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

Events

• Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia 2: Sunday, April 11 from noon-6pm. Please help us complete our List of articles that need pictures.

Standards

• A discussion is currently underway on the talk page as to the standardization for SEPTA article titles. Please drop by and add your insights.-- danntm ^T _C 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• A more formalized proposal is now availiable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm ^T _C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Philadelphia Meetups

This box coordinates the level of organization of meetup events in the Northeast US. Wikimedia New York City officially serves communities in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Local committees and/or new chapters across the Northeast are also anticipated in future. Stage 3 / committees + meetings + meals + handshakes: New York City Stage 2 / meetings + meals + handshakes: DC, Hartford, Philadelphia Stage 1 / meals + handshakes: Boston

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Our next event is Wiki Takes Philadelphia 2 on April 11, 2010. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to our invite list.

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
• Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames A-J

Usernames L-Z

Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn Austinmurphy neighborhoods, corporations, crime, lists Bjewiki Sports Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education Briememory Sports Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU CanonLawJunkie (talk) 19:26, 19 August 2010 (UTC) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia CComMack CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm Talk Contibutions - SEPTA, Politics Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GShton Sports, Culture Gorgeousp Hamburmk IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k

Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation Magic Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs Pacdude Passdoubt | Talk Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk Patricknoddy PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people. PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods South Philly -- email me for my opinion Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Skiasaurus Spikebrennan SteinbDJ Arts and culture Sylent Northern Philly burbs Sab University City, general Philly photography Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles Goldenfiremech Can help out with information, including the Fencing Academy of Philadelphia (FAP) V60 VTalk - VDemolitions I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.

1. Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area.

Structure

General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

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

Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

Article requests list

• Article requests

Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		5	11	11			27
FL		1		12			13
GA	3	8	29	90			130
B	13	87	144	268		4	516
C	3	106	236	883		12	1,240
Start	3	107	649	4,585		35	5,379
Stub		1	66	1,145	1	55	1,268
List	1	10	25	116	1	3	156
Category				1	478		479
Disambig				1	11		12
File					130		130
Portal					419		419
Project				1	18		19
Template					134		134
NA		4	15	117	262		398
Other				2	10		12
Assessed	23	329	1,175	7,232	1,464	109	10,332
Unassessed				1		25	26
Total	23	329	1,175	7,233	1,464	134	10,358
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 41,271			Ω = 4.82

• Recent changes to article assessments
• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Philadelphia articles by quality log
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk		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}} Talk		Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{user Philly}} Talk	This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk	39.8933°N 75.2089°W / 39.8933; -75.2089	To be used on street-sized pages.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk	Template:Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM	goes on the Collaboration of the Month
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk	You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!	to invite new members

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}}

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. 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.

Recognition

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

{{subst:Liberty Star|message ~~~~}}

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!

Related or Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania
• Wikipedia:Wikiproject U.S. cities
• WikiProject Pittsburgh

Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

• Philadelphia Gas Works 11 April 2009
• Philadelphia general strike (1910) 10 July 2008
• Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters 22 May 2008
• Ora Washington 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia) 1 May 2008
• Louis H. Carpenter 18 May 2009 - Brig. General who served 38 years from 1861 to 1899 and called Philadelphia home. Louis H. Carpenter is currently a good article (GA) nominee. This article met GA status on 4 August 2009! Done See discussion page for A/FA efforts! Article is now undergoing a A-Class review.
• Samuel Carpenter 18 May 2009 - The immigrant who came to Philadelphia in 1693. First Treasurer & Asst. Governor.
• James Edward Carpenter 19 Aug 2009
• Owen Biddle, Sr. (1737-1799), American Revolutionary War soldier, mathematician, astronomer - observed 1769 Transit of Venus at Cape Henlopen, member of the American Philosophical Society -20 August 2009

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External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Philadelphia