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Hi all, I have created a new
portal for Australian roads. The portal box on the right should be added to the See Also section of any relevant article using {{
Portal|Australian roads}}
, or use {{
portal-inline|Australian roads}}
for an inline version. Articles, images, videos and Did you know? facts can be nominated on the
portal talk page – please watchlist the page if you think you might like to help maintain the portal. Cheers,
Evad37 [
talk 10:26, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
The second issue of The U Turn, the WikiProject Australian Roads newsletter, has been published. Read it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/News. - Evad37 [ talk 01:57, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 18:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC).
See this thread, where the idea came up to expand the WP:USRDCUP to all of WP:HWY. If other editors, especially those from outside the United States, would like to participate in our project's version of the WikiCup this year, please join in the conversation. We're open to ideas and suggestions. The Cup will probably take place during the middle months of this year. T C N7JM 01:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/B4101 road. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
At the moment the names and the way they are made and work are not by the same way. Like E50 and P 1. Maybe we could all name them the same way and make them all use the same kind of code?
Greetings, Thewombatguru ( talk) 23:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
{{jct|state=MI|M|28}}
to produce
M-28. That way the graphic version of the sign isn't the link. If the link points to a non-existant article, the link would appear red instead of blue, readers would know they could clink on the highway name to get to another article, etc. among several other benefits.
Imzadi 1979
→ 23:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 22:52, 17 March 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)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Highways to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 22:51, 5 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)
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project?
We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply.
For more information, click the link below.
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (
talk) 12:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
The Lua version of {{ jct}} will be deployed this weekend. Last-minute requests may be made at Template talk:Jct#Deployment of Lua version. - happy 5214 00:35, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that the statistics for articles in the scope of the US Roads department, User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/U.S. road transport, are not in the main Highways statistic table, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Highways articles by quality statistics. I don't really understand why this is done like this, I personally think it would be better to maintain the most things in the parent project. Thewombatguru ( talk) 09:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
{{talk other|{{#if:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}}}|[[Category:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}}}-Class Road transport articles]]|[[Category:Unassessed Road transport articles]]}}}}
Here's the full code:
{{talk other|<!-- Class category --> {{#if:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|FQS=yes|future=yes|redirect=yes|draft=yes|book=yes|FM=yes|AL=AL}}|[[Category:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|FQS=yes|future=yes|redirect=yes|draft=yes|book=yes|FM=yes|AL=AL}}-Class Road transport articles]]|[[Category:Unassessed Road transport articles]]}}<!-- Importance category -->[[Category:{{#switch:{{lc:{{{importance|}}}}} |top |high |mid |low = {{ucfirst:{{lc:{{{importance|}}}}}}} |na = NA |#default = {{#ifeq:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|future=yes|AL=AL}}|NA|NA|Unknown}}}}-importance Road transport articles]] }}
This could be put into a template, e.g.
Template:WikiProject Highways/Assessment, so each project banner would just have to include {{WikiProject Highways/Assessment|class={{{class|}}}|importance={{{importance|}}}}}
. -
Evad37 [
talk 12:22, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
The banners are all working together to pass assessments into a common assessment tree. Now we just have to wait for the job queue to catch up and populate the categories. I'll be asking for the combined assessment table here shortly. Imzadi 1979 → 03:59, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Mile or km and subsequent sections - Evad37 [ talk 12:45, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.
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:
• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost
For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (
talk) 10:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
How to create KML files from OSM relations ? Many KML files can be created there is easy way export osm relations. [1] .
Template:Hwypeerreview ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 04:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
The usage of right-of-way and right of way is under discussion, see talk:Right of way (public throughway), where it is suggested that Right-of-way (transportation) also be merged into it, and the merged article be the primary topic. -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 23:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
While trying to look up a proper layout format for Ontario Highway 407, I came to realize that even our many Featured articles on toll highways ( Creek Turnpike and Kansas Turnpike are two I checked out) have no consistency when it comes to the top level article structure. That is, the placement of the RD, History, Tolls, Services, other unique sections, and Junction list. I propose that we standardize the placement of sections, with the sole exception of swapping the order of the RD and History, and the odd case where a unique section is better placed first (ex QEW's Name and signage section). Thoughts? - Floydian τ ¢ 21:18, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
One reason to standardize the order is related to Featured/Good Topics. Take a look at WP:WIAFT, and you'd see that the first recommendation is: "The structure of the articles is similar, with the same section titles and order where possible." Honestly, I'm almost of the opinion that the allowance to move the history section up in the order should be removed in favor of greater consistency. I know most states in the US are far from being close to considering FTs/GTs in most cases, but this is a case where building in consistent practices early makes things easier when we get a group of articles to that stage later. Imzadi 1979 → 20:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've posted a question on the article's
talk page, that I think is somewhat central to its development ?
