Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota
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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in a NPOV and accurate manner.
This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.
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[edit] Current project
Create articles for redlinks at List of National Natural Landmarks#Minnesota (NNL) or, if covered by another article, create a redirect. There now are only three states without redlinks, and of those three only Florida has multiple articles.
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- Status 18 Dec 2007:
- Ancient River Warren Channel: created by redirect; NNL subject is covered.
- Cedar Creek Natural History Area
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- Comment-- this would be an excellent candidate for a Did you know, as it is an internationally-known research center. It has a good website with links which may provide reliable sources; a google search for its name as a phrase yields over 13,000 hits to external sources, including this history and summary. Kablammo (talk) 02:40, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
- Itasca Natural Area: created by redirect; NNL is not covered
- Keeley Creek Natural Area: stub, with detail on NNL status
- Lac la Croix Research Natural Area: stub, with detail on NNL status
- Lake Agassiz Peatlands Natural Area: stub, with some detail on NNL status
- Pine Point Research Natural Area: stub, with limited detail on NNL status
- Upper Red Lake Peatland: created by redirect, NNL is not covered
- Status 18 Dec 2007:
[edit] Core articles/High-level articles
| Article | Class | Rationale | Quality | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE |  FA |
Excellent - appeared on wp:main page May 11, 2007 |
| Climate of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | FA |
Excellent - keep it clean and tight |
| Culture of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | Help! |
| Demographics of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Economy of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Ecology of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | Start | Good but small, direct copy from Minnesota |
| Geography of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Geology of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| History of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | FA |
Excellent - appeared on wp:main page May 11, 2008 |
| Minneapolis | Top | WP:CORE | FA |
Excellent job! |
| Minneapolis-St. Paul | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Mississippi River | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Music of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | FA |
Excellent - keep it clean and tight |
| Politics of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Saint Paul, Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B (GA failed) | What would it take to reach GA? |
| Sports in Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Transportation in Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| University of Minnesota | Top | WP:CORE | B | A good one to work on |
| Anoka County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Bloomington, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Dakota County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Duluth, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | Delisted from GA :( |
| Eugene McCarthy | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Fort Snelling, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Hennepin County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Hiawatha Line | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| History of Minneapolis, Minnesota | High | A High-level article |  GA |
Potential FA? |
| History of Saint Paul, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Hubert Humphrey | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| I-35W Mississippi River bridge | High | A High-level article | GA |
Good collaboration |
| Iron Range | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Lake Minnetonka | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Lake Superior | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| List of Governors of Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| List of Minnesota state parks | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| List of National Historic Landmarks in Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | |
| List of people from Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Mall of America | High | A High-level article | B | Still needs some work. |
| Mayo Clinic | High | A High-Level article | Start | Clinic and medical school needs work! |
| Template:Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Template | This is good as-is |
| Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Minnesota State Fair | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Template:Politics of Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Template | This is good as-is |
| Ramsey County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Rochester, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Saint Anthony Falls | High | A High-level article | B | Help! |
| St. Cloud, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| St. Paul Pioneer Press | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| Star Tribune | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
| United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| University of Minnesota system | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| WCCO-TV | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Walter Mondale | High | A High-level article | B | A good one to work on |
| Washington County, Minnesota | High | A High-level article | Start | Help! |
[edit] Assessment
| Minnesota articles |
Importance | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
| FA |
5 | 2 | 1 | 8 | |||
| GA |
2 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 14 | ||
| B | 13 | 28 | 81 | 65 | 18 | 205 | |
| Start | 2 | 24 | 196 | 2462 | 75 | 