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Hello. I am removing the "guideline" tag from the WikiProject guide. The promotion to guideline seems to have gone entirely without discussion, and it has consistently been changed and rewritten with little to no discussion. As such, it is completely inappropriate that it is tagged as a guideline; per WP:policies and guidelines, a guideline must be supported by consensus. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 18:50, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
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I think the right place to start that discussion would be here, with a mention at WP:VPPRO, correct? Despite the fact that this has undeniably been the status quo for a very long time, I still believe that it should not be returned to guideline status unless/until that discussion results in "Support". In today's Wikipedia, we should use today's WP:PG policy and not just take remnants from the 2006 wild west for granted. And yes, there has been a long time of silence, but I would suggest it was a silence of indifference (wikiprojects aren't that big a deal, after all) and not of approval. Kind regards from
PJvanMill)
talk( 21:11, 20 September 2020 (UTC)An accepted policy or guideline...(emphasis mine). Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 21:22, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to followwhen in reality it's just advice, and I am also concerned with the fact that
any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensusseems to be consistently ignored. Both of those indicate to me that at least this part should not be marked as "guideline". I do not feel like the page is really preventing me from doing anything, it's just that the label feels inaccurate. It is not treated like a guideline, so why does it say "guideline"? I admit that this isn't really a big deal, but it feels like whether a page is marked as guideline or not should be a big deal. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 16:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I had a headache figuring out why all the WikiProject pages mention the Comments subpages. I eventually found WP:DCS and then MSGJ mentioning them here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council/Archive 22#Comments subpages. Now that the headache is gone I am just annoyed by all those mentionings. Will they go away? Mysteriumen•♪Ⓜ •♪talk ♪• look 01:11, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello everybody. I noticed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia in the Maintenance list are a bunch of Yes entries linking to No, a disambiguation page. In the source code they appear as unlinked no but in the resulting page they appear a Yes. As a result it is unclear whether yes or no is the intended mesage. Can you help figuring out what happens in the background and fix this confusing mess? Thank you. Asmodea Oaktree ( talk) 13:10, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
hi all! checking in briefly. all is well at WP:History. We have added an additional active coordinator, and a new coordinator from another wikiproject to help with assessment. Generally speaking, the project remains inactive overall; our main goal is to serve as a community forum for anyone who may drop by, and also as a partial gateway to history topics in general, and to other wikiprojects that are much more active than our own, for anyone who might be interested. we welcome any thoughts or feedback. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 20:50, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi there. is there anyone else here who serves as a coordinator for wikiprojects on various areas or topics within history? I am the coordinator for Wikiproject History. whatever project you may have, it is almost certain that your project is far more active . my main goal is to make wiki-project history useful as an introductory resource; i.e. as described in the list below:
So please do write back if you wish. let us know anything we can do that can help, anything you'd like us to promote, or anything else we can do that would be worthwhile.
by the way, I am also currently one of the active editors at Community bulletin board. we have been trying to give this a renewed level of activity, by posting editing drives, contests, and many other group activities there. so you are welcome to let me know if there is anything that you might like me to highlight or to promote there, as well.
I hope that is helpful. I look forward to hearing any ideas, suggestions, requests etc, that you may wish. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 15:14, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Should we have a IRC Channel? -- Commons is in a thing ( talk) 21:22, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
It's not clear to me if
Wikipedia:GLAM/TarfayaPedia is a Wikipedia project, but since it is listed in the Projects section at
Talk:The Little Prince as a project, I gave it the benefit of the doubt and assumed it is. Otoh, there's been no activity there, so I added a {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}
template. But if it is a project, maybe it should be marked 'defunct' instead. Can someone check if this is a project at all, and if so, whether the template should be altered. Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 08:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Should "wikiprojects" as a generic term be capitalized? -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 09:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see:
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability/Style guide#Requested move 20 November 2020
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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#How can we better consolidate and discourage creation of overly-specific WikiProjects?.-- Moxy 🍁 23:53, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Back in July 2019, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Public Art, I asked members to consider whether or not the project should be converted into a task force. No replies. I see an editor has just marked the project as 'semi-active', so I've raised the question once again. Just an FYI, but also soliciting feedback from Council page watchers. FWIW, I edit articles about public art all the time, but I mostly use WikiProject Sculpture and WikiProject Visual arts for collaboration. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:35, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been posting a bunch at/linking to WikiProject Usability trying to revive that project, but it doesn't really seem to have drawn in many editors. I'm also involved in some recent discussions at Articles for improvement, which really ought to be a lot more active than it is. Would you all have any advice about how to advertise a relaunched WikiProject or otherwise draw in editors to it? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:59, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
I created this WP:Project in order to improve Wikipedia by making Jimmy Dore's entry look more like an encyclopedia article, similar to Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, or Banksy (artists most similar to JD).
Notice this project was deleted by UnitedStatesian ( talk) (a non-admin? how?) who added this snarky comment,
Oh really? I spent several hours studying the docs before I created the page. Additionally, I have been a WP editor for 17 years. That kind of remark is utterly offensive, juvenille, disrespectful, and completely inappropriate.
I would caution UnitedStatesian that comments which berate another WP Editor, instead of dispassionately discussing the , are inappropriate and may denote bullying. See, WP:BULLY, which states:
Additionally, there are many problems with this delete.
1: This deletion was less than 48 hours after Kingsif ( talk) filed a single OPPOSE vote. He said:
2: I was not given the opportunity to respond. I have limited time in a day. I don't always log in to WP every day.
3: I have no interest in joining a WikiProject about BLPs or Biographies in general.
I proposed a Jimmy Dore Project page SPECIFICALLY, because that is my interest. Not only is Jimmy Dore immensely popular, but topics he covers are at an intersection of ideas I am also interested in: Political Dysfunction of the Left in Modern America, Corporate Media Criticism, War & Peace, Censorship, etc.
4: There are *potentially* a dozen pages which might mention Jimmy Dore (see pages which mention Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Bill Hicks for example, arguably artists most similar to Dore). However any edits which attempt to add important biographical information about Jimmy Dore on WP are met with speedy reverts, including by the notorious meta- User:Philip Cross, known to vandalize pages of prominent anti-war voices. This seems to be an organized effort.
5: There is at least one WP:Project proposal with a focus on a single artist: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Justin_Bieber
6: There are at least 20 WP:Project pages with a focus on a single living artist, or noteworthy person:
7: These WP:Project pages are devoted to individual deceased persons
8: These WP:Project pages are devoted to a fictional person:
9: And there there is this:
10: I can see no Wikipedia:Project criteria which was violated. I have checked here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council, Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject_report, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide
11: None of the criteria mentioned at "Under what circumstances are WikiProjects deleted from Wikipedia rather than marked as defunct or historical?" in Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject_report have been met, especially since this was only a PROPOSAL.
12: The article was not moved to my namespace as suggested by WP:REVIVE.
13: I was not notified as required by WP:SPEEDY, nor was WP:SPEEDY followed as far as I can tell.
14: I was not given sufficient time to obtain the support of "at least 6 to 12 active Wikipedians" as suggested by Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide#Proposing_a_project as a criteria for a project to succeed.
15: In fact, this same page says the following:
"A few Months?" My project was up for ~48 HOURS!
16: Additionally, Template:Archived_WikiProject_Proposal_notcreated says this:
"THREE MONTHS." My project was up for ~48 HOURS. C'mon.
Thus, I have asked UnitedStatesian on his ( talk) page to restore my Wikipedia Project Proposal, since it appears his deletion was hasty. -- Bill Huston (talk) 10:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I am interested to know if WikiProject Council works with other languages in Wikipedia and if it coordinates with Wikimedia sister projects? Zblace ( talk) 11:53, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
The Linux WikiProject seems to be inactive. Can we update its status in the WikiProjects space? - proxxz talk 07:21, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work |
Hi all
I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.
John Cummings ( talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Would someone mind closing the proposal above as successful per the instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Closing_proposals? P,TO 19104 ( talk) ( contribs) 18:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
{{
wikiproject}}
as a starting point, though you would have to cut some stuff out that's specific to subject-area wikiprojects; you could also not use that. Maybe discuss a bit with the other prospective participants about how the page should be organised; it can all be changed later, of course, so don't waste time trying to make it perfect. If you need any help, feel free to ask me.
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please how can I write a musician article Em-rich58 ( talk) 09:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
This
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It says I need to be registered to edit. I am, and I think something is wrong with protection. ThatDislikedOne ( talk) 19:52, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
See discussion Template talk:WikiProject banner shell#Add class/importance attribute on shell and please advise where else is right forum to discuss. I know it's potentially a major change. Shushugah ( talk) 20:42, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
User:SMcCandlish recently edited multiple pages to remove words like "membership" and "joining". The edit summaries say that WikiProjects are "just pages for collaboration". (This contradicts WP:WikiProject, which opens with a statement that a WikiProject is a group of editors, and the FAQ at the top of this page, which says that a WikiProject "is not a subject area, a collection of pages, or a list of articles tagged by the group."
It is possible to be a member of a group without the group being a membership organization, and I think the idea of "joining" a group has some value for some editors, even though in practice, "participation" is far more important than having your name recorded on a membership list. What do the rest of you think? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:15, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
When wikiprojects turn into problems – which is quite frequently, as it's been the central cause of large number of ArbCom cases and decisions, as well as the main reason for the creation of the WP:CONLEVEL policy – it is almost invariably because the project has started acting as if it is a private membership organization, capable of excluding other editors and their input, of making up its own rules against site-wide consensus, of inventing its own processes to bypass site-wide ones, of acting as "canvassing farms", of behaving in a WP:VESTED manner, and in trying to exert WP:OWNership over entire categories of content the project claims is within scope. We were well on the way to ridding wikiprojects of "join" and "member" language, until the now-dead but still-deployed WP:WikiProject X templating system hard-coded these terms.
When people have tried to set up explicit membership organizations (even ones that apparently did good things), the community has been swift and firm in shutting them down (see, e.g., the history of WP:Esperanza, a precursor of what is now WP:Teahouse). When wikiprojects are set up with an obvious intent to over-control content, they are also shut down, even more swiftly and firmly (one example among several: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikiproject English). I.e., there is a clear consensus that wikiprojects cannot act as exclusive membership organizations and cannot control content topics (see also WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Building consensus: WikiProjects and WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Function of WikiProjects and WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Levels of consensus); we should not continue to use language which has encouraged problems of this sort.
Back to "fix the wording, don't try to bend the reality": The reality is that no one has to sign up as a "member" of a wikiproject to use it and participate in discussions at it. The only reason for these lists/categories of editors is to help one editor participating in the project find another potentially interested in working on the same content (hopefully a still-active editor). Secondarily, it also helps illustrate whether a project is active or not, though this is probably better determined by wikiproject talk page activity level. Being a "member" cannot confer any rights or privileges, and gives no one more weight in any discussion (though you will unfortunately see people attempt to pull this crap: "Why should we listen to User:Foobar? They're not even a member of WikiProject Bazzquux!"). In years of randomly and gradually (not robotically and forcefully) updating this wording to use "participate in" and "participants" instead of "join" and "members", I have run into virtually no opposition, until last week when I discovered that the WikiProject X stuff is hard-coded to look for a page named /Members as part of its scripting (which is a reparable problem), and one wikiproject, WP:WikiProject Women in Red, which has the unusual distinction of organizing lots of off-site events, has been using "members" to mean participants in the wikiproject, and "participants" to mean participants in the events (which is also a reparable problem, e.g. "WikiProject participants" and "event participants" or "WikiProject participants" and "event attendees", or whatever).
Finally, the sooner we get to consistently using the same terminology across all wikiprojects (probably the last step would be renaming the categories and patching the userbox templates that use them), then the better able we'll be to have bots and other tools do stuff for all wikiprojects without bugs being triggered by inconsistent page names and template parameters.
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consistently using the same terminology across all wikiprojectsshould not be a goal: wikiprojects making their own choices on inconsequential terminology is not a problem, and trying to make all wikiprojects conform will very likely fail. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 14:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
First off, a project can't make a template, it doesn't have the ability to submit edits to a wiki. Some editor or editors created those templates, perhaps acting on behalf of other editors aligned with the project, or implementing the collaborative decisions of those project participants, but nevertheless all templates are the creations of a specific editor or editors, not "a project".Projects hate it when non "participants" jump in and change long standing wording, layouts preferences and especially when project made templates are merged
Whose work is getting dismissed? Or, to put it another way, how is the merge of a "project created" template, or a change to "long standing wording" that's somehow considered WP:OWNed "by the project", different from changes made to any other Wikipedia content, all of which was the work of some editor or editors?that is there collaborative work gets dismissed.