--
84.106.90.249 (
talk) 08:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Apparently, WMF is working on a new skin to replace Vector (not that it seems so long since Vector was introduced, but that's neither here nor there). It's called Winter, and there's a prototype on WMF Labs (this should link to a display of Creek Turnpike so you can see what a typical road article might look like under Winter).
Since Winter seems to change a few styles we rely on in the site CSS, we will need to make some changes to the styling of our templates to ensure that they continue to display the same way. Most of these, I think, are simply left unspecified and thus depend on the site CSS at present, and so explicitly specifying their current appearance should ensure that they appear the same way under Winter (overriding the skin CSS). It is worth noting that Winter is currently just a prototype (prototype v0.6 for whatever that's worth), so the style could radically change before it is deployed, but specifying CSS rules helps future-proof us to an extent regardless of what changes in Winter before it is released.
Points of discussion:
If you have a spare moment, use the Winter prototype to view some pages in your area and report back on any issues it causes to page layout. We should also discuss proposed changes to the standard junction list and infoboxes to prepare for the change, particularly to infobox road small, because I am at a loss to how we can resolve that particular breakage. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:05, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
{{Attached KML}}
because I don't think putting the links to the KML file and its associated edit link in the upper space would be a good idea.|id=
so we can link the infobox to the relevant section. Example: add |id=Lincoln_Highway
to the Lincoln Highway IRS on
US 30 in Iowa and the Lincoln Highway infobox title would become a #target wikilink to
Lincoln Highway. Just pretend that #target links work... –
Fredddie
™ 16:34, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
is there a version of Jcttop which uses Province instead of County? I would like to use it in Alaska Highway#Major intersections. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 23:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
class="wikitable plainrowheaders hlist"
to match other tables.{{AUSinttop|state_col=State/Territory|sub1={{abbr|LGA|Local government area}}/District|... other parameters ...}}
, rather than the default sub1 column heading "
LGA". A similar template could be created for Canada. -
Evad37 [
talk 00:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
It would be great if editors in this area could comment there on how the nominated list may relate to the other contents of Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title, and why those lists are set up and titled the way that they are. Thanks, postdlf ( talk) 15:10, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Curb, Shoulder (road), Gore (road), Street gutter, curb cut, Road verge, Median strip ? Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 10:55, 27 August 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) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)
The meaning of "traffic police" and "highway patrol", and the name of the article "highway patrol" is under discussion, see talk:highway patrol -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 03:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Several county roads are up for renaming, see Talk:County_Road_3_(Florida) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 23:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm planning to rewrite the above list article. I started a draft at my userspace with the original article, stripped off a few unnecessary columns from the tables, removed a lot of boldfacing and added a few columns as inspired by these articles List of roads in Metro Manila and National Tourist Routes. The starting table idea can be found on User:Pizza1016/List of roads in Malaysia (the first unfinished table; ignore everything else). I would like to see whether this is a suitable table layout and whether any improvements can be made before I continue filling in the rest of the data into the table. Thanks! Pizza1016 ( talk | contribs) 15:14, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
{{
Routelist row}}
format, which can be used for Malaysia. –
Fredddie
™ 01:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
Rijkswaterstaat, the corporation that maintains all A-routes in the Netherlands, sent me a bunch of files with weird file type like .shp, .sbx, .shp and a lot more. I don't know how top open them, nor does the one who sent them to me...
I've uploaded them to Google Drive, https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4AQqaVpOz_ganoyQWVnbTFTM0E&usp=sharing , could someone tell me how to handle these types of file?
TheWombatGuru ( talk) 12:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_December_30#Template:Infobox_Australian_road – proposed merging of {{
Infobox Australian road}}
with {{
Infobox road}}
. Thanks.
