Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska
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Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History |
- Urgent:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard: Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska, Juneau, Alaska, History of Alaska
- Collaboration:
- To Expand: Category:Alaska stubs, Alaskeros, Sheldon Jackson, Scouting in Alaska
- Governor articles: Steve Cowper, Bill Sheffield, Keith Harvey Miller, Waino Edward Hendrickson
- To Clean up: List of places in Alaska, Diomede Islands
- To Merge:
- To Destub: See: Category:Alaska stubs
- To Deorphan:
- To Categorize:
- To Create: Articles in: Category:Newspapers published in Alaska, Category:Libraries in Alaska, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
- Lists to de-redlink: List of mayors of Anchorage, List of Governors of Alaska
- Lists to complete: List of mayors of Fairbanks, Alaska
- Wanted Pics/Graphics:
- Wanted New Pics: See Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alaska
- Maintain: add {{Project Alaska}} to the talk pages of Alaska-related articles and add the articles to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes so related changes link works.
This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the U.S. state of Alaska with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the member section below.
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[edit] Outline
This WikiProject was created to organize, format, expand, and exemplify Alaska related articles on Wikipedia. Our to-do list is located to the right, and is in a constant state of flux.
[edit] Project Divisions
- Communities (talk) — Cities, towns, villages and boroughs.
- Physical geography (talk)— Regions, parks, climate, physical features.
- Transportation (talk)— Roads & highways, trails, railroads, ferries, airlines & airports, general aviation, trucking, ships, and pipeline.
- Culture (talk)— Music, art, popular culture & cultural icons, mass communication, & cultural groups/peoples.
- Alaska Natives (talk)— History, cultures, languages, politics, etc. of Alaska Natives.
- People (talk) — Biography on people native to Alaska and those residents who have shaped Alaska.
- Government (talk) — Government: federal, state and local politics in relation to Alaska.
- History (talk) — History of Alaska during and prior to statehood.
- Economy (Talk) — Major Alaska industries, employers, trends, and history relating to the economy of Alaska.
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Alaska is one of the United States WikiProjects.
Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.
[edit] Members
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Userboxen for WP:ALASKA
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Project members: you can also add {{User WPAlaska}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project, and/or {{User Alaska}} to show Alaskan-ness in general. If you wish, you can also add your name to one of the Category:Wikipedians in Alaska categories.
New participants: feel free to add yourself to the members or sympathizers sections of the full list of participants on the Alaska WikiProject.
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[edit] Infoboxes
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| {{Alaska}} Infobox for use on regions, cities, and boroughs; placed at the bottom of article pages. |
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[edit] Award
The Alaskan Barnstar is awarded to users who have made particularly fine contributions to Alaska-related articles, and/or to WikiProject Alaska.
To award the Alaskan Barnstar, use the following code:
==YOUR TOPIC HERE==
{{award2|image=The Alaskan Barnstar.png|topic=The Alaskan Barnstar|text=YOUR TEXT HERE ~~~~}}
For example:
==Alaskan Barnstar for excellent edits==
{{award2|image=The Alaskan Barnstar.png|topic=The Alaskan Barnstar|text=I hereby award you the Alaskan Barnstar for your excellent edits in Anchorage-related articles. --~~~~}}
[edit] Templates
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| {{Project Alaska}}
Template showing an article, image, category, or template is part of this WikiProject. Placed at the top of talk pages, not articles. After tagging an article, you can add it and its talk page to Wikipedia:WikiProject Alaska/Alaska recent changes if you want it to show up before the next update. |
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| {{Alaska History}}
Template to categorize different periods in Alaska's history; placed toward the top of history-related article pages. |
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| {{Alaska-stub}}
Stub notice for Alaska articles not covered by one of the other stub categories; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Alaska-geo-stub}}
Stub notice for articles dealing with Alaska locations or geographical features; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Alaska-politician-stub}}
Stub notice for Alaska politicians; placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Alaska-school-stub}}
Stub notice for Alaska schools (but not colleges or universities); placed at the bottom of article pages |
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| {{Alaska-Community-External-References}}
Link template to Division of Community Advocacy community summaries and photos; placed in external links section after any real links but before any geolinks templates |
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For Alaska-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Alaska}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alaska. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons. |
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[edit] Link to stubs
If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.
[edit] Other pages
[edit] Find a photograph
Many Alaska articles lack photographs: some of these can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alaska. If any are located near you, you can help Wikipedia by uploading a freely licensed photograph to Wikimedia Commons.
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