Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Northern Ireland Portal
Shortcut:
WP:NIR

WikiProject NORTHERN IRELAND


Participants are requested to VOTE each month for their choice of
Showcase Article and Showcase Picture.
It only takes a minute - please participate!

Contents

[edit] Scope and Motivation

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Northern Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

The vast majority of this project was unashamedly ripped from another project: Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles, and the creator of this project extends recognition for the tireless work involved in formatting, text, policy and many other aspects by Kingboyk, Lar and himself.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Northern Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Northern Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Northern Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Northern Ireland Portal.

  • Northern Ireland has a population of approximately 1.7 million.

Articles and categories relating to Northern Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do"s.

[edit] Recent developments

  • The Troubles discussion page. Not particularly recent, but its not something many people have been made aware of. The only references to it are on an archived deletion discussion and a user page.
  • Belfast has been successful as the Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography's collaboration of the month. For anyone who's interested in helping to get the article up to FAC standard, there are many resources and a guide available on the UK Geography Project page.
  • This Northern Ireland Project is currently being re-vamped in line with the Belfast one.

[edit] Participants

[edit] Major pending tasks

  1. Modify WPNI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia.
  2. Update all {{infobox Northern Ireland place}} templates to use include the new mapping function.
     
  3. Add the new {{WPNI}} template to all Northern Ireland-related articles' talk pages.
    N.B. - please do not substitute the template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top of this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on the list of links that provides a guage for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).
     
  4. Add new {{Northern Ireland history}} navigational template to the top of all Northern Ireland-history related articles.


  • Completely overhaul this page into a more coherent format.
    • Insert templates on talk pages of Northern Ireland-related articles referring to new MOS (yet to be created) page.
    • Create project space Manual of Style article and template.
    • Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
  • Implement a "Series on Northern Ireland" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}

[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Northern Ireland Manual of Style
See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

[edit] Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Templates

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Log.

  • Counties of Northern Ireland - I noticed this article wasn't yet created, and it is a rather large one in terms of importance in my opinion. Got cracking and there's the outcome. --Dom0803 14:36, 7 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] To do

  1. To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
  2. To improve the standard of articles relating to Northern Ireland in general.
  3. To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistancy throughout.
  4. To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
  5. Expand the sub-articles relating to the Belfast postal districts, which should all be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district.
  6. Articles on notable Belfast tourist attractions such as the Ulster Folk and Transport Museum should be put in the same format as other Belfast place articles.
  7. Maintenance of Northern Ireland Portal.
  8. Continue rollout of Template:Infobox UK place to replace Irish infobox per WP:UKCITIES

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

  • Locate non-categorised Northern Irish schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

[edit] Substance

[edit] Done

[edit] To do

  • The main Belfast article needs to achieve featured status.
  • Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
  • All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
  • Template:Infobox NI place (talk, links, edit) needs to be added to all Belfast district articles

[edit] Northern Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates

List individual Northern Ireland related articles that have been tagged (with, for example, reqphoto) here.

[edit] Tagged with WPNI template

For a complete list of the progress of categories that have been manually searched and from which articles have been tagged with the project template, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/WPNI tagging progress.

[edit] Reqphoto

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Northern Ireland for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

[edit] Article assessment

Article assessment (long)
Make visible or invisible by clicking Show or Hide, respectively.

[edit] Useful categories

The following Belfast-related topics can be turned into an encyclopaedic article called List of Northern Irish topics which is part of Category:Topic lists.

[edit] Reference

[edit] Projects

  1. Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Northern Ireland/Missing articles

[edit] Tasks

  1. Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Northern Irish related edits in the past
  2. Fix templates to talk pages
  3. Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'
  4. Assess articles at /Article Classification


[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

  • /General
  • /Strategy

[edit] Other subpages

[edit] Red links

See /Red links for a full list.

[edit] Missing articles

[edit] Categories

[–] Northern Ireland
[+] Architecture in Northern Ireland
[+] Northern Irish culture
[+] Economy of Northern Ireland
[+] Education in Northern Ireland
[+] Environment of Northern Ireland
[+] Geography of Northern Ireland
[+] Government of Northern Ireland
[+] Healthcare in Northern Ireland
[+] History of Northern Ireland
[+] Northern Irish law
[+] Lifeboats in Northern Ireland
[+] Northern Ireland-related lists
[+] Nature centres in Northern Ireland
[+] Organisations based in Northern Ireland
[+] Northern Irish people
[+] Politics of Northern Ireland
[+] Religion in Northern Ireland
[+] Sport in Northern Ireland
[+] Tourism in Northern Ireland
[+] Transport in Northern Ireland
[+] Ulster
[+] Images of Northern Ireland
[+] Northern Ireland stubs


[edit] Lists

See Category:Northern Ireland-related lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Northern Ireland

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Northern Ireland

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Northern Irish articles

Please feel free to list your new Northern Irish articles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Featured picture candidates

[edit] Featured lists

[edit] Featured list candidates

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Deletion links

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Northern Irish articles-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Northern Ireland.

[edit] Requests

I'd like to request help on a Sport in Derry City or Sport in County Londonderry page. If you are interested in assisting, leave me a message on my talk page.Ryannus 00:16, 18 June 2007 (UTC)

I've added the WPNI to two articles I am currently editing because they have a strong connection to Northern Ireland. If anyone would like to examine these and see if they have any advice to offer I would appreciate it. They are 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars and Queen's Royal Irish Hussars.GDD1000 (talk) 12:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

[edit] Parentage

This project is categorized under the Category:Regional WikiProjects (see also Wikipedia:WikiProject UK subdivisions).

parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Ireland

Sister projects would be Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography and Wikipedia:WikiProject Irish literature.

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

The descendants of this WikiProject are:

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

No similar WikiProjects have been named.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

[edit] Related Wikiportals

[edit] Related Collaborations

No related Collaborations have been named.

[edit] Related Regional notice boards

[edit] Related groups of Wikipedians

[edit] Associated pages

[edit] Related pages in Sister projects

[edit] Resources

[edit] External resources

[edit] Archives

  • #1

[edit] Sister Project links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Wikimedia Commons has media related to:
Look up Northern Ireland in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Wikinews has related news:
Wikinews
Wikinews has related news:
Find more about Northern Ireland on Wikipedia's sister projects:
Dictionary definitions
Textbooks
Quotations
Source texts
Images and media
News stories
Learning resources