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01. DEFINITION Main
• Discussion • Structure • Guidelines • Related • Participants • Tools • Citation references •

02. ACTIVITY Main
• Article rating & assessment scheme • New article requests • For expansion • Attention needed • For improvement • Prepare for review • Review monitoring • Priority OpenTasks • Strategy & subprojects •

03. CATALOGUE Main
• Templates • Categories • Articles • Images •

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• Mesoamerica (root) • all project articles • Project articles by quality rating • quality unassessed • Project articles by importance rating • importance unassessed • Non-article Mesoamerica pages • articles needing attention • articles needing reassessment • articles needing merge action • articles needing infoboxes • Mesoamerica dab pages • categories • subpages • templates •

This is the Project Activity mainpage for WikiProject Mesoamerica.

It contains the active worklists for a variety of article-related tasks (articles for creation, expansion, cleanup, improvement, review preparation), notes on the Project article rating and assessment scheme, a monitoring board for Mesoamerica-related articles &c. undergoing some form of review process (FAC, GA, PR, deletion, renaming) workspaces for Project activities, the current priority list of open tasks, and a forum for the outlining of general strategy and associated activities/subprojects.

WikiProject Mesoamerica has three main pages:

  1. Project Definition mainpage
  2. Project Activities mainpage
  3. Project Catalogue mainpage

Each of these mainpages has an associated set of subpages, which contain the content and detail relevant to that section. Much of the material in those subpages can also be viewed directly from the mainpages so that the material can be reviewed all at once. The actual work and editing takes place on the subpages themselves, not the mainpages.

This introductory section can be "hidden" via the hide/show toggle which appears to the right of the "02. Project Activities" title, above.
Noticeboard shared by WP:MESO and WP:AZTEC
Current collaboration target(s): Mesoamerica
Palenque
Olmec
Chunchucmil
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Article To-Do active worklists
New & Requested Expand from stub Attention/Cleanup Improvement drive Prepare for review
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[edit] New/Requested

[edit] New

[edit] Requested

  • Xaltocan (Otomian island ceremonial center in lake Texcoco later claimed by aztecs)
  • Mesoamerican religion
  • Huastec civilization
  • Aztec warrior societies
  • Telpochcalli
  • Guatemalan Academy of Mayan Languages (ALMG)
  • 260-day Mesoamerican calendar - change from redirect; see note on discussion page
  • History of Mesoamerica (In which way is this different from Mesoamerican chronology?)(see suggested distinction at talk pg)
  • Tangaxuan II
  • Taríacuri
  • Emblem glyph (to change from redirect)
  • Chenes (Maya region & style)
  • Icpal (in what sense?) (also it should be icpalli to correspond with nahuatl grammar)
  • Mixtec codices
  • Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (i suppose that the codex is what is being referred to?)
  • Tolteca-Chichimeca (yes, but possibly an article on the historical ethno-term / (supposed) group, as sometimes seen, cld also be useful? I don't think so it should just redir to nahua.)
  • Mariano Fernández de Echeverría y Veytia
  • Palenque Round Table
  • Huexotla
  • Codex Boturini (change from redirect)
  • Codex Cospi
  • Codex Cozcatzin (change from redirect)
  • Codex Ixtlilxochitl (change from redirect)
  • Codex Laud
  • Codex Magliabechiano (change from redirect)
  • Codex Osuna (change from redirect)
  • Codex Vaticanus B
  • Codex Vergara
  • Codex Xolotl
  • Mapa de Quinatzin
  • Mapa de Santa Cruz
  • Mapa de Teozacoalco
  • Mapa de Tlotzin
  • Tonalamatl Aubin
  • Boban Calendar Wheel
  • Plano en Papel de Maguey
  • Zaachila
  • Mixtec writing
  • Zapotec writing
  • Techialoyan
  • Ilancueitl
  • Tepanec War
  • Tecaxic-Calixtlahuaca
  • Christianization of Mexico
  • Lienzo
  • Tlacatecuhtli
  • Tlilancalqui
  • Olmeca-Xicalanca
  • Quatrefoil (Mesoamerican motif)
  • Itzamkanac/Acalan
  • Tetlepanquetzatzin
  • Alfredo Barrera Vásquez
  • New Philology
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[edit] For expansion

