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This page can be used to gauge support for potential WikiProjects before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.

Proposing a project 
To propose a project, write a brief description, and add it along with your name to the list below (in alphabetical order by topic). Some boilerplate you can use:
== Name of project ==

; Description : [description here]

; Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
# [your name here]

; Comments
Expressing interest
If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.
Creating a project
If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects.
Requesting a project
There may be cases where you believe that there is a pronounced need for the creation of a project which does not yet exist which you may not personally feel qualified to join. Some examples might be certain countries, disciplines, etc. In the event you are aware of such a situation, please add the relevant name to the list of projects below and see if there are any individuals interested in creating such a project.


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[edit] A database with photos of people from all over the world

Description: Hi, I'm quite new at Wikipedia. I have noticed that there are lots of articles called SomeEthnicity_People that explain how the different ethnicities of the World are. There is an article for French People, Spanish People, Chinese People, etc. They explain the way of life of the people belonging to these ethnicities, their beliefs, religion, way of life, important people belonging to that social group, etc. But when I go to the page of, for example, Yanomami people, I don't find any picture of a Yanomami. I can't know through wikipedia how does a Yanomami look like. I have to look at google; and maybe with the Yanomamis is easy because they are a very specific ethnic group from the Amazonas and there are many studies about them, but for example, if I want to see how do a swede look like, how do I do it? Or a spaniard. I can go to the articles Swedish People and Spanish people, but they just provide me three or four old images, that in most cases are not even pictures (they use to be old black and white paintings) that do not help me to create in my mind an image of how do a swede or a spaniard look like. And I think this is very important: if Wikipedia's mision is to help the person who is reading Wikipedia to create himself a mental image of what he is reading, I think it this is much more easy with pictures. If the Spanish people article had associated another article called, for example, Spanish people pictures, anyone who wanted to know "how are the spaniards", "how do a spaniard look like" could know it. And not only through words that explain him that spaniards come from the Iberians, the Celts, the Visigoths, etc, (which is the information anyone reading the Wikipedia can obtain today) but also with 100 pictures that helped him to create a mental image of the spaniards.

So this is what I purpose. To coordinate it well, I think that this new idea should be introduced as a project. The own wikipedian users who took part on the project would take pictures in their cities, in their regions; the English Wikipedia is the only one able to do this, because it's the only wikipedia that has its users spread all over the world. The pictures should be rigorously taken to be real samples of the people of every part of the world. For example, if in Spain 40% of people has black hair, 45% dark brown hair, 10% fair brown hair, 4% blonde and 1% red-haired, the pictures should show this reality. The images would be close-up high resolution pictures of the different ethnicities of all over the world that could be made by the own wikipedians so that we could create a database with hundreds and hundreds of pictures from the people living all over the world; people from every country, from every region (because for example, Spanish people includes Basques, Catalans, Galicians, Andalusians, etc, and I can assure you there is a big difference between a typical andalusian from the south who probably bears a lot of north african heritage, and a catalan who looks more like a french or a mountaineer living in the celtic mountains of the northern Spain who looks like a Scottish Highlander). These pictures would represent a sample of how does the people of everywhere in the world look like. I think that this collection of pictures, this database, would be much more valuable than many articles that talk about people, the ethnicities, etc, that in fact, can hardly help the wikipedian user to create himself a global image of the world in his mind. With this project we would literally give a face to every region in the world and it would help to humanize lots of regions that today a day, by many people, are considered distants (for example, the Middle East, from the western eyes; specially if these eyes live in America).

When we study history, about the old civilizations, we not only want to read their books and their stories, we wanna know how they were, we would like to see pictures of Julius Caesar, pictures of Atilla the Hun: how did he look like? Was he Asian? European? Turkic? So these are the same questions that anyone reading the wikipedia wonders when reading an article that talks about other peoples and cultures: how do they look like?.

So that's it; post here what do you think, or post a comment in my talk page. This project is a great deal, but if it was successful, it would be amazing, and the database created would be extremely clarifier and it could be used by infinite articles.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested) : Actually this is a project that I imagined today after reading some articles talking about the skin, hair and eyes color of the humans and some articles of Somewhere_People, so for the moment I am alone.

  1. User:Onofre_Bouvila

Onofre Bouvila 00:36, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Feel free to comment this project.

[edit] Admin Oversight Board

Description - To try to determine if it is feasible to create a board of administrators and non-administrators, possibly with wikipedia bureaucrats and staff as well, which could act in a judicial capacity to review behavior of administrators, specifically regarding the propriety of their actions, and how such a board could be specifically constituted. The existence of such a board composed of respected non-administrators and administrators alike may be sufficient to forestall questioning of whether a decision made by it is truly fair and independent, as opposed to being a group of administrators who might be seen as acting to reduce the possibility of being sanctioned for similar actions of their own. It also might be sufficient to preempt the possibility of disaffected editors from going so far as to bring civil complaints against wikipedia as an entity or against individual administrators in particular.

Temporary Project Page: User:Badbilltucker/Admin Oversight Board

Interested wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comments:

  • You might want to get some more feedback about this, even if others gain interest in the project. Maybe a note about this idea should be left on WP:AN? -- Ned Scott 10:55, 11 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Africa

Description WikiProject Africa would be dedicated to improving the African related articles, such as, country pages and history pages, which are among the most lowely rated country pages. Wikiproject Africa will also address diputes over controversial topics, for exapmle Ivory Coast vs. Cote-d'Ivoire. I am relatively new to Wikipedia and could use help setting up the temporary page and templates among other things that I am ignorant of. XYZ CrVo 02:06, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary Project Page: User:XYZ CrVo/WikiProject Africa

User: XYZ CrVo

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if interested) :

  • Badbilltucker 01:08, 15 November 2006 (UTC) - will probably help primarily in the assessment area.
  • Chris5897 (T@£k) 17:08, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

