Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

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WikiProject Australia

General information
Main project page	talk
Project participants	talk
Noticeboard	talk
→ Article requests	talk
→ Attention needed	talk
→ New articles	talk
Project banner	talk
Project category	talk
Australia Portal	talk
Departments
Assessment	talk
→ Requests	talk
→ Disputes	talk
Cartography	talk
Collaboration	talk
Outreach	talk
Peer review	talk
Photography	talk
Australian WikiProjects
Australian crime	talk
Australian law	talk
Australian military	talk
Australian places	talk
→ Adelaide	talk
→ Brisbane	talk
→ Canberra	talk
→ Geelong	talk
→ Hobart	talk
→ Lake Macquarie	talk
→ Melbourne	talk
→ Perth	talk
→ Sydney	talk
→ Gold Coast	talk
Australian politics	talk
Australian history	talk
→ Maritime history	talk
Australian sports	talk
→ Australian rules	talk
→ Football (soccer)	talk
→ Rugby league	talk
→ Basketball	talk
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Banksia genus	talk
Australian biota	talk
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Shortcut: WP:AUS WP:AUSTRALIA

The Australia WikiProject is a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Australia.

Our goals

To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australia.
To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australia in Wikipedia.

Our scope: The project generally considers any article related to Australia to be a valid topic.

Our structure

Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:

Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialised tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration.
Specialised WikiProjects, which are groups for collaboration on specific areas of Australia, such as cities, politics and sports.

1 Project organisation
- 1.1 Userbox
- 1.2 Departments
2 Participants
- 2.1 Active members
- 2.2 Inactive members
3 Specialised WikiProjects

[edit] Project organisation

Arts:
Biography:
Geography: WikiProject Australian places, Australian cities WikiProjects
History: WikiProject Australian history
Maritime History WikiProject Australian maritime history
Military Australian military history task force
Science:
Society: WikiProject Australian politics
Sports: WikiProject Australian sports, WikiProject AFL, WikiProject A-League, WikiProject Football (soccer) in Australia, WikiProject NBL, WikiProject V8 Supercars

[edit] Userbox

This user is a member of WikiProject Australia

Put {{User WPAustralia}} on your user page to show your membership of WikiProject Australia.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

Australia articles		Importance
Australia articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Class
	FA	4	8	9	9	7	37
	A	2	2	3		1	8
	GA	2	6	3	2	8	21
	B	27	57	57	24	63	228
	Start	29	61	208	216	724	1238
	Stub	1	23	283	251	4274	4832
	Unassessed	1	7	8	30	6979	7025
	Total	66	164	571	532	12056	13389

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australian articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Australia}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Cartography

The cartography department aims to create a collection of high-quality maps for use in Australia articles.

The department gathers existing public doman and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

[edit] Collaboration

The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Australia (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of Australia-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Photography

The photography department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs and images for use in Australia articles.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Active members

Please feel free to add your name to this list if you would like to join the project; you are also encouraged to participate in any of our descendant WikiProjects that might interest you.

