Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Olympics

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Olympic Games

	Paris
	Underway
	2024
	Summer

	Milan & Cortina
	552 days left
	2026
	Winter

	Los Angeles
	1441 days left
	2028
	Summer

	French Alps
	2011 days left
	2030
	Winter

GA Sweeps invitation

This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 05:49, 20 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Olympic Park, London

The Olympic Park, London article is shameful, and I see has been ranked as 'low importance' by this wikiproject. Surely a re-reanking is in order? Or at the very least an effort to bring this article up to some sort of useful level; it currently is little more than a stub. Grunners (talk) 13:05, 31 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Popular pages

You may be interested in Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Popular pages, which will now be generated monthly by User:Mr.Z-bot. It lists the top 1000 articles belonging to WP:OLY by their popularity of the last month, along with their quality rating. It can be a guide for the articles that are most important to bring to FA/FL/GA status. Also, could someone please add a link to this in the main Project page? Cheers, Reywas92^Talk 21:03, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Very cool report, I think this is a great way to see what people are interested in as it relates to the Olympics. Some of the articles are a bit of a stretch to connect them to the Olympics but nonetheless I think this is fantastic. H1nkles (talk) 22:39, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Good finding, Reywas92. I've already added a link to it on the main page. Parutakupiu (talk) 22:42, 2 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You're welcome. I stumbled upon the bot and put in a request for it to do that for some of my Wikiprojects. I agree with H1nkles that many articles are less integral to the project and clutter the page, so don't automatically tag everything as OLY. It seems that two thirds of the list for WP:Indiana is just people. The best thing is that we know what articles to concentrate on and what not to bother with as much. Reywas92^Talk 00:18, 3 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

If it points us towards the most productive collaboration, this could be a great tool. Who's up for working 2008 Summer Olympics towards GA and FA? Geraldk (talk) 00:17, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm in! H1nkles (talk) 01:01, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm always willing to contribute what I can. -- Jonel (Speak to me) 02:15, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

You know, it may actually be possible to make this a featured topic if we did a concerted effort around it. 2008 Summer Olympics venues and 2008 Summer Olympics medal count are already FL's. Not having ever done a featured topic, though, I have no idea how many articles would need to be included in the topic. i mean, we can't do every article about every event. Geraldk (talk) 18:47, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Here is the Featured Topic criteria. There needs to be at least three articles. Certainly attainable. There is also the Good Topic attempt as a run up to Featured Topic. H1nkles (talk) 19:00, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'd be willing to pitch in where I could on the 2008 article. -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:06, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Wow, Ice hockey at the Olympic Games is ranked 78th. I'm surprised it's that high (it might have something to do with the World Championships being held in May, which got people interested in the Olympics). -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 18:58, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

It's all you Canadians. And Minnesota. But that's almost part of Canada anyway. Geraldk (talk) 19:10, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yeah, recentism plays into the report. Stadio Olimpico certainly isn't 8th on the list because it hosted the 1960 Olympics, but for a different reason altogether. Still, very cool list. —JAO • T • C 19:16, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FYI, based on input from the featured topics questions page, I've created a sample topic box here. Geraldk (talk) 02:07, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Impressive list there. The job is frightfully challenging but also attractive. Parutakupiu (talk) 15:32, 6 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Fantastic! Felipe Menegaz 17:11, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Pageview stats

After a recent request, I added WikiProject Olympics to the list of projects to compile monthly pageview stats for. The data is the same used by http://stats.grok.se/en/ but the program is different, and includes the aggregate views from all redirects to each page. The stats are at Wikipedia:WikiProject Olympics/Popular pages.

The page will be updated monthly with new data. The edits aren't marked as bot edits, so they will show up in watchlists. I can also get provide the full data for any project covered by the bot if requested, though I normally don't keep it for much longer than a couple weeks after the list is generated. If you have any comments or suggestions, please let me know. Thanks! Mr.Z-man 04:35, 5 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

A medal table idea

Some users believe that the earliest medal table years should be merged into their main Olympics page as there is little content. However, most members of this project argue that the tables have enough notability and follow an established guideline. While working on List of 2008 Summer Olympics medal winners, I had an idea. Why not combine the early medal tables with a medal winners list (just the first few Summer Olympics, and maybe the first 10 Winters, although the problem would be that you could easily argue that all of the Winter tables would be mergeable. But, would that be such a bad thing?)? It would expand the content of the page, and the two do go hand in hand. For simplicity, I think "[Insert Olympics] medal winners" would be the best title, and the medal table could be used as a summary at the very top. Would this work, or am I just crazy? -- Scorpion⁰⁴²² 19:50, 7 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I think it's a good idea if the early medal tables continue to be excluded because of overzealous application of criterion 3b. Geraldk (talk) 17:16, 9 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

MOSFLAG in template

I think {{FlagIOCathlete}} might fail WP:MOSFLAG – see here. Rambo's Revenge (talk) 10:27, 20 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

We've been using that template for a long time before MOSFLAG appeared, with no complaints yet. (And a few featured lists to boot.) The use of three letter country codes—and flags—is so pervasive in Olympic results (i.e. our reliable sources outside this wiki) that it has never seemed to be a problem that we use them for our pages here as well. — Andrwsc (talk · contribs) 18:56, 22 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The Olympics infobox

I have been looking at the Olympics infobox see here, and I have also been looking at the IOC Official Website for the Sydney Olympics see here, and I was wondering if 'volunters' should be added to the infobox? De Mattia (talk) 07:38, 23 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

FAC

Just for your info, Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's road race/archive2 is nominated for a FAC again. Feel free to contribute. --Tone 13:40, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bahamas Flag 1952-1972 at the Olympics

The pages on The Bahamas from the 1952 Olympics to the 1972 games don't have the flag of that country during those periods.