priority- HIGH
priority- MID
priority- LOW
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[edit] Attention needed

see also: Category:Mesoamerica articles needing attention

[edit] Gen. cleanup

[edit] Lacking refs

[edit] Fact checking

[edit] (M)erge/(R)ename

see also:Category:Mesoamerica articles needing merge action

[edit] POV concerns

[edit] Copyvio concerns

[edit] Wikify

  • Aztec society - looks like its been cleaned up, but large chunks of text need to be wikified.

[edit] Disambig fixes

Certain disambig pages with links to Mesoamerican content need periodic review and cleanup of their 'what links here' articles. See category:Mesoamerica disambiguation pages for several of these which have been identified.
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[edit] Improv. drive

[edit] Start-Class improvs

Priority-TOP
Priority-HIGH

[edit] Image needed

[edit] Map needed
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[edit] Prep. for review

[edit] FA preparation

[edit] GA preparation

[edit] B-Class improvs.

Priority- TOP
Priority-HIGH
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[edit] Article rating and assessment scheme

WP:MESO article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)
Current detailed listing of Mesoamerica articles by quality
Daily log of status changes
Current Statistics Rated article Categories
Mesoamerica
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2
A 1 1 1 3
Good article GA 1 3 4
B 19 34 54 48 155
Start 8 43 116 167 334
Stub 11 69 282 362
Assessed 28 94 240 498 0 860
Unassessed 0 0 0 0 1 1
Total 28 94 240 498 1 861




Rating reassessment needed

An article rating and assessment scheme has been implemented for Mesoamerica-related articles, which is monitored and maintained by WikiProject Mesoamerica. In this scheme, all Mesoamerica-related articles ('article' here also includes lists) may be assigned:

  • a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their class (overall quality), and
  • a particular rating which indicates an assessment of their importance (priority or relative significance).

The primary purpose of this rating and assessment scheme is to provide editors with a sub-categorised survey of the current status of Mesoamerican articles, which can then be used to prioritise the overall workload and highlight articles needing improvements at various stages.

For example, higher-priority articles (those most essential to any encyclopaedia) in need of most work (ie lower quality) can be readily identified for attention and collaboration.

There will be a number of secondary benefits from the scheme, such as being able to track which kinds and topics of articles are 'neglected'.

This assessment and rating scheme follows the precepts adopted by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team, see Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment and Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for details.

A subset of Mesoamerican articles relevant to the work of the descendant WikiProject WikiProject Aztec has been separated out into subcategories of this overall rating scheme, so that it is easier for the WP:AZTEC project to identify the rated articles and topics relevant to their worklist. These articles (identified by the use of the WP:AZTEC project banner {{WP Aztec}} instead of {{WP Mesoamerica}} ) appear in their own set of by quality and by importance categories, however they are also included in the Mesoamerica-level categories, listings and statistics as well, by reason of overlap and for completeness. See the WP:AZTEC assessment subpage for details and the Aztec-specific listings.

The class and importance ratings are recorded by setting appropriate values to the parameters of the main WP:MESO Project banner, {{WP Mesoamerica}} (or alternatively the WP:AZTEC subproject banner, {{WP Aztec}} ), which are placed on the corresponding talk pages of in-scope Mesoamerican articles. See the template instructions for details on these and other parameters which can be set.

See the Quality scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by class/quality. See the Importance scale for guideline criteria for rating an article by importance/priority.

The assessments of class and importance are assigned manually by WP:MESO project members (or other interested parties)– see the Rating instructions for details. Assigning a rating will automatically place the article in an appropriate rating category.

Once assigned, behind the scenes a bot (Mathbot (talk • contribs)) runs periodically (scheduled daily, about 0300hrs UTC) which compiles a variety of statistics and log data, which can then later be analysed.

It is expected that this rating and assessment scheme will require periodic and iterative maintenance, as new articles are created or identified, and existing articles are progressively improved (or, hopefully much rarer, demoted), requiring the status to be reassessed (indicated by changing the parameter value).

Of course, anyone is free to edit any of the articles they choose without regard to priority, however it is hoped that this will provide some basis for a more methodical approach to the longer-term overall improvement of content and coverage in the Mesoamerican field.
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Priority open tasklist

The current selection of priority open and ongoing tasks is contained in a separate template, seen below. These represent a sampling of the tasks and activities to focus on, and are contained in template form so that they can be listed at a number of appropriate places (eg interested participants' userpages) as a readily-visible reminder. At some future point the open tasklist is proposed to be added to the project banner (in an expandable section) to encourage wider collaboration.

To add the open tasklist to your userpage, add the template {{WP Mesoamerica tasklist}}.

Open tasks for WikiProject Mesoamerica WikiProject Mesoamerica Open Tasklist: a shortlist of things you can do to help out.
Queries welcomed here.

(Project Main • Activities • Catalogue • Guidelines • Strategy• Tools and refs)

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[edit] Current reviews

Featured candidates
(articles • pictures • lists):

  • none at present

Improvement
(Peer review • GA noms):

Renaming
(requested moves • Cat. del/rename):

  • none at present

Deletion
(articles • templates • images):

  • none at present

[edit] Featured content

Featured content, A-rated and Good articles relating to Mesoamerica
KEY:
–FA • –Former FA
–GA • –failed GA
Type Item Date/Nom
Mayan languages Mar 2007 (nom)
Sylvanus Morley Nov 2005 (nom)
27 Dec 2006 (Front pg)
A Chunchucmil Jan 2007
A Maize
A Mayan languages
A Pipil grammar
Aztec Jun 2006
Charles Etienne Brasseur de Bourbourg Jul 2006
Nahuatl language Aug 2006
Yuri Knorosov Aug 2006
Spanish conquest of Mexico Aug 2006


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Details of overall Project strategy —plan of action designed to achieve particular goal(s)— are to be defined here. This will consist of a number of tactical actions intended to work towards the primary aim:

"to improve the content and coverage of articles relating to Mesoamerica".

All participants and other interested parties are invited to assist with any of the tasks below, to expand them, or to suggest new ones.

[edit] Strategy- activities & subprojects

Contents

The sections below are intended to document and outline various activities, sub-projects and tasks for the Project —aka a few reminders of "here are some things you can do"— which are to be worked on, or are planned to be worked on.

These are broadly aligned towards the individual high-level aims specified on the Goals subpage, and are grouped according to which of these they most closely address.

General discussion and proposals for new activities can be directed to the corresponding talk page.

As these sub-projects and tasks further develop, there may be a need to create new workspaces (project subpages), these should be linked to in the 'links' column, and also added to the overall Project Navigation panel where appropriate.

[edit] [A] Article improvement and maintenance tasks

[edit] (A1) Article to-do worklists

Status
  • ongoing
Tasks
  • general article improvements and running to-do logs
  • identify and add articles requiring some sort of work to the appropriate list/queue
  • ultimate goal would be to work these articles towards FA status, or as high a quality as possible
  • action (ie, edit) articles in the list, moving through the progressive phases if needs be
  • maintain the listings with the Top- and -High-priority articles, per WP:MESO/RATE.
Workspace(s)

WP:MESO/A (overall view)

[edit] [B] Topical coverage and validation tasks

[edit] (B1) To be defined

Status
  • not started
Tasks
  • describe here
Workspace(s)
  • links here

[edit] [C]- Organisation and categorisation tasks

[edit] (C1) Category scheme development

Status
  • in progress
Tasks
  • develop hierarchy of Mesoamerica categories and sub-categories
  • hierarchy proposed to be based largely upon the top-level major themes identified at Scope subpg
  • The "overall" category Category:Mesoamerica should be reserved for only the most important and general articles, with other articles assigned to appropriate subcategories at lower levels of the hierarchy
  • In principle, it should be possible to navigate from Category:Mesoamerica to every in-scope Mesoamerica-related article via some series of sub-categories (articles can also of course be assigned to non-Mesoamerica specific categories as well)
  • Naming conventions to follow WP:NC and WP:NCCAT where sensible; any exceptions to be notified
Workspace(s)

