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===Wikiproject Piracy===

'''Description:''' As with the proposed "Wild West" WikiProject, this project will also attempt to improve the quality and general covering of subjects relating to Piracy, especially it's "Golden Age" (1690-1730), as well as the Sea Dog/Corsair (1580-1650) and Buccaneering (1640-1690) eras.

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:MadMax/WikiProject Piracy]] (will create one if project generates interest)

'''User:''' [[User:MadMax|MadMax]] 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*[[User:MadMax]]

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===Wikiproject Wild West===

'''Description:''' This project will attempt to improve the quality and of subjects relating to the "[[Wild West]]" era of the [[American southwest]] during the 19th century (and possibly oversee the consolidation and overall reorganization of said category).

'''Temporary project page:''' [[User:MadMax/WikiProject Wild West]] (will create one if project generates interest)

'''User:''' [[User:MadMax|MadMax]] 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

'''Interested Wikipedians''' (please add your name):
*[[User:MadMax]]



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Revision as of 21:53, 27 March 2006

This page can be used to gauge support for potential wikiprojects before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.

Listing projects: Before listing here, write a brief description of your project on your user page. Then add your name and a link to your project to the list below.

Promoting projects: If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper project page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects.

Expressing interest: If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.

List of proposed Wikiprojects

Wikiproject Piracy

Description: As with the proposed "Wild West" WikiProject, this project will also attempt to improve the quality and general covering of subjects relating to Piracy, especially it's "Golden Age" (1690-1730), as well as the Sea Dog/Corsair (1580-1650) and Buccaneering (1640-1690) eras.

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/WikiProject Piracy (will create one if project generates interest)

User: MadMax 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Wikiproject Wild West

Description: This project will attempt to improve the quality and of subjects relating to the "Wild West" era of the American southwest during the 19th century (and possibly oversee the consolidation and overall reorganization of said category).

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/WikiProject Wild West (will create one if project generates interest)

User: MadMax 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


Alternative Dispute Resolution

Description: Project will address the improvement of articles relating to negotiation, conciliation, facilitation, mediation, arbitration and other processes providing an alternative to litigation.

Temporary project page: User:Edivorce/Proposed Project ADR

User: Edivorce

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Arts

Description: It seems remarkable to me that an arts project doesn't already exist. The Arts Portal is one of the "Top 8" linked to from the Main Page, but at present there is no arts community as such on Wikipedia to maintain it; a WikiProject should go a long way towards creating one. There are several arts-related WikiProjects already but usually their memberships are too small to have any effect, so I hope that a more general arts project encompassing differing disciplines will get an active community going.

Temporary project page: User:Ham/Arts

User: HAM File:Icons-flag-wales.png 15:01, 25 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Australian Wine

Description: The project will address the lack of organised information regarding Australian Wines and the Australian Wine Industry.

Temporary project page: TBA

User: Tanzburg 10:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Cemeteries of the United States

Description: A project to organize cemeteries by state and list prominent burials within. See a typical cemetery entry at Princeton Cemetery.

Temporary project page: User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Cemeteries of the United States

User: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

Interested Wikipedians: User:DavidBavousett


Children's Literature

Description: A project to improve and organize the children's literaure family of pages.

Temporary project page: User:Deborah-jl/childlit

User: Deborah-jl Talk 05:59, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Chinese Romanization

Description: Due to strong lack of any knowledge on Chinese language in the Western world, many names and words which come from Chinese have a lousy Roman-script conversion. Confusion and misunderstandings are guaranteed. Improper/indexact/vague information doesn't belong to a encyclopedia anyways.

Temporary project page: User:LiangHH/Chinese Romanization

User: 亮HH 20:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Chrono Trigger/Cross + Time

Description: The main goal is to organize all the info about these games (characters, places, history, etc.) AND the main ideas that these games use aswell as the time travelling theories that they suggest.

