Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics

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Project
The WikiProject Olympics was called into existence on March 1, 2002. Since then, this project has been trying to assemble Wikipedians who share interest regarding topics related to the Olympic Games, and who are ready to create and expand content belonging to this area. The Olympics field area is as big as its history but, despite the huge amount of content that already exists on the English Wikipedia, there is always something missing or in need of development, that you can work on! Suggestions presented here are things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

If you feel that you can have a positive contribution to the project, become a member by joining the list of members. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

Goals
The project aims primarily to:
  • Create and improve articles whose content has connection with the Olympics.
  • Set up consistent structural and graphical layouts for displaying data on theme-specific articles.

Other goals include:

Parentage
The WikiProject Olympics was created and existed as a full-out branch of the WikiProject Sports until March 2007, when, amidst a restructuring, the project's high growth rate and importance were considered sufficient for it to take an independent course from its parent WikiProject. It used to stand in a similar situation to other daughter projects, like WikiProject Sports Listing or WikiProject Sports Results.
Tasks
If you are wondering where to start, take a look at these tasks:
Categorize Olympics-related pages

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WikiProject Olympics

Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Opening Ceremony

Athens 2004 Olympic Games - Opening Ceremony
The Olympic Flame burns for the first time at the Olympic Stadium, during the Opening Ceremony of the Athens 2004 Summer Olympics.
Quick links
Portal Olympics Portal
Shortcuts WP:OLYMPICS or WP:OLY (main page)
WT:OLYMPICS or WT:OLY (talk page)
Template → {{OlympicsWikiProject}}
Member userbox {{User WikiProject Olympics}}
Announcements → {{WikiProject Olympics announcements}}
Main sections

General discussion
Olympic conventions (idle)
Assessment
Templates
Summer articles
Winter articles

Statistics
Olympics
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 3 2 5
Featured list FL 2 1 4 7
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 2 1 4
B 9 9 7 8 4 37
Start 114 333 441 99 987
Stub 99 3219 403 525 4246
List 4 8 5 1 18
Assessed 10 232 3572 862 629 5305
Unassessed 115 1040 1155
Total 10 232 3572 977 1669 6460
Featured content
Articles
 Jim Thorpe  May 12, 2004
 1896 Summer Olympics  March 10, 2005
 Australia at the Winter Olympics  April 6, 2006
 Ian Thorpe  December 3, 2006
 2012 Summer Olympics bids  April 28, 2007
Lists
 Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming  November 27, 2006
 Participating nations at the Summer Olympics  March 15, 2008
 Participating nations at the Winter Olympics  April 1, 2008
 1976 Summer Olympics medal count  April 29, 2008
 1896 Summer Olympics medal count  May 26, 2008
 2006 Winter Olympics medal count  May 30, 2008
 2004 Summer Olympics medal count  June 1, 2008
Good articles
 Rugby union at the Summer Olympics  June 14, 2006
 Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics  March 19, 2007
 London 2012 Olympic bid  March 19, 2007
 Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy  December 29, 2007