  • One noteworthy difference with this proposal is that, according to the project page, it expects to engage in assessments, which are generally not done on most of the articles in the Africa category. I too expect that editors would only work on articles within their own sphere of expertise. However, it may well be that one or more editors may be knowledgable in more than one field. Certainly, that is the case in the United States, where several editors work on articles from a variety of states, myself among them (Missouri and South Dakota, both of which I have resided in.) Also, the creation of one umbrella project does not rule out the creation of smaller projects later. In fact, if successful, it would probably make the subprojects more likely than they would otherwise be. Badbilltucker 01:01, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Animals of Farthing Wood

Description: This WikiProject would aim at improving all of the pages related to the Animals of Farthing Wood, including detailed information on all of the books in the series, the television adaption, the characters, and the author (Colin Dann). Character descriptions are aimed to be primarily about the characters in the books, with a brief blurb on their roles in the television adaption, and some differences between the two. Edit: To clarify, the Animals of Farthing Wood is a fictional novel series, and there was later an animated television adaption produced by the EBC and the BBC.

Temporary Project Page: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Animals of Farthing Wood

User: MelicansMatkin

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

[edit] Antarctica

Description: This proposed WikiProject would deal with the continent of Antarctica. As, seemingly, most of the information available relating to the continent is tied closely to the geography of the continent, I believe that the project will deal primarily with the geography of Antarctica, and, to a lesser extent, the climate, the scientific research taking place in Antarctica, the wildlife of the area, and some geological history.

Temporary Project Page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Antarctica

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians:

Comments:

[edit] Austria

Description: This is to improve articles on Austria through an article improvement drive, translation from the German Wikipedia and an Article research drive for non existing articles and stubs.

Temporary Page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Austria

User:

Interested Wikipedians

[edit] BBC Sitcoms

Description: This project aims to improve articles on all BBC sitcoms (well known and unknown) and also create smaller WikiProjects about specific sitcoms. This includes write plots for episodes of more well known sitcoms and improving and create pages on the characters starring in the sitcoms and even creating main pages on sitcoms.

Please post any comments on the following talk page. Mollsmolyneux's talk

Temporary project page: User:Mollsmolyneux/BBC Sitcoms

User: Mollsmolyneux 14:15, 14 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

Comments: Great idea, I've always wanted to see shows like Bottom, the Young Ones, My Hero etc. have more articles.

There already is an existing Wikipedia:WikiProject BBC, and it seems to me that maybe you could achieve the same goals as members of that project as you might in creating your own. It might also be better, because the definition of "sitcom" might not apply to all the shows you might want to include, while by definition all of them will be in the scope of the BBC project. Badbilltucker 15:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
The Young ones has to be the funniest sitcom I've watched to date, right up there with legends such as Only Fools and Horses and Open All Hours. I'm definatly interested! Druss666uk 15:39, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Berlin

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Berlin, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Berlin in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [your name here]
Comments
  • If someone can run this, it would be great. There are already a style for this project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for style. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bionicle

Description: A WikiProject for Lego's toy line Bionicle. To maintain and expand all the Bionicle articles on Wikipedia.

Temporary Project Page: User:Torritorri/WikiProject Bionicle

User: TorriTorri

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Note: Wikipedia:WikiProject Lego already is already engaged in dealing with this subject. Badbilltucker 15:54, 27 September 2006 (UTC)

Yeah, you might just want to see about collaborating with the existing Lego WikiProject on this one. Maybe making Bionicle a sub page on their project as apart of their group but with a dedicated to do list and talk page. -- Ned Scott 17:58, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Bittorrent

Description: A Wikiproject for the bittorrent protocol, related technology, and clients. To maintain and expand all related articles, keeping existing articles up-to-date, and possibly putting together a standard how clients are presented. There might be an expansion in to other p2p clients if there is enough support.

User: Darthnader37 06:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below)

  • Bernalj90 23:30, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
  • k1ngyo 21:55, 04 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] British Crime

Description This project aims to generally improve all pages relating to British crime to better categorise them and to create new articles on British crime not currently on Wikipedia. This project is based on the highly successful WikiProject: Australian crime. This has been very useful in cleanup and improvement generally of pages relating to Australian crime.
Temporary Project Page
User:Lucy-marie/WikiProject British Crime

User Lucy-marie

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below)

  • MadMax 19:04, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 10:18, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
  • England Gangs 19:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Lucy-marie 20:16, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Chicago

Description
A project about anything related to Chicago, including the suburbs.
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Laleena 18:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Comments

Chicago is a very important city, and so it really needs a project devoted to it. Laleena 18:33, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago. Badbilltucker 18:15, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Crime

Description
A project about information related to true-life crimes and criminals
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. Remember 17:46, 8 December 2006 (UTC)
Comments

While there are projects related to this one, I feel that there is no central project that has jurisdiction over all true-life crime articles.


[edit] WikiProject Cite

Description This project basically aims to find citations for articles in Category:Articles lacking sources with templates {{unreferenced}} and {{primarysources}}. Also, it would make a new template, ({{refformat}} or {{properref}} maybe) that would indicate an article with sources, but not in the proper references format. Many articles have their citations as external links like this [1]. This would put the article in a category and members of the this WikiProject could change it to the proper format. We could also work on Wikipedia:WikiProject Unreferenced GA/Nominations, a list of articles that woul be GA if they have citations.

Temporary Project Page
None for now.

User Nauticashades (talk • contribs)

RICKistheBOSS 15:05, 29 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cologne

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Cologne, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Cologne in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
Comments
  • If someone ca ntake this on it would be great. A style is already in use. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for the style. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Comedians

Description: This would be a specific type of Biography project, specifically for working with comedians, living and dead, from all countries, etc. This would not include things such as sketch groups or comedy clubs, etc...

