Wikipedia:WikiProject Seattle
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WikiProject Seattle was started on June 23, 2004.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles relating to the Seattle metropolitan area, especially the city of Seattle itself.
[edit] Parentage
The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Cities.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.
[edit] Similar WikiProjects
The similar WikiProjects are the following:
- WikiProject London
- WikiProject Louisville
- WikiProject New York City
- WikiProject Melbourne
- WikiProject Chicago
- WikiProject Sydney
- WikiProject Toronto
- WikiProject Adelaide
- WikiProject Canberra
- WikiProject Ottawa
- WikiProject Vancouver
- Wikipedia:U.S. Wikipedians' notice board/USCOTW
[edit] Participants
Feel free to add the userbox template {{participant|Seattle}} to your user page.
- ShadowDragon
- Scarequotes
- Lukobe
- Jmabel
- Jwrosenzweig (I'll try to help out, at least :-)
- Seanorthwest
- Velvetsmog in Fremont
- Bigcheesebebbs
- Djgriffith789 in Marysville
- Plorimer on Beacon Hill
- GTBacchus in Ravenna
- Digital20 in Northgate
- User:Wsiegmund - images mostly
[edit] Structure
All related pages should be classified in Category:Seattle, WA, Category:Seattle metropolitan area, or a subcategory of one of these categories.
[edit] Cities in the Seattle metropolitan area
Many of these need serious work, as they aren't far from the auto-generated entries. List of cities in Washington (by population) might help with this; it highlights Seattle-area cities in green.
[edit] Seattle, Washington
- See Seattle, Washington.
We are working on turning this article into a featured article. To do so, we need to make the lists that we turned into prose (see especially Seattle institutions) even less like lists, which is how many of them still read.
[edit] Seattle neighborhoods
So far, we have named neighborhoods XXXXX, Seattle, Washington. Many articles haven't yet been started.
[edit] Open tasks
[edit] Selected Tasks
- Use {{WikiProjectSeattleTasks}} to include the template below on your user page or elsewhere.
Here are some open WikiProject Seattle tasks; some of these are not started, and all could use expansion and/or better referencing:
- Suburbs: Shoreline, Everett, Lakewood, Kent, Auburn, Edmonds
- Neighborhoods: Beacon Hill, Magnolia, Rainier Valley, Sand Point, Madison Valley, Central District
- Landmarks: Washington State Convention and Trade Center, Paramount Theater Building, Moore Theater Building, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, Waiting for the Interurban, Fremont Troll
- Parks: Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, Parks in Seattle, Colman Park, Genesee Park, Interlaken Park, Jackson Park, McCurdy Park
- People: Stan Boreson, John Miller (politician), Art Chantry, Henry Yesler, Victor Steinbrueck, David Denny, Arthur Denny, Carson Boren, Emmett Watson
- Transportation: Metro Transit, First Avenue South Bridge
- Government: Seattle City Council, King County Council, King County Executive
- Companies: Discovery Institute, Dendreon, Cutter & Buck, Sur La Table, Briazz
- Night Life: Pioneer Square, Capitol Hill, Belltown, Fremont
- Events: Battle of Seattle (1856)
Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.
[edit] Complete list
- Work on Seattle (especially by making it more text and fewer lists).
- Partially merge Puget Sound and Seattle metropolitan area.
- You can add {{WikiProject Seattle}} to talk pages of Seattle-related articles; it will display as follows, and also place those talk pages in a category related to this project.
[edit] Suburbs
[edit] Neighborhoods
- Admiral District
- Alki
- Ballard
- Beacon Hill
- Belltown
- Blue Ridge
- Broadmoor
- Broadview
- Capitol Hill
- Cascade a.k.a. South Lake Union
- Central District a.k.a. Central Area
- Columbia City
- Crown Hill
- Denny-Blaine
- Downtown
- Eastlake
- First Hill
- Fremont
- Georgetown
- Green Lake
- Greenwood
- Hawthorne Hills
- Industrial District
- Interbay
- International District
- Lake City
- Laurelhurst
- Leschi
- Licton Springs
- Luna Park
- Madison Park
- Madison Valley
- Madrona
- Magnolia
- Maple Leaf
- Montlake
- Mount Baker
- Northgate
- Pioneer Square
- Rainier Beach
- Rainier Valley
- Ravenna
- Roosevelt
- Sand Point
- SoDo a.k.a. South of Downtown
- South Park
- Squire Park
- University District
- Uptown a.k.a. Lower Queen Anne
- View Ridge
- Wallingford
- Washington Park
- West Seattle
- Westlake
- White Center
- Windermere
- Yesler
[edit] Landmarks
- See this page for more.
