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[edit] IntroductionIntroduction

This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, and its related articles, such as cities, rural municipalities, geography, transportation, culture, education, history &c. The importance of these articles for new users, researchers, students, and educators, in the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the to do list .

[edit] Scope and Motivation Scope and Motivation

  1. Saskatchewan is the originating province of Canadian medicare.[1]
  2. Saskatchewan is Canada's largest producer of potash and Canada is the largest producer of potash worldwide[2]
  3. Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of uranium [3]
  4. Saskatchewan has Canada's Largest Turtle, a roadside attraction named Ernie. Turtleford
  5. Saskatchewan has the World's Largest Honeybee, a roadside attraction. Tisdale[4]
  6. Saskatchewan has the largest wheat, peas, lentils and chickpeas producing industry in Canada.[5]
  7. Saskatchewan is Canada's second largest oil-producing province.[6]
  8. Saskatchewan has Canada's largest pork producers and largest meat processors .[7][8].
  9. Saskatchewan has had Canada's largest hailstone (10 cm diameter, 290 grams) [9]

[edit] Help

We need your help! If you are a resident, expat, or have some knowledge about Saskatchewan or a related article, YOU can:

[edit] Structure

Please use Banners, Templates (with rankings), Categories and User boxes.

[edit] Wikiproject Saskatchewan pagesFor Wikiproject Saskatchewan pages

For general guidance on article structure

  1. always start articles with a standardized template; see Infobox template
  2. create the relevant sections in the article
  3. add a photo
  4. below any See also and External links sections, insert (don't subst!) the appropriate navigation bar
  5. below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
  6. lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
  7. on the very top of the article's talk page, use the template {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} For more information and categories: Wikiproject Canada Template
  8. Create an article introduction which summarizes the content of the whole article, and every section.
  • For articles needing photos to improve the quality use the {{reqphotoin|Saskatchewan}} banner.

[edit] UserboxUser pages

This user is a member of WikiProject Saskatchewan.


  • {{User WikiProject Saskatchewan }} should be included in user pages of anyone who wishes to write a Saskatchewan related article.


  • Add this template {{Saskatchewan quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Wikipedia.


[edit] Templates Infoboxes

SK
Canadian Provinces and Territories
See Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan/Templates

Try to add a Saskatchewan or Canadian Template to each article. Where one of the above is not available use a generic topic template.

  • All settlements in Saskatchewan should use {{Infobox Settlement}}. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Saskatchewan like Saskatoon and North Battleford and to settlements in the other parts of Canada like Toronto, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc. {{Infobox Settlement}} also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Saskatchewan.
  • {{Template:Infobox road}} for example use the infobox road template for your new Saskatchewan Road article creations.