Evad37 [
talk 02:40, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi again! I decided to rewrite the entire article above the other day (it was yesterday actually). Unfortunately I couldn't find any reliable secondary sources – most of the sites that pop up on search results are self-published websites, blogs, fan pages, etc. so there's pretty much only the official website for sources. I did search the Malaysian news websites for the expressway but pretty much all of the results were regarding accidents, incidents, congestion, etc. along the expressway – which I don't know whether I should include or not, since it would get outdated pretty fast, and there would be a long list of just accidents (and some of them would be incomplete reporting as the news rarely follow up on the incidents after the first reporting). Also the article format that I followed (or at least tried to), the Pennsylvania Turnpike, has a huge section on the history of the turnpike (which I couldn't find any reliable info for the expressway in question), and has nothing about any incidents that may have occurred (I'm not sure if there are any). Anyway, I hope you guys can have a look and give some feedback. Also, if someone could help me align the colour legend in the bottom row of the junction list properly (to the centre), it would be greatly appreciated, because I just can't get it to work. Thanks! - Pizza1016 ( talk | contribs) 10:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
hlist
to the top of the table so that the color key would be properly centered at the bottom.!
, which made those cells into headers. Yes, they should be centered, but they shouldn't be bolded.Exit | Name | Destinations | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (Expressway E17/Federal Route 1) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (Federal Route 1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing the type of route and then whatever is in the route marker. I'm afriad this might make the destination column wider though. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (Expressway 17/Federal Route 1) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (Federal Route 1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing the type of route and then writing only the number in the marker (since E stands for expressway). Also will make the destination column wider. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17)(1) or (E17/1) or (1/E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only what's inside the route markers, without expansion. When using the forward slash, it might confuse others as to what E17/1 is. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17)(FT1) or (E17/FT1) or (FT1/E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only what's inside the route markers, without expansion. As to not come across as confusing, federal routes are prefixed with "FT" as what some users here have used, although that really means "Federal Territory". - Added 14:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC) |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only the route number that the road name is linked to (i.e. excluding the concurrency/overlap, since those are rarely, if not never, signposted) |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road E17 (
FT 1 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road – Perai FT 1 1 Jalan Bahru – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
Writing the numbers next to their respective markers. The route number might be confused as part of the name however. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1) E17/1 (
Butterworth Outer Ring Road) – Perai FT 1 1 ( Jalan Bahru) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
The old fashioned way, though as I said, the name is usually dominant in Malaysia. Again, E17/1 looks confusing. |
...or combinations of any of the above. |
Hello everyone!
You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!
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Hi all, I have created a new
portal for Australian roads. The portal box on the right should be added to the See Also section of any relevant article using {{
Portal|Australian roads}}
, or use {{
portal-inline|Australian roads}}
for an inline version. Articles, images, videos and Did you know? facts can be nominated on the
portal talk page – please watchlist the page if you think you might like to help maintain the portal. Cheers,
Evad37 [
talk 10:26, 6 December 2013 (UTC)
The second issue of The U Turn, the WikiProject Australian Roads newsletter, has been published. Read it at Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads/News. - Evad37 [ talk 01:57, 1 January 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study? We are a team at University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within a Wikipedia community. We are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visualization tool. All you need to do is to prepare for your laptop/desktop, web camera, and speaker for video communication with Google Hangout. We will provide you with a Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 18:29, 20 January 2014 (UTC).
See this thread, where the idea came up to expand the WP:USRDCUP to all of WP:HWY. If other editors, especially those from outside the United States, would like to participate in our project's version of the WikiCup this year, please join in the conversation. We're open to ideas and suggestions. The Cup will probably take place during the middle months of this year. T C N7JM 01:15, 4 January 2014 (UTC)
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/B4101 road. FoCuSandLeArN ( talk) 19:48, 25 February 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
At the moment the names and the way they are made and work are not by the same way. Like E50 and P 1. Maybe we could all name them the same way and make them all use the same kind of code?
Greetings, Thewombatguru ( talk) 23:10, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
{{jct|state=MI|M|28}}
to produce
M-28. That way the graphic version of the sign isn't the link. If the link points to a non-existant article, the link would appear red instead of blue, readers would know they could clink on the highway name to get to another article, etc. among several other benefits.
