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Inspired by Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-25/BLP madness, I am contemplating cleaning up all non-notable (ie: those that would not necessarily be kept via an AfD per WP:ROADOUTCOMES) roads that have been tagged as unsourced for over a year and haven't had substantial edits in that time to improve this, by redirecting them to the parent article - See here for an example. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, shout now! -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm a student at Cornell University working on a class project to improve/expand the Brick Lane Market article. I've personally never been to the market (another member of my project group has) but if anyone here who knows about the market wouldn't mind taking a look at our proposed additions, that would be much appreciated. Thanks! Joey236 ( talk) 20:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
These pages are in Category:Articles with missing files:
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. to discuss whether the article, which falls within the domain of this wikiproject, should be deleted —
Rod
talk 15:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Just a quick check of opinion! Yesterday I removed primary destinations from M48 motorway that weren't on the route, as it seems that's what we used to do. I was reverted with the edit summary "that's why they're in brackets - as seen on motorway signs".
What is the correct thing to do? If we were to apply this logic to the M5 for example, rather than the current list of:
We'd end up with:
Which is a bit of a mess and not very useful in the grand scheme of things. Generally the destinations signed from the motorway are included in the junction list, so is there really a need to repeat them in the infobox? I'd imagine the situation would be even worse on the M1, M6 and M25 to give other examples. Jeni ( talk) 09:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently nominated London congestion charge, an article under this projects purview, for review. Interested editors are welcome to comment at the review page. Thank you. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 23:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
M11 link road protest has been nominated for review as a good article. Any help to improve or review the article will be very much appreciated. -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:54, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion starting at WT:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Distance columns of British Roads concerning how the junction km/mile position should be presented in junction tables of UK road articles. Please offer your opinion there if you are interested. 178.105.26.216 ( talk) 10:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
I restored an old version after numerous suspicious-looking edits were made. Could someone more knowledgeable have a look, please? — rybec 07:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Please note that I have brought up some serious deficiencies at the above page that reflect that the article does not currently meet the FA criteria. If the issues are not resolved, the article will be brought to WP:FAR. -- Rs chen 7754 12:22, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Use of driver location signs for distance regarding UK driver location signs and their usage on Wikipedia to measure distance. Jeni ( talk) 12:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Can someone explain (or point me to a previous discussion) where CBRD was declared as being a reliable source? It's used extensively on UK road lists, despite a disclaimer on the home page stating : "I make no guarantees as to the validity of any information on this website" and "the information on [the website] is not officially sourced or endorsed". The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated M62 motorway 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. Rs chen 7754 19:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to give something a try. Let's stop this petty squabbling and see if we can all take an article to good article status together within a week. It shouldn't be hard. I'm going to pick A74 road as a candidate as it's well known, it's got a history going back hundreds of years, it's documented in several reliable sources, I have a bunch of maps on hand and some other offline sources that you can't search for, and I can pick up stuff from archives in London if anyone wants it. Oh, and the road has never run nearer than 350 miles away from where I live, so "I haven't got any local knowledge" is not an excuse! You can find online sources from just about any location in the world. I've done a bit of work this morning cleaning bits up in about half an hour. Who fancies giving this a go? I've already taken two UK road articles to GA and reviewed a third, and if I can do it, you can do it too. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:11, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
There are proposed changes for the A-Class review for WP:HWY, to deal with situations where there are several opposes, and when the nominator has failed to respond to the comments. Your input is welcome at WT:HWY/ACR. -- Rs chen 7754 05:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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There is a proposal to use Wikidata for displaying a map in Infobox road, only if both the map_custom= and map= field are blank. Your input is welcomed at Template talk:Infobox road. -- Rs chen 7754 02:28, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study#Proposed reinstatement of content. --
Trevj (
talk) 10:00, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
This is a notice that the |map=
parameter in {{
infobox road}} is soon becoming obsolete. The parameter will be supported by Wikidata projectwide in the near future. This has been
tested and proven to work, but the parameter is only supported by Wikidata on a handful of articles, mostly pertaining to the United States, as of June 2.
