Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Welcome to WikiProject Switzerland, a WikiProject that aims to collaboratively improve Wikipedia's articles related to Switzerland. If you want to participate, just add your name to the members section.

Contents 1 Scope 2 Daughter projects 3 Members 4 Switzerland-related content 4.1 Lists of articles 4.2 Categories 4.3 Content on review 4.4 Featured content 5 Departments 6 Open tasks 6.1 Articles needing attention 6.2 Requested articles 7 Portal 8 Resources 8.1 Infoboxes 8.2 Templates 8.2.1 Switzerland-specific citation templates 8.2.2 Stub templates 8.3 Translation and style guides 9 External resources

Points of interest related to Switzerland on Wikipedia
Portal - Category - WikiProject - Stubs - Deletions

[edit] Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the Swiss federal state, its cantons, geography, demographics, politics, Swiss transportation, Swiss culture, Swiss history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Switzerland in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Daughter projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities for articles on individual municipalities

[edit] Members

1. dab (��) 21:47, 17 January 2007
2. Badbilltucker 16:14, 18 January 2007
3. Schutz 06:48, 19 January 2007
4. Cate | _Talk ??:??, ?? January 2007
5. Apple 01:51, 20 January 2007
6. Sluzzelin 20:09, 21 January 2007
7. silvasktl21 19:06, 22 January 2007
8. Bababoef 22:26, 10 February 2007
9. Lostvalley 00:46, 12 February 2007
10. Amwyll Rwden 08:18, 2 March 2007
11. Sandstein 12:40, 11 March 2007
12. henkalex 20:51, 12 March 2007
13. Hrödberäht (gespräch) 21:28, 18 March 2007
14. Laleena^{talk to me contributions to Wikipedia} 11:54, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
15. Tobyc75 13:06, 5 October 2007
16. Twsx ~ | twsx | ^talk_cont | 09:49, 30 October 2007 (UTC)
17. Momet (talk) 18:47, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
18. SalomonCeb (talk) 08:19, 17 March 2008 (UTC)
19. Swissphil 09:16, 25 March 2008
20. Halbwolf 15:35, 24 April 2008
21. Horgner (talk) 14:21, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Switzerland}} to their userpages.

[edit] Switzerland-related content

[edit] Lists of articles

• Newly created articles (list automatically generated by a bot)
• List of topics
• Category:Switzerland-related lists

[edit] Categories

• Category:Switzerland
  • Category:Geography of Switzerland
  • Category:History of Switzerland
  • Category:Politics of Switzerland
  • Category:Swiss people

• WikiProject Switzerland (9 pages as of 27 January 2008) (also in Regional WikiProjects, Switzerland)

1. Switzerland stubs (270) (also in Europe stubs)
   1. Swiss building and structure stubs (147) (also in European building and structure stubs)
   2. Swiss company stubs (80) (also in European company stubs)
   3. Swiss people stubs (377) (also in European people stubs)
      1. Swiss politician stubs (153) (also in European politician stubs)
      2. Swiss sportspeople stubs (221) (also in European sportspeople stubs)
         1. Swiss football biography stubs (293) (also in European football biography stubs)
         2. Swiss winter sports biography stubs (133) (also in Winter sports biography stubs)
            1. Swiss Winter Olympic medalist stubs (74) (also in Winter Olympic medalist stubs)
            2. Swiss bobsleigh biography stubs (140) (also in Bobsleigh biography stubs)
   4. Switzerland geography stubs (353) (also in Europe geography stubs)
      1. Aargau geography stubs (223)
      2. Basel-Country geography stubs (84)
      3. Canton of Berne geography stubs (418)
      4. Canton of Fribourg geography stubs (182)
      5. Canton of Jura geography stubs (84)
      6. Canton of Lucerne geography stubs (96)
      7. Canton of Neuchâtel geography stubs (62)
      8. Canton of Solothurn geography stubs (126)
      9. Canton of St. Gallen geography stubs (101)
      10. Canton of Zürich geography stubs (248)
      11. Grisons geography stubs (277)
      12. Thurgau geography stubs (132)
      13. Ticino geography stubs (289)
      14. Valais geography stubs (225)
      15. Vaud geography stubs (406)
2. WikiProject Switzerland articles (0)
   1. Switzerland articles by importance (0) (also in Wikipedia 1.0 assessments)
      1. Top-importance Switzerland articles (47)
      2. High-importance Switzerland articles (400)
      3. Mid-importance Switzerland articles (2507)
      4. Low-importance Switzerland articles (377)
      5. Unknown-importance Switzerland articles (65)
   2. Switzerland articles by quality (3) (also in Wikipedia 1.0 assessments)
      1. A-Class Switzerland articles (8) (also in A-Class articles)
      2. B-Class Switzerland articles (45) (also in B-Class articles)
      3. FA-Class Switzerland articles (5) (also in FA-Class articles)
      4. GA-Class Switzerland articles (3) (also in GA-Class articles)
      5. Start-Class Switzerland articles (182) (also in Start-Class articles)
      6. Stub-Class Switzerland articles (2983) (also in Stub-Class articles)
      7. Template-Class Switzerland articles (22) (also in Template-Class articles)
         1. Swiss navigational boxes (7) (also in Navigational templates by region)
            1. Swiss canton templates (25) (also in Cantons of Switzerland)
            2. Swiss district templates (0) (also in Districts of Switzerland)
      8. Unassessed Switzerland articles (11) (also in Unassessed-Class articles)
   3. Switzerland articles with comments (11)
3. WikiProject Switzerland members (10)
4. Wikipedia requested photographs in Switzerland (214) (also in Wikipedia requested photographs in Europe)

