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WikiProject Media

Wednesday 3 July 2024

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  3. Advertise the project — Tell others about the projects if you think they might enjoy working on the Journalism project or the Media project.
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A project to better organize information in articles related to print and electronic Media and Mass Media articles. This project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians in positive and constructive ways for the betterment of Wikipedia. To help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, see:

Title

WikiProject Media

Scope

Log line -- A broadbased WikiProject covering 1) the technical and creative factors required for print and electronic media, and 2) the economic and social issues related to media.

  1. Technical and application:
    1. All articles relating to Media, mediums of all types and formats, covering -- aquisition, editorial, creative, authoring, delivery, transmission, storage, archiving, consumer and professional equipment and formats, networks, broadcast, cable, microwave, sattelite transmission and low-power broadcasting.
  2. Theory, analsysis, ecnomics, ethics, criticism
    1. Articles dealing with specific issues in mass media, media regulatory issues, media culture, eletronic journalism, media bias, news propaganda, critcism, media ethics, standards and pratices, media economics, news industry, political media, media creative specialties and skill sets.

Parentage

Descendant WikiProjects

Chemistry

Computer science Projects

Encompasses computing and software

Computer science

Library science

Physicas


Quality

  • Categories April 2005: "...to help manage the categories of Wikipedia and improve them"
  • Countering systemic bias October 2004: "... consciously focusing on those subjects and perspectives neglected by the encyclopedia as a whole."
  • Disambiguation July 2005: "This project presently has two goals: 1. Make all disambig pages conform to the Wikipedia:Manual of Style (disambiguation pages). 2. Eliminate links to disambiguation pages."
  • Fact and Reference Check September 2004: "The bold purpose of this project is nothing less than having facts in Wikipedia verified by multiple independent sources"
  • Fix common mistakes November 2004: "A project to fix common mistakes in the article namespace."
  • Grammar December 2004: "...aims primarily to establish a place where people can ask about grammar, improve their grammar, and to correct grammar on articles."
  • Inclusion April 2005: Local outpost of meta:AIW, which crosses all WikiMedia projects.
  • Location Format May 2005: "...an attempt to achieve the unthinkable, improve Wikipedia's Location Format."
  • Project Punctuation May 2005: To fix missing punctuation in Wikipedia articles.
  • Red Link Recovery June 2005: "to transform red links into blue ones".
  • Removing NPOV and weasel terms July 2005: to remove weasel terms and NPOV in articles about movies, games, anime, manga and similar subjects.
  • Stub sorting November 2004: "to better organize and categorize stubs and stub categories". Reached 80 participants in May 2005.
  • Templates July 2005: "to help manage the Template namespace of the Wikipedia, including better documentation of templates and deletion of unused templates" .
  • Tpyo tyPo Typo November 2003: "Please list here any spellings or typos in need of correction. If only one or two articles exist with an incorrect spelling, please feel free to correct them yourself instead of listing the word here."
  • Version 1.0 November 2004: "to find, screen, develop or maintain (or all of those) that would be suitable for release in print, CD and DVD."
  • Wiki Syntax October 2004: "A project to identify and fix malformatted wiki codes (like unbalanced square brackets)."
  • Wikification *I June 2005: "...to wikify pages and get the Articles that need to be wikified page under control."

Research & Development

Science

Similar WikiProjects

Related WikiProjects

Entertainment

  • Entertainment June 2003: "...to organize data in articles about entertainment"

Journalism

Television

  • Radio and Television *I February 2004: "...to better organize information in articles related to radio and television"
  • Television October 2003: "...to guide the structure of articles dealing with television shows or other forms of episodic programs"
    • Soap Operas June 2004: "...to guide the structure of articles related to individual soap operas"
    • Television Schedules *I July 2004: "...to guide the structure of articles related to television schedules for each fall-to-spring term from the 1950s to the present day"
    • Television Stations March 2004: "...to guide the structure of articles related to individual local television stations."
    • Television Episodes May 2004: "A possible template for individual episodes of television series has been implented"
    • Anime and manga see entry under "Films" below
    • Star Trek October 2004: "...to establish a standard for making good Star Trek articles."
    • Doctor Who April 2005: "...aims primarily to improve and organize articles relating to the television series Doctor Who."
    • Buffy (aka the Whedonverse) April 2005: "...to organize, categorize, and standardize Wikipedia articles about the fictional universe of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel the Series, Fray, and the various comic books that stem from the above."
    • ITC Entertainment Productions July 2005: "...an attempt to build a comprehensive, detailed and structured guide to ITC Entertainment on Wikipedia."
    • Films September 2003: "WikiProject Films is an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to films on Wikipedia. This WikiProject also aims to normalize the standards for film articles in Wikipedia."
    • Anime and manga November 2004: "...aims primarily to normalize the standards for all anime and manga articles..."
    • Academy Awards (example article) February 2004: no description provided on main WikiProject page

Technology

Related WikiPortals

Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Culture

Related Collaborations

No related Collaborations have been named.

Related Regional notice boards

No related Regional notice boards have been named.

Related groups of Wikipedians

Category:Wikipedian journalists

Related pages in Sister projects

Sister Project Searches

Participants

Structure

Hierarchy definition

This project was formed primarily to form an objective approach to develop a conceptual framework that might shed some light on systemic bias within the Mass media industries. The scope has been expanded to be inclusive of the circumstances of the technology involved as it applies to the cultures it effects. The project might possibly spawn or adopt child projects that cover the technology side, for example Wikipedia:WikiProject_Television, hence the parentage of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Technology and the culture side, for example Wikipedia:WikiProject_Entertainment, hence the parentage of Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture.

Goals

Projects

  1. ?

Tasks

  1. Advertise project

Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

* adopting Media bias

General strategy and discussion forums

Other subpages

Templates

Infoboxes

{{Infobox Media }}


Stub templates


Project templates

The following templates are in use in the project.

Categories

Lists

Articles

Project relevant Wikipedia articles

This is an alaphabetical list of articals with a close to more distant relationship to the project. Ohter sortings and arrangments of this list may be made in ohter parts of the project, as it developes over time.

The Media_(disambiguation) page.

Artile List

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Media

New Wikipedia articles related to Media

Please feel free to list your new Media-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

Article improvement drive

Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Featured article candidates

Featured articles

Wikipedia surveys

Ad hoc surveys

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Votes for deletion

Requests

Resources

Media Meetups

Archives


Background and project basics

A WikiProject is a collection of pages devoted to the management of a specific family of information within Wikipedia. It is not a place to write encyclopedia articles, but a resource to help coordinate and organize article writing. The attached talk pages are a convenient forum for those interested in a particular project. Projects can also have associated Wikiportals.

Regional notice boards also seek to improve a broad category of articles based on geographical regions.

Suggestions for new projects

  1. Read Wikiproject Best practices for tips on leading a WikiProject.
  2. Create the main project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject projectname. (See Starting a new page)
  3. Create an outline on your project page:
  4. Identify pages within the scope of your project:
    • A good way to do this is to copy the listings of Special:Whatlinkshere for the most important articles related to your project.
    • You will probably want to save a copy of the list on a project status subpage.
  5. Create a project to-do list to focus and coordinate your collaborative efforts.
  6. If possible, link to a sample article to give other Wikipedians a feel for the project's goals.
  7. Advertise!
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