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I seem to have a slight obsession with Bundesstraßen and Autobahnen and am adding or expanding articles on ones that happen to pass through my little corner of Germany, the Oberpfalz, especially around Amberg
Think I should just summarize the pertinent de:wikipedia articles?
Texmandie 17:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. We need an article for FOCUS (magazine), "the second largest German newsmagazine". We can just translate from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus as desired. Thanks -- Writtenonsand 20:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
The project is now officially out of the box. For the next day or two, I see myself as (hopefully) finishing the updated, more thorough of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. Upon the conclusion of same, I shall be attacking the improvement and development of this project in earnest. Sorry for the delay, by the way. Two primary tasks seem to me to present themselves. One of these is the completion of the project page, probably with the inclusion of a gallery of pictures available for use, and the second is to have some work done on the existing Germany page so that it reaches at least good-article status. Anyway, thanks to everyone who has joined so far, and upon finally completing the directory early this week I hope to be working with you all, instead of simply dropping rare messages like this one. Thanks again to everybody who has signed on. Badbilltucker 17:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
We should see how much overlap the pages of this project should have with those already existing at the portal. Kusma (討論) 18:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This needs to be integrated into this project, and we'll need pages where we can list and sort missing pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/German politicians. Kusma (討論) 18:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it would be good to invite everyone who speaks German to this project; could any design a bot to do this?-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:53, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I am certainly interested in this project. I have a fairly intense interest in the history of Nazi Germany and feel that most of the major Nazi-related articles need a lot of work, being too full of sensationalism and trivia (see Joseph Goebbels for example - half the article deals with the last two days of his life). I have recently rewritten Horst Wessel, Joachim Fest, Action T4, Fritz Thyssen, Heinrich Müller Herschel Grynszpan, National Socialist German Workers Party and written German Resistance and Memorial to the German Resistance, among others. My next project is a rewrite of Holocaust, which is a dreadful mess. Adam 11:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I get the distinct impression that Kusma may well be the better person to handle day-to-day details regarding the project than I am, if he wants to. Not that I do not intend to work on developing and maintaining the project, because I do. If he wants to become one of the official or unofficial leaders of the project, I would certainly welcome his input to whatever degree he feels comfortable. I do get the impression that Kusma may have better leadership qualities than I do, and in any event welcome his involvement in the project at whatever level he decides. Also, he indicates that he is a German mathematician, which means that he probably speaks German quite well. He might be able to answer this question, at least in part. I have noticed that the German wikipedia is one of the best other-language wikipedias out there, but that both the English and German wikipedias probably lack more articles on subjects more closely associated with the other language than they would like. I was wondering whether there might be a chance of proposing to the German wikipedia an "article swap" idea, in which we have some English-speakers verify and provide a rough translation of an English-language article that they would want, in exchange for their doing the same. We each could then provide the final edits in our own languages, with the approval of the original, and possibly expand both wikipedias better and faster. Do any of you think that you have a good enough command of German to be able to assist in something like this? Personally, I read German well, but am not that good at writing it. I am much better at English composition and polishing articles. Anyway, I welcome any responses from anyone. Badbilltucker 18:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Do you think it really makes sense to have a list of those non-existing divisions on the project page? I think such divisions will develop rather spontaneously when a group of editors notices that they often edit articles on the same topic within the scope of this project.-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Another question: the sidebar template has a link to a new article page, which is what we essentially already have at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. Wouldn't it make sense to simply move that page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/New articles?-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I found {{ TrainsWikiProject}} quite facinating as it allowed to assign "ownership" to a sub project. Agathoclea 08:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Could we have the sidebar also list the numbers articles by quality? I would change it myself, but I don't know if that won't confuse the bot that updates the figures.
Got fed up of the redlink so I stole Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Assessment from the trainswiki project. Needs further adapting. Agathoclea 18:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
How about we create an article improvement deive? Kingjeff 21:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
If anyone is willing to participate in WikiProject Austria Sign Up Here. Kingjeff 15:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Colditz Castle is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy ( Talk) 17:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Before you had to type in Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany to get to the main page. But I put a redirect at WikiProject Germany. So all you need to type in now is WikiProject Germany. Kingjeff 21:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Why are there no pages listed? I tried to assess some, and I think some of the categories are not empty. Do they have the wrong names for the bot? I remember renaming some categories from "Class" to "class" or vice versa, so if I messed things up, please correct my mistakes. Kusma (討論) 11:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Seems to still keep the articles in Category:Unassessed Germany articles instead of Category:Non-article Germany pages Agathoclea 12:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
As sometimes "ae", "oe", "ue" are substitued for "ä", "ö", "ü", some wellmeaning but illinformed editors (not only in Wikipedia) substitute umlauts for "ae", "oe" and "ue" in German names without further checking this case.
