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This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in a NPOV and accurate manner.

Current project

  • If you are reading this sentence, please pick a new article to be the next project.

Core articles/High-level articles

Article Class Rationale Quality Comments
Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Climate of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Culture of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B Help!
Demographics of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Economy of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Ecology of Minnesota Top WP:CORE Start Good but small, direct copy from Minnesota
Geology of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
History of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent job!
Minneapolis Top WP:CORE FA Excellent job!
Minneapolis-St. Paul Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Mississippi River Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Music of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Politics of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Saint Paul, Minnesota Top WP:CORE B (GA failed) What would it take to reach GA?
Sports in Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Transportation in Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
University of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
University of Minnesota system Top WP:CORE Start Help!
Anoka County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Bloomington, Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Dakota County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Duluth, Minnesota High A High-level article B Delisted from GA :(
Eugene McCarthy High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Fort Snelling, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Hennepin County, Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Hiawatha Line High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Hubert Humphrey High A High-level article B A good one to work on
I-35W Mississippi River bridge High A High-level article B Recently added
Iron Range High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Lake Minnetonka High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Lake Superior High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of Governors of Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of Minnesota state parks High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of people from Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Mall of America High A High-level article Start Help!
Mayo Clinic High A High-Level article Start Clinic and medical school needs work!
Template:Minnesota High A High-level article Template This is good as-is
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party High A High-level article Start Help!
Minnesota State Fair High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Template:Politics of Minnesota High A High-level article Template This is good as-is
Ramsey County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Regions of Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Rochester, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Saint Anthony Falls High A High-level article B Help!
St. Cloud, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
St. Paul Pioneer Press High A High-level article Start Help!
Star Tribune High A High-level article Start Help!
United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
WCCO-TV High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Walter Mondale High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Washington County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!

Assessment

Minnesota articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 3 6 10
FL 1 4 5 10
GA 3 5 13 85 106
B 15 56 112 198 4 385
C 7 43 240 922 75 1,287
Start 1 43 545 6,297 216 7,102
Stub 3 109 5,374 882 6,368
List 1 14 102 153 5 275
Category 4,766 4,766
Disambig 22 22
File 85 85
Project 20 20
Redirect 2 113 1,553 1,668
Template 621 621
NA 1 6 6 13
Other 21 21
Assessed 28 165 1,131 13,159 7,094 1,182 22,759
Unassessed 80 80
Total 28 165 1,131 13,159 7,094 1,262 22,839
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 80,209 Ω = 5.26


Project divisions and current tasks

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

New article patrol

The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them

  1. The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
  2. Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
  3. If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template
  4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

General Minnesota resources

  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

Minnesota life

  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
  • Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
  • Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

Participants

If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by clicking here if you like also type a note about what you plan on working on.

  1. andrew
  2. Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
  3. Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
  4. Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
  5. Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
  6. BenFranske
  7. Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
  8. BWes - Western Suburbs
  9. Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
  10. Davumaya - Focus is on article recording and minneapolis & south burbs
  11. Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota
  12. eagleeye
  13. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
  14. False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
  15. Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
  16. Gnosbush
  17. Gopher backer - Minnesota climate & related historical events, sports, University of Minnesota
  18. Gopherbone - University of Minnesota, Golden Gopher athletics
  19. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
  20. Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
  21. Gtadoc - Medicine and medical education, and taking some pics of Rochester
  22. Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
  23. HeirloomGardener - I started working on Norwood Young America and Stiftungsfest, and I could help out with other places in that area
  24. Hlodynn
  25. Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
  26. JAYMEDINC
  27. Jcbutler - Southwest Minnesota
  28. Jonathan Kovaciny
  29. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
  30. Justin4gb
  31. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
  32. LindaMorman - Politics, particularly creating/expanding entries on members of the State Legislature
  33. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
  34. matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
  35. MatthewUND - I live in Grand Forks, ND, but I will help with northwest MN...particularly the Red River Valley. I can also serve as a liason between WPMN and WPND.
  36. Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
  37. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
  38. Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
  39. Mrfeek - Politics, history
  40. Mrtobacco
  41. Natalie Erin I can help with most general stuff and can provide requested free-content photos in the metro area.
  42. Nathanm_mn
  43. Our Bold Hero
  44. P.Haney - Anything high school related as well as St. Paul related.
  45. Ravedave - work on Minnesota and park articles mostly
  46. Rehcsif - Western 'burbs, parks, general misc.
  47. ReverendG
  48. Rhelmerichs
  49. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
  50. RyguyMN
  51. sabeen557 - Some on history and parks, cities that are near me, and write and supply pictures for the Minnesota State Fair (In the summer, it looks bad now)
  52. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
  53. Smarterthanu91 - Don't ask why, but I like really tedious jobs. So throw your best dull job at me. I'm also a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams.
  54. Smith03
  55. Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
  56. Susanlesch - maybe can edit but plate is full
  57. Thanatosimii State parks and the North Shore, mainly.
  58. The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
  59. UBeR - Created glacial history of Minnesota. Can help on weather or hydrology related articles pertaining to Minnesota. Also have general knowledge on many Minnesota related topics.
  60. Umtc2011
  61. Unidiode
  62. Willy11009 - Rochester related articles
  63. Woogums - history
  64. WTGDMan1986
  65. ZJH
  66. WildFan48 - Minnesota sports of any kind
  67. greyduk - Minnesota lakes and other random information.
  68. Voot 42 - Infrastructure, politics and random articles.
  69. Showers
  70. Russian F - Culture and history of Minnesota, Northern Minnesota

Templates

U.S. city infobox

U.S. county infobox

Minnesota Infobox

  • {{Minnesota}} - Infobox for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

WikiProject Minnesota

{{WikiProject Minnesota
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 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. 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.


Meetups

Minneapolis meetups occurred in 2005 and 2006 see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.

Portal

Minnesota Portal -- Under development

Suggestions for Minnesota Portal features

Transcluded from Portal:Minnesota/Selected biographies/Suggest.

Portal:Minnesota/Selected biographies/Suggest

Child WikiProjects

Minnesota State Highways
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Vikings

Collaborations

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