Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts

[edit] Founded

2006.04.21 by Ham.

[edit] Scope

The scope of this project covers all articles relating to the fine arts and performing arts.

[edit] Goals

1. Fostering an active and interdisciplinary arts community on Wikipedia. Currently WikiProjects related to the arts suffer from long periods of inactivity, so what is needed is a single Wikiproject bringing together users of differing specialities, in the mould of the successful Science WikiProject. Contributors interested in the arts are vastly outnumbered by pop or geek culture experts as it is, so it is better to co-ordinate the efforts of the former group as much as possible than to segregate them into insular and unsuccessful WikiProjects on their particular topic of interest.
2. Maintaining the Arts Wikiportal, one of the most prominent links on the Main Page, and its subportals.
3. Starting an arts collaboration of the week. This will only go ahead when a sufficient number of participants have expressed their support for a weekly collaboration to be effective.
4. Arts categorization. This project aims to reorganize categories relating to the arts and promote consistancy between arts-related categories. This project is being developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arts/Categorization.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject include:

• Architecture
• Dance
  • Ballet
  • Tango
• Films
• Literature
  • Novels
  • Poetry
• Magic
• Music
  • Albums
  • Classical music
  • Composers
  • Contemporary music
  • Guitarists
  • Musicians
• Opera
• Television
• Theatre
  • Elizabethan Theatre
  • New York Theatre
  • Musical Theatre
• Visual arts
  • Comics
  • Contemporary Art
  • History of photography
  • Sculpture

See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Culture#Arts for an up-to-date list.

[edit] Portals

Help with the upkeep of these Portals would be much appreciated:

• Arts
  • Architecture
  • Dance
  • Film
  • Literature
    • Poetry
    • Shakespeare
  • Music
  • Opera
  • Theatre
  • Visual arts
    • Anime and Manga
    • Comics

[edit] Similar Wikiprojects

• Culture WikiProject
• Science WikiProject

[edit] Action Items

Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Arts

[edit] Participants

Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay.

Please sign your username on the list below (you can use {{User|your user name}}), and note which aspect(s) of the arts you are interested in. Please also add the userbox {{User WikiProject Arts}} to your user page (illustrated below).

This user is a member of WikiProject Arts.