Imzadi 1979
→ 23:13, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
Would you be interested in participating in a user study of a new tool to support editor involvement in WikiProjects? We are a team at the University of Washington studying methods for finding collaborators within WikiProjects, and we are looking for volunteers to evaluate a new visual exploration tool for Wikipedia. Given your interest in this Wikiproject, we would welcome your participation in our study. To participate, you will be given access to our new visualization tool and will interact with us via Google Hangout so that we can solicit your thoughts about the tool. To use Google Hangout, you will need a laptop/desktop, a web camera, and a speaker for video communication during the study. We will provide you with an Amazon gift card in appreciation of your time and participation. For more information about this study, please visit our wiki page ( http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Finding_a_Collaborator). If you would like to participate in our user study, please send me a message at Wkmaster ( talk) 22:52, 17 March 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)
After a recent request, I added WikiProject Highways to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Highways/Popular pages.
The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. You can view more results, request a new project be added to the list, or request a configuration change for this project using the Tool Labs tool. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr. Z-man 22:51, 5 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)
Are you looking to recruit more contributors to your project?
We are offering to design and print physical paper leaflets to be distributed at Wikimania 2014 for all projects that apply.
For more information, click the link below.
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (
talk) 12:15, 14 May 2014 (UTC)
The Lua version of {{ jct}} will be deployed this weekend. Last-minute requests may be made at Template talk:Jct#Deployment of Lua version. - happy 5214 00:35, 21 May 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
I noticed that the statistics for articles in the scope of the US Roads department, User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/U.S. road transport, are not in the main Highways statistic table, Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Highways articles by quality statistics. I don't really understand why this is done like this, I personally think it would be better to maintain the most things in the parent project. Thewombatguru ( talk) 09:18, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
{{talk other|{{#if:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}}}|[[Category:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}}}-Class Road transport articles]]|[[Category:Unassessed Road transport articles]]}}}}
Here's the full code:
{{talk other|<!-- Class category --> {{#if:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|FQS=yes|future=yes|redirect=yes|draft=yes|book=yes|FM=yes|AL=AL}}|[[Category:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|FQS=yes|future=yes|redirect=yes|draft=yes|book=yes|FM=yes|AL=AL}}-Class Road transport articles]]|[[Category:Unassessed Road transport articles]]}}<!-- Importance category -->[[Category:{{#switch:{{lc:{{{importance|}}}}} |top |high |mid |low = {{ucfirst:{{lc:{{{importance|}}}}}}} |na = NA |#default = {{#ifeq:{{class mask|{{{class|}}}|future=yes|AL=AL}}|NA|NA|Unknown}}}}-importance Road transport articles]] }}
This could be put into a template, e.g.
Template:WikiProject Highways/Assessment, so each project banner would just have to include {{WikiProject Highways/Assessment|class={{{class|}}}|importance={{{importance|}}}}}
. -
Evad37 [
talk 12:22, 1 May 2014 (UTC)
The banners are all working together to pass assessments into a common assessment tree. Now we just have to wait for the job queue to catch up and populate the categories. I'll be asking for the combined assessment table here shortly. Imzadi 1979 → 03:59, 1 June 2014 (UTC)
See discussion at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Road junction lists#Mile or km and subsequent sections - Evad37 [ talk 12:45, 10 June 2014 (UTC)
Please note: This is an updated version of a previous post that I made.
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:
• Active Wikiprojects: Wikiproject Medicine, WikiProject Video Games, Wikiproject Film
• Tech projects/Tools, which may be looking for either users or developers.
• Less known major projects: Wikinews, Wikidata, Wikivoyage, etc.
• Wiki Loves Parliaments, Wiki Loves Monuments, Wiki Loves ____
• Wikimedia thematic organisations, Wikiwomen’s Collaborative, The Signpost
For more information or to sign up for one for your project, go to:
Project leaflets
Adikhajuria (
talk) 10:54, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
How to create KML files from OSM relations ? Many KML files can be created there is easy way export osm relations. [1] .
