Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Holidays. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there, and add your name to the participants list.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to organize and standardize articles relating to holidays

To do

1. Place the {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner on all article talk pages that fall within the scope of this project.
2. Check to see if title follows standardized format.
3. Make a Holiday Infobox for each article.
4. Add the Holiday portal template to the See also section of each article.
5. Add appropriate subcategory classification and remove unnecessary super categories to allow for an efficient category tree.
6. Add them to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Articles.
7. Check for recent changes recent improvements, other changes, and vandalism to these articles.
8. Check Category:Holiday stubs for articles needing improvement.
9. Check Category:Holidays articles needing attention for articles requiring immediate attention.
10. Add Template:Holiday-stub to Holiday articles that need more content or are assessed as stubs.

Participants

All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Holidays}} to their userpages.

1. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) (Primary Contact)
2. For Jewish holidays. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 03:10, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) (Also contact RK)
3. UK and Christian Holidays. Darksun
4. Page me for Indian holidays (incudes Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Parsee & Muslim festivals)  =Nichalp (Talk)= 08:09, Jun 12, 2005 (UTC)
5. And page me for Bangladeshi holidays (Bengali New Years day, Musilm Eid festivals, Hindu Durga puja, Buddhist Full Moon holiday and the Bangladeshi national holidays). --Ragib 21:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
6. Mainly Indian/Aussie holidays, may contribute to others. User:DaGizza/Sg 11:35, 1 November 2005 (UTC)
7. On a campaign to add Template: Infobox Holiday to all the holiday pages. joturner 20:31, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
8. Have already hijacked the Template:Infobox Holiday (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs), so I'll sign up :) _→AzaToth 19:14, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
9. Badbilltucker - Primarily Western holidays.
10. some cross catagory holidays, usually with secular ties Some thing 17:23, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
11. Sefringle
12. Reedguner European and Celtic
13. User:Tregoweth - might as well, after creating Category:Observances by month and its subcategories. :) ‣tregoweth (talk) 17:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
14. Gareth Hughes
15. SportsFan411- February 2006
16. Wesley 13:04, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
17. Tremont30 02:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
18. Joe I 19:26, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
19. --HybridBoy Template:UTC2
20. WTGDMan1986 Additional information inclusion and vandalism reverts. --DFW 12:27, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
21. Merond e For working on articles relating to Christmas. --Merond e 07:47, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
22. Elle (talk) 05:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC) especially for winter and Pagan holidays

Departments

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Assessment - the assessment department.
• /General
• /Strategy

Goals

• Well, I suppose our first goal is to get this Project up and running, after that we should pick an article to re-do to make an example, and then we should restructure all Holiday articles. User:Ilyanep
• to standardize in a way that makes holiday navigation less confusing. Some thing 03:44, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Article Structure

This is not yet decided, just a proposal: — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ)'s proposal:

It should be : Infobox, Introduction, Date, History, Celebration

Titles

i suggest we pin down the formula for titles of holidays for different countries. the name would be in the native language of that country and in the case of there being other country articles for the same holiday then the name would be followed by the country in parenthesis. ie, Instead of Midsummer in Latvia it would be jani, and if another country also had a holiday named jani then you can specify the holiday as Jani (Latvia). maybe this is stating the obvious. Some thing 00:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)

if there are very many countries with holidays by the same name then consider either merging them into one article (if they are basically the same) or creating a category for them.Some thing 03:54, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

also it might be a good idea to mention the english equivalent some where in the introduction to ensure easy wikisearches by those unfamiliar with that countries name for an international holiday. Some thing 21:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Infoboxes

Thanksgiving
The First Thanksgiving, after the painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863–1930)
Also called	Turkey Day, T-Day, Macy's Day, Yanksday
Observed by	Canada, The United States of America
Type	Cultural
Significance	A celebration of being thankful for what one has
Celebrations	Parades, Spending Time with Family, Eating Large Dinners, Football games
Date	second Monday in October (Canada), fourth Thursday in November (USA)
2024 date
Related to	Christmas and New Year's Day which conclude the North American holiday season, and Columbus Day which coincides with Canada's Thanksgiving

• WikiProject Holidays

NOTE: If you use this, do {{subst:HolidayInfo}} and then change the stuff to your liking (and add stuff too if you need). A good idea given by Neutrality was to change the colors depending on holiday (blue/white for jewish, green/red for christmas, national colors for national holidays, etc). Table by Neutrality. (By the way, the table looks better on the page than here).

Articles this table is currently being used in:

• Beltane
• Rosh Hashana
• Yom Kippur
• Independence Day (United States)
• Vesak
• Australia Day
• Darwin Day

I've changed the infobox template {{Infobox Holiday. It looks like what you see to the right. I'm in the process of adding them to holiday pages. Your help would be appreciated. For information on using the Infobox, go to its talk page. joturner 14:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)

it would be advantageous to have an infobox script in which the color can be manually set to suit the holiday.Some thing 21:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)

Introduction

Just a general overview of the article, like we have in most articles on Wikipedia. Just mention the most important stuff covered in all the other sections (see Wikipedia:Lead section)

Date

First of all, describe when the date is (e.g. 4th of July), and the significance of that date (e.g. when the United States declaration of independance was signed). If the date changes (e.g. Jewish holidays), put the date on the calendar where it's stationary (e.g. Purim on the 14th of Adar) and the dates for the next couple of years (we might want a table similar to that which is on Rosh Hashana). Also, the reason why the date changes if there is one (e.g. Lunar Calandar or first monday of month).

History

Put the history of this holiday. What this holiday means. We might also want to add pop culture references to this holiday if there are any. This can, of course, be multiple sections.

Celebration/Traditions/Customs/Rituals

What did people used to do on this holiday? What do they do now?

Remember to write in the proper style for an encyclopedic article.

Basically, most articles should have been written in this format already, as it's just most logical.

Perhaps we should add some more sections

Templates

The {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner should be placed on the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of this project.

Perhaps templates for next holiday in the category, such as Template:JewishHolidays — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Created Template:Holiday-stub. add where needed.Some thing 07:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)

Category Structure

This is a retailoring of Ilγαηερ's (Tαlκ) proposal and proposal 3a. i’ve tried to specify a detailed hierarchical model that will work with much of the existing categories. its still pretty rough but you get the idea. Some thing 13:18, 8 March 2007

(UTC)

Proposal 3b

General issues. articles can hopefully be dispersed in to as many appropriate subcategories as possible. for example there should never be an actual holiday with 'category:holidays' on it. to be more specific i think the secular holidays may need more dispersal. 'national holidays' should only contain common national holiday titles. specific country holidays could go within its subcategories.Some thing 21:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Recognized content

Featured content

Good articles

Yom Kippur

Did you know (DYK)

Dísablót - 4 December 2006.

Related WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Festivals