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Welcome to WikiProject Skyscrapers. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Skyscrapers and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
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Goals [edit]
This WikiProject aims:
- To improve Wikipedia's coverage of skyscrapers by creating, expanding, and maintaining articles relating to skyscrapers, highrises, towers, building lists and related articles.
- To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles related to skyscrapers.
- To serve as a point of discussion for issues related to skyscrapers in general in Wikipedia.
News [edit]
- November 12, 2012 - List of tallest buildings in Boston featured on the Main Page as Today's featured list
- May 21, 2012 - List of tallest structures in Tokyo featured on the Main Page as Today's featured list
- June 23, 2011 - List of tallest buildings in Austin gains featured list status.
- June 22, 2010 - List of tallest buildings in Dayton gains featured list status.
Scope [edit]
- All articles relating to skyscrapers, high-rises, and towers are considered to be within the scope of this project. This includes all "tallest building" lists.
Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions
Guidelines [edit]
- For articles relating to high-rises, skyscrapers, and towers, Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Articles serves as a guideline for creating new structure articles, with an example article to base new articles on. For guidelines on writing and improving articles, see Wikipedia:Guide to writing better articles for more information.
- For tallest building lists, Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers/Tallest building lists has a complete outline of list formatting and an example list to bases new city entries on.
- For building lists, which list all notable structures in a city, buildings should generally be listed in alphabetical order.
Open tasks [edit]
 To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Skyscrapers: |
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Participants [edit]
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Userboxes for WP Skyscrapers
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Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. Members should also feel free to add {{User WP Skyscrapers}} or {{User WP Skyscrapers2}} to their user pages to identify themselves as members of this project. The appearance of the userbox is shown to the right.
| User | Area of interest | Comments |
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| Harpsichord246 (talk · contribs) | All skyscrapers | |
| Tatiraju.rishabh (talk · contribs) | All skyscrapers | Written some articles on Skyscrapers in Mumbai, India |
| Raime (talk · contribs) | Any and all skyscrapers and tallest building lists | Currently working on tallest building lists for American and Canadian cities |
| Sahmeditor (talk · contribs) | Wherever I become equipped with knowledge - primarily Texas/Bangladesh | |
| Jawadreventon (talk · contribs) | buildings in china, uae and asia | |
| Hydrogen Iodide (talk · contribs) | Just about any place that has tall buildings or Manhattanization. | |
| Huang7776 (talk · contribs) | ||
| And-Rew (talk · contribs) | UK Skyscrapers, especially in Manchester | |
| Astronaut (talk · contribs) | ||
| VerruckteDan (talk · contribs) | ||
| Shin368 (talk · contribs) | Contributing Info. and staff mainly in Asia and most of in Southeast Asia Region with China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, Hong kong and Macau. | |
| Mjh1998 (talk · contribs) | Adding infomation on skyscrapers in London and helping to improve skyscraper articles with correct statistics | |
| Leitmanp (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapers and general development in Dubai | |
| EaglesFanInTampa (talk · contribs) | Mainly East Coast buildings (since I've seen most of them) and famous ones | |
| Warlordjohncarter (talk · contribs) | Probably primarily limited copyediting and tagging/assessment, unfortunately | |
| OOODDD (talk · contribs) | Pretty much any kind of skyscrapers | |
| Jklamo (talk · contribs) | ||
| Averette (talk · contribs) | Mostly Miami, but I travel to other major cities about twice a year. | |
| Izzudin (talk · contribs) | Any super-tall buildings... | |
| Taifarious1 (talk · contribs) | Any Sky Scrapers in the world, but more importantly, New Zealand and USA. | |
| Simalto (talk · contribs) | Canada, translation, and any other skyscraper. | |
