Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

Philadelphia Skyline

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.

Announcements

Starting in 2007, the Philadelphia Portal will include a section called Selected anniversaries. (This will replace the Music, Arts & Culture section) The Section is presented monthly and most months still need anniversaries. Please go to the Portal:Philadelphia/Selected anniversaries archive and add dates for articles you are familiar with. Please try to use no more than 4 anniversaries per month, and do not use any birthdays or death dates (Unless the death itself was an event). Medvedenko 04:14, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Article watchlist

• History of Philadelphia was labeled a good article on July 12. Medvedenko 21:43, 12 July 2007 (UTC)

Housekeeping

• We need one or two people to volunteer as the coordinators. --evrik 18:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)

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 avaliable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm ^T _C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Philadelphia Meetups

• 
  November 2006 meetup
• 
  March 2007 meetup

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in October 2007. See the meetup page for details and to RSVP.

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
• Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

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 Bjewiki Sports Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education Briememory Sports 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 EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties Evrik FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GShton Sports, Culture Gorgeousp 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 MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly 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. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods South Philly -- email me for my opinion Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Spikebrennan SteinbDJ Arts and culture Sylent Northern Philly burbs Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles V60 VTalk - VDemolitions I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.

Structure

General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

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

Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

Article requests list

• /Requests

Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		5	12	12			29
FL		1		12			13
GA	3	8	29	91			131
B	13	87	148	278		7	533
C	3	106	233	913		21	1,276
Start	3	106	652	4,674		69	5,504
Stub		1	62	1,106	1	47	1,217
List	1	11	25	115	1	4	157
Category				1	490		491
Disambig					12		12
File					130		130
Portal					419		419
Project				1	18		19
Template					138		138
NA		3	13	130	274		420
Other					18		18
Assessed	23	328	1,174	7,333	1,501	148	10,507
Unassessed				2		29	31
Total	23	328	1,174	7,335	1,501	177	10,538
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,787			Ω = 4.81

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Philadelphia articles by quality log

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{portalpar|Philadelphia|Libertybell alone small.jpg}} Talk		Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk		Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{user Philly}} Talk	This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{Geolinks-US-streetscale|39.8933|-75.2089}} Talk	Template:Geolinks-US-streetscale	To be used on street-sized pages, such as airports.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk	Template:Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM	goes on the Collaboration of the Month
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk	You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!	to invite new members

Images

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

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

Recognition

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

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:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

Thanks!

Related or Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania
• Wikipedia:Wikiproject U.S. cities
• WikiProject Pittsburgh

Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

• History of Philadelphia March 25 Was copied from Philadelphia article by User:Kitia, have added my unfinished work for the article. Medvedenko 02:19, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
• Philadelphia Gay News February 13
• St. George's United Methodist Church February 9
• Philadelphia mayoral election, 2007. Aardhart 06:11, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

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