Wikipedia:WikiProject London

WikiProject LONDON

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Scope and Motivation

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to London. On top of this, it aims to get the main London article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the London Portal.

• Greater London is one of the world's historic conurbations with a population of more than 10 million. This is spread across a large area with varying structures and geo-political boundaries, and it is important that these unique structures are linked and explained where necessary.
• The London area is formed through countless urban villages and small towns, and each of these villages and towns has its own identity to be described and explained in the Wikipedia.
• London is home of some of the cultural treasures of the world, such as the British Library and the British Museum, as well as four UNESCO World Heritage Sites. Like much of London, these areas are of historical importance, and require suitable articles.
• London is also the home of three great public transport networks of historic importance: the bus, tube, and railway networks. These should be cross-linked into the other London articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Underground.

Articles and categories relating to London are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do"s.

Major pending tasks

1. Update all {{infobox London place}} templates to use include the new mapping function.

    

2. Add the new {{WPLondon}} template to all London-related articles' talk pages.

   N.B. - please do not substitute the template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on the list of links that provides a guage for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).

    

3. Add new {{London history}} navigational template to the top of all London-history related articles.

• Completely overhaul this page into a more coherent format.
  • Create sub-articles with Manual of Style info for areas such as "Transport", "Geography" etc.
  • Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
• Implement a "Series on London" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}

Naming conventions

See Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Naming conventions

Templates

See Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Templates

A number of edits have bastardized the London Boroughs infobox and produced delinked and non-standard ones without adding any extra info or functions (Corrected on Westminster, K&C, Lambeth and Kingston).

Creation of articles

Done

• A shedload of small articles on London places have been auto-generated to create a trellis of linked pre-stub articles about places in London, and merged into existing content.
• The List of places in London have been edited with the correct London borough names for each of these.
• The main London postal district article has been created, expanded and linked to relevant sub-articles.
• The London Portal has achieved featured portal status.

To do

• Expand the sub-articles relating to the London postal districts, which should all be cross-linked to the articles describing the places in that postal district.
• Articles on notable London tourist attractions such as Trafalgar Square should be put in the same format as other London place articles.
• Maintenance of London Portal.

Categories

Done

• Category:Schools in London and relevant sub-categories have been created and (somewhat) populated.

To do

• Locate non-categorised London schools and categorise them into the appropriate category.

Substance

Done

• The main London article has achieved good article status.
• Articles exist for all 32 London boroughs using the borough's official name (usually "London Borough of X").
• Several London-related articles have achieved featured status (see Portal:London/London on Wikipedia).

To do

• The main London article needs to achieve featured status.
• Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
• All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
• Every London Underground line, and the DLR, should have an article of the same level of quality of, say, the East London Line article, but the list of stations should be the same quality as the Central Line.
• Schools of London need to have their own pages, with at least 500 words. The Greater London and City of London sections in List of schools in the United Kingdom also need to be completed, and all London schools should be properly categorised within Category:Schools in London.
• {{London stations}} needs to be added to all London station articles (tube/rail/DLR)
• {{Infobox London place}} needs to be added to all London district articles

London on Wikipedia

• London is the 27th most referenced article on the English Wikipedia. It was registered with 25,211 incoming links in January 2006, making it the most-referenced city of the entire world. It is above articles such as Europe, India and China, and comes 11th when excluding US Census-related references. Read more here.
• London was the 160th most visited article on the English Wikipedia in February 2004. It scored 4105 hits, making it the second most-visited city after New York. Read more here.
• London has an article in at least 82 different languages on Wikipedia, making it one of the most widely available articles in the entire encyclopedia. See the full list here.

Featured content on London

Featured article star

20 articles and 11 pictures on London topics (as well the London Portal) have been elevated to featured status, meaning that they represent the best of what Wikipedia has to offer.

• Click here for a list of featured articles relating to London.
• Click here for a gallery of featured pictures relating to London.

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Reference

Parentage

The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Cities & WikiProject England.

Associated pages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Underground
• List of places in London, England
• London postal districts
• Subterranean London
• Subterranean rivers of London
• Template:Infobox London Borough
• Template:Infobox London place

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External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK
• City of London Churches site
• Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides
• DMOZ category for the Underground
• Dickens's Dictionary of London, by Charles Dickens, Jr., published in 1879.
• London neighborhood statistics (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
• Transport Statistics for London: 1999 (Crown Copyright, too).
• London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London (Crown Copyright again).
• London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900
• London Population Data: 1850 to 1900
• London population statistics by ethnic group from the GLA
• Victoria County History: Middlesex (British History online) Collected primary sources on London History
• A collection of British Historical Population Reports (1801-1937) Essex Uni
• ward profiles (demographic data etc from the 2001 census) are available from the website of every London Borough. You mayb have to search to find them but they will exist.