Temporary project page: User:andycyca/Chrono + Time

User: Andycyca|say... 05:03, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Cleanup sorting

Description: A sister project to Stub sorting, this WikiProject would organize Wikipedia:Cleanup by topic (to Wikipedia:Pages needing attention) and make other WikiProjects aware of pages needing their wikilove.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:Cleanup process/Cleanup sorting proposal

User: Alba 17:25, 21 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Corrosion

Description:

Temporary project page: User:Sammo

User: Sammo 05:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Egyptian Religion

Description: User talk:King Vegita#Wikiproject: Egyptian Religion

My idea for this Wikiproject is a group that focuses on Ancient Egyptian religion, such as Atenism and Hermetism, and attempts to:

  • Remove or otherwise balance skeptical or ethnocentric dismissal POV of Egyptian beliefs from articles.
  • Vastly increase the information in these articles based on well cited additions
  • Increase the number of articles on the subject of Egyptian Beliefs as it becomes possible, making daughter pages.
  • Having any Egyptian influence on other systems added into the articles on those systems. This can be done in a short paragraph.

Temporary project page: User:King Vegita

User:KV 18:57, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Enigma (musical project)

Description: The aim of this project is to first start, expand and improve the quality of the articles that fall within this WikiProject (the list of articles is already prepared) and someday get at least one of those articles up to Featured Article status. The articles all revolve around the musical project, Enigma and it would be definitely be a useful to Wikipedia and its readers if we get those articles fixed up. :)

Temporary project page: User:Andylkl/WikiProject Enigma

User: Andylkl [ talk! | c ] 19:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Essential articles

Description: The aim of this project is to improve essential/core articles. The articles will be taken from several lists including Core Topics and List of featured articles Wikipedia should have. There will be a collaboration of the week, similar to WP:AID but broader and without nominations such as Homer Simpson... This project will also be helpful towards the WP:1.0 project. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Temporary project page: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTW

User: Gflores Talk

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Fighting genre Video games

Description: -Project will focus on the issue of analyzing and the construction regarding the formatting of articles pertaining to the fighting genre of Video games. Discussion would enthrall the use of what images go in articles, templates, structuring, sources, gamepaly analysis and conforming the articles to a higher standard of quality. Some examples cited that could benefit would be the King of Fighters series character articles, the Tekken character articles, and many more. It has come to my attention the video-gaming community is lacking in regard to giving these articles sufficent attention. Hopefully, this project will be a feasible solution.

Temporary project page: User talk:MegamanZero

User: ZeroTalk

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Genealogy

Description:This project would help to set up and connect a whole database of last names, providing a forum for anyone to add their known family history. I realize that it is a huge project... but I think it could be done if enough people are excited about it. In my opinion, it would be a great alternative to those sites where you have to pay to find out about your history, or wade through hundreds of forum pages without finding much that actually applies to you.

Temporary project page: User talk:Romarin

User: Romarin 21:20, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Golf Courses of the World

Description:The aim of this project is to add more articles on golf courses around the world, and expand existing articles. We will set up a standardised structure for all articles hopefully including an infobox. Articles on golf courses is a glaring gap in Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:grovermj

User: Grovermj 09:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation

Description: The purpose of the Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation is to create a common ground for wikipedians interested in greco-turkish related articles and are determined to maintain a high level of civility and cooperation while assuming good faith and sticking to the principles of NPOV. See the temporary project page below for more information.

Temporary project page: User:Michalis Famelis/Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation

User: User:Michalis Famelis

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name here or on the temporary project page.):

Health controversies

Description: The purpose of the Health controversies project is to create a common ground for the diverse field of editors who are interested in ensuring that Wikipedia articles that address health controversies; a) comply with Wikipedia guideliness and policies, especially WP:NPOV; and b) evolve to becoming some of the best articles in Wikipedia, informing readers on important issues.

