Wikipedia:WikiProject History

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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members

Goals
  • To improve Wikipedia's coverage of history by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
  • To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of history.
  • To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to history in Wikipedia.
  • To maintain the history portal and its sub-portals
  • To answer queries about history on the reference desk, especially the humanities reference desk.
Scope
Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes
Structure
WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work
  • Coordinators are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
  • Departments host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and offline publication.
  • Task forces are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics within history.
  • WikiProject history recently expanded into Wikibooks

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[edit] Scope

Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:

  • Articles with a "History" section, however long, are not in our scope
  • "History of..." articles are within our scope

[edit] Work

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

[edit] Vital articles

These articles need to gain featured status as soon as possible:

[edit] Opentasks

Feel free to add any articles needing improvement you come across here:

[edit] Organization

[edit] Coordination

The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

The project does not yet have any formally designated coordinators, given that it is still in its comparative infancy. However, for purposes of helping coordinate project activities, User:John Carter has indicated a willingness to perform such functions. Please feel free to contact him directly if you have questions regarding this project which either haven't been responded to here or regarding any other matters you believe are relevant to this project.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The Assessment department finds historical articles for the first time and rate them on quality and importance scales.

[edit] Collaboration

The Collaboration department serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or youhave found abandoned. A list of opentasts can also be found here

[edit] Review

The Review department carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope.

[edit] Outreach

The Outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.

[edit] Task forces

Task forces are used to focus attention on specific areas with a project's scope. WikiProject History has no task forces yet. Some may be introduced to work on specific areas if needed.

[edit] Showcase

History
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 4 9 14
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 6 3 18 28
B 17 16 13 4 86 136
Start 11 16 18 6 188 239
Stub 1 9 2 34 46
Assessed 28 34 47 19 336 464
Total 28 34 47 19 336 464

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.

[edit] DYKs

The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:

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[edit] Parentage

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