Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better and systematically use information in articles related from the public domain Library of Congress Country Studies.
This project is designed to take text and information from the 101 Library of Congress Country Studies and the associated 48 country profiles (some of which are pending). The text from these documents is in the public domain and may be incorporated into Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia articles already contain text from the LOCCS, but this project will attempt to ensure that the texts are used systematically. The LOCCS specializes in often overlooked countries. Including information about them will fight systemic bias in Wikipedia.
[edit] Parentage
This project drew inspiration from:
[edit] Participants
To join add your name to the list below:
In order of priority
- Fill in the gaps. Find areas covered in the LOCCS but not on Wikipedia.
- Fully utilize the Profiles on all countries that have them. The profiles offer recent information.
- Go through Country Studies and find whats useful.
- Check to see that all LOCCS information is fully utilized, even on subjects already covered on Wikipedia.
- Set up the country subpages below, finding which of these resources have information about each country
- Countries that this is done for are marked with
- Begin incorporating country information
- Some information may be redundant with what's already in Wikipedia, but these documents have information that can be used to create articles that often do not yet exist on Wikipedia for a many countries such as Economic history of Foo, Media of Foo, Human rights in Foo, Education in Foo, and Environmental issues in Foo.
- As participants incorporate sections they should strike out what they have used with the html command <s>...</s>. Also link to the article the text has gone to. Also strike outdated and unusable text. Once no useful information is left, the country will be considered completed.
- The Country Studies are old, but some information may have a place. For instance, old economic information from the CS on Spain was used to make the Economic history of Spain.
- Suggested edit summary: Adding [[public domain]] text - [[WP:LOCPROJ|You can help!]]
Click on the country name in the country list to go to that country's subpage. The subpage will show the progress made on that country.
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[edit] Adopt a Country
Take responsibility for dealing with a specific country. Put your name on a list below:
[edit] Reference template
It is probably better to use a customized footnote than this, however.
[edit] Wikimedia Commons
- Public domain images from the Country Studies have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons and tagged with this category.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
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