User: --Twintone 16:33, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

[edit] Copyeditor's League

Description: This is a proposal for the creation of a centralized group of talented copyeditors for the purpose of eliminating the substantial backlog of tagged articles. This group will assume the responsibility of processing these articles and properly editing them for grammar, punctuation, capitalization, word usage, formatting and wikification. The copyeditor's job is largely thankless, but is necessary to ensure the viability of Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject League of Copyeditors

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Trusilver 20:55, 15 November 2006 (UTC)
  • IrisWings 21:53, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Rintrah 13:04, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Jaxhere 16:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Little Miss Might Be Wrong 03:43, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • EMT1871 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Aguerriero (talk) 03:33, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Editor at Large 04:32, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments: This project is now active. Trusilver 03:57, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Cosmetics

Description: To improve information on cosmetics, especially from the points of view of history, industry, biography and science. To remove the advertorial copy that affects many cosmetic industry articles at present, create NPOV, and add citations. To ensure a fuller context for cosmetics articles, linking to issues including feminism, culture, animal welfare, religion, social history, medical ethics and so on.

User: TinaSparkle 14:33, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: available at my user page.

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)

Comments: How do we protect against advertorial vandalism? Bobzchemist 19:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

I guess that's where we chemists come in, isn't it?--Sam195 13:47, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
Yes, and we copyeditors too! I think diligence and a sharp eye are the best lines of defence, unless anyone has the skills to write a super cosmetics anti-vandalism bot. -- TinaSparkle 15:30, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Costa Rica

Description: This is a proposal for a project aiming to the improving and expanding of Costa Rica-related articles. Articles such as List of schools in Costa Rica and Battle of Rivas (which are extremely important to understand Costa Rica's history and social structure) are left in a permanent stub condition and left with none or vague info. Other institutions, such as Saint Mary High School, have taken of Wikipedia's lack of information about Costa Rica to set up personal web pages or biased articles about themselves. This project would aim to improve and radically change this articles until they are in a professional and unbiased format.

User: Bernalj90 18:50, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Bernalj90/WikiProject Costa Rica

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. Badbilltucker - will try to help as much as I can, which, regretably, may not be much.

Comments:

[edit] De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Description: This is a proposal to make articles on mathematical concepts more accessible to a general audience through the use of analogies, diagrams, and examples.

Temporary project page: User:Mistercow/De-abstraction of Mathematics Articles

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Linus M. I personally think that this project would be excellent.

Comments:

  • How does this fit with Wikipedia:WikiProject Mathematics? This may work better as a sub project of that, it should certainly be mentioned there. I think most members probably support making articles more accessable, as long as it does not compremise acuracy. --Salix alba (talk) 00:59, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
  • Perhaps this should support the creation of seperate articles, such as those for both Theories of Relativity? superscienceman 16:20, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
    • Yes, I agree that seperate articles, or at least seperate sections would be advisable. Otherwise, Wikipedia would suddenly become useless to math-nuts. -- Zanimum 18:01, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dedicated Article Maintenance

Description: A project that encourages users to "adopt" one or more articles. They would then participate regularly in the maintenance and expansion of these articles.

Temporary project page: User:Linus M./WikiProject Dedicated Article Maintenance

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Linus M.

Comments: This is an interesting idea, but I doubt that it would be very productive unless you had membership out the wazoo. How long would the article be "adopted"? How would you select which articles need to be adopted? Why can't we leave this for the Article improvement drive? Diez2 14:37, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Endangered languages (and language revitalization)

Brief proposal and discussion of scope: User:Ling.Nut#Current_Projects

Skeletal project page: see top of page for links to lists of endangered languages that I have been working on:

User: User:Ling.Nut

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

[edit] Entourage

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality and quantity of Entourage related articles, and decide and implement uniform editing guidelines on pages related to Entourage.

Temporary project page: User:Argash/WikiProject Entourage

User: Argash

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): Also add you name to the members list on the temporary project page.

  1. Sven Erixon (talk • contribs)
  2. Davey4 (talk • contribs)

[edit] First Person Shooters

The idea of this project is to show people just how many First Person shooters there are and how important it is to some people.

Temporary Project Page: User:Destructo_087/First Person Shooters

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name):

Comments:

  • Might want to work within WP:CVG on this one. -- Ned Scott 06:44, 5 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Fishing

Description: A WikiProject for Fishing, and the multitudinous articles related thereto. I think scope is dependent on participants. Some organization of the many articles is definitely needed, and this is where group participation is particularly valuable. Plenty of grunt work in fleshing out and cleaning up articles is, of course, possible, too.

Temporary Project Page: User:ENeville/WikiProject Fishing

User: ENeville

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below): User:CaptainXel

[edit] Fort Worth, Texas

Description: There is a need now for a WikiProject dealing with the city of Fort Worth, Texas. The article is of poor quality, as are all of the articles relating to it. (Look at History of Fort Worth, Texas for example. It is a recent article, and help is needed to improve its quality.) Dallas, Texas already has a WikiProject, and it's time Fort Worth got one as well.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

Comments

  • A comment from an obvious outsider, but wouldn't it be possible to contact the people at the Dallas project and see if they would be willing to expand it to include the entire Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex area? Considering that the two projects would have a very high degree of overlap, maybe that would be the most effective way to go. Badbilltucker 02:34, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
This has already been done, but it was voted to keep the article solely about Dallas itself. Stallions2010 02:42, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
Not the *article*, the *project*. Stevage 22:29, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Sorry, my mistake. This is what I meant. On WikiProject Dallas, the vote differed between keeping the project about Dallas itself or Dallas and its suburbs. No one voted to expand the project to include Fort Worth as well, which was one of the options. --Stallions2010 22:52, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] France

