help out, or else simply say hello there or let us know what you're up to, please feel free to drop by and write a note. We'd welcome your comments, and would be glad to hear from you. I welcome everyone's input. and you can feel free to reply here as well thanks!!
Feel free to write back. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 15:41, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Sm8900: Sounds cool, I'm in! Puddleglum 2.0 00:51, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
Sm8900: I have just noticed that WikiProject Women in Green does not appear to be included in the lists. I have just created Category:WikiProject Women in Green but don't know whether that is sufficient to have it listed. If is isn't, please let me know what more I should do. It's a pretty active and successful project, its main aim being to improve women's biographies (and other articles about women) up to GA class (i.e. green) and beyond. The project is closely related to WP Women in Red.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:40, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
so there is an archived wikiproject that was never officially created but the person who was making it has left wikipedia and I would like to start it up again and continue it is there a way to do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carri796 ( talk • contribs) 03:36, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
I am trying to gauge interest in WikiProject Houston. The project is listed as active, but I am the only editor currently assessing articles, and I am only aware of one other project editor who has assessed articles over the past two or three years. The project page is dated, but I have not made any changes because I was deferring to the original coordinator of the project, who appears to be inactive again. There is not much maintenance for high traffic articles other than from the anti-vandals, who from what I can tell, are not connected with the project. I raised these issues issue about two years ago and nothing has changed. I have promoted at least two Houston-related articles to GA, but did so with no support from the project. I hope to be a part of creating a better experience for those who would like to contribute to Houston-related articles. If we cannot revive the project, at least a status change would be justified. Oldsanfelipe2 ( talk) 23:10, 28 January 2020 (UTC)
This page is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
Is there a list or tool that shows the top Wikiprojects by article numbers? I am particularly interested list of articles by country projects. I am sure the numbers are totally biased. But, how much? Something for WP:CSB to use. Aditya( talk • contribs) 20:30, 26 December 2017 (UTC)
Table of top 50 wikiprojects by article count
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The code that does this (change NUM_TO_SHOW at the top if you want the table to be longer):
Code for above table
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import re
import urllib2
PROJECT_INDEX = "https://tools.wmflabs.org/enwp10/cgi-bin/pindex.fcgi?sec=%5BAll%5D"
TABLE_ROW_REGEX = r"<tr><td><b>(?:<a href=\"[^\"]+?\">(.+?)</a>|([^#<>\[\]\|\{\}_]+?))</b></td><td style=\"text-align: right;\">([\d,]+)</td>"
NUM_TO_SHOW = 50
content = urllib2.urlopen(PROJECT_INDEX).read()
compiled_re = re.compile(TABLE_ROW_REGEX)
# Convert each wikiproject row to (name, count)
def entry_from_match(each_match):
name = each_match.group(1) if each_match.group(1) else each_match.group(2)
value = int(each_match.group(3).replace(",", ""))
return (name, value)
entries = map(entry_from_match, compiled_re.finditer(content))
entries.sort(key=lambda x: x1], reverse=True)
res = "{| class=\"wikitable sortable\"\n!Name!!Number of articles\n"
res += "\n|-\n".join("| {} || {:,d}".format(n, v) for n, v in entries[:NUM_TO_SHOW])
res += "\n|}"
print(res)
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Hope this helps! Enterprisey ( talk!) 03:14, 29 December 2017 (UTC)
Hi. I'm GermanGamer77, and I would like my proposal, WikiProject Bettas, to be considered as a task force of WikiProject aquarium fish. Thanks, German Gamer 77 20:02, 18 January 2018 (UTC)
Check out this month's issue of the WikiProject X newsletter, with plans to renew work with a followup grant proposal to support finalising the deployment of CollaborationKit!
-— Isarra ༆ 21:26, 14 February 2018 (UTC)
Also posted in
WT:WPX
Should
Wikipedia:Help_Project be included in
WP:WPDIR/All? It seems it would make sense even though it doesn't have Wikiproject in the name (though is in
Category:Wikipedia_WikiProjects).
T.Shafee(Evo&Evo)
talk 09:45, 18 February 2018 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
, just like most WikiProject banners. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 00:17, 19 February 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Wikiproject Journalism appears to be defunct or just dysfunctional. - Inowen ( talk) 06:53, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
The Wikipedia:WikiProject Channel Islands has:
Channel Islands-related articles by quality and importance | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||
GA | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | ||
B | 2 | 5 | 9 | 11 | 27 | ||
C | 6 | 6 | 24 | 49 | 85 | ||
Start | 2 | 21 | 60 | 218 | 1 | 302 | |
Stub | 3 | 21 | 204 | 4 | 232 | ||
List | 3 | 8 | 47 | 1 | 59 | ||
Category | 529 | 529 | |||||
File | 18 | 18 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Template | 1 | 36 | 37 | ||||
NA | 1 | 4 | 66 | 71 | |||
Other | 3 | 2 | 5 | ||||
Assessed | 12 | 40 | 126 | 542 | 656 | 5 | 1,381 |
Unassessed | 9 | 9 | |||||
Total | 12 | 40 | 126 | 542 | 656 | 14 | 1,390 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 3,339 | Ω = 5.07 |
The
Wikipedia:WikiProject Jersey has:
Jersey articles by quality and importance | |||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 1 | |||||
GA | 2 | 1 | 4 | 7 | |||
B | 2 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 29 | ||
C | 2 | 12 | 27 | 38 | 1 | 80 | |
Start | 1 | 17 | 97 | 258 | 8 | 381 | |
Stub | 1 | 6 | 45 | 279 | 4 | 335 | |
List | 4 | 12 | 28 | 1 | 45 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
NA | 1 | 2 | 9 | 734 | 746 | ||
Assessed | 6 | 45 | 195 | 630 | 736 | 13 | 1,625 |
Unassessed | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
Total | 6 | 45 | 195 | 630 | 737 | 16 | 1,629 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 4,336 | Ω = 5.21 |
How can I change the
Channel Islands (AKA
Guernsey) project to produce a Quality and Importance result like the one for Jersey?
All the Channel Islands articles have class and importance parameters. The talk page line {{WikiProject Channel Islands |class=C |importance=Top }} is an example from the
Guernsey article.--
Dthomsen8 (
talk) 02:24, 11 March 2018 (UTC)
How come Wiki Project Ancient Egypt is not on this page ? Shouldn't it be listed in the history section, or am I missunderstanding the classification ? The homepage of the project is here. Iry-Hor ( talk) 07:38, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I notice it reads: Q6: Who gets to decide whether a WikiProject is permitted to tag an article? A6: That is the exclusive right of the participants of the WikiProject. Editors at an article may neither force the group to tag an article nor refuse to permit them to tag an article. See WP:PROJGUIDE#OWN.
{{
WikiProject United States}}
being added in its place, albeit with the appropriate state-specific param (one of |CT=yes
|ME=yes
|NY=yes
etc.) being set. That WikiProject member (quite rightly imo) asserted that Kumioko could not unilaterally decide to remove the state's banner. But the main problem was that the state WikiProject member objected to {{
WikiProject United States}}
being used in addition for things of purely local significance. IIRC it was eventually agreed that for things of national relevance, such as an interstate highway, both {{
WikiProject United States}}
and the banners of each state traversed would be appropriate, but for a school, only the state's banner should be used. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 10:27, 15 March 2018 (UTC)
I've noticed someone(s) here likes to really push female oriented WikiProjects apparently ahead of all others, which is by no means an appropriate thing to be doing. There's a lot more WikiProjects specifically about women than compared to, say, African Americans, or any other minority for that matter. Both examples of WikiProjects given on this page are female-centric, and I think this is overkill. Therefore, I've changed these areas to something that is much more universal to all people (ie, human rights). Alialiac ( talk) 01:02, 20 February 2018 (UTC)
There is a proposal for a new bot to automatically add WikiProjects and access article quality at Wikipedia:Bot requests/AutoAssessBot. -- Bamyers99 ( talk) 14:25, 12 April 2018 (UTC)
What would be the best way of doing this? I've been thinking that for some WikiProjects there may be many editors that are interested but just don't know about the projects. For example I'd like to send a message to the 'Active Subject-Area Editors' on here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Ukraine. This is because there are obviously many members who edit based on Ukraine but there are no active WikiProject contributors. – Craig Davison ( talk) 12:11, 14 April 2018 (UTC)
It appears that there hasn't been a lot of project management/stewardship at WP:Children's Literature, but I know there are several other editors who are doing work on these pages and I would like to at least see if I can put together a current membership list. Is there any sort of tool that would let me message members for a roll call or would I have to do a talk page edit for each listed member? Best, Barkeep49 ( talk) 21:44, 24 April 2018 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place as to whether Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.
The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Parenting until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.
Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the article.. — SmokeyJoe ( talk) 01:35, 29 April 2018 (UTC)
I discovered this thing, WP:WikiProject Volkswagen Group / {{ User WikiProject Volkswagen Group}} / Category:WikiProject Volkswagen Group members -- it only has one member, no talk page, no project banner, no category, no activity since mid-2016 -- 70.51.203.56 ( talk) 08:30, 1 May 2018 (UTC)
Hi! At WP:PHARM, we've had some discussion about how to best frame the project's participation list for the purposes of editor retention. Currently, the paradigm we have is split into two categories: "active" and "inactive." Inactivity is defined in a tiered system: at least 6 months without project-specific edits, "reasonably active" on Wikipedia but no project-specific edits for at least 3 months, "extremely active" on Wikipedia (>1000 edits in past month) but no project-specific edits for at least 1 month. Editors moved from active to inactive are to be notified on their talk page, and may add themselves back to the active list, as laid out on the participation page.
I was curious about getting feedback from other projects. What are your thoughts on this system? Do you think it is demotivating to be declared "inactive" based on this system, or do you think that editors may be spurred to action by an inactivity notice? How should an inactivity notice be formulated? Thank you in advance for your input! ― Biochemistry🙴❤ 23:49, 3 May 2018 (UTC)
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.
Portals are being redesigned.
The new design features are being applied to existing portals.
At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{ Transclude lead excerpt}}.
The discussion about this can be found here.
Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.
Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.
So far, 84 editors have joined.
If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.
If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.
Thank you. — The Transhumanist 10:55, 31 May 2018 (UTC)
Add:
As with all essays, contents of WikiProject advice pages that contradict widespread consensus belong in the user namespace.
Thoughts? 12.86.159.170 ( talk) 23:23, 9 April 2018 (UTC)
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Scuba diving#Proposal to rename the project to WikiProject Underwater diving:
If anyone has an opinion on this please comment on the project talk page linked above. · · · Peter (Southwood) (talk): 10:34, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
I've recently done a lot of work on Bow Wow Wow articles. While editing Annabella Lwin's article, I added the Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe cover used for the album See Jungle! See Jungle! Go Join Your Gang Yeah, City All Over! Go Ape Crazy!, and it was removed, citing Fair use issues.
To me, this isn't a violation of fair use. I'm sticking with the subject matter of the band, and the controversy this cover caused. Malcolm McLaren caused controversy by having a fourteen year old girl photographed nude for the cover of her album. Why wouldn't that image be in that 14 year old girl's article?
Follow up question: There are several Bow Wow Wow albums that weren't significant enough to merit their own articles. Would it be a violation of fair use to upload these images for inclusion in the band's article? Again, Perhaps an image next to the paragraph where the album is referenced. Johnny Spasm ( talk) 20:22, 28 June 2018 (UTC)
Category:Bplus-Class articles, which is within the scope of this wikiproject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. — SMcCandlish ☏ ¢ 😼 17:30, 30 June 2018 (UTC)
As Per WikiProject Council, The Definition of a Inactive WikiProject is defined as follows "To qualify as "inactive", a project page should have had no directly project-related activity for at least three months. Comments from outside parties left on talk pages without response would not qualify as activity by this definition."
Following this WikiProject Education's Project pages have not received any substantial project related activity in the past three months.
Should this now be marked inactive? Nolan Perry Yell at me! 22:45, 7 July 2018 (UTC)
I need some help in cleaning up a move from "Los Angeles task force" to "Los Angeles area task force." Try this link: Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Los Angeles area task force. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 14:34, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Timeline Tracer is tagged as possibly inactive, but marked as "yes" on the list in the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society page. I am new to this, but what I have seen is that there is a distinction between "This WikiProject is defunct" tag and "This WikiProject is believed to be inactive" tag. So I am unsure if it is time or not to mark this project as a "no" in the Active column within the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/History and society page. Thanks. ( talk) user:Al83tito 05:55, 10 August 2018 (UTC)
This month: WikiProject X: The resumption
Work has resumed on WikiProject X and CollaborationKit, backed by a successfully funded Project Grant. For more information on the current status and planned work, please see this month's issue of the newsletter!
-— Isarra ༆ 22:24, 30 August 2018 (UTC)
Hi guys, I might be on the wrong page here, but I wonder if there is any bot the scans the wikipages for links and check if they change or die. In particular I am thinking about external links like references. It is quite common that these are outdated. Several actions could be taken; alert the wiki-author, cache a copy of the link until page has been updated. Just change the wiki entry and state the the link has been changed or died. Is this something of interest to the community?
Ravn ( talk) 16:12, 4 September 2018 (UTC)
I've just found Template:WikiProject Philippine Roads which is a mess. I've left a note at the talk page of its creator, HueMan1 ( talk · contribs). I cannot find evidence that it was proposed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. -- Redrose64 🌹 ( talk) 09:51, 7 September 2018 (UTC)
Could someone on the council have a look at the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 26#Possible rules for top icons? and the project itself. Despite the claim that "the need for organisation led to 32 people joining the project within 2 days of its being founded", there appear to be only two members one of whom is active and trying to lay down regulations. Regards, Martin of Sheffield ( talk) 16:50, 23 September 2018 (UTC)
What's the problem with main page (Categories and other projects section)? Eurohunter ( talk) 12:35, 8 October 2018
{{
stack}}
template. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 22:09, 8 October 2018 (UTC)
Comments please, on Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)/Archive 26#Semi-automate DELSORT based on Project tags. Thanks, Cabayi ( talk) 14:05, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. -- Izno Repeat ( talk) 21:33, 11 November 2018 (UTC)
Proposed deletion of newly-created project which was not proposed at WP:COUNCIL: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/WikiProject Warner. -- BrownHairedGirl (talk) • ( contribs) 17:57, 22 November 2018 (UTC)
For a number of years we have been experiencing a steady decline in the number of administrators as a result of attrition and a declining number of editors willing to consider adminship. Things have reached a point where we are starting to experience chronic backlogs in important areas of the project including noticeboards, requests for closure, SPI, CSD & etc. If you are an experienced editor with around two years (or more) of tenure, 10k edits give or take and no record of seriously disruptive behavior, please consider if you might be willing to help out the community by becoming an administrator. The community can only function as well as we all are willing to participate. If you are interested start by reading WP:MOP and WP:RFAADVICE. Then go to WP:ORCP and open a discussion. Over the next few days experienced editors will take a look at your record and let you know what they think your chances are of passing RfA (the three most terrifying letters on Wikipedia) as well as provide you with feedback on areas that might be of concern and how to prepare yourself. You can find a list of experienced editors who may be willing to nominate you here. Finally, I may not have this page on my watchlist, so if you want to reply to me directly please ping me. Thank you and happy editing... - Ad Orientem ( talk) 21:41, 31 October 2018 (UTC)
1) There was a change from simply using wikiproject templates at article talk pages to a new extension which involves adding one special markup line to all these templates. This allowed to view new pages for this wikiproject and their class on a special page. What is the name of this extension?
2) Belonging of a page to categories is shown at the end of the text. Belonging of a page to WikiProjects could also be indicated in a similar way. (Like the banners at the top of the talk page of the article, but a more compact version. For example,
Categories: Stock car racing; Sports originating in the United States
WikiProjects ( what's this?): Motorsport, NASCAR, Appalachia
Here "WikiProjects ( what's this?): " could be written as " WikiProjects: " instead as a possibility.
Has this been considered before?
-- Gryllida ( talk) 20:27, 23 November 2018 (UTC)
This month: A general update.
The current status of the project is as follows:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 22:44, 20 December 2018 (UTC)
Hi. I propose changing WP:WikiProject California/Los Angeles area task force from a Task Force to a Project, as is the case with WP:WikiProject New York City. The Los Angeles area is simply too big to be a part of the California Project. How would I do this? Yours, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 21:59, 31 December 2018 (UTC)
Your attention is called to the deletion made on this page at [5]), which seems to violate the stricture “The basic rule—with exceptions outlined below—is to not edit or delete others' posts without their permission” ( Wikipedia:Talk page guidelines#Editing others' comments). I believe the deletion should be reverted. Sincerely, BeenAroundAWhile ( talk) 06:23, 13 December 2018 (UTC)
I know there was an RfC not too far back (can't find the link) proposing a full naming standardization of every WikiProject's page "tree", and it was rightly rejected, for being too WP:CREEPy and for other reasons. But I think there is value in having every project top page begin with "Wikipedia:WikiProject _____", as is almost universally standard already, which will allow us more easily (without having to navigate) to distinguish between WikiProjects and other content in the Wikipedia: namespace (such as essays), and will facilitate automated listbuilding/querying/searching of the projects. Can I get a sense of support vs. neutral vs. oppose for this? UnitedStatesian ( talk) 16:22, 28 January 2019 (UTC)
It doesn't appear that "Women writers articles by quality and importance" table has updated in a while. What is the process to get it updated? JL-Bot appears to only update recognized content on the page, e.g. # of Featured Articles, etc. Thanks. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 20:14, 1 January 2019 (UTC)
Hello. I thought it would make sense to get an audience from here as well. Please see this thread for discussions on a possible merger of the below three projects:
Thanks, Reh man 14:04, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects. We are designing a bot script to perform a few article assessment–related tasks and would appreciate your feedback. Qzekrom ( talk) 08:48, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects. As such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019. All users are invited to express their views and to add new topics for discussion. Individual WikiProjects may also consider creating their own requests for comment; instructions are at mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Participant group sign-up. (To keep discussion in one place, please don't reply to this comment.) Jc86035 ( talk) 14:59, 23 February 2019 (UTC)
I just noticed that the economics, business and finance WikiProjects are listed under Science, technology and engineering while the rest of the social sciences are listed only at History and society. I get that this might have been accidental, but listing only econ as a science (along with two fields that aren't sciences) is unfair to the other social sciences, including sociology and linguistics. It makes sense to keep all of the social sciences under History and society because there are so many of them and the boundaries between humanities and social sciences are fuzzy, but since some users will go to the sci+tech directory looking for the social sciences (like I just tried to do), we should figure out a way to list them consistently. Qzekrom ( talk) 05:56, 27 February 2019 (UTC)
Hello, I need help at the Paramore WikiProject Here. Thanks a lot! Goveganplease ( talk) 00:13, 11 March 2019 (UTC)
Hi all! I have created a new template that you can use to link to WikiProject pages at {{
WikiProject link}} (or {{
proj}} for short), analogous to {{
User link}}. For example, to link to WikiProject Biography, you can type {{
proj|Biography}}
, which produces
WikiProject Biography. Please use this template and leave feedback on the
template talk page. Also, feel free to modify or extend the template as long as you keep the basic interface the same. Thanks!
Qzekrom
💬 theythem 03:25, 16 March 2019 (UTC)
Do we keep alternative names of WikiProjects or do we delete them? I'm not sure if they should exist. Mitchumch ( talk) 15:07, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
<div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini" style="float:right; clear:right; margin:-1em 0.1em; display:none;"><ul><li class="nv-view">[[Template:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement|<abbr title="View this template">v</abbr>]]</li><li class="nv-talk">[[Template talk:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement|<abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr>]]</li><li class="nv-edit">[//en.wikipedia.org/?title=Template:WikiProject_Civil_Rights_Movement&action=edit<abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr>]</li></ul></div>
. There is a wikilink "
v" to
Template:WikiProject Civil Rights Movement. It's not displayed due to display:none
but it still causes a WhatLinksHere entry. If it had linked to the redirect
Template:WikiProject American civil rights movement then it would also have caused a WhatLinksHere entry there.
PrimeHunter (
talk) 20:35, 24 March 2019 (UTC)
Megrelian Wikipedia, Abkhazian Wikipedia... I will write more :) -- ჯეო ( talk) 18:26, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
How I can extend related changes page to include changes in all categories from the main category? Currently it shows only edits from the main category. Eurohunter ( talk) 16:35, 26 March 2019 (UTC)
Hello, WikiProject Council (or interested parties),
You might be aware that there is a huge dispute about Wikipedia Portals right now, culminating in an arbitration committee request which is currently undecided. People either love 'em or hate 'em. The main thrust of those who oppose portals is that their purpose is unclear and there are no provisions for updating or maintaining them.
It was proposed in February on the Portal Guidelines page that WikiProjects make determinations or which portals stay or go, which ones need to be merged or expanded. If WikiProjects wanted to take responsibility for determining the fate of portals that are under the subjects they cover, it would resolve what is an impasse right now. Any thoughts about this? Liz Read! Talk! 00:52, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
So, sometimes I'm surprised when I look at lists of WikiProject participants and sometimes see editors who haven't contributed in years still listed, or even users who have been banned. I wouldn't be upset if we took an active approach and start reviewing these lists to remove inactive and banned users, but at the same time, I can see how some projects might prefer to trim lists on their own. Thoughts? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 23:38, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
I would like to start a new project WikiProject Mysticism, looking at mystics of different faith traditions. I shall be happy if this becomes a task force in related WikiProjects, such as WikiProject Religion or WikiProject Spirituality. Vorbee ( talk) 08:02, 6 April 2019 (UTC)
The next mw:Wikimedia Research/Showcase has two talks: "Group Membership and Contributions to Public Information Goods: The Case of WikiProject" and "Thanks for Stopping By: A Study of 'Thanks' Usage on Wikimedia". They'll begin on Wednesday, April 17, 2019, at 19:30 UTC (11:30 a.m. PDT). It will be recorded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmb5LoJzOoE
This might be interesting to anyone who deals with groups or who uses the Thanks button. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 19:07, 15 April 2019 (UTC)
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
Hello, Is there an auto-generated list by most active WikiProjects? I remember being told that WP:WikiProject Women in Red was the most active at one time, but how do I check that? Thank you. -- Rosiestep ( talk) 19:03, 16 April 2019 (UTC)
An editor has asked for a discussion to address the redirect Wikipedia:Assessment. Please participate in the redirect discussion if you wish to do so. Trialpears ( talk) 21:37, 11 May 2019 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Men. Leviv ich 15:39, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
The Wikimedia Foundation has invited the various Wikimedia communities, including the English Wikipedia, to participate in a consultation on improving communication methods within the Wikimedia projects.
Phase 2 of the consultation has now begun; as such, a request for comment has been created at Wikipedia:Talk pages consultation 2019/Phase 2. All users are invited to express their views. Individual WikiProjects, user groups and other communities may also consider creating their own requests for comment; instructions are at mw:Talk pages consultation 2019/Participant group sign-up. (To keep discussion in one place, please don't reply to this comment.) Jc86035 ( talk) 14:48, 18 May 2019 (UTC)
I have just created this Wikiproject. However, it is a very excruciating and straining process to complete the page. Will someone please help? Or is there a template I can copy and just change names? -- Kailash29792 (talk) 15:37, 19 May 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:WikiProject Oshwah started out as an April Fool's Day joke, but has since evolved into a fan page/social site. Should this be moved somewhere else, perhaps to userspace, or even outright deleted per WP:NOT? Thanks. - BilCat ( talk) 20:57, 1 June 2019 (UTC)
Updates: I've been focusing largely on the development side of things, so we are a lot closer now to being ready to actually start discussing deploying it and testing it out here.
There's just a few things left that need to be resolved:
Some other stuff that's happened in the meantime:
Until next time,
-— Isarra ༆ 21:43, 21 June 2019 (UTC)
Hi everybody. Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I've proposed a new project and I'm finding some of the things I'm meant to put together on the proposal page to be somewhat arcane. Where can I get some hands-on help?
Many thanks!
Cadar ( talk) 14:56, 29 June 2019 (UTC)
Quote: Newsletter delivery bots can help with delivering project newsletters to the project participants who have signed up.
Are there any guidelines besides
WP:COMMONSENSE on when is it OK to send a newsletter to the participants of a WikiProject? For example, since 7 June 2019 there have been a lot of notifications for userbox category discussions over at
WT:UB, but it seems that most participants either do not watch the project's page, don't check their watchlist, or just don't care enough to participate. Would it be OK to send out a big newsletter advertising these discussions? What about
inviting members to participate in
one of its tasks? Do the newsletters contain information on how to unsubscribe? Are there any recommendations on how to format a newsletter? —
andrybak (
talk) 23:08, 11 July 2019 (UTC)
What happens to the "task force" page when the group upgrades to stand-alone project status? NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 03:57, 15 July 2019 (UTC)
Wisdom of experienced project space eds is sought, on the question of why bother doing importance assessment, and how to convert prior assessments when a child task force grows up into a standalone (daughter) project? Please add your thoughts to the thread here. NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 11:41, 16 July 2019 (UTC)
I'm not sure what's typically done with abandoned WikiProjects, but Wikipedia:WikiProject Myrtle Beach is completely inactive and the project's page has just become a spam magnet. -- Ed ( Edgar181) 18:15, 25 June 2019 (UTC)
Hello, There's talk about possibly merging WP:MCB, WP:GEN, WP:BIOP and possibly WP:COMBIO ( discussion). I've a few questions:
Let me know if there's anything else I'm not thinking of! T.Shafee(Evo&Evo) talk 05:11, 3 June 2019 (UTC)
@ DannyS712: I saw your offer to assist with automated tasks above. I'm curious, can you have bots do things like change uses of {{WikiProject Wikipedia Saves Public Art}} and {{WikiProject WSPA}} to {{WikiProject Public Art}}, and similar tasks? Seems like a minor request, since both redirect to the correct template, but I run across these all the time and I get tired of 'fixing' them manually? Just curious if you might someone I could ping for repeated tasks as such. --- Another Believer ( Talk) 18:17, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
Hello! I would like to create an invitation template for WP:SOCIALISM. I went through a lot of different invitation templates to see examples. Is there any particular set of examples that you can recommend? Any advice on wording? Thank you! -- MarioGom ( talk) 08:12, 27 July 2019 (UTC)
Hi Folks, Recenlty a proposal to create Wikiproject climate change succeeded by way of an agreement to convert an inactive task force (under WikiProject Environment) into a stand alone WikiProject. Hooray! The old and (until recently) inactive task force, and all of its subpages, has been moved to WP:WikiProject Climate change.
Meanwhile, back at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals we still have two legacy pages
QUESTION and OBSERVATION The WikiProject Guide seems to omit a section on the nuts and bolts of closing a proposal. Question, does the hatted 2019 proposal hang out where it is? Does it get moved to a subpage of the project? Something else? Same question for the talk page, noting that the threads at the talk page might make the most sense (in a WP:MULTI sort of way) if the talk page were folded into the talk page at the former task force/current project talk page.
We need some wikignome/clerkish advice on keeping house from the project experts. Thanks! NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 10:40, 28 July 2019 (UTC)
Just FYI, a few editors have decided to make WikiProject Sculpture active, and I've updated the project page accordingly. Also, I've asked a question here re: charting the # of articles associated with the project. Anyone able to help? --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:02, 31 July 2019 (UTC)
There is currently a proposal underway to transfer the climate change task force into a WikiProject (now under the inactive WikiProject Environment). There are loads of articles tagged to belong the the task force. Is any of the current bots able to move all of these assessments to a new WikiProject? If not, would it be feasible for some of our programmer heros to make such a bot without much effort? Femke Nijsse ( talk) 18:10, 25 July 2019 (UTC)
{{
WPBannerMeta}}
code will behave much better if that is done, since it's not expecting to be used in Wikipedia: space. --
Redrose64 🌹 (
talk) 19:39, 2 August 2019 (UTC)I have a relevant question posted at WikiProject Categories. If you can shed light please comment in the thread at the other venue. Thanks NewsAndEventsGuy ( talk) 11:42, 8 August 2019 (UTC)
A final update, for now:
The third grant-funded round of
WikiProject X has been completed. Unfortunately, while this round has not resulted in a deployed product, I am not planning to resume working on the project for the foreseeable future. Please see the
final report for more information.
Regards,
-— Isarra ༆ 19:24, 29 September 2019 (UTC)
I am interested to participate to Wikiproject:Management and Wikiproject:Standards or something similar. None of these Wikiprojects exists at the moment, but in case you would create one or both of them, please let me know and I definitely will participate, because I am collaborating in this fields on it.wikipedia and would like to do the same here. There are thousands of pages to create, especially regarding standards (e.g.: pages related to certification marks in the world, members of IAF, ISO and IEC standards, etc.) and I could suggest a lot of other activities to do in these Wikiprojects. Thank you. -- Daniele Pugliesi ( talk) 14:07, 25 September 2019 (UTC)
:-)
WhatamIdoing (
talk) 05:15, 10 October 2019 (UTC)It looks a bit confusing. It is hard to tell what is the recommended way to start (I assume {{ WPBannerMeta}}), what is its primary documentation and which methods are advanced or discouraged. I'm thinking about streamlining this documentation, but would like to hear your thoughts on the situation, what the recommendations should be, and where the primary documentation for them should live. -- MarioGom ( talk) 12:10, 30 September 2019 (UTC)
Hello, my bot for removing infobox requests on articles with an infobox has just been aproved and any Wikiprojects that are interested in using this feature are welcome to contact me. It's currently operating on an opt-in basis to allow for customization for each WikiProject. For more details please see the BRFA and User:PearBOT/Infobox request/config. -- Trialpears ( talk) 22:39, 12 October 2019 (UTC)
Maybe it is time to deprecate Directory of WikiProjects (manually maintained) in favor of WikiProject Directory (automated). The manual version could be marked as historical and incoming links replaced with the automated version. At least once User:Reports bot is up and running again with the updates. See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Directory for potential outstanding problems with the automation. -- MarioGom ( talk) 17:27, 4 October 2019 (UTC)
Hello I like to join the wikiproject council because I like to make Wikipedia a clean and safe place to go The Awesome Guy in the world ( talk) 21:45, 4 November 2019 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous)/Archive 63#Request for Comment - 1 November 2019 - Is WP:ANIME subordinate to other projects? could probably use some advice from people who are familiar with the difficulties that arise when WikiProject #1 says "must do X" and WikiProject #2 says "must do not-X" about the same article. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 01:38, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Which redirects should be tagged with WikiProject tags? Should any content in addition to the tags (e.g. {{ Talk page redirect}}) accompany these tags? ― Justin (koavf)❤ T☮ C☺ M☯ 04:42, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
FWIW, I did ask Koafv to get consensus on this, this matter has been on 2 user pages, half a dozen talkpages and 4 WP pages including here and Koavf reporting me for 3RR where the response was ‘'This is dumb. How about just redirecting the talk page like we do for all other redirects? In any case, No violation.'
The real argument and discussion is not whether redirects should be tagged for projects as Koafv claims here, if it was, we wouldn’t have a dispute, but should misprints, incorrect titles, incomplete titles, unnecessary disambiguation and other errata be project tagged?
Our ongoing argument with has centred round WPSongs and I give you 2 examples:
1. Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield song) which is tagged as “R avoided double redirect|Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield Three song) and Spin the Bottle (Juliana Hatfield Three song), which is tagged as a song & with a WPSongs tag. Koafv thinks both should be project tagged, I say only the ‘correct’ title
2. Similarly, List of Doris Day songs is tagged as ‘unprintworthy redirect’ and is directed to where the article is, at List of songs recorded by Doris Day. Both are tagged for projects Song, List and Pop. I say only the active page. The redirect on the talkpage is sufficient. Adding and arguing with other editors there should be tags is pointless.
FWIW, If I thought it would gain traction I’d nominate a fair percentage of these errors for deletion.-- Richhoncho ( talk) 12:10, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
I wasn't sure where to pose this, and appreciate any guidance. Would it be okay to make updates as follows?
The reason I'm interested is to ensure the information hierarchy is the same. Practically speaking, I'm doing some work on identification of topic mapping for some metrics (see phab:T234839 for some context) and one of the scripts involved in the process noticed the mismatch in the labels and for now I've just manually overridden the mismatch, but would think it nice to update the source pages.
@ Ajpolino and Andrei Kuryan: mentioning you here for visibility based on the diffs in https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Wikipedia%3AWikiProject_Council%2FDirectory%2FScience&type=revision&diff=919381413&oldid=919275054.
I'm doing my work as a paid Wikimedia Foundation staff member, so I also wanted to check on whether this contribution would be okay for me to make under my work handle, if I should use my volunteer handle, or if someone else might be okay making the update on my behalf, as it's not exactly article content, but does speak to some level of curatorial judgment, however benign the terminology.
-- ABaso (WMF) ( talk) 18:30, 11 November 2019 (UTC)
I stumbled upon Wikipedia: WikiProject Black Women Creatives which seems to have been created in 2016, but never listed anywhere. Can someone go about an regularize this WPP? (ie. list it, add it to the category tree, check activity status, etc) -- 67.70.33.184 ( talk) 07:15, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
{{
Project}}
at the top, which categorizes it into
Category:Active WikiProjects. It's not in the
manually updated project directory yet, but I'm hoping to go through and update the (seriously outdated) directory in the next few months. Thanks for bringing it up here. Feel free to post at other talk pages to try to drum up support for picking up where
Wikipedia:WikiProject Black Women Creatives has left off.
Ajpolino (
talk) 15:58, 24 November 2019 (UTC)
Hello all! I'm writing a WikiProject Report for the Signpost, and I was wondering if there is a place I can view recently created wikiprojects, as I would like to write about a new one. Thanks! (BTW, please respond here and ping me. Thank you all! Puddleglum2.0 Have a talk? 02:46, 1 December 2019 (UTC)
Following a successful proposal, WikiProject A Cappella has begun work! If you are interested in joining, please do! You can read the instructions on our main page. Thanks! Puddleglum 2.0 19:32, 8 January 2020 (UTC)
Hi everyone. I am a new coordinator page admin at WikiProject History. I took that role simply by vounteering for it. none of the other past coordinators are active there any more. I have posted the notice below on the project's main page, and a similar one on the
project's talk page. if anyone here would like to get involved, help out, or else simply say hello there or let us know what you're up to, please feel free to drop by and write a note. We'd welcome your comments, and would be glad to hear from you. I welcome everyone's input. and you can feel free to reply here as well thanks!!
Feel free to write back. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 15:41, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
@ Sm8900: Sounds cool, I'm in! Puddleglum 2.0 00:51, 11 January 2020 (UTC)
Sm8900: I have just noticed that WikiProject Women in Green does not appear to be included in the lists. I have just created Category:WikiProject Women in Green but don't know whether that is sufficient to have it listed. If is isn't, please let me know what more I should do. It's a pretty active and successful project, its main aim being to improve women's biographies (and other articles about women) up to GA class (i.e. green) and beyond. The project is closely related to WP Women in Red.-- Ipigott ( talk) 11:40, 14 January 2020 (UTC)
so there is an archived wikiproject that was never officially created but the person who was making it has left wikipedia and I would like to start it up again and continue it is there a way to do that? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Carri796 ( talk • contribs) 03:36, 29 December 2019 (UTC)
I am trying to gauge interest in WikiProject Houston. The project is listed as active, but I am the only editor currently assessing articles, and I am only aware of one other project editor who has assessed articles over the past two or three years. The project page is dated, but I have not made any changes because I was deferring to the original coordinator of the project, who appears to be inactive again. There is not much maintenance for high traffic articles other than from the anti-vandals, who from what I can tell, are not connected with the project. I raised these issues issue about two years ago and nothing has changed. I have promoted at least two Houston-related articles to GA, but did so with no support from the project. I hope to be a part of creating a better experience for those who would like to contribute to Houston-related articles. If we cannot revive the project, at least a status change would be justified. Oldsanfelipe2 ( talk) 23:10, 28 January 2020 (UTC)