[edit] MembersMembers

  1. Delzen (talk · contribs) Particularly interested in issues involving education and sustainability, and in the region between Saskatoon and Regina. Having students create stub articles for RMs.
  2. eternalsleeper (talk · contribs) I will continue to add and create articles about Northern Saskatchewan.
  3. fishhead2100 (talk · contribs) - Prince Albert, Red Deer Hill, professional wrestling, music. Been working on various community Wiki pages. Will work on anything I have knowledge on and the edit will be useful.
  4. Mitchazenia (talk · contribs) - Roads and towns of Saskatchewan
  5. Mumun_man (talk · contribs) Chimo, everyone! This is great! I've been with several Regina related articles -- so glad to see a SaskWiki...
  6. Neel_Radhakrishnan (talk · contribs) Thanks for the invitation - I no longer live in Saskatchewan (but I am from Saskatchewan), therefore I won't be able to add much new content but I will make an effort to improve the quality of the articles. :)
  7. Nirajrm (talk · contribs) Wow!!! Thanks for inviting me :)
  8. Plasma Twa 2 (talk · contribs) Thanks for the invite. I help with Saskatoon area articles, like Warman and Martensville (which I created and update regularly). Whatever I come across I'll edit, I guess.
  9. Realc (talk · contribs) Starts or updates articles related to SE Sask.
  10. Royalguard11 (talk · contribs) I've been thinking of starting a Sask Wikiproject for a while now actually.
  11. Shootmaster 44 (talk · contribs) I've undertaken many pages relating in some way or another to sports in Saskatchewan.
  12. SriMesh (talk · contribs) Have helped with Saskatoon categories, SK categories, some towns, RMs and SK roads.
  13. T. Mazzei (talk · contribs) Mostly politics.
  14. Techgod (talk · contribs) Building a couple village pages.
  15. Turgan (talk · contribs) Business, Geography, Mining industry.
  16. Tynedanu (talk · contribs) I can help with Saskatoon related articles. I'm also very interested in music in SK.
  17. Ultraflame (talk · contribs) My work will be mainly in the Saskatchewan roads section. Perhaps a bit on Saskatoon and area as well.
  18. Victor D (talk · contribs) Free images of Saskatoon and Regina (for now). Also interested about U of S campus.
  19. Vidioman (talk · contribs) Focusing primarily on Northwestern Ontario
  20. SniperSarge (talk · contribs) Regina and I can help with Saskatoon. Yee Haw!
  21. Rlegaarden (talk · contribs) Can I join ? I can help with the history of agriculture and anything related to the areas around the Calling Lakes and Qu'appelle Valley.
  22. JoeyETS (talk · contribs) Anything I can do to help, particularly with theatre.
  23. Shanemcd (talk · contribs) I'll help out with articles on various communities, and wherever else I can.
  24. Lehri (talk · contribs) Sign me up! How can I help you?
  25. Fremte (talk · contribs) I've started adding info about northern geography, expect to focus mainly on notable lakes and places. Need to have more First Nation contributions I think also.
  26. Mister_Hockey (talk · contribs) I live in Saskatoon and can help with sports related Saskatchewan articles.
  27. Wyldkat (talk · contribs) I'm interested in history, geography, communities, wildlife and politics.
  28. Edofedinburgh (talk · contribs) I'm particularly interested in Saskatchewan's ghost towns.
  29. Dnirvine (talk · contribs) I'm interesting in most music, geography, and Saskatchewan hockey.
  30. Presidentman (talk · contribs) Sakatchewan history, geography, PCS
  31. Canuck85 (talk · contribs) From BC but good chance I'll be moving to Saskatoon soon. I'll try to help out where ever possible
  32. Leafschik1967 (talk · contribs) - Go Bredenbury!! No, seriously, I'll try to get to some of the stuff in my neck of the woods when I get a chance. I'll also be doing a lot of hockey related articles. I have a few done, and I can get them linked up here.
  33. Merovingian (talk · contribs) - Nicely invited to join, will help with anything I can.
  34. Drm310 (talk · contribs) - Already a member of WikiProject Saskatchewan Communities & Neighbourhoods; seems only natural to join this project too.
  35. Pustelnik (talk · contribs)-Thanks for the invite. I'll offer an interested outsider's view, with interest in folk music and Métis, and Rusyns.
  36. M@sk (talk · contribs) - Thanks for the invitation. I have an interest in science and technology.

[edit] Featured Content Featured Content

Moved this section to the new Assessment page!

[edit] Spotlight Department

Spotlight highlights notable Wikproject Saskatchewan Editors and their contributions. These are Wikipedians who have been noticed by the Saskatchewan WikiProject for their great contributions to Wikipedia's coverage of Saskatchewan and have been awarded the Saskatchewan Wikipedia Project Ribbon for their user page. It is an honour to congratulate these wikipedia contributors for their notable achievements.

[edit] Newsletters / What's New?

[edit]

WikiProject Saskatchewan Newsletter: Volume 2, Issue 6 - June 2008

New condensed format delivered by: ENewsBot. Thank you!


[edit] DYK

Updated DYK query If you know of another interesting fact from a recently created or substantially expanded article, then please suggest it on the "Did you know?" talk page.|
Wikipedia

[edit] Tips Tips

To get an article to featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of Saskatchewan articles. The suggestions are:

I. Write a good lead. Be sure to write a lead that concisely summarizes the entire article into one or two paragraphs which make sense to someone who may know nothing about the subject.
II. Use good spelling and grammar. This is a very important aspect of an article. Many browsers support spell checking.
III. Use footnotes. Take advantage of the footnote ability Wikipedia has, instead of including html links inside the context include them as footnotes. See Wikipedia:Footnotes on how to use them.
IV. Use images if possible. Images enhance articles greatly, but only use them when they are necessary, and ensure that their copyright status has been specified and we are allowed to use it on Wikipedia. See Wikipedia:Images for more information.
V. Use references. This is an encyclopedia, so remember to include a ==References== section listing websites, newspapers, articles, books and other sources you used to write the article. An article will not get accepted as a featured article candidate if it is missing references. See Wikipedia:Verifiability, Wikipedia:Cite_sources and Wikipedia:References.
VI. Stay on topic. Many articles are criticized for length; sticking to the subject matter helps eliminate this.
VI. Keep it simple. Remember that the average reader should be able to comprehend the erudition. Although you should use a broad vocabulary of regular, non-technical terms, do not provide such a quantity of locutions as to impel those who aspire to derive serviceable information from the article to consult a dictionary.
VII. Use common sense. You should know what perfect articles look like. They cover everything they should without going on forever. Common sense could have told you almost all of the items mentioned above. Ultimately, assume good faith,be bold, and go out there and write some good Saskatchewan articles.

[edit] To do To do

1. Expand articles listed in:

1a. *Category:Saskatchewan stubs

1b. *Category:Saskatchewan geography stubs

2. Organize list structure and add to list of needed articles:

2a.*WikiProject Saskatchewan/Article requests

3. Check for and do needed articles at:

3a.*WikiProject Saskatchewan/Article requests

3b. Establish collaborations and improvements for Saskatchewan related articles

4. Photo Requests. For Saskatchewan-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Saskatchewan}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Saskatchewan. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons..

5. Map Requests. Use {{reqmapin|Saskatchewan}} on talk page of articles needing maps which will list maps needed at: Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Saskatchewan. Use the coordinates map template and one of the options for either degree, minutes and seconds or decimal latitude and longitude.


6. Update census demographic information to the 2006 Census version on community pages and remove {{Template:Update}}. This is a template for this; just modify the appropriate variables for the community profile in question. {{Canada_CP_2006|pop=206,900|popDelta=+1.6%|landArea=176.6|popDensity=1,326.8|medianAge=34.3|medianAgeM=33.1|medianAgeF=35.5|privateDwell=84,281|medianHHIncome=41,991}}

7. Review existing assessment of articles and reassess following Assessment guidelines. Clarify assessment criteria at Assessment guidelines

8. Place banners on talk pages and rate Saskatchewan articles via the banner placed upon the article's talk page template thusly: {{WikiProject Canada |class= |importance= | sk=yes }} For more information see the Saskatchewan wikiproject Assessment page.

9. Articles which contain the word Saskatchewan or are Saskatchewan related which have error template tags on them. To Do listing Please clean up articles, remove tag, and remove from both lists on page.

10. Here are some of the many SK categories (drill to sub and parent categories as well) where you can look for untagged articles and articles to expand:

[–] Saskatchewan
[+] Aboriginal peoples in Saskatchewan
[+] Buildings and structures in Saskatchewan
[+] Census divisions of Saskatchewan
[+] Communications in Saskatchewan
[+] Culture of Saskatchewan
[+] Economy of Saskatchewan
[+] Education in Saskatchewan
[+] First Nations in Saskatchewan
[+] Geography of Saskatchewan
[+] Government of Saskatchewan
[+] Healthcare in Saskatchewan
[+] History of Saskatchewan
[+] Saskatchewan law
[+] Natural history of Saskatchewan
[+] Organizations based in Saskatchewan
[+] People from Saskatchewan
[+] Politics of Saskatchewan
[+] Restaurants in Saskatchewan
[+] SARM divisions of Saskatchewan
[+] Settlements in Saskatchewan
[+] Saskatchewan society
[+] Sport in Saskatchewan
[+] Transportation in Saskatchewan
[+] Saskatchewan stubs


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[edit] Recognition and awards

Awards and Barnstars: To award a WikiProject Saskatchewan Barnstar add {{subst:WPSK Barnstar|message ~~~~}} to the user's talk page.

Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan
                       WikiProject Saskatchewan Barnstar
WikiProject Saskatchewan barnstars are the official award for outstanding, extensive, high-quality, or generally valued contributions to WikiProject Saskatchewan Or they can be awarded by anyone, to anyone who has showed significant efforts to improve WikiProject Saskatchewan.

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The Golden Maple Leaf Award
Award for editors that contribute to Canada and Saskatchewan related projects and topics. --Qyd (talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)


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[edit] See also See also

[edit] External WebsitesExternal Websites:

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Saskatchewan Facts - Information on the Province of Saskatchewan ... (2007 About, Inc). Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  2. ^ The QU'APPELLE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers". Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  3. ^ Cameco Corp "Uranium Production Information". Retrieved on 2007-10-22.
  4. ^ Solonyka, Ed (1998 - 2007). Large Canadian Roadside Attractions - Saskatchewan. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  5. ^ Pulse Industry. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  6. ^ Saskatchewan real estate, Canada Real Estate Directory (1996 - 2006). Retrieved on 2007-04-18.
  7. ^ Humboldt, Saskatchewan
  8. ^ Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
  9. ^ Government of Canada, Environment Canada (2002-09-04). Saskatchewan Weather Trivia - Environment Canada. Retrieved on 2007-04-18.



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