This works by using the map property on Wikidata. To complete the example above, here is the item for CA 78 on Wikidata. Notice how in the "road map" property is File:California State Route 78.svg, which is the map that infobox road now links to, to use as the map in the infobox. If you have any questions, I'm willing to answer them. T C N7JM 06:20, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox road junction. -- Rs chen 7754 21:23, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.14159265358979323846
void print_osm() { printf( "http://%c.tile.openstreetmap.org/", ( rand() % 3 ) + 'a' ); }
double deg2rad(double deg) { return( deg * PI / 180.0 ); }
double expz(int z) { return pow(2.0,z); }
double long2x(double lon, int z) { return (lon + 180.0) / 360.0 * expz(z); }
double lat2y(double lat, int z) {
return (1.0 - log( tan(deg2rad(lat)) + 1.0 / cos(deg2rad(lat))) / PI) / 2.0 * expz(z);
}
void print_tile( x, y, z ) {
printf( "<td><img src=\"" );
print_osm();
printf( "%d/%d/%d.png\"/></td>", z, x, y );
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
double lat, lon, x, y;
int zoom, tx, ty;
int xtiles[2], ytiles[2];
if( argc < 4 ) {
printf( "Usage: GenMap [lat] [lon] [zoom]\n" );
}
srand(time(NULL));
lat = atof( argv[ 1 ] );
lon = atof( argv[ 2 ] );
zoom = atoi( argv[ 3 ] );
x = long2x( lon, zoom );
y = lat2y( lat, zoom );
tx = (int) floor( x );
ty = (int) floor( y );
if( fmod( x, 1.0 ) > 0.5 ) {
xtiles[ 0 ] = tx;
xtiles[ 1 ] = tx + 1;
} else {
xtiles[ 0 ] = tx - 1;
xtiles[ 1 ] = tx;
}
if( fmod( y, 1.0 ) > 0.5 ) {
ytiles[ 0 ] = ty;
ytiles[ 1 ] = ty + 1;
} else {
ytiles[ 0 ] = ty - 1;
ytiles[ 1 ] = ty;
}
printf( "<html><head/><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">" );
printf( "<tr>" );
print_tile( xtiles[ 0 ], ytiles[ 0 ], zoom );
print_tile( xtiles[ 1 ], ytiles[ 0 ], zoom );
printf( "</tr><tr>" );
print_tile( xtiles[ 0 ], ytiles[ 1 ], zoom );
print_tile( xtiles[ 1 ], ytiles[ 1 ], zoom );
printf( "</tr></table></body></html>" );
return 1;
}
Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:14, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
There is an RFC here that may be of interest to this wikiproject. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
There's a new WikiProject, WikiProject Hong Kong Roads. Help is appreciated.— – 01:07, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Is there consensus on the direction in which routes should be described? US roads are treated south-north and west-east. E.g I see A1 is followed south-north and A16 north-south. Thanks. Spicemix ( talk) 19:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I expanded this over the last day or so, and looking at it I'm tempted to send it straight to FAC. Before I do it, can any of you lot give it a good looking over and spot any deficiencies - I'm au fait with the sourcing and I think it's pretty comprehensive, but MOS issues are not my forte, as some of you may well know. Cheers. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
An unofficial request for comments has been started here to determine the ordering of the statements in the key at the bottom of the table. Your comments would be appreciated. T C N7JM 09:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
An unofficial request for comments has been started here to determine the ordering of the statements in the key at the bottom of the table. Your comments would be appreciated. T C N7JM 09:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, I've created three new templates: {{ traffic volume top}}, {{ traffic volume row}}, and {{ traffic volume bottom}}, that can be used for creating tables of traffic volume data, as seen in the new A-Class article Kwinana Freeway and relatively new GA Tonkin Highway (which were previously hardcoded). I've written the documentation and WP:TemplateData. These have been coded using parser functions, but I imagine the logic can be executed using a WP:Lua module (I haven't yet learned to code in Lua). - Evad37 ( talk) 13:35, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Looking for some advice on what guidelines there are for the inclusion of roads. A new editor has created this article:- Donnington Bridge Road. The road is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) long, passing through a housing estate and over a river, just like thousands of other roads. Richard Harvey ( talk) 09:40, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
In September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed structures of significant importance (eg grades I or grade II* or equivalent), as recorded by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency . The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?
