Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities

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WikiProject Swiss municipalities

Contents 1 Title 2 Scope 3 Parentage 4 Descendant WikiProjects 5 Similar WikiProjects 6 Participants 7 Article titles 8 Categories 9 Sources 9.1 WikiMedia 9.2 Other 10 Information 11 Infoboxes 12 Completed

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to automatically create stub articles for all 2866 Swiss municipalities.

[edit] Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland

[edit] Descendant WikiProjects

This project has no descendants.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject French communes
• WikiProject Dutch municipalities

[edit] Participants

• User:BillC
• Gerritholl
• Punkmorten (talk) 20:34, 1 January 2008 (UTC)
• ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:27, 23 March 2008 (UTC) -I'll add a few images from time to time where possible

[edit] Article titles

• /Article title conventions
• /List of title variations

[edit] Categories

The parent category is Category:Municipalities of Switzerland. Cantonal subcategories exist.

Cities should also go to Category:Cities in Switzerland, articles on villages that are not independent municipalities should either be merged with the article on their municipality, or put into Category:Villages in Switzerland.

[edit] Sources

[edit] WikiMedia

• de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Schweiz#Gemeinden_der_Schweiz
  • de:Wikipedia:Formatvorlage_Ort_Schweiz
• fr:Wikipédia:Projet, Communes suisses
• Commons:Category:Cities_and_villages_in_Switzerland
  • Commons:Category:Flags_of_swiss_municipalities
  • Commons:Category:Coat_of_arms_of_swiss_municipalities

[edit] Other

• http://www.swissgeo.ch postal_code
• http://www.communal.ch population, district (Bezirk or Kreis?) and surface area, for all of Switzerland. With clickable maps (copyright unknown). More information for some municipalities, like altitude, economic classification, and website.
• All existing communal homepages
• http://www.lexhist.ch/externe/protect/deutsch.html Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (German, French or Italian)

Aargau

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Basel Stadt

Basel Landschaft 

http://www.baselland.ch/docs/gemeinden/info/main-gem_info.htm Contains written text, altitude, ground usage, foreign population, ground prices, jobs, work force, number of houses, taxes, etc.

Bern

Fribourg/Freiburg

Geneve 

http://www.geneve.ch/statistique/statistiques/communes/welcome.html man, woman, age, ground usage, tourism, unemployment, economy, more.

Graubünden/Grigun 

http://www.graubuenden-online.ch/kanton/kanton.html Contains surface area, Bezirk, Kreis, population, height, surface area, jobs, work force, tourism, taxes and economic category.

Glarus 

http://www.glarusnet.ch/gemeinde/index.htm

Jura 

http://www.juranet.ch/cities/list.asp district, surface area, altitude, related web sites

Luzern

Neuchatel

Nidwalden

Obwalden

Schaffhausen

Schwyz

Solothurn

St. Gallen

Thurgau

Ticino

Uri

Valais/Wallis

Vaud

Zug

Zürich

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[edit] Information

Stub articles should contain as much information as possible.

[edit] Infoboxes

Coordinates: 47°24′N, 8°03′E

Aarau
Country Switzerland Canton Aargau District Aarau 47°24′N, 8°03′E
Population	15,619  (December 2005)
- Density	1,747 /km² (4,525 /sq.mi.)
Area	8.94 km² (3.5 sq mi)
Elevation	381 m (1,250 ft)
Postal code	5000
SFOS number	4001
Mayor	Marcel Guignard (as of 2004) FDP/PRD
Surrounded by (view map)	Rohr, Buchs, Suhr, Unterentfelden, Eppenberg-Wöschnau, Erlinsbach
Twin towns	Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Delft (Netherlands), Reutlingen (Germany)
Website	www.aarau.ch
Aarau [zoom]

See Template talk:Infobox Swiss town for details.

On the right, see Template:Infobox_Swiss_town for Aarau.

Empty infobox template:

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• Navigation bars for all Swiss districts are available with {{Municipalities of the district of xxxx}}. See Category:Swiss district templates,

[edit] Completed

All municipality stubs appear to have now been created, thanks to all those who participated. The next step would appear to be to finish the district articles.