There seems to me to be a very real need for a project dealing with France, including its geography, history, and people. This is a very large and very historically significant country whose articles are handled in a less-than-organized way, IMO, as things stand. Unfortunately, my own current task load seems to me to be such as to make it impossible for me personally to spend much time with the project. Please feel free to contact me in setting up such a project if you are interested in establishing it. Badbilltucker 19:59, 9 November 2006 (UTC)

STTW (talk) 13:31, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Badbilltucker 16:53, 19 November 2006 (UTC)
Stevage 22:28, 23 November 2006 (UTC)
Chris5897 (T@£k) 17:06, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
UberCryxic 23:55, 28 November 2006 (UTC)
Stallions2010 01:19, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
Great idea, actually it is the purpose of this project to bring together all information pertaining to France and manage them meaningfully. STTW (talk) 18:07, 24 November 2006 (UTC)
I guess that this Wikiproject would take control of Portal:France and Portal:Paris
On second thoughts, since the concept of "parent" WikiProjects exists, perhaps WP France should just be a "parent" of the other, more specialised articles, but also manage all French related stuff that slips between the cracks. Stevage 06:55, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I'd love to contribute to this project (time permitting). It was quite a surprise for me to find out there wan't one already. There certainly ought to be one. Personally, I don't prefer the "parent" WikiProject idea. Having one big project feels better. That's the point of it after all. LestatdeLioncourt talk 18:23, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
I had requested technical help from the {{WP India}} and {{WikiProject Germany}} and the response was overwehlming. We would be able to use several tools available from them. If all goes well I would start the project in a couple of weeks. Looking forward to your support. STTW (talk) 18:13, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Football (soccer) in the United States of America and Canada

Please offer suggestions for a better name (preferably shorter.) The scope of the project includes improvement of all the soccer leauges, such as the MLS and USL, in Canada and the USA. Also included would be their national teams. The project would also develope articles on players, coaches, and other influencial figures in the game. XYZ CrVo 02:33, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

  • Comments Feel free to leave any comments
  • Possibly name project WikiProject North American Football (Soccer) but suggest we just add a sub project to Wikipedia:WikiProject Football since it's already established. Jazznutuva 06:28, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I agree with the name suggestion. I'm not clear on the structure of WikiProjects - when a subProject is better, when it should be its own thing, etc., so I'll defer to the experts on that. Bill Oaf 13:27, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • You don't want to say "the USA and Canada"; see guidelines at Wikipedia:Manual of Style#Acronyms and abbreviations: "When including the United States in a list of countries, do not abbreviate the “United States” (for example, “France and the United States”, not “France and the U.S.”)." I'm good with North America which you can easily defines as the United States and Canada. Existing articles on soccer specific to the United States and Canada use "soccer" rather than "football" and I think that is consistent with Wikipedia principles regarding spelling and usage, but that is certainly a good topic for discussion if we had a project page. Canadiana 15:15, 21 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I think the title should definitley be Wikiproject North American Soccer as in North America football is football. м info 23:57, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Greenland

Description: This project will serve to increase the overall scope of awareness and knowledge of the independant Danish island nation of Greenland and create and improve articles relating to it. It will serve, in an atmosphere of cooperation and diversity, as a guide and a model to assist fellow wikipedians who wish to improve the quality of their articles.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject Greenland
Interested Wikipedians (please your add name below)

[edit] Gulf Wars

Description: To create and improve articles relating to the Gulf Wars, spanning from the Iran-Iraq War, The First Gulf War (Operation Desert Sheild) and indepth work on the Second Gulf War (2003 War of Iraq) and the on-going conflict. Related topics include things such as the burning of Kuwaiti oil fields, Gulf War Syndrome and The Iraqi Republican Guard. Also included will be the improvement of related movies, documentaries and shows concerned with the Gulf Wars.

Intrested Wikipedians Add your names ::: 1. --Sharz 07:55, 23 November 2006 (UTC)

You might contact WikiProject Military history to see if one or more of its existing task forces already deal in detail with this subject. Badbilltucker 18:17, 26 November 2006 (UTC)
Indeed. We don't have anything explicit at the moment, but setting up a new task force should be much simpler than creating an entirely separate new WikiProject. Kirill Lokshin 18:55, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Half-Life

Description: To improve all Half-Life related articles, and maintain current FA articles such as Half-Life 2

Temporary project page: User:Selmo/WikiProject Half Life

[edit] Hamburg

Description
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the City of Hamburg, its buroughs, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Hamburg in a fair and accurate manner. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. 亮HH
Comments
  • Itwould be great if someone ca ntake this on. There's already a format for the project. Check WP Munich and WP Germany for format. Kingjeff 23:18, 25 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Heroes

Description: Dedicated to maintaining and improving all articles related to the television show Heroes

Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name below.):

  1. EnsRedShirt

Comment: I know I'm here after you all, but I'm trying to organize an NBC Universal WikiProject and Heroes would be well within the scope of the project. If you are interested, just scroll down.--Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon) 22:56, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Historical People from Yellowknife

Description: The project will aim to create a category with working articles and links for active reference use on the history of Yellowknife, NT, Canada. It will contain a category page that "contains" all of the people that I/we have created articles on.

User:

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comment

  • I would be interested in Yellowknife instead of a specific topics about it. Kingjeff 23:22, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The HKLNA Project

Description: The Hong Kong Language Needs Assessment Project is a seminal project for English language policy and planning around the world. Although focused on Hong Kong government and society, its theoretical foundation can be applied to most East Asian countries and many countries in other regions where the English language is promoted as a mandatory universal second language in public school systems. The HKLNA-Project is about language quality and language diversity and the preservation of both. The project combines a variety of scientific disciplines including economics, linguistics, political science, statistics, as well as anthropology, sociology, and history. The project took two years to assemble, contains many hundreds of graphs, charts, and tables and a large number of links. If it has an important drawback, then it is the outdated software with which it was produced and a need for software updating and online maintenance.

Comment

  • As the creator and promoter of the project I would be interested in helping to formulate its listing User:R. A. Stegemann 08:53, 17 November 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Hotels

Description: I'm proposing this WikiProject as I feel that the hotel articles on Wikipedia could benefit from such a coordinated effort. The project would aim to collaborate and direct the efforts of editors interested in improving and building upon hotel articles. The primary aim of this WikiProject would aim to establish a structure and consistency with hotel-related articles. I'm aiming to keep this as broad as possible at this time - open to suggestions.

Any comments regarding the proposed creation of this project would be much appreciated.

Temporary project page: User:Luckyluke/WikiProject Hotels

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Luke! 05:11, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
  • MCB 06:42, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments


[edit] Iceland

Description: The project is being created to create, improve and maintain articles relating to Iceland, its geography, history, people, and culture.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Iceland

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

Comments: I proposed this project earlier, though I only got one other person to join. Here's the original page, if you want to incorporate any of that stuff into your page. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 22:16, 12 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Idol series

Description: The project will aim to improve the quality of Idol series related articles, see Talk:Idol series for an earlier description of proposed project.

Users who have expressed an interest in the Idol series: Template:User Idol series, Category:Wikipedians who like American Idol

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):

  1. Shimmera 16:30, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
  2. íslenskur fellibylur #12 (samtal) 23:18, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Another very narrow scope project, this could probably just as easily be done via the talk page of the main article. Unless there's a major cleanup needed, not sure what else should be expanded on those topics. See WP:NOT#Wikipedia is not an indiscriminate collection of information. -- Ned Scott 18:06, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Iglesia ni Cristo

Description: This proposed WikiProject centers around Wikipedia articles about the religious organization known as Iglesia ni Cristo. We aim to create and maintain articles that are both well referenced and in a neutral point of view, keeping them at the level of quality Wikipedia intends all articles to be. The Wikiproject will also serve for centralized discussion and collaboration about such articles.

Temporary project page: User:Lbmixpro/WikiProject Iglesia ni Cristo

User: LBMixPro <Speak|on|it!> 09:02, 17 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • --Ironbrew 08:19, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Saleem 01:50, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Da'jhan 20:08, 30 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Interbank networks

Description: This project is intended to expand Wikipedia's current coverage of the world's various interbank networks (a.k.a. ATM networks or ATM consortiums). This involves writing about these interbank networks, their services, as well as where they provide their services, whether on an international, national or regional level.

Temporary project page: User:Sky Harbor/Interbank networks

User: Sky Harbor 14:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

[edit] Interwiki

Description
To coordinate the use of interwiki bots, limiting database load and increasing coverage of the entire wiki.
Temporary page
User:ST47/WikiProject Interwiki
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. ST47Talk
  2. User:Nuno Tavares talk 15:55, 12 December 2006 (UTC)
Comments

[edit] IPA

Aim: To introduce IPA pronunciation guides to more articles, a feature that is currently sorely lacking on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Poolkris/Wikiproject IPA.

Interested Wikipedians:

1) Kris 15:54, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
2) Jaxten 00:38, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject Kansas City

Aim: To improve and create articles relating to Kansas City and the Surrounding Areas

Temporary Project Page: User:Geobeedude

Interested Wikipedians

1) User:Geobeedude
2) Stallions2010 01:22, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments

[edit] Kurds

Description: A project to encourage people to expand Kurdish related articles and to structure these articles on Wikipedia.

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Ozgur Gerilla 01:50, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
  • Khosrow II 22:45, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
  • D.Kurdistani 18:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Heja Helweda 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Conditional support. Should be named "Wikiproject Kurdish people" or something along that line. --Cat out 18:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Stallions2010 01:21, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

It should be renamed to "Wikiproject Kurdish people" as per naming conventions. --Cat out 15:30, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
I say we name it Wikipedia: WikiProject Kurdistan, it’s a shorter name. And as far as naming conventions go Wikipedia’s policy clearly say’s, “it is important to note that these are conventions, not rules carved in stone”. --D.Kurdistani 18:41, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
"Wikiproject Kurdistan" would be fine however kurds in europe would be beyond the scope of such a wikiproject.
  • It would restrict wikiprojects to issues related to that geography rather than kurdish people as a whole. I'd in fact favor such a thing more as I dislike the "wikiproject for an ethnicity" idea somewhat.
  • Though Kurdistan is a contraversial term, s preferably something like "Wikproject Kurdish inhabited region" would be better.
Unless there is a good reason not to follow them, naming conventions need to be followed. Mind that I said "should" and not "must".
  • A wikiproject should not be named "plural". So it should be either "Wikiproject Kurd" or "Wikiproject Kurdish people", alternative suggestions are welcome.
  • A wikiproject's title preferably should be non-contraversial.
Why is "Kurdish people" bad as opposed to "Kurds"? Are kurds not people?
--Cat out 18:50, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
We currently have some options to go with, these are: Kurds, Kurd, Kurdish People, Kurdish inhabited region. The problem with naming it Kurdish People is that we will not only work on articles that are about Kurdish people but Kurdish food, region, religion, culture... which obviously is connected with the Kurdish people. I chose 'Kurds' thinking that the term Kurdistan is a controversial term. for, Kurdish inhabited region, it just is long for a WikiProject title. In conclusion I think it should be either 'Kurds' or 'Kurdish People' or 'Kurdish'. Let's wait a little longer for different opinions. Ozgur Gerilla 15:15, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Anything related to Kurdish people weather it is food or culture would be in the scope of a "Kurdish people" wikiproject asuming the article is significant enough to Kurdish people. --Cat out 15:21, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
I'm happy with Kurdish people. Ozgur Gerilla 22:38, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
Kurdish People, Kurd or Kurds, Kurdistan and Kurdish inhabited regions are all fine for names but let’s wait a little longer to get more people onboard and then we can choose a name amongst our selves. For now I think it’s more important to think about getting people together for this project rather than thinking about a name for it. --D.Kurdistani 06:25, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
I should have a proper name from the begining. Name changes can be complicated. --Cat out 09:04, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I suggest Kurds & Kurdistan. The WikiProject should be both about people (Kurds/Kurdish people) and geography/history of the region(Kurdistan). Heja Helweda 21:55, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I think we should go with Kurds. Ozgur Gerilla 23:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Heja Helweda, the name Kurds & Kurdistan is a good name for this project as it covers the Kurdish people in general and the region of Kurdistan. --D.Kurdistani 00:48, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Macau

Description: Just like Hong Kong Macau is famous as a torist area, this project aims to expand the articles related to the self administererd region.

