Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling

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Shortcuts: WP:HSCH WP:WPHS WP:HSING

WikiProject Homeschooling

General information (edit · changes)

Infoboxes, Userboxes, and Templates

Template:WikiProject Homeschooling - use for related article's talk pages
Template:WikiProject Homeschooling category - use for categories
Collaboration of the month template
User Templates (for members)

Statistics

Homeschooling articles		Importance
Homeschooling articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA				2		2
	A				1		1
	GA			1	1		2
	B	1	1	3	10		15
	Start	2	6	11	3		22
	Stub	1	16	19	7		43
	Assessed	4	23	34	24		85
	Unassessed					2	2
	Total	4	23	34	24	2	87

Table • List • Log


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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to Homeschooling. If you would like to help, please enquire on the talk page. New members are welcome to join, and update the to-do list. The associated talk page serves as a forum for related collaboration of articles within the project's scope.

1 Scope
2 Goals
- 2.1 General goals
- 2.2 Specific goals
3 News
- 3.1 Links
4 Collaboration
5 Articles
6 Membership
7 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Scope

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/Assessment

This WikiProject's scope includes anything that has to do with homeschooling. Articles within this project's scope are assessed by quality and importance boundaries, when the WikiProject Homeschooling template is placed on those articles.

The importance scale will assess articles based upon their importance as it relates to the WikiProject. For example, an article about a person who was or is homeschooled would be within this project's "scope", but it would not be as high on the importance scale as the Homeschooling article itself.
The quality scale determines the article's quality, how well it is written, and the length of the article, regardless of how it is ranked on the importance scale. In the event that the article is within the scope of multiple WikiProjects, the article should usually recieve the quality assessment grade by all of the WikiProjects.

[edit] Goals

[edit] General goals

To coordinate and improve articles related to Homeschooling.
To foster collaboration between participants of this project.
To establish appropriate linkages with WikiProject Education and WikiProject Alternative education.
To work collaboratively with other wikiprojects in order to achieve joint goals.

[edit] Specific goals

Get Homeschooling to GA.
Keep all articles assessed for importance and quality.
Get Tim Tebow to GA.

[edit] News

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/Newsroom

Shortcuts: WP:WPHS/NEWS WP:HOME/NEWS

Last updated by DiligentTerrier ^{and friends}
Recent Project News

Collaboration of the Month nominations are currently open for WikiProject Homeschooling's Collaboration of the month. So far there have been two nominations. You can nominate and vote at April's Collaboration page (link).
The March 2008 Collaboration of the Month was a real success! You can view the before and afters at the project page. The following users contributed: Zginder, Wrad, E104421, Diligent Terrier. Stop by their talk page and give them a smile.
Peer Review: The homeschooling article is currently under peer review. Constructive criticism is welcome at the peer review page (link).
Project member count reaches 23 members! Keep inviting all your WikiFriends using our invitation templates.
A Homeschooling Portal may be created by User:WBOSITG. However, this user will soon be on a WikiBreak, so don't expect it anytime soon.
Remember: The project is accessible from the shortcuts, WP:HOME and WP:WPHS.
Note: User:Twenty Years has changed his name to "Five Years"
A Wikipedia Ad for the project has been created. You can view it at the project page.

Recent Homeschooling News

The "homeschooling convention season" (March - August) has started. . Sorry — couldn't think of a better story.
Homeschooling has been banned in California by recent court ruling on March 6, 2008. As homeschool families protest, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has asked for the ruling to be overturned.

[edit] Links

[edit] Collaboration

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/Collaboration

Open voting

Month	Possible articles
June 2008	N/A

Closed voting

Month	Selected article
March 2008	Homeschooling
April 2008	Tim Tebow
May 2008	Distance education

[edit] Articles

[edit] Quality articles

Featured articles

Theodore Roosevelt

A-Class articles

John Adams

GA-Class articles

[edit] Templates

Copy and paste the template:

on the talk pages of homeschooling articles.

[edit] Adopt an article

For more details on this topic, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Homeschooling/to do.

Here are some tasks you can do:

Cleanup: Homeschooling, National Christian Forensics and Communications Association
Expand: Web-based training
NPOV: Home School Legal Defense Association, Digital reference services
Infobox: Charlotte Mason
Other: Recruit members

Edit To do list

[edit] Assistance required

No articles currently requiring assistance

[edit] Membership

[edit] List of Members

This is the list of members of WikiProject Homeschooling. There is no commitment to becoming a member. Members will receive the project's newsletter unless they request otherwise on the project's talk page.

