Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads
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Hello and welcome to the U.S. Roads WikiProject, a collaboration area for Wikipedians interested in improving coverage of U.S. Roads. If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up here.
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[edit] Scope
This WikiProject maintains articles relating to roadways of national or regional significance in the United States. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to, the following:
- Numbered route systems, such as Interstate Highways, U.S. Routes, state highways and county highways
- Controlled access or semi-controlled access roadways, such as freeways, expressways, parkways and toll roads
- Historic auto trails and named highways which predate the U.S. numbered route system
- Former alignments of numbered routes (where such routings are noteworthy enough to warrant separate articles)
Articles not maintained by this project, with some exceptions, include:
- City and local streets, which are maintained by WP:U.S. Streets. (Some city streets carry numbered highway designations, or did so in the past. For articles where the numbered route comprises a large portion of the local street, WP:USRD will maintain information relating to the numbered highway, while WP:USST will maintain info about the street itself and its surroundings.)
- Bridges, which are maintained by WP:Bridges. (Where the entire length of a numbered route exists solely on a bridge, WP:USRD will also maintain the article.)
If in doubt as to whether an article falls under the scope of this project, please discuss on the project's talk page.
[edit] Mission
- To develop, maintain, and apply standards for all articles within its scope.
- To provide support for the active state-level highway WikiProjects by facilitating interstate cooperation and by providing processes and resources for those projects.
- Assessment and classification of all project and subproject articles for both informative and WP:1.0 purposes.
- To maintain and improve articles on Interstate and U.S. routes, along with national-level concepts like the Good Roads Movement.
- To maintain and improve articles on all other articles in its scope that are not within the scope of an active subproject.
[edit] Goals
- Anti-stub vigilance
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- This year, the idea is simply to end the year with fewer stubs than we started. Article creators, you are on notice; if you create a stub, you should destub something else. Currently there are 2,433 stubs; a net loss of 64 stubs since January 1.
- Interstate and US Highway cleanup drive
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- Destub and generally improve all Interstate and US Highway articles, including the parent/national-level articles. The goal would be to get any last stubs improved to at least Start-, if not C-Class by the end of the year. We should pay special attention to the articles on our popular pages list. These articles get the most traffic, therefore they should get the most attention first. 69 stubs and 512 starts remain.
- Junction list template conversion drive for GA and above articles
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- We've been developing the {{jctint}} series of templates to such a degree during 2011, that we will focus efforts to convert articles to using them. The benefit is that our formatting would be consistent and in full compliance with MOS:RJL. Any such drive would need to be done in two phases though, although both can be done at the same time initially. A second benefit is that once Phase I is done, all templated articles* would have both measurement systems for the benefit of our foreign readers, and encourage foreign editors to include mileages for our benefit. *California, because of its postmile system, won't be set up with dual columns, but it would otherwise be consistent with the remainder of the project in terms of formatting.
- Phase I would be to update how the mileages are entered in the articles already using templates in anticipation of the update to using miles and kilometers. Any non-numeric characters need to be removed (currently 1 articles) before the templates are switched to generate the dual columns.
- Phase II would be to convert articles not using templates to use them where possible. (There may be a few articles with special needs that haven't been anticipated yet.)
- Our goal is 100% deployment to FA/A/GA articles. Depending on progress, 100% deployment across all articles with junction/exit lists may be possible during the course of the year.
- We've been developing the {{jctint}} series of templates to such a degree during 2011, that we will focus efforts to convert articles to using them. The benefit is that our formatting would be consistent and in full compliance with MOS:RJL. Any such drive would need to be done in two phases though, although both can be done at the same time initially. A second benefit is that once Phase I is done, all templated articles* would have both measurement systems for the benefit of our foreign readers, and encourage foreign editors to include mileages for our benefit. *California, because of its postmile system, won't be set up with dual columns, but it would otherwise be consistent with the remainder of the project in terms of formatting.
[edit] Structure
- U.S. Roads
- The U.S. Roads WikiProject (USRD) serves as an umbrella project for articles relating to roads and highways in the United States. The main project serves as the focal point for coordinating national initiatives, such as standardization of article structure, infoboxes and junction lists. USRD also supports facilities and resources to aid editors in improving articles, such as assessment tracking, and map or shield image requests.
- State projects and task forces
- State-level task forces, each of which covers one state, consist of the resources for editing highways in that state. Some states still have their own WikiProjects, which are somewhat autonomous from USRD.
- Departments
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U.S. Road maps on Commons |
| U.S. Road shields on Commons |
- USRD has five project departments, which provide facilities for collaboration, article assessment and other editing resources.
- Assessment Department—Handles assessment criteria and programs for USRD.
- Maps Department—Creates and maintains map files for highway articles. Many maps are available on the Commons.
