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WikiProject Ireland

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WikiProject Ireland

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Contents 1 WikiProject Ireland 2 Scope and Motivation 3 Participants 4 Major pending tasks 5 Manual of Style (conventions) 6 Creation of articles 6.1 Done 6.2 To do 7 Categories 7.1 Done 7.2 To do 8 Substance 8.1 Done 8.2 To do 9 Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates 9.1 Tagged with WPIE template 9.2 Reqphoto 10 Projects 11 Tasks 12 WikiProject Subpages 13 Adopt an article 14 Categories 15 Lists 16 Articles 16.1 Wikipedia articles on Ireland 16.2 Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland 16.3 New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland articles 16.4 Article improvement drive 16.5 Collaboration of the week 17 Featured Content 18 Featured articles 19 Featured Article candidates 20 Featured article review 21 Featured pictures 22 Featured picture candidates 23 Featured lists 23.1 WikiProject Deletion sorting 23.2 Related 23.2.1 Related Wikiportals 23.2.2 Related Collaborations 23.2.3 Related Regional notice boards 23.2.4 Related groups of Wikipedians 23.3 External resources 23.4 The Rest

♣ Irish Collaboration of the Week ♣

Every week, a lacking Irish topic is picked to be the Irish Collaboration of the Week. The current ICOTW is awaiting nominations!.

[edit] Scope and Motivation

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

This project has been created in an attempt to improve existing articles relating to Ireland, and to help with the creation of needed articles. It aims primarily to provide information in consistent format for articles on places in, or related to Ireland. On top of this, it aims to get the main Ireland article to featured status, whilst aiding the maintenance and improvement of the Ireland Portal.

Articles and categories relating to Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do’s.

[edit] Participants

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Members

[edit] Major pending tasks

1. Modify WPI template so that it follows the hierarchy structure found in Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia.
2. Add the {{WikiProject Ireland}} template to all Ireland-related articles' talk pages, without engaging in too much templatomania.

   N.B. - please do not substitute the template, as any future changes to the template will not be updated automatically. On top of this, a substituted inclusion will not appear on the list of links that provides a gauge for the size of the WikiProject and ultimately all articles within the WikiProject (and does not include any non-relevant pages).

• Completely overhaul this page into a more coherent format.
  • Insert templates on talk pages of Ireland-related articles referring to new MOS (yet to be created) page.
  • Create project space Manual of Style article and template.
  • Implement a guidance template to direct users to all the relevant pages (as per WP:WPF)
• Implement a "Series on Ireland" template along the lines of {{Christianity}}

[edit] Manual of Style (conventions)

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

[edit] Creation of articles

[edit] Done

For a full list of articles created since the project began, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Log.

[edit] To do

1. To improve at least several articles enough that they can become successful candidates for featured articles.
2. To improve the standard of articles relating to Ireland in general.
3. To standardise many article types so that there is some measure of consistancy throughout.
4. To examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and to determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.
5. Maintenance of Ireland Portal.

[edit] Categories

[edit] Done

Category:WikiProject Ireland members

[edit] To do

Create a category of Ireland related stubs

[edit] Substance

[edit] Done

• Separated article on the Siege of Smerwick 1580 as part of category Irish Battles.

[edit] To do

• The main Dublin article needs to achieve featured status.
• Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
• All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
• The article on the Mahon Tribunal needs to be tidied up, verified, and fact-checked.

[edit] Ireland articles that have been tagged with templates

To list individual Ireland related articles need images fill in the "image-needed" parameter in the project tag {{WikiProject Ireland}} on the article talk page and it will be listed here

[edit] Tagged with WPIE template

For a complete list of the progress in tagging Irish related articles with the project template, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Assessment and their current statistics.
Since July 2007, when 1,044 articles were tagged and many were unassessed or classified, much work has been done and as of March 19, 2008, 12,705 articles were tagged with none being unassessed and around 1,000 being unclassified, most being stubs.

[edit] Reqphoto

In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Ireland for use in articles, please list GFDL-licensed or fair use pictures here.

If you require pictures, or would like to help with sourcing them, then take a look a this page.

To see a list of Irish articles tagged as needing images look at this catgeory, print out the list and carry it with you when travelling in Ireland.

[edit] Projects

1. Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Missing articles

[edit] Tasks

• To Do List

1. Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Ireland-related edits in the past
2. Fix templates to talk pages
3. Construct /Article Classification by following the category 'tree'
4. Assess articles at /Article Classification

[edit] WikiProject Subpages

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Log
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Missing articles (and article requests)
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland/Red links

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:Example

[edit] Categories

[edit] Lists

See Category:Ireland-related lists

[edit] Articles

[edit] Wikipedia articles on Ireland

• Ireland

[edit] Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles on Ireland

• w:Ireland
• meta:Ireland

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland articles

Please feel free to list your new Ireland articles-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

The War of the Irish with the Foreigners - found by Totnesmartin 18:33, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
County_Dublin_Beekeepers_Association added by Dublinblue (Simon in Dublin) (talk) 16:12, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Article improvement drive

Here are some articles which are "good". Let's improve them and make them featured!

Ireland

Ireland King of Arms

[edit] Collaboration of the week

[1] I nominated Taney Parish, or is this section inactive?? (Sarah777 18:19, 12 August 2007 (UTC))

Seconded, an interesting, genuinely informative and apparently comprehensive piece, ready to be taken to the next level. 217.118.66.40 14:46, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

Having checked what "COTW" is, maybe not: collaboration of the week - "The aim is to produce featured-standard articles, through widespread cooperative editing. This project aims to fill holes in Wikipedia, so only non-existent articles, or stubs may be nominated. If the article does not fit these guidelines, it should be placed on the Article Improvement Drive for further expansion and improvement.

That said, an example of an article on a focused topic which would be good to take to FA standard. Only 17 FA in all Ireland? 217.118.66.40 14:49, 22 August 2007 (UTC)

• Constantine Fitzgibbon

[edit] Featured Content

[edit] WikiProject Deletion sorting

Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Ireland-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ireland.

[edit] Related

[edit] External resources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK & Ireland
• Geograph photos of many locations in Ireland with usable license

[edit] The Rest

Sister Project Links

• Commons:Ireland articles
• Wikibooks:Ireland articles
• Wikinews:Ireland articles
• Wikiquote:Ireland articles
• Wikisource:Ireland articles
• Wikispecies:Ireland articles
• Wiktionary:Ireland articles
• meta:Ireland articles

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