In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Many of the listed structures are residential or other buildings, but there are a significant number of road-related listed structures that may be of specific interest to members of this project. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible structures are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the links, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?
Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by the official listing organizations. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.
The data still needs the attention of local editors:
For further information, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom.
If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.
Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.
-- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 17:01, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the above page related to what additional sections (beyond the standard route description, history, junction list) can or must be included on a road article. -- Rs chen 7754 05:11, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_Roads#US_distance_conversions
It has been noted that UK opinions are missing from this discussion, and as the original poster I agree that we should seek opinions here too.
As a bit of context:
Mainly just curious as to the preferred measurement units.
Not looking to setup anything as "rules", just guidance for authors when creating articles
So far working with some USRD editors in the past it has been mentioned in a few A-Class article reviews for both AU and US conversions.
There will always be circumstances where it may be best to provide conversions quite different to those that may be suggested in the hopefully ensuing discussion.
It would also be interesting to hear opinions on other older/specialised measurements such as Chains
-- Nbound ( talk) 13:46, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion on WT:HWY regarding a proposal for a shields request page on WP:HWY - Evad37 ( talk) 03:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
There are currently a number of proposals to improve the language at WP:MOSNUM relating to the use of Units in UK related articles. External opinion is invited at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#RFC: Proposals to rewrite WP:MOSNUM on UK units of preference. Wee Curry Monster talk 14:32, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Is this road really notable enough? Ollieinc ( talk) 01:16, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/B4101 road. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
We are discussing how lists should be reviewed at our A-Class review before a featured list candidate nomination. Your input is welcome. -- Rs chen 7754 06:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Just a friendly reminder that the 2014 HWY Cup – a contest similar to the WikiCup, but within the scope of WP:HWY – starts on June 1. Please sign up at the linked page if you're interested. Thanks! T C N7JM 20:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The US has had {{ infobox state highway system}}, but now there is a more generic {{ infobox highway system}} designed for a more globalized use. Imzadi 1979 → 21:56, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Citing a map for a discussion on possible updates to the format of map citations in Citation Style 1 using {{ cite map}}. Imzadi 1979 → 16:41, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#RJLUK set of templates regarding a proposed set of templates for British Road Junction Lists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinvl ( talk • contribs) 22:54, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
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talk) 16:34, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways#Layout consistency regarding the layout order of non-standard sections (ex Tolls, Services, unique top-level sections etc), which I have come to notice varies even between Featured Articles. Your input is appreciated. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:24, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Please see WT:HWY#Change of outlook at ACR for a discussion on a proposed change to how ACR works. Rschen7754 (delivered by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC))
Hello everyone!
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B4058 road and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B5470 road. Other articles are nominated on those pages. Rcsprinter123 (push) 16:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Some advice with how to handle the Commons category commons:category:A14(M) motorway (and other similar roads) would be appreciated. IMO either outright deletion or careful segregation is needed, with all content associated with the official routes - A14 and A1(M) in this case.
The A14(M) is not fictitious but its not exactly real either is it?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 16:38, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
M62 motorway is undergoing a GA review at Talk:M62 motorway/GA1. Editors are invited to help improve the article in line with the review. Rcsprinter123 (message) 11:25, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a proposal at WT:FAC#FAC nom preparedness to potentially require a Peer Review or A-Class Review before nomination. The idea is that would the change streamline the reviews at FAC to push articles through there faster by requiring more of the advance prep work to be done before an FAC was initiated. Such a change would mean revitalizing and using WP:HWY/ACR more in the future. Imzadi 1979 → 20:57, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
I have two questions related to the activity (or lack thereof) of this WikiProject.
