Wikipedia:WikiProject Oregon/About us
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WikiProject Oregon has existed since March 2006 (after a previous incarnation as the Oregon Wikigroup Project, which was started in March 2005), and has experienced a lot of growth in late 2007 and 2008. This page is for keeping track of the project's milestones, successes, and other navel-gazing sorts of things. You may also be interested in the Admin sub-page, which keeps track of the specific articles we monitor, or the Assessment sub-page, which keeps track of the importance and quality of those articles.
We also have an Introductions page, in which members are encouraged to write up a brief intro of who they are and what Oregon topics interest them.
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[edit] Success stories
Where has Wikipedia excelled at providing information about Oregon? Share your stories here! (Note, many of these will include significant contributions from folks who haven't joined our project. No need to worry about such pesky details! These stories are meant to be useful in explaining to Oregonians why Wikipedia is cool, so "whether it's WPOR" or not isn't really important.) (See also http://www.aboutus.org/Wiki_success_stories )
- Barlow Road: During a Collaboration of the Week, Wikipedia editors noted that several historic sources said that Sam Barlow's party went over Lolo Pass during their 1845 trip across the Cascades. This claim does not jive with the geography of the region and other details of the trip. From a careful reading of Palmer's journals, editors discovered where the misunderstanding originated, and wrote up a more accurate account of the journey.
- Mary Ramsey Wood: This Oregon pioneer is reputed to have lived to 120 years of age, in many supposedly authoritative sources. Partially on this basis, she was named the "Queen Mother of Oregon" by the Oregon Legislature. Wikipedia editors searched the census records of 1880 and 1890, and determined that she was in fact no older than 97 when she died.
- List of Oregon ballot measures: The Oregon Secretary of State maintains historic information about ballot measures, but it is not as useful as it could be; the complete list contains no hyperlinks to detailed information about the measures, or other relevant information. Wikipedia has a better version. (Note: this is a work in progress, and is not yet very complete before 1989.)
- William Pope McArthur: One editor created an article on a historical figure, William Pope McArthur. Within a few hours a "domino effect" of collaboration among several editors from different states led to the creation and expansion of several articles.
- Wikipedia editor Zab noted a discrepancy between the names Lake Creek and Lakecreek, and contacted the USGS. The USGS approved an official name change as a result of his proposal. (See Talk:Lake Creek, Oregon for more details.)
- Johnson Creek existed as a neglected placeholder article for over a year, until one editor made it his mission to expand it. Enthusiasm for the article grew quickly as fifteen other editors expanded the article in several dimensions. In less than two months, the article's rating rose from Stub all the way to Featured Article. The success of this article has inspired work on Fanno Creek.
[edit] Charting the scope of our project
[edit] A card from the WikiWednesday folks
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Congratulations to WikiProject Oregon on your Featured Article appearing on Wikipedia's Main Page! From all of us at the Portland WikiWednesday. |
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[edit] Project awards
Barn stars and other awards for excellent Oregon-related writing or editing.
- {{subst:WPOR award|message ~~~~}} Awards the WPOR pioneer. Has canned message. Enter additional message by replacing "message".
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WPOR Award: Sponsored in part by the Big Gold Dude. | |
| You are hereby granted this shiny object for all your hard work at WikiProject Oregon! Hello world! Aboutmovies 18:25, 1 June 2007 (UTC) |
- {{subst:WPOR COTW award|message ~~~~}} Awards the COTW award. Has canned message. Enter additional message by replacing "message".
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The COTW award from WPOR. | |
| Thanks for leading the way in last week's Collaboration of the Week! Aboutmovies 19:10, 7 September 2007 (UTC) |
[edit] Service awards
- Did You Know awards: For every five DYKs featured on the DYK template that is part of the Main Page, you get a bronze DYK award. When you reach 10, then you trade the bronze in for the silver. Five more and trade up for gold (15 total). After that, keep the gold and start collecting a second set, then third,... Collect them all! Self-awarded, just place with your userboxes.
- Gold Badge for 15 DYKs: {{WPOR DYK gold}}
- Silver Badge for 10 DYKs: {{WPOR DYK silver}}
- Bronze Badge for 5 DYKs: {{WPOR DYK bronze}}
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Oregon/About us is one of the United States WikiProjects.
Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.
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