This is wrong. There are German names with indeed use "ae", "oe" and "ue"! Please check with a German language source, de.wikipedia being the easiest (but not always correct) option.
It's not very common, but it was rather embarrassing to see Nobel prize winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer under the wrong Maria Göppert-Mayer. I'm most likely only touching physicists' biographies but I've had seen abother case in the past: Ernst Stueckelberg, not Ernst Stückelberg.
Perhaps a bot-owner can check all biographies with umlaut in the name against their de: counterpart.
Pjacobi 19:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hope this is a suitable place to ask: Is there a policy on the use of "ß"? See my comments at
Talk:Großer Zapfenstreich
--
Boson
23:02, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
All of the existing articles in the Category:Berlin, Category:Dresden, Category:Düsseldorf, Category:Erfurt, and Category:Hamburg have the project banner placed on them. Badbilltucker 00:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you all think that individuals who have played for a German football (soccer) team who were born or raised in a different country should be counted as being included in the scope of the project or not? Badbilltucker 16:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
It is proposed at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment, that any project doing assessments have at least one coordinator who would perform a complete assessment on each page within the scope of the project every three months. Any volunteers? Badbilltucker 16:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
The Berlin article is rated Top Importance but doesn´t say so in the Banner. Any comments how to improve that? all the best Lear 21 18:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)
This is an archive of past discussions. Do not edit the contents of this page. If you wish to start a new discussion or revive an old one, please do so on the current talk page. |
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I seem to have a slight obsession with Bundesstraßen and Autobahnen and am adding or expanding articles on ones that happen to pass through my little corner of Germany, the Oberpfalz, especially around Amberg
Think I should just summarize the pertinent de:wikipedia articles?
Texmandie 17:42, 3 June 2006 (UTC)
Hi. We need an article for FOCUS (magazine), "the second largest German newsmagazine". We can just translate from http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focus as desired. Thanks -- Writtenonsand 20:31, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
The project is now officially out of the box. For the next day or two, I see myself as (hopefully) finishing the updated, more thorough of the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. Upon the conclusion of same, I shall be attacking the improvement and development of this project in earnest. Sorry for the delay, by the way. Two primary tasks seem to me to present themselves. One of these is the completion of the project page, probably with the inclusion of a gallery of pictures available for use, and the second is to have some work done on the existing Germany page so that it reaches at least good-article status. Anyway, thanks to everyone who has joined so far, and upon finally completing the directory early this week I hope to be working with you all, instead of simply dropping rare messages like this one. Thanks again to everybody who has signed on. Badbilltucker 17:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
We should see how much overlap the pages of this project should have with those already existing at the portal. Kusma (討論) 18:19, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
This needs to be integrated into this project, and we'll need pages where we can list and sort missing pages like Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/German politicians. Kusma (討論) 18:24, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I think it would be good to invite everyone who speaks German to this project; could any design a bot to do this?-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:53, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I am certainly interested in this project. I have a fairly intense interest in the history of Nazi Germany and feel that most of the major Nazi-related articles need a lot of work, being too full of sensationalism and trivia (see Joseph Goebbels for example - half the article deals with the last two days of his life). I have recently rewritten Horst Wessel, Joachim Fest, Action T4, Fritz Thyssen, Heinrich Müller Herschel Grynszpan, National Socialist German Workers Party and written German Resistance and Memorial to the German Resistance, among others. My next project is a rewrite of Holocaust, which is a dreadful mess. Adam 11:37, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I get the distinct impression that Kusma may well be the better person to handle day-to-day details regarding the project than I am, if he wants to. Not that I do not intend to work on developing and maintaining the project, because I do. If he wants to become one of the official or unofficial leaders of the project, I would certainly welcome his input to whatever degree he feels comfortable. I do get the impression that Kusma may have better leadership qualities than I do, and in any event welcome his involvement in the project at whatever level he decides. Also, he indicates that he is a German mathematician, which means that he probably speaks German quite well. He might be able to answer this question, at least in part. I have noticed that the German wikipedia is one