Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota

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This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in an NPOV and accurate manner.

Contents 1 Current project 2 Core articles/High-level articles 3 Project divisions and current tasks 3.1 New article patrol 3.2 General Minnesota resources 3.3 Minnesota physical assets 3.4 Minnesota life 4 Participants 5 Templates 5.1 U.S. city infobox 5.2 U.S. county infobox 5.3 Minnesota Infobox 5.4 WikiProject Minnesota 6 Stub notices 7 Requested photos 8 Meetups 9 Portal 10 Related WikiProjects 11 Child WikiProjects 12 Collaborations

[edit] Current project

Article of the week: Geology of Minnesota - GA soon?

Minnesota has been granted Featured article status and will be featured on the Main Page on May 11th the 149th anniverary of statehood! The article links to a number of child and related articles. Please add as many Minnesota related articles to your watch list as possible to help stem vandalism on the big day. Before Minnesota is featured we should work on these, since they will likely get lots of traffic on that day:

Articles linked from Minnesota in the worst shape:

• Minnesota Territory

- How about just adding a "See Also" to History of Minnesota? Kablammo 02:14, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

• Culture of Minnesota
• And thats about it, most Minnesota articles are in amazing shape!

"Main" articles not rated FA

• Geology of Minnesota (Rated "Start")
• Demographics of Minnesota (Rated "B")
• Economy of Minnesota (Rated "B")
• Transportation in Minnesota (Rated "B")
• Politics of Minnesota (Rated "B")
• Sports in Minnesota (Rated "B")

Also what seems like high priority items would be:

• Saint Paul, Minnesota
• Minneapolis, Minnesota
• University of Minnesota/University of Minnesota system
• Minneapolis-St. Paul.

"See also" articles

• List of Governors of Minnesota (Rated "B")
• List of colleges and universities in Minnesota (Rated "Start")
• List of high schools in Minnesota (Not rated yet)
• List of school districts in Minnesota (Not rated yet)
• List of cities in Minnesota (Rated "Start")
• List of townships in Minnesota (Not Rated)
• Lists of U.S. state insignia (Not tagged as a Minnesota project article, and so not rated)
• List of lakes in Minnesota (Not rated yet)
• List of Minnesota rivers (Not rated yet)
• Common ethanol fuel mixtures (Not tagged as a Minnesota project article, and so not rated)
• Wind power (Not tagged as a Minnesota Project article, and so not rated)
• Minnesota gubernatorial election, 2006 (Rated "Start")
• Minnesota United States Senate election, 2006 (rated "Start")
• United_States_House_elections,_2006#Minnesota (Not listed as a Minnesota project article, and so not rated)
• List of political parties in Minnesota (Not Rated yet)
• United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota (Rated "B")
• Minnesota Congressional Districts (rated "Start")
• List of Minnesota State Parks (Not rated yet)
• Minneapolis, Minnesota daughter articles on this template:

v • d • e City of Minneapolis
Topics	Arts · City Council · Climate · Companies · Demographics · Events · Geography · History · Law and government · Mayors · Media · Neighborhoods · Public Library · Public Schools

[edit] Core articles/High-level articles

Article	Class	Rationale	Quality	Comments
Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Climate of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA
Demographics of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Economy of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Geology of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	Start	Help!
History of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent job!
Minneapolis	Top	WP:CORE	GA	What would it take to reach FA?
Minneapolis-St. Paul	Top	WP:CORE	Start	Help!
Mississippi River	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Music of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Politics of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Saint Paul, Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B (GA failed)	What would it take to reach GA?
Sports in Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Transportation in Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
University of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
University of Minnesota system	Top	WP:CORE	Start	Help!
Anoka County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Bloomington, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Dakota County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Duluth, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	GA	What would it take to reach FA?
Eugene McCarthy	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Fort Snelling, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Hennepin County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Hiawatha Line	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Hubert Humphrey	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Interstate 35	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Interstate 94	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Iron Range	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Lake Minnetonka	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Lake Superior	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
List of Governors of Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
List of Minnesota state parks	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
List of people from Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Mall of America	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Template:Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Template	This is good as-is
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Minnesota State Fair	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Template:Politics of Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Template	This is good as-is
Ramsey County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Regions of Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Rochester, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Saint Anthony Falls	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
St. Cloud, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
St. Paul Pioneer Press	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Star Tribune	High	A High-level article		Needs to be looked at
United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
WCCO-TV	High	A High-level article		Needs to be looked at
Walter Mondale	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
Washington County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!

[edit] Project divisions and current tasks

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

[edit] New article patrol

The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them

1. The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
2. Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
3. If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template
4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

[edit] General Minnesota resources

• General — General information on Minnesota

1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
3. Identify articles needing images

• Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.

1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

[edit] Minnesota physical assets

• Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota

• Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures

1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs

• Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota

1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota

• Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

• Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals

[edit] Minnesota life

• People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota

1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.

• Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.

• Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota

• Education — Education in Minnesota

• History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

[edit] Participants

If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by clicking here if you like also type a note about what you plan on working on.

1. andrew
2. Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
3. Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
4. Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
5. Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
6. BenFranske
7. BWes - Western Suburbs
8. Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
9. Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota
10. eagleeye
11. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
12. False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
13. Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
14. Gnosbush
15. Gopher backer - Minnesota climate & related historical events, sports, University of Minnesota
16. Gopherbone - University of Minnesota, Golden Gopher athletics
17. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
18. Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
19. Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
20. Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
21. JAYMEDINC
22. Jonathan Kovaciny
23. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
24. Justin4gb
25. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
26. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
27. matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
28. Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
29. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
30. Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
31. Mrtobacco
32. Nathanm_mn
33. Our Bold Hero
34. Ravedave - work on Minnesota and park articles mostly
35. ReverendG
36. Rhelmerichs
37. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
38. RyguyMN
39. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
40. Smarterthanu91 - Don't ask why, but I like really tedious jobs. So throw your best dull job at me. I'm also a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams.
41. Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
42. Susanlesch - maybe can edit but plate is full
43. Thanatosimii State parks and the North Shore, mainly.
44. The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
45. Unidiode
46. Woogums - history
47. WTGDMan1986
48. sabeen557 - Some on history and parks, cities that are near me, and write and supply pictures for the Minnesota State Fair (In the summer, it looks bad now)
49. LindaMorman - Politics, particularly creating/expanding entries on members of the State Legislature
50. Jcbutler - Southwest Minnesota
51. ZJH

[edit] Templates

[edit] U.S. city infobox

• {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.

[edit] U.S. county infobox

• {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.

[edit] Minnesota Infobox

• {{Minnesota}} - Infobox for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

[edit] WikiProject Minnesota

• {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} - a smaller version of the WikiProject member template, Babel-style.

{{WikiProject Minnesota
 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

[edit] Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
• {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
• {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
• {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools

[edit] Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphotoin|Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

[edit] Meetups

Minneapolis meetups occured in 2005 and 2006 see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.

[edit] Portal

Minnesota Portal -- Under development

[edit] Related WikiProjects

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[edit] Child WikiProjects

Minnesota State Highways

Minnesota Twins

[edit] Collaborations