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Contents 1 Userbox 2 Talk page template 3 Added assessment summary chart 4 Next Florida Meetup 5 This WP is now integrated with WikiProject Universities 6 Updated the Alumni from the University of Florida 7 Does anyone have fair-use pictures of campus? 8 The University of Florida Template 9 Just a question 10 University of Florida Pictures 11 Tim Tebow 12 Newsletter

[edit] Userbox

Hey I was wandering if you would like me to create a userbox for the wikiproject? Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 19:32, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

- Yes, that would be great. Also if you want to improve the code for the page, then that would also be helpful. Thanks! (jccort) 19:55, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok I'll work on the userbox and post it hear so you can see it. Just to let you know I can't use the UF logo because it's not a free license. What do you mean by improving the code? Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 04:11, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

What do you think? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hatmatbbat10 (talk • contribs) 04:32, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

• Not bad! I tweaked it just a little to make the text look more balanced; feel free to tweak some more... Zeng8r (talk) 17:06, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I like it! If we all seem to agree on it shall i create a template for it and add it to Wikipedia:Userboxes/WikiProjects#Education?Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 20:19, 26 December 2007 (UTC)

I made a template for the userbox, it can be found here Template:User WikiProject University of Florida —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hatmatbbat10 (talk • contribs) 00:00, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Talk page template

I have kludged together a template for article talk pages, to track which articles are part of the project, and to keep track of current quality ratings. It's a quick and dirty mod of the WP Georgia Tech template, with all instances of that university's name replaced with "University of Florida" as appropriate, so it should function correctly once it's out of userspace. I used the cropped Century Tower pic, since that seems to be the most popular free-use picture available. The template does not have the capacity to display the project priority (à la {{WPFlorida}}); if some template guru can add that, I'd be grateful. It's currently located at User:Horologium/WPUF; I'll push it into template space over the weekend if it meets with everyone's approval. Horologium (talk) 02:46, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Oh, good. I wanted to see Century Tower on the template. Good job! --Moni3 (talk) 03:27, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

I like it! Good job! Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 03:53, 27 December 2007 (UTC)

Okay, I pushed the template into template space and started adding it to a few articles. The template is {{WPUF}}, which is short and easy to remember (and type). Horologium (talk) 23:06, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Is there a way how we can see all the articles that are part of the project, like a category or something? Of course we would have to put the template on the article's talk page first. Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 00:21, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I will create a matrix, similar to the one at WikiProject Florida, but I need to have some articles tagged before it will work. I'll have that done later tonight. Horologium (talk) 00:26, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Ok Thanks! I've started tagging some articles and i'll keep doing more. Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 01:06, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

• Kimon tweaked the template a bit, and now both the quality rating and the priority are displayed on the right side of the template, rather than having just the quality rating under the picture of Century Tower. It looks really good now. Horologium (talk) 01:13, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Added assessment summary chart

On the main page of the project, I have added an assessment table, which displays all of the articles currently tagged by the project, by their importance and quality status. This table is not totally dynamic; it updates every two or three days by way of a bot, so don't get frustrated if you tag or assess a bunch of articles and it doesn't show up right away.

Right now, we have no FA, A, or GA class articles, which is something we should push toward. University of Florida is a B-class article; let's at least get it up to GA class.

For importance, I think we should establish some criteria to avoid having everything listed as high-priority. Alumni, unless they were important to the university itself (such as joining the staff), should be low-importance. I've been tagging all of the individual colleges as High-importance, because they are the raison d'être of the university; I think individual buildings should be low-importance. We'll have to hash out things like the sports programs and faculty members. Horologium (talk) 02:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I had a couple questions about the assessment of a couple articles. Well I went ahead and put the O'Dome and Ben Hill Griffen Stadium has mid importance, do you think that's right? Also what about individual sport seasons, low? And what about the baseball stadium and sports rivalries? Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 03:30, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I think that the O Dome and Ben Hill Griffin Stadium should be either mid or high importance, so let's leave them at mid. The baseball stadium is much lower-profile, since college baseball is not a big deal here in Florida, so I'd say low. Individual seasons should be low, although maybe we might step them up to mid for championship seasons. The rivalries are relatively unimportant, so we can leave them at low. Horologium (talk) 03:48, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Just a few more quick questions, what about the importance for Tim Tebow? I've put other current players for low importance, but he's a little different. Another one, what about the articles for football seasons by decades, they're not single seasons it's an article for the whole decade. Should i put that at Low? Also does this project cover UF Alumni? Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 05:19, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

Tebow is currently the flavor of the month. His accomplishment is notable, but not for the university itself (it's likely that he would have performed similarly at any other university), and it's not likely that he will be working with the university after graduation. Moving his priority up would be a bad case of recentism. I think that the articles by decade should be low pri as well, because they are overviews of a bunch of low-priority articles. As for the alumni, I can almost guarantee that people will start adding alumni to the project, even if they didn't do anything noteworthy while at UF. Horologium (talk) 15:51, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I disagree on the significance Tebow's accomplishment. Having a player win an award like that brings tremendous attention and good press for the university, both now and for years to come. Most UF athlete articles should be rated "low", but those with outstanding individual accomplishments (national player of the year in college or professional sports, perhaps Olympic gold medals, etc.) should be rated "mid", imo.

Also, I don't see a problem with adding a bunch of UF alums to the project. If they're notable enough to deserve a wikipedia entry, we should take pride in that and link them to their alma mater, albiet with a "low" importance rating unless they've accomplished something particularly outstanding (like, you know, curing cancer or writing the great American novel...) Zeng8r (talk) 16:36, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

I'm sorry to be asking so many questions, but I'm just trying to get all the articles assessed right. I went ahead and put Gatorade and Dr. Robert Cade as Mid importance, do you guys think that's right? Also what about buildings that are on campus? And coaching staff? I know most assistant coaches should be Low, but what about head coaches of all the sports? And i was wandering about the article President of the University of Florida, it almost seems like a list article, but should it be High importance? Hatmatbbat10 (talk) 17:28, 31 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Next Florida Meetup

Please feel free to discuss the next Florida meetup location(s) here. - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 22:56, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] This WP is now integrated with WikiProject Universities

I have added you to the WP:UNI's list of individual institution WPs. Good luck and be sure to not be weirded out to ask us about random stuff for UF article improvements! - Jameson L. Tai ^{talk ♦ contribs} 23:08, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

I know this is a WikiProject and this template is generally used to welcome members, but just in case you guys aren't familiar with WP:UNI's functions, here it is:

[edit] Updated the Alumni from the University of Florida

• I took the liberty of categorizing all of the alumni. The majority are still only stubs, and were placed under the "Mid" category of importance. I did not add the athletes. Jccort (talk) 19:42, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• • Wow, that's quite a large job! How did you track them all down?

I was wondering, tho; why not add the athletes? They are (or were) accomplished in their field (pardon the pun) and are (or were) known by thousands of sports fans all over the nation because of the opportunity afforded by UF to compete. I really can't think of any reason to leave them out of a list of alumni. Zeng8r (talk) 20:36, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• I tracked down the Alumni, by looking at the Category:University of Florida alumni. Also I do also believe that the athletes are equally as important. But I do also believe that the UF Alumni have been neglected. Look at the athletes and you will see that they have significant info added to their profile. Whereas the Judges, Governors, CEO's, Journalists, Musicians, University Presidents, etc.. have mere stubs to glofify their accomplishments. We need to have priorities, or to recruit alot more members. Overall their are over 630 UF Alumni total (not counting NFL Players), 160 Football players, about 30 NBA players, 10 WNBA players, 40 PGA & LPGA golfers, and 30 MLB Baseball players. Also we have about 125 UF Olympians that need more info as well. Jccort (talk) 20:56, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• Also take a look at this: List of University of Florida people Jccort (talk) 21:03, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

• I understand this is an ambitious goal, however keep in perspective that the majority of these Alumni had not been categorized at all. I added them to Projects Wiki-Science & Academics, Wiki-Politics, Wiki-Florida, etc.. So it's not like we are going to have to do this all ourselves, and we should receive additional help from the Wikipedia Community. I have taken the Liberty of contacting Project Wiki-Olympics and told them half of our Olympians are missing and asked for their assistance. Lastly, it's completely optional if you guys want to help add additional info to the Alumni. I just believe that their is significant portions of their biographies that need to be added so that the everyone can understand how they have effected Florida, the USA, and the World. Jccort (talk) 21:22, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

That's a very worthy project. The problem is that it's sometimes hard to find a lot of information on these people. For instance, I noticed that the Earnest Graham article was lacking, so I googled his name and easily found lots of good stuff from multiple sources. It's easy to expand athletes' entries with stats and on-the-field accomplishments, but not so easy to stretch articles on others. For example, the Dr. Robert Cade article is just a short stub that mainly talks about his inventing Gatorade. I'm not sure what more there is to say.

Like I said, tho, it's worth doing, but it's going to take a lot of time and effort. Zeng8r (talk) 01:02, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

• This is not a project I expect to finish any time soon (perhaps 2010 or maybe longer). The Famous Alumni will keep coming and their will always be more work to be done. I will also add the famous alumni to the official Wikiproject so that the members can also work on them as well. Jccort (talk) 03:53, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Does anyone have fair-use pictures of campus?

• I created profiles for the majority of the Colleges and Schools at UF. I also created or expanded these articles: the Student Union, Southwest Rec Center, The Health Science Center, the Phillips Performace Arts Center, Harn Museum, Florida Blue Key, Student Government, Shands at UF, Shands Jacksonville, P. K. Young Research School, the Florida Gym, and the Softball & Baseball Stadiums. - - Basically what we need are pictures to go along with these new/expanded articles. Thanks Jccort (talk) 00:15, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

I'm sure I have photos of at least some of those places on the hard drive. I'll poke around in a bit... Zeng8r (talk) 00:29, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

• I greatly appreciate it. Please be sure to crop the pictures. Thanks Jccort (talk) 01:26, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

• When I get back to Gainesville in a few days, I'll wander around and take a few pics. Horologium [[User

talk:Horologium|(talk)]] 02:28, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

• I found a pic of the Reitz Union in Wikimedia Commons; I added it to the article. Horologium (talk) 02:38, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
  • Great Job! Jccort (talk) 23:47, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

• I also just added or updated the Plaza of the Americas, the Mark Bostic Golf Course, the McKnight Brain Institute, and the UF Training Reactor. Jccort (talk) 23:41, 23 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The University of Florida Template

• This issue was addressed in April of 2008. Jccort (talk) 01:33, 3 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Just a question

Why is it in every single joint article between FSU and UF all of the templates have to have UF first? I am not trying to nitpick but it seems a little bias. Sometimes changes are made to have FSU the first wiki project with uf having the first bottom template then everything changes by some pro gator editor?--68.35.201.31 (talk) 02:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

AFAIK, There are only three articles which have both templates—Florida-Florida State Rivalry, in which it makes sense to have the UF template first because that is the order of the names in the title of the article, and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory and Albert A. Murphree, where the FSU template is first. If there are others, please point them out to me, because there are few (if any) UF-templated articles that even mention FSU, let alone have an FSU template on it. FWIW, Until an FSU-aligned editor added the FSU template to the Murphree article today (above the UF template), there were only two articles with both templates. This strikes me as a rather petty dispute to vent your spleen over; just let it go. Horologium (talk) 03:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

I edit both UF & FSU articles, and I might also add that I created both Wikipedia Projects. I have not noticed a bias, nor do I think this is even an issue. Jccort (talk) 11:30, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

<edit> Forget it, I'll be nice. Zeng8r (talk) 12:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

hmmm rivalries sill over to wiki what has the world come to... a gator, nice? lol j/k--Nolephin (talk) 16:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] University of Florida Pictures

• Missing Pictures. If you guys get the chance these pages have photos missing:
  • University of Florida Southwest Recreation Center
  • A picture of the Career Resource Center at the J. Wayne Reitz Student Union
  • Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts
  • University of Florida Gymnasium
  • University of Florida Library West - Needs a post renovations picture
  • Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium
  • McKnight Brain Institute
  • Mark Bostic Golf Course
  • P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School
  • Lawton Chiles Legal Information Center
  • Also pictures of the Colleges within the University would be nice. These could help spruce up their individual pages. ie: College of Medicine, College of Education, the Fisher School of Accounting etc...
  • Also possible pictures of the Dorms, so that we can upload them onto University of Florida student housing
    • --- Thanks! Jccort (talk) 13:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

What's your time frame on this? --Moni3 (talk) 13:41, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

• No rush, take your time Jccort (talk) 21:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Tim Tebow

If anyone from UF goes to any of the football games, try to get a good picture of Tim Tebow. His article could use a good photo for the infobox.. - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 18:28, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Newsletter

Any thoughts on a newsletter for this project? - DiligentTerrier (and friends) 18:32, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

• • I think that is a fantastic idea. I would really like to also recruit more members, and to have Wikipedia be one of the best sources for the University of Florida and the Florida Gators. Unfortunately, we are not quite there yet, but serious progress is being made. Jccort (talk) 01:26, 3 May 2008 (UTC)