Temporary project page: User:Enlil Ninlil/WikiProject Macau

User: Enlil Ninlil 07:42, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

[edit] Mario

Description: A WikiProject dedicated to improving Mario-related articles. Since there is a Legend of Zelda WikiProject, shouldn't there be one for Mario too?

Temprorary project page: User:Llama man/WikiProject Mario

User: –The Great Llamamoo?

Interested Wikipedians

Comments

  • We have WP:CVG and WP:NES... you don't need to make a whole WikiProject just to work on Mario articles. -- Ned Scott 02:32, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] MMORPGs

Description: MMORPGs are becoming increasingly popular these days. This project aims to expand, reorganize, and revise existing articles about MMORPGs, and to create new MMORPG-related articles.

Temporary project page: User:Schzmo/WikiProject MMORPGs

User: SCHZMO ✍ 22:21, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

--Destructo 087 00:26, 8 November 2006 (UTC)
Da'jhan 20:12, 4 December 2006 (UTC)
Greeves 22:36, 10 December 2006 (UTC)
Cheeseyman 23:58, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Munich

Description:

  • To help WikiProject Germany with articles specifically related to Munich.
  • To get free images under GNU Free Documentation License.
  • To create and edit of Munich-related articles.
  • To do translations from German Wikipedia to English Wikipedia on Munich related articles.
  • It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Munich in a fair and accurate manner.

Temporary project page:

User:

  • Kingjeff 01:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:

  • Badbilltucker 23:37, 21 November 2006 (UTC) - It'll be a few days before I can actually do anything, but I'll help out as I can.

[edit] Musical Instruments

Description: The purpose of this project would be to organize and present in a standard form the data of the various musical instruments, guiding them to featured article quality.

Temporary project page: User:Akuyume#Proposed WikiProject:Musical Instruments

User: akuyumeTC 02:39, 2 November 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:

[edit] NBC Universal

Description: The purpose of this project would be to create, update, and organize articles related to the company and its many facits (such as the theme parks, television stations, movies, etc.).

Temporary project page:User:Farquaadhnchmn/Universal

User:Farquaadhnchmn(Dungeon)

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)

Comments: A very narrow Wiki project. There is television and film projects already, there doesn't need to be a project for a certain company itself. RobJ1981 23:08, 14 November 2006 (UTC)

  • In my opinion, an NBC Universal wikiproject would not just be about the production company, but also the theme parks, films, etc. as stated above. Disney has its own project and this would be similar albeit in a smaller scale. Phydend 02:21, 18 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I think the television and film aspect would be better served under the existing television and film projects. There is a real difference between the company/corporate infrastructure/physical assets and the creative assets, and they should be coordinated separately. --Ckatzchatspy 09:19, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Wave music

Temporary Project Page: User:Krushsister/WikiProject_New_Wave_music

Description: The aim of this project would be to act as a central location for articles relating to New Wave music and genres that could be classified as "New Wave", e.g. synthpop, post-punk, and New Romantic music. This would lead to easier creation and maintenance of articles relating to this genre. New Wave is considered a part of the "punk" classification here on Wikipedia, but in all actuality is an offspring of punk rock, with New Wave artists being either directly or tangentially influenced by the varied aspects of punk.

User: krushsister

Interested Wikipedians:

  1. — Catherine\talk
  2. — Richard\talk
  3. — Matt\talk

[edit] Notability

Temporary Project Page: WikiProject Notability

Description: This project is desprately needed in order to work on the Wikipedia articles with unclear importance backlog, which holds a little over 4800 articles. It would centralize the effort to clear the backlog as well as recruit more people to help with it. Between the time periods of 11 P.M. and 9 A.M. EST (12/7/06) about 20 articles were added to the category while only 8 articles were sorted.

User: Diez2

Interested Wikipedians:

[edit] NPOV Backlog Taskforce

Description A group to work on the NPOV backlog (the group at WP:CLEAN seems to be inactive). In a majority of cases the dispute has been resolved, or is nonexistent, and the tag can be removed without much time and effort. Method: letter by letter, or by date. Also see Wikipedia:POV Cleanup. Currently 3.000 pages, plus another few hundred in Category:Articles which may be biased. Participants should know WP:NPOV, WP:VERIFY, etc.

Temporary project page:' none

User: Steve Hart

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. NauticaShades 21:39, 5 November 2006 (UTC)
  2. Diez2 14:30, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Lead Paragraph Cleanups

Description

The problem of lenthy lead paragraphs here on wikipedia is becoming very serious, perhaps 20% of all articles open with very long segemented and complicated lead paragraphs. I propose to manage a group to work on tagging and cleaning up a large number of the articles with lead paragraphs that are either to long or too short in accords to WP:LEAD. Tasks will entail, tagging, editing and bringing discussions to a consensus on the issues relevant to the topic. The appropriate length of a lead depends on subject of the article. This is an important matter since the "lead" immediately grabs the attention of the reader. to meet quality standards.

