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This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in an NPOV and accurate manner.

Contents

[edit] Current project

Minnesota has been granted Featured article status! The article links to a number of "child articles", and related articles. Before Minnesota is featured on the Main Page, we should work on these, since they will likely get lots of traffic on that day:

"Main" articles

"See also" articles

Also what seems like high priority items would be:

[edit] Project divisions and current tasks

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

[edit] General Minnesota resources

  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

[edit] Minnesota physical assets

  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

[edit] Minnesota life

  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
  • Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
  • Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood
  1. Clean up History of Minnesota. See Featured Articles History of Arizona and History of New Jersey for inspiration.

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by clicking here if you like also type a note about what you plan on working on.

  1. Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
  2. andrew
  3. Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
  4. Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
  5. BenFranske
  6. Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
  7. BWes - Western Suburbs
  8. Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
  9. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
  10. False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
  11. Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
  12. Gnosbush
  13. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
  14. Gopher backer - Minnesota climate & related historical events, sports, University of Minnesota
  15. Grika
  16. Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
  17. JAYMEDINC
  18. Jonathan Kovaciny
  19. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
  20. Justin4gb
  21. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
  22. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
  23. matt91486 - Work on sport figures; sister cities
  24. Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
  25. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
  26. Mrtobacco
  27. Our Bold Hero
  28. Phl
  29. Ravedave - work on Minnesota and park articles mostly
  30. ReverendG
  31. Rhelmerichs
  32. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
  33. RyguyMN
  34. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
  35. Thanatosimii State parks and the North Shore, mainly.
  36. Unidiode
  37. The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
  38. Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
  39. Woogums - history
  40. WTGDMan1986
  41. Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota

[edit] Templates

[edit] Minnesota Infobox

  • {{Minnesota}} - Infobox for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

[edit] WikiProject Minnesota

{{WikiProject Minnesota
 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

[edit] Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

[edit] Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

[edit] Meetups

Minneapolis meetups occured in 2005 and 2006 see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.

[edit] Template for a U.S. City

[edit] Portal

Minnesota Portal -- Under development


[edit] Related projects Related WikiProjects

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[edit] Child WikiProjects

Minnesota State Highways

[edit] Collaborations

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, North Carolina is the US Collaboration of the Week. (Shortcut: WP:USCOTW +/-)

Help select the next USCOTW now! Nominate an article you think needs improvement or vote for one of the candidates here.
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