I just posted an "ad" for Wikipedia:Feedback request service, and it occurred to me that we could probably come up with a list of things that would help people remember about ways to help and ways that they can get help. I've previously posted about Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library, and I sometimes advertise individual split or merge proposals. What do you do to help connect people to opportunities? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:27, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. a few of us have initiated a new effort to use Wikipedia: Community bulletin board as a current resource. we have been editing it to reflect new editing drives, new group efforts and projects, new or recurring editing drives at WikiProjects, and a whole variety of current efforts and activities.
this new effort began several months ago. please come by the page to view this if you have not done so already. and please, feel free to add listings for any current activities at your own favorite wikiprojects, group activities, or anything else. thanks! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:09, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Flag of Portugal for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:41, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
So I think most are familar with what happened, and didn't happen, with Wikipedia:WikiProject X. Nothing wrong with failed experiments, as Thomas Edison would tell you. But does it make sense to consider putting the projects that are on the WPX format back onto the standard project setup? Seems like the standard format is easier to maintain, and that Wikipedia overall, and the WPX projects themselves, would benefit from a return to cross-project consistency. Before I raise at the projects themselves, any thoughts here? Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 05:34, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
In August I proposed that WikiProject Cities remove its importance parameter in favor of a "core" list of 50 cities and various taskforces otherwise, as has been done for WikiProject Biographies and WikiProject Film. I did not receive any substantial response at that time, and looking at subsequent activity at its talkpage the majority of messages/discussions are either procedural in nature such as FARs or receive at most one response.
Which brings me to my next point, that it appears that WikiProject Cities is rather moribund (even by WikiProject standards) and its aim appears to be too diffuse. NYC and Beijing, London and Singapore, Chicago and Buenos Aires, and Paris and Shanghai don't particularly have much in common except that they are all a rather ubiquitous type of human settlement. A current (as in, September) proposal for a Megacities WikiProject has one !vote, an oppose of its aim being too diverse; what do you think cities in general are?
So I propose that we dissolve WikiProject Cities ( Esperanzify it, if you will) and replace it with one of the following:
Apologies if this is not the correct process for such an action, of which I am unaware and to which I am willing to be directed. A notice of this discussion has been posted on the WikiProject's talkpage. If this gets enough traction and is felt proper, I could put this on centralized discussion, but that seems a bit much for right now. Thank you for your attention and consideration.
– John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 00:19, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
There's also a need to have cities such as both Paris and New York under one Wikiproject tag, since both are articles that will be heavily edited even without any WikiProject, and both have their own WikiProjects. Assuming you're correct, however, should every single village or other incorporated place in the whole world be included? If not, what precisely would be the cutoff? That's also not touching the idea of people not actually using any of the guideline stuff, which I've personally never used. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
It baffles me that the “Countering Systemic Bias in religion” page has been defunct for a while, with the last posts being from 2006-2007. In a post-2020 world, where the struggle for survival during has a pandemic has brought so much political and religious vision, prejudice of different kinds, including those on racial, class, ethnic and religious lines are more problematic than ever. People who are divided on COVID-19 related policies are also interestingly enough, demarcated by political and religious differences. I propose that this page may be reactivated, so that those who have editing issues in the category of religion may have a specialized area to find solutions for related grievances.
Please see the following journal articles for relevant scholarship:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1387609?seq=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482621/
Coffeebreak80s ( talk) 23:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
I revived WP:Rocketry a few weeks ago. But since then, only two new members joined. What do I do? StarshipSLS ( Talk), ( My Contributions) 14:02, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there! Hope you are doing great. I just wrote a draft of my new article and was wondering if there is any chance someone can check it and help me understand if the article is ok. Also, that would be great if this draft could be reviewed faster than 6 months. Many thanks :) /info/en/?search=Draft:Bit4you
Hey, it's me again :) Just wanted to make sure, someone saw my message at the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna levchuk ( talk • contribs) 06:46, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna levchuk ( talk • contribs) 09:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if to rate the importance of an article in the scope of the WikiProject there is any previous requirement, such as the editor being part of the WikiProject or a specific guideline to follow. Thanks beforehand! -- NoonIcarus ( talk) 12:03, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
yes you can rate any article you want despite of the interest thank you!! Baloyi khazamulae ( talk) 20:00, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
you're welcome!! Baloyi khazamulae ( talk) 20:01, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I've marked Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference works as 'inactive'. If this isn't sufficient notification, let me know if I should add this to WP:VPM or anywhere else. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:29, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Membership guidelines.
Chess (
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Is there anywhere that shows basic usage metrics for projects? I am trying to revive a couple and wanted good examples. Most traffic, Most pages, Most participants...Even the top 10 in any/each category would be helpful. Could the Council start working on Assessing Projects? (FA, A, B, C, Stub/New)?? (and, "Yes", if necessary, I can volunteer to help...) Mjquinn_id ( talk) 20:55, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, I am trying to merge Template:WikiProject Philippine History, which represents what is already a task force, into Template:WikiProject Tambayan Philippines. I have implemented changes into Template:WikiProject Tambayan Philippines/sandbox. Advice on whether that code is correct, and how to transition the templates (could it be automatic or will it have to be done one by one?) are very much appreciated. (Previous discussion on this is at Template talk:WPBannerMeta#Merging one banner into another.) Best, CMD ( talk) 13:36, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
Various WikiProjects I am involved with have markup that are Desktop centric/not mobile accessible, for example nesting sections inside other HTML containers. Are there accessibility guidelines/lists of WikiProjects that either have exemplary markup/or could benefit from retouching? I'd be happy to join a temporary taskforce to clean up active WikiProjects, particularly the talk page which need to easier to edit regularly. Two examples of WikiProjects I tried to clean up can be seen in Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality and Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 22:26, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I have a question. May I revive that WikiProject? I want to use it for real paintings made out of paint, such as Starry Night for example. I also want to use it for specific types of painting, like street painting or graffiti. CyclonicStormYutu ( talk) 14:46, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, please see {{ WikiProject Religion}} with my solution to have project banners handle inactive subprojects that are "nested" within higher level active projects. My plan would be to take this same approach with banners that have many more inactive subprojects, such as {{ WikiProject Television}} and {{ WikiProject United States}}. Comments/suggestions welcome. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 03:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey y'all! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but: Is there an edit counter that will sort a Wikipedian's edits by WikiProjects? Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me know if it's as clear as mud.-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 14:01, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a list somewhere of what characters are legal in project names? I need one character that is invalid, hopefully comma or semicolon, for a template I'm writing. Thanks! (please mention me on reply; thanks!) Mathglot ( talk) 23:12, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
One of the main meanings of "religionist" is zealot, and in any case I'm not sure that any other meaning of the word would be appropriate. These people appear to be theologians, although I haven't checked them all. Doug Weller talk 12:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
When I started Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shakespeare knot, I marked it relevant to authors, history and England. It's something, but not that close. Obviously I can WP:APPNOTE at WikiProjects like Knots, Shakespeare and Heraldry and vexillology if I want to. But what if this was an option in twinkle? Say it produces an automated message in the line of "The article X, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject, has been suggested for deletion. Your input is welcome."
Opinions? Or does this exist, without me knowing it? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 10:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, is there any userscipt or something like that to add WikiProject tags to an article's talk page? I'm interested in adding WikiProject tags to articles but I've to do it manually. Eevee01( talk) 12:06, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, I have been editing on wikipedia for about a month now and am working in and around the sports project articles. The assessment criteria is really useful for quality and priority setting but the sports project doesn't have categories for importance unlike other projects I seem to be crossing over to sometimes. I have tried making some category pages to get things working but would appreciate some guidance to make sure things are done correctly. I have been trying to keep track of the pages in my user page but the list is far to long now for it to actually be useful so any help would be greatly appreciated. DannyHatcher ( talk) 01:33, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect List of Wikiprojects. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 20#List of Wikiprojects until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ( t · c) buidhe 02:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at Talk:List of indigenous peoples regarding the absence hundreds of sources in this article. If possible, contribute to discussion and provide input.
List of indigenous peoples is a massive list of which the majority of entries are are without citation. The article is in need of a team of editors to procedurally review each entry and identify reliable sources--or lack thereof.
There is also an ongoing discussion regarding the terms of inclusion in this list, which you are welcome to get involved in.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination), a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. ౪ Santa ౪ 99° 12:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking to make WP:Wikiproject Military Policies, I want some experienced editors to help me, thanks! Yodas henchman ( talk) 19:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
FYI Category:Religion-related WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), Category:Christianity WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), Category:Jewish-related WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be eliminated at CfD -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 05:25, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
North Macedonia page is vandalized and the 8/57 of article guideline "article citation" states the the link is incorrect. Please resolve this issue? 31.5.13.207 ( talk) 22:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
The issue in the format has been found and the error has been resolved. Upseguest ( talk) 22:17, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
FYI, Template:WikiProject Manager ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 04:38, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Let me point out Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Effective Altruism#Capitalization in Project name. — Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 01:02, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI, Template:Coordinator ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 06:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm GavriilaDmitriev and I see my roots in WP:FOSS. One out of my current tasks is to take care for our TaskForce and recruiting new member. Luckily I didn't had to revive it although many WikiProjects in our environment are already inactive. I'm writing here to check the current situation of WP:COUNCIL and if other member from the IT related WikiProjects and TaskForces are active here.
Most of places I explore seem abandoned and most of the seeming activity is done by bots. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI, template:WPJ1/ template:WPJ2/ template:WPJ3 have been nominated for deletion -- these are generalized wikiproject link templates -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 04:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI. Template:Convert to use WPBannerMeta ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 05:45, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm currently very active in looking around and tidying up the environment of our WP:FOSS. I updated (basically emptied) some member lists and updated projects activity status. Please check the current status here (which I also did update):
My issue is that a lot of structures doesn't fit and represent reality anymore. In the case of the aforementioned Directory/Science#Computing roughly 6 of the 40 entries can be considered active. 3 of them are semi-active which cuts the list of active entries down to 3.
Result is that the list is basically misleading and more historical than a representation of reality. It took me some time to understand the color coding and the internal logic and I can ensure that passing visitors of those pages won't get the right impression about it's content.
Needs discussion How to handle Directory/Science#Computing?
Idea: We could move the inactive parts into Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Inactive_projects and then remove most of it's content from the main list
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 03:51, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Update: I found out about WikiProject Directory/Computing_WikiProjects and see the same issue there. I suggest a permanent separation which automatically hides inactive/defunct WikiProjects since 7 out of 29 show any activity. This can be done with either splitting it between active/not active view or set the inactive separated and automatically hidden as we often do it with former participant lists.
I am unaware if it looks similar in different spaces. But this is an issue in Computing that every list is cluttered with dead and inactive WikiProjects. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 09:02, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I'm working on improving WP:FINANCE. We have various request backlogs and I wish to implement a backlog system similar to the one used by WP:ANRFC where only resolved requests are archived. How may I do so? Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Requests is one page where this would be most beneficial. Thanks! A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 12:50, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello @ Deepfriedokra and thank you for caring. And I believe you have the best intentions.
I saw the chance that you protected WP:COUNCIL after an IP blanked the page. While this is vandalism I don't see your quoted "persistent vandalism". I see that there are barely edits of the council page anyway (8 edits in this year, over the half of them related to this vandalism issue here). I don't appreciate that Wikipedia becomes increasingly protected so only senior members are able to edit Wikipedia. And in the case of WP:COUNCIL I see the justification as blatantly wrong. Did any public discussion happen prior to this action? Again I believe your best intentions. But I argue that your instantiated protection did more harm than it helped.
I request hereby that you remove the protection.
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello there, I am planning to create a project page for a Network at the University of St Andrews. Our main focus is to raise awareness about the Wikimedia projects, run Edit-a-thons and training events across the University of St Andrews and beyond. We hope that the project page will develop into something like this, which is created by our colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. We already have interested Wikipedians at our University, and I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed with creating the page. For example, I am not sure in our case whether to propose the project page or start it directly. Many thanks Abd Alsattar Ardati ( talk) 10:11, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Can someone review the page Draft:Spick_Media_Network ? This draft has been pending for more than 48 days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RajendranMCV ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Can someone review the page Draft:Nalinthip Sakulongumpai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Publiconline123 ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, can someone please review Draft:Don Samuels? It has been waiting for about 3 months, and has already had citation bot check run. Thank you so much! Runesandarrows — Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Please someone review the Draft page Draft:Lubna Marium this is my first artical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayatul nish ( talk • contribs) 04:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm working towards upgrading {{ class}} to use Lua and a JSON definition file. Not least because this affects ~17% of all pages, I would appreciate input and/or review at Template talk:Class#Move to Lua/JSON version. Please respond there, or ping me if you respond here. {{ Nihiltres | talk | edits}} 17:36, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi everyone. this is your friendly neigborhood Coordinator for WikiProject History. I have made a new type of navbox for history topics, focusing upon one period in Europe's history. what do you think of this? feel free to comment, offer suggestions, etc. thanks!!!
{{Early Modern Europe|state=expanded}}
--- Sm8900 ( talk) 🌍 16:48, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
I've started an RfC re: whether or not WikiProject Public Art should be merged into WikiProject Visual arts:
If editors decide a merge is appropriate, I hope someone knows how to assist with converting a WikiProject into a task force appropriately.