AC Boy (talk • contribs) - Expert on Mt Henry Peninsula, Aquinas College, Swan River, Perth Region and Climate.
Actuarial disco boy (talk • contribs) - Sydney northern beaches, economics, actuarial equations.
Agir (talk • contribs) - Mainly Adelaide and outback south Australia.
Amitch (talk • contribs)
Amyjoanna (talk • contribs) - Brisbane/Queensland and Adelaide/South Australia.
andrew.hermiz (talk • contribs) - I love Australian Politics- especially Labor Party Of Australia
Andy.Wenman (talk • contribs) - I mainly write about my local area ie the Blue Mountains. I'd appreciate some feedback.
Ansell (talk • contribs)
Ansett (talk • contribs)
Arnzy (talk • contribs) - Mainly Brisbane and Queensland related articles, but do wander outside those areas.
Astrokey44 (talk • contribs)
AtD (talk • contribs)
AtholM (talk • contribs) - Newcastle/Hunter Valley, roads and railways within NSW and ACT, Motor vehicle technical and engineering topics
Atlantis Hawk (talk • contribs) - Sydney suburbs and schools.
Aussie-Alex (talk • contribs) - Television
Bdude (talk • contribs) - Newcastle/Hunter Valley
Bduke (talk • contribs)
BigDan (talk • contribs) - Television, radio, newspapers, sports, Newcastle and Upper Hunter topics, amongst others
Billy the Dog (talk • contribs) - Melbourne, Central Victoria, Sociology
Bitbitz.xx (talk • contribs)
*bj* (talk • contribs)
Blnguyen (talk • contribs) - Let's see what happens.
Boltonfan22 (talk • contribs)
Boroughswimmer (talk • contribs) - Australian sport especially swimming.
BrianSkelly (talk • contribs) - Australian ISP Articles
Callophylla (talk • contribs) - The South West
Canley (talk • contribs)
Capitalistroadster (talk • contribs)
Casliber (talk • contribs)
Celestialstarco (talk • contribs) - Northern Territory, whatever comes up.
Cheebung (talk • contribs) - Victoria, Melbourne, Australian Crime, Australian Film
Chuq (talk • contribs)
Comte0 (talk • contribs)
Crazyspoonkiller (talk • contribs) - Sydney, entertainment (TV shows, radio, etc.)
Crocodile_Punter (talk • contribs)
Cyberjunkie (talk • contribs)
DaGizza (talk • contribs) - Mostly sport and some Sydney stuff.
Daniel.Bryant (talk • contribs)
Danieljames626 (talk • contribs) - I am mostly a reader, but would like to help out.
darcyj (talk • contribs) - cricket, general sport, Canberra (the place, not the government per se), history
darkliight (talk • contribs)
DeathFalcon (talk • contribs)Macedon Ranges, Victoria. Video Game Industry
Deon555 (talk • contribs) - Mainly Melbourne related stuff and law ;)
Dfrg.msc (talk • contribs) - Currency, Music, Canberra. I love this Sunburnt Country!
Doctor Mario Claw (talk • contribs) - I'm interested in Aus TV shows.
Donama (talk • contribs)
Down2mars (talk • contribs) - Sydney, Inner West, South West and other random things.
Drizzt_Jamo (talk • contribs) - Soccer, Canberra.
Elomis (talk • contribs) - Information Technology, Media and Law.
Evildoctorcow (talk • contribs) - Mainly Melbourne and some other schtuff
Figaro (talk • contribs) - Brisbane and Queensland and related topics - and Australian wildlife (mostly birds and marsupials) - and Commonwealth and Olympic Games in Australia - and Expo in Brisbane - and Australian currency
Froggydarb (talk • contribs) - Australian wildlife (mostly frogs) and environment.
Geobeedude (talk • contribs)
Gertzy (talk • contribs) - Townsville, Queensland and Aboriginal History
Ghostieguide (talk • contribs) - Convict History, Crime, Western Australia.
Gil Hardwick (talk • contribs) - Traditional Aboriginal Anthropology, Colonial Social History, Social & Environmental Impact of Settlement.
Gnangarra (talk • contribs) — still amazed at all the useful(useless) accumulated knowledge lost within.
Golden Wattle (talk • contribs)
Grahamec (talk • contribs)
Greg the White Falcon (talk • contribs)
Hesperian (talk • contribs)
Hide&Reason (talk • contribs) - Happy editing anything, really.
Hossen27 (talk • contribs) - Never got around to adding myself until now. Geography and History.
ImperialAssassin (talk • contribs) - Geography
Iorek85 (talk • contribs)
Jack Upland (talk • contribs)
THE MILJAKINATOR 11:34, 26 November 2006 (UTC) - Already helped with military history and Sydney suburbs, gonna continue now and start some articles
Jeendan (talk • contribs) - History, cancer, marine law.
Jen Powell-Psmith (talk • contribs)
Jmount (talk • contribs) - Law, Politics/government, NSW topics.
John Harrison Highns (talk • contribs)
Jorcoga (talk • contribs)
Jpeob (talk • contribs)
jpmanalo (talk • contribs) - New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Greater Sydney, and anything else that I can lend a hand to.
Just James (talk • contribs) - Sutherland Shire, Sydney, NSW. Engineering. Other stuff in general.
JustinFromAus (talk • contribs)
Kelvin Williams (talk • contribs)
