Wikipedia:WikiProject Alberta

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• Main project page
• Alberta Portal
  • Add to portal
• Tools
  • Templates
  • Discussion
  • Naming conventions
  • Assessment (stats, list, log, requests, links)
  • All related pages
• Participants
• Featured and good articles
• Tasks
  • To do
  • Requested pictures

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the Province of Alberta with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles as well as to do lists for Albertans.

[edit] Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to Alberta, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Alberta in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Relations

Related WikiProjects

[edit] Participants

• Alberta EnergyWorking for the provincial department of Energy contributing first to Carbon Capture and Storage.
• Realc
• Bhavesh.Chauhan I live in Calgary and am willing to contribute to Calgary Neighbourhoods.
• Canadian Scouter
• Blacknail
• -b (Calgary articles only)
• Kevlar67
• GrantNeufeld
• Em3rald
• Qyd - living in Calgary, interested in geography and mapping.
• Superior1 18:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC) - I'm in Edmonton, I'll try to help.
• kc4 - the Server Monkey Enforcer 05:42, 24 August 2006 (UTC) - I have already contributed to a number of Alberta atricles so I might as well be part of the official WikiProject.
• Kmsiever - living in Lethbridge. I have contributed extensively to the Lethbridge article and its sub-articles. I have also contributed and added to several articles in southern Alberta.
• Canadian Joeldude - I live in the Edmonton area (Spruce Grove) and am trying to edit articles related to my area
• Mar Tiger - I currently live in Edmonton, but I grew up in the Barrhead area and plan on increasing the amount of information for that area.
• Sbmcmull - also an Edmontonian, originally from Olds. Also member of Canadian military history taskforce.
• Realdeal 55 - I'll do what I can; I live in Fort McMurray, so that's my area of most knowledge.
• Rhombus - I live in Calgary but am willing to help out where possible. If there are photographs from the region needed, let me know.
• Phoenix2 - Lethbridge-related articles.
• Chuck Szmurlo - I live in Calgary and would be interested in providing useful Alberta photographs.
• johntwrl - I live in Edmonton and have been happily adding new articles and expanding existing articles on Edmonton neighborhoods and some other articles relating to Edmonton.
• bookermorgan
• Resolute - Living in Calgary, my focus on Wikipedia has long been sports articles, including the addition of many Alberta based hockey teams.
• Antonw1 - Living in Calgary, will help out
• Canuck85 - From Vancouver, but lived in Edmonton for awhile.
• Thivierr(Rob) - Live in Calgary, and current focus is mainly adding pictures taken in the city
• RPM - From Edmonton area; well-versed in the history of Edmonton, HBC, NWC, St. Albert and pre-confed Alberta.
• Sarcasticidealist - Articles covered by this project make up a majority of my article-development activities on Wikipedia. I am currently expanding articles on members of the 26th Alberta Legislative Assembly.
• Corath - Living and grew up in Edmonton, also lived in Lac La Biche.
• 117Avenue - Living in Edmonton, love maps.

[edit] Meetups

• Calgary

[edit] Featured and good articles

• Featured articles: Banff National Park • Bobcat • Calgary Flames • Calgary Hitmen • Herbert Greenfield • John Brownlee sex scandal • Jarome Iginla • Lethbridge • Trevor Linden • Alexander Cameron Rutherford • Arthur Sifton • Ed Stelmach • Charles Stewart (Canadian politician)
  • Candidates: Richard Gavin Reid
• Featured lists: List of Alberta general elections • List of Calgary Flames players • List of Edmonton Oilers players • List of Grey Cup champions • List of ice hockey teams in Alberta • List of premiers of Alberta • List of Athabasca University people • Towns of Alberta
  • Candidates: none
• Good articles: Alberta and Great Waterways Railway Scandal • John Edward Brownlee • Calgary Cannons • Calgary Tigers • Edmonton • Don Getty • Lethbridge Collegiate Institute • Mike Hudema • Northern Woods and Water Route • Premiership of John Brownlee • Richard Gavin Reid • Edith Rogers (Alberta politician) • Harry Strom
  • Candidates: 1937 Social Credit backbenchers' revolt • Accurate News and Information Act • Bankers' Toadies incident • Charles Wilson Cross