of the best other-language wikipedias out there, but that both the English and German wikipedias probably lack more articles on subjects more closely associated with the other language than they would like. I was wondering whether there might be a chance of proposing to the German wikipedia an "article swap" idea, in which we have some English-speakers verify and provide a rough translation of an English-language article that they would want, in exchange for their doing the same. We each could then provide the final edits in our own languages, with the approval of the original, and possibly expand both wikipedias better and faster. Do any of you think that you have a good enough command of German to be able to assist in something like this? Personally, I read German well, but am not that good at writing it. I am much better at English composition and polishing articles. Anyway, I welcome any responses from anyone. Badbilltucker 18:45, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Do you think it really makes sense to have a list of those non-existing divisions on the project page? I think such divisions will develop rather spontaneously when a group of editors notices that they often edit articles on the same topic within the scope of this project.-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:39, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Another question: the sidebar template has a link to a new article page, which is what we essentially already have at Portal:Germany/New article announcements. Wouldn't it make sense to simply move that page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/New articles?-- Carabinieri TTaallkk 21:44, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
I found {{ TrainsWikiProject}} quite facinating as it allowed to assign "ownership" to a sub project. Agathoclea 08:54, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
Could we have the sidebar also list the numbers articles by quality? I would change it myself, but I don't know if that won't confuse the bot that updates the figures.
Got fed up of the redlink so I stole Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Assessment from the trainswiki project. Needs further adapting. Agathoclea 18:17, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
How about we create an article improvement deive? Kingjeff 21:27, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
If anyone is willing to participate in WikiProject Austria Sign Up Here. Kingjeff 15:31, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
Colditz Castle is up for a featured article review. Detailed concerns may be found here. Please leave your comments and help us address and maintain this article's featured quality. Sandy ( Talk) 17:19, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 17:06, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
Before you had to type in Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany to get to the main page. But I put a redirect at WikiProject Germany. So all you need to type in now is WikiProject Germany. Kingjeff 21:46, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
Why are there no pages listed? I tried to assess some, and I think some of the categories are not empty. Do they have the wrong names for the bot? I remember renaming some categories from "Class" to "class" or vice versa, so if I messed things up, please correct my mistakes. Kusma (討論) 11:41, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Seems to still keep the articles in Category:Unassessed Germany articles instead of Category:Non-article Germany pages Agathoclea 12:54, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
As sometimes "ae", "oe", "ue" are substitued for "ä", "ö", "ü", some wellmeaning but illinformed editors (not only in Wikipedia) substitute umlauts for "ae", "oe" and "ue" in German names without further checking this case.
This is wrong. There are German names with indeed use "ae", "oe" and "ue"! Please check with a German language source, de.wikipedia being the easiest (but not always correct) option.
It's not very common, but it was rather embarrassing to see Nobel prize winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer under the wrong Maria Göppert-Mayer. I'm most likely only touching physicists' biographies but I've had seen abother case in the past: Ernst Stueckelberg, not Ernst Stückelberg.
Perhaps a bot-owner can check all biographies with umlaut in the name against their de: counterpart.
Pjacobi 19:58, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
Hope this is a suitable place to ask: Is there a policy on the use of "ß"? See my comments at
Talk:Großer Zapfenstreich
--
Boson
23:02, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
All of the existing articles in the Category:Berlin, Category:Dresden, Category:Düsseldorf, Category:Erfurt, and Category:Hamburg have the project banner placed on them. Badbilltucker 00:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Do you all think that individuals who have played for a German football (soccer) team who were born or raised in a different country should be counted as being included in the scope of the project or not? Badbilltucker 16:07, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
It is proposed at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment, that any project doing assessments have at least one coordinator who would perform a complete assessment on each page within the scope of the project every three months. Any volunteers? Badbilltucker 16:40, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
The Berlin article is rated Top Importance but doesn´t say so in the Banner. Any comments how to improve that? all the best Lear 21 18:54, 31 October 2006 (UTC)