Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia
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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.
This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.
To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.
Announcements[edit]
Events[edit]
Standards[edit]
- Currently, none.
Redirects for discussion
- 01 May 2022 – Ram Squad (talk · edit · hist) →Music of Philadelphia was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2022 – N.A.A.M. Brigade (talk · edit · hist) →Music of Philadelphia was RfDed by Rosguill (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 04 Mar 2022 – Ed Bradley (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Princessa Unicorn (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 02 Jul 2021 – Philadelphia Badlands (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Fairhill, Philadelphia by 2603:7000:3E40:83D7:B42C:6215:99A3:508C (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 26 Mar 2022 – Draft:List of Extreme Championship Wrestling attendance records (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 173.162.220.17 (t · c)
- 08 Feb 2022 – Draft:Great Time (band) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by R0ck$ (t · c)
Philadelphia Meetups[edit]
Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Wikimedia meetups in Philadelphia. |
Participants and primary areas of interest[edit]
Usernames Numeric and A-L | Usernames M-Z |
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Presumed Inactive[edit]
Usernames A-L | Usernames M-Z |
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Structure[edit]
General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums[edit]
- General
- Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards
Goals[edit]
- Improve Philadelphia to featured status.
- Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
- Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
- Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
- Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
- Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items
WikiProject ToDo list[edit]
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Article requests list[edit]
Portal maintenance[edit]
Assessment[edit]
Philadelphia articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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5 | 10 | 9 | 24 | |||
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1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
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1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
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4 | 9 | 30 | 79 | 122 | ||
B | 12 | 82 | 138 | 238 | 470 | ||
C | 3 | 79 | 194 | 718 | 994 | ||
Start | 4 | 142 | 635 | 3,850 | 1 | 4,632 | |
Stub | 3 | 123 | 1,839 | 1 | 1,966 | ||
List | 1 | 10 | 26 | 117 | 154 | ||
Category | 397 | 397 | |||||
Disambig | 1 | 20 | 21 | ||||
File | 119 | 119 | |||||
Portal | 358 | 358 | |||||
Project | 9 | 9 | |||||
Template | 144 | 144 | |||||
NA | 25 | 286 | 311 | ||||
Other | 9 | 9 | |||||
Assessed | 24 | 331 | 1,157 | 6,889 | 1,343 | 1 | 9,745 |
Unassessed | 4 | 4 | |||||
Total | 24 | 331 | 1,157 | 6,889 | 1,343 | 5 | 9,749 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 40,604 | Ω = 4.94 |
- Recent changes to article assessments
- Assessment – Our rating system
- Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
- V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
- Philadelphia articles by quality log
- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality
Templates[edit]
What to type | What it makes | What it's for | |||||||||||||
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{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk |
Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details) | ||||||||||||||
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk |
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Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages. | |||||||||||||
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk |
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Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages. | |||||||||||||
{{user Philly}} Talk |
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to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page | |||||||||||||
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk |
39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°WCoordinates: 39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°W | To be used on street-sized pages. | |||||||||||||
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk |
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goes on the Collaboration of the Month | |||||||||||||
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk |
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goes on the Selected Article of the Month | |||||||||||||
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk |
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to invite new members |
Images[edit]
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Source | License | Tag | |
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Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States) | Various | N/A | |
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
Historic American Engineering Record ([2]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
Historic American Landscapes Survey | P.D | {{PD-USGov}} | |
National Park Service ([3] and [4]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}} | |
U.S. Coast Guard ([5]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}} | |
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6]) | P.D. | {{LOC-image}} | |
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7]) | P.D. (not all) | {{LOC-image}} | |
NOAA ([8]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}} | |
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10]) | C.C. | {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}} | |
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11]) | P.D. | {{PD-USGov}} | |
For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.
The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
Recognition[edit]
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The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester |
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Wikimedia Pennsylvania[edit]
Hello there!
We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:
- Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
- Join our mailing list
- Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
- you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants
Thanks!
Related or descendant WikiProjects[edit]
- WikiProject Pennsylvania
- WikiProject Pittsburgh
- WikiProject New Jersey
- WikiProject Delaware
- WikiProject Maryland
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Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.
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