In creating a list of key topics it would be useful to know at what levle the current article stands from stub through to FA. That way the possible editors might be able to identify what sort of task is involved for each. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 11:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Where would users put suggestions for topics that could be covered by this Special Project? Commander Zulu ( talk) 01:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
So what should the goals of this drive be? for the time being, I would suggest:
What do people think....? The Land ( talk) 21:34, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
The articles are named "country in/during/and World War I". We should probably standardize that. See also my comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland#Poland_during_World_War_I. PS. Many of those countries in that category need to be added to {{ WWI history by nation}}. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
It doesn't look like there's been a lot of activity here (unless I'm missing something), but I figured I'd throw this suggestion out there: how about we standardize the country articles? Right now there's a variety of titles:
I know there is a difference between 'military history' and general history, but because there isn't both Australia in World War II and Military history of Australia during World War I, I propose that we rename them all under one name. Or, at the very least, can we change all the "during"s to "in"s?
Or is there something I'm missing in the MOS? Bsimmons666 ( talk) 03:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed there isn't anything yet listed under the "Core Impact and Aftermath Topics" section. My interest is mainly in this area (currently WW1 memorials), and I thought maybe giving some examples here might get ideas going for what could go there. As well as memorials, there are the commemoration events themselves, a timeline of 'legacy' events since WW1, articles on the centenary events themselves, articles on WW1 historians and the development of the study of the history, museums, archives, education, and other stuff. War poetry, art and literature as well (both during and after the war). And reconstruction efforts and political treaties and such things. That's all I can think of for now, but which of those (and other stuff I've forgotten) would be core topics? Carcharoth ( talk) 09:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to suggest that a mention of the Medal of Honor/Victoria cross (and potential other major awards) recipients be included as well. I am not trying to suggest that every recipient be included but in regards to World War I we have a list of recipients and several very well known individuals (Sergeant Alvin York or Eddie Rickenbacher for example) that could be included. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
This project hasn't had a large amount of work done since July. Should the focus of the project be altered to get all of the articles up to a B-class standard, so there is actually an outside shot at achieving the goal? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:28, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Similar to the above section, I'm posting here to see if there is any interest in moving things forward here again, starting with some fairly easy goal and then moving on from there. Maybe a good starting point would be to tidy things up a bit, and see where things have got to at the moment in terms of article quality. And then pick an area to focus on and maybe even try and set some broad goals for the next year or so. One key point is to distinguish between what this specific project is trying to achieve and what the WWI taskforce is doing. The latter currently has 12,812 articles tagged within its purview. Clearly the list currently on the front page here ('Operation Great War Centennial') is only a high-level subset of that, but in my view the current list is too long. What is needed is to either focus on a limited area for a few months and then move on to another area, or to identify a smaller list of articles and work on those. But it is vital to avoid falling into the trap of making lists and plans and not doing any actual work. My suggestion would be to take a high-level template such as Template:World War I, and concentrate on those articles. Though having now looked at that template, even that is a bit much. Maybe identify a limited number of subtopics. Anything so long as it can be broken down into manageable chunks. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:08, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Posting a brief note here to alert anyone watching this page of the discussion I've started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Special projects, regarding the special projects in general. Carcharoth ( talk) 19:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia movement and recently achieved full charity status. As part of its 2012 activity plan the WWI centenary is listed as one of the things time, energy and finances will be devoted to. There will be outreach to institutions with a view to collaborating with them to bring WWI resources to the public with Wiki-friendly licenses. The chap that's going to be running it (whose name sadly escapes me at the moment) is going to kick off activities in early 2012 and I'll try to make sure MILHIST knows what we're up to and when.
As part of the activity plan I have initiated an application for a microgrant for UK editors who wish to get their hands on some WWI resources they can use to improve our articles. A microgrant can be of up to £250 in value, although Wikimedia UK does have a significantly larger proposed budget for the World War aspects of their activity plan. Please do take a look at the Microgrant application even if you're not eligible to receive the resources as I would like us to collaboratively decide which books (etc) would give us most bang for our buck, ie the best resources to aid article improvement.
I am personally committing to spending 2 to 4 hours a week on WWI Wiki-stuff from now til the centenary. Unfortunately I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a military buff (though I can see myself growing into it). I approach WWI as very much a newbie but I do at least have a long track record of involvement with Wikipedia and have solid article creation and editing skills. I hope to make myself useful. I look forward to seeing how this Operation develops and helping out where I can. -- bodnotbod ( talk) 16:50, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Just to say that I've taken a stab at a page on World War I memorials as an overview of the theme; in particular, if anyone has any info on the creation of the Turkish memorials to the war in the 1940s and 1950s, that would be really useful, as I couldn't find much in English! Hchc2009 ( talk) 19:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Just been adding classicons to the Sinai and Palestine campaign articles and I wondered if they need to be rearranged into chronological order at this stage? Happy to do so if necessary. -- Rskp ( talk) 01:32, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I work on the Old Weather project, which transcribed the log books of 318 Royal Navy ships during the WWI era. In the course of this work, it was discovered that HMS Macedonia was involved in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and she is not included in the Wiki article re this battle. I have included the links to the Old Weather website on the talk page for the Battle of The Falkland Islands. Per agreement, information from Old Weather log transcriptions is not considered original research.
Kwendolk (
talk)
00:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey guys, is anybody thinking about featuring your articles on the main page? Nergaal ( talk) 18:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I'm posting this talk page section as part of an attempt to welcome new and current editors on the WWI topic. What I'd like to eventually see is a group of editors participating here actively over the next five years and trying to work together to achieve a substantial improvement in our coverage of the WWI topic. I'm aware that many editors are working on this topic, but getting an idea of the diversity of topics being worked on is not easy. I'm going to post at a few places pointing people to here. If you are interested in joining this project or just helping out here and there or reading about future plans, please leave a message below saying what you have been or would like to work on. Carcharoth ( talk) 08:18, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
At WP:GLAM/Pritzker, we are actively working on WWI topics, including Medal of Honor recipients, AEF and CEF units, and WWI music. Most of our Wikipedians in Residence are new to Wikipedia. Please be sure to welcome them and help them out. TeriEmbrey ( talk) 15:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
For purposes of scheduling things for specific dates, it'd be helpful to add the dates of battles to the sortable lists. I currently want to work on things from around November 1914 to June 1915, as they're the "urgent" anniversaries. October is probably too soon to sort things out. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 04:08, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Who is alive and working on this project? I've been doing a ton of British honours lists and there are so many deserving people who do not have bios. Top generals, admirals, knights, etc. I'm very impressed with the number of bios the Aussies and New Zealanders already have out there, but there remains work to be done on the British and Canadian side, and probably Americans too. Would there be any other people interested in working on bios? The honours list are a good place to start. —Мандичка YO 😜 21:09, 30 March 2016 (UTC)
In creating a list of key topics it would be useful to know at what levle the current article stands from stub through to FA. That way the possible editors might be able to identify what sort of task is involved for each. GraemeLeggett ( talk) 11:40, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Where would users put suggestions for topics that could be covered by this Special Project? Commander Zulu ( talk) 01:43, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
So what should the goals of this drive be? for the time being, I would suggest:
What do people think....? The Land ( talk) 21:34, 20 December 2008 (UTC)
The articles are named "country in/during/and World War I". We should probably standardize that. See also my comment at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Poland#Poland_during_World_War_I. PS. Many of those countries in that category need to be added to {{ WWI history by nation}}. -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| talk 17:32, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
It doesn't look like there's been a lot of activity here (unless I'm missing something), but I figured I'd throw this suggestion out there: how about we standardize the country articles? Right now there's a variety of titles:
I know there is a difference between 'military history' and general history, but because there isn't both Australia in World War II and Military history of Australia during World War I, I propose that we rename them all under one name. Or, at the very least, can we change all the "during"s to "in"s?
Or is there something I'm missing in the MOS? Bsimmons666 ( talk) 03:34, 15 November 2009 (UTC)
I noticed there isn't anything yet listed under the "Core Impact and Aftermath Topics" section. My interest is mainly in this area (currently WW1 memorials), and I thought maybe giving some examples here might get ideas going for what could go there. As well as memorials, there are the commemoration events themselves, a timeline of 'legacy' events since WW1, articles on the centenary events themselves, articles on WW1 historians and the development of the study of the history, museums, archives, education, and other stuff. War poetry, art and literature as well (both during and after the war). And reconstruction efforts and political treaties and such things. That's all I can think of for now, but which of those (and other stuff I've forgotten) would be core topics? Carcharoth ( talk) 09:11, 1 December 2009 (UTC)
I wanted to suggest that a mention of the Medal of Honor/Victoria cross (and potential other major awards) recipients be included as well. I am not trying to suggest that every recipient be included but in regards to World War I we have a list of recipients and several very well known individuals (Sergeant Alvin York or Eddie Rickenbacher for example) that could be included. -- Kumioko ( talk) 18:59, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
This project hasn't had a large amount of work done since July. Should the focus of the project be altered to get all of the articles up to a B-class standard, so there is actually an outside shot at achieving the goal? Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 16:28, 12 October 2010 (UTC)
Similar to the above section, I'm posting here to see if there is any interest in moving things forward here again, starting with some fairly easy goal and then moving on from there. Maybe a good starting point would be to tidy things up a bit, and see where things have got to at the moment in terms of article quality. And then pick an area to focus on and maybe even try and set some broad goals for the next year or so. One key point is to distinguish between what this specific project is trying to achieve and what the WWI taskforce is doing. The latter currently has 12,812 articles tagged within its purview. Clearly the list currently on the front page here ('Operation Great War Centennial') is only a high-level subset of that, but in my view the current list is too long. What is needed is to either focus on a limited area for a few months and then move on to another area, or to identify a smaller list of articles and work on those. But it is vital to avoid falling into the trap of making lists and plans and not doing any actual work. My suggestion would be to take a high-level template such as Template:World War I, and concentrate on those articles. Though having now looked at that template, even that is a bit much. Maybe identify a limited number of subtopics. Anything so long as it can be broken down into manageable chunks. Carcharoth ( talk) 01:08, 17 September 2011 (UTC)
Posting a brief note here to alert anyone watching this page of the discussion I've started at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#Special projects, regarding the special projects in general. Carcharoth ( talk) 19:25, 20 September 2011 (UTC)
Hello all,
Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of the Wikimedia movement and recently achieved full charity status. As part of its 2012 activity plan the WWI centenary is listed as one of the things time, energy and finances will be devoted to. There will be outreach to institutions with a view to collaborating with them to bring WWI resources to the public with Wiki-friendly licenses. The chap that's going to be running it (whose name sadly escapes me at the moment) is going to kick off activities in early 2012 and I'll try to make sure MILHIST knows what we're up to and when.
