Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation
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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information. |
Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of aviation.
- Create guidelines for articles about aviation.
- Unite all projects relating to aviation under one roof!
- Scope
- The project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope. A more detailed description of the scope, and our primary focus areas within it, may be found in the section on project scope.
- Structure
- Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our extensive work:
- Departments, which host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, writing contests, and detailed article review.
- Child projects and task forces for collaboration on specific topics within aviation, such as aircraft, defunct airlines, or gliding.
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[edit] Scope
As noted above, the project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope.
Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:
- Famous people, including:
- Aviators (e.g., Amelia Earhart)
- Designers (e.g., Burt Rutan)
- Aviation pioneers (e.g., the Wright brothers)
- Aviation terminology (e.g., stall, Mach)
- Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., Airport Surveillance Radar)
- Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
- Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
- Aviation history
[edit] Announcements and Open tasks
[edit] Style guide and essays
The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:
- Naming conventions
- Notability
- Article content
- Usage and style
- Sourcing and citation
- Templates
- Categories
All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.
The project also maintains a collection of essays consisting of the advice and opinions of individual members of the project.
[edit] Project organization
[edit] Members
The full list of project members is located on a separate subpage; please feel free to add your name to it if you would like to join the project!
[edit] Departments
- Assessment
- The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
- Collaboration
- The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is B-52 Stratofortress.
- Outreach
- The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
- Review
- The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.
[edit] Child projects and task forces
[edit] Sub-projects
[edit] Task forces
- Aviation accident task force
- Military aviation task force
- Rotorcraft task force
- Air sports task force
- Australian task force
[edit] Other related projects
[edit] Related portals
[edit] Project banner
The {{WPAVIATION}} project banner template should be added (not subst:ed) to the talk page of every article within the scope of the project. While the template does not require any additional parameters, it has a number of optional ones that add various extra features to the banner. The full syntax and usage instructions are documented on a separate subpage.