Template:Hwypeerreview ( | talk | history | links | watch | logs) has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 04:00, 23 June 2014 (UTC)
The usage of right-of-way and right of way is under discussion, see talk:Right of way (public throughway), where it is suggested that Right-of-way (transportation) also be merged into it, and the merged article be the primary topic. -- 65.94.171.126 ( talk) 23:37, 3 July 2014 (UTC)
While trying to look up a proper layout format for Ontario Highway 407, I came to realize that even our many Featured articles on toll highways ( Creek Turnpike and Kansas Turnpike are two I checked out) have no consistency when it comes to the top level article structure. That is, the placement of the RD, History, Tolls, Services, other unique sections, and Junction list. I propose that we standardize the placement of sections, with the sole exception of swapping the order of the RD and History, and the odd case where a unique section is better placed first (ex QEW's Name and signage section). Thoughts? - Floydian τ ¢ 21:18, 27 July 2014 (UTC)
One reason to standardize the order is related to Featured/Good Topics. Take a look at WP:WIAFT, and you'd see that the first recommendation is: "The structure of the articles is similar, with the same section titles and order where possible." Honestly, I'm almost of the opinion that the allowance to move the history section up in the order should be removed in favor of greater consistency. I know most states in the US are far from being close to considering FTs/GTs in most cases, but this is a case where building in consistent practices early makes things easier when we get a group of articles to that stage later. Imzadi 1979 → 20:50, 28 July 2014 (UTC)
Hi, I've posted a question on the article's
talk page, that I think is somewhat central to its development ?
--
84.106.90.249 (
talk) 08:11, 13 August 2014 (UTC)
Apparently, WMF is working on a new skin to replace Vector (not that it seems so long since Vector was introduced, but that's neither here nor there). It's called Winter, and there's a prototype on WMF Labs (this should link to a display of Creek Turnpike so you can see what a typical road article might look like under Winter).
Since Winter seems to change a few styles we rely on in the site CSS, we will need to make some changes to the styling of our templates to ensure that they continue to display the same way. Most of these, I think, are simply left unspecified and thus depend on the site CSS at present, and so explicitly specifying their current appearance should ensure that they appear the same way under Winter (overriding the skin CSS). It is worth noting that Winter is currently just a prototype (prototype v0.6 for whatever that's worth), so the style could radically change before it is deployed, but specifying CSS rules helps future-proof us to an extent regardless of what changes in Winter before it is released.
Points of discussion:
If you have a spare moment, use the Winter prototype to view some pages in your area and report back on any issues it causes to page layout. We should also discuss proposed changes to the standard junction list and infoboxes to prepare for the change, particularly to infobox road small, because I am at a loss to how we can resolve that particular breakage. — Scott5114 ↗ [EXACT CHANGE ONLY] 07:05, 15 August 2014 (UTC)
{{Attached KML}}
because I don't think putting the links to the KML file and its associated edit link in the upper space would be a good idea.|id=
so we can link the infobox to the relevant section. Example: add |id=Lincoln_Highway
to the Lincoln Highway IRS on
US 30 in Iowa and the Lincoln Highway infobox title would become a #target wikilink to
Lincoln Highway. Just pretend that #target links work... –
Fredddie
™ 16:34, 16 August 2014 (UTC)
is there a version of Jcttop which uses Province instead of County? I would like to use it in Alaska Highway#Major intersections. thank you. Frietjes ( talk) 23:58, 19 August 2014 (UTC)
class="wikitable plainrowheaders hlist"
to match other tables.{{AUSinttop|state_col=State/Territory|sub1={{abbr|LGA|Local government area}}/District|... other parameters ...}}
, rather than the default sub1 column heading "
LGA". A similar template could be created for Canada. -
Evad37 [
talk 00:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
It would be great if editors in this area could comment there on how the nominated list may relate to the other contents of Category:Lists of roads sharing the same title, and why those lists are set up and titled the way that they are. Thanks, postdlf ( talk) 15:10, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
Curb, Shoulder (road), Gore (road), Street gutter, curb cut, Road verge, Median strip ? Xb2u7Zjzc32 ( talk) 10:55, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
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The meaning of "traffic police" and "highway patrol", and the name of the article "highway patrol" is under discussion, see talk:highway patrol -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 03:34, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
Several county roads are up for renaming, see Talk:County_Road_3_(Florida) -- 67.70.35.44 ( talk) 23:50, 21 October 2014 (UTC)
Hi. I'm planning to rewrite the above list article. I started a draft at my userspace with the original article, stripped off a few unnecessary columns from the tables, removed a lot of boldfacing and added a few columns as inspired by these articles List of roads in Metro Manila and National Tourist Routes. The starting table idea can be found on User:Pizza1016/List of roads in Malaysia (the first unfinished table; ignore everything else). I would like to see whether this is a suitable table layout and whether any improvements can be made before I continue filling in the rest of the data into the table. Thanks! Pizza1016 ( talk | contribs) 15:14, 4 December 2014 (UTC)
{{
Routelist row}}
format, which can be used for Malaysia. –
Fredddie
™ 01:45, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello,
Rijkswaterstaat, the corporation that maintains all A-routes in the Netherlands, sent me a bunch of files with weird file type like .shp, .sbx, .shp and a lot more. I don't know how top open them, nor does the one who sent them to me...