{{
HWY}}
? I would simply have the UKRD banner call the HWY banner so no changes to any talk page would be necessary.Obviously, if project activity were to increase, these changes could be undone. And if you'd rather someone other than myself perform these actions, that's fine. I'm more interested in having a reasonable discussion than anything else. – Fredddie ™ 22:29, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
There have been some proposed changes to the A-Class review process at the discussion above. -- Rs chen 7754 20:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
I made some templates for junctions on British roadways so people don't have to type out a Wiki-table. I made a 'top' template (like Jcttop), a 'main' template (like Jctint), a 'bottom' template (like Jctbtm), and a services template (like Jctrestarea). Do whatever you want with them. You can even incorporate them into Jcttop, Jctint, Jctbtm, and Jctrestarea somehow. Here they are:
![]() | 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. |
Archive 1 | Archive 2 |
Inspired by Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2010-01-25/BLP madness, I am contemplating cleaning up all non-notable (ie: those that would not necessarily be kept via an AfD per WP:ROADOUTCOMES) roads that have been tagged as unsourced for over a year and haven't had substantial edits in that time to improve this, by redirecting them to the parent article - See here for an example. If anyone thinks this is a bad idea, shout now! -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 12:37, 11 September 2012 (UTC)
I'm a student at Cornell University working on a class project to improve/expand the Brick Lane Market article. I've personally never been to the market (another member of my project group has) but if anyone here who knows about the market wouldn't mind taking a look at our proposed additions, that would be much appreciated. Thanks! Joey236 ( talk) 20:35, 29 September 2012 (UTC)
These pages are in Category:Articles with missing files:
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study. to discuss whether the article, which falls within the domain of this wikiproject, should be deleted —
Rod
talk 15:21, 14 October 2012 (UTC)
Just a quick check of opinion! Yesterday I removed primary destinations from M48 motorway that weren't on the route, as it seems that's what we used to do. I was reverted with the edit summary "that's why they're in brackets - as seen on motorway signs".
What is the correct thing to do? If we were to apply this logic to the M5 for example, rather than the current list of:
We'd end up with:
Which is a bit of a mess and not very useful in the grand scheme of things. Generally the destinations signed from the motorway are included in the junction list, so is there really a need to repeat them in the infobox? I'd imagine the situation would be even worse on the M1, M6 and M25 to give other examples. Jeni ( talk) 09:41, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
Greetings! I have recently nominated London congestion charge, an article under this projects purview, for review. Interested editors are welcome to comment at the review page. Thank you. — Crisco 1492 ( talk) 23:24, 30 November 2012 (UTC)
M11 link road protest has been nominated for review as a good article. Any help to improve or review the article will be very much appreciated. -- Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 10:54, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
There is a discussion starting at WT:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Distance columns of British Roads concerning how the junction km/mile position should be presented in junction tables of UK road articles. Please offer your opinion there if you are interested. 178.105.26.216 ( talk) 10:14, 3 March 2013 (UTC)
I restored an old version after numerous suspicious-looking edits were made. Could someone more knowledgeable have a look, please? — rybec 07:07, 5 March 2013 (UTC)
Please note that I have brought up some serious deficiencies at the above page that reflect that the article does not currently meet the FA criteria. If the issues are not resolved, the article will be brought to WP:FAR. -- Rs chen 7754 12:22, 11 March 2013 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Use of driver location signs for distance regarding UK driver location signs and their usage on Wikipedia to measure distance. Jeni ( talk) 12:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
Can someone explain (or point me to a previous discussion) where CBRD was declared as being a reliable source? It's used extensively on UK road lists, despite a disclaimer on the home page stating : "I make no guarantees as to the validity of any information on this website" and "the information on [the website] is not officially sourced or endorsed". The Rambling Man ( talk) 17:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
I have nominated M62 motorway 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. Rs chen 7754 19:45, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
I'd like to give something a try. Let's stop this petty squabbling and see if we can all take an article to good article status together within a week. It shouldn't be hard. I'm going to pick A74 road as a candidate as it's well known, it's got a history going back hundreds of years, it's documented in several reliable sources, I have a bunch of maps on hand and some other offline sources that you can't search for, and I can pick up stuff from archives in London if anyone wants it. Oh, and the road has never run nearer than 350 miles away from where I live, so "I haven't got any local knowledge" is not an excuse! You can find online sources from just about any location in the world. I've done a bit of work this morning cleaning bits up in about half an hour. Who fancies giving this a go? I've already taken two UK road articles to GA and reviewed a third, and if I can do it, you can do it too. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 13:11, 3 April 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia is not a bureaucracy |
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The following discussion has been closed. Please do not modify it. |
There are proposed changes for the A-Class review for WP:HWY, to deal with situations where there are several opposes, and when the nominator has failed to respond to the comments. Your input is welcome at WT:HWY/ACR. -- Rs chen 7754 05:48, 7 April 2013 (UTC)
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There is a proposal to use Wikidata for displaying a map in Infobox road, only if both the map_custom= and map= field are blank. Your input is welcomed at Template talk:Infobox road. -- Rs chen 7754 02:28, 26 May 2013 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Talk:Bristol/Bath to South Coast Study#Proposed reinstatement of content. --
Trevj (
talk) 10:00, 30 May 2013 (UTC)
This is a notice that the |map=
parameter in {{
infobox road}} is soon becoming obsolete. The parameter will be supported by Wikidata projectwide in the near future. This has been
tested and proven to work, but the parameter is only supported by Wikidata on a handful of articles, mostly pertaining to the United States, as of June 2.
This works by using the map property on Wikidata. To complete the example above, here is the item for CA 78 on Wikidata. Notice how in the "road map" property is File:California State Route 78.svg, which is the map that infobox road now links to, to use as the map in the infobox. If you have any questions, I'm willing to answer them. T C N7JM 06:20, 2 June 2013 (UTC)
Please see Template talk:Infobox road junction. -- Rs chen 7754 21:23, 8 June 2013 (UTC)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <math.h>
#define PI 3.14159265358979323846
void print_osm() { printf( "http://%c.tile.openstreetmap.org/", ( rand() % 3 ) + 'a' ); }
double deg2rad(double deg) { return( deg * PI / 180.0 ); }
double expz(int z) { return pow(2.0,z); }
double long2x(double lon, int z) { return (lon + 180.0) / 360.0 * expz(z); }
double lat2y(double lat, int z) {
return (1.0 - log( tan(deg2rad(lat)) + 1.0 / cos(deg2rad(lat))) / PI) / 2.0 * expz(z);
}
void print_tile( x, y, z ) {
printf( "<td><img src=\"" );
print_osm();
printf( "%d/%d/%d.png\"/></td>", z, x, y );
}
int main(int argc, char** argv) {
double lat, lon, x, y;
int zoom, tx, ty;
int xtiles[2], ytiles[2];
if( argc < 4 ) {
printf( "Usage: GenMap [lat] [lon] [zoom]\n" );
}
srand(time(NULL));
lat = atof( argv[ 1 ] );
lon = atof( argv[ 2 ] );
zoom = atoi( argv[ 3 ] );
x = long2x( lon, zoom );
y = lat2y( lat, zoom );
tx = (int) floor( x );
ty = (int) floor( y );
if( fmod( x, 1.0 ) > 0.5 ) {
xtiles[ 0 ] = tx;
xtiles[ 1 ] = tx + 1;
} else {
xtiles[ 0 ] = tx - 1;
xtiles[ 1 ] = tx;
}
if( fmod( y, 1.0 ) > 0.5 ) {
ytiles[ 0 ] = ty;
ytiles[ 1 ] = ty + 1;
} else {
ytiles[ 0 ] = ty - 1;
ytiles[ 1 ] = ty;
}
printf( "<html><head/><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\">" );
printf( "<tr>" );
print_tile( xtiles[ 0 ], ytiles[ 0 ], zoom );
print_tile( xtiles[ 1 ], ytiles[ 0 ], zoom );
printf( "</tr><tr>" );
print_tile( xtiles[ 0 ], ytiles[ 1 ], zoom );
print_tile( xtiles[ 1 ], ytiles[ 1 ], zoom );
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Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 15:14, 11 June 2013 (UTC)
There is an RFC here that may be of interest to this wikiproject. SlimVirgin (talk) 17:08, 29 June 2013 (UTC)
There's a new WikiProject, WikiProject Hong Kong Roads. Help is appreciated.— – 01:07, 1 July 2013 (UTC)
Is there consensus on the direction in which routes should be described? US roads are treated south-north and west-east. E.g I see A1 is followed south-north and A16 north-south. Thanks. Spicemix ( talk) 19:28, 5 July 2013 (UTC)
I expanded this over the last day or so, and looking at it I'm tempted to send it straight to FAC. Before I do it, can any of you lot give it a good looking over and spot any deficiencies - I'm au fait with the sourcing and I think it's pretty comprehensive, but MOS issues are not my forte, as some of you may well know. Cheers. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont) 18:23, 9 July 2013 (UTC)
An unofficial request for comments has been started here to determine the ordering of the statements in the key at the bottom of the table. Your comments would be appreciated. T C N7JM 09:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
An unofficial request for comments has been started here to determine the ordering of the statements in the key at the bottom of the table. Your comments would be appreciated. T C N7JM 09:19, 3 August 2013 (UTC)
Hi all, I've created three new templates: {{ traffic volume top}}, {{ traffic volume row}}, and {{ traffic volume bottom}}, that can be used for creating tables of traffic volume data, as seen in the new A-Class article Kwinana Freeway and relatively new GA Tonkin Highway (which were previously hardcoded). I've written the documentation and WP:TemplateData. These have been coded using parser functions, but I imagine the logic can be executed using a WP:Lua module (I haven't yet learned to code in Lua). - Evad37 ( talk) 13:35, 13 August 2013 (UTC)
Looking for some advice on what guidelines there are for the inclusion of roads. A new editor has created this article:- Donnington Bridge Road. The road is 0.8 miles (1.3 km) long, passing through a housing estate and over a river, just like thousands of other roads. Richard Harvey ( talk) 09:40, 20 August 2013 (UTC)
In September the UK is taking part for the first time in the international photography competition Wiki Loves Monuments. Participants will be invited to submit pictures of listed structures of significant importance (eg grades I or grade II* or equivalent), as recorded by English Heritage, Historic Scotland, Cadw and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency . The main external website for competitors can be found here, and you can leave a message there if you have queries about competing. Do please join in, and let people in your local area know of this excellent way in which both existing and new Wiki users can help improve the encyclopaedia by contributing photographs of local listed structures. What about organizing a local Wikimeet to attract new people?
In preparation for the start of the competition on 1st September there is still quite a lot of work to do, and we would like to ask for the help of members of this wikiproject. Many of the listed structures are residential or other buildings, but there are a significant number of road-related listed structures that may be of specific interest to members of this project. Your local and expert knowledge will be invaluable in ensuring that the lists of eligible structures are up to date and correctly formatted. If you look at Listed buildings in the United Kingdom you will see how many structures are included. If you then follow the links, you can get to the detailed lists for your area. Alternatively have a look at the WLM planning table. Can you help to ensure that the lists for your area are up to date and well presented?
Some of the lists have been semi-automatically generated from data provided by the official listing organizations. These use pre formatted templates (eg EH header) which will make it much easier for competition participants to upload their photographs to Commons as an automated process. Please don't change the template structure, as we need to ensure that the templates are properly compatible with the WLM standards that are in use worldwide. The format will allow a bot automatically to collect the information and to put it into the international Monuments Database.
The data still needs the attention of local editors:
For further information, please see Commons:Wiki Loves Monuments 2013 in the United Kingdom.
If you have any queries, please post them not below but on the Organizers' help page on Commons.
Anything you can do to help improve these lists will be much appreciated. The final deadline for cleaning up is 31st August.
-- MichaelMaggs ( talk) 17:01, 22 August 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion at the above page related to what additional sections (beyond the standard route description, history, junction list) can or must be included on a road article. -- Rs chen 7754 05:11, 25 September 2013 (UTC)
Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Australian_Roads#US_distance_conversions
It has been noted that UK opinions are missing from this discussion, and as the original poster I agree that we should seek opinions here too.
As a bit of context:
Mainly just curious as to the preferred measurement units.
Not looking to setup anything as "rules", just guidance for authors when creating articles
So far working with some USRD editors in the past it has been mentioned in a few A-Class article reviews for both AU and US conversions.
There will always be circumstances where it may be best to provide conversions quite different to those that may be suggested in the hopefully ensuing discussion.
