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Frequently asked questions Q1: What's a WikiProject?
A1: A WikiProject is a group of people who want to work together. It is not a subject area, a collection of pages, or a list of articles
tagged by the group. Q2: How many WikiProjects are there?
A2: There are 1,016 WikiProjects tagged as "Active" (see
Category:Active WikiProjects), and 216 WikiProjects tagged as "Semi-active" (see
Category:Semi-active WikiProjects); many of these have one or more subsidiary task forces or work groups. Q3: What's the biggest WikiProject?
A3: Nobody knows, because not all participants add their names to a membership list, and membership lists are almost always out of date. You can find out which projects' main pages are being watched by the most users at
Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers. Q4: Which WikiProject has tagged the most articles as being within their scope?
A4:
WikiProject Biography has tagged about 2.05 million articles, which is more than three times the size of the second largest number of pages tagged by a WikiProject. About ten groups have tagged more than 100,000 articles. You can see a list of projects and the number of articles they have assessed
here. Q5: Who gets to decide whether a WikiProject is permitted to tag an article?
A5: That is the exclusive right of the participants of the WikiProject. Editors at an article may neither force the group to tag an article nor refuse to permit them to tag an article. See
WP:PROJGUIDE#OWN. Q6: I think a couple of WikiProjects should be merged. Is that okay?
A6: You must ask the people who belong to those groups, even if the groups appear to be inactive. It's okay for different groups of people to be working on similar articles. WikiProjects are people, not lists of articles. If you identify and explain clear, practical benefits of a merger to all of the affected groups, they are likely to agree to combining into a larger group. However, if they object, then you may not merge the pages. For less-active groups, you may need to wait a month or more to make sure that no one objects. Q7: I want to start a WikiProject. Am I required to advertise it at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals and/or have a specific number of editors support it?
A7: No, there are no requirements. However, new WikiProjects, especially new groups that are proposed by new editors, rarely remain active for longer than a few months unless there are at least six or eight active editors involved at the time of creation. |
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Back in the day, Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals was a more lively place, and if you wanted to start a group, then there were people watching it who might be interested in joining. Just 13 still-active editors are watching the page. Basically all the proposals fail, to the point that we stopped marking them as failed years ago. The typical proposer is a single individual, often less experienced than we might wish, with neither a group of editors nor any plan for finding and forming a group.
We have more conversations here about how to merge inactive and semi-active groups than how to start new groups or how to WP:REVIVE existing groups. The most useful groups are large (100+ participants) and have a broad subject area ("plants", not "tulips"). We probably need something on the order of 20 very large groups, or 200 large and medium-sized groups. What we have is 2,000 mostly tiny and mostly inactive groups. Creating new groups can be a good idea (e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 four years ago) but it is almost always a waste of the creator's time.
See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 210#AbuseFilter warning for WikiProjects and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject The Weeknd; pinging @ SmokeyJoe and @ Bearcat.
Given all that, I'd like to know everyone's thoughts about the future of creating new groups. I'm looking for a gut feeling, not for anything carefully considered. For example, you could tell me where you fall in a spectrum that runs something like this:
Feel free to write your own ideas.
(I do sometimes wonder whether we could get WMF grant money to pay an editor to systematically merge some of these WikiProjects up to larger groups. The technical work involved in merging the group's templates is not my idea of fun.) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Per the above discussion, I shut down the proposal process by editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. The next two tasks are:
I can't spend much time on wiki today, so I'd love it if someone else could do some of this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
An MFD discussion which proposes the deletion of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound is ongoing at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound. All the best. — a smart kitten[ meow 05:09, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I have set up Category:decade overviews as a set of categories, as well as articles, and navboxes, as part of WikiProject History Contemporary History task force, which I chair.
Please feel free to contact me any time, with any comments, ideas or questions. thanks! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual § Other. Specifically, please see entry on the list entitled Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 13#Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related film articles. Thanks! House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 18:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
This project was recreated, again without going through any proposal process, despite the recent MfD. A G4 speedy was declined, but just like most of these musician WikiProjects, I doubt this has the legs to be maintained. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 16:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)
To help centralise discussions and keep related topics together, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject and all talk pages of subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Council redirect here. |
Council | ||||
|
WikiProject Council was featured in a WikiProject Report in the Signpost on 18 April 2011. |
Frequently asked questions Q1: What's a WikiProject?
A1: A WikiProject is a group of people who want to work together. It is not a subject area, a collection of pages, or a list of articles
tagged by the group. Q2: How many WikiProjects are there?
A2: There are 1,016 WikiProjects tagged as "Active" (see
Category:Active WikiProjects), and 216 WikiProjects tagged as "Semi-active" (see
Category:Semi-active WikiProjects); many of these have one or more subsidiary task forces or work groups. Q3: What's the biggest WikiProject?
