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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of California. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

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WikiProject on California

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WikiProject California is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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[edit] Related collaborations

For more information on Collaborations, see m:Wikimedia COTW, Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, Category:Wikipedia collaborations and {{COTWs}}.

U.S. Collaboration of the Week

These two weeks, Junior State of America 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.
The current Congressional Collaborations of the Week are:
Person Beryl Anthony, Jr. Seal of Congress
Place Alabama's 8th congressional district
Thing List of United States Representatives from California

Every week three U.S. Congress-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold!
This COTW is organized by WikiProject U.S. Congress. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.)

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[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] User categorisation

According to Wikipedia:User categorisation, instead of adding your name to Wikipedia:Wikipedians/California, California Wikipedians should add one of the following categories to the bottom of their User page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Northern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Central California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]


This will put your User page into either Category:Wikipedians in California, Category:Wikipedians in Northern California, Category:Wikipedians in Central California or Category:Wikipedians in Southern California.

[edit] User Boxes

Instead of just adding the category to your user page, you could add the Userbox for Californians {{User California}} to your user page, which will also add your user page to the Wikipedians in California category.


This user lives in or hails from the state of California.


To identify youself specifically with this WikiProject, if you don't live in California or if you want your userboxes to represent your work on Wikipedia, you can add the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}} userbox to your page. It will look like this, but with a link back to this page:


Wikiproject:WikiProject_California This user is a member of
WikiProject California.

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Sister Project searches

[edit] Participants

If you are also interested in Southern California issues, please visit WikiProject Southern California

  1. Stevey7788 - working on cities and towns in California
  2. Canaen - I'll be around.
  3. Dspserpico Covering things Bay Area, Baseball or both.
  4. Ombudsman
  5. Schmiteye - San Francisco Bay Area, The Peninsula and San Mateo
  6. Evrik - Soy un angeleno nativo. ¿Que tienes que hacer? --evrik 04:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
  7. Zzyzx11 - will occasionally help with it
  8. Graham I'm interested in helping with California natural history.
  9. physicq210 will occasionally help in San Francisco Bay Area-related topics, among others
  10. Lord Kinbote
  11. Daniel Olsen Actively working on articles about the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland in particular.
  12. NorCalHistory Historical topics specifically; other topics where I can help
  13. bulletproof 3:16 Usually around to expand Stadium/Arena articles
  14. Ba'Gamnan
  15. Anlace Working on ecology and historical articles for Northern California
  16. FCYTravis - Generally involved in air transportation and assorted East Bay articles. FCYTravis 06:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  17. J.S. - Well, thought I'd join, since I live here. :) ---J.S (t|c) 19:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  18. physicq210 - Generally Bay Area-related articles
  19. Johntex - Various, especially San Diego area articles and college-football related.
  20. Hjal - mostly Marin County, Fremont, San Jose, environment, UCSC
  21. LorenzoB 03:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)]] SoCal, Desert
  22. WTGDMan1986 - former California native since 1987, wishes to remove vandalism and wikify dates. --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
  23.  Erielhonan  talk | contribs   仕方が無い   10:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC) - also working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania and Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia
  24. Soccermum politics, etc
  25. KP Botany California flora, geology, natural history in general, in particular deserts, Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges, Great Central Valley.
  26. AnthonyWS Central Valley and state politics. If I can be of any help, let me know.
  27. Ethicalhacker 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Stockton, CA
  28. Moreau36 02:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, lived part of my life throughout Southern California. Work mostly on city/town/unincorporated community articles.
  29. Kings bibby win 02:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Schools
  30. Exhartland 10:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC) , past mayors of San Francisco and other early Bay Area topics
  31. —ScouterSig 21:45, 21 December 2006 (UTC) I think I may be doing mostly assessments: lots of assessments that no one else will agree with.
  32. Itsfullofstars - covering the Monterey Bay area for the most part
  33. Carpet9
  34. Sue Rangell - Northern California.
  35. Jesse135
  36. Vgpclub 19:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
  37. ronbo76 - enjoy historical articles about California.
  38. Patricknoddy
  39. KilgoreTrout 02:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
  40. Justvote - California political history
  41. Wikimania1011 - San Francisco Bay School Districts and Schools, Santa Cruz Area articles
  42. Skyscraper Phoenix - Just about anything California-related, mountain passes, Sierras, San Francisco Bay Area, redwoods, skyscrapers, etc.

[edit] Goals

  1. To improve articles related to California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and featured as a Featured article.

[edit] Projects

[edit] Open tasks

Shortcut:
WP:CAL-OT

Missing articles, and stub articles that need expansion:


[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Templates

also see: Category:California templates

[edit] Infoboxes and navigation boxes

Flag of California
 State of California
Sacramento (capital)
Topics

Climate | Culture | Districts | Economy | Elections | Geography | Government | History | Politics | Californians
Regions

Antelope Valley | Big Sur | Central Coast | Central Valley | Channel Islands | Coachella Valley | Conejo Valley | Cucamonga Valley | Death Valley | East Bay (SF) | Eastern California | Emerald Triangle | Gold Country | Greater Los Angeles | Inland Empire | Los Angeles Basin | Mojave | North Bay (SF) | North Coast | Northern California | Owens Valley | The Peninsula | Pomona Valley | Redwood Empire | Russian River | Sacramento Valley | San Francisco Bay Area | San Joaquin Valley | Santa Clarita Valley | Shasta Cascade | Sierra Nevada | Silicon Valley | South Bay (SF) | Southern California | Tri‑Valley | Wine Country | Yosemite
Metropolitan
areas

Bakersfield | Chico | Fresno | Los Angeles–Long Beach–Glendale | Modesto | Napa | Oakland–Fremont–Hayward | Oxnard–Thousand Oaks–Ventura | Redding | Riverside–San Bernardino–Ontario | Sacramento–Roseville | Salinas | San Diego–Carlsbad–San Marcos | San Francisco–San Mateo–Redwood City | San Jose–Sunnyvale–Santa Clara | Santa Ana–Anaheim–Irvine | Santa Barbara–Santa Maria | Santa Cruz–Watsonville | Santa Rosa–Petaluma | Stockton | Vallejo–Fairfield | Visalia–Porterville | Yuba City
Counties

Alameda | Alpine | Amador | Butte | Calaveras | Colusa | Contra Costa | Del Norte | El Dorado | Fresno | Glenn | Humboldt | Imperial | Inyo | Kern | Kings | Lake | Lassen | Los Angeles | Madera | Marin | Mariposa | Mendocino | Merced | Modoc | Mono | Monterey | Napa | Nevada | Orange | Placer | Plumas | Riverside | Sacramento | San Benito | San Bernardino | San Diego | San Francisco | San Joaquin | San Luis Obispo | San Mateo | Santa Barbara | Santa Clara | Santa Cruz | Shasta | Sierra | Siskiyou | Solano | Sonoma | Stanislaus | Sutter | Tehama | Trinity | Tulare | Tuolumne | Ventura | Yolo | Yuba


Vox Veritas Vita California State University
Long Beach, California (Chancellor's Office)
Campuses Bakersfield • Channel Islands • Chico • Dominguez Hills • East Bay • Fresno • Fullerton • Humboldt • Long Beach • Los Angeles • Maritime • Monterey Bay • Northridge • Pomona • Sacramento • San Bernardino • San Diego • San Francisco • San José • San Luis Obispo • San Marcos • Sonoma • Stanislaus
Satellite Campuses Antelope Valley • Irvine • Concord • Palm Desert • Imperial Valley • San Francisco (downtown) • Stockton
Laboratories Desert Studies Center • Moss Landing Marine Laboratories • Mount Laguna Observatory
  University of California
Oakland (Home Office)
Campuses Berkeley • Davis • Hastings • Irvine • Los Angeles • Merced • Riverside • San Diego • San Francisco • Santa Barbara • Santa Cruz
UC Medical System San Francisco • Los Angeles • San Diego • Davis • Irvine
Research Stations Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory • Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory • Los Alamos National Laboratory (affiliated) • Lick Observatory • Keck Observatory
California's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators: Dianne Feinstein (D) · Barbara Boxer (D)

Representative(s): Mike Thompson (D) · Wally Herger (R) · Dan Lungren (R) · John T. Doolittle (R) · Doris Matsui (D) · Lynn C. Woolsey (D) · George Miller (D) · Nancy Pelosi (D) · Barbara Lee (D) · Ellen Tauscher (D) · Jerry McNerney (D) · Tom Lantos (D) · Pete Stark (D) · Anna Eshoo (D) · Mike Honda (D) · Zoe Lofgren (D) · Sam Farr (D) · Dennis Cardoza (D) · George Radanovich (R) · Jim Costa (D) · Devin Nunes (R) · Kevin McCarthy (R) · Lois Capps (D) · Elton Gallegly (R) · Howard McKeon (R) · David Dreier (R) · Brad Sherman (D) · Howard Berman (D) · Adam Schiff (D) · Henry Waxman (D) · Xavier Becerra (D) · Hilda Solis (D) · Diane Watson (D) · Lucille Roybal-Allard (D) · Maxine Waters (D) · Jane Harman (D) · Juanita Millender-McDonald (D) · Grace Napolitano (D) · Linda Sánchez (D) · Ed Royce (R) · Jerry Lewis (R) · Gary Miller (R) · Joe Baca (D) · Ken Calvert (R) · Mary Bono (R) · Dana Rohrabacher (R) · Loretta Sanchez (D) · John Campbell (R) · Darrell Issa (R) · Brian Bilbray (R) · Bob Filner (D) · Duncan Hunter (R) · Susan Davis (D)

All delegations: Alabama • Alaska • Arizona • Arkansas • California • Colorado • Connecticut • Delaware • Florida • Georgia • Hawaii • Idaho • Illinois • Indiana • Iowa • Kansas • Kentucky • Louisiana • Maine • Maryland • Massachusetts • Michigan • Minnesota • Mississippi • Missouri • Montana • Nebraska • Nevada • New Hampshire • New Jersey • New Mexico • New York • North Carolina • North Dakota • Ohio • Oklahoma • Oregon • Pennsylvania • Rhode Island • South Carolina • South Dakota • Tennessee • Texas • Utah • Vermont • Virginia • Washington • West Virginia • Wisconsin • Wyoming — American Samoa • District of Columbia • Guam • Puerto Rico • U.S. Virgin Islands


[edit] User page templates

{{User Californian}}

This user is from California.


{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}}

Wikiproject:WikiProject_California This user is a member of
WikiProject California.


[edit] Stub templates

{{California-stub}} / Cat:California stubs

Please use the most precise stub tag whenever possible. When the smaller stubs have at least 60 articles in them, they will be given a category of their own.

[edit] Other templates

  • {{PD-CAGov}}
    "work of a State of California employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties,...is consequently in the public domain."
  • {{WikiProject California}}
    Add {{WikiProject California}} to any Wikipedia article's talk pages that are receiving special attention from the WikiProject California
This article is part of WikiProject California, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit this article, or visit the project page to join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment for a list of the various parameters for the template, and the criteria for each option.
 It is requested that a photograph or photographs be included in this article to improve its quality, if possible.
Wikipedians in California may be able to help!

[edit] WikiProject Award

Image What to type Description
The California Star {{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}

The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for California, WP San Francisco Bay Area, WP Southern California, WP Santa Barbara County, WP California State Highways and WP California County Routes.

This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.

[edit] Categories

For a categorytree-based list of current California categories, plus a list of all the sub-categories of Category:California as of the June 23, 2005 database dump, see Wikipedia:WikiProject California/categories



[edit] Lists

For a more complete list of California-related lists, see /Lists

see also:

[edit] Images

[edit] Articles

[edit] Major review articles on California

[edit] California regions

[edit] Miscellaneous state-wide articles

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Article votes for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California

[edit] New Wikipedia articles on California topics

Please feel free to list your new {{{1}}}-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

  • Darwin Falls now a DYK article. Created a few days ago. --Bobak 18:32, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article improvement drive

For improving articles larger than a stub.

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Failed COTW's

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Current Peer reviews

[edit] Past Peer reviews

[edit] Featured article candidates

  • Sonoma County, California

[edit] Current Featured article candidates

[edit] Failed Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured articles with California connections

Individuals

[edit] California articles that are Featured articles in other Wikipedias

Good articles

[edit] Former featured articles removed through Featured article removal

[edit] Featured pictures with California connections

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Votes for deletion


Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The California-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California.

note: This page is currently unmaintained

[edit] Assessment

California
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 3 3 5 1 14
A 2 2 4
Good article GA 1 10 4 5 1 21
B 11 35 57 38 25 166
Start 6 69 160 243 169 647
Stub 2 87 236 920 375 1620
Assessed 24 204 462 1211 571 2472
Unassessed 4 23 26 28 8111 8192
Total 28 227 488 1239 8682 10664

[edit] Requests

[edit] Photos

See also: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California

[edit] Resources

[edit] links

[edit] Sister Projects links

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