[edit] Content on review

The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

• None at the moment

The following articles are in review as good article candidates:

• Title 2 of the Swiss Federal Constitution

The following articles are currently in the peer review process:

• Old City of Berne

[edit] Featured content

Featured articles

• Growth of the Old Swiss Confederacy
• Leonhard Euler

Featured list

• List of members of the Swiss Federal Council

Good articles

• Swiss Federal Council
• Swissair Flight 111

There are many others easily satisfying GA criteria, and one task might be getting 'official' GA recognition for these (not that this will actually further improve their quality).

Did you knows (DYKs)

• Projekt-26 - 18 March 2007
• Prince Joseph Wenzel of Liechtenstein - 19 January 2007

[edit] Departments

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland/Assessment - our assessment unit.

[edit] Open tasks

• Adding the {{WikiProject Switzerland}} project banner to the talk pages of all articles that fall directly within the scope of this project.
  • don't push the banner on articles that happen to be in some subcategory of Category:Switzerland but are already in perfectly competent hands of a more pertinent project. If we wanted to tag all articles in the category we could use a bot.
• Adding the articles to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland/Articles list by category.
• Checking the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism to articles.

[edit] Articles needing attention

• Geography of Switzerland - I've expanded this article, but it could still use some attention (Climate, Land Use and Environment are all still short)Tobyc75 (talk) 05:36, 23 December 2007 (UTC)
• Early Modern Switzerland
• Switzerland in the Napoleonic era
• Switzerland as a federal state
• Modern history of Switzerland
• Swiss (people) (merge somewhere?)
• Swiss folklore - extremely stubby, consult Category:Swiss folklore (and Fasnacht), and de:Kategorie:Feste und Brauchtum (Schweiz).
• Music of Switzerland
• Economy of Switzerland (has an 'unreferenced' tag)
• Canton of Basel — I've just expanded this article quite a bit, but I'm not sure that all of the information in the period 1501–1798 is actually about the canton, rather than the adjacent Bishopric of Basel; could someone take a look, please? Once you have, please remove {{expert-subject}}. Thanks! — OwenBlacker (Talk) 18:02, 16 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requested articles

1. Beat Gruninger, a Swiss Scout leader sent to help Scouts internationally, see Scouting in Cambodia
2. J & S, fully spelled out as I do not know the organization's full name

   Jugend und Sport ("youth and sports"), an institution affiliated with the Federal Department of Defence, Civil Protection and Sports, which indeed has no article on its own, but redirects to Military of Switzerland. Perhaps the department should have its own article first, and J & S could be mentioned there.

3. Films, Switzerland, a resort town (?) that is famous for figure skating training camps

   See Flims.

[edit] Portal

• Portal:Switzerland (needs a maintainer to have a point)

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Swiss town}}

[edit] Templates

• {{WikiProject Switzerland}} – to be added to the talk pages of all articles relating to Switzerland.
• {{Switzerland}}
• {{Politics of Switzerland}}
• {{History of Switzerland}}
• {{CH1903-WGS84}} – for converting Swiss coordinates into WGS84 latitude/longitude coordinates.

[edit] Switzerland-specific citation templates

• {{Cite swiss law}} - for providing hyperlinked citations to Swiss laws
• {{HDS}} - for linking to entries in the Historical Dictionary of Switzerland

[edit] Stub templates

• {{Switzerland-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to Switzerland; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Switzerland-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of Switzerland; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Aargau-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of Aargau; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{BaselCountry-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the canton of Basel-Country; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Berne-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Berne; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Jura-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Jura; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Lucerne-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Lucerne; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Neuchâtel-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Neuchâtel; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Solothurn-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Solothurn; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Zürich-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Zürich; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Fribourg-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Fribourg; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Grisons-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of Grisons; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Thurgau-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of Thurgau; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{StGallen-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of St. Gallen; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Ticino-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Ticino; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Valais-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of the Canton of Valais; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Vaud-geo-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to the geography of Vaud; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Switzerland-bio-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to Swiss people; to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Switzerland-footybio-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to Swiss people in the sport of football (soccer); to be put on the bottom of the article page.
    • {{Switzerland-politician-stub}} - Stub template for articles related to Swiss politicians; to be put on the bottom of the article page.

Transclusion of Portal:Switzerland/Stub in the stub templates includes new stubs on Portal:Switzerland/New articles.

[edit] Translation and style guides

[edit] External resources

Find more about Switzerland on Wikipedia's sister projects:
	Dictionary definitions
	Textbooks
	Quotations
	Source texts
	Images and media
	News stories
	Learning resources

• http://www.bfs.admin.ch
• http://hls-dhs-dss.ch/
• A Survey of Nazi and Pro-Nazi Groups in Switzerland: 1930-1945 by Alan Morris Schom, Ph.D. (could be used to create dozens of articles)