Wikipedia:WikiProject Kayaking

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Welcome to the Kayaking WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Kayaking, Kayaks, Canoes and Canoeing.

(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).

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[edit] News

We are currently running a poll to determine which pictures we should use for our member and article templates. To check it out or vote, scroll down or click here

Goals
  • To establish a large group of members. Hopefully we can gather up lots of people interested in kayaking or canoeing in all it's forms, and some experienced editors that can help out with templates, articles, etc.
  • To build a base of well-written articles with in-depth content that Wikipedians can use for encyclopedic reference and that we might use to expand on less common articles related to kayaking
Scope
  • Every article that could somehow relate to Kayaking, including equipment, disciplines, boats, and anything else we can think of.

[edit] Guidelines

When editing articles, please keep in mind that this is an encyclopedia. If you have not already please consult with the NPOV article. We would like all user contributions to be factual (and have citations where possible). Please use common sense when editing articles. If you see pages that are in need of further work, please feel free to add them to the todo list

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Kayaking: edit  · history  · watch  · refresh


Here are some tasks you can do:
  • Cleanup: The Kayak Roll article would benefit from cleanup before it is expanded (below)
  • Expand:
    • The "KAYAKING" article NEEDS EXPANSION ASAP! Please help out anyone with a moment to spare! -Merging the boofing article and other articles about specific techniques and moves would be good. It is likely to be necessary to keep separate articles for styles of kayaking (i.e. whitewater kayaking, sea kayaking, etc.)
    • The PFD article is in need of expansion or maybe adding a section about kayaking PFD's or, in whitewater, buoyancy aids
    • The Whitewater article is in need of expansion of river features (chutes, holes, waves, etc.). Be Bold! Create new pages for different river features if necessary.
    • The Buoyancy aid article is in desperate need of expansion by someone with good research skills.
    • The Kayak Roll article should be expanded to include all disciplines of rolling and more general detail.
    • Disambiguation:
    • The Rock Island State Park page links to Eric Jackson, a Panamanian radio announcer, instead of the boater of the same name.
    • Other:
    Create seperate pages for "Kayak" and "Kayaking". See discussion on the kayak talk page and cut information about kayaking itself from the Kayak article and pate into the "Kayaking" page. -Bennyboyz3000 09:27, 3 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Members

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Please use the # {{User|Name}} (Interests) format. Also if you like you can add the {{Kayaking Member}} or {{User: Kayaking}} tag to your userpage.

  1. Bennyboyz3000 (talk • contribs) (everything about Kayaking, especially white water and playboating) - President of Kayaking WikiProject
  2. Bennyboyz3000bot (talk • contribs) -This user is a bot that may be used to deliver newsletters in future.
  3. Nate1481 (talk • contribs) - Mainly, White Water and Polo
  4. bdurrant (talk • contribs) - Squirt boating and whitewater kayaking
  5. George Drummond (talk • contribs) - A bit of everything
  6. DevAnubis (talk • contribs) - Whitewater Kayaking and getting into playboating.
  7. Monkeyblue (talk • contribs) - flatwater kayaker with an occasional Canoe Polo
  8. Rhinosaur0220 (talk • contribs) - Playboating, creeking, rafting, squirting, safety, and history. Primarily experienced in North Carolina whitewater and US terminology / slang.

[edit] Articles

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Candidates

[edit] New articles

Please feel free to list your new Kayaking-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 the Main Page.

[edit] Todo

New Kayaking-related article that should be written.

  • Brácsa-sport
  • Nelo

Note: Prewrites should be done at User:Monkeyblue/prewrite/ so we can can get most of the information out before actual new article creation. [This is in response to articles being deleted due to "Unremarkable people, groups, companies and web content" (Wikipedia:Criteria_for_speedy_deletion#A7)].

[edit] Collaboration and review

Collaboration of the week
Peer review
Assessment

[edit] Templates

  • If you are a member of Wikiproject Kayaking, and come across a page which you beleive is within our scope, please add the {{kayaking}} tag to the article's talk page; which shows as (under debate):

This article is within the scope of the Kayaking WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Kayaking. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

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  • Members might like to add either the {{Kayaking Member}} or the {{Kayaking UBX}} banners to their userpage, which shows as (under debate):

This user is a valued member of the Kayaking WikiProject, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Kayaking. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.

and

This user is a member of the Kayaking Wikiproject.


[edit] Template Picture Poll

YOU can vote in our current template poll. We are choosing new pictures for our two common-use templates (which are {{kayaking}} and {{kayaking member}} as shown above). At the talk page, we have several candidates for each template, which you can vote on. If you would like to vote for a particular picture you have in mind, go to the WikiProject kayaking talk page to vote.

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