Welcome to the Ageing and culture WikiProject! Feel free to join in by listing yourself in the Participants section below and working on articles relevant to the project. Please use the talk page for questions, suggestions, and general discussion.
Goals and Scope
The scope of the WikiProject Ageing and culture includes articles about discourses on ageing, media representations, digital technologies, notable organizations, activists, and scholars working in the field of ageing studies. We are also interested in the ways that age and ageing intersect with other ways of experiencing identity, including race, gender, sexuality, class, language, and dis/ability. Our goal is to expand the presence of these topics on Wikipedia. If you have knowledge of or simply want to help improve articles pertaining to ageing and culture, you are welcome to join.
This WikiProject will serve to encourage editors, especially people with knowledge in the field of ageing studies, to collaborate on a collection of pages around the specific topic of ageing. It is meant to be a resource to help coordinate and discuss writing about ageing.
Participants
To become a participant, add your name to the list below. Copy and paste the code and then replace the name (e.g. MaudeG3) with your own username.
- MaudeG3 (talk · contribs)
- KimberlySawchuk (talk · contribs)
- Miami19 (talk · contribs)
- SakuKuri (talk · contribs)
- MyriamACT (talk · contribs)
- timeflieslike (talk · contribs)
- DrHebblethwaite (talk · contribs)
- Mjkwok (talk · contribs)
- krieberu (talk · contribs)
- Barbara (WVS) (talk · contribs)
- JarrahTree (talk · contribs)
- Beanislife (talk · contribs)
Resources and advice
This section is made to inform contributors who are not necessarily regular editors of Wikipedia.
- How to create an account: Click on "create an account" at the top right corner and follow the instructions. An account means you will have a user profile, it will be easier to track your contributions, and for you to talk with others.
- How to create a new article: Start by searching for what you want to write about in the search box to see if an article already exists on the same topic or on a very similar one. A useful trick: you can copy and paste the code from another article: Pretend you want to edit that article, copy its code, paste it in your own article space, and replace the text with your own while keeping the code. Cancel (bottom left) the editing of the other article. Show preview (bottom left) and then Save your article.
- How to edit an existing article: Top right corner of an article: read (default mode), edit (click on edit to edit) and view history (to see all the previous changes that were made to this article).
- The importance of sources: Everything you write should be verifiable. You can quote academic references, newspapers, websites, etc. Make sure to have at least a few third-party references that offer deep coverage of the topic.
- Talk pages: Top left corner of an article. Used for discussion and to add templates.
- Video (tutorial):
Wikipedia policies, guidelines and projects
- Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines
- Wikipedia:List of policies
- Wikipedia:List of guidelines
- Wikipedia:Core content policies
- Wikipedia:Notability
Open tasks
Articles to expand or revise
These articles are part of the field of ageing.
- OK Boomer
- Ageing studies
- Nursing home care in the United Kingdom
- Elder rights
- Ageing
- Old age
- Leisure
- Digital Literacy
- Active Ageing
- Gerontology
- Population Ageing
- Information processing technology and aging
- Memory and Ageing
- Ageing in the American Workforce
- Disengagement theory
- Activity Theory
- Continuity theory
- Retirement home
- Elderly care
- Assisted living
- Elder abuse
- International Federation on Ageing
- CARP (Canada)
- Raging Grannies
- Social capital
- Ageism
- Activist Ageing
- Successful Aging
- Sexuality in older age
- Kim Sawchuk
- Atwater Library
- Respecting Elders: Communities Against Elder Abuse
- Media and gender
- Mediatization_(media)
- LGBT ageing
- LGBT retirement issues in the United States
- Margaret M. Gullette
- Margaret Cruikshank
- The Silver Tsunami
- The Coming of Age (book)
- Kathleen Woodward
- European Network in Aging Studies
- The Silver Tsunami
Requested articles
List all articles that you would like to be created (including biographies of scholars).
- Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (previously deleted, wait until we have enough "notable" sources)
- Seniors Action Quebec
- Ageing Communication Technology (ACT)
- North American Network in Aging Studies
- Stephen Katz (scholar)
- Barbara Marshall
- Julia Twigg
- Ros Jennings
- Patrik Marier
- Paul Higgs
- Andrew Blaikie
- Mike Featherstone
- Nick Couldry
- Knut Lundby
- Catherine Middleton (scholar)
- Roxana Barrantes
- Josephine Dolan
- Roberta Maierhofer
- Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä
Assessment
WikiProject Ageing and culture follows Wikipedia guidelines of assessment. Any individual editors may rate stub, start or B-class for quality of an article. Please read the guidelines and instructions on how to rate an article.
Quality work
We also need contributors willing to do anything beyond the actual writing.
- Wikify: Help:Wiki markup
- Revise English
- Add references
- Add images (through Wikimedia Commons)
Templates
Assigning an article to the Ageing and culture project
If an article fits the scope of our project, you can add the template
{{WikiProject Ageing and culture}} to its talk page. The result will be:
Ageing and culture NA‑class (inactive) | |||||||
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User talk page templates
An invitation to post on other users' talk pages about the WikiProject.
Use this code:
{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Ageing and culture/invitation}}
Assessment
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ageing and culture articles by quality statistics
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ageing and culture articles by quality
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Ageing and culture articles by quality log
Subscriptions and bots and project monitoring below this line
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Categories for discussion
- 23 Mar 2024 – Category:American geriatricians (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 22 Mar 2024 – Category:Canadian geriatricians (talk · · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 01 Mar 2024 – Draft:John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mac Edmunds (t · c)
- 26 Jul 2023 – Draft:Puget Sound Advocates for Retirement Action (talk · · hist) has been submitted for AfC by LaborArchWAStudentConor (t · c)