- Newsletter Department—Creates and distributes a quarterly newsletter for editors that subscribe.
- Planning Department—Handles future project planning and goals.
- Shields Task Force—Creates highway marker ("shield") graphics for use in highway articles. Shields for most existing highways have been created and reside on the Commons.
[edit] Guidelines
- Main pages: Notability, Highway article naming conventions and Standards
U.S. Roads has developed a set of standards and guidelines that governs notability, naming conventions, article layouts and more. Refer to the links above for more information.
State subprojects can set limited standards that apply to their state only, in order to resolve any conflicts that arise when USRD standards do not work well with a situation unique to that state. All articles not governed by a state-level project should use the USRD standard structure.
[edit] Project awards
[edit] Recognized content
Below is a showcase of the project articles and content that have featured on the Main Page.
[edit] Main page featured articles
- Ridge Route (2004-09-30)
- Pulaski Skyway (2005-01-29)
- Kansas Turnpike (2008-04-12)
- New York State Route 32 (2008-07-07)
- Interstate 70 in Utah (2008-12-05)
- Utah State Route 128 (2009-04-06)
- New York State Route 311 (2009-06-09)
- Interstate 355 (2009-11-04)
- New York State Route 174 (2010-03-20)
- Maryland Route 36 (2010-06-30)
- Interstate 15 in Arizona (2010-09-13)
- U.S. Route 491 (2011-07-04)
- M-6 (Michigan highway) (2011-11-20)
- New York State Route 28 (2012-02-19)
[edit] Main page featured lists
- List of Interstate Highways in Texas (2012-01-02)
[edit] Picture of the day pictures
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File:San Francisco Bay Area Skyline Blvd.jpg (2004-08-12)
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File:I-80 Eastshore Fwy.jpg (2005-12-01)
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File:SeattleI5Skyline.jpg (2007-12-02)
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File:Tacoma Narrows Bridge destruction.ogg (2008-07-20)
[edit] Assessment and review
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[edit] Assessment
- Main page: Assessment Department
USRD articles are rated and assessed based on the WP:1.0 Assessment Criteria. Current quality statistics for all USRD articles are shown at right. For more information on the USRD quality ratings and state-level project statistics, see the Assessment Department.
[edit] Review
An editor wishing to gain feedback on an article is invited to submit the article for a review. Reviewers will comment on stylistic and content changes that may help in improving the article. In addition to the general Wikipedia request for feedback and Wikipedia peer review, there are two review processes available specifically for roads editors.
- Peer review (on WikiProject Highways) – A general review process, intended to garner feedback on developed articles in order to determine areas of improvement.
- A-Class review (on WikiProject Highways) – A formal review process for well-developed, GA-class articles to receive additional scrutiny. An article must pass ACR to be rated A-Class by the project. Although not required, it is highly encouraged for an article to undergo an A-Class review prior to being nominated at Featured article candidates.
[edit] Article alerts
- Main page: USRD's Article Alerts report
USRD subscribes to Wikipedia:Article alerts, a service that automatically notifies the project when pages tagged with the USRD banner enter various Wikipedia workflows (such as deletion discussions, good or featured article nominations, peer review, and others). These notifications can be found on the Article Alerts page.
[edit] Collaboration
[edit] Participants
- See Participants.
If you'd like to join the U.S. Roads WikiProject, please add yourself to the participants list. Participants of the state-level projects can also be viewed on this list.
[edit] Essays
- See Essays
A number of essays have been written by project participants. These essays are editors' opinions relating to various aspects of the project, and are maintained by those individuals.
[edit] Internet relay chat (IRC)
The IRC channel for this project and all subprojects is #wikipedia-en-roads. Feel free to join to discuss/collaborate about anything U.S. Roads.
[edit] How you can help
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If you are new to USRD, you may want to read the New User Orientation Guide to learn more about editing road articles and how our project works. Once you're done with that, feel free to jump in!
[edit] Resources
A list of historic maps and other resources can be found on the Resources Department page.
[edit] Categories to watch
- Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing shields - articles that are missing one or more shield images (when all are present for the article, remove the "needs-shield=yes" parameter from the talk page banner)
- Category:U.S. Roads project articles needing maps - articles that require a map (when one is added, change the "needs-map=yes" parameter to "no" on the Talk Page banner.)
- Category:U.S. road articles needing attention - articles that are in bad shape - a to-do list should be on the talk page listing the problems. (when all issues are resolved, remove the "attention=yes" parameter from the talk page banner)
[edit] Related projects
WikiProject U.S. Roads is one of the United States WikiProjects.
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[edit] Templates
[edit] Article Content
See Article templates for the list of available templates
[edit] Stub
See Stub templates Stub templates are used for tagging articles with very little detail - place on bottom of main article.
[edit] Talk Page Banner
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[edit] User templates
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