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[edit] Best practices

I'm looking for a page where "best practices" on how to conduct a WikiProject would be discussed. Could this page be it ? or is there another one ? Pcarbonn 17:25, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject. JesseW 22:00, 6 Nov 2004 (UTC)
That page of course is at Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices since 00:40, 11 August 2004 Pcarbonn (first draft). Thanks Pcarbonn! The advice is still quite good! :) Quinobi 5 July 2005 01:09 (UTC)

[edit] Which template namespace?

Shouldn't this page be at Wikipedia:WikiProject Templates instead of Template:WikiProject? BlankVerse ∅ 12:13, 4 May 2005 (UTC)

I'm not sure on that. Seems to me that it may bee good for the search functions for it to be in the super-shared Template namespace. At any rate it's an excellent template and BlankVerse is the winner of our new get 'er done award''. Quinobi - Community Builders Taskforce 5 July 2005 01:09 (UTC)

[edit] Sister Project searches bug

We recently set up Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles This is a name that has a space in it. When we subst'd the template code:

===Sister Project Searches===
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{{1}}}ia&go=Go WikiBooks search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikibooks.org+{{{1}}} Google WikiBooks search]
*[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{{1}}}&go=Go WikiQuote search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikiquote.org+{{{1}}}} Google WikiQuote search]
*[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{{1}}}&go=Go WikiSource search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:wikisource.org+{{{1}}} Google WikiSource search]

... we got code that looks like this in the sister project searches:

===Sister Project Searches===
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=The Beatlesia&go=Go WikiBooks search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikibooks.org+The Beatles Google WikiBooks search]
*[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=The Beatles&go=Go WikiQuote search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikiquote.org+The Beatles} Google WikiQuote search]
*[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=The Beatles&go=Go WikiSource search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:wikisource.org+The Beatles Google WikiSource search]

giving this:

[edit] Sister Project Searches


None of it worked very well, I think the spaces threw things off... There are also what seem like extraneous chars there. (or they do things but I don't know what)

I changed it by hand to look like this:

===Sister Project Searches===
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=The+Beatles&fulltext=Search "The Beatles" WikiBooks search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awikibooks.org++%22The+Beatles%22 "The Beatles" Google WikiBooks search]
*[http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=The+Beatles&fulltext=Search "The Beatles" WikiQuote search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awikiquote.org++%22The+Beatles%22 "The Beatles" Google WikiQuote search]
*[http://wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=The+Beatles&fulltext=Search "The Beatles" WikiSource search] 
*[http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=site%3Awikisource.org++%22The+Beatles%22 "The Beatles" Google WikiSource search]

giving this:

[edit] Sister Project Searches


Is this better code? It works for this project but I'm not sure how to templatise it well... thoughts? ++Lar: t/c 20:53, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

Using {{urlencode:{{{1}}}}} should work... see m:Help:Magic words. Let's see: {{urlencode:The Beatles}} creates The+Beatles. Yep, it works. However, the "sister projects" section appears to have disappeared from the template. -- Visviva 14:20, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
Anyway, if anyone did want to reinsert that code, I reckon it would look something like this:
===Sister Project Searches===
*[http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}&go=Go WikiBooks search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikibooks.org+%22{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}%22 Google WikiBooks search]
*[http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}&go=Go WikiQuote search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:en.wikiquote.org+%22{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}%22  Google WikiQuote search]
*[http://wikisource.org/wiki/Special:Search?search={{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}&go=Go WikiSource search]
*[http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=mozclient&scoring=d&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=site:wikisource.org+%22{{urlencode:{{{1}}}}}%22  Google WikiSource search]

[edit] noincluding explanatory text

I've wrapped the explanatory text atthe top in < noinclude > tags, so it won't show up when this template is subst'd. I've also changed the explanatory text so that it no longer tells you to remove the explanatory text (since it won't be there once subst'd). Hope this is OK. SeventyThree(Talk) 17:45, 14 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikiproject group at Meta

The m:Wikiproject group at meta has some ideas for improving the WikiProject way of doing things via a new Template:Wikiproject (currently redirects to here).

The new template will hopefully foster better coordination between languages, topics and sister projects, as well as the integration of WP:1.0 assessments and the like. There may even be a way to incorpoate some more useful metadata into the template.

Please have a look and participate in the discussion there if you have the time and inclination. Thanks! CQ 18:12, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox WikiProject

I recently created {{infobox WikiProject}} and I think it would make a nice addition to the WikiProject starter template. I'm thinking of adding the following code at the beginning (right after the noinclude part):

{{Infobox WikiProject
| name = {{{1}}}
| image = 
| caption = This WikiProject is about [[{{{1}}}]]
| shortcuts = 
| portal = 
| portal_img = 
| commons = 
| parent = 
| notice = 
| userbox = 
| footnotes = 
}}

Looking for some opinions on this before I do it. So, whaddaya think? Yeah/nay? --EvilSuggestions 08:12, 18 August 2006 (UTC)

Aside from the sort of obvious point that it conflicts with the normal placement of a project's navigation template... what precisely is the point of having infoboxes for WikiProject? (Particularly absurdly large ones?) It's not like readers are going to be looking them up and needing a quick summary; indeed, the casual reader won't be visiting project pages at all. Kirill Lokshin 18:47, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_reform#New Approach for further discussion. -- TimNelson 05:51, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] {{project}} was removed, not sure I agree

The comment in the history is "These are useless for just about any developed project". But isn't the point to this canned project template that this is for projects that are not developed?--Doug.(talk • contribs) 21:33, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Meh. I think it's not very useful, but I don't really care all that much; so feel free to replace it if you disagree. Kirill 01:30, 9 October 2007 (UTC)
I agree it is pointless to anyone who's been around very long. But it does add the links to WP:PROJ, WP:COUNCIL/G, and WP:PROJDIR, all of which can be useful to newbies, I think it's where I first found links to find out what a project was an how it related to articles, portals, etc. - which may not say much for it, but that's another matter. So, I think I'll take you up on that and put it back.--Doug.(talk • contribs) 03:00, 9 October 2007 (UTC)