Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

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WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Australia.

This WikiProject is a parent project to many sub-projects dedicated to maintaining a wide variety of Australian topics.

If you wish to help out, please add your name to the list of participants.

Contents 1 Project scope 2 Tables of contents and indexes 3 Departments 3.1 Assessment 3.2 Collaboration 3.3 Requested images 3.4 Outreach 4 Category tree 5 The Australian Barnstar of National Merit 6 Projects that have impact on Australian External Territories

[edit] Project scope

Things to do Backlog Australia articles needing attention 82  → Australia articles needing expert attention 1  → Australia-centric articles 10 Underpopulated Australia categories 135  → Underpopulated Year in Australia categories 24 Unassessed Australia articles 5279

The project generally considers any article related to Australia to be a valid topic.

Our goals

1. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australia.
2. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
3. To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australia in Wikipedia.

[edit] Tables of contents and indexes

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Australia-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

• List of basic Australia topics - for its placement, see Lists of basic topics
• List of Australia-related topics - (for a similar index page, see List of Germany-related topics)

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The WikiProject Australia assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australian articles.

Assessments are performed via parameters in the {{WP Australia}} project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

An assessment parameter (FA, GA, B, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

[edit] Collaboration

The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Australia (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

The current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight is: Murrumbidgee River

[edit] Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Australia articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

[edit] Category tree

Find more about Australia on Wikipedia's sister projects:
	Dictionary definitions
	Textbooks
	Quotations
	Source texts
	Images and media
	News stories
	Learning resources

[edit] The Australian Barnstar of National Merit

		The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
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Usage

To use this, simply add {{subst:The Australian Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

[edit] Projects that have impact on Australian External Territories

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Antarctica