Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events

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Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Current events Article and Archives 4 Articles About Current Events 4.1 This Week's Project Collaboration 5 Years 6 Participants 7 Invitation to the Project 8 Other Templates

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WikiProject on Current events

[edit] Scope

This project was established on 6 April 2006 to improve and standardize articles pertaining to current events. This project specifically looks at the Current events page as well as the archives of the current event pages (March 2006, February 2006, etc).

[edit] Current events Article and Archives

At the end of each month, the current current events page is moved to a monthly archive page (e.g. March 2006). Over the years, the format of these monthly pages have been changed an altered a significant number of times. As a result, there is currently no standard on how these monthly pages should look. However, some standardization suggestions include:

• Ordering dates of the months in forward alphabetical order (suggested by GT)
• Eliminate the daily article-templates as seen in almost all months between 2003 and 2005 (i.e. all days between January 1, 2005 and January 31, 2005 are "templated" into January 2005)

On the main current events page, some plans include:

• Merging unnecessary sub-articles (e.g. Current events in Africa) back into the main current events article (suggested by Pcb21)
• Ensuring appropriate events receive context according to Wikipedia:How the Current events page works

In both the archives and the current current events page, objectives include:

• Ensuring news items of international interest are included

To discuss the objectives above, take a look at the talk page.

[edit] Articles About Current Events

Another objective crucial to the WikiProject is expanding articles about current events. Some potential project collaborations include:

• 2006 labor protests in France
• 2006 Horn of Africa food crisis
• Your article here

Depending on how quickly a decent number of editors join the project, we can get working on improving one of the above articles very soon.

[edit] This Week's Project Collaboration

• Coming Soon

[edit] Years

One possibly objective is to collaborate with WikiProject Years to work on a standardization of the current events on that page. Each year article (e.g. 2006) should include only significant events of international importance. Perhaps a more clear-cut standard can be developed in collaboration with WikiProject Years

• Standardize current events in articles about years

[edit] Participants

• joturner - joined 6 April 2006
• GT - joined 6 April 2006
• Ptcollins - joined 5 November 2006

[edit] Invitation to the Project

• {{Current events project}}

This article is part of WikiProject Current events, an attempt to expand and better organize information in articles related to current events. If you would like to participate in the project, visit the project page or contribute to the discussion.

[edit] Other Templates

• {{Current events box}}
• {{Current events articles}}

	Current events	edit
Region:	Africa, Middle East, Oceania, Canada, China, Hong Kong, India, Macau, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, United States
Topic:	Science and technology, Sports