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Olympic Games
Beijing
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2008
Vancouver
610 days left
2010
London
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2012
Sochi
2066 days left
2014
Pan American Games Youth Olympic Games Asian Games
Guadalajara
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2011
Singapore
793 days left
2010
Guangzhou
883 days left
2010
Incheon
2290 days left
2014
Members
This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username, in alphabetical order, using the {{user}} template (e.g. {{user|USERNAME}}). If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project.
User Comments
3bulletproof16 (talk · contribs) Adding info on Olympic Stadiums.
Aeron Valderrama (talk · contribs)
Andrwsc (talk · contribs) filling in holes where I see them and working to achieve a consistent look and feel with all pages
Andyroo161 (talk · contribs) helping to fill in results for numerous events
AxG (talk · contribs)
Baseballa449 (talk · contribs) athletes and nations
Basketball110 (talk · contribs) Stadiums and bidding
Carom (talk · contribs) 1948 Summer Olympics, possibly working on the portal
Cbradshaw (talk · contribs) I especially enjoy tracking the bid process for future games as well as the Youth Olympics and other similar events.
Cmapm (talk · contribs) Mostly contribute to biographies of Olympic medalists.
Dajes13 (talk · contribs) Addig pictures to the 2008 summer olympic venues' own articles.
Deletion Quality (talk · contribs)
decafdyke (talk · contribs) Fan of Olympic political history, athletics, and all women's sports. plan to start by copy-editing and eventually add some material for beijing and vancouver.
Ekaterina tony (talk · contribs) editing various Olympic stuff (currently working on 1932 Summer Olympics)
EvertoExcel (talk · contribs)
El_Greco (talk · contribs) I've researched a few Olympic related information, especially for the Athens and Zappeion page.
Fox334 (talk · contribs) Adding events results, qualification results and doing some general stuff.
General Eisenhower (talk · contribs) I have added an announcement template for this project.
Hektor (talk · contribs) Creating a few demonstration sports pages.
Highfields (talk · contribs) I've always been fascinated by the olympics
igordebraga (talk · contribs)
João Felipe C.S (talk · contribs)
Jonel (talk · contribs)
Jared (talk · contribs) I am trying to bring consistency to all of the pages. In addition, I am really working to get the 2008 Summer Olympics page and most of its subpages up and ready for the games.
Juthani1 (talk · contribs)
Kevinalewis (talk · contribs) Winter Olympics, Filled out the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics/Templates list with the Winter Olympic templates.
Kolindigo (talk · contribs)
Lemonflash (talk · contribs)
Maddiekate (talk · contribs)
MallonBill (talk · contribs) Happy to help on any questions you guys have - written 23 books on the Olympics and Past-President of the ISOH
MC (talk · contribs) Random editing, plugging of holes, standardisation, etc.
Miller17CU94 (talk · contribs) Done with sliding sports, shifting focus to 2008 Games, mainly with second week of events..
Mipchunk (talk · contribs) Extensive knowledge about professional athletics, including specific athletes, statistics, and records.
Mohsen1248 (talk · contribs) All about olympics, especially Beijing 2008.
Mtmelendez (talk · contribs) Contributing to the Portal.
Neville Longbottom (talk · contribs)
Nick C (talk · contribs)
Nipsonanomhmata (talk · contribs) Specialising in the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times. Huge fan of David C. Young and "The Modern Olympics - A Struggle for Revival". Read the book. It's the best I've read on the history of the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times. If you know of anything better I'd like to hear about it.
Oncamera (talk · contribs) Work on Winter sport pages and Olympians.
Parslad (talk · contribs) Summer Games, particularly country lists.
Parutakupiu (talk · contribs) I'm open to edit/improve any page. I'm quite good at templates, too.
Paulbrock (talk · contribs) Main interest/knowledge in London 2012, but interested in helping wherever!
Peter Konnecke (talk · contribs) Sydney 2000 from a volunteers perspective
Phileasson (talk · contribs) At the moment working on pages of particpating NOCs for Beijing 2008.
Politics rule (talk · contribs)
Punkmorten (talk · contribs) I've done tons and tons of work so why not sign up.
Rebskii (talk · contribs) I would like to help on the improvement of Asian-related articles.
Reywas92 (talk · contribs) I'm not much for prose, but I love the Olympics and I'll help out where I can.
Saulopro (talk · contribs) Results and articles related to Brazil
Scorpion0422 (talk · contribs) Random stuff, mostly related to Canada.
Sue Anne (talk · contribs) My primary focus tends to be Country at xxxx Olympics pages. I also work on athlete pages and several others.
thesimpsonsguru (talk · contribs) Im really interested in Canadian athletes and past olympics, so contact me on my discussion board if you need help.
Tone (talk · contribs) adding current stuff and things about Slovenia
Topcardi (talk · contribs) obscure stuff about early Olympics, British Olympians and, obviously, Pigeon racing at the 1900 Olympics
Ultratomio (talk · contribs)
Valrith (talk · contribs)
Zé da Silva (talk · contribs) Filling blanks, standartising tables/pages and creating the odd article
Allied45 (talk · contribs) Mainly filling in Olympic results, especially in swimming