[edit] (C2) Category maintenance for articles

Status
  • ongoing
Tasks
  • Maintain/improve Mesoamerica-related categories and sub-categories
  • Add the Project's banner {{WP Mesoamerica}} with the class parameter set to NA and the cat parameter set to yes (ie: {{WP Mesoamerica|class=NA|cat=yes}}  ) to relevant categories' talk pages to flag as one concerned with this Project. This will automatically applyCategory:WikiProject Mesoamerica categories to the page.
  • Periodically refresh the category-tree dump at WP:MESO/CAT with an updated listing of currently-existing categories.
  • Note, that existing category scheme is to be eventually overhauled once activity [C2] below has worked out new category scheme proposal. Once this is done, the category scheme can be maintained per the proposed structure (to be documented).
  • Use the "Related changes" special view to track any category-related changes.
  • Compare current category names with WP:NCCAT and WP:NC naming conventions, identify any which may need to be renamed, deleted or merged. Propose these at WP:CFD, note the proposal at WP:MESO/M. For unsure cases, ask around for advice.
  • Periodically review the articles listed in these categories and confirm if appropriately categorised.
Workspace(s)

[edit] [D] Information and presentation consistency tasks

[edit] (D1) To be defined

Status
  • not started
Tasks
  • describe here
Workspace(s)
  • links here

[edit] [E] Editing guidelines and conventions tasks

[edit] (E1) Project editing guidelines

Status
  • ongoing
  • identify need or suggestions for guidelines and conventions to help articles achieve a degree of consistency and standardised use of terminology (where applicable)
  • List identified/proposed standards on Project Guidelines subpage
  • Document particulars, examples, exceptions and ambiguous/unresolved points at the 'detailed' section there
  • Develop from these guidelines a Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Mesoamerica-related articles) page which can be placed in Category:Wikipedia style guidelines and other relevant links.
  • Develop from these guidelines a Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Mesoamerica) page which can be placed in Category:Wikipedia naming conventions and other relevant links.
  • Consider whether at least some of the guidelines need to be proposed and/or publicised at other or wider guideline pages (eg Related WikiProjects' guidelines, general editing conventions such as WP:NAME)
  • Review existing conventions/guidelines for applicability or specificity to WP:MESO scope
Workspace(s)

[edit] [F] Resource & reference tasks

[edit] (F1)- Resource compendium maintenance

Status
  • ongoing
Tasks
  • Build a set of centralised links and notes to tools, resources and references, which are likely to be of common use for the Project. These can be both internal (eg WP:TOOLS) or external (eg links to commonly-used references).
  • Add references and commonly-used citations to a list (eg pre-filled {cite} templates), which can be accessed and copied into articles using the reference as a cite.
Workspace(s)

[edit] [G] Coordination and collaboration tasks

[edit] (G1) Project workspace maintenance

Status
  • ongoing
Tasks
  • Maintain the overall Project structure and mainpage-subpage system
  • Keep links and information current, update related pages and texts to reflect changes made
  • Keep log of major design changes at version history
  • Announce major design changes at WP:MESO/N
  • Consider and respond to structure/design comments, requests, and problems
  • Test major changes in Draft mode first
Workspace(s)

[edit] (G2) Related projects liaison

Status
  • Started
Tasks
  • Browse for other wikipedia projects, portals, collaborations etc which may have some relevance or degree of overlap with this Project's aims/scope. Add these to WP:MESO/REL.
  • Review these related projects etc for collaboration opportunities, useful information, links and ideas.
  • Notify these related projects etc about WP:MESO, inviting any cross-collaboration or coordination as/where appropriate.
  • "Related" can also be extended to similar efforts which may be defined in other language wikis- see for eg de:Portal:Mittelamerika, fr:Projet:Précolompédia, fr:Portail:Précolompédia
Workspace(s)
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