Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica/About
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The text in the 'Mainpage summary' section below (minus this explanatory note) appears in the "About" box on the Project Definition mainpage. Any edits to it will also be reflected there.
This subpage also contains annotations of the version history for the Project's structure and design, and the current queue of improvements/modifications under consideration and development. These annotations do not appear on the main page.
Any comments, requests, and proposed changes relating to Project structure and design should be directed to the corresponding talk page.
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[edit] Mainpage summary
Purpose: WikiProject Mesoamerica (or WP:MESO for short) is intended to provide a common forum for Wikipedia editors interested in improving and maintaining articles related to Mesoamerica, with a primary (but not exclusive) focus upon the pre-Columbian history and achievements of Mesoamerican societies.
Activities for discussion on this forum include: identifying in-scope articles and topics, discussing ways to improve article standards and topical coverage, coordinating and prioritising improvement efforts, developing standards and guidelines designed to achieve consistency between related articles, documenting article coverage by topical areas, rating articles by appropriate standards, organising the articles by meaningful categories and links, and sundry other activities to be further refined.
Project structure: WP:MESO has three main pages:
- Project Definition (background, description and resources),
- Project Activities (open tasks, to-do lists, collaborations and sub-projects),
- Project Catalogue (inventory and survey of articles, lists, templates, categories, and an assessment of their current status).
Each are composed of a number of subpages. These main pages contain relevant navigational links and views their subpages' contents. Taken together, they are intended to function somewhat similarly to a Portal, in that the mainpages provide a common access points for associated documentation, activities and discussions. All of the actual detailed work and documentation takes place on the Project's separate subpages, however the main aspects of this work can be viewed directly and all at once from the main pages. Note that what appears in a particular window or box here may be a summary of more extensive material, which can be seen in full using the links and 'edit' tags provided.
[edit] Project structure
This WikiProject consists of the following mainpages and subpages:
Two subpages appear transcluded on all three mainpages, in the left and right blue panels of the pages' top section or row. They are:
| Pagelink | Purpose/description | Shortcut(s) |
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| /Navigation | panel with links to main subpages and other related pages, for quick navigation | WP:MESO/NAV |
| /Notices | noticeboard panel where current notices and other important alerts and milestones can be pinned, for the attention of project participants. | WP:MESO/N |
Note that this top row on each of the mainpages can be 'hidden' from view via the show|hide toggle which appears at the right of the top yellow title bar.
The three mainpages and their respective subpages are:
| Pagelink | Purpose/description | Shortcut(s) |
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| 01. Definition mainpage | The default mainpage, displays and links to the subpages listed below, which give background and orientation information for the Project. | WP:MESO |
| /Introduction | Introduces the project and its subject. | |
| /About | (this page) Describes overall Project structure and design; contains also version history of the structure and pending structure-related tasks. Corresponding talk page to be used for comments relating to this. | WP:MESO/INFO |
| /Topic | Gives an overview of Mesoamerica. | |
| /Goals | Text outlining the common goals for the Project, i.e. what the project sets out to achieve. The project activities, subprojects and tasks are generally aligned towards meeting one or more of these goals. | |
| /Scope | Text outlining the scope for the Project, and a high-level grouping of the themes or topics that would be covered by in-scope articles. That is, each Mesoamerica-related article would be expected to address one or more of these themes. This applies equally to articles with a subject-area of the entire region, or sub-region, individual culture/civilization, location, event, and so on. Accordingly, the proposed overall Category scheme will mirror these topics as closely as possible. | |
| /Guidelines | Listing (followed by detailed explanation) of any editing guidelines and conventions identified by the Project as applicable to Mesoamerican-related articles. | WP:MESO/G |
| /Participants | Listing of wikipedians contributing to the WikiProject. Also contains section where any specific interest or expertise can be noted. | WP:MESO/P |
| /Tools | A compendium of the most frequently-referenced tools and resources (internal/external) which can be used or consulted when editing Mesoamerica-related articles. | WP:MESO/REF WP:MESO/TOOLS |
