Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania

Goals

1. Improve Pennsylvania articles to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Rules and Standards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks.

Announcements

• Pennsylvania Article received a GA rating.
• 7/7/07Erie, PA was listed as a Featured Article—trey^jay–jay 03:10, 8 July 2007 (UTC)
• Camp Minsi nominated for AfD.
• Black Moshannon State Park reached FA status. Dincher (talk) 23:05, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

Participants

1. AAARanger5
2. Alphageekpa
3. Bhockey10
4. ChrisGriswold (talk · contribs)
5. ClairSamoht
6. Dddstone
7. Dudtz
8. --M@rēino
9. PAWiki
10. Ruhrfisch
11. User:Scott Mingus, Pennsylvania Civil War articles
12. South Philly - email me for my opinion
13. Squamate
14. SkaBat169
15. Jmpenzone
16. Thisisbossi - Small fixes, assessments, and larger mods to LanCo/Berks area.
17. Myselfalso ^(talk)
18. Dincher
19. Internazionale
20. WTGDMan1986
21. wikipeep 494
22. dhaluza
23. BSA Archery -The Poconos
24. Coemgenus
25. Marphilly
26. V60 ^{VTalk - VDemolitions}
27. Wikihermit ^{Htalk - Hworks}
28. Superken - Revolutionary History
29. T geier
30. shanafme
31. —trey^jay–jayErie related pages
32. Midnightdreary - esp. PA colleges
33. VerruckteDan
34. JA10 ^{T · C}
35. James_xeno
36. Plm209^{(talk • contribs)}
37. Jasontromm
38. The Snake Who Lives on a Pier In A Harbor.
39. CrazedEwok
40. RedShiftPA
41. Enigmaticjew
42. jls211 - Central PA
43. Grsz11 ^talk - sports
44. weyandt - Pennsylvania culture, particularly dialects and other quirky items.
45. AltioraPeto (talk)
46. Neagley (talk)

Participants in WikiProject Philadelphia available to help

1. PYLrulz

Structure

General strategy, Goals, Projects and discussion forums

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

WikiProject requests list

Please add new requests here

• New Requests
• Hollidaysburg Area Public Library
• Hinduism in Pennsylvania
• Martin Meylin Gunshop
• Housing in Pennsylvania‎. Sources:
  • Category:Housing in Pennsylvania‎
  • Housing Needs By State: Pennsylvania‎, Washington, DC: National Low Income Housing Coalition, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • "Pennsylvania‎", COVID-19 Housing Policy Scorecard, Eviction Lab, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • "Pennsylvania‎ Homelessness Statistics", Usich.gov, Washington DC: U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, retrieved October 24, 2020
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), Digital Public Library of America (assorted materials)
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), UK: Core.ac.uk (assorted materials)
  • (Pennsylvania‎+housing), Germany: Base-search.net (assorted materials) -- Best regards, -- M2545 (talk) 14:09, 24 October 2020 (UTC)
• Eighth Ward in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania Penndyl (talk) 14:48, 17 November 2021 (UTC)

Assessment

Pennsylvania articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	8	44	44			98
FL		4	9	11			24
A			5				5
GA	2	21	91	334		1	449
B	13	185	738	904		26	1,866
C	8	168	670	3,623		54	4,523
Start	11	65	3,291	21,313	1	76	24,757
Stub		1	99	6,265	1	55	6,421
List		16	83	492	9	12	612
Category			1	2	6,597		6,600
Disambig				2	262		264
File					354		354
Portal					99		99
Project				2	34		36
Redirect		2	36	647	1,137		1,822
Template		1		1	680		682
NA					3		3
Other				1	41		42
Assessed	36	471	5,067	33,641	9,218	224	48,657
Unassessed			1	3	1	224	229
Total	36	471	5,068	33,644	9,219	448	48,886
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 186,898			Ω = 4.90

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Child WikiProjects

• WikiProject Philadelphia
• WikiProject Pittsburgh
• WikiProject Erie
• WikiProject Pennsylvania State Highways
• WikiProject Lehigh Valley

Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7])	P.D. (not all)	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}

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Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

Thanks!

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• Wikinews:WikiBureau Pennsylvania