Diligent Terrier (talk • contribs • count) — (Founder)
Aquzenn (talk • contribs • count)
Wrad (talk • contribs • count)
Zginder (talk • contribs • count)
Tea and crumpets (talk • contribs • count)
Kaylin814 (talk • contribs • count)
Unschool (talk • contribs • count) — I think I'm interested, but I've never worked on a project, and no nothing about projects or task forces or whatever. Somebody needs to point me in the right direction.
RC-0722 (talk • contribs • count)
Burner0718 (talk • contribs • count) — Won't be available 24/7 due to other stuff, but will be glad to help at least a little bit by answering questions and occasionally helping with big edits.
ElisaEXPLOSiON (talk • contribs • count) — id love to join.
Fusionmix (talk • contribs • count), formerly RedZionX (talk • contribs • count) — Count me in.
Freechild (talk • contribs • count) — I have already contributed quiet a bit to hs-related articles on WP, and I shall proceed and continue to rock the mic right.
Milk's Favorite Cookie (talk • contribs • count) Couldn't hurt. - Milk's Favorite Cookie 23:25, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
jj137 (talk • contribs • count) - sure. jj137 (talk) 21:18, 29 February 2008 (UTC)
Preschooler.at.heart (talk • contribs • count) preschooler @heart
Juliancolton (talk • contribs • count) Eh, it can't hurt. Not sure how much I'll be able to contribute, though. Juliancolton ^{The storm still blows...} 02:51, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
Basketball110 (talk • contribs • count) I'll just be here for project wise stuff. I don't know much about homeschooling, but as MFC said, it "couldn't hurt." Basketball 110 20:05, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
Chetblong (talk • contribs • count) I'll join since I'm a homeschooler. Chetblong^{T C} 21:48, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
E104421 (talk • contribs • count) I'd like to join and help the project. E104421 (talk) 21:48, 9 March 2008 (UTC)
5faizan (talk • contribs • count)
Five Years (talk • contribs • count) Mainly at WP:EDUCATION and WP:EDUCATION IN AUSTRALIA
BenjaminTeague123456 (talk • contribs • count)
WBOSITG (talk • contribs • count) - might make a Portal:Homeschooling for you!
American Eagle (talk • contribs • count), formerly America Needs Jesus (talk • contribs • count) - I am a proud HomeSchooler AmericaNeedsJesus 05:31, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
B.L.A.Z.E (talk • contribs • count)
TangentIdea (talk • contribs • count) I'm not particularly skilled in wikification, but my skills generally lie more in the realms of copyediting. A homeschooler myself, having worked for various homeschool organizations and causes ([1], for one), I also have a significant amount of knowledge and experience in the subject area personally.
Master Scott Hall (talk • contribs • count) Although a newbie as editor, my strengths are in research, focus, design, copyedit, and (hopefully) NPOV.
Sam Spade (talk • contribs • count) I am good at mediation, advocation, article clean-up and NPOV enforcement.
Wahoofive (talk • contribs • count)
Jdavidb (talk • contribs • count)
Alan Nicoll (talk • contribs • count) I want to be a part of this, I think, but don't have much time to devote to it and cannot commit to anything significant. Will contribute advice and perhaps resources as seems appropriate.
Prettyxvacant (talk • contribs • count) (a.k.a. Lolly)
Carnildo (talk • contribs • count) - No time, but I might be able to drop in now and then.
OnFire4Jesus (talk • contribs • count)
Amillion (talk • contribs • count)
Tparameter (talk • contribs • count) - Accepting friendly invite by DiligentTerrier. I contribute to wikipedia every so often.
Panic!out (talk • contribs • count) - Won't be making any huge editing changes or anything, but I'm homeschooled...

[edit] Withdrawn and/or Inactive

Pepsi2786 (talk • contribs • count)
Paulinho28 (talk • contribs • count)
Trees Rock (talk • contribs • count)
Frecklefoot (talk • contribs • count) - No guarantees, but will try to contribute.
Ecoleetage (talk • contribs • count)

[edit] Userboxes

Code

Result

Users

This user is a member of WikiProject Homeschooling.

Transclusions

HS	This user is a member of Wikiproject Homeschooling .

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Inviting Members

The list below contains links to templates to recruit people for WikiProject Homeschooling. You can use them based upon whether the user is a homeschooler, interested in homeschooling, a WikiProject Alternative Education member, or a WikiProject Education member.

In those pages you will find instructions for adding the message to a user's talk page. Because we don't want users to get multiple messages, if you plan on helping to recruit members, please be sure to leave a note on our project's talk page and say you are doing so. It is also good to check the user's talk page before adding the template to the page. Also make sure you add a header on top of the message, as that is not included in the template.