Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Announcements

Housekeeping

I am setting up the assessment system like some of the other project pages. This was covered on the discussion page. South Philly 21:27, 19 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
We need one or two people to volunteer as the coordinators. --evrik 18:44, 20 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article reviews

There seems to be an issue with Philadelphia and Philadelphia (disambiguation). See this link Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard#Philadelphia_and_other_places_by_User:Kramden4700 for more information. --evrik 14:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Another article for peer review Wikipedia:Peer review/Philadelphia Convention --evrik 15:10, 28 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]
The Philadelphia Inquirer has reached Featured Article status. Medvedenko 18:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Participants and primary areas of interest

CComMack
CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 | 01:29, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Coemgenus of the great Northeast
Evrik
Briememory Sports
Gorgeousp
ike9898
john k 06:28, 29 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Looper5920
Luciuskwok - Transportation
MechBrowman 21:02, 28 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
meebly 06:10, 28 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Pacdude
Passdoubt | Talk 09:37, 27 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Pastricide - Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk --17:42, 14 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]
South Philly - South Philly, of course
Shawnthe1/ahwang - Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007
Spikebrennan 23:12, 30 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Thoth
SearedIce - Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly
Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music
Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs
danntm ^{Talk | Contibutions} - SEPTA, Politics
Medvedenko
Galaxiaad
GShton Sports, Culture
Magic

Structure

General strategy, Goals, Projects and discussion forums

/General
/Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

Goals

Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.

WikiProject ToDo list

WikiProject requests list

/Requests

Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		5	12	11			28
FL		1		12			13
GA	3	8	28	90			129
B	13	87	146	274		4	524
C	3	106	235	888		16	1,248
Start	3	107	654	4,630		57	5,451
Stub		1	62	1,108	1	41	1,213
List	1	10	25	114	1	3	154
Category				1	484		485
Disambig				1	11		12
File					130		130
Portal					419		419
Project				1	18		19
Template					137		137
NA		4	13	123	265		405
Other					17		17
Assessed	23	329	1,175	7,253	1,483	121	10,384
Unassessed				2		32	34
Total	23	329	1,175	7,255	1,483	153	10,418
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,355			Ω = 4.81

/Assessment – Our rating system
Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc

Templates

{{portalpar|Philadelphia|Libertybell alone small.jpg}} Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}}
{{user Philly}} to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.
{{Mapit-US-hoodscale|39.8933|-75.2089}} To be used on the neighborhood and building pages.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} goes on the Collaboration of the Month
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} goes on the Selected Article of the Month
Article Templates

Recognition

The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

Philadelphia Meetup

Of interest to members of this project in travel distance of Center City, Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in the near future, and possibly on a regular basis if there is sufficient response. See the meetup page for details.