1. Alex M Lee (talk · contribs) - 21:47, 18 June 2007 (UTC)Contemporary Art, Art Theory, Art History, Conceptualism, Post 1970 photography
2. amadscientist (talk · contribs) - Fine art, Theatre arts, music, and more
3. Ham (talk · contribs) - (Art)
4. Tyrenius (talk · contribs) - (mainly contemporary UK art)
5. Ganymead (talk · contribs) - (representing WikiProject Theatre)
6. Osbus (talk · contribs) - mainly music, media-based visual art, and moving image.
7. preschooler@heart my talk - contribs 16:08, 10 April 2006 (UTC)
8. Ω Anonymous anonymous Ψ: ''Have A Nice Day'' 19:40, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
9. Tony (all, but especially music)
10. General Eisenhower
11. The Singing Badger (talk · contribs) - 18:32, 25 April 2006 (UTC)
12. User:Hiding The wikipedian meme 18:50, 25 April 2006 (UTC) representing WikiProject Comics
13. PhilipPage (talk · contribs) - 00:38, 26 April 2006 (UTC)
14. Kevinalewis (talk · contribs) - _(Desk) 08:17, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (Wikipedia:WikiProject Novels representative)
15. Kleinzach (representing WikiProject Opera)
16. Tennessee Wood
17. Ancheta Wis (talk · contribs) - any visual art, also music
18. Wootking (talk · contribs) - any and all visual arts
19. SteveHopson (talk · contribs) - visual arts, but primarily photography
20. Clubmarx (talk · contribs) - visual arts
21. Artethical (talk · contribs) - visual arts
22. Heavy Metal Cellist ^talk_contribs : Theatre, classical music
23. Danny Ford (talk · contribs) - contemporary art
24. Majesticgoat (talk · contribs) - visual arts, independent music and film
25. Rajah (talk · contribs) - mostly visual arts
26. PhotoCritic (talk · contribs) - ONLY PHOTOGRAPHY
27. Paul foord (talk · contribs): Australian focus, also performing arts, particularly dance
28. chemica (talk · contribs) - Literature, particularly Anglophone, Francphone, and Arabophone literatures
29. llamallama (talk · contribs) - (Ancient Art)
30. ichthys58 (talk · contribs) - Short-form image Poetry/expressionist art and some abstract expressionist art.
31. Littlewing1 (talk · contribs) - Music
32. goldenrowley (talk · contribs) - Visual fine art, art movements, art history, some decorative art
33. Seadog.M.S--Love all types of art and music My favorite art genres are Impressionism and Expressionism
34. Julie Martello (talk · contribs) - Fine art and architecture, visual culture, history of art
35. Novinha (talk · contribs) - Literature, Visual Arts, Ancient Cultural Arts
36. TBCΦtalk? 22:38, 14 November 2006 (UTC) History of art
37. Docem (talk · contribs) - 12:50, 28 November 2006 (UTC) painting, printmaking, drawing, modern and contempory, Western and Indian, theory and practise
38. Freshacconci (talk · contribs) - contemporary art, Canadian art, experimental film
39. Planetneutral (talk · contribs) - film and visual art, primarily Italian painters and the occasional surrealist
40. Art4humanists (talk · contribs) - Contemporary art
41. luis1972 (talk · contribs) - Contemporary and Modern Art, Film, Opera, and Architecture
42. artlondon (talk · contribs) - Contemporary Fine Art: digital media; audio, installation, photography and video (essentially anything digital) Artlondon (talk · contribs) - 19:02, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
43. kepcromorg (talk · contribs) - Painting and Illustration
44. Parhamr (talk · contribs) - graphic design, typography
45. Attilios (talk · contribs) - paintings, edifices (usually Italy's, Renaissance, medieval)
46. Indoles (talk · contribs) -
47. Lighthead ^þ 03:21, 13 July 2007 (UTC): All aspects.
48. Infiniteawe (talk · contribs) - Contemporary art
49. Camera5 (talk · contribs) - visual arts, but primarily photography
50. d2s (talk · contribs): visual arts, music, movies, graphic design, photography
51. William P. Coleman (talk · contribs): visual arts (Ancient Greek, Renaissance, Dutch, 20th Century), photography, classic novels, Modernism, Chinese poetry, English and American poetry, gay artists/writers
52. Wakedream (talk · contribs) 1 January 2008: theatre, poetry, photography, classical music, 60s rock, black and white movies, black and white television, some surrealist paintings, experimental and anti-discrimination art
53. Modernist (talk · contribs) - mostly Modernism, Contemporary art, Art history, 20th century, 19th century painting and sculpture
54. Fletot (talk · contribs) - Calligraphy
55. Xn4 (talk · contribs) -
56. ReginaDurante (talk · contribs) - Printmaking, fiber Arts, quilting
57. Zorba_the_Geek (talk · contribs) - Russian literature & art, Spanish literature & art, Old Masters
58. Sara_USA (talk · contribs) - Art, Design & Architecture, Invention/Innovation in the Arts
59. Marshall46 (talk · contribs) - Painting. Ceramic arts. Graphic design, print making, typography. Architecture. Film. The novel.

[edit] Wikipedia Resources

• Category:Architecture
• Category:Dance
• Category:Film
• Category:Literature
• Category:Magic
• Category:Music
• Category:Novels
• Category:Opera
• Category:Performing arts
• Category:Poetry
• Category:Television
• Category:Theatre
• Category:Visual arts

[edit] Articles categories

[edit] WikiProject categories

We can forgive a man for making a useful thing, as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it immensely. All art is useless.
Oscar Wilde

[edit] Project templates

WikiProject Arts
Announcing the creation of WikiProject Arts, an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage.