Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

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WikiProject Australia

General information
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Australia Portal	talk
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Departments
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Automation	talk
Cartography	talk
Collaboration	talk
Outreach	talk
Peer review	talk
Photography	talk
Australian WikiProjects
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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.; [–] Australia

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
3 Category tree
4 Specialised WikiProjects

[edit] Project organisation

Arts:
Biography:
Geography: WikiProject Australian places, Australian cities WikiProjects
History: WikiProject Australian history
Maritime History WikiProject Australian maritime history
Media: WikiProject Australian television
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 Australian motorsport

[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
Quality
	FA	4	11	16	14	1	46
	A	4	2	5	5		16
	GA	3	7	10	7	8	35
	B	35	109	170	152	155	621
	Start	30	113	648	1848	1221	3860
	Stub	3	38	419	2950	5340	8750
	Assessed	79	280	1268	4976	6725	13328
	Unassessed	0	6	12	103	10896	11017
	Total	79	286	1280	5079	17621	24345

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 domain 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

For a list of participants, or to add yourself as a participant, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/Participants.

[edit] Category tree

[edit] Specialised WikiProjects

Find more information on Australia by searching Wikipedia's sister projects
	Dictionary definitions from Wiktionary
	Textbooks from Wikibooks
	Quotations from Wikiquote
	Source texts from Wikisource
	Images and media from Commons
	News stories from Wikinews
	Learning resources from Wikiversity