WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.
To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.
Contents
- 1 Announcements
- 2 Philadelphia Meetups
- 3 Participants and primary areas of interest
- 4 Presumed Inactive
- 5 Structure
- 6 Assessment
- 7 Templates
- 8 Images
- 9 Recognition
- 10 Wikimedia Pennsylvania
- 11 Related or descendant WikiProjects
- 12 Philadelphia task forces
- 13 New articles
- 14 Similar WikiProjects
- 15 External links
Announcements
Events
Wikipedians are invited to the monthly GLAM Café to meet, talk, and edit. We provide the space, the coffee, and the snacks: you provide ideas and enthusiasm! On the second Tuesday of each month. The next meetup will be Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at The Library Company Cassatt House, 1320 Locust Street (map). |
Standards
- Currently, none.
- Articles for deletion
- 01 May 2015 – Delco Demons (talk · · hist) was AfDed by DanielRigal (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 20 Apr 2015 – Croydon Fire Company (talk · · hist) was AfDed by Be..anyone (t · c); see discussion (7 participants)
- Good article nominees
- 22 Apr 2015 – Interstate 295 (Delaware–New Jersey) (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Dough4872 (t · c); start
- 24 Feb 2015 – Samuel J. Randall (talk · · hist) was GA nominated by Coemgenus (t · c); start
- 01 May 2015 – Darby Creek (Pennsylvania) (talk · · hist) GA nominated by Editorofthewiki (t · c) was promoted, see discussion
- Requested moves
- 01 Apr 2015 – ECW Arena (talk · · hist) is requested to be moved to 2300 Arena (talk · · hist) by TheNewMinistry (t · c); see discussion
Philadelphia Meetups
Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to our invite list.
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Participants and primary areas of interest
Usernames A-L | Usernames M-Z |
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Presumed Inactive
Usernames A-L | Usernames M-Z |
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Structure
General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums
- General
- Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards
Goals
- Improve Philadelphia to featured status.
- Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
- Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
- Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
- Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
- Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items
WikiProject ToDo list
To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia: | |
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Article requests list
Portal maintenance
Assessment
- Recent changes to article assessments
- Assessment – Our rating system
- Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
- V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
- Philadelphia articles by quality log
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality
Templates
What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||||||||||||||||||
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{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk |
Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details) |
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{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk |
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Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages. | ||||||||||||||||||
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk |
Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages. | |||||||||||||||||||
{{user Philly}} Talk |
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to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page | ||||||||||||||||||
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk |
39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°WCoordinates: 39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°W | To be used on street-sized pages. | ||||||||||||||||||
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk |
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goes on the Collaboration of the Month | ||||||||||||||||||
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk |
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goes on the Selected Article of the Month | ||||||||||||||||||
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk |
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to invite new members |
Images
Free image sources for the United States | |||
Source | License | Tag | |
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Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States) | Various | N/A | |
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}} | |
Historic American Engineering Record ([2]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-HAER}} | |
Historic American Landscapes Survey | P.D | {{PD-USGov-HALS}} | |
National Park Service ([3] and [4]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} | |
U.S. Coast Guard ([5]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}} | |
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6]) | P.D. | {{LOC-image}} | |
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7]) | P.D. (not all) | {{LOC-image}} | |
NOAA ([8]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}} | |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}} | |
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10]) | C.C. | {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}} | |
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-USDA}} | |
For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.
The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.
Recognition
The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester |
{{Liberty Star|message ~~~~}}
Wikimedia Pennsylvania
Hello there!
We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:
- Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
- Join our mailing list
- Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
- you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants
Thanks!
Related or descendant WikiProjects
- WikiProject Pennsylvania
- WikiProject Pittsburgh
- WikiProject New Jersey
- WikiProject Delaware
- WikiProject Maryland
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