User: Frummer

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. Frummer
  2. Filll
  3. Nishkid64

Comments

[edit] Orders, Decorations, and Medals

Description

Wikipedia's coverage of national orders, decorations, and medals is pretty disjointed and disorganised. Some articles have had an awful lot of work put into them (eg. Order of the Garter and other British chivalric orders, most of these are now FA; famous medals such as the Victoria Cross and Medal of Honor also attract signficant attention), others have patchy coverage (eg Canada), and others have little meaningful coverage at all (eg Australia). Many editors have put in fine individual efforts in this topic, but one thing is certain, Wikipedia's coverage of this topic is far from definative.

Part of the problem, I think, is that there is no central, coordinating body. Looking through a few Orders and medals articles, we see some which are flagged up as under the Numismatics WikiProject, others under the Military history WikiProject, and others under are the wing of individual, national WikiProjects. Orders and medals certainly come within the orbit of each of these, but it is a topic which is very much overshadowed by their main focuses, coins and banknotes, military history, and national topics respectively. As a result coverage is patchy, there is no consensus of style, medal-related categorisation is a mess, even simple things like pictures are overwhelmingly absent.

What I would like to propose is the establishment of a central project to deal solely with this topic, hiving off this area from these other WikiProjects. This would provide us with a means by which to evolve the consensus necessary to get some sort of uniformity of coverage. Any interest?

User: Xdamrtalk

Project now created - WP:ODM
Xdamrtalk 22:51, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)


[edit] Pharmacology (and/or Medicinal Chemistry)

While looking for information on Pharmacology and Medicinal Chemistry I found that Wikipedia was woefully lacking - just look at the two title articles. With lots of stub articles lacking essential information. This is not about drugs or medicines but the fundamental basics for pharmacological science and drug discovery that could do with some major input. Anybody want to help out - it is essential these articles get sorted as they are the foundations for modern therapeutics?

Interested Wikipedians - please see discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine

Proposer: User:Lethaniol 23:29, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

  1. bibliomaniac15
Comments
  • I know nothing about medicime, but one thing that I think might work would be to contact WikiProject Medicine and see if they would be interested in creating a work group or task force to deal with this area. By making it a "subproject" of Medicine, it is more likely that the members of the Medicine project will be aware of it, and such a subproject arrangement might get more members of the Medicine WikiProject to join or contribute to articles in this field than a completely separate project would. Badbilltucker 15:25, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
  • I will take that on board - thanks - have taken discussion to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine Lethaniol 14:27, 1 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Place names

Description
The idea of the project is to have a page where one might find the answer to questions like:
  • "How many places in the world are named XXXXX?" or
  • "What other places are called XXXXX?"

This is a little more complex than a simple category in which an article about a certain place would be given the tag, because when a person visited that Category list the intention would be to not only see a list of all the articles which are linked in Wikipedia, but also a brief note to aid the user in choosing the one which might be most useful or appropriate to their needs.

For example if one was interested in "Victoria" the name Victoria would be found in the list and it would carry brief information such as that found in Victoria#Place names for any and all places that have "Victoria" as part of their name.

Why not simply incorporate this information into new and existing articles so that it appears as it does in the article called Victoria? Although it would be great, there are reasons to have a separate alphabetical list of places:

  1. Because a searcher might not find an article which is simply based on the name he is seeking, or the main article which dealt with the term might not be about a place. (eg Hope)
  2. Because the creator of a new article using a term which is a place name might not even be aware that it is a place name.


The project I imagine would show each name which had more than one location attached to it as an expandible link eg:

+Place name, which, when it was clicked would display all the names in the list together with their brief descriptions.

In addition, Place names could be included into sub groups, such as "Place names in Africa", or even Place names by other divisions, such as continent, country, etc.

Proposed by: JAXHERE | Talk 15:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
  1. [your name here]
Comments

[edit] Psych

Description: This is a WikiProject to organize articles about the television show Psych, such as articles about episodes, places, characters, etc.

Temporary project page (incomplete): User:Buchanan-Hermit/WikiProject-Sandbox2

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


[edit] Relativity

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to Albert Einstein's theories of special and general relativity.

Temporary project page: User:MathPhys/WikiProject Relativity

User: MP (talk) 12:54, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Harald88 20:03, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
ems57fcva 02:27, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
JRSpriggs 05:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments:

... Do you want us to put our names at both places? Harald88 13:51, 29 October 2006 (UTC) ... Yes. :) MP (talk) 16:57, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

This looks like a bad idea to me. I fear that splitting discussion of relativity-related issues away from the physics project will increase our chances of collectively missing something. A relativity article collaboration within the physics project might make more sense. -- SCZenz 16:14, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Good point! It makes sense to me, yes. Certainly open for discussion. Harald88 19:22, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
Might be better to make this a task force of WikiProject Physics. See how the Military History WikiProject does it. --Aguerriero (talk) 22:01, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Rolling Stones

Description: The project will aim to organize and improve the quality of articles related to the British rock band, The Rolling Stones.

Temporary project page: User:Robertjohnsonrj/WikiProject The Rolling Stones

User: robertjohnsonrj

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

[edit] Shipwrecks

Temporary Project Page: User:Esoltas/WikiProject_Shipwrecks

Description: Project goals include creating pages for shipwrecks. There are literally hundred left. See List of shipwrecks, it's absolutely ridiculuous how many need to be done. There are so many wonderful books on shipwrecks to use as well. The project will be an excellent project for users experienced with infobox usage as well as newcomers, who haven't learned, necessary, how to improve an already decent article.

User: Evan(Salad dressing is the milk of the infidel!) 23:38, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


[edit] Shopping Malls

Description: To make/unstub articles about famous shopping malls, as well as making sure that shopping mall articles are directed into the ri9ght places.

I am not going to be able to lead a wikiproject, therefore I would like someone else (if at all possible) to do this.

