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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 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.

[edit] Announcements

[edit] Events

Philly Wiknic will be held in the Azalea Garden behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Saturday June 25, 2011, as part of the Great American Wiknic celebrations being held across the USA.

Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia 2: Sunday, April 11 from noon-6pm. Please help us complete our List of articles that need pictures.

[edit] Standards

A discussion is currently underway on the talk page as to the standardization for SEPTA article titles. Please drop by and add your insights.-- danntm ^T _C 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

A more formalized proposal is now availiable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm ^T _C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletions

17 Feb 2012 – SEPTA Route C (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by Train2104 (t · c): No evidence of notability-just a route description.

Good article nominees

10 Feb 2012 – Adam Eckfeldt (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Wehwalt (t · c); start discussion
15 Jan 2012 – Stan Walters (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Eagles247 (t · c); start discussion

[edit] Philadelphia Meetups

This Philadelphia Meetup page coordinates the series of meetup events in Philadelphia.

Meetings can focus on the projects of the Philadelphia section of Wikimedia New York City, the local chapter for Wikipedians/Wikimedians in the Philadelphia metropolitan area.

Next special event: Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia 2- April 11, 2010
Last meetup: September 2009
Past meetups: June 2009, March 2009, April 2008, November 2007, July 2007, March 2007, November 2006, July 2006

Past special events: Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia 1

This box coordinates the level of organization of meetup events in the Northeast US.

Wikimedia New York City officially serves communities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Local committees and/or new chapters across the Northeast are also anticipated in future.

Stage 3 / committees + meetings + meals + handshakes: New York City
Stage 2 / meetings + meals + handshakes: DC, Hartford, Philadelphia
Stage 1 / meals + handshakes: Boston

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Our next event is Wiki Takes Philadelphia 2 on April 11, 2010. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to our invite list.

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[edit] Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames A-J	Usernames L-Z
Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn Austinmurphy neighborhoods, corporations, crime, lists BillFlis history, landmarks (esp NRHP sites), portal maintenance, copy editing Bjewiki Sports Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education Briememory Sports Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU CanonLawJunkie (talk) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia CComMack CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm ^{Talk Contibutions} - SEPTA, Politics Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. Goldenfiremech Can help out with information, including the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia (FAP) Gorgeousp GShton Sports, Culture Hamburmk IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University JA10 ^{T · C} 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons	Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation Magic Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area. MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs O (talk • edits) I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City. Pacdude Passdoubt \| Talk Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page \| Talk Patricknoddy PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people. User:Perseus, Son of Zeus From Malvern, Pennsylvania. PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods Skiasaurus Smallbones History, NRHP, Museums, photos South Philly -- email me for my opinion Spikebrennan SteinbDJ Arts and culture Sylent Northern Philly burbs TheSab University City, general Philly photography Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc. User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street. Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal.

Usernames A-J

Usernames L-Z

Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs
Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history
alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn
Austinmurphy neighborhoods, corporations, crime, lists
BillFlis history, landmarks (esp NRHP sites), portal maintenance, copy editing
Bjewiki Sports
Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education
Briememory Sports
Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU
CanonLawJunkie (talk) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia
CComMack
CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854
Coemgenus of the great Northeast
Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc.
danntm ^{Talk Contibutions} - SEPTA, Politics
Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings
DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos
Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles
EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties
FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can
Galaxiaad
George100 - Culture, institutions, center city.
Goldenfiremech Can help out with information, including the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia (FAP)
Gorgeousp
GShton Sports, Culture
Hamburmk
IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets
ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs
ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University
JA10 ^{T · C} 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia.
Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music
john k
Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons

Looper5920
Luciuskwok Transportation
Magic
Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone
Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles
Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area.
MechBrowman
Medvedenko
meebly
nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems
Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs
O (talk • edits) I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.
Pacdude
Passdoubt | Talk
Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk
Patricknoddy
PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people.
User:Perseus, Son of Zeus From Malvern, Pennsylvania.
PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across.
RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia
RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys
SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well.
SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly
Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007
Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods
Skiasaurus
Smallbones History, NRHP, Museums, photos
South Philly -- email me for my opinion
Spikebrennan
SteinbDJ Arts and culture
Sylent Northern Philly burbs
TheSab University City, general Philly photography
Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc.
User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion
Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street.
Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal.

edgarshaw (talk) 21:04, 18 June 2011 (UTC)

[edit] Structure

[edit] General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

General
Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

[edit] Goals

Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 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

[edit] WikiProject ToDo list

edit · history · watch · refresh To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia:
Recruit active membership Featured Articles Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC Determine geographic scope Standardize neighborhood article names Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles Create SEPTA station/route article title standards Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

edit · history · watch · refresh

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia:

Recruit active membership
Featured Articles
1. Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status
2. Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback
3. Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback
4. Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC
Determine geographic scope
Standardize neighborhood article names
Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement
Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles
Create SEPTA station/route article title standards
Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals.
1. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

[edit] Article requests list

Article requests

[edit] Portal maintenance

Portal talk:Philadelphia

[edit] Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA		5	4	1		10
FL		1	1	12		14
GA	4	12	14	38		68
B	5	69	112	171		357
C	4	45	140	279		468
Start	5	122	476	1,956		2,559
Stub		11	187	2,869		3,067
List	1	7	21	40		69
Category					180	180
Disambig					16	16
File					67	67
Portal					360	360
Project					4	4
Template					90	90
NA					230	230
Assessed	19	272	955	5,366	947	7,559
Total	19	272	955	5,366	947	7,559

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

[edit] Templates

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What it's for

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[edit] Images

Source	License	Tag
Free image sources for the United States
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-HAER}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov-HALS}}
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-Interior-FWS}}
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-USDA}}
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[edit] Recognition

The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

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: