Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming

Welcome to the Swimming WikiProject! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to swimming and other aquatic sports.

Our goals

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of swimming and water sports.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of swimming and water sports by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to swimming and water sports in Wikipedia.

Our scope

The project generally considers any article related to swimming, water polo, synchronized swimming, open water swimming, long course swimming, short course swimming, diving, and participants, coaches and governing organizations of the above mentioned to be a valid topic.

Our structure

Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:

• Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration.

Project organization

Userbox

Code	Result
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming/Userbox}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Swimming.
{{User swimmer}}	This user is a swimmer.
{{User water polo player}}	This user plays water polo.
{{User diver}}	This user is a diver.
{{User synchronized swimmer}}	This user is a synchronized swimmer.

Wikipedia ad

Code:	{{wikipedia ads|ad=101}}
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Departments

• List of all subpages of this page

Assessment

Swimming articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	9	2			12
FL		1	2				3
GA	1	11	17	22			51
B	3	20	44	62		23	152
C	13	40	134	279		133	599
Start	4	153	685	2,743		1,067	4,652
Stub		130	1,363	13,839	4	4,111	19,447
List	4	19	67	1,089	39	176	1,394
Category			2	10	7,629		7,641
Disambig					8		8
File					106		106
Project					45		45
Template				4	1,978		1,982
NA		1	7	60	259		327
Other				3	17		20
Assessed	25	376	2,330	18,113	10,085	5,510	36,439
Unassessed				4	1	75	80
Total	25	376	2,330	18,117	10,086	5,585	36,519
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 142,507			Ω = 5.74

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming and water sports articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WP Swimming}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Automation

The automation department uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of swimming and water sports related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

To-do

• Please add {{swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about swimmers.
• Please add {{US-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about United States swimmers.
• Please add {{euro-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about European swimmers.
• Please add {{Australia-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about Australian swimmers.
• Please add {{Netherlands-swimming-bio-stub}} to all stub-articles about Dutch swimmers.
• Per WP:MOS, use   between numbers and units, eg 100 m, 2.2 s. in the case of "x" in a relay, use ×, ie 4×100 m.

Featured content

At this time, there are currently four swimming featured articles, meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:

• Kevin O'Halloran
• Sandra Morgan
• Faith Leech
• Ian Thorpe

There are also two featured lists:

• Australian Olympic medalists in swimming
• List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year

Participants

Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the list

1. wpktsfs (Swimmer, Waterpolo player)
2. Zeizmic
3. Meldshal42 (Swimmer, Diver,Synchronized Swimmer)
4. Ryanjo
5. tingalex (Swimmer, Scuba Diver if that has anything to do with the project)
6. Ianblair23
7. Cheif Captain
8. Collun (Swimmer)
9. Blnguyen
10. hmwith
11. SMARTSKAFT | ¿
12. hooperswim
13. Elderleo
14. SSSq (diving)
15. Lemonflash (talk · contribs · count)
16. Ketsuekigata (Former Swimmer, Lifeguard)
17. Iarescientists (Swimmer, Water Polo player, Lifeguard)
18. Dive614c (Diver, Swimmer)
19. Swimmtastic SAS87
20. ask123 (competitive swimmer, 10 years)
21. Jort227 (Water Polo player)
22. Marco Polo Monkey Goes Bananas over Marco Polo!!! (Water Polo)
23. Fattyjwoods Competitive Swimmer in New Zealand
24. Trulystand700
25. Boroughswimmer Swimming Club Adminitrator Australia
26. Mark Rauterkus of Pittsburgh, PA, USA and CLOH.Org
27. Bgwwlm
28. Jrssr5 (former competitive swimmer)
29. Polluxian (like to find and initiate articles on international swimmers)
30. MacMad
31. Staffwaterboy ^Talk♂ 23:49, 30 March 2008 (UTC) Im a Swimming Instructor also a Lifeguard
32. Swimmtastic
33. Printer222 (competitive swimmer)
34. Yboy83 Populating and correcting pages for British swimmers, British records etc.
35. jladams97 (former competitive swimmer)
36. LizConno (former competitive swimmer & diver)
37. ErikTheBikeman Current competitive swimmer.
38. Punters (swimmer and water polo player)
39. Eriktoussaint (snorkeler and webmaster of snorkelinfo.net, The Netherlands)
40. mynameinc (Creating and expanding articles about East German swimmers)
41. Alaric Smith (Creating, editing and expanding articles on Finswimming; current international finswimmer and Coach).
42. DeMoN2009 (former club swimmer, still enjoy swimming)
43. ebgundy (High School Coach)
44. Campms2
45. Tambra07 (former competitive swimmer, lifeguard, water polo player, and syncro swimmer)
46. User: Nickcampbell18 (UK University Lifesaver, qualified lifeguard)
47. User:Rauterkus Wiki and open source advocate, swim coach in Pittsburgh, PA, USA Rauterkus (talk) 15:16, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
48. Ojay123 (talk) 14:22, 25 July 2009 (UTC)
49. Lidos (British lido historian) 22:56, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
50. Speedoguy Collaborating on Lido articles improvement.
51. Eileen Sandá (Creating and editing article about Faroese swimmer Pál Joensen)
52. Dspyang (Competitive Age Group Swimmer)
53. MeisMyself (Comppetive Age Group Swimmer)

Related projects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Water sports