[edit] To do

1. Expand articles listed in:
   • Category:Alberta stubs
   • Category:Alberta geography stubs
2. Expand and improve articles listed in:
   • Category:WikiProject Alberta articles
3. Establish collaborations and improvements for Alberta related articles
4. Add featured articles, images and etc. to the new Portal Alberta page to show progress achieved in various areas.
5. Watch related changes

[edit] Photo Requests

For Alberta-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Alberta}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Alberta. 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 Existance [sic] Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Settlement}} - For all places in Alberta such as cities (e.g. Edmonton), towns (e.g., Elk Point), villages (e.g., Bawlf), counties (Grande Prairie County), hamlets (e.g., Elkwater), neighbourhoods (Signal Hill) and First Nations reserves (Tsuu T'ina 145).

[edit] Navigational boxes

• {{Subdivisions of Alberta}} - Communities in Alberta.
• {{Topics on Alberta}} - A general navox for topics related to Alberta.
• {{Alberta politics}} - For inclusion on articles relating to the provincial government, political parties, and issues in Alberta politics.
• {{First Nations in Alberta}} - For First Nations, Governments and Reserves; needs extensive work; see also WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
• {{Alberta rivers and lakes}} - For rivers and lakes in Alberta
• {{Alberta Provincial Highways}} - For roads; some articles still need to be created; see also WikiProject Canada Roads
• {{Alberta parks}} - For national, provincial, and urban park, as well as museums, etc.

[edit] For Wikiproject Alberta pages

• {{WikiProject Canada|ab=yes |class= |importance= }} - to be included in talk pages of articles related to Wikiproject Alberta. Articles (talk pages) will be included in Category:WikiProject Alberta articles.

WikiProject Canada / Alberta	(Rated NA-Class)	CanadaWikipedia:WikiProject CanadaTemplate:WikiProject CanadaCanada-related articles
Canada portal v • d • e This page is within the scope of WikiProject Canada, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Canada on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.  NA  This page does not require a rating on the project's quality scale. This article is also supported by WikiProject Alberta.

[edit] Userboxes

This user is a member of WikiProject Alberta.	{{User WikiProject Alberta}}
This user comes from Alberta.	{{User Alberta}}
This user is a citizen of the Canadian Province of Alberta	{{User interest Alberta}}

[edit] Stubs

• {{Alberta-stub}} - Basic stub, now also includes a link to this project.
  • {{Calgary-stub}} - For Calgary stub articles.
  • {{Edmonton-stub}} - For Edmonton stub articles.
  • {{Lethbridge-stub}} - for Lethbridge and southern Alberta stubs.
• {{Alberta-geo-stub}} - For incomplete articles about regions, places and localities within Alberta.
• {{Alberta-school-stub}} - For incomplete articles about schools and school districts within Alberta. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Education in Canada for more information.
• {{Alberta-airport-stub}} - For incomplete articles about airports within Alberta. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Airports for more information.
• {{Alberta-protected-area-stub}} - For incomplete articles national and provincial parks and other protected areas. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Protected areas for more info.
• {{Alberta-politician-stub}} For short articles about Alberta-related politicians, from any level of government.
• {{Alberta-road-stub}} For stub on road and streets in Alberta.

[edit] Volunteer recognition

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  The Canadian Content Award
  This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia.

{{subst:The Maple Leaf Award| type= | ... }}

		The Golden Maple Leaf Award
		Award for editors that contribute to Canada and Alberta related projects and topics. --Qyd (talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

[edit] Resources

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Alberta

• World Lake Database - There are a few Alberta lakes in this database.
• University of Alberta. Atlas of Alberta Lakes
• Alberta First. Communty profiles, with statistics, link to local structures
• Alberta Source. Alberta Heritage (places, people, etc)
• World Waterfall database. Watefalls in Alberta