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Contents 1 Largest WPs by listed participants? 2 Project tags on the talk pages of redirects 3 Category counter 4 WP:BIO/N 5 New Wikiproject 6 Project banner template? 7 Clarence Darrow 8 WikiProject:Article 9 Regarding Wikiprojects 10 Are projects beneficial? 11 Input needed 12 History of WikiProject 13 {{PageStatus}} 14 How does one 15 WikiProject Prehistoric

[edit] Largest WPs by listed participants?

Is this info tracked anywhere? I just joined MILHIST which has ~600 which seems much larger than the other ones I'm currently in. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 01:01, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

Is that very accurate though? I've seen a lot of projects with a reasonable list of participants with no actual activity. Richard001 11:48, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

That would be even harder to track, which is why the roster would have to suffice for these purposes. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 14:49, 23 August 2007 (UTC)

I'm not sure if it could be done - it would be hard to make a bot that could work out such information, so someone doing it manually is probably the only option. Perhaps we should have a yearly census and clean out of members who have long been inactive? Richard001 07:22, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Actually, I got SatyrBot to do it :) It goes through the projects listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory. Then it finds out if there's a /members or /participants page. Then it counts the number of links to user-space, which it defines as the number of members of the project.

It's not perfect. For instance, the biggest issue is that if there's an "inactive members" section on the page, it doesn't know how to subtract those. And if anyone (who isn't a member) signs the page, it counts them as a member. But as a rough estimate, it works.

Current numbers for the largest 20 projects:

You can see it in action by going to http://www.radiantweb.net/ian/WikiProjectTop20.php -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 15:07, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

That is very cool; is this info put anywhere for interest/historical purposes or did you just run it now?  :)

The thing with clearing out inactive members is that you would have to check each member's record and determine when their last contributions were to a particular WP, and what if an article falls within the scope of multiple? I don't know about you, but it seems like a thankless task do to do this for likely hundreds of listed participants. BrokenSphere^{Msg me} 17:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

It's easy enough to do for a small list with popups, though a bot would be necessary for something like those above. Richard001 00:15, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

Does this count categories? Such as Category:WikiProject Anime and manga participants. -- Ned Scott 21:36, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Project tags on the talk pages of redirects

What should be done to the talk page of a redirected article that contains one or more project tags? Should the tags remain or should they be removed (blanked, redirected, or deleted). Essentially, the question is whether redirects should appear in the various WikiProject X articles categories. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 20:37, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I'd remove them, but maybe place a category on the article to catch all the redirects under a given WikiProject. Keeping track of redirects can also be an important task for a project. I guess you could keep the banner on them and have a redirect= parameter, though.. hmm.. -- Ned Scott 21:33, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

I don't know of any project tags that have a "redirect=" parameter; however, I think I found a suitable solution: "class=NA", which places the talk page into Category:Non-article Comics pages. I don't believe that all project banners support a "class=NA" parameter, but this one does. – Black Falcon ^(Talk) 22:01, 25 October 2007 (UTC)

There's also the redirect project, which seems to be tagging everything. Richard001 08:35, 26 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Category counter

At the request of Longhair I've set up a bot to count the number of articles in the Wikiproject Australia related categories and put that information on a Wikipedia page. This bot uses the database on the Toolserver and runs daily. Since I received a comment about it being useful for other Wikiprojects I'm mentioning it here. Information about using it is available at User:Erwin85/CatCount. --Erwin85 20:19, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

Example: Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/BotStatistics/Sports. --Erwin85 20:37, 2 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WP:BIO/N

There is an ongoing discussion over on WP:BIO that you guys might be interested in. It is a proposal to establish a relationship between the guidelines of BIO/N and the various notability criteria different projects create. The most recent proposal can be found here.Balloonman (talk) 23:20, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikiproject

Wikipedia:Wikiproject free music - if anyone is interested. Raul654 (talk) 17:17, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project banner template?

Is there a template for the project banners? It looks like they are either being subst'd or copy/pasted. I'd like to have a better understanding of their markup. Ham Pastrami (talk) 19:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Clarence Darrow

I think he should be added to Wiki Project Michigan because of Ossian Sweet murder trials. 7&6=thirteen (talk) 23:15, 18 March 2008 (UTC)Stan

[edit] WikiProject:Article

Relationship to the Company

Company Name: Pacific West Foods Sdn Bhd
Relationship: Staff
Serving Years: 3
Nature of Company: Frozen Foods

• [User: Colorgun23/New Article]

--Colorgun23 (talk) 02:18, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding Wikiprojects

Hi, as a newbie to Wikiprojects, could someone tell me what is generally expected of a member of a Wikiproject? What is the criteria for being entered into one? Is there an application process or removal process? Sorry for my ignorance :-). Thanks, GlobeGores (talk page | user page) 22:20, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

There are no criteria, generally it's nice if you do some editing in that topic but there is no such requirement for joining, just add your name to their list or add the userbox to your userpage or both, whatever the particular project page says to do. Generally, you cannot be required to jump through any hoops to join nor can you be kicked out of a project, short of being banned by the community. If you need any further help with anything let me know on my talk page.--Doug.^{(talk • contribs)} 20:24, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Are projects beneficial?

I have wondered how many projects are a net benefit to Wikipedia. Every so often I find my watchlist filled with articles that have been tagged as in the scope of some project, or assessed as being low-importance start-class, and this makes it difficult to watch for actual changes. I also noticed the chaos caused by WikiProject Museums. A lot of effort seems to go into all this administration, more than what seems to go into improving the articles. I had recently thought that projects may have a use for fixing articles that I am not confident to fix myself – after receiving no response on an article talk page I have escalated my concerns to a project talk page. This worked with WikiProject Football and WikiProject Mathematics, but my recent post at WikiProject Computer science has had no response, even though that project has over 100 participants. JonH (talk) 13:40, 5 April 2008 (UTC) updated 15:38 (UTC)

Some projects are obviously more functional than others; the quality tends to vary quite widely. ;-) Kirill 19:15, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Input needed

Hi! Could someone look here and write something about it? The problem is that one editor insists that putting that article within the scope of WikiProject Serbia 'sounds bad' and 'is continuation of Serbian aggression' (sic). Alæxis_¿question? 18:24, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] History of WikiProject

I am still relatively new as a wikipedian, after searching through appropriate information regarding wikipedia's structure, polices, guidelines etc etc etc... I have ended up here searching for an answer to a particular question, I have not yet received the answer and this is the place I should think I would find it.

My question is: What is the history behind WikiProject?

Why I ask this question: WikiProject is not a namespace and I have seen nothing to give it an official status so why is it so widely used & how did it come about?

Why I think that answer should be here: wikipedia has articles to explain stuff, I wanted to visit the article that explains stuff about WikiProject's, Hence I type WikiProject in the search bar it redirects me to Wikipedia:WikiProject project page which doesn't answer my question.

This leads me to another question: Why does WikiProject come under the Wikipedia namespace if its not information about Wikipedia or its sister projects ref.

Answers to my question:

1. Create an article that contains the answers to my question.
2. Create a History section on this project page.
3. If the answer is already available or the logic/reasoning I have used is invalid then redirect me to the answer or answer it here.Kevin hipwell (talk) 07:22, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] {{PageStatus}}

I would like to advertise the new template {{PageStatus}}, which makes WikiProject lists of articles easier to manage. Some WikiProjects may find it quite useful! --Aquillyne-- (talk) 20:26, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] How does one

Start a Wikiproject? --Jupiter Optimus Maximus (talk) 12:11, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Prehistoric

Can I create a WikiProject about Prehistoric Animals (excluding dinosaurs), you know, those animals are erroroneously sometimes called dinosaurs; Dimetrodon, Pterosaurs, Wooly Mammoth etc.? --PrehistoricManiac08 (talk) 22:44, 30 May 2008 (UTC)