librarianofages (talk • contribs) - Rabid inclusionist, lives in Manningham.
lincalinca (talk • contribs) - Australian literature, music and television
LiquidGhoul (talk • contribs) - Fauna/Flora etc. Newcastle and Gloucester area. Photography.
lizzyp4 (talk • contribs) - Anything to do with the NSW area and history. Can do spanish translations for any type of article so just ask!
Longhair (talk • contribs)
Marialadouce (talk • contribs) Translations to and from English, French and Spanish. Please ask me to translate if you need help! I'd be happy to oblige.
McKay (talk • contribs)
MichaelBillington (talk • contribs)
MicheleSaranovich (talk • contribs)
mmx (talk • contribs) - Mainly the NSW Central Coast.
MojoTas (talk • contribs) - Tasmania, law, politics.
Moondyne (talk • contribs) - history, geography, whatever
Morgrim (talk • contribs) - Anything on the south-west corner of WA, and WA reptiles (snakes in particular).
MulgaBill (talk • contribs) - Mainly history, when time allows.
MyNameIsNotBob (talk • contribs)
Napierg (talk • contribs) - Newcastle/Hunter Valley Area, Economics, History.
Nathannoblet (talk • contribs) - Gippsland, Victoia
Netsnipe (talk • contribs)
NMarkRoberts (talk • contribs) - Brisbane, Queensland; geography, orienteering; cartographer, birdwatcher.
Paul foord (talk • contribs)
Petaholmes (talk • contribs)
Phil Wardle (talk • contribs) - Folk music, photography, Tasmania, sailing.
pkortge (talk • contribs) - EDUCANG Colleges, South East Queensland.
Plantnerd (talk • contribs)- Environmental Science, Native Plants, Photography.
Pongo489 (talk • contribs)
Ptcamn (talk • contribs) - Mostly Aboriginal languages and related topics.
QazPlm (talk • contribs)
RaptorRobot (talk • contribs) - Will help anything concerning geography and film history
Rebecca (talk • contribs)
riana_dzasta (talk • contribs) My knowledge of Australian history, law and politics is a little shaky, but I'll try to help out in any way I can.
RockerballAustralia (talk • contribs)
Rocketfrog (talk • contribs) - Australian history
Sapi (talk • contribs) - Mostly reading and cleanup but I expand anything I know about
Sarah_Ewart (talk • contribs)
Sasha Culjkovic (talk • contribs)
SatuSuro (talk • contribs)
SauliH (talk • contribs) - Lutheran Church of Australia history, Places, South Australia - particularly the Adelaide Hills, Queensland - particularly the Sunshine Coast. I would also love to start a coastline of Australia project sometime, where every stretch of coast is detailed. Anyone else?
ScottDavis (talk • contribs)
Serenaacw (talk • contribs)Any research,I can take some pictures within my area,cleanup.
Sfacets (talk • contribs) - Melbourne... and any cleaning up that needs doin'.
Shadow007 (talk • contribs) - Law
Shiftchange (talk • contribs)
Shojo (talk • contribs) - fan of Dr Karl
SilasM (talk • contribs) - Law
slf67 (talk • contribs)
Smoth 007 (talk • contribs)
Spec ops commando (talk • contribs)
Spong (talk • contribs) - South Australia - General.
St0ne (talk • contribs)
Stuart D. (talk • contribs) - Australian Rules Football, mainly the AFL.
Symode09 (talk • contribs) - Things about WA I interact with like the Mt Henry Peninsula or Aquinas College
Tasmarshall (talk • contribs) - Tasmania, orienteering, computing.
Terovian (talk • contribs) - Sydney... and anything else I can think of.
Thebainer (talk • contribs)
The Anonymous User (talk • contribs)
Thuringowacityrep (talk • contribs) - Thuringowa city Queensland
Todd661 (talk • contribs) - Central Coast...Current Project is The Entrance, New South Wales.
Trentis (talk • contribs) - Australian Music and Mid North Coast/ Riverina towns.
Trisreed (talk • contribs) - Anything and everything
Uncke_Herb (talk • contribs)
Underneath-it-All (talk • contribs) - Australian entertainers
Vufors (talk • contribs) - Science & Military
Walrusbeatle (talk • contribs)
Wellingtoncat (talk • contribs) - Australian Classical Music and Issues Associated with Tasmania (esp biography and education)
Wild-gazelle (talk • contribs)
Witty lama (talk • contribs)
Wwwhhh (talk • contribs) - Will work mainly on sports-related articles.
Xtra (talk • contribs)
Yuanchosaan (talk • contribs) - Will help with flora and fauna of Australia
Zeddicus Zu'l Zorander (talk • contribs)
Zscout370 (talk • contribs) - National symbols of Australia
Zzrbiker (talk • contribs)
52 Pickup (talk • contribs) - For now, helping out with templates and with the History project. Also planning to improve Australia-related entries on the German wikipedia.
Smbarnzy (talk • contribs) - Aquinas College, Public Schools Association, WACA Ground, Western Warriors

[edit] Inactive members

This list includes those members of the project who have not edited for at least three months; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the active members section upon your return.