Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota

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.

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.

The flag of Minnesota

Location of Minnesota in the United States

Current project

Please help with the Unassessed Minnesota articles. There are over 1000, but if everyone just took a letter and did them, then they would get done.

Core articles/High-level articles

Article	Class	Rationale	Quality	Comments
Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - appeared on the Main Page May 11, 2007
Climate of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - appeared on the Main Page February 17, 2011
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
Geography of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Geology of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
History of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - appeared on the Main Page May 11, 2008
Minneapolis	Top	WP:CORE	FA	Excellent - appeared on the Main Page July 20, 2008
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	B	Demoted from FA. What needs to be done to improve it?
Natural history of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	Start	Good but small, direct copy from Minnesota
Politics of Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	B	A good one to work on
Saint Paul, Minnesota	Top	WP:CORE	GA	Not too shabby...FA, anyone?
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
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness	Top	WP:CORE	B	Former GA. Could be GA again, shooting for FA
Anoka County, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	Start	Help!
Bloomington, Minnesota	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	C	A good one to work on
Hiawatha Line	High	A High-level article	B	A good one to work on
History of Minneapolis, Minnesota	High	A High-level article	GA	Potential FA?
History of Saint Paul, Minnesota	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	GA	Good collaboration
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 National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota	High	A High-level article	B
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	B	Still needs some work.
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!
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
University of Minnesota system	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	C	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	14	53	114	192			373
C	7	44	238	910		65	1,264
Start	1	43	546	6,285		198	7,073
Stub		3	109	5,378		877	6,367
List	1	14	102	152			269
Category					4,748		4,748
Disambig					22		22
File					85		85
Project					20		20
Redirect				113	1,539		1,652
Template					621		621
NA					1		1
Other					27		27
Assessed	27	163	1,129	13,126	7,063	1,140	22,648
Unassessed				1		97	98
Total	27	163	1,129	13,127	7,063	1,237	22,746
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 79,954			Ω = 5.26

How to assess importance
Page views per day
Top	1000+
High	500–1000
Mid	100–500
Low	under 100

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 as {{WikiProject Minnesota}}.
4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

Portal

Portal:Minnesota is a featured portal. Things you can do:

• Suggest or go right ahead and install a selected biography of the month.
• Suggest or go right ahead and install historical and upcoming events each month.

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

• Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.

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
4. Provide missing geocoordinate data

• Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota

1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota

• Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

• Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals

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

• Education — Education 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 typing # ~~~ (in alphabetical order, please). If you like also type a note about what you plan on working on. You may also add {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project and help promote it to other interested users.

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Meetups

At least one Minnesota meetup has been held every year since 2005. A June 2011 picnic in Minneapolis is being planned as part of the Great American Wiknic. See the meetup talk page to participate.

Templates

U.S. city infobox

• {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.

U.S. county infobox

• {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.

Minnesota template

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

Userboxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Minnesota.	{{User WikiProject Minnesota}}
This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota.	{{User Minnesota}}
This user is interested in the U.S. State of Minnesota.	{{User interest Minnesota}}

WikiProject Minnesota

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 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
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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.

Cleanup listing

• Cleanup listing for the project (old cleanup listing)

Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
• {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
• {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
• {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools

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.

Child WikiProjects

Minnesota State Highways

Minnesota Twins

Minnesota Vikings

Minnesota Deletion sorting

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Minnesota