- Ye Olde Curiosity Shop
- Paramount Northwest Theater Building
- Washington State Convention and Trade Center
- Seattle Cinerama
[edit] Parks
- See this page for a complete list. The local, far from complete list is at List of Seattle parks.
- Discovery Park
- Frink Park
- Washington Park
- Washington Park Arboretum
- Ravenna Park
- Freeway Park
- Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park
[edit] People
- Stan Boreson
- Sherman Alexie
- William Rankin Ballard
- Nicola Griffith
- Jonathan Raban
- Ann Rule
- Asa Mercer
- Henry Yesler
- David Denny
- Gary Little
- Arthur Denny
- Carson Boren
- Victor Steinbrueck
- Norm Rice
- Paul Schell
- Bill Speidel
- Norm Stamper
- Ivar Haglund
[edit] Transportation
- Ballard Bridge
- Everett Transit
- Fremont Bridge
- Green Line
- Magnolia Bridge
- Metro Transit
- Montlake Bridge
- Mount Baker Tunnel
- Pierce Transit
- Salmon Bay Bridge
- Ship Canal Bridge
- University Bridge
- West Seattle Bridge
[edit] Organisations
- Seattle City Council
- King County Council
- Fremont Arts Council
- Seattle District Court
- Seattle Rainiers
- Seattle Folklore Society
- Seafair Pirates
- Seattle Metropolitan Police Museum
[edit] Geography
[edit] Events
- Major events at Seattle Center
- Bumbershoot
- Northwest Folklife Festival
- Festál
- Bite of Seattle
[edit] Photos wanted
Free images, of course. For some of these, we have fair use images, but those aren't really a good solution.
- People
- Sherman Alexie
- William Rankin Ballard
- Paul Schell
- current public office holders
- Norm Stamper
- Buildings
- Blue Moon Tavern
- Some of the non-corporate coffeehouses
- I got this started in commons:Category:Coffeehouses in Seattle. Does someone know of other pictures we can add to that? - Jmabel | Talk 07:14, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- The "Darth Vader" building
- I did one: Image:Seattle 4th Avenue north from Virginia.jpg. I've taken some other angles, but haven't yet uploaded them. - Jmabel | Talk 07:11, 20 October 2006 (UTC)
- The Hat and Boots (Georgetown)
- Landmarks
- Waiting for the Interurban
- I got some photos of this (in its temporary location outside of History House) but I'm way backlogged on uploading photos.
- Waiting for the Interurban
- Neighborhoods
- Yesler Terrace
- Street scenes in Capitol Hill
- Events
- First Thursday in Pioneer Square
- I did some of these, but we could still use more. See commons:Category:619 Western, Seattle and commons:Category:Art galleries - Jmabel | Talk 05:16, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- First Thursday in Pioneer Square
- Transportation in Seattle
- I found some relevant pictures, but we could use some that are more to the purpose. Especially it would be good to have pictures showing multi-modal transportation: park-and-ride lots; cars, bikes, and motorcycles on a ferry; bikes on the front of a bus.
- Major events at Seattle Center
- Bumbershoot
- Northwest Folklife Festival
- Festál events
[edit] Resources
- The government archives of Washington state, all the way back to the first election in Washington Territory, have been put online (news article). The website is http://www.digitalarchives.wa.gov/. Surely there's information here we can slide in to our 'pedia, at the very least, election and office holder records, perhaps even detailed census information. (Mentioned by Golbez 21:07, Oct 7, 2004 (UTC) on Wikipedia:Village pump (miscellaneous) He doesn't say anything about whether some of this might not be public domain; a note on that would be useful.)
- HistoryLink is an excellent self-described Online Encyclopedia of Washington State History. The materials are copyrighted, so have respect for that, but the information is uniformly excellent and there are usually numerous useful references on most articles.