| Erebus555 (talk · contribs) | Mainly British skyscraper and highrise articles but occasionally goes international. | |
| Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) | Any Skyscraper | |
| huaiwei (talk · contribs) | Singaporean, Asian, and just about any high-rise building or structure there is! | Senior Editor with Emporis and former moderator in SkyscraperCity |
| Basketball110 (talk · contribs) | Dallas, Bucharest, London | |
| Thomas Paine1776 (talk · contribs) | ||
| Blue Laser (talk · contribs) | American and Canadian skyscrapers. | |
| Juthani1 (talk · contribs) | ||
| Joowwww (talk · contribs) | Hong Kong and Shanghai skyscrapers for now. | |
| Matthewedwards (talk · contribs) | None in particular, though I am quite happy to do image mapping (see the lead image at List of tallest buildings in Jersey City) | |
| Yopure (talk · contribs) | Middle Eastern and American skyscrapers. Love SIMCITY :) | |
| Houstonbuildings (talk · contribs) | History of skyscrapers; Texas, Houston, Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, El Paso, California, Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Sacramento, Washington, Seattle, Denver, Las Vegas, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Nashville, Albuquerque, Charlotte, Florida, Miami, Miami Beach, Jacksonville, Tampa, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston, Buffalo, Ohio, Cleveland, Columbus, Jersey City, Providence, Tulsa, Des Moines, Portland, Baltimore, Washington D.C., Canada, Toronto, and tallest west of the Mississippi. | In Progress: None. Future Projects for me will include Quebec. |
| Timsdad (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapers in Australia and Dubai and the tallest in the world. | |
| DubaiTerminator (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapers located in Chicago, New York City, Shanghai, and mainly Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Chicago Spire, Burj Dubai, Willis Tower, and many more skyscrapers. | |
| SRX (talk · contribs) | Mainly skyscrapers in the United States. | |
| Cg-realms (talk · contribs) | Mainly the new World Trade Center and Albany skyscrapers | |
| Xde 13 (talk · contribs) | Sacramento, CA | |
| Scalziand (talk · contribs) | Including but not limited to skyscrapers with 100+ floors | |
| Zervaman (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapers in Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Dubai. | |
| Rehman (talk · contribs) | Infrastructure related. Particularly things relating to energy. | These are some of my contributions. |
| Ameki (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapers in Dubai and Asia | |
| phichanad (talk · contribs) | Metro Manila and Philippine skyscrapers for now. | |
| RockManQ (talk · contribs) | Somewhat limited to the U.S., but I'll edit anywhere | |
| flaming (talk · contribs) | ||
| Mario1987 (talk · contribs) | Europe and Asia | |
| Holden_yo (talk · contribs) | World Trade Center and anything New York since I live there. | |
| SaltedCracker (talk · contribs) | Proposed and future skyscrapers | |
| Nehrams2020 (talk · contribs) | San Diego, and may upload images on Wikimedia Commons images I take myself or find on Flickr | |
| Willrocks10 (talk · contribs) | London skyscrapers and especially Shard London Bridge. | |
| Nabil rais2008 (talk · contribs) | Supertall Skyscrapers, Specially skyscrapers of Dubai | |
| Sneaky Oviraptor18 (talk · contribs) | Supertall Skyscrapers, especially those in NYC, Chicago, Shanghai, Dubai, Moscow, Toronto, San Francisco, Boston, Tokyo, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Shenzen, Houston, London, Vancouver, & Paris, along with the iconic skyscrapers in the rest of the world, & modernism and post-modernism. | |
| Medvedenko (talk · contribs) | Philadelphia skyscrapers | |
| Cherub79 (talk · contribs) | Charlotte and Tallest building list, but I'll be able to work anywhere. | |
| MyFavco (talk · contribs) | Skyscrapes in Brisbane and Australia. Special interest in proposed buildings and those under construction. | Currently working on multiple projects under construction. |
| Chrishomingtang (talk · contribs) | Mainly buildings within SF Bay Area; may expand to Asia in the future | |
| Softjuice (talk · contribs) | Mainly South Korean buildings and the tallest in the world. | |
| Jerchel (talk · contribs) | Mainly skyscrapers in New York City and the United States. Especially my favourite one: 1 World Trade Center. | |
| NerdyScienceDude (talk · contribs) | Mainly American skyscrapers and supertall skyscrapers. | |
| Extra999 (talk · contribs) | Interested in all skyscrapers, especially supertalls | |
| Welshleprechaun (talk · contribs) | Maintenance and update of list of tallest buildings in major British cities | |
| Zonafan39 (talk · contribs) | Interested in all skyscrapers, especially those in Milwaukee and Madison, creating new tallest building lists | Currently working on articles about buildings in Madison and Milwaukee, as well as a List of tallest buildings in Madison |
| Mar4d (talk · contribs) | Intend to work on List of tallest buildings in Pakistan, Dubai (UAE) and other countries of South Asia/Middle East in general | |
| Local hero (talk · contribs) | Interested in skyscrapers in general, particularly in the Midwest and the former Yugoslavia. | |
| Patriarca12 (talk · contribs) | Interested in all skyscrapers, particularly in the Southern United States and Milwaukee. | |
| steve chiu (talk · contribs) | Asian Skyscrapers, North American Skyscrapers mostly | Updating and adding Chinese skyscrapers there is a bit of a backlog. |
| MelbourneStar1 (talk · contribs) | All Skyscrapers | Australian and American (US) Skyscrapers |
| DoubleYouGTT (talk · contribs) | General skyscrapers | |
| Water14 (talk · contribs) | All skyscrapers, typo fixing and spelling | |
| Subtropical-man (talk · contribs) | General skyscrapers | |
| Guyb123321 (talk · contribs) | The Top 250 List and British Skyscrapers | Always editing List of tallest buildings in the United Kingdom. Created a page List of tallest buildings in Spain and want every country to have a "List of tallest buildings in Country" page. |
| Bzweebl (talk · contribs) | Future skyscrapers | |
| STO12 (talk · contribs) | Future, general, and american skyscrapers | |
| Arius1998 (talk · contribs) | Philippine skyscrapers | |
| Jakebarrington (talk · contribs) | Mostly Miami, some NYC, and almost entirely United States. Occasionally I will work on Asian and some European skyscrapers. | |
| V838 Monocerotis (talk · contribs) | Skyscarpers by Country | |
| Bezuidenhout (talk · contribs) | Mostly UK and European Skyscrapers (especially London) | |
| Kgbo (talk · contribs) | Mostly Australian and Polish skyscrapers |
Articles and files [edit]
Featured content [edit]
Featured articles [edit]
As of June 2012, five featured articles have been given a {{Skyscrapers}} project tag:
- 7 World Trade Center
- Construction of the World Trade Center
- Chicago Board of Trade Building
- Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago)
- Monadnock Building
Featured lists [edit]
As of February 2013, 45 featured lists have been given a {{Skyscrapers}} project tag:
- List of tallest buildings in Albuquerque
- List of tallest buildings in Atlanta
- List of tallest buildings in Austin
- List of tallest buildings in Baltimore
- List of tallest buildings in Bellevue, Washington
- List of tallest buildings in Boston
- List of tallest buildings in Charlotte
- List of tallest buildings in Chicago
- List of tallest buildings in Cleveland
- List of tallest buildings in Columbus, Ohio
- List of tallest buildings in Dallas
- List of tallest buildings in Dayton
- List of tallest buildings in Denver
- List of tallest buildings in Detroit
- List of tallest buildings in Dubai
- List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong
- List of tallest buildings in Houston
- List of tallest buildings in Indianapolis
- List of tallest buildings in Jersey City
- List of tallest buildings in Las Vegas
- List of tallest buildings and structures in London
- List of tallest buildings in Los Angeles
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Manchester
- List of tallest buildings in Miami
- List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis
- List of tallest buildings in Mobile
- List of tallest buildings in New Orleans
- List of tallest buildings in New York City
- List of tallest buildings in Oakland, California
- List of tallest buildings in Oklahoma City
- List of tallest buildings in Philadelphia
- List of tallest buildings in Pittsburgh
- List of tallest buildings in Portland, Oregon
- List of tallest buildings in Providence
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford
- List of tallest buildings in San Diego
- List of tallest buildings in San Francisco
- List of tallest buildings in Seattle
- List of tallest buildings in Shanghai
- List of tallest buildings in Singapore
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Tokyo
- List of tallest buildings in Tampa
- List of tallest buildings in Tulsa
- List of tallest buildings in Vancouver
- List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C.
