Wikipedia:WikiProject Current events

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Current events. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

The project encourages the selection of normal, civilized events for the current events page, since most events are not crimes or tragic events.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

Title

WikiProject on Current events

Scope

This project was established on 6 April 2006 to improve and standardize articles pertaining to current events. This project specifically looks at the Current events page as well as the archives of the current event pages (March 2006, February 2006, etc.).

Current events Article and Archives

At the end of each month, the current current events page is moved to a monthly archive page (e.g. March 2006). Over the years, the format of these monthly pages have been changed an altered a significant number of times. As a result, there is currently no standard on how these monthly pages should look. However, some standardization suggestions include:

• Ordering dates of the months in forward alphabetical order (suggested by GT)
• Eliminate the daily article-templates as seen in almost all months between 2003 and 2005 (i.e. all days between January 1, 2005 and January 31, 2005 are "templated" into January 2005)

On the main current events page, some plans include:

• Merging unnecessary sub-articles (e.g. Current events in Africa) back into the main current events article (suggested by Pcb21)
• Ensuring appropriate events receive context according to Wikipedia:How the Current events page works

In both the archives and the current current events page, objectives include:

• Ensuring news items of international interest are included

To discuss the objectives above, take a look at the talk page.

Articles About Current Events

Another objective crucial to the WikiProject is expanding articles about current events. Some potential project collaborations include:

• 2008 Russian submarine accident
• 2008 Pétionville school collapse
• Your article here

Depending on how quickly a decent number of editors join the project, we can get working on improving one of the above articles very soon.

Years

One possibly objective is to collaborate with WikiProject Years to work on a standardization of the current events on that page. Each year article (e.g. 2006) should include only significant events of international importance. Perhaps a more clear-cut standard can be developed in collaboration with WikiProject Years.

Participants

• Anonymous101 (talk) - joined 19:46, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
• joturner - joined 6 April 2006
• GT - joined 6 April 2006
• Ptcollins - joined 5 November 2006

Invitation to the Project

• {{Current events project}}

Other Templates

• {{Current events box}}
• {{Current events articles}}

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