Wikipedia:WikiProject Ports

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WikiProject Ports is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to shipping ports and harbors worldwide.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Departments 2.1 Assessment 2.2 Requested images 2.3 Outreach 3 WikiProject Participants 4 Ongoing Maintenance 5 Matters for talk page discussion 6 Pages needing attention

[edit] Scope

The principal focus of the Project is on:

• major seaports, docks and shipping terminals;
• port operators and authorities; and
• related articles on port equipment, logistics and economics.

However the project scope extends to any port or harbor which caters for international, national or regional shipping, including the major fishing ports. Former and historical ports also fall within the Project bounds.

[edit] Departments

[edit] Assessment

The WikiProject Ports assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Ports-related articles.

Assessments are performed via parameters in the {{WP Ports}} project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

An assessment parameter (FA, GA, A, B, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

[edit] Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Ports-related articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license images and maps, as well as creating new maps from other materials where no suitable ones can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional images that may be needed for particular articles from the department, or to provide their own images or ports and port operations for inclusion in the relevant articles. All contribution are welcome, especially historical images and those of minor ports.

[edit] Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

[edit] WikiProject Participants

• Altairisfar
• Augusta2
• Euryalus
• frelke
• I am Dr. Drakken
• Lovebus
• mexaguil
• PeregrineAY

[edit] Ongoing Maintenance

• Keep Category:Ports and harbours up to date with new ports and port-related articles.
• Create new ports articles to fill the gaps. Where a port is outlined within a wider article on a port city, consider whether sufficient material exists for a standalone article.
• Update the various ports lists in Category:Lists of ports and particularly the overall List of seaports with any new ports articles either created or discovered.
• Monitor the daily assessment log. The main things to look for:
  • Articles being removed. This is usually legitimate (due to merges or non-ports articles getting untagged), but is sometimes due to vandalism or broken template code.
  • Articles being moved to "GA-Class" and higher quality. These ratings need to correspond to the article's status in the GA and FA lists or the A-Class project review.
• Deal with any new assessment requests and the backlog of unassessed articles.

[edit] Matters for talk page discussion

1. Given the quantity of publically available technical data, do we want to design a standard format for portraying it in articles?
2. infobox: We are desperately in need of a ports infobox, ideally as a template for easy use. There is a non-template version on various pages (eg. Port of Los Angeles) which may or may not be suitable as a start;
3. standard layout: having regard for the current layout used in the GA-class articles and major ports pages including Los Angeles and Singapore
4. Articles without images: free ports images are fairly easy to come by but many of our articles don't have them. Suggestions for where/how to expand our image use would be appreciated.

[edit] Pages needing attention

• Most of the Chinese ports articles are one-line stubs, despite representing some of the largest and busiest ports in the world.
• The actual Ports article needs a fair bit of expansion, including regional variations, an outline ofthe history and common features of ports and an expansion of spaceports and airports which also come under the heading.

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