I've uploaded them to Google Drive, https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4AQqaVpOz_ganoyQWVnbTFTM0E&usp=sharing , could someone tell me how to handle these types of file?
TheWombatGuru ( talk) 12:17, 13 December 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to join the discussion at
Wikipedia:Templates_for_discussion/Log/2014_December_30#Template:Infobox_Australian_road – proposed merging of {{
Infobox Australian road}}
with {{
Infobox road}}
. Thanks.
Evad37 [
talk 02:40, 31 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi again! I decided to rewrite the entire article above the other day (it was yesterday actually). Unfortunately I couldn't find any reliable secondary sources – most of the sites that pop up on search results are self-published websites, blogs, fan pages, etc. so there's pretty much only the official website for sources. I did search the Malaysian news websites for the expressway but pretty much all of the results were regarding accidents, incidents, congestion, etc. along the expressway – which I don't know whether I should include or not, since it would get outdated pretty fast, and there would be a long list of just accidents (and some of them would be incomplete reporting as the news rarely follow up on the incidents after the first reporting). Also the article format that I followed (or at least tried to), the Pennsylvania Turnpike, has a huge section on the history of the turnpike (which I couldn't find any reliable info for the expressway in question), and has nothing about any incidents that may have occurred (I'm not sure if there are any). Anyway, I hope you guys can have a look and give some feedback. Also, if someone could help me align the colour legend in the bottom row of the junction list properly (to the centre), it would be greatly appreciated, because I just can't get it to work. Thanks! - Pizza1016 ( talk | contribs) 10:50, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
hlist
to the top of the table so that the color key would be properly centered at the bottom.!
, which made those cells into headers. Yes, they should be centered, but they shouldn't be bolded.Exit | Name | Destinations | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (Expressway E17/Federal Route 1) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (Federal Route 1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing the type of route and then whatever is in the route marker. I'm afriad this might make the destination column wider though. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (Expressway 17/Federal Route 1) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (Federal Route 1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing the type of route and then writing only the number in the marker (since E stands for expressway). Also will make the destination column wider. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17)(1) or (E17/1) or (1/E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only what's inside the route markers, without expansion. When using the forward slash, it might confuse others as to what E17/1 is. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17)(FT1) or (E17/FT1) or (FT1/E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only what's inside the route markers, without expansion. As to not come across as confusing, federal routes are prefixed with "FT" as what some users here have used, although that really means "Federal Territory". - Added 14:47, 4 January 2015 (UTC) |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (E17) – Perai FT 1 Jalan Bahru (1) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
In brackets, writing only the route number that the road name is linked to (i.e. excluding the concurrency/overlap, since those are rarely, if not never, signposted) |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road E17 (
FT 1 1)
Butterworth Outer Ring Road – Perai FT 1 1 Jalan Bahru – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
Writing the numbers next to their respective markers. The route number might be confused as part of the name however. |
...or... | |||
162 | Perai I/C |
Butterworth Outer Ring Road (
FT 1) E17/1 (
Butterworth Outer Ring Road) – Perai FT 1 1 ( Jalan Bahru) – Bukit Mertajam, Bukit Tengah |
The old fashioned way, though as I said, the name is usually dominant in Malaysia. Again, E17/1 looks confusing. |
...or combinations of any of the above. |
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