Thanks, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:15, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Many pages, such as those contain information on diseases or war have disturbing content with no warning or filter. Warnings about potentially disturbing images should be added to pages containing content such as those showing burns or lesions. Some pages on war and conflict contain images of corpses which may also be disturbing to viewers. 117.20.68.52 ( talk) 11:27, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi all! The Unreferenced Articles project is looking to make connections with editors and projects who would be interested in assisting in clearing out the backlog (dating back to January 2007!) of unreferenced articles. Currently there are over 142,000 - I guarantee there is something that touches every WikiProject in some way. WP:URA has been semi-active for some time now but we are getting more activity and are now trying to raise awareness of our goals and aims to keep the momentum going. I was wondering if any WikiProject coordinators would be interested in discussing collaborations, i.e. teaming up with WikiProject:Malaysia to cite a number of highway articles, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports for players and tournament results, etc. 142,000+ articles is too much for one fledgling project to handle but as more projects get involved, I'm sure the number will drop rapidly. I have reached out to the Signpost WikiProjects desk to put a spotlight on the project and we are thinking of holding a community drive as well. If anyone is interested in participating, please sign up and use 'Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!' as the edit summary to boost awareness among other editors. We look forward to working with you! Kazamzam ( talk) 16:09, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Collectively, we can all contribute to make it happen. Raskoby947 ( talk) 08:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Is there a way to allow a task force to set a different priority for an article than the parent project has? For example, the new lichen task force would like to rate some articles as being more important for the task force than would be appropriate for WP:FUNGI overall. (This is primarily to keep us focused initially on the most important articles to bring up to GA/FA standards.) MeegsC ( talk) 10:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
lichen-importance=
is not set, it will default to the importance rating of WP Fungi. However, a template code change may be made at {{
WikiProject Fungi}}, so that, if lichen-importance=
is not set, it will go to Category:Unknown-importance lichen task force articles or something like that, which will ease future rating. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 21:57, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello everyone, it has been proposed that Wikipedia:WikiProject Dutch municipalities be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands as a task force, due to inactivity. The relevant discussion may be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dutch municipalities#Proposed merger into WikiProject Netherlands as a task force and interested editors may participate in that discussion. Thank you! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 22:02, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography regarding articles on district or council. Please come along to post your comments. Davidstewartharvey ( talk) 03:45, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Please find an RFC for District names and councils on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography. Please join the discussion. Davidstewartharvey ( talk) 08:34, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I came to activate this project considering that the wiki of the multimodal project was disabled, how is it? Does it require permission? AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 09:14, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
The wiki is a multi-faceted multi-year project that is inactive If this project wiki is disabled, there may not be much progress in polygons, geometric volumes, etc That's why I said to let me start this wiki project. AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 08:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC) please reply AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 08:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone watches this talk page but I just came across a new WikiProject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian invasion of Ukraine and thought I'd tell some editor who cares about WikiProjects. Looks like a one editor WikiProject. Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Sock of User:TzarN64. Magnatyrannus ( talk | contribs) 23:56, 1 November 2022 (UTC) |
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A new discussion about a new WikiProject related to WikiProject Council is currently being discussed. Share your thoughts here. SMBMovieFan ( talk) 02:52, 1 November 2022 (UTC) |
Hello wikipedians, i am SMBMovieFan. i just proposed a new WikiProject called WikiProject Android. The wikiproject will be about improving the coverage of the operating system Android. There is a ton of articles to improve, and i believe this wikiproject will help improve the articles related to Android. Interested? Vote for your support here. SMBMovieFan ( talk) 10:30, 16 October 2022 (UTC) (Reposted from the TeaHouse.)
If you are watching this page, you are probably more interested in how to get groups of people to work together than the average editor. I ran across this tool on cultural differences: https://hbr.org/2014/08/whats-your-cultural-profile and I thought it might interest some of you. You can find out how you compare (e.g., for the amount of direct criticism that feels appropriate) compared to the country of your choice.
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:21, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello there, I recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Protista and I'm having a hard time understanding what it is that I need to do in order to make the Assessment thing work. I created the corresponding categories of "Protista articles by importance" and "quality", and I entered the name "Protista" in the "WP 1.0 bot"'s website, but nothing seems to have changed, almost as if the bot doesn't yet recognize Protista as a project. Any help is highly appreciated. ☽ Snoteleks ☾ 08:18, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Please see WP:Tea house#Class not showing up on wikiproject template. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 02:07, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index#Why_do_we_destroy_the_assessment_infrastructure_for_inactive_projects?. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:06, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
please have a look: /info/en/?search=Draft:Silly_Mountain_(Arizona) -- Team5DTMaddalena ( talk) 14:10, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
I'm searching for people interested in setting up a New Zealand law WikiProject, I've already contacted editors on WP:LAW and WP:NZ. Just seeing if I'll be able to poach anyone who may be interested from here. If you're interested, please respond at the main proposal on the NZ WikiProject page. Thanks all! Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) 12:59, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Please see User talk: LlywelynII#Top-importance articles. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:48, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi - this discussion proposed the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Autonomous Zones. The proposal received support from the proposer, a CU-confirmed sock of the proposer, and a third editor; and it received opposition from two editors. The proposer went on to create the Wikiproject before the discussion was closed; the proposer and their socks are now blocked, and the Wikiproject has seen no edits of any kind since their block. From what I gather, this project never had the requisite amount of support to go forward, it was created out of process, and it is now moribund. Is there a process by which it can be closed down - do I simply nominate the project page for XfD? Best Girth Summit (blether) 18:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
FYI, Template:WikiProject Proposalsubst ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be deleted at TfD. This is a preload template used to place a skeleton of a proposal onto a new WikiProject proposal page. -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 21:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
reactivating the WikiProject below. marked as semi-active for now.
thanks. Sm8900 ( talk) 16:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
This WikiProject has been rewamped and revived, and I'd like to know your opinions about the redesign. The WikiProject's philosophy is a bit radical compared to most other WikiProject, which ultimately aims to make the place less vulnerable to fiefdom and more open for bystanders. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 17:22, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
There is a formal proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments to allow class ratings to be placed into the banner shell, and to be hidden inside the individual project banners (unless they choose to opt-out). Please come along and comment! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:21, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments. This proposes support for quality assessment at the article level, recorded in {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and inherited by the wikiproject banners. However, wikiprojects that prefer to use custom approaches to quality assessment can continue to do so. Aymatth2 ( talk) 20:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
I recently joined the wiki-project Prussia which is marked as inactive, in a bid to revive the project started to wright new articles and asked all the 7 members if they wanted to help me revive the project, none of them answered. Is it ok now for me to take charge and create task forces, recruit new members, and become the leader. I didn't want to read all the policies and go through the bureaucracy so I'm asking here Crainsaw ( talk) 15:57, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
".Hi, I wrote this article by a multi-faceted New York artist that is now in draft format: Draft:David Gonzalez (multi-disciplinary artist)
The article is part of Wikiproject arts, WikiProject Children's literature, and WikiProject Biographies.
I respectfully ask if anyone can help me in making the wording neutral. The most important reference is an article from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/movies/orpheus-as-a-charmer-with-a-sax.html can also be viewed here: Thank you very much Miskito89 ( talk) 15:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Greetings! I'm pretty new, joined some WikiProjects, & wanted to know how projects assess articles. I just read up WP:PROJGUIDE and the 2013 FAQ, & want to make sure the below is an accurate summary.
Near as I can tell, most projects invite any project member to add & assess articles of interest. To use a Random example, State Road 33 (Serbia) is currently only within purview of WikiProject Highways as Stub/Mid. However A1 motorway (Serbia) which it links to is within both Highways and WikiProject Serbia as Start/Mid for both projects. I'm not a member of the Serbia project, but if I was, in accordance w/ their guidance, I could at least add SR33 as Unassessed/Unassessed, and perhaps boldly give it Stub/Mid, and let other editors reassess as needed.
After all that, question is: Do I have that right?
Suggestion: It may be worthwhile to convince projects to always link WP:PROJSCOPE on their assessment pages/sections. I nearly posted this as a Teahouse question, partly because I'm new, but also because PROJGUIDE was somewhat unintuitive to find, & even once found starts w/ project creation so I almost made the mistake of navigating away instead of scrolling down. I don't think it's bad to have all the guidance on 1 page, but at first glance, it seemed too high echelon advice when I just wanted to know how to gnome around relative to an existing project.
Just food for thought, looking forward to helping my projects. Thanks! KatPro ( mrow?) 03:11, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
|quality=
for all WikiProjects at the same time. A stub's a stub for everyone, and with five sentences (91 words) of prose, the article you give as an example probably counts as a stub (although reasonable people might disagree, given the large table, and that's okay, too).|importance=
ratings.I have seen an editor marking articles as "top importance" for all WikiProjects. This kind of mistake happens occasionally, and if your group hasn't reviewed the list of articles rated as "top" for a while, this might be a good time to see what else might have ended up there. (Check the subcategories of Category:Top-importance articles to find your group, or click the "Top" link in the bot-generated statistics tables.) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Apologies for grammar I'm using voice to text. I am proposing somehow even if I can assist if needed that Wikipedia start a YouTube channel I for one am a firm believer that this is needed in the aspect of I am a person that prefers to read things and having to watch a video is very irritating because for me it slows me down and I can't quickly go through something that is only on a video because I still have to sit there through a 10 minute video that feels like 3 hours when I could have just skimmed an article for a couple of minutes and gotten my answer. I am 34 years old and my eyes are failing me faster than I would like them to so sitting there and reading for a long periods of time I can't do without glasses and that gets painful as well so my thing is how can we incorporate everything that we already have on Wikipedia all of this amazing and useful information be put into a video that everybody can access and for those that cannot necessarily read or like me have a hard time reading can watch this and also see the words but hear them and be able to learn the same thing without having to read super tiny things that you can't always zoom in on.
I just think it could be a useful thing, I prefer fact checking Wikipedia than many other places because validity is a real issue. As stated, id love to help if possible or even if needed, I feel this could change way we are able to educate ourselves. 24.180.70.227 ( talk) 18:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
I've created a Quarry query here that scans for Wikipedia articles that are missing talk pages, and thus also not assigned to any WikiProject. There are currently 79,658 articles in this state.
Would anyone be interested in creating a task tracker, bot, or ML model to help create talk pages for these articles with relevant WikProject assignments? — The Anome ( talk) 13:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I would join this WikiProject. It’s the kind of project where I have fun learning about new WikiProjects, checking if they’re even active, and if article is up my alley, I may even make some gnome edits here and there. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 19:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
I've just realised that if I build an frequency matrix for article categories vs. WikiProjects, I can then trivially propagate those frequencies up the category tree to generate relevant frequencies for higher-order categories, something which should help things generalise much more efficiently where there are only small numbers of articles associated with very specific leaf categories. This should make the results much more accurate. Oh -- and I've just realised I can also use article links for categorization as well. — The Anome ( talk) 10:19, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
How about calling this project WikiProject Article sorting? If this was created, I could trivially use a bot to mark all the talk pages of un-tagged articles with {{ WikiProject Article sorting}}, and let human beings start sorting this out before even thinking about how to do the auto-categorization.. — The Anome ( talk) 10:21, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Here's one query that trivially finds living people pages that have talk pages but are not tagged as being under WP:BIOGRAPHY: See https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/72401 — The Anome ( talk) 16:26, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Reply: Sorry, I have been off a few days. Just wanted to state I totally agree with you. -- Otr500 ( talk) 11:10, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I created today Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Projekt_Kateryna, but I think I missed editing the necessary template. Not sure what I should do to correct it? The proposal does not seem to be lised at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals. Thank you for any help. robertsilen ( talk) 17:32, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems and participate if you have an opinion on this method of proposing to disband a WikiProject. — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:47, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment § Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter. There is a proposal to split "current" & "future" classes into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia ( per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 07:28, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Now that 99% of projects are using the standard or extended quality scale, we should probably pay more attention to what is included in each. Suggestions:
— Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:42, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
Done Just to note that Redirect has now been added to the standard extended scale. But it will only be used if the appropriate category has been created, otherwise it will continue to use NA-Class. Therefore it will not be necessary to create lots of categories. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:03, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
It is time we finally got rid of the oxymoronic category names like Category:Template-Class Ukraine articles. (If it is a template then it is NOT an article!) I am planning a mass CfD at some stage and would like to get some comments on a better naming scheme. I think the format Category:XXX-Class YYY articles should be used solely for the quality of articles in topic YYY. For non-articles, we could use something like
Any thoughts? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 07:40, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Should
WP:HAWAII be marked as inactive? Before today there had been over a year of routine announcements and automated edits to the talk page which makes it inactive according to
WP:INACTIVEWP. After I marked it as inactive
Cielquiparle came along, objected (with no further reasoning), and then reverted my marking of the project as inactive with the summary "just b/c the Talk page isn't active doesn't mean the Project isn't active". When I asked for them to elaborate more they stated that their objection and me trying to understand why made the project active now. They proceeded to say I didn't realize becoming a member was so exclusive.
even though the WikiProject's main page has a list of active members (which doesn't appear to have been pruned in a while) and then answered a question that had gone unanswered on the talk page for a few days, almost in an attempt to try and make the WikiProject not fit the criteria of an inactive WikiProject because I saw it as such. I'm not trying to assume bad faith here, however I really don't want to argue over something as simple as the inactivity of a WikiProject. ―
Blaze Wolf
TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
Would someone from COUNCIL take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Johnny Depp and Draft:Wikipedia:WikiProject Johnny Depp? It looks like someone is trying to create a new WikiProject but just doesn't know how. It seems quite odd for there to be a draft for a WikiProject in the draft namespace and being submitted for AFC review. Perhaps someone with more experience in creating WikiProjects can advise the creator on what's best way to do so. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:18, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello I wanted to know if Wikipedia has a formal process of joining a wikiproject. I was unable to locate a join link or find an administrator to answer my question. More information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
FictiousLibrarian ( talk). 03:42, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Is there a way to see what WikiProjects a user is most active in? For example, this tool shows my account is most active in Main space, then Talk, then Wikipedia, etc.
