Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville

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WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006 to coordinate work for and sustain comprehensive coverage of metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky and related subjects in the Wikipedia.

Anyone who is interested in contributing, please consider becoming a member. Also, please feel free to post any ideas and suggestions on the project talk page.

WikiProject Louisville Alert posted:

WikiProject Indiana Alert posted:

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[edit] Scope

Louisville Portal

This WikiProject aims to coordinate development of new articles as well as improvements to existing articles related to Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, consisting of thirteen counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana. Since the Louisville city article is already a Featured Article, this project also aims to make that article even better. Last, but not least, this project also supports and drives content for The Louisville Portal.

This is an open project that is coordinated by all its members. Its open tasks are a compilation generated by many of its members. All concerns with elements of this project should be discussed on the project talk page.


[edit] News

[edit] Tasks

Louisville
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
Good article GA 1 3 4
B 8 20 32 9 69
Start 13 128 273 257 2 673
Stub 1 34 190 544 9 778
Assessed 24 182 498 810 11 1525
Unassessed 51 51
Total 24 182 498 810 62 1576

[edit] Article development

Wikipedians and especially WikiProject Louisville members are encouraged to continue developing any articles of their choosing that are (or should be) covered by this project. The following pages suggest articles that have a special priority for addressing.

[edit] Change patrol

To ensure that all changes to Louisville-related pages are sound, here are "recent changes" pages to aid in that endeavor:

[edit] Miscellaneous

  • Continuous: Keep Louisville, Kentucky as compact as possible, moving as much details into sub-articles as is reasonable.
  • Continuous: Ensure that all Louisville-related articles are properly categorized and catalogued for the project.
  • Continuous: Ensure that all links going to the main Louisville article are disambiguated, especially to ensure that links to 'Louisville' aren't instead meant to go to University of Louisville.
  • Continuous: Ensure that all Louisville-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism are listed in the Project Watchlist.
  • Target additional Louisville-related articles to take to Featured or Good status.
  • Consider the development of new Louisville-related infoboxes and navigational templates.
  • Create a "WikiProject Louisville Fleur-de-lis Award" (suggestion) to honor exceptional contributions to articles catalogued by the project (See WikiProject Philadelphia's Liberty Bell).
  • Develop a guideline for creating new Louisville-related articles.
  • Come up with some kind of approach for prioritizing work in the project (e.g., collaboration of the week or top ten list).
  • Develop a collaborative methodology for determining when to assess an article as an 'A'.
  • Possibly establish an "Outreach" department.
  • Possibly develop specialized task forces for members interested in specific topic areas (e.g., Government or Sports).

[edit] Resources

[edit] Subpages

  • /Alerts — WikiProject Louisville Alerts System.
  • /Assessment — WikiProject Louisville's assessment department.
  • /HallOfFame — WikiProject Louisville's Hall of Fame.
  • /Members — WikiProject Louisville's membership department.
  • /NeedingAttention — Department that aims to help members identify specific improvements that are needed in various articles and communicate them to other project members and Wikipedians in general using Wikipedia techniques and tools.
  • /Peer review — WikiProject Louisville's peer review department.
  • /Requests — Department where requested Louisville-related articles are listed.
  • /Watchall — Please do not edit this file, as a bot periodically fills it with links to all pages catalogued for WikiProject Louisville. See Change patrol for usage.
  • /Watchlist — Edit to add Louisville-related articles that get frequent changes or are susceptible to vandalism. See Change patrol for usage.

[edit] Categories

Louisville, Kentucky | WikiProject Louisville | WikiProject Louisville articles | WikiProject Louisville members | Louisville articles with todo lists | Requests for Louisville peer review | Louisville stubs | Wikipedians in Louisville | Wikipedia requested maps in Louisville | Wikipedia requested photographs in Louisville

[edit] Infoboxes

{{Louisville}} | {{CardinalsCoach}} | {{Colleges and universities in Louisville}} | {{KentuckyDerby}} | {{Louisville AM}} | {{LouisvilleBasketballCoach}} | {{Louisville Catholic Elementary}} | {{Louisville FM}} | {{Louisvillemalls}} | {{LouisvilleMayors}} | {{Louisville neighborhoods}} | {{Louisville places}} | {{Louisville TV}} | {{SFKK Coasters}}

[edit] Project templates

The following are templates related to WikiProject Louisville:

  • {{WikiProject Louisville}} — This banner designates that an article is covered by WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the article's Talk page.
  • {{WPLouisville page}} — This banner designates a project page or category dedicated for use in WikiProject Louisville.
  • {{WPLouisville-Member}} — This banner designates that a user is a member of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page. Members who use this will see periodic project alerts.
  • {{WikiProject Louisville alerts}} — This banner displays only if there is a current project alert. Normally placed on user talk pages or project pages.
  • {{WPLouNavigation}} — This infobox shows the departments and taskforces of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on WikiProject Louisville department and taskforce pages.
  • {{WPLouInvite}} — This banner is placed (using subst) on talk pages to invite potential members to join the project.
  • {{WPLouWelcome}} — This banner is placed (using subst) on talk pages of newly joined members.
  • {{Louisville-stub}} — This message designates that an article is a Louisville-related stub. Placed at the bottom of the article.
  • {{User WPLouisville}} — This userbox designates that a user is a member of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page. Can be used in addition to or instead of the banner above, although if they don't use the banner, members will not see periodic project alerts.
  • {{User Louisville}} — This userbox designates that a user is from Louisville Metro. Placed on the member's user page and/or their associated talk page. Doesn't require membership in this project to use.

[edit] Sources and references

Following is a list of helpful sources for researching Louisville-related subjects:

The WikiProject Louisville coverage area — the Louisville MSA
The WikiProject Louisville coverage area — the Louisville MSA
The coverage area from a state-level view
The coverage area from a state-level view

[edit] Relations

[edit] Parent WikiProjects

WikiProject Louisville takes over what the following projects would ordinarily handle but which is a Louisville-related subject. Project overlap should normally be avoided.

[edit] Sibling WikiProjects

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