Temporary project page: User:Leifern/Wikiproject health controversies

Project page now set up at: Wikipedia:WikiProject Health controversies

User: User:Leifern

Interested Wikipedians: (Please add your name here)

  1. Ombudsman 17:28, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Gleng 17:42, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Lee Hunter 18:30, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Fyslee 19:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. AED 23:20, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Andrew73 23:47, 1 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Michael Ralston 06:00, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  8. Rdos 15:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Pansophia 15:29, 2 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  10. Sparkleyone 01:03, 3 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Moved to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Health controversies

Hello! Project

Description: A project meant to expand, improve, and present for possible Featured Article status articles related to Japanese pop supergroup Morning Musume, their individual members, side projects, recordings, songs, and related bands and artists under the Hello! Project banner.

Temporary project page: User:Cjmarsicano/Wikipedia:WikiProject Hello! Project

User: Cjmarsicano 18:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Hurricane Katrina

Description: Hurricane Katrina created a bunch of pages this past fall -- a timeline, the locations affected, the failed levees and floodwalls, the myriad political/economic effects of the disaster, and so on. As the event is no longer so current, it's time to clean up the pages that were created quickly in immediate response. There's need for copyediting, sourcing, merging, and keeping an eye out for new information. I'm sure these things are already being done by many, but having a WikiProject couldn't hurt. It's definitely an active area!

Temporary project page: User:Lithogliff/Katrina

User: Litho 03:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

I support it as a sub-project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones. Already part of that group, but I'd be willing to go into this one. CrazyC83 19:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]
A subproject sounds like a better idea. -- §HurricaneERIC§Damagesarchive 22:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Legal defence

Description: Wikipedia's prominence is coming to the fore and eventually it might be beneficial for Wikipedia to deal with its legal opponents in some way or other. WikiProject Legal defense recruits users who are willing to spend time and effort in participating in legal matters on the behalf of the Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as seeking lawyers and other legal experts to aid Wikipedia and Wikimedia on this increasingly important issue. Legal action is unpleasant, and should of course be avoided in the face of other alternatives, but at times Wikipedia must stamp its foot down and say, "Nope. That's it! We've had enough!" and bring legal action against entities which continually break laws to sabotage Wikipedia. This includes problematic vandals like WiC and WoW, where for example on WiC's talkpage, a legal draft against WiC has already been proposed. Wikipedia must eventually assert its own rights sooner or later - users who wish to dedicate their resources against Wikipedia's bullies. This is very much possible: For example, User:Encyclopedist has proposed a legal basis we could pursue Willy on Wheels on here.

Agenda:

  1. Bring vandals to justice. Subpoenas should be issued to check long-time vandal's proxies' logs. They should contain entries of such vandal's real IP's, or in the very least, a trail of clues to follow, and eventually to justice.
  2. Pre-emptive defense. Entities which threaten us and where the threat is very real, this project will find means and ways to countersue Wikipedia's legal opponents, such as libel and slander. This is primarily a preventive measure.
  3. Enforcing trademarks. The trademark of Wikipedia and Wikimedia is currently being rampantly and wantonly infringed. http://Wikipediaclassaction.org, for instance, violates trademarks and a copyrighted image that is clearly not GFDL. If we do not defend our trademarks, Wikipedia and Wikimedia risks losing the ability to defend them, forever.
  4. Dignity and principle. It must be demonstrated that Wikipedia cannot be legally bullied, or malicious actions made with no consequence. Incidents like at Brian Chase showed how easily consequences could pursue an unwitting individual; bringing legal action against Joshua Gardner using the full armory of legal charges, including defamation, misusing our resources to implement a fraud, misusing resources to commit a felony (as a sex offender), as well as continuing to perpetuate the fraud after it was repeatedly, is not only possible, but a way to show that Wikipedia will not stand for such actions.
  5. Reclaiming damages. Wikipedia could gain funds in the process from legal pursuit of its bullies.

Clarifications:

This project will still stay within the realms of Wikipedia:No legal threats, and will firmly abide by it. Legal action will not be brought against any existing user, not even a vandal, unless the Wikimedia Foundation gives the green light to pursue. However, bringing action against other opponents on the behalf of Wikimedia, ranging from trademark infringement to maliicious offenders such as Gardner.