Featured pictures [edit]
- File:30 St Mary Axe - The Gherkin from Leadenhall St - Nov 2006.jpg
- File:Bangkok skytrain sunset.jpg
- File:Montreal Twilight Panorama 2006.jpg
- File:NYC Top of the Rock Pano.jpg
- File:Melbourne Docklands - Yarras Edge - marina panorama.jpg
- File:Skyline Frankfurt am Main.jpg
- File:SeattleI5Skyline.jpg
- File:Torre Agbar - Barcelona, Spain - Jan 2007.jpg
- File:View of Woolworth Building fixed.jpg
Featured pictures on Commons [edit]
- File:Lower Manhattan from Staten Island Ferry Jan 2006.jpg
- File:San Diego Reflecting Pond.jpg
- File:Portland Night panorama edit.jpg
- File:Moon Monster2.jpg
- File:September 14 2001.jpg
Former featured content [edit]
New articles [edit]
Please feel free to list your new Skyscrapers-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. If you would like to request the creation of a particular article, please post on the project talk page.
- DYKs
- Praetorian Building - 26 October 2007
- List of tallest buildings in Jersey City - 29 November 2007
- List of tallest buildings in Tulsa - 2 January 2008
- Society for Savings Building - 3 January 2008
- General Motors Building (New York) - 13 January 2008
- DBS Building Tower One - 23 January 2008
- SGX Centre - 9 February 2008
- Pickering Operations Complex - 10 February 2008
- SIA Building - 10 February 2008
- Samsung Hub - 11 February 2008
- 6 Battery Road - 12 February 2008
- CPF Building - 12 February 2008
- Bank of China Building, Singapore - 14 February 2008
- Hitachi Tower - 15 February 2008
- Fuji Xerox Towers - 16 February 2008
- Springleaf Tower - 17 February 2008
- Hong Leong Building - 17 February 2008
- Centennial Tower, Singapore - 19 February 2008
- One Marina Boulevard - 19 February 2008
- Chevron House - 20 February 2008
- List of tallest buildings and structures in Salford - 27 February 2008
- List of tallest buildings in Minneapolis - 5 April 2008
- 1801 California Street - 20 June 2008
- List of tallest buildings in Tampa - 23 June 2008
- 100 North Tampa - 23 June 2008
- List of tallest buildings in Baltimore - 25 June 2008
- List of tallest buildings in Washington, D.C. - 7 July 2008
- List of tallest buildings in Mobile - 22 July 2009
Collaboration and review [edit]
Note: As this is a daughter project of WikiProject Architecture, please feel free to use Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Peer review as an alternative peer review process.
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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| FL |
9 | 12 | 21 | 2 | 1 | 45 | |
 GA |
4 | 2 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 32 | |
| B | 11 | 13 | 18 | 10 | 14 | 66 | |
| C | 6 | 6 | 19 | 64 | 16 | 111 | |
| Start | 16 | 26 | 82 | 385 | 284 | 793 | |
| Stub | 10 | 22 | 45 | 452 | 1 | 1,047 | 1,577 |
| List | 13 | 36 | 29 | 35 | 1 | 34 | 148 |
| Category | 219 | 219 | |||||
| Disambig | 3 | 3 | |||||
| File | 1 | 339 | 340 | ||||
| Project | 14 | 14 | |||||
| Template | 1 | 71 | 72 | ||||
| NA | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| Assessed | 69 | 120 | 228 | 961 | 651 | 1,400 | 3,429 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 157 | 158 | ||||
| Total | 69 | 120 | 229 | 961 | 651 | 1,557 | 3,587 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 14,145 | Ω = 5.47 | |||||
In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{Skyscrapers}} project banner on an article's talk page:
{{WikiProject Skyscrapers| class= | importance= }}
The statistics at right are updated daily (or every other day) by an automated bot. See the subpage /Assessment for details.
- November 8: Article tagging and assessments have been implemented.
- November 10: Over 750 pages have been tagged and more than 500 articles have been assessed.
- December 18: Over 1500 pages tagged and assessed.
- August 1: Over 1850 pages tagged and assessed.
