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This page is a notice board for things particularly relevant to all Wikipedians working on articles on France, France-related or Francophone topics. Please refer to this article's talk page for related discussions, and add this page to your watchlist to keep abreast of changes and news.

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[edit] News and announcements

(please update as needed)

[edit] France Wikiportal

The Portal:France is an entry-point into France-related articles on the English Wikipedia. Selected articles, pictures and persons are changed monthly. For information on wikiportal maintenance, see Wikipedia:Portal/Directory. There is also Portal:Paris for Paris-related articles and Portal:Military history of France.

[edit] Featured articles

The following France-related articles have become Featured articles, which means that they been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community.
These articles have become featured articles and have appeared on the Main Page:

These articles have become featured articles:

These lists have become featured lists:

[edit] Featured article candidates

Following is a list of France-related featured article candidates. Please contribute toward making them featured articles by voting and copyediting to remedy potential objections.

[edit] Requests for peer review

Following is a list of France-related articles submitted for peer review (an important step toward becoming a featured article). Please contribute by copyediting to remedy potential objections.

[edit] Wikipedia Conventions

[edit] Proper names and titles

In Wikipedia article titles, French noble titles are currently listed in two different ways:

  1. in English translation (Duke of, Count of...) for historical figures and royalty most well-known by their English forms.
  2. in French for other cases, maintaining the French title spelling (seigneur, chevalier, marquis, duc, comte) and the de.

Furthermore, in the second case, capitalization is currently chaotic:

The current concensus is that all articles with French titles using de should have the title in lowercase. For more on these issues, see Wikipedia:Naming conventions (names and titles).

[edit] City names

Where possible, articles on cities and communes in France should go under [[placename]]. Where disambiguation is needed, articles should use the "comma convention" and go under [[placename, département x]]. Thus Tours, but Duras, Lot-et-Garonne and Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis. Note that on the French wikipedia, disambiguation is done with the "parentheses convention" and cities appear as [[placename (département x)]]. (See also Wikipedia:Naming conventions (city names)).

[edit] Titles of works of art

See also: Wikipedia:Naming conventions (capitalization)#Capitalization of expressions borrowed from other languages

In Wikipedia article titles, French titles are currently listed in several different ways:

  • in English translation, if the work of art is well-known by its title in English
  • in French (with redirects from the English title), if it is more well-known by its title in French.

Capitalization is currently chaotic. For consistency sake (and for esthetic reasons), it is suggested that the first word of the title after the definite (le, la, les, l') or indefinite (un, une, des) articles be capitalized, as well as any proper name or place name. Examples:

[edit] Biographical data

For smaller communes, one should include the name of the French département after the town or city name.

[edit] Recently-created articles

The following recently-created articles have a France or Francophone related topic. Feel free to add to the list, by giving article title and creator of the article (items from recently-created articles may also be added to the "Did you know..." section of the French portal).

[edit] Requests for comment

Please add new requests to the top of the list.

[edit] Collaboration opportunities

The France-related topics notice board maintains the following to do list : Template:France tasks. Please update as needed.

France-related topics notice board
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[edit] French Collaboration Project

The French Collaboration Project (WP:FCP) is an effort to fill gaps in the English Wikipedia (on any topic, and not specifically France-related topics) through translation of high quality articles from the French Wikipedia and, generally, to improve the quality of articles in the English Wikipedia. The French Collaboration Project maintains both a list of High Priority Translations (that anyone is encouraged to work on at any time) and (chosen from this list) a selected Translation of the Month.

Articles selected for translation may be chosen from the French language Wikipedia Quality Articles or more generally from any French language articles judged solid, accurate, and free of copyright issues, and having no article or a basic stub page on the English Wikipedia. The aim is to develop, through widespread co-operative translation, featured-standard articles, or at least ones of high quality, on subjects which may not otherwise have been addressed on the English Wikipedia.

Note: as of December 2006, translations from French will be dealt with at Wikipedia:Translation/_fr. The French Translation of the Week, however, will stay in a separate, renamed version of the French Collaboration Project page. This section will be modified accordingly, as these changes are implemented.

[edit] Translation/Missing Articles

In addition to requests listed on the French Collaboration Project (including their "collaboration of the month"), please consult the various subpages of Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles (and specifically Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/fr) and Wikipedia:Translation into English/French to find articles that have yet to be added to the English language wikipedia, or consult Wikipedia:Requested articles for articles that have been requested by users.

You may also add your own requests below. In some cases, it is helpful to see if the French Wikipedia already has the requested article.

User Requested Articles (feel free to add to the list):

[edit] France current events

You can contribute to the wikinews:Portal:France page on wikinews. This page catalogues key events in France.

[edit] Categories and category sorting

  • Category:French writers - this is currently huge. Authors need to be placed on sub-pages and some categories made need to be created.

[edit] Stubs and stub sorting

There are many stubs at Category:France stubs that could use completion. Stubs may also be sorted into the following French categories:

[edit] France-related articles with disputes or other problems

The following articles have alleged problems with factual accuracy, copyright, lack of citations or neutrality. Articles based on the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 are particularly problematic, due to their Victorian aesthetic pronouncements, outdated references and frequent Francophobia (please add {{1911POV}} to indicate that it is substantially a copy of 1911, with a serious POV problem). See also Category:NPOV disputes. Note to contributors: summarize, in a neutral manner, the nature of the dispute here, but please keep the discussion on the talk pages.

[edit] France-related articles with cleanup tags

The following articles have been tagged for cleanup (ungrammatical, poorly formatted, confusing, etc.). This may require some copy editing, wikifying and correction of English usage; sometimes a major rewrite is needed. Articles based on the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1911 are particularly problematic, due to their outdated English (please add {{Update-eb}} to the page to indicate that it is substantially a copy of 1911, and needs to be updated). Please add to the list, and include the clean-up date if indicated. See also Category:All pages needing cleanup.

[edit] France-related articles needing expansion

The following articles are in need of expansion. See also Category:Articles to be expanded. Feel free to add to the list:

[edit] Templates

[edit] Requests for pictures

[edit] User boxes

[edit] Related Projects

[edit] Members

The following is a list of Wikipedians who are either French, or speak French, or live in France or in a Francophone country, or are working on France-related articles. Feel free to add or remove yourself from this list. It is recommended that you add this page to your watchlist.

There are also category lists of Wikipedians in France, French Wikipedians and French speaking Wikipedians. You can join these list by inserting one of the relevant templates on your userpage.

[edit] Active Members

[edit] Inactive Members

  • None
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