It would also be interesting to hear opinions on other older/specialised measurements such as Chains
-- Nbound ( talk) 13:46, 24 September 2013 (UTC)
There is a discussion on WT:HWY regarding a proposal for a shields request page on WP:HWY - Evad37 ( talk) 03:20, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
There are currently a number of proposals to improve the language at WP:MOSNUM relating to the use of Units in UK related articles. External opinion is invited at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers#RFC: Proposals to rewrite WP:MOSNUM on UK units of preference. Wee Curry Monster talk 14:32, 28 October 2013 (UTC)
Is this road really notable enough? Ollieinc ( talk) 01:16, 15 February 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/B4101 road. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:47, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
We are discussing how lists should be reviewed at our A-Class review before a featured list candidate nomination. Your input is welcome. -- Rs chen 7754 06:00, 21 March 2014 (UTC)
Hello. Just a friendly reminder that the 2014 HWY Cup – a contest similar to the WikiCup, but within the scope of WP:HWY – starts on June 1. Please sign up at the linked page if you're interested. Thanks! T C N7JM 20:19, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
The US has had {{ infobox state highway system}}, but now there is a more generic {{ infobox highway system}} designed for a more globalized use. Imzadi 1979 → 21:56, 24 April 2014 (UTC)
Please join us at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject U.S. Roads#Citing a map for a discussion on possible updates to the format of map citations in Citation Style 1 using {{ cite map}}. Imzadi 1979 → 16:41, 26 April 2014 (UTC)
There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#RJLUK set of templates regarding a proposed set of templates for British Road Junction Lists. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Martinvl ( talk • contribs) 22:54, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
Hi all,
My name is Adi Khajuria and I am helping out with Wikimania 2014 in London.
One of our initiatives is to create leaflets to increase the discoverability of various wikimedia projects, and showcase the breadth of activity within wikimedia. Any kind of project can have a physical paper leaflet designed - for free - as a tool to help recruit new contributors. These leaflets will be printed at Wikimania 2014, and the designs can be re-used in the future at other events and locations.
This is particularly aimed at highlighting less discoverable but successful projects, e.g:
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talk) 16:34, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I've started a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways#Layout consistency regarding the layout order of non-standard sections (ex Tolls, Services, unique top-level sections etc), which I have come to notice varies even between Featured Articles. Your input is appreciated. - Floydian τ ¢ 21:24, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej ( talk) 22:48, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
Please see WT:HWY#Change of outlook at ACR for a discussion on a proposed change to how ACR works. Rschen7754 (delivered by MediaWiki message delivery ( talk) 06:00, 14 December 2014 (UTC))
Hello everyone!
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Harej ( talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)
Please comment at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B4058 road and Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/B5470 road. Other articles are nominated on those pages. Rcsprinter123 (push) 16:03, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
Hi,
Some advice with how to handle the Commons category commons:category:A14(M) motorway (and other similar roads) would be appreciated. IMO either outright deletion or careful segregation is needed, with all content associated with the official routes - A14 and A1(M) in this case.
The A14(M) is not fictitious but its not exactly real either is it?-- Nilf anion ( talk) 16:38, 22 November 2015 (UTC)
M62 motorway is undergoing a GA review at Talk:M62 motorway/GA1. Editors are invited to help improve the article in line with the review. Rcsprinter123 (message) 11:25, 22 December 2015 (UTC)
There is a proposal at WT:FAC#FAC nom preparedness to potentially require a Peer Review or A-Class Review before nomination. The idea is that would the change streamline the reviews at FAC to push articles through there faster by requiring more of the advance prep work to be done before an FAC was initiated. Such a change would mean revitalizing and using WP:HWY/ACR more in the future. Imzadi 1979 → 20:57, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
I have two questions related to the activity (or lack thereof) of this WikiProject.
{{
HWY}}
? I would simply have the UKRD banner call the HWY banner so no changes to any talk page would be necessary.Obviously, if project activity were to increase, these changes could be undone. And if you'd rather someone other than myself perform these actions, that's fine. I'm more interested in having a reasonable discussion than anything else. – Fredddie ™ 22:29, 22 August 2016 (UTC)
There have been some proposed changes to the A-Class review process at the discussion above. -- Rs chen 7754 20:50, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
I made some templates for junctions on British roadways so people don't have to type out a Wiki-table. I made a 'top' template (like Jcttop), a 'main' template (like Jctint), a 'bottom' template (like Jctbtm), and a services template (like Jctrestarea). Do whatever you want with them. You can even incorporate them into Jcttop, Jctint, Jctbtm, and Jctrestarea somehow. Here they are: