Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania

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Shortcuts: WP:PENNSYLVANIA WP:PENNA

1 Goals
2 Announcements
3 Participants
- 3.1 Participants in WikiProject Philadelphia available to help
4 Structure
- 4.1 WikiProject requests list
- 4.2 Assessment
5 Templates
6 Related WikiProjects
- 6.1 Child WikiProjects
7 Images
8 Wikimedia Pennsylvania
9 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Goals

Improve Pennsylvania articles to featured status.
Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Rules and Standards
Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks.

[edit] Announcements

Cogan House Covered Bridge reached FA status. — May 28^th, 2008

[edit] Participants

AAARanger5
Alphageekpa
Bhockey10-Sports, Central and Eastern PA, etc..
User:ChrisGriswold
ClairSamoht
Dddstone
Dudtz
Lemcke - Altoona and State College Pennsylvania.
Mareino
PAWiki
Ruhrfisch
User:Scott Mingus, Pennsylvania Civil War articles
South Philly - email me for my opinion
Squamate
SkaBat169
Jmpenzone
Thisisbossi - Small fixes, assessments, and larger mods to LanCo/Berks area.
Myselfalso
Dincher
Internazionale
WTGDMan1986
wikipeep 494
dhaluza
BSA Archery

Coemgenus
Marphilly
Vishwin60
Superken - Revolutionary History
shanafme
Trey - Erie related pages
VerruckteDan
JohnnyAlbert10
James_xeno
Plm209
Jasontromm
Pier Snake
CrazedEwok
RedShiftPA
Enigmaticjew
jls211 - Central PA
Grsz11 - sports
weyandt - Pennsylvania culture, particularly dialects and other quirky items.
AltioraPeto
Neagley
Monobi

[edit] Participants in WikiProject Philadelphia available to help

PYLrulz

[edit] Structure

[edit] WikiProject requests list

Please add new requests here

New Requests

Valley Forge Station

http://www.revolutionaryday.com/usroute202/valleyforge/default.htm

http://jim-frizzell.com/valley_forge_train_station_may_01_2005.htm

[edit] Assessment

Pennsylvania articles		Importance
Pennsylvania articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2	3	6		8	19
	FL		1	2	1		4
	A		2	2		5	9
	GA	1	6	6	3	17	33
	B	9	43	267	39	107	465
	Start	7	50	1199	758	595	2609
	Stub	3	20	515	218	1437	2193
	List			2	2	32	36
	Assessed	22	125	1999	1021	2201	5368
	Unassessed		1	25	15	1650	1691
	Total	22	126	2024	1036	3851	7059

Assessment — Our rating system
{{WikiProject Pennsylvania}} — project banner
V1.0 index — logs, sortings, stats, etc

[edit] Templates

Article Templates

{{user Pennsylvania}} to place the Pennsylvania Userbox on your page

This user lives in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

| {{User Wikiproject Pennsylvania}} to place the Pennsylvania Userbox on your page

This user is a member of WikiProject Pennsylvania.

| {{Pennsylvania WikiProject User}} to place the Pennsylvania Userbox on your page

This user is a member of WikiProject Pennsylvania.

{{User:UBX/Image:Qxz-ad23.gif}} to place the Pennsylvania Banner on your user page.

[edit] Related WikiProjects

WikiProject Pennsylvania is one of the United States WikiProjects.

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Assets	US Interstate Highways \| US Highways \| US Roads \| Historic Places

Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.

[edit] Child WikiProjects

[edit] Images

Source	License	Tag
Free image sources for the United States
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
National Park Service ([2] and [3])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress ([5])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([6])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([7])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([8][9])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([10])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-USDA}}
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For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

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[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can: