Wikipedia:WikiProject Auckland

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WikiProject Auckland

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This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information on articles relating to the Auckland Region, especially the Auckland metropolitan area. Feel free to contribute to any articles relating to WikiProject Auckland and add your name to our list of participants.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

Improve articles related to the Auckland Region. The New Zealand Portal is intended as a front page for Wikipedia's Auckland coverage, and should aid the reader in navigating around the articles. It should also draw attention to current events and some of Wikipedia's best Auckland related articles.
Support Auckland related articles by ensuring that Wikipedia has plenty of high-quality articles to showcase and ensuring that readers starting with the project can find their way around easily
Ensure that articles are well organised (through the use of categories) and that due attention is paid to the further reaches of the project.
Be truly international - this project welcomes participants from anywhere in the world. The project should be used to highlight articles about Auckland that most readers may not be aware of.
Oversee the development of Auckland-related articles - for example, through the Collaboration of the fortnight
Provide a clear structure of how Auckland articles are arranged on Wikipedia and present the project so as to facilitate reading and research
Coordinate efforts and peer review articles

[edit] Templates

The following templates are related to Auckland:

Stubs

Click on the relevant template and select 'What links here' from the left-hand side of the page to see articles that have been tagged with that stub template - this will give you a list of such articles you can then expand.

User page templates
Show everyone that you're part of this project by adding a...
Invitation, {{WPAUK invite}}
Poster, {{Auckland_user_poster}}
Banner, {{WikiProject Auckland banner}} or {{AUCK}}
Userbox, {{User Auckland}},
Userbox 2, {{User WikiProject Auckland}}
to your userpage or article.

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Similar U.S. City Projects

see also Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/List of city WikiProjects which includes non-US cities.

[edit] Parentage

Wikipedia:WikiProject New Zealand

[edit] Sister Project

Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles

[edit] Related Projects

[edit] Random Auckland Picture of the Week

The Auckland Town Hall in Downtown Auckland

[edit] General strategy and discussion forums

Please use the project talk page to discuss any issues you would like to raise. Comments on the layout of the project and Portal are more than welcome.

[edit] Tasks

Getting the project off the ground

Compile all templates, infoboxes and categories relating to the coverage of politics and link to them via this page (use a subpage if the list will be too long)
Assemble a list of all featured content
Advertise like mad! Add links to Auckland articles and as many City and related pages as possible - please expand this in any way you see fit
That's all for now, but please add to this list if you have further ideas on how to get this project up and running!

[edit] Image Requests

Further information: [[1]]

Please place requests for images below.

[edit] WikiProject Featured Article

Downtown Auckland Skyline

The Auckland metropolitan area or Greater Auckland, in the North Island of New Zealand, is the largest urban area of the country. It is also New Zealand's most populous city with approximately 1.3 million residents, over a quarter of the country's population, and demographic trends indicate that it will continue growing faster than the rest of the country. Auckland also has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world.

It is a conurbation, made up of Auckland City (excluding the Hauraki Gulf islands), North Shore City, and the urban parts of Waitakere and Manukau cities, along with Papakura District and some nearby urban parts of Rodney and Franklin Districts. In Māori its name is Tāmaki-makau-rau, or the transliterated version of Auckland, Ākarana.

Auckland lies between the Hauraki Gulf of the Pacific Ocean to the east, the low Hunua Ranges to the south-east, the Manukau Harbour to the south-west, and the Waitakere Ranges and smaller ranges to the west and north-west. The central part of the urban area occupies a narrow isthmus between the Manukau Harbour on the Tasman Sea and the Waitemata Harbour on the Pacific Ocean. It is one of the few cities in the world to have harbours on two separate major bodies of water.

[edit] Commendation material

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Auckland/Assessment
Articles

The following Auckland-related articles are Featured articles and Good articles on WikiProject Auckland and / or appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page.

Featured Articles -- (FA)

Good Articles -- (GA)

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the fortnight, 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. You can also add any articles to be worked on in the To-Do Section of the project.

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[edit] The Auckland Barnstar of Merit

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[edit] Task console

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Auckland:

edit · history · watch · refresh

_{Please edit}

Open Tasks for **Auckland**
New articles	Edit/format	Requests	Expand

New Auckland-related articles (bot-assisted)
Merges	Discussions	Categorisation	Maintenance
none as yet	What is the scope of WikiProject Auckland and where should we limit our scope to when editing? Discuss here:	none as yet	Keep Auckland up to date. Also clean up grammar, too many full stops, etc. Routinely update WP:AUK articles and review ratings assessments if required.

[edit] Collaboration of the fortnight

Submit your nominations for Collaboration of the fortnight - !.

[edit] Participants

Feel free to add your details in the fashion shown below.

	Username	Nationality	Areas of interest
1.	Taifarious1 (talk · contribs)	New Zealand (born), United States	(Creator of this WikiProject), Auckland, NZ politics, US politics, created: New Zealand-United States relations and Wikipedia:WikiProject Los Angeles.
2.	Leaderofearth (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Theatre, Speedway racing, Transport.
3.	Esradekan (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Music, Motorsport.
4.	Danver (talk · contribs)	India (born), New Zealand	Music, Computing, Games, Acting.
5.	Boomshanka (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Music, Rugby, Sport, Geography, History.
6.	Matthewedwards (talk · contribs)	England (born), United States (residing)	Music, Lists, Television, Radio, some Sports. (I lived in NZ for two years)
7.	Oliverdl (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Music, Computer, Electronics, Games
8.	KSeti (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Gaming (Electonic and Non-Electronic), Badminton, Electronics, Arts and Crafts
9.	Domster (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Philosophy, computer science, politics, New Zealand music.
10.	Nzv8fan (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Computer Science, Education, Politics, Environment, Motorsport.
11.	Elchuddy (talk · contribs)	England (born), have lived in New Zealand	Sport, Music, Geography, Travel. [I lived in AKL for 9 months]
12.	GCFreak2 (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Computers, electronics, games, public transport
13.	Arsenalfan2 (talk · contribs)	England (born), I live in New Zealand	Computers, Politics, Gaming,Linux, Open Source
14.	Liamodwyer13 (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Music, Books
15.	Joshualam (talk · contribs)	New Zealand (born), living in Hong Kong	Computers, Music, Geography
16.	Metagraph (talk · contribs)	New Zealand	Geography of Auckland, Auckland Schools, New Zealand Landmarks.