| /Related | Lists related wikipedia activities and collaborations, such as other WikiProjects and Portals. Strategy for any coordination with these other groups to be documented here. | WP:MESO/REL |
| 02. Activity mainpage | Displays and links to the below subpages, which comprise the workspaces and descriptions of the various actions and activities for the Project. | WP:MESO/A |
| /IntroductionActivity | Gives an overview of this mainpage's contents and purpose. | |
| Article To-Do current worklists, there are several of these which taken together serve almost as a "production-line", starting with article creation through expansion, improvement to final stages of readying for some form of Quality review or nomination. The article To-Do worklist subpages are: | ||
| /NewRequests | Worklist for articles requested (to be created) and newly-created articles. | WP:MESO/REQ WP:MESO/NEW |
| /Expand | Worklist for articles in need of expansion from stub or minimally-informative state. | WP:MESO/EXP |
| /Cleanup | Worklist for articles needing general cleanup, references, fact checking, and POV concerns. | WP:MESO/FIX WP:MESO/ATN |
| /Improve | Worklist for articles needing general improvements, or specific additions such as maps and images. | WP:MESO/IMP |
| /Cleanup | Worklist for articles which could be prepared (or 'polished') for readiness to be nominated for some form of quality review, eg WP:GA, WP:PR, and WP:FA. | WP:MESO/PREP WP:MESO/REV |
| Other general meta-tasks and activities contained on this mainpage are: | ||
| /Assessment | The Project's article assessment and rating scheme, which details the procedures and mechanisms for assigning ratings to articles by class (quality) and importance (priority). | WP:MESO/RATE |
| /OpenTasks | Displays the Open tasks template ( {{WP Mesoamerica tasklist}} ) which contains a selection of priority tasks and article actions. | WP:MESO/TASK |
| /Monitoring | A (manually-compiled and updated) watchlist of Mesoamerica-related articles currently undergoing some form of review (eg featured candidacy, deletion or renaming nominations). Also has a list of Mesoamerica-related articles, lists etc which have achieved Featured or Good Article status. | WP:MESO/M |
| /Strategy | A table of various activities, subprojects and tasks for the Project (ie, "here are some things you can do"). | WP:MESO/S |
| 03. Catalogue mainpage | Displays and links to the below subpages which survey, catalogue and organise Mesoamerica-related materials. | WP:MESO/C |
| /IntroductionCatalogue | Gives an overview of this mainpage's contents. | |
| /Articles | Catalogue and classification of articles and lists. | WP:MESO/ART |
| /Categories | Catalogue and classification of categories. | WP:MESO/CAT |
| /Templates | Catalogue and classification of templates. | WP:MESO/TPL |
| /Images | Catalogue and classification of images, maps and other media. | WP:MESO/IMG |
[edit] Version history
(Annotation of versions and changes made to overall Project presentation and design, to be maintained here for ready reference. Newest version at the top of the list, format version[link to version(s)]–date–(implementor)).
- V2.3–7 July 2006–(cjllw)
- Added /Assessment panel to WP:MESO/A
- V2.2–20 June 2006–(cjllw)
- Added the article to-do current worklist subpages (WP:MESO/REQ,WP:MESO/EXP,WP:MESO/FIX,WP:MESO/IMP,WP:MESO/PREP) as separate subpages rather than combined; table of subproject/tasks created at WP:MESO/S.
- V2.1–14 June 2006–(cjllw)
- Some reordering of panels on the Activities mainpage, and incorporated the mooted "Detailed activity listing" subpg into the Strategy subpg. Some other formatting adjustments here and there.
- V2.0–11 June 2006–(cjllw)
- Revised version implemented which splits the main project page into three –Definition, Activities and Catalogue–, mainly because the all-on-a-page presentation was proving to be a bit cumbersome. Each main project page has a set of associated subpages. A top row of navigational and informational panels is reproduced on each main page (this row can be hidden from view via a show/hide toggle), while the subsequent panels display different subpages depending on the purpose.
- V1.0–9 June 2006–(cjllw)
- Initial version implemented to replace the standard inherited WikiProject template format. Features include: dispersal and organisation of content to subpages, transclusion of portions of these subpages on the main page to allow all-at-a-glance viewing, most formatting and layout code safely removed to a 'hidden' subpage away from prying fingers and to avoid cluttering the editing space, some instructional text. Some of the Activities and Catalogue boxes remain under construction, these are indicated.
[edit] Project structure to-do
- finish construction of Catalogue righthand boxes
- bottom-align 'details' links in main page boxes
- find a way to get around the default status of "hide" if multiple collapsable navbars are used
- parameters for colours (?)
- parameters for fontsize(?)
[edit] Requested changes, notified problems and general discussion
Any comments, issues or requested changes to the overall layout and design of this WikiProject can be made on this subpage's talk page.