Temporary project page:

User: Elle vécut heureuse à jamais (Be eudaimonic!) 06:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC) (I am of course no expert, but I see the need to initiate such a project)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Looney Tunes characters

Description: As you can see, not every Looney Tunes character has a page and very many are linked to other characters on the Looney Tunes character page. I want to make sure every Looney Tune gets it's own page on Wikipedia, or at least more than a brief reference in one article, but I don't know enough to do it myself. Who's with me?

Temporary project page:

User: Wack'd Talk to me!

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


Marine life

Description: Project will work to improve and expand articles on Wikipedia in regards to marine fishes, invertabrates, coral, and so forth. The group will also work to increase the information about the hobby of marine husbandry. Both of which topic are lacking.

Temporary project page: User:Dark jedi requiem/marinelife

User: Dark jedi requiem

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Mega Man

Description: This Wikiproject would add articles of upcoming games and characters to the Mega Man series and maintain good qualitiy of the pages already existing.

Temporary project page: User_talk:Doug_teh_H-Nut/MegaManWikiproject

User: Doug teh H-Nut 16:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Musical_Artists

Description: To maintain/standardize pages relating to musical groups, individual musical artists, &c.


Temporary project page: User:Bmearns/musical_artists_wikiproject

User: bmearns, KSC(talk)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name if you support the proposal):

User:Niall 09:16, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

New Style role-playing games

Description: A series of articles about Hogshead Publishing's New Style line of games: De Profundis, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Pantheon, Puppetland & Powerkill, and Violence.

Temporary project page: User:SalvorHardin

User: Salvor Hardin 07:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Nintendo

Description: Help to organize and improve Nintendo-related articles

Temporary project page: User:TBC/Nintendo

User: TBC??? ??? ??? 06:26, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Organized Crime

Description:

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/Organized crime

User: MadMax 00:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Programming Language Design, Implementation and Theory

Description: Organizes and edits articles on the theory of programming languages, as well as technical issues related to their design and construction. Examples of likely topics would include:

  • Formal models and calculii (the Lambda Calculus, the process calculii, etc).
  • Compiler construction (parsing, lexing, semantic analysis, code generation, etc).
  • Type theory and type systems
  • Possibly, discussion of research programming languages
  • Related areas in mathematics, i.e. computability theory
  • Runtime design and implementation--topics such as garbage collection, virtual machines (in the context of programming languages), linkers and program loaders, etc.
  • Programming paradigms.
  • Other topics which are covered by the charter but which I haven't thought about.

There currently exists a Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages which is flagged as inactive, this existing project seems to focus on the following practical subjects:

  • Cataloguing articles about programming languages themselves, and about popular implementations thereof
  • Detailed topics on specific programming languages

In addition, many of the topics listed in the charter already have excellent articles on Wikipedia; this project wouldn't attempt any "hostile takeovers" on such (other than providing navboxes and the like).

Temporary project page: User:EngineerScotty/Programming Language Theory

User: EngineerScotty 00:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

  1. Alienus 18:11, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Roller coasters

Description: The objective of the Wiki Roller Coaster project is to improve the quality of the roller coaster articles. Some of them are very bad and there is no concensus on formatting etc. I've created an infobox, but there is still lots of work to do.

Temporary project page: Wikiproject Roller Coaster

User: Snailwalker | talk 22:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


Sampling and digital recording

Description:

Temporary project page: User:trweiss/sampling and digital recording

User: User:trweiss

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Scottish Placename Etymology

Description:

Temporary project page: User_talk:Lianachan

User: Lianachan

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Sign language, Deaf culture and deafness

Now at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deaf

Sustainable technologies

Description:

Temporary project page: User:Jwanders/Sustainable technologies

User: Jwanders 16:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Telecommunications

Description: There are plenty of telecom-related articles ranging from wireless to PSTN to numbering plans and so on, with seemingly no central community with which to coordinate effort. What there has been have been temporary ad-hoc collectives living briefly in the talk pages of various articles. Is it time to bring this together?

Temporary project page:

User: Keith D. Tyler

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Twin Peaks

Description: This project proposes to increase and improve the coverage in Wikipedia of the Twin Peaks television series, specifically the creation of individual pages for each episode.

Temporary project page: User:Morning star/WikiProject Twin Peaks

User: Morning star 16:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Tycoon Computer Games

Description: This project hopes to improve the quality standards of the Tycoon Computer Games, which right now is terrible. It really needs work and standardization across the pages. If you are interested, please read more at the Temporary Project Page User: Primate#101 Interested Wikipedians: (add your name to join) ADD NAME AT PROJECT PAGE

Wikiproject now active!!!

Venezuela

Description: A project with the objective of improving the quality of articles referring to the History, Culture, and other miscellanea of Venezuela. The project will look for more accurate information, the creation of new articles, periodics collaborations, expansion of stubs, better organization and categorization of the articles, the manteinance of the Portal:Venezuela, developing of references in the sister projects, etc. Always mantaining a neutral point of view. Since part of the sources are in Spanish languages, translators are also invited to join in. This wikiProject, once established, has plans to diversificate in the future.

Temporary project page: User:Alex Coiro/WikiProject Venezuela

User: Alex Coiro 20:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name): DamianFinol 02:11, 25 February 2006 (UTC) . Venezuelan interested ;)[reply]

Veterinary Biology

Description: A project which has the aims of making articles on the Wikipedia relating to Veterinary medicines, treatment, conditions and general animal health, better and easier to locate. Because this articles falling under this project use a lot of technical language relating to the veterinary profession, we would be most happy to welcome practising and retired veterinarians (large or small animal practice), veterinary students, veterinary nurses and anyone else involved with the treatment or care of animals. A good command of the English language is required for this one, users en-3 and above. The goal of the project is to provide a fast way of getting accurate and complete information and references for all veterinary articles on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Tmalmjursson/wikiprojectproposal:veterinarybiology

User: Thor Malmjursson 00:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Objectivism

Description: An attempt to co-ordinate work on the philosophy of Objectivism and related subjects in a manner that avoids the edit wars that are currently rife on the Objectivism pages.

Temporary project page: User:ObjectiveBrit

User: Matthew Humphreys 16:22, 8 March 2006 (UTC) (aka ObjectiveBrit)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

  1. User:TJFrazier--TJ 16:58, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Alienus 18:09, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  3. LaszloWalrus 23:06, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Xenophage 13:31, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Kaisershatner 19:36, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Stephanos1ko 04:50, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Medieval women

Description: A project to create articles on all medieval women of note, and to fill out Wikipedia's coverage of an area of history that is starting to get scholarly notice. Project would include improving existing articles as well as creating new ones, and possibly creating a portal that would make it easier to see connections between the lives of women of this period.

Temporary project page: User:Cantara/WikiProject Medieval women

User: Cantara 20:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

BengalRenaissanceEccentrica 02:27, 17 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

M*A*S*H

Description: ... to provide a common layout for articles about and concerning M*A*S*H, whether it be the novels, the film or the television series. Also for maintentance of the Portal.

Temporary project page: User:Sarsaparilla39/WikiProject M*A*S*H

User: Sarsaparilla39 08:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Flash Cartoons

Description: The number of articles on this subject and the organization of this is something to work on.

Temporary project page: User talk:Bibliomaniac15

User: Bibliomaniac15 01:26, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians:

Virginia Highways

Description: To organise and standardise all Virginia state and county routes.

Temporary project page: User:MPD01605/Virginia Highway WikiProject

User: MPD01605 04:21, 22 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians:

Turkey

Description: To organise and improve all Turkey related articles.

Temporary project page: User:Ugur Basak/WikiProject Turkey

User: --Ugur Basak 13:59, 23 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians: (Please add your name)

Trains in Japan

Description: To organize and standardize articles about railways in Japan, as well as providing a common place for discussion about such articles.

Temporary project page: User:Tangotango/WikiProject Trains in Japan

User: Tangotango 06:35, 26 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Interested Wikipedians: (Please add your name)

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