A3: Nobody knows, because not all participants add their names to a membership list, and membership lists are almost always out of date. You can find out which projects' main pages are being watched by the most users at
Wikipedia:Database reports/WikiProject watchers. Q4: Which WikiProject has tagged the most articles as being within their scope?
A4:
WikiProject Biography has tagged about 2.05 million articles, which is more than three times the size of the second largest number of pages tagged by a WikiProject. About ten groups have tagged more than 100,000 articles. You can see a list of projects and the number of articles they have assessed
here. Q5: Who gets to decide whether a WikiProject is permitted to tag an article?
A5: That is the exclusive right of the participants of the WikiProject. Editors at an article may neither force the group to tag an article nor refuse to permit them to tag an article. See
WP:PROJGUIDE#OWN. Q6: I think a couple of WikiProjects should be merged. Is that okay?
A6: You must ask the people who belong to those groups, even if the groups appear to be inactive. It's okay for different groups of people to be working on similar articles. WikiProjects are people, not lists of articles. If you identify and explain clear, practical benefits of a merger to all of the affected groups, they are likely to agree to combining into a larger group. However, if they object, then you may not merge the pages. For less-active groups, you may need to wait a month or more to make sure that no one objects. Q7: I want to start a WikiProject. Am I required to advertise it at
Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals and/or have a specific number of editors support it?
A7: No, there are no requirements. However, new WikiProjects, especially new groups that are proposed by new editors, rarely remain active for longer than a few months unless there are at least six or eight active editors involved at the time of creation. |
Archives: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26 | |
See earlier archives at: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject/Archive 1, Archive 2, Archive 3, Archive 4 |
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This page has archives. Sections older than 60 days may be automatically archived by Lowercase sigmabot III. |
Template {{ Is contentious}} detects if a given article is tagged as contentious, and is now available for use:
{{Is contentious|Transphobia}}
→ yes{{Is contentious|Giraffe}}
→This should be useful to WikiProjects which have lists or tables of pages they might wish to tag, or to arrange in certain ways depending on article attributes. Further developments in this area are in progress. Please report any issues with this template below, or at the Template Talk page. Thanks, Mathglot ( talk) 21:48, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
Back in the day, Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals was a more lively place, and if you wanted to start a group, then there were people watching it who might be interested in joining. Just 13 still-active editors are watching the page. Basically all the proposals fail, to the point that we stopped marking them as failed years ago. The typical proposer is a single individual, often less experienced than we might wish, with neither a group of editors nor any plan for finding and forming a group.
We have more conversations here about how to merge inactive and semi-active groups than how to start new groups or how to WP:REVIVE existing groups. The most useful groups are large (100+ participants) and have a broad subject area ("plants", not "tulips"). We probably need something on the order of 20 very large groups, or 200 large and medium-sized groups. What we have is 2,000 mostly tiny and mostly inactive groups. Creating new groups can be a good idea (e.g., Wikipedia:WikiProject COVID-19 four years ago) but it is almost always a waste of the creator's time.
See also Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)/Archive 210#AbuseFilter warning for WikiProjects and Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject The Weeknd; pinging @ SmokeyJoe and @ Bearcat.
Given all that, I'd like to know everyone's thoughts about the future of creating new groups. I'm looking for a gut feeling, not for anything carefully considered. For example, you could tell me where you fall in a spectrum that runs something like this:
Feel free to write your own ideas.
(I do sometimes wonder whether we could get WMF grant money to pay an editor to systematically merge some of these WikiProjects up to larger groups. The technical work involved in merging the group's templates is not my idea of fun.) WhatamIdoing ( talk) 23:51, 29 February 2024 (UTC)
Per the above discussion, I shut down the proposal process by editing Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals. The next two tasks are:
I can't spend much time on wiki today, so I'd love it if someone else could do some of this. WhatamIdoing ( talk) 17:40, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
An MFD discussion which proposes the deletion of Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound is ongoing at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:WikiProject Southern African Music & Sound. All the best. — a smart kitten[ meow 05:09, 17 March 2024 (UTC)
I have set up Category:decade overviews as a set of categories, as well as articles, and navboxes, as part of WikiProject History Contemporary History task force, which I chair.
Please feel free to contact me any time, with any comments, ideas or questions. thanks! -- Sm8900 ( talk) 14:39, 18 March 2024 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Working/Manual § Other. Specifically, please see entry on the list entitled Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2024 March 13#Category:Harold B. Lee Library-related film articles. Thanks! House Blaster ( talk · he/him) 18:57, 20 March 2024 (UTC)
This project was recreated, again without going through any proposal process, despite the recent MfD. A G4 speedy was declined, but just like most of these musician WikiProjects, I doubt this has the legs to be maintained. Starcheerspeaksnewslostwars Talk to me 16:54, 26 April 2024 (UTC)