- September 4: Over 2000 pages tagged and assessed.
Templates and project size [edit]
- For articles
- {{Infobox building}}
- {{TBSW}}
- {{US tallest buildings lists}}
- For talk pages
{{Skyscrapers}}{{Skyscrapers|class=category|importance=na}}{{Skyscrapers|class=template|importance=na}}{{Skyscrapers|class=project|importance=na}}{{Skyscrapers|class=image|importance=na}}
- For user pages and user talk pages
WikiProject Skyscrapers tag [edit]
The {{Skyscrapers}} template can be used for tagging different types of pages:
| Template | Page type | Category for tagged pages | Number of tagged pages |
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{{Skyscrapers}} |
Articles and lists | Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers articles and lists | 2,702 |
{{Skyscrapers|class=category}} |
Categories | Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers categories | 178 |
{{Skyscrapers|class=template}} |
Templates | Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers templates | 26 |
{{Skyscrapers|class=project}} |
Project pages | Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers project pages | 8 |
{{Skyscrapers|class=image}} |
Images | Category:WikiProject Skyscrapers images | 564 |
| Total tagged pages as of August 1, 2008 | 3,478 | ||
Categorization [edit]
The root categories for this WikiProject are Category:Skyscrapers and Category:Towers. Both root categories and their associated subcategories should be tagged with {{WikiProject Skyscrapers}}. Please note that both main categories themselves are subcategories of Category:Buildings and structures, which contains some categories that are out of scope of this project. Consider discussing with other project members if you are unsure if a particular category belongs to this project before adding {{WikiProject Skyscrapers}} on the category talk page.
The major categories, Category:Skyscrapers and Category:Towers, should be reserved for articles about types of skyscrapers and towers, respectively, while specific individual skyscrapers, towers and high-rises should be listed in the appropriate subcategories.
If an article about a skyscraper is added to the project, please ensure that it has the correct country-specific, region-specific, or height-specific skyscraper category, e.g. Category:Skyscrapers in the United States, Category:Skyscrapers in San Francisco, California, Category:Skyscrapers over 350 meters. For towers, please ensure that it has the correct country-specific, region-specific, or type-specific tower category, e.g. Category:Clock towers in Turkey , Category:Pylons, Category:Fictional towers. Also consider adding a link to the article in the appropriate list article, such as List of tallest buildings in New York City, List of tallest buildings in Hong Kong, List of towers, etc.
Next, please ensure that it has the correct skyscraper and/or tower type categories (one or more, in some cases). Here are some major categories for skyscrapers and towers:
- Skyscrapers
- Category:Art Deco skyscrapers
- Category:Skyscrapers by city
- Category:Skyscrapers by country
- Category:Former world's tallest buildings
- Category:Skyscrapers by height
- Category:Residential skyscrapers
- Category:Skyscraper hotels
- Towers
- Category:Bell towers
- Category:Campaniles
- Category:Chimneys
- Category:Clock towers
- Category:Towers by country
- Category:Fictional towers
- Category:Guyed masts
- Category:Inclined towers
- Category:Pylons
- Category:Shot towers
- Category:Water towers
Images [edit]
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Wikimedia Commons has many images of skyscrapers, towers and city skylines. Many of these photos would make useful additions to many of our articles here which may be lacking adequate illustrations.
Please see the Commons categories at right, or try searching on Commons since many images available there are not properly categorized yet.
Issues of ongoing concern [edit]
Please report vandalism, copyright violations, addition of unsourced material and edit-warring to skyscraper / tower articles here:
- See Wikipedia:Templates for discussion/Log/2010 July 2#Template:Infobox skyscraper. Discussion is currently ongoing.
Please consider adding these articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting the ongoing vandalism which is certain to resume once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Consider reporting users who chronically vandalize articles to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.
If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized (as a rough standard, over 10 vandals per day, or continual vandalism for several days such that the last 50+ edits are all vandalism and reverts, or 10+ vandalism / revert edits in 30 minutes), please report them at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and add them to the list above.
More articles or pages in need of attention could be found here at Category:Unreferenced skyscraper articles and Category:Skyscraper pages needing attention.
