Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar

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**WikiProject Gibraltar**
This WikiProject is about Gibraltar
Shortcuts:	WP:Gibraltar, WP:GIB
Portal:	Gibraltar Portal
Wikimedia Commons:	Gibraltar
Project notice template:	{{WikiProject Gibraltar}}
Participant userbox:	{{User WikiProject Gibraltar}}
Has goals	Yes

To-do list for :Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar.

edit - history - watch - refresh

[edit] Create

Gibtelecom
Gibraltar Trilateral Forum
Córdoba Agreement (or possibly "Córdoba Accord")
History of the Genoese in Gibraltar
Gibraltar National Day (currently a redirect)
Calentita
1995 Island Games (hosted by Gibraltar)
Gibraltar branch of Girlguiding UK

[edit] Improve

Shortcuts: WP:GIB WP:Gibraltar

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to expand and organise information better in articles related to Gibraltar. This page contains their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help but don't know what to do, inquire on our talk page.

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

Put the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag on the Talk page of all Gibraltar-related articles
- The intention is to add the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag to the talk pages of appropriate articles in all Gibraltar-related categories on this page.
- If there are any Gibraltar-related categories which were not included on the page above, please add those categories here.

Expand the number of Gibraltar-related articles

Improve the quality of Gibraltar-related articles (see discussion)

Work towards the promotion of Gibraltar-related articles as "Good articles"

Work towards the promotion of Gibraltar-related articles as "Featured articles"

Create a Gibraltar-related "Collaboration of the Week"

Add Gibraltar-related articles to WikiProject Gibraltar's public watchlist

[edit] Recent developments log

151 articles have been identified as Gibraltar-related and tagged with {{WikiProject Gibraltar}}. See Category:WikiProject Gibraltar for the full list.
Gibraltar-related categories have been identified and listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar/Gibraltar-related categories.
Next step: creation of a shared watchlist to facilitate monitoring of recent changes to Gibraltar-related articles.

-- ChrisO 17:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Initial version of public watchlist has been created - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar/publicwatchlist. The list of image assets still needs to be populated.

-- ChrisO 18:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

The list of image assets and templates has now been populated on the public watchlist. Next step - improving articles!

-- ChrisO 00:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Featured pictures

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
...that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
...that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
...that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
...that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
...that a statue originally created in 1815 for the The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar?
...that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese culinary influences?
...that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
...that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England?
...that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
...that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
...that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War?
...that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
...that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
...that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a Gibraltar-born correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou, Beijing?

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Participants

ChrisO
~~Astrotrain 20:38, 28 February 2007 (UTC)~~
Johntex
~~--Vintagekits 15:52, 4 March 2007 (UTC)~~
Robotforaday 22:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
Asterion^talk 12:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
Biofoundationsoflanguage 14:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
Leitz

[edit] Portal

Portal:Gibraltar

[edit] Categories

More at Category:Gibraltar

[edit] Stubs

Some stub categories to put Gibraltar-related articles are collected here.

[edit] Templates

What to type

What it makes

What it's for

This user is a member of WikiProject Gibraltar.

To be used on your user page, to show you joined this WikiProject.

Gibraltar Portal

This article is within the scope of WikiProject Gibraltar, which aims to expand and better organise information in articles related to all aspects of Gibraltar on Wikipedia. Please participate by editing the article, or visit the project page for more details.

The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited, or is intended to be edited, as part of this WikiProject.

You are invited to join the Gibraltar WikiProject, an attempt to expand and better organise information on Gibraltar related articles on Wikipedia. To join, simply add your name to the members section of project page.

To invite particular users who have shown an interest in Gibraltar related articles to participate in this WikiProject.