Comment - Actually, very few people "lead" projects, they simply help organize them. You might be very well qualified to do that. You can certainly find some suggestions of how to do so at the Project Directory. And, on a side note, there is an extant Wikipedia:WikiProject Dead Malls, which covers the rather more moribund malls exclusively right now. Maybe you could contact them and see if, possibly with some help from you, they would be willing to expand their project to cover the living malls, too. Badbilltucker 22:22, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sports Car Racing

Description: Expansion and combination of various elements of professional sports car racing series from around the world on a scale similar to Wikipedia:Wikiproject Formula One. This would involve finding and posting race results, history and details on the individual racing series, race reports, information on famous racing teams, as well as drivers.

Temporary project page: User:The359/WikiProject Sports Car Racing

User: The359 04:37, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  • Pc13 08:12, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Total support. Sports car racing requires a level of dedication similar or even superior to that of Formula 1.
  • Cs-wolves 11:37, 8 August 2006 (UTC) : Support. I'm interested in motor racing, so this will do nicely for me.
  • FCYTravis 02:38, 20 August 2006 (UTC) Absolutely - great idea, The359!
  • Marc Lacoste 21:49, 22 September 2006 (UTC) definitely needs organisation.

[edit] Sports Venues

Description: There are a lot of sports venues without quality articles. The scope of this project would be to take stubs and start rated articles to a far superior quality. This shouldn't be a hard project since some stuff already exist like Football (Soccer) stadiums. But be aware, even though other projects have this stuff, that doesn't mean anything has been done about it.

User: Kingjeff 04:04, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: User:Kingjeff/WikiProject Sports Venues

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

[edit] Steely Dan

Description: This WikiProject is for (you guessed it) Steely Dan. Right now, only is the Steely Dan article itself lacking information, but the albums' articles are not formatted properly and disorganized. Finally, most songs are missing as articles (and the ones that do have articles don't have infoboxes and such), which is a shame, since most Steely Dan songs are quite deep and their unique lyrics make them interesting to analyze. So what do you say? All you Steely Dan fans out there sign up!

User:
Nauticashades (talk • contribs)

Temporay Page:
User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan

Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name)
Sign up at User:Nauticashades/WikiProject Steely Dan also

  1. BabuBhatt (talk • contribs)
  2. Daniel Case (talk • contribs)
  3. Theoldanarchist (talk • contribs)
  4. DrDevin (talk • contribs)
  5. Chadbryant (talk • contribs)
  6. Fenrir2000 (talk • contribs)

Comments:

  • Very narrow project. Just ask on talk pages for help about Steely Dan. Wikipedia isn't a place to make fan clubs. Ask at Wikipedia:WikiProject Music for help as well. If there was a project for every popular singer or band here, Wikipedia would be overrun with too many narrow projects. RobJ1981 01:14, 9 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Synthesizers

Description: This wikiproject aims to document synthesizers and their use in popular music. These instruments have played an increasingly important role in shaping the musical output of artists over the last 50 years. They have also spawned completely new genres of music as musicians work with electronic instruments exclusively. Unlike general classes of instruments, such as guitars, each model of synthesizer is engineered with the ability to create unique sounds and each is therefore a unique instrument in its own right.

User: Mperry 19:17, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Temporary project page: There is no page as of this moment.

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
  • GreyCat: I'd like to join and help this project, starting with most basic theory about synthesizers - such as describing all major components, synthesis types, algorithms, then proceeding to individual pieces of equipment / software.

Comments:


[edit] Theme Parks

Description
A WikiProject which is dedicated to the updating and upkeep of new and existing Theme / Amusement parks across the world. A majority of theme park articles on Wikipedia are not up to standard and this project would fix the lack of information and quality of articles.
Interested Wikipedians
  1. Lakeyboy
  2. saberwyn
  3. Rehcsif
Comments

[edit] Veterinary medicine

There are currently a number of projects dealing with specific species and kinds of animals. Almost by definition, many of these projects treat, at least peripherally, the health matters of these animals. Regretfully, there is no coordination of these efforts, and the number of true experts in the field who are best qualified to address the matters of veterinary medicine are thus often spread about among these groups. This project proposes to provide some degree of coordination of these editors, and more generally, to create, improve, and maintain articles dealing with matters of veterniary medicine.

User: Badbilltucker 23:28, 6 December 2006 (UTC) - Not one of the most qualified editors to address this matter, but will do what I can, probably primarily in support of the more expert editors.

Temporary project page: User:Badbilltucker/WikiProject Veterniary Medicine - yeah, once in a while my spelling sucks. It'll get corrected on the move.

  • Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
  1. Joelmills - I'll do what I can as far as organizing and the actual writing.
  2. Montanabw 00:26, 7 December 2006 (UTC)Maybe, at least, I know where a lot of existing articles on various horse diseases are...
  • Comments

[edit] Wink club

[edit] Wiki Markup Standardization

The idea behind this is to develop standards for wiki markup. Hopefully, in order to offset the MediaWiki markup POV so rampantly prevalent here, we would be able to recruit a large number of users of other wiki software to provide their own input. I'd also be happy to accept ideas for shorter/more creative names for the project :)

Temporary Project Page: User:Dinoguy1000/Wikiproject Wiki Markup Standardization

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments:

  • I'm not sure if I understand what you mean by "MediaWiki markup POV".. -- Ned Scott 11:01, 11 November 2006 (UTC)
    • I half-meant for it to be a joke, it was referring to the fact that WP uses the MediaWiki software, so that's the only wikimarkup that most editors here are exposed to, and it was also poking fun at the whole POV issue that is at the back of the minds of most serious contributors here. --Dinoguy1000 Talk 19:22, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
      • Ah, so basically a WikiProject that would come up with markup proposals for the MediaWiki software itself. -- Ned Scott 04:05, 3 December 2006 (UTC)
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