Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

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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)[reply]

Article watchlist

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

Housekeeping

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

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Philadelphia Meetups

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.

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.[reply] 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.

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.[reply]
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

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

WikiProject ToDo list

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2017-09-20

Recruit active membership
Featured Articles
1. Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status
2. Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback
3. Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback
4. Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC
Determine geographic scope
Standardize neighborhood article names
Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement
Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles
Create SEPTA station/route article title standards
Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals.
1. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}
All articles in Category:People from Philadelphia should have this project's template placed on the page's discussion page.

Article requests list

/Requests

Portal maintenance

Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	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

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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}}
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National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
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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}}
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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: