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This is a listing of all the WikiProjects registered. You are encouraged to join and contribute to ones you find interesting. If a project seems neglected, feel free to try to encourage increased participation and develop the project further in the collaborative spirit of Wikipedia.

WikiProject meta-data

Three types of meta-dacta have been added to some entries on this page.

  • WikiProject creation month and year: this information is taken from the History for each main WikiProject page. There are cases where this might not reflect the actual creation date for the WikiProject. If this date is in error, you are encouraged to set it right.
  • WikiProject purpose/scope: a brief statement, usually a sentence fragment, taken from the main WikiProject page that indicates what the WikiProject is about. In many cases the title of the WikiProject should be sufficient to convey this, but this minor addition removes some potential misinterpretation on the part of casual viewers of this page (i.e. potential participants).
  • Inactive WikiProjects: These are found at Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects and are noted briefly in each section below. Inactive WikiProjects can be brought back to activity at any time.

See also

Arts

  • Contemporary Art August 2005: "...not to ignore the controversy that still surrounds contemporary art, but to help collect that controversy in coherent sections of relevent articles on general topics within postmodernism, and to give a sense of the larger debate."

Entertainment

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

  • Radio Stations February 2004: "...to better organize information in articles related to radio stations"
  • 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 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."
    • List of Television Episodes July 2005: "...Organizing "List of ... episodes" so they all have the same format. These pages will branch off into pages part of Wikiproject Television Episodes as listed above."
  • 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."
  • Professional Wrestling March 2005: "To edit and create good professional wrestling articles on Wikipedia, with the intent of making it an accurate and valued reference of pro wrestling information."
  • Forgotten Realms July 2005: "Mapping the Realms…"

Literature

Wikiportal Literature March 2005

  • Books April 2004: "...to identify (book and manuscript) titles that do not yet have articles in Wikipedia, and to discuss and suggest guidelines for writing articles."
    • Novels October 2002: "...to define a standard of consistency for articles about novels."
    • Terry Pratchett's Discworld December 2004: "...to better organize information in articles related to Terry Pratchett's Discworld."
    • Harry Potter June 2005: "...to establish a Community-driven support base for articles dealing with the Harry Potter universe."
    • Shannara July 2005: "...to expand Category:Shannara. It currently only has around 20 articles. Terry Brooks's Shannara novels contain enough information to easily fill one hundred!"
    • Wizard of Oz August 2005 "...to organize and create better articles about the books in Oz series..."
  • Comics (Also under Visual Arts) December 2004: "...to provide a centralized home for all work done on Wikipedia articles about comics and sequential art."
    • Anime and manga see entry under Entertainment:Films
    • Webcomics November 2004: "On November 1, 2004 a suggestion was made on the blog Websnark (a blog focusing on webcomics) that Wikipedia is the ideal resource for information on webcomics."
  • Critical Theory (Also under Philosophy) April 2004: "In the humanities and social sciences, critical theory is a general term for new theoretical developments (roughly since the 1960s) in a variety of fields, informed by structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstruction, Marxist theory, and several other areas of thought."
  • Mythology (Also under Anthropology and Religion) February 2004: "...to discuss issues relating to mythology and related articles in the Wikipedia."
    • Hindu mythology February 2004 "...to discuss issues relating to Hindu mythology and related articles in the Wikipedia."
  • Poetry December 2003: "...to document information on national poetries, poetry movements and groups and individual poets and on poetic forms, styles and techniques."

Music

Music Wikiportal February 2005

Music January 2003: "..to encourage the addition of accurate information on a wide variety of musical topics."

  • Music encyclopedia topics June 2005: "This is a list of topics and redirects that can currently be found in modern music encyclopedias." (this was formerly Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing Music topics)
  • Notability Guidelines This is not a WikiProject per se but a guide to the assessment of whether a music-related article is encyclopedic in the sense accepted by Wikipedia.
  • Albums October 2002 "We seek ways of simplifying album pages so users can get the basic information fast, creating high-quality new pages, ensuring a standardized format and make articles as informative as possible."
  • Composers (Also under Biographies) January 2005: "...to document biographic and musical information of composers of any and all eras and styles."
    • Frederic Chopin October 2004: "The goals of the project are to create a multimedia CD about Frédéric Chopin with everything that's worth knowing about him (complete works, biography, encyclopaedia about romantic music and XIX century)."
  • Genres March 2004: "...dedicated to containing factual information regarding all the genres and subgenres of music from around the world."
    • Classical music March 2004: "...to further comprehensive documentation of classical music—including historical and musicological analysis."
    • Indie music February 2004: "Initially, this project will focus on the local music scene of Santa Cruz, California."
    • R&B and soul music February 2005: "A significant number of articles on important and influential R&B and soul-related persons or organizations, both past and contemporary, are small, underwritten stubs, fancruft, or non-existant." "The purpose of this project is to expand, copyedit, and/or create these articles."
    • World music September 2004: "This WikiProject deals with articles relating to a specific area or people. This includes articles like Music of Sweden, Music of Tanzania, Inuit music, Shinto music, Roma music and Esperanto music; all member articles should be listed at list of cultural and regional genres of music."
  • Pieces April 2004: Guidelines for the creation of lists of musical pieces.
  • Songs October 2002: "...to make the song pages give the basic information in a quick and easy-to-read fashion." (noted to be a son-of-Wikiproject-Album)
  • Terminology September 2002: "(Preparation of) a glossary of terms which can serve as a standard for the authorship of articles relating to music and particularly music theory."

Performing arts

  • Opera June 2004: Covering all opera-related topics including composers, individual works, opera houses and companies, singers and librettists.
  • Magic April 2004: "...to significantly improve the magic pages on Wikipedia as they tend to lack actual knowledge of magic and miss a lot of vital information and add to the limited set of magician biographies present."
  • Reenactment June 2005 "...concerns articles that deal with reenactment of all historical periods."
  • Theatre May 2005: "To create the finest, comprehensive resource of theatre topics available online."

Visual arts

for Comics and child projects see Literature

Visual arts February 2005: "...to establish a Community-driven WikiPedia standard HOWTO article (with respect to the creation and improvement of articles related to the visual arts)."

Inactives

see Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects

  • Architecture
  • Comic strips
  • Computer music
  • Dance
  • Fictional Series
  • Irish literature
  • Literature
  • National anthems
  • Ragas
  • Sherlock Holmes
  • Television Schedules
  • Theme songs

Economics and business

Business

  • Companies February 2004: "The aim of this Project is to generally enhance the depth of company descriptions, including the placement of their activities and product developments in context thereby providing connections between things and their origins that we often forget or overlook."

Currency

  • Numismatics February 2004: an infobox standard development project for coinage

Inactives

see Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects

  • Philately

Hobbies and recreation

Games

Games December 2003 "...to provide guidelines as to what content belongs in an article about a game, and how to structure that information."

  • Chess December 2003 "...to present all the wikipedia articles about chess in a coherent fashion. This includes the coherence (of chess diagrams, annotation of chess games and notation)."
  • Computer and video games February 2004 "...to set a baseline for the improvement and expansion of articles related to computer and video games."
    • Computer and video games Wikiportal March 2005
    • Final Fantasy July 2005 "...to create articles relating to all twelve installments of the Final Fantasy series, as well as spin-off, related and future titles, and to standardize the content and format of data in those articles."
    • Wikipedia:Pokémon Adoption Center July 2005 — temporary wikiproject to destubify pokémon species articles. Nearly all articles are now complete. What to do next is still in debate but project will broaden with a possible move.
  • Arcade games August 2004: "...to set a baseline for the improvement and expansion of articles related to arcade games."
  • Magic: The Gathering November 2004: "...to create articles on each and every Magic: The Gathering set."

Hobbies

Hobby-related wikiprojects usually fall under other categories and are referenced here

  • Reenactment — see the Reenactment entry under Performing arts
  • Food and drink
    • Beer March 2005 "...to compile thorough and accurate information on different breweries and varieties of beer, including but not limited to their qualities, origins, and uses." (Example: Bass (beer))
    • Cigars July 2005 (only boilerplate purpose statement at this time)

Sports

informational text omitted for some individual sports

Sports September 2001 "...to describe how sports articles should be represented and what information belongs in the articles."

Inactives

see Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects

  • Cheeses
  • Food and drink
  • Fountain pens
  • Genealogy
  • Hats and headgear
  • Herbs and spices
  • Knots
  • Malt Whisky (sic) has been deleted
  • Numismatics
  • Philately
  • Playground
  • Pokédex

Humanities

Anthropology and ethnology

  • Archaeology December 2004 "...to establish a comprehensive guide to archaeology from the Lower Palaeolithic to the modern era. Its scope includes but is not limited to: archaeological sites, techniques, sub-disciplines, the history of the subject, famous archaeologists and relevant legislation."
  • Ethnic groups January 2004 "...to provide a template for articles about ethnic groups and nationalities independent of writing about nation-states."
  • Mythology see Mythology and children under Literature on this page
  • Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants see Psychedelics, Dissociatives and Deliriants under "Drugs" in the "Health sciences" section of this page

Biography

Biography June 2002 "...to define a standard format for biographical articles."

  • Academics August 2003 "...to define a standard format for biographical articles about academic scientists, engineers, (and) doctors...." (2 members, Aug 12, 2005)
  • Athletes see Athletes and children under Sports on this page
  • Authors June 2004 "...to compile a global index of writers who have contributed significantly to literature, philosophy and criticism of various arts."
  • Composers see Composers and children under Music on this page
  • Political figures December 2003 "...to help editors working on articles about political figures by providing a repository of information and resources, providing a place for discussions that affect more than one article, and highlighting areas that need particular attention."
  • Saints June 2004 "...(to standardize) the articles about people venerated by some Christians as saints or the blessed and making sure that they maintain a NPOV.

Culture

Culture July 2005 "...to help coordinate the people who are working on Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Culture."

Education

  • Colleges and Universities August 2003 "...to formulate a template for the college and university articles."
  • Schools February 2004 "...to structure all non- college and university school articles."

History

History April 2002 "... to resolve a number of issues which occur with great frequency when writing articles about history for Wikipedia."

  • Ancient Near East November 2004 In the context of Ancient Near East articles to a) standardize chronology and b) spellings as well as ensure application of standard article best-practice.
  • Ancient Egypt August 2004 "...to standardize chronology and spellings of proper names in Ancient Egypt-related articles."
  • Arab-Israeli conflict October 2002 "The articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are among the most controversial on Wikipedia, and as such may benefit from a wholistic approach to their design." (also listed under Politics, law, and government)
  • History of Poland May 2004 "...to organize Wikipedians efforts towards unified form of History of Poland (not to be confused with History of Poland series) articles."
  • Timelines September 2002 Aims to develop a timeline infobox for placement in country (nation) articles.
  • Middle Ages December 2004 "for the community of Wikipedians ... interested in the Middle Ages ... from the Fall of Rome to the 16th Century"
  • Wars
    • Military April 2003 "organizing and adding to the store of articles on military units and organizations"
    • Battles October 2002 "provide a standardized format to describe battles."
  • Time (see:Wikipedia:Timeline standards)
    • Days of the Year October 2001 "a style guide for date pages" e.g. January 1
    • Years June 2003 "formalise the unofficial standard used for creating year pages"

Journalism

Journalism April 2005 "...for coordinating the editing of articles related to Journalism, and News News media, News business, News industry) including print and electronic media and news gathering."

Languages and linguistics

  • Linguistics January 2004 "...an umbrella project for WikiProject Languages, WikiProject Language families, WikiProject Writing systems and WikiProject Phonetics."
    • Languages October 2003 "...to provide a consistent treatment of each language on the Wikipedia." (example: English language)
      • Language families January 2004 "...to provide a consistent treatment of each language family on the Wikipedia."
      • Writing systems January 2004 "...to provide Wikipedia (en) with a consistent treatment for each writing system and general information relating to the study of writing systems."
        • Latin alphabet March 2004 "...to make consistent all the articles on letters of the Latin alphabet."
      • French dialects September 2004 "...to improve the description of the French language and its many dialects in Wikipedia."
    • Phonetics April 2004 "...to make sure the phonetics related topics on Wikipedia are covered completely and consistently."
  • Sociolinguistics/Slang July 2004 "I created this wikiproject with the hope that some info about Sociolinguistics, informal versus formal speech (and codification) and Slang could be produced and well-organized. I noticed this type of info is seriously lacking on this 'pedia."

Media

WikiProject Media July 2005 "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."

Philosophy

Politics, law, and government

  • Anti-war movements and ideologies August 2005
  • Arab-Israeli conflict October 2002 "The articles related to the Arab-Israeli conflict specifically, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict are among the most controversial on Wikipedia, and as such may benefit from a wholistic approach to their design." (also listed under History)
  • Australian politics May 2005 "Australian governments and politics at federal, state and local levels"
  • Clans of Scotland October 2002 (example: Clan Ross)
  • Campaigns and Elections August 2005 "political campaigns, elections, and other elements of practical electoral politics"
  • Law June 2005 "creating a greater consistency among the law related articles"
  • Peerage August 2003 "standardise pages about Peerages in the United Kingdom and Ireland"
  • Ohio townships April 2005 "create articles on all of Ohio's civil townships"
  • Political figures September 2004 provide a "repository of information and resources, providing a place for discussions that affect more than one article, and highlighting areas that need particular attention"
  • US Congress May 2003 "each election period of the United States Congress listing the major political events of that time as well as all the members of that congress."
  • Voting Systems November 2002 "standard format for ... individual voting systems", edit general info on voting systems, "especially criteria for evaluating voting systems", "Import and edit the large amount of public domain information" available on the net
  • UK Parliament constituencies March 2005
  • United States Armed Forces August 2005

Religion

Religious practice

Sociology

Other

Inactives

see List of inactive WikiProjects

  • Family and relationships
  • Geologic timescale
  • Hats and headgear
  • Historical figures
  • Leaders by year
  • School Years
  • United Nations
  • Wars
  • Falklands War
  • Time
  • Years in science
  • Historical states
  • Monarchs
  • U.S. politicians

Science

Astronomy and Outer Space

Biology

  • Biology Wikiportal February 2005
  • Ecology July 2004: "...topics relating to sustainability, environment, and ecology."
  • Ecoregions February 2003: "...aims to organize all the 867 terrestrial ecoregions..."
  • Evolutionary biology May 2004: "...aims primarily to co-ordinate various aspects of evolutionary biology..."
  • Tree of Life (example article) June 2002: "...aims primarily to represent the taxonomy and relationships of living organisms, as well as their extinct relatives, in a tree structure."
    • Plants August 2004: "...aims primarily to describe all plants, that is, all species belonging to the kingdom Plantae."
    • Invertebrates
      • Cephalopods April 2004: "...aims to help organise our collection of entries about cephalopods."
      • Gastropods *I May 2004: "...aims to help organise our collection of entries about gastropods."
    • Birds (example article) April 2003: "..aims to help organise our rapidly growing collection of articles about birds."
    • Dinosaurs April 2004: "...aims to organise an effort to do something about the current relative lack of content about dinosaurs...."
    • Mammals February 2004: "This page is not so much a project policy page as a means of getting a handle on how much of the mammals Wikipedia covers."
      • Dog breeds (example article) February 2002: "...aims primarily to provide a full description of the various Dog breeds."
      • Cetaceans (example article) September 2003: "The aim of the project is to write a good description of every known cetacean species out there (all 78, or 79, or 80,... however many there are :-))."
      • Horse breeds *I May 2004: "...aims primarily to provide a full description of the various horse breeds."
      • Primates (example article) February 2004: "...aims to help organise our collection of entries about primates."
    • Viruses March 2005: "...aims to help organise our growing collection of articles about biological viruses."
  • Anatomy March 2005: "...to better organize information in articles related to Anatomy."
  • Molecular and Cellular Biology. August 2005: ".....to better organize information in articles related to Molecular and Cellular Biology."

Chemistry and mineralogy

Computer science, computing, and software

Computer science- 3 members Aug. 12, 2005

Geography

descriptive text has been omitted here under most circumstances

Wikipedia:WikiProject Geography (needed parent)

Health sciences

Mathematics

Physics

Library and Information Science

Pseudoscience

Technology

Woodworking

  • Woodworking September 2005: "To ensure that Wikipedia has as complete and accurate articles related to woodworking as possible."

Metalworking

  • Metalworking September 2005: "Metalworking is a broad subject, consisting of many different tools, techniques, materials, and theories. The goal of this project is to organize this information into a consistent, easy to use collection of articles, with minimal duplication."

Photography

  • Digital Cameras October 2004: "...to add information tables in articles about digital cameras."

Transportation

  • Wikiportal Trains May 2005
  • Wikiportal Aviation February 2005
    • Airlines July 2005:"...to better organize information in articles related to Airlines."
    • Airports May 2004: "...to make airport articles have a consistent feel"
    • Aircraft (example article) September 2003: "...to suggest how aircraft-related articles can be put in to Wikipedia in an extensible and coherent manner."
  • Automobiles February 2004: "...to co-ordinate the effort to compile articles on all types and classes of automobile."
  • Cycling May 2005: "...to create, improve and organize articles relating to the bicycle and cycling."
  • Highways July 2005: "...to standardize the format used in articles about highways, including freeways, expressways, throughways, and other major forms of road. A major part of this is the connectivity of highways and the analogous conectivity of their articles."
    • California State Highways April 2005: "...to encourage participation in creating or expanding articles about state highways in California."
    • California County Routes June 2005: "All currently active California County Routes are worthy of article (no deleted or unconstructed routes please)."
    • Washington State Highways July 2005: "...to clean up the Washington state highway articles and make them conform to the same structure just like the California state highways WikiProject."
    • U.S. Interstate Highways August 2005: To standardize structure for the Interstate highway pages.
    • U.S. Highways August 2005: To standardize structure for the US highway pages.
    • Kentucky State Highways August 2005:
  • Ships March 2003: "...to organize the effort to create articles about naval vessels, but also addresses civilian ships."
    • Ports April 2005: "...to develop on articles about Ports; it is alarming (that) the biggest ports in the world do not have articles yet."
  • Space missions October 2003: "...to define a standard layout for articles about space missions."
  • Streetcars December 2004: "...to expand Wikipedia coverage of urban, suburban, and interurban public transport rail services, including funiculars, horsecars, cablecars, streetcar, interurban, light rail, heritage streetcars and similar systems."
  • Trains March 2004: "...to improve the coverage of trains and all things railway/railroad in Wikipedia."
    • Stations November 2003: "...to provide a standard format for articles about a train station or metro station. Naming convention is excluded."
    • New York City Subway January 2005: "...to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the New York City Subway. Specifically, it deals with everything on rails under the banner of MTA New York City Transit...."

Communications

Warfare

  • Weaponry November 2003: "...to structure all the articles of weapons on Wikipedia."
    • Aircraft see Technology:Transportation:Aviation:Aircraft
    • Ships see Technology:Transportation:Ships
    • Launch vehicles (formerly "Rockets") August 2004: "...to provide information on the information that should be included in articles about rockets, missiles and other launch vehicles, with an emphasis on space launch vehicles."

Water purification

  • Water purification June 2005: "...to provide an outline of the most common techniques that can be used to purify water."

Inactives

see Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects

  • Automobile construction
  • Fountain pens
  • Royal Air Force Squadrons
  • Transportation in China

Wikipedia

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."
  • Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting August 2005: "...developing an alternative system for organizing Wikipedia discussions on deletion."
  • 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 POV from pop culture articles 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."
  • Wikipedians for encyclopedic merit August 2005: " WikiProject which aims to work towards a high standard of Decency in Wikipedia's content."

Content

  • Collaboration of the week
  • Writing captions
  • Translation into English — Request translation of a foreign-language wikipedia article, or sign up to indicate that you are available as a translation resource.
  • Photography — This project is for Wikipedian Photographers. The hope is that requests can be made here for photographs for the Wikipedia.
  • Spoken Wikipedia — A project to record articles in order to make them available to visually impaired persons as well as those who enjoy listening to information.
  • Missing encyclopedic articles — A new project designed to organise the creation of articles other encyclopdias have but Wikipedia does not.

Quality of Life

  • Department of Fun — Department of Fun this project started out very small with a trivia game called *Wikifun — The game got such a good response in the first round that I decided to expand it and thus the department of fun was created. I would like to encourage people to visit and participate.
  • Kindness Campaign — A project dedicated to the recognition of the hard work of others, and to acts of kindness in general.
  • Wikipedia Ranking System *I — An idea to install a ranking system among Wikipedia contributors/editors.

Research & Development

  • Fair use August 2005 — To reform Wikipedia fair use policy guidelines, image copyright tags, and eventually review fair use invocations.

Assistance

  • WikiProject help desk — A centralized spot for seasoned computer veterans and people who need help with software related to Wikipedia.
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