As part of the activity plan I have initiated an application for a microgrant for UK editors who wish to get their hands on some WWI resources they can use to improve our articles. A microgrant can be of up to £250 in value, although Wikimedia UK does have a significantly larger proposed budget for the World War aspects of their activity plan. Please do take a look at the Microgrant application even if you're not eligible to receive the resources as I would like us to collaboratively decide which books (etc) would give us most bang for our buck, ie the best resources to aid article improvement.
I am personally committing to spending 2 to 4 hours a week on WWI Wiki-stuff from now til the centenary. Unfortunately I am not, by any stretch of the imagination, a military buff (though I can see myself growing into it). I approach WWI as very much a newbie but I do at least have a long track record of involvement with Wikipedia and have solid article creation and editing skills. I hope to make myself useful. I look forward to seeing how this Operation develops and helping out where I can. -- bodnotbod ( talk) 16:50, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Just to say that I've taken a stab at a page on World War I memorials as an overview of the theme; in particular, if anyone has any info on the creation of the Turkish memorials to the war in the 1940s and 1950s, that would be really useful, as I couldn't find much in English! Hchc2009 ( talk) 19:42, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
Just been adding classicons to the Sinai and Palestine campaign articles and I wondered if they need to be rearranged into chronological order at this stage? Happy to do so if necessary. -- Rskp ( talk) 01:32, 17 December 2013 (UTC)
Hi - I work on the Old Weather project, which transcribed the log books of 318 Royal Navy ships during the WWI era. In the course of this work, it was discovered that HMS Macedonia was involved in the Battle of the Falkland Islands, and she is not included in the Wiki article re this battle. I have included the links to the Old Weather website on the talk page for the Battle of The Falkland Islands. Per agreement, information from Old Weather log transcriptions is not considered original research.
Kwendolk (
talk)
00:56, 27 May 2014 (UTC)
Hey guys, is anybody thinking about featuring your articles on the main page? Nergaal ( talk) 18:57, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
I'm posting this talk page section as part of an attempt to welcome new and current editors on the WWI topic. What I'd like to eventually see is a group of editors participating here actively over the next five years and trying to work together to achieve a substantial improvement in our coverage of the WWI topic. I'm aware that many editors are working on this topic, but getting an idea of the diversity of topics being worked on is not easy. I'm going to post at a few places pointing people to here. If you are interested in joining this project or just helping out here and there or reading about future plans, please leave a message below saying what you have been or would like to work on. Carcharoth ( talk) 08:18, 9 August 2014 (UTC)
At WP:GLAM/Pritzker, we are actively working on WWI topics, including Medal of Honor recipients, AEF and CEF units, and WWI music. Most of our Wikipedians in Residence are new to Wikipedia. Please be sure to welcome them and help them out. TeriEmbrey ( talk) 15:09, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
For purposes of scheduling things for specific dates, it'd be helpful to add the dates of battles to the sortable lists. I currently want to work on things from around November 1914 to June 1915, as they're the "urgent" anniversaries. October is probably too soon to sort things out. Adam Cuerden ( talk) 04:08, 19 September 2014 (UTC)
Who is alive and working on this project? I've been doing a ton of British honours lists and there are so many deserving people who do not have bios. Top generals, admirals, knights, etc. I'm very impressed with the number of bios the Aussies and New Zealanders already have out there, but there remains work to be done on the British and Canadian side, and probably Americans too. Would there be any other people interested in working on bios? The honours list are a good place to start. —Мандичка YO 😜 21:09, 30 March 2016 (UTC)