I can also see Wikipedia articles I've created, or files uploaded.
Is there a way I can see what projects my edited pages are part of? Do I edit topics around Music more than TV? Do I edit mostly Australian content? Etc. I think I should be able to know this based on the WikiProjects these pages are part of, but unless I look at them individually there doesn't seem to be a way to find this out as a nice chart. Jimmyjrg ( talk) 14:37, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, sorry to bother you but I have joined this Dogs Project recently and I was looking at the to-do list but it hasn’t been updated since 2014! Im not sure how to edit the to-do list, some of the pages dont need to be on there anymore and some need to be added but it wont let me edit it. SpookMew ( talk) 16:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
I moved Template:Dog opentask to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs/to do which seemed to be more logical. Thanks for your work in updating this SpookMew — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:22, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Artsakh § wikiproject revival?. I'm not certain this is the right place to put this, so feel free to move if necessary. CLYDE TALK TO ME/ STUFF DONE 01:18, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 18 § Category:WikiProject X members. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Question - Imagine that I am a STEM educator and wanted to get a complete list of all on-topic categories, subcats, and page ids for just STEM articles on wikipedia. How would I do that?
My first attempt was looking at the categorylinks table - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Categorylinks_table, but anyone familiar with that would know that it's a dead end. Wikipedia is too over categorized (eg, "coat of arms with plants" is under botany->plants
There is also a very good reason why wikipedia is overcategorized. It's used by different folks with different agendas. A useful categorization always needs to be specific to the perspective of those organizing the information and using it to be productive. Why shouldn't coat of arms with plants" go under botany->plants? I really can't think of a reason why not, tbh.
My next attempt was to talk to the wikidata people. They responded that wikidata is not organized into categories. They pointed me to wikiprojects.
I looked at a bunch of wikiproject pages, and it looks great, but I don't see any straightforward way to get a dump of the categories, their subcats, and the pageids that belong in those subcats.
As far as I can tell, wikiprojects aren't connected/organized by anything other than html headings and links on pages. Eg: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Science/Topics
This seems unfortunate. Mostly for selfish reasons (see initial ask) but more generally, having a well thought out ontology of knowledge on Wikipedia would be very useful. The DBPedia project tried to do that, I think, but seems to have gone dormant. And the wikidata people don't seem interested, for reasons I'm not clear on.
Part of the problem I think is that such categorizations would be somewhat situational dependent. A stem educator, for example, might have a different perspective than say a botanist or a physicist. Fair enough! But clearly the top level wikiproject folks *do* have a perspective (you can see it on their pages!), and I believe those perspectives are very useful given the effort, care and consideration that has gone into them.
If we could more formally capture the hierarchy of wikiprojects, especially for STEM, I think that would be very useful. Wikiqrdl ( talk) 19:38, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
There was a proposal by User:DFlhb (and on much reflection supported by me) to make a minor change the behaviour of the B-class checklist, which I am bringing here for greater exposure.
|b1=
up to |b6=
|b1=yes
|b1=
means the same as |b1=no
|b1=no
would result in the article being demoted to C-class.{{WikiProject Apple Inc.|class=B}}
results in the article being assessed as C-class instead of B-class. We should not expect editors to know that certain project templates are set up differently to others.{{WikiProject Apple Inc.|class=B}}
that they do actually understand what B-class means and so should infer that the criteria are passed. In DFlhb's words, removing pointless complexity by letting people rate things as B-class without jumping through hoops.— Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:56, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
|b1=
being missing effectively defaulting to "yes". I'm more on the fence if |b1=
is present but blank, however I'm not sure how easy it is to separate two those situations. I also note in
WP:RATER, adding WikiProject Military History brings up B-Class-1 to 5, whereas WikiProject Apple Inc. doesn't bring up any of b1, etc. I assume milhist is different somehow anyway? -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 14:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
This is only a prediction, and may be inaccurate (occasionally wildly so).The current proposal is only about what's in the "Proposed situation" above though. - Kj cheetham ( talk) 14:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
|class=B
, it's because they understand what B-class means. In any case, the redesigned WikiProject banner shell already ignores B-class checklists anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
InfiniteNexus (
talk) 00:54, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps my experience is different to others but it has not been my experience that if someone types Class=B in their project header they have an understanding of the criteria that would make it so. The idea that an unfilled criterion should be considered a yes is just daft. If the person filling it in is not sure whether it passes, we should be cautious rather than risk undermining our quality standards. Monstrelet ( talk) 16:09, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
|class=A
or |class=FA
either . I don't think you can enforce the criteria by using a template, but it should be easier for experienced editors to assess articles. The confusing part currently is that some templates will accept |class=B
and others will not. — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 08:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)I'll share my rationale too. Months ago, I did a statistical analysis of WikiProjects that opt-in to B-checklists. For all the projects I looked at, 80-90% of articles in categories like Category:XYZ articles needing attention to referencing and citation
were there because of missing, not failing, B-checklists. That makes them pointless for prioritizing cleanup. The two biggest projects opting-into B-checklists override this behavior to align with the current proposal:
WP:FILM (
code) and
WP:MILHIST (
code).
Autodemotion based on missing criteria is also a problem. I've regularly come across WikiProject banner shells on talk pages where someone reassessed every project to B-class, but one still shows up as C-class (due to missing B-checklist). That project gets no benefit from keeping the outdated class evaluation; outdated ratings are a much bigger problem than people rating articles incorrectly. Outside of FA/GA, ratings aren't a big deal, and I've never seen an editor rating articles incorrectly en-masse.
The underlying idea behind the current behavior is that articles need to systematically be marked as passing the B1-B6 criteria, but that's pointless busywork. Only B, C and Start-class articles are eligible for B-checklists. Among these, 75-85% (depending on the project) are Start-class. We already know they fail, likely all of B1-B6. It would be pointless to spend days filling them out.
When I come across articles with filled B-criteria, generally, only 1 or 2 criteria are failing, the rest are passed. That's the main point of B-checklists: identifying articles which just need a bit of work to reach B-class. Or to clarify why articles that look like they should be rated B-class, aren't, or why one that used to be B-class was demoted. This proposal preserves those use cases, while making B-checklist categories more useful, and leading to fewer outdated class ratings due to missing checklists; all-around win. DFlhb ( talk) 19:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Are there any other comments about this proposal? I note that no one has opposed it. There was some discussion about going further and deprecating altogether, but there has been no formal proposal to this effect. So could we start with this smaller step, which will help to harmonise ratings between projects and allow WP:PIQA to proceed, which is very strongly supported by the community? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:37, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
I've been looking at Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs. Some of these are stubs (e.g., long lists of animal species with almost no text) but most of them aren't. The problem is – who wants to go through a list of 1,000 pages to find the handful that interest you? I offer a way to do this:
This huge Petscan link will show the list for WikiProject Politics. Just find the name of the WikiProject on the page, change it to match your favorite WikiProject's template's name, and click the "Do it!" button.
If you remove the stub tags from the end of non-stub articles, and update the article quality ratings on the talk page, then the bot will remove that page from the list when it runs again (next week). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:59, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 18 § Category:WikiProject Foo members has been closed with consensus to move to "participants" wording. Although that CfD was technically just about categories, given that the exact same arguments apply to participant lists at project pages, userbox language, etc., it is presumed that most wikiprojects will want shift to the new standard. Help from the WikiProject Council in implementing that shift would be appreciated. Any templates that are used to create new projects/userboxes/etc. are particularly important; I see that {{ WikiProject}} has long used "Participants", so that one is all set. Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:06, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject banner shell/redirect has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. 65.92.244.127 ( talk) 06:03, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
I thought some of you might be interested in these numbers.
Place | Registered editors | Unique IPs | ||
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ever | 2023 | ever | 2023 | |
Village pumps | 26,102 | 1,953 | 10,410 | – |
WikiProjects | 56,619 | 4,380 | 21,551 | 565 |
AFDs | 161,875 | 7,910 | 85,392 | – |
any edit at all | ~13.9 million | 656,311 | – | – |
In short, editors are significantly more likely to edit a WikiProject's talk page than to edit a Village pump. If you are interested in this, then there is more detail at Wikipedia:Request a query#Village pump participation, Wikipedia talk:Village pump#Who posts at the Village pumps?, and Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#AFD participation. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:30, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
WikiProject Women in Music used to receive lots of notifications about move discussions, but not so much lately. If any WikiProject Council folks know what might have changed, or how to fix this, please comment here. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:27, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Template:Inactive WikiProject banner has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:WPBannerMeta has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Molecular Biology/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:19, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Missing in your directory. rootsmusic ( talk) 23:19, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Terrorism#Requested move 6 November 2023 Iskandar323 ( talk) 12:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to revive the defunct Wikipedia:WikiProject Norman history as I feel it has great potential and unfortunately fell due to inactivity. The closest project to it would be Wikipedia:WikiProject France but Norman history is so much more, covering not just the region of Normandy but the Normans themselves. ☘️ King ᚺᛒ ☘️ Talk, Guestbook 22:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
As WhatamIdoing says, your main focus should be on finding more participants, otherwise the task force will not be successful — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:09, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:A review toolbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 08:18, 17 November 2023 (UTC)
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Hello. I am removing the "guideline" tag from the WikiProject guide. The promotion to guideline seems to have gone entirely without discussion, and it has consistently been changed and rewritten with little to no discussion. As such, it is completely inappropriate that it is tagged as a guideline; per WP:policies and guidelines, a guideline must be supported by consensus. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 18:50, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
:)
I think the right place to start that discussion would be here, with a mention at WP:VPPRO, correct? Despite the fact that this has undeniably been the status quo for a very long time, I still believe that it should not be returned to guideline status unless/until that discussion results in "Support". In today's Wikipedia, we should use today's WP:PG policy and not just take remnants from the 2006 wild west for granted. And yes, there has been a long time of silence, but I would suggest it was a silence of indifference (wikiprojects aren't that big a deal, after all) and not of approval. Kind regards from
PJvanMill)
talk( 21:11, 20 September 2020 (UTC)An accepted policy or guideline...(emphasis mine). Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 21:22, 20 September 2020 (UTC)
generally accepted standard that editors should attempt to followwhen in reality it's just advice, and I am also concerned with the fact that
any substantive edit to this page should reflect consensusseems to be consistently ignored. Both of those indicate to me that at least this part should not be marked as "guideline". I do not feel like the page is really preventing me from doing anything, it's just that the label feels inaccurate. It is not treated like a guideline, so why does it say "guideline"? I admit that this isn't really a big deal, but it feels like whether a page is marked as guideline or not should be a big deal. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 16:36, 22 September 2020 (UTC)
I had a headache figuring out why all the WikiProject pages mention the Comments subpages. I eventually found WP:DCS and then MSGJ mentioning them here Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council/Archive 22#Comments subpages. Now that the headache is gone I am just annoyed by all those mentionings. Will they go away? Mysteriumen•♪Ⓜ •♪talk ♪• look 01:11, 7 October 2020 (UTC)
Hello everybody. I noticed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Wikipedia in the Maintenance list are a bunch of Yes entries linking to No, a disambiguation page. In the source code they appear as unlinked no but in the resulting page they appear a Yes. As a result it is unclear whether yes or no is the intended mesage. Can you help figuring out what happens in the background and fix this confusing mess? Thank you. Asmodea Oaktree ( talk) 13:10, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
hi all! checking in briefly. all is well at WP:History. We have added an additional active coordinator, and a new coordinator from another wikiproject to help with assessment. Generally speaking, the project remains inactive overall; our main goal is to serve as a community forum for anyone who may drop by, and also as a partial gateway to history topics in general, and to other wikiprojects that are much more active than our own, for anyone who might be interested. we welcome any thoughts or feedback. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 20:50, 27 October 2020 (UTC)
Hi there. is there anyone else here who serves as a coordinator for wikiprojects on various areas or topics within history? I am the coordinator for Wikiproject History. whatever project you may have, it is almost certain that your project is far more active . my main goal is to make wiki-project history useful as an introductory resource; i.e. as described in the list below:
So please do write back if you wish. let us know anything we can do that can help, anything you'd like us to promote, or anything else we can do that would be worthwhile.
by the way, I am also currently one of the active editors at Community bulletin board. we have been trying to give this a renewed level of activity, by posting editing drives, contests, and many other group activities there. so you are welcome to let me know if there is anything that you might like me to highlight or to promote there, as well.
I hope that is helpful. I look forward to hearing any ideas, suggestions, requests etc, that you may wish. thanks!! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 15:14, 28 October 2020 (UTC)
Should we have a IRC Channel? -- Commons is in a thing ( talk) 21:22, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
It's not clear to me if
Wikipedia:GLAM/TarfayaPedia is a Wikipedia project, but since it is listed in the Projects section at
Talk:The Little Prince as a project, I gave it the benefit of the doubt and assumed it is. Otoh, there's been no activity there, so I added a {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}
template. But if it is a project, maybe it should be marked 'defunct' instead. Can someone check if this is a project at all, and if so, whether the template should be altered. Thanks,
Mathglot (
talk) 08:08, 5 November 2020 (UTC)
Should "wikiprojects" as a generic term be capitalized? -- Soumya-8974 talk contribs subpages 09:53, 9 November 2020 (UTC)
Please see:
Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Disability/Style guide#Requested move 20 November 2020
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Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#How can we better consolidate and discourage creation of overly-specific WikiProjects?.-- Moxy 🍁 23:53, 14 November 2020 (UTC)
Back in July 2019, at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Public Art, I asked members to consider whether or not the project should be converted into a task force. No replies. I see an editor has just marked the project as 'semi-active', so I've raised the question once again. Just an FYI, but also soliciting feedback from Council page watchers. FWIW, I edit articles about public art all the time, but I mostly use WikiProject Sculpture and WikiProject Visual arts for collaboration. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 15:35, 24 November 2020 (UTC)
I've been posting a bunch at/linking to WikiProject Usability trying to revive that project, but it doesn't really seem to have drawn in many editors. I'm also involved in some recent discussions at Articles for improvement, which really ought to be a lot more active than it is. Would you all have any advice about how to advertise a relaunched WikiProject or otherwise draw in editors to it? {{u| Sdkb}} talk 06:59, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
I created this WP:Project in order to improve Wikipedia by making Jimmy Dore's entry look more like an encyclopedia article, similar to Lenny Bruce, Richard Pryor, Eddie Murphy, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Frank Zappa, or Banksy (artists most similar to JD).
Notice this project was deleted by UnitedStatesian ( talk) (a non-admin? how?) who added this snarky comment,
Oh really? I spent several hours studying the docs before I created the page. Additionally, I have been a WP editor for 17 years. That kind of remark is utterly offensive, juvenille, disrespectful, and completely inappropriate.
I would caution UnitedStatesian that comments which berate another WP Editor, instead of dispassionately discussing the , are inappropriate and may denote bullying. See, WP:BULLY, which states:
Additionally, there are many problems with this delete.
1: This deletion was less than 48 hours after Kingsif ( talk) filed a single OPPOSE vote. He said:
2: I was not given the opportunity to respond. I have limited time in a day. I don't always log in to WP every day.
3: I have no interest in joining a WikiProject about BLPs or Biographies in general.
I proposed a Jimmy Dore Project page SPECIFICALLY, because that is my interest. Not only is Jimmy Dore immensely popular, but topics he covers are at an intersection of ideas I am also interested in: Political Dysfunction of the Left in Modern America, Corporate Media Criticism, War & Peace, Censorship, etc.
4: There are *potentially* a dozen pages which might mention Jimmy Dore (see pages which mention Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Bill Hicks for example, arguably artists most similar to Dore). However any edits which attempt to add important biographical information about Jimmy Dore on WP are met with speedy reverts, including by the notorious meta- User:Philip Cross, known to vandalize pages of prominent anti-war voices. This seems to be an organized effort.
5: There is at least one WP:Project proposal with a focus on a single artist: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Justin_Bieber
6: There are at least 20 WP:Project pages with a focus on a single living artist, or noteworthy person:
7: These WP:Project pages are devoted to individual deceased persons
8: These WP:Project pages are devoted to a fictional person:
9: And there there is this:
10: I can see no Wikipedia:Project criteria which was violated. I have checked here: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council, Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject_report, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide
11: None of the criteria mentioned at "Under what circumstances are WikiProjects deleted from Wikipedia rather than marked as defunct or historical?" in Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject_report have been met, especially since this was only a PROPOSAL.
12: The article was not moved to my namespace as suggested by WP:REVIVE.
13: I was not notified as required by WP:SPEEDY, nor was WP:SPEEDY followed as far as I can tell.
14: I was not given sufficient time to obtain the support of "at least 6 to 12 active Wikipedians" as suggested by Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide#Proposing_a_project as a criteria for a project to succeed.
15: In fact, this same page says the following:
"A few Months?" My project was up for ~48 HOURS!
16: Additionally, Template:Archived_WikiProject_Proposal_notcreated says this:
"THREE MONTHS." My project was up for ~48 HOURS. C'mon.
Thus, I have asked UnitedStatesian on his ( talk) page to restore my Wikipedia Project Proposal, since it appears his deletion was hasty. -- Bill Huston (talk) 10:34, 8 January 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I am interested to know if WikiProject Council works with other languages in Wikipedia and if it coordinates with Wikimedia sister projects? Zblace ( talk) 11:53, 26 January 2021 (UTC)
The Linux WikiProject seems to be inactive. Can we update its status in the WikiProjects space? - proxxz talk 07:21, 30 January 2021 (UTC)
Sandbox Organiser A place to help you organise your work |
Hi all
I've been working on a tool for the past few months that you may find useful. Wikipedia:Sandbox organiser is a set of tools to help you better organise your draft articles and other pages in your userspace. It also includes areas to keep your to do lists, bookmarks, list of tools. You can customise your sandbox organiser to add new features and sections. Once created you can access it simply by clicking the sandbox link at the top of the page. You can create and then customise your own sandbox organiser just by clicking the button on the page. All ideas for improvements and other versions would be really appreciated.
Huge thanks to PrimeHunter and NavinoEvans for their work on the technical parts, without them it wouldn't have happened.
John Cummings ( talk) 11:00, 6 February 2021 (UTC)
Would someone mind closing the proposal above as successful per the instructions at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Closing_proposals? P,TO 19104 ( talk) ( contribs) 18:55, 14 February 2021 (UTC)
{{
wikiproject}}
as a starting point, though you would have to cut some stuff out that's specific to subject-area wikiprojects; you could also not use that. Maybe discuss a bit with the other prospective participants about how the page should be organised; it can all be changed later, of course, so don't waste time trying to make it perfect. If you need any help, feel free to ask me.
PJvanMill)
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edit request to
Wikipedia:WikiProject has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
please how can I write a musician article Em-rich58 ( talk) 09:49, 1 March 2021 (UTC)
This
edit request to
Wikipedia:WikiProject has been answered. Set the |answered= or |ans= parameter to no to reactivate your request. |
It says I need to be registered to edit. I am, and I think something is wrong with protection. ThatDislikedOne ( talk) 19:52, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
See discussion Template talk:WikiProject banner shell#Add class/importance attribute on shell and please advise where else is right forum to discuss. I know it's potentially a major change. Shushugah ( talk) 20:42, 22 February 2021 (UTC)
User:SMcCandlish recently edited multiple pages to remove words like "membership" and "joining". The edit summaries say that WikiProjects are "just pages for collaboration". (This contradicts WP:WikiProject, which opens with a statement that a WikiProject is a group of editors, and the FAQ at the top of this page, which says that a WikiProject "is not a subject area, a collection of pages, or a list of articles tagged by the group."
It is possible to be a member of a group without the group being a membership organization, and I think the idea of "joining" a group has some value for some editors, even though in practice, "participation" is far more important than having your name recorded on a membership list. What do the rest of you think? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 02:15, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
When wikiprojects turn into problems – which is quite frequently, as it's been the central cause of large number of ArbCom cases and decisions, as well as the main reason for the creation of the WP:CONLEVEL policy – it is almost invariably because the project has started acting as if it is a private membership organization, capable of excluding other editors and their input, of making up its own rules against site-wide consensus, of inventing its own processes to bypass site-wide ones, of acting as "canvassing farms", of behaving in a WP:VESTED manner, and in trying to exert WP:OWNership over entire categories of content the project claims is within scope. We were well on the way to ridding wikiprojects of "join" and "member" language, until the now-dead but still-deployed WP:WikiProject X templating system hard-coded these terms.
When people have tried to set up explicit membership organizations (even ones that apparently did good things), the community has been swift and firm in shutting them down (see, e.g., the history of WP:Esperanza, a precursor of what is now WP:Teahouse). When wikiprojects are set up with an obvious intent to over-control content, they are also shut down, even more swiftly and firmly (one example among several: Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Wikiproject English). I.e., there is a clear consensus that wikiprojects cannot act as exclusive membership organizations and cannot control content topics (see also WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Building consensus: WikiProjects and WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Function of WikiProjects and WP:ARBPRINCIPLES#Levels of consensus); we should not continue to use language which has encouraged problems of this sort.
Back to "fix the wording, don't try to bend the reality": The reality is that no one has to sign up as a "member" of a wikiproject to use it and participate in discussions at it. The only reason for these lists/categories of editors is to help one editor participating in the project find another potentially interested in working on the same content (hopefully a still-active editor). Secondarily, it also helps illustrate whether a project is active or not, though this is probably better determined by wikiproject talk page activity level. Being a "member" cannot confer any rights or privileges, and gives no one more weight in any discussion (though you will unfortunately see people attempt to pull this crap: "Why should we listen to User:Foobar? They're not even a member of WikiProject Bazzquux!"). In years of randomly and gradually (not robotically and forcefully) updating this wording to use "participate in" and "participants" instead of "join" and "members", I have run into virtually no opposition, until last week when I discovered that the WikiProject X stuff is hard-coded to look for a page named /Members as part of its scripting (which is a reparable problem), and one wikiproject, WP:WikiProject Women in Red, which has the unusual distinction of organizing lots of off-site events, has been using "members" to mean participants in the wikiproject, and "participants" to mean participants in the events (which is also a reparable problem, e.g. "WikiProject participants" and "event participants" or "WikiProject participants" and "event attendees", or whatever).
Finally, the sooner we get to consistently using the same terminology across all wikiprojects (probably the last step would be renaming the categories and patching the userbox templates that use them), then the better able we'll be to have bots and other tools do stuff for all wikiprojects without bugs being triggered by inconsistent page names and template parameters.
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consistently using the same terminology across all wikiprojectsshould not be a goal: wikiprojects making their own choices on inconsequential terminology is not a problem, and trying to make all wikiprojects conform will very likely fail. Kind regards from PJvanMill) talk( 14:02, 13 February 2021 (UTC)
First off, a project can't make a template, it doesn't have the ability to submit edits to a wiki. Some editor or editors created those templates, perhaps acting on behalf of other editors aligned with the project, or implementing the collaborative decisions of those project participants, but nevertheless all templates are the creations of a specific editor or editors, not "a project".Projects hate it when non "participants" jump in and change long standing wording, layouts preferences and especially when project made templates are merged
Whose work is getting dismissed? Or, to put it another way, how is the merge of a "project created" template, or a change to "long standing wording" that's somehow considered WP:OWNed "by the project", different from changes made to any other Wikipedia content, all of which was the work of some editor or editors?that is there collaborative work gets dismissed.
I just posted an "ad" for Wikipedia:Feedback request service, and it occurred to me that we could probably come up with a list of things that would help people remember about ways to help and ways that they can get help. I've previously posted about Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library, and I sometimes advertise individual split or merge proposals. What do you do to help connect people to opportunities? WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:27, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
Hi. a few of us have initiated a new effort to use Wikipedia: Community bulletin board as a current resource. we have been editing it to reflect new editing drives, new group efforts and projects, new or recurring editing drives at WikiProjects, and a whole variety of current efforts and activities.
this new effort began several months ago. please come by the page to view this if you have not done so already. and please, feel free to add listings for any current activities at your own favorite wikiprojects, group activities, or anything else. thanks! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:09, 13 April 2021 (UTC)
I have nominated Flag of Portugal for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. ( t · c) buidhe 04:41, 15 May 2021 (UTC)
So I think most are familar with what happened, and didn't happen, with Wikipedia:WikiProject X. Nothing wrong with failed experiments, as Thomas Edison would tell you. But does it make sense to consider putting the projects that are on the WPX format back onto the standard project setup? Seems like the standard format is easier to maintain, and that Wikipedia overall, and the WPX projects themselves, would benefit from a return to cross-project consistency. Before I raise at the projects themselves, any thoughts here? Thanks in advance, UnitedStatesian ( talk) 05:34, 11 May 2021 (UTC)
In August I proposed that WikiProject Cities remove its importance parameter in favor of a "core" list of 50 cities and various taskforces otherwise, as has been done for WikiProject Biographies and WikiProject Film. I did not receive any substantial response at that time, and looking at subsequent activity at its talkpage the majority of messages/discussions are either procedural in nature such as FARs or receive at most one response.
Which brings me to my next point, that it appears that WikiProject Cities is rather moribund (even by WikiProject standards) and its aim appears to be too diffuse. NYC and Beijing, London and Singapore, Chicago and Buenos Aires, and Paris and Shanghai don't particularly have much in common except that they are all a rather ubiquitous type of human settlement. A current (as in, September) proposal for a Megacities WikiProject has one !vote, an oppose of its aim being too diverse; what do you think cities in general are?
So I propose that we dissolve WikiProject Cities ( Esperanzify it, if you will) and replace it with one of the following:
Apologies if this is not the correct process for such an action, of which I am unaware and to which I am willing to be directed. A notice of this discussion has been posted on the WikiProject's talkpage. If this gets enough traction and is felt proper, I could put this on centralized discussion, but that seems a bit much for right now. Thank you for your attention and consideration.
– John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 00:19, 25 April 2021 (UTC)
There's also a need to have cities such as both Paris and New York under one Wikiproject tag, since both are articles that will be heavily edited even without any WikiProject, and both have their own WikiProjects. Assuming you're correct, however, should every single village or other incorporated place in the whole world be included? If not, what precisely would be the cutoff? That's also not touching the idea of people not actually using any of the guideline stuff, which I've personally never used. – John M Wolfson ( talk • contribs) 12:57, 10 May 2021 (UTC)
It baffles me that the “Countering Systemic Bias in religion” page has been defunct for a while, with the last posts being from 2006-2007. In a post-2020 world, where the struggle for survival during has a pandemic has brought so much political and religious vision, prejudice of different kinds, including those on racial, class, ethnic and religious lines are more problematic than ever. People who are divided on COVID-19 related policies are also interestingly enough, demarcated by political and religious differences. I propose that this page may be reactivated, so that those who have editing issues in the category of religion may have a specialized area to find solutions for related grievances.
Please see the following journal articles for relevant scholarship:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1387609?seq=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7482621/
Coffeebreak80s ( talk) 23:42, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
I revived WP:Rocketry a few weeks ago. But since then, only two new members joined. What do I do? StarshipSLS ( Talk), ( My Contributions) 14:02, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi there! Hope you are doing great. I just wrote a draft of my new article and was wondering if there is any chance someone can check it and help me understand if the article is ok. Also, that would be great if this draft could be reviewed faster than 6 months. Many thanks :) /info/en/?search=Draft:Bit4you
Hey, it's me again :) Just wanted to make sure, someone saw my message at the top. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna levchuk ( talk • contribs) 06:46, 27 May 2021 (UTC)
— Preceding unsigned comment added by Anna levchuk ( talk • contribs) 09:04, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
Hi! I was wondering if to rate the importance of an article in the scope of the WikiProject there is any previous requirement, such as the editor being part of the WikiProject or a specific guideline to follow. Thanks beforehand! -- NoonIcarus ( talk) 12:03, 27 April 2021 (UTC)
yes you can rate any article you want despite of the interest thank you!! Baloyi khazamulae ( talk) 20:00, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
you're welcome!! Baloyi khazamulae ( talk) 20:01, 23 June 2021 (UTC)
I've marked Wikipedia:WikiProject Reference works as 'inactive'. If this isn't sufficient notification, let me know if I should add this to WP:VPM or anywhere else. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 01:29, 26 June 2021 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones/Membership guidelines.
Chess (
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Is there anywhere that shows basic usage metrics for projects? I am trying to revive a couple and wanted good examples. Most traffic, Most pages, Most participants...Even the top 10 in any/each category would be helpful. Could the Council start working on Assessing Projects? (FA, A, B, C, Stub/New)?? (and, "Yes", if necessary, I can volunteer to help...) Mjquinn_id ( talk) 20:55, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, I am trying to merge Template:WikiProject Philippine History, which represents what is already a task force, into Template:WikiProject Tambayan Philippines. I have implemented changes into Template:WikiProject Tambayan Philippines/sandbox. Advice on whether that code is correct, and how to transition the templates (could it be automatic or will it have to be done one by one?) are very much appreciated. (Previous discussion on this is at Template talk:WPBannerMeta#Merging one banner into another.) Best, CMD ( talk) 13:36, 14 September 2021 (UTC)
Various WikiProjects I am involved with have markup that are Desktop centric/not mobile accessible, for example nesting sections inside other HTML containers. Are there accessibility guidelines/lists of WikiProjects that either have exemplary markup/or could benefit from retouching? I'd be happy to join a temporary taskforce to clean up active WikiProjects, particularly the talk page which need to easier to edit regularly. Two examples of WikiProjects I tried to clean up can be seen in Wikipedia:WikiProject Sexology and sexuality and Wikipedia:WikiProject Organized Labour. Shushugah (he/him • talk) 22:26, 27 August 2021 (UTC)
Hello, I have a question. May I revive that WikiProject? I want to use it for real paintings made out of paint, such as Starry Night for example. I also want to use it for specific types of painting, like street painting or graffiti. CyclonicStormYutu ( talk) 14:46, 13 September 2021 (UTC)
Hi all, please see {{ WikiProject Religion}} with my solution to have project banners handle inactive subprojects that are "nested" within higher level active projects. My plan would be to take this same approach with banners that have many more inactive subprojects, such as {{ WikiProject Television}} and {{ WikiProject United States}}. Comments/suggestions welcome. UnitedStatesian ( talk) 03:10, 9 September 2021 (UTC)
Hey y'all! Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask, but: Is there an edit counter that will sort a Wikipedian's edits by WikiProjects? Hopefully, that makes sense. Let me know if it's as clear as mud.-- Gen. Quon (Talk) 14:01, 19 October 2021 (UTC)
Hi. Is there a list somewhere of what characters are legal in project names? I need one character that is invalid, hopefully comma or semicolon, for a template I'm writing. Thanks! (please mention me on reply; thanks!) Mathglot ( talk) 23:12, 27 October 2021 (UTC)
One of the main meanings of "religionist" is zealot, and in any case I'm not sure that any other meaning of the word would be appropriate. These people appear to be theologians, although I haven't checked them all. Doug Weller talk 12:56, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
When I started Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Shakespeare knot, I marked it relevant to authors, history and England. It's something, but not that close. Obviously I can WP:APPNOTE at WikiProjects like Knots, Shakespeare and Heraldry and vexillology if I want to. But what if this was an option in twinkle? Say it produces an automated message in the line of "The article X, which may be of interest to members of this WikiProject, has been suggested for deletion. Your input is welcome."
Opinions? Or does this exist, without me knowing it? Gråbergs Gråa Sång ( talk) 10:31, 8 November 2021 (UTC)
Hi, is there any userscipt or something like that to add WikiProject tags to an article's talk page? I'm interested in adding WikiProject tags to articles but I've to do it manually. Eevee01( talk) 12:06, 10 October 2021 (UTC)
Hello all, I have been editing on wikipedia for about a month now and am working in and around the sports project articles. The assessment criteria is really useful for quality and priority setting but the sports project doesn't have categories for importance unlike other projects I seem to be crossing over to sometimes. I have tried making some category pages to get things working but would appreciate some guidance to make sure things are done correctly. I have been trying to keep track of the pages in my user page but the list is far to long now for it to actually be useful so any help would be greatly appreciated. DannyHatcher ( talk) 01:33, 9 December 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect List of Wikiprojects. The discussion will occur at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 December 20#List of Wikiprojects until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion. ( t · c) buidhe 02:35, 20 December 2021 (UTC)
Please see the discussion at Talk:List of indigenous peoples regarding the absence hundreds of sources in this article. If possible, contribute to discussion and provide input.
List of indigenous peoples is a massive list of which the majority of entries are are without citation. The article is in need of a team of editors to procedurally review each entry and identify reliable sources--or lack thereof.
There is also an ongoing discussion regarding the terms of inclusion in this list, which you are welcome to get involved in.
Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination), a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination) and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Wikipedia:WikiProject Republika Srpska (2nd nomination) during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. ౪ Santa ౪ 99° 12:56, 4 January 2022 (UTC)
Hi, I am looking to make WP:Wikiproject Military Policies, I want some experienced editors to help me, thanks! Yodas henchman ( talk) 19:36, 7 January 2022 (UTC)
FYI Category:Religion-related WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), Category:Christianity WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs), Category:Jewish-related WikiProjects ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be eliminated at CfD -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 05:25, 12 January 2022 (UTC)
North Macedonia page is vandalized and the 8/57 of article guideline "article citation" states the the link is incorrect. Please resolve this issue? 31.5.13.207 ( talk) 22:14, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
The issue in the format has been found and the error has been resolved. Upseguest ( talk) 22:17, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
FYI, Template:WikiProject Manager ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 04:38, 17 January 2022 (UTC)
Let me point out Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Effective Altruism#Capitalization in Project name. — Est. 2021 ( talk · contribs) 01:02, 7 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI, Template:Coordinator ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 06:29, 13 February 2022 (UTC)
I'm GavriilaDmitriev and I see my roots in WP:FOSS. One out of my current tasks is to take care for our TaskForce and recruiting new member. Luckily I didn't had to revive it although many WikiProjects in our environment are already inactive. I'm writing here to check the current situation of WP:COUNCIL and if other member from the IT related WikiProjects and TaskForces are active here.
Most of places I explore seem abandoned and most of the seeming activity is done by bots. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:08, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI, template:WPJ1/ template:WPJ2/ template:WPJ3 have been nominated for deletion -- these are generalized wikiproject link templates -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 04:21, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
FYI. Template:Convert to use WPBannerMeta ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.92.246.142 ( talk) 05:45, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
I'm currently very active in looking around and tidying up the environment of our WP:FOSS. I updated (basically emptied) some member lists and updated projects activity status. Please check the current status here (which I also did update):
My issue is that a lot of structures doesn't fit and represent reality anymore. In the case of the aforementioned Directory/Science#Computing roughly 6 of the 40 entries can be considered active. 3 of them are semi-active which cuts the list of active entries down to 3.
Result is that the list is basically misleading and more historical than a representation of reality. It took me some time to understand the color coding and the internal logic and I can ensure that passing visitors of those pages won't get the right impression about it's content.
Needs discussion How to handle Directory/Science#Computing?
Idea: We could move the inactive parts into Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Inactive_projects and then remove most of it's content from the main list
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 03:51, 25 February 2022 (UTC)
Update: I found out about WikiProject Directory/Computing_WikiProjects and see the same issue there. I suggest a permanent separation which automatically hides inactive/defunct WikiProjects since 7 out of 29 show any activity. This can be done with either splitting it between active/not active view or set the inactive separated and automatically hidden as we often do it with former participant lists.
I am unaware if it looks similar in different spaces. But this is an issue in Computing that every list is cluttered with dead and inactive WikiProjects. GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 09:02, 26 February 2022 (UTC)
Hi! I'm working on improving WP:FINANCE. We have various request backlogs and I wish to implement a backlog system similar to the one used by WP:ANRFC where only resolved requests are archived. How may I do so? Wikipedia:WikiProject Finance & Investment/Requests is one page where this would be most beneficial. Thanks! A. C. Santacruz ⁂ Please ping me! 12:50, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
Hello @ Deepfriedokra and thank you for caring. And I believe you have the best intentions.
I saw the chance that you protected WP:COUNCIL after an IP blanked the page. While this is vandalism I don't see your quoted "persistent vandalism". I see that there are barely edits of the council page anyway (8 edits in this year, over the half of them related to this vandalism issue here). I don't appreciate that Wikipedia becomes increasingly protected so only senior members are able to edit Wikipedia. And in the case of WP:COUNCIL I see the justification as blatantly wrong. Did any public discussion happen prior to this action? Again I believe your best intentions. But I argue that your instantiated protection did more harm than it helped.
I request hereby that you remove the protection.
GavriilaDmitriev ( talk • they/them) 04:02, 3 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello there, I am planning to create a project page for a Network at the University of St Andrews. Our main focus is to raise awareness about the Wikimedia projects, run Edit-a-thons and training events across the University of St Andrews and beyond. We hope that the project page will develop into something like this, which is created by our colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. We already have interested Wikipedians at our University, and I would appreciate some guidance on how to proceed with creating the page. For example, I am not sure in our case whether to propose the project page or start it directly. Many thanks Abd Alsattar Ardati ( talk) 10:11, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
Can someone review the page Draft:Spick_Media_Network ? This draft has been pending for more than 48 days. — Preceding unsigned comment added by RajendranMCV ( talk • contribs) 06:06, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
Can someone review the page Draft:Nalinthip Sakulongumpai. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Publiconline123 ( talk • contribs) 05:26, 18 April 2022 (UTC)
Hello, can someone please review Draft:Don Samuels? It has been waiting for about 3 months, and has already had citation bot check run. Thank you so much! Runesandarrows — Preceding undated comment added 15:01, 20 July 2022 (UTC)
Please someone review the Draft page Draft:Lubna Marium this is my first artical. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ayatul nish ( talk • contribs) 04:56, 22 May 2022 (UTC)
I'm working towards upgrading {{ class}} to use Lua and a JSON definition file. Not least because this affects ~17% of all pages, I would appreciate input and/or review at Template talk:Class#Move to Lua/JSON version. Please respond there, or ping me if you respond here. {{ Nihiltres | talk | edits}} 17:36, 21 May 2022 (UTC)
Hi everyone. this is your friendly neigborhood Coordinator for WikiProject History. I have made a new type of navbox for history topics, focusing upon one period in Europe's history. what do you think of this? feel free to comment, offer suggestions, etc. thanks!!!
{{Early Modern Europe|state=expanded}}
--- Sm8900 ( talk) 🌍 16:48, 3 January 2022 (UTC)
I've started an RfC re: whether or not WikiProject Public Art should be merged into WikiProject Visual arts:
If editors decide a merge is appropriate, I hope someone knows how to assist with converting a WikiProject into a task force appropriately.
Thanks, --- Another Believer ( Talk) 14:15, 22 April 2022 (UTC)
Many pages, such as those contain information on diseases or war have disturbing content with no warning or filter. Warnings about potentially disturbing images should be added to pages containing content such as those showing burns or lesions. Some pages on war and conflict contain images of corpses which may also be disturbing to viewers. 117.20.68.52 ( talk) 11:27, 29 June 2022 (UTC)
Hi all! The Unreferenced Articles project is looking to make connections with editors and projects who would be interested in assisting in clearing out the backlog (dating back to January 2007!) of unreferenced articles. Currently there are over 142,000 - I guarantee there is something that touches every WikiProject in some way. WP:URA has been semi-active for some time now but we are getting more activity and are now trying to raise awareness of our goals and aims to keep the momentum going. I was wondering if any WikiProject coordinators would be interested in discussing collaborations, i.e. teaming up with WikiProject:Malaysia to cite a number of highway articles, Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports for players and tournament results, etc. 142,000+ articles is too much for one fledgling project to handle but as more projects get involved, I'm sure the number will drop rapidly. I have reached out to the Signpost WikiProjects desk to put a spotlight on the project and we are thinking of holding a community drive as well. If anyone is interested in participating, please sign up and use 'Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced articles; you can help!' as the edit summary to boost awareness among other editors. We look forward to working with you! Kazamzam ( talk) 16:09, 10 June 2022 (UTC)
Collectively, we can all contribute to make it happen. Raskoby947 ( talk) 08:58, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
Is there a way to allow a task force to set a different priority for an article than the parent project has? For example, the new lichen task force would like to rate some articles as being more important for the task force than would be appropriate for WP:FUNGI overall. (This is primarily to keep us focused initially on the most important articles to bring up to GA/FA standards.) MeegsC ( talk) 10:18, 29 July 2022 (UTC)
lichen-importance=
is not set, it will default to the importance rating of WP Fungi. However, a template code change may be made at {{
WikiProject Fungi}}, so that, if lichen-importance=
is not set, it will go to Category:Unknown-importance lichen task force articles or something like that, which will ease future rating. —
CX Zoom[he/him] (
let's talk • {
C•
X}) 21:57, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello everyone, it has been proposed that Wikipedia:WikiProject Dutch municipalities be merged into Wikipedia:WikiProject Netherlands as a task force, due to inactivity. The relevant discussion may be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dutch municipalities#Proposed merger into WikiProject Netherlands as a task force and interested editors may participate in that discussion. Thank you! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 22:02, 1 August 2022 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography regarding articles on district or council. Please come along to post your comments. Davidstewartharvey ( talk) 03:45, 16 August 2022 (UTC)
Please find an RFC for District names and councils on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Geography. Please join the discussion. Davidstewartharvey ( talk) 08:34, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
Hello, I came to activate this project considering that the wiki of the multimodal project was disabled, how is it? Does it require permission? AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 09:14, 20 August 2022 (UTC)
The wiki is a multi-faceted multi-year project that is inactive If this project wiki is disabled, there may not be much progress in polygons, geometric volumes, etc That's why I said to let me start this wiki project. AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 08:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC) please reply AHEJJWILEMAMALIDGED ( talk) 08:37, 23 August 2022 (UTC)
I'm not sure if anyone watches this talk page but I just came across a new WikiProject, Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian invasion of Ukraine and thought I'd tell some editor who cares about WikiProjects. Looks like a one editor WikiProject. Liz Read! Talk! 05:43, 10 October 2022 (UTC)
Sock of User:TzarN64. Magnatyrannus ( talk | contribs) 23:56, 1 November 2022 (UTC) |
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A new discussion about a new WikiProject related to WikiProject Council is currently being discussed. Share your thoughts here. SMBMovieFan ( talk) 02:52, 1 November 2022 (UTC) |
Hello wikipedians, i am SMBMovieFan. i just proposed a new WikiProject called WikiProject Android. The wikiproject will be about improving the coverage of the operating system Android. There is a ton of articles to improve, and i believe this wikiproject will help improve the articles related to Android. Interested? Vote for your support here. SMBMovieFan ( talk) 10:30, 16 October 2022 (UTC) (Reposted from the TeaHouse.)
If you are watching this page, you are probably more interested in how to get groups of people to work together than the average editor. I ran across this tool on cultural differences: https://hbr.org/2014/08/whats-your-cultural-profile and I thought it might interest some of you. You can find out how you compare (e.g., for the amount of direct criticism that feels appropriate) compared to the country of your choice.
WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:21, 16 November 2022 (UTC)
Hello there, I recently created Wikipedia:WikiProject Protista and I'm having a hard time understanding what it is that I need to do in order to make the Assessment thing work. I created the corresponding categories of "Protista articles by importance" and "quality", and I entered the name "Protista" in the "WP 1.0 bot"'s website, but nothing seems to have changed, almost as if the bot doesn't yet recognize Protista as a project. Any help is highly appreciated. ☽ Snoteleks ☾ 08:18, 23 October 2022 (UTC)
Please see WP:Tea house#Class not showing up on wikiproject template. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 02:07, 30 November 2022 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia_talk:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Index#Why_do_we_destroy_the_assessment_infrastructure_for_inactive_projects?. Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 05:06, 30 October 2022 (UTC)
please have a look: /info/en/?search=Draft:Silly_Mountain_(Arizona) -- Team5DTMaddalena ( talk) 14:10, 16 December 2022 (UTC)
I'm searching for people interested in setting up a New Zealand law WikiProject, I've already contacted editors on WP:LAW and WP:NZ. Just seeing if I'll be able to poach anyone who may be interested from here. If you're interested, please respond at the main proposal on the NZ WikiProject page. Thanks all! Carolina2k22 • (talk) • (edits) 12:59, 20 December 2022 (UTC)
Please see User talk: LlywelynII#Top-importance articles. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 20:48, 30 December 2022 (UTC)
Hi - this discussion proposed the creation of Wikipedia:WikiProject Autonomous Zones. The proposal received support from the proposer, a CU-confirmed sock of the proposer, and a third editor; and it received opposition from two editors. The proposer went on to create the Wikiproject before the discussion was closed; the proposer and their socks are now blocked, and the Wikiproject has seen no edits of any kind since their block. From what I gather, this project never had the requisite amount of support to go forward, it was created out of process, and it is now moribund. Is there a process by which it can be closed down - do I simply nominate the project page for XfD? Best Girth Summit (blether) 18:52, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
FYI, Template:WikiProject Proposalsubst ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been proposed to be deleted at TfD. This is a preload template used to place a skeleton of a proposal onto a new WikiProject proposal page. -- 64.229.90.199 ( talk) 21:08, 4 February 2023 (UTC)
reactivating the WikiProject below. marked as semi-active for now.
thanks. Sm8900 ( talk) 16:27, 14 February 2023 (UTC)
This WikiProject has been rewamped and revived, and I'd like to know your opinions about the redesign. The WikiProject's philosophy is a bit radical compared to most other WikiProject, which ultimately aims to make the place less vulnerable to fiefdom and more open for bystanders. CactiStaccingCrane ( talk) 17:22, 9 January 2023 (UTC)
There is a formal proposal at Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments to allow class ratings to be placed into the banner shell, and to be hidden inside the individual project banners (unless they choose to opt-out). Please come along and comment! — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 18:21, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals)#Project-independent quality assessments. This proposes support for quality assessment at the article level, recorded in {{ WikiProject banner shell}}, and inherited by the wikiproject banners. However, wikiprojects that prefer to use custom approaches to quality assessment can continue to do so. Aymatth2 ( talk) 20:30, 6 February 2023 (UTC)
I recently joined the wiki-project Prussia which is marked as inactive, in a bid to revive the project started to wright new articles and asked all the 7 members if they wanted to help me revive the project, none of them answered. Is it ok now for me to take charge and create task forces, recruit new members, and become the leader. I didn't want to read all the policies and go through the bureaucracy so I'm asking here Crainsaw ( talk) 15:57, 17 February 2023 (UTC)
".Hi, I wrote this article by a multi-faceted New York artist that is now in draft format: Draft:David Gonzalez (multi-disciplinary artist)
The article is part of Wikiproject arts, WikiProject Children's literature, and WikiProject Biographies.
I respectfully ask if anyone can help me in making the wording neutral. The most important reference is an article from the NYT. https://www.nytimes.com/1999/02/12/movies/orpheus-as-a-charmer-with-a-sax.html can also be viewed here: Thank you very much Miskito89 ( talk) 15:38, 20 February 2023 (UTC)
Greetings! I'm pretty new, joined some WikiProjects, & wanted to know how projects assess articles. I just read up WP:PROJGUIDE and the 2013 FAQ, & want to make sure the below is an accurate summary.
Near as I can tell, most projects invite any project member to add & assess articles of interest. To use a Random example, State Road 33 (Serbia) is currently only within purview of WikiProject Highways as Stub/Mid. However A1 motorway (Serbia) which it links to is within both Highways and WikiProject Serbia as Start/Mid for both projects. I'm not a member of the Serbia project, but if I was, in accordance w/ their guidance, I could at least add SR33 as Unassessed/Unassessed, and perhaps boldly give it Stub/Mid, and let other editors reassess as needed.
After all that, question is: Do I have that right?
Suggestion: It may be worthwhile to convince projects to always link WP:PROJSCOPE on their assessment pages/sections. I nearly posted this as a Teahouse question, partly because I'm new, but also because PROJGUIDE was somewhat unintuitive to find, & even once found starts w/ project creation so I almost made the mistake of navigating away instead of scrolling down. I don't think it's bad to have all the guidance on 1 page, but at first glance, it seemed too high echelon advice when I just wanted to know how to gnome around relative to an existing project.
Just food for thought, looking forward to helping my projects. Thanks! KatPro ( mrow?) 03:11, 28 February 2023 (UTC)
|quality=
for all WikiProjects at the same time. A stub's a stub for everyone, and with five sentences (91 words) of prose, the article you give as an example probably counts as a stub (although reasonable people might disagree, given the large table, and that's okay, too).|importance=
ratings.I have seen an editor marking articles as "top importance" for all WikiProjects. This kind of mistake happens occasionally, and if your group hasn't reviewed the list of articles rated as "top" for a while, this might be a good time to see what else might have ended up there. (Check the subcategories of Category:Top-importance articles to find your group, or click the "Top" link in the bot-generated statistics tables.) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 03:01, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
Apologies for grammar I'm using voice to text. I am proposing somehow even if I can assist if needed that Wikipedia start a YouTube channel I for one am a firm believer that this is needed in the aspect of I am a person that prefers to read things and having to watch a video is very irritating because for me it slows me down and I can't quickly go through something that is only on a video because I still have to sit there through a 10 minute video that feels like 3 hours when I could have just skimmed an article for a couple of minutes and gotten my answer. I am 34 years old and my eyes are failing me faster than I would like them to so sitting there and reading for a long periods of time I can't do without glasses and that gets painful as well so my thing is how can we incorporate everything that we already have on Wikipedia all of this amazing and useful information be put into a video that everybody can access and for those that cannot necessarily read or like me have a hard time reading can watch this and also see the words but hear them and be able to learn the same thing without having to read super tiny things that you can't always zoom in on.
I just think it could be a useful thing, I prefer fact checking Wikipedia than many other places because validity is a real issue. As stated, id love to help if possible or even if needed, I feel this could change way we are able to educate ourselves. 24.180.70.227 ( talk) 18:40, 19 April 2023 (UTC)
I've created a Quarry query here that scans for Wikipedia articles that are missing talk pages, and thus also not assigned to any WikiProject. There are currently 79,658 articles in this state.
Would anyone be interested in creating a task tracker, bot, or ML model to help create talk pages for these articles with relevant WikProject assignments? — The Anome ( talk) 13:31, 26 February 2023 (UTC)
I would join this WikiProject. It’s the kind of project where I have fun learning about new WikiProjects, checking if they’re even active, and if article is up my alley, I may even make some gnome edits here and there. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 19:30, 7 March 2023 (UTC)
I've just realised that if I build an frequency matrix for article categories vs. WikiProjects, I can then trivially propagate those frequencies up the category tree to generate relevant frequencies for higher-order categories, something which should help things generalise much more efficiently where there are only small numbers of articles associated with very specific leaf categories. This should make the results much more accurate. Oh -- and I've just realised I can also use article links for categorization as well. — The Anome ( talk) 10:19, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
How about calling this project WikiProject Article sorting? If this was created, I could trivially use a bot to mark all the talk pages of un-tagged articles with {{ WikiProject Article sorting}}, and let human beings start sorting this out before even thinking about how to do the auto-categorization.. — The Anome ( talk) 10:21, 15 March 2023 (UTC)
Here's one query that trivially finds living people pages that have talk pages but are not tagged as being under WP:BIOGRAPHY: See https://quarry.wmcloud.org/query/72401 — The Anome ( talk) 16:26, 18 March 2023 (UTC)
Reply: Sorry, I have been off a few days. Just wanted to state I totally agree with you. -- Otr500 ( talk) 11:10, 2 June 2023 (UTC)
Hello, I created today Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals/Projekt_Kateryna, but I think I missed editing the necessary template. Not sure what I should do to correct it? The proposal does not seem to be lised at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals. Thank you for any help. robertsilen ( talk) 17:32, 13 June 2023 (UTC)
Please see Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Systems and participate if you have an opinion on this method of proposing to disband a WikiProject. — David Eppstein ( talk) 22:47, 21 June 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:Content assessment § Proposal: Reclassification of Current & Future-Classes as time parameter. There is a proposal to split "current" & "future" classes into a new parameter "time", in order to standardise article-rating across Wikipedia ( per RfC), while also allowing simultaneous usage of quality criteria and time for interest projects. Thanks! — CX Zoom[he/him] ( let's talk • { C• X}) 07:28, 2 July 2023 (UTC)
Now that 99% of projects are using the standard or extended quality scale, we should probably pay more attention to what is included in each. Suggestions:
— Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:42, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
Done Just to note that Redirect has now been added to the standard extended scale. But it will only be used if the appropriate category has been created, otherwise it will continue to use NA-Class. Therefore it will not be necessary to create lots of categories. — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 12:03, 7 July 2023 (UTC)
It is time we finally got rid of the oxymoronic category names like Category:Template-Class Ukraine articles. (If it is a template then it is NOT an article!) I am planning a mass CfD at some stage and would like to get some comments on a better naming scheme. I think the format Category:XXX-Class YYY articles should be used solely for the quality of articles in topic YYY. For non-articles, we could use something like
Any thoughts? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 07:40, 25 May 2023 (UTC)
Should
WP:HAWAII be marked as inactive? Before today there had been over a year of routine announcements and automated edits to the talk page which makes it inactive according to
WP:INACTIVEWP. After I marked it as inactive
Cielquiparle came along, objected (with no further reasoning), and then reverted my marking of the project as inactive with the summary "just b/c the Talk page isn't active doesn't mean the Project isn't active". When I asked for them to elaborate more they stated that their objection and me trying to understand why made the project active now. They proceeded to say I didn't realize becoming a member was so exclusive.
even though the WikiProject's main page has a list of active members (which doesn't appear to have been pruned in a while) and then answered a question that had gone unanswered on the talk page for a few days, almost in an attempt to try and make the WikiProject not fit the criteria of an inactive WikiProject because I saw it as such. I'm not trying to assume bad faith here, however I really don't want to argue over something as simple as the inactivity of a WikiProject. ―
Blaze Wolf
TalkBlaze Wolf#6545 19:34, 24 April 2023 (UTC)
Would someone from COUNCIL take a look at Wikipedia:WikiProject Johnny Depp and Draft:Wikipedia:WikiProject Johnny Depp? It looks like someone is trying to create a new WikiProject but just doesn't know how. It seems quite odd for there to be a draft for a WikiProject in the draft namespace and being submitted for AFC review. Perhaps someone with more experience in creating WikiProjects can advise the creator on what's best way to do so. -- Marchjuly ( talk) 05:18, 19 July 2023 (UTC)
Hello I wanted to know if Wikipedia has a formal process of joining a wikiproject. I was unable to locate a join link or find an administrator to answer my question. More information would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
FictiousLibrarian ( talk). 03:42, 2 August 2023 (UTC)
Is there a way to see what WikiProjects a user is most active in? For example, this tool shows my account is most active in Main space, then Talk, then Wikipedia, etc.
I can also see Wikipedia articles I've created, or files uploaded.
Is there a way I can see what projects my edited pages are part of? Do I edit topics around Music more than TV? Do I edit mostly Australian content? Etc. I think I should be able to know this based on the WikiProjects these pages are part of, but unless I look at them individually there doesn't seem to be a way to find this out as a nice chart. Jimmyjrg ( talk) 14:37, 16 August 2023 (UTC)
Hello, sorry to bother you but I have joined this Dogs Project recently and I was looking at the to-do list but it hasn’t been updated since 2014! Im not sure how to edit the to-do list, some of the pages dont need to be on there anymore and some need to be added but it wont let me edit it. SpookMew ( talk) 16:05, 31 July 2023 (UTC)
I moved Template:Dog opentask to Wikipedia:WikiProject Dogs/to do which seemed to be more logical. Thanks for your work in updating this SpookMew — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:22, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Artsakh § wikiproject revival?. I'm not certain this is the right place to put this, so feel free to move if necessary. CLYDE TALK TO ME/ STUFF DONE 01:18, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 18 § Category:WikiProject X members. {{u| Sdkb}} talk 22:31, 18 September 2023 (UTC)
Question - Imagine that I am a STEM educator and wanted to get a complete list of all on-topic categories, subcats, and page ids for just STEM articles on wikipedia. How would I do that?
My first attempt was looking at the categorylinks table - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Categorylinks_table, but anyone familiar with that would know that it's a dead end. Wikipedia is too over categorized (eg, "coat of arms with plants" is under botany->plants
There is also a very good reason why wikipedia is overcategorized. It's used by different folks with different agendas. A useful categorization always needs to be specific to the perspective of those organizing the information and using it to be productive. Why shouldn't coat of arms with plants" go under botany->plants? I really can't think of a reason why not, tbh.
My next attempt was to talk to the wikidata people. They responded that wikidata is not organized into categories. They pointed me to wikiprojects.
I looked at a bunch of wikiproject pages, and it looks great, but I don't see any straightforward way to get a dump of the categories, their subcats, and the pageids that belong in those subcats.
As far as I can tell, wikiprojects aren't connected/organized by anything other than html headings and links on pages. Eg: /info/en/?search=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Science/Topics
This seems unfortunate. Mostly for selfish reasons (see initial ask) but more generally, having a well thought out ontology of knowledge on Wikipedia would be very useful. The DBPedia project tried to do that, I think, but seems to have gone dormant. And the wikidata people don't seem interested, for reasons I'm not clear on.
Part of the problem I think is that such categorizations would be somewhat situational dependent. A stem educator, for example, might have a different perspective than say a botanist or a physicist. Fair enough! But clearly the top level wikiproject folks *do* have a perspective (you can see it on their pages!), and I believe those perspectives are very useful given the effort, care and consideration that has gone into them.
If we could more formally capture the hierarchy of wikiprojects, especially for STEM, I think that would be very useful. Wikiqrdl ( talk) 19:38, 19 September 2023 (UTC)
There was a proposal by User:DFlhb (and on much reflection supported by me) to make a minor change the behaviour of the B-class checklist, which I am bringing here for greater exposure.
|b1=
up to |b6=
|b1=yes
|b1=
means the same as |b1=no
|b1=no
would result in the article being demoted to C-class.{{WikiProject Apple Inc.|class=B}}
results in the article being assessed as C-class instead of B-class. We should not expect editors to know that certain project templates are set up differently to others.{{WikiProject Apple Inc.|class=B}}
that they do actually understand what B-class means and so should infer that the criteria are passed. In DFlhb's words, removing pointless complexity by letting people rate things as B-class without jumping through hoops.— Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 13:56, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
|b1=
being missing effectively defaulting to "yes". I'm more on the fence if |b1=
is present but blank, however I'm not sure how easy it is to separate two those situations. I also note in
WP:RATER, adding WikiProject Military History brings up B-Class-1 to 5, whereas WikiProject Apple Inc. doesn't bring up any of b1, etc. I assume milhist is different somehow anyway? -
Kj cheetham (
talk) 14:09, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
This is only a prediction, and may be inaccurate (occasionally wildly so).The current proposal is only about what's in the "Proposed situation" above though. - Kj cheetham ( talk) 14:35, 11 September 2023 (UTC)
|class=B
, it's because they understand what B-class means. In any case, the redesigned WikiProject banner shell already ignores B-class checklists anyway, so it doesn't really matter.
InfiniteNexus (
talk) 00:54, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
Perhaps my experience is different to others but it has not been my experience that if someone types Class=B in their project header they have an understanding of the criteria that would make it so. The idea that an unfilled criterion should be considered a yes is just daft. If the person filling it in is not sure whether it passes, we should be cautious rather than risk undermining our quality standards. Monstrelet ( talk) 16:09, 12 September 2023 (UTC)
|class=A
or |class=FA
either . I don't think you can enforce the criteria by using a template, but it should be easier for experienced editors to assess articles. The confusing part currently is that some templates will accept |class=B
and others will not. — Martin (
MSGJ ·
talk) 08:03, 13 September 2023 (UTC)I'll share my rationale too. Months ago, I did a statistical analysis of WikiProjects that opt-in to B-checklists. For all the projects I looked at, 80-90% of articles in categories like Category:XYZ articles needing attention to referencing and citation
were there because of missing, not failing, B-checklists. That makes them pointless for prioritizing cleanup. The two biggest projects opting-into B-checklists override this behavior to align with the current proposal:
WP:FILM (
code) and
WP:MILHIST (
code).
Autodemotion based on missing criteria is also a problem. I've regularly come across WikiProject banner shells on talk pages where someone reassessed every project to B-class, but one still shows up as C-class (due to missing B-checklist). That project gets no benefit from keeping the outdated class evaluation; outdated ratings are a much bigger problem than people rating articles incorrectly. Outside of FA/GA, ratings aren't a big deal, and I've never seen an editor rating articles incorrectly en-masse.
The underlying idea behind the current behavior is that articles need to systematically be marked as passing the B1-B6 criteria, but that's pointless busywork. Only B, C and Start-class articles are eligible for B-checklists. Among these, 75-85% (depending on the project) are Start-class. We already know they fail, likely all of B1-B6. It would be pointless to spend days filling them out.
When I come across articles with filled B-criteria, generally, only 1 or 2 criteria are failing, the rest are passed. That's the main point of B-checklists: identifying articles which just need a bit of work to reach B-class. Or to clarify why articles that look like they should be rated B-class, aren't, or why one that used to be B-class was demoted. This proposal preserves those use cases, while making B-checklist categories more useful, and leading to fewer outdated class ratings due to missing checklists; all-around win. DFlhb ( talk) 19:13, 15 September 2023 (UTC)
Are there any other comments about this proposal? I note that no one has opposed it. There was some discussion about going further and deprecating altogether, but there has been no formal proposal to this effect. So could we start with this smaller step, which will help to harmonise ratings between projects and allow WP:PIQA to proceed, which is very strongly supported by the community? — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 15:37, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
I've been looking at Wikipedia:Database reports/Long stubs. Some of these are stubs (e.g., long lists of animal species with almost no text) but most of them aren't. The problem is – who wants to go through a list of 1,000 pages to find the handful that interest you? I offer a way to do this:
This huge Petscan link will show the list for WikiProject Politics. Just find the name of the WikiProject on the page, change it to match your favorite WikiProject's template's name, and click the "Do it!" button.
If you remove the stub tags from the end of non-stub articles, and update the article quality ratings on the talk page, then the bot will remove that page from the list when it runs again (next week). WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:59, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2023 September 18 § Category:WikiProject Foo members has been closed with consensus to move to "participants" wording. Although that CfD was technically just about categories, given that the exact same arguments apply to participant lists at project pages, userbox language, etc., it is presumed that most wikiprojects will want shift to the new standard. Help from the WikiProject Council in implementing that shift would be appreciated. Any templates that are used to create new projects/userboxes/etc. are particularly important; I see that {{ WikiProject}} has long used "Participants", so that one is all set. Cheers, {{u| Sdkb}} talk 20:06, 17 October 2023 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject banner shell/redirect has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. 65.92.244.127 ( talk) 06:03, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
I thought some of you might be interested in these numbers.
Place | Registered editors | Unique IPs | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
ever | 2023 | ever | 2023 | |
Village pumps | 26,102 | 1,953 | 10,410 | – |
WikiProjects | 56,619 | 4,380 | 21,551 | 565 |
AFDs | 161,875 | 7,910 | 85,392 | – |
any edit at all | ~13.9 million | 656,311 | – | – |
In short, editors are significantly more likely to edit a WikiProject's talk page than to edit a Village pump. If you are interested in this, then there is more detail at Wikipedia:Request a query#Village pump participation, Wikipedia talk:Village pump#Who posts at the Village pumps?, and Wikipedia talk:Articles for deletion#AFD participation. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 04:30, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
WikiProject Women in Music used to receive lots of notifications about move discussions, but not so much lately. If any WikiProject Council folks know what might have changed, or how to fix this, please comment here. Thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk) 17:27, 24 October 2023 (UTC)
Template:Inactive WikiProject banner has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:00, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:WPBannerMeta has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:04, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:WikiProject Molecular Biology/doc has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 13:19, 3 November 2023 (UTC)
Missing in your directory. rootsmusic ( talk) 23:19, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
See Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Terrorism#Requested move 6 November 2023 Iskandar323 ( talk) 12:58, 6 November 2023 (UTC)
Hi, I would like to revive the defunct Wikipedia:WikiProject Norman history as I feel it has great potential and unfortunately fell due to inactivity. The closest project to it would be Wikipedia:WikiProject France but Norman history is so much more, covering not just the region of Normandy but the Normans themselves. ☘️ King ᚺᛒ ☘️ Talk, Guestbook 22:42, 9 November 2023 (UTC)
As WhatamIdoing says, your main focus should be on finding more participants, otherwise the task force will not be successful — Martin ( MSGJ · talk) 08:09, 16 November 2023 (UTC)
Template:A review toolbox has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. -- 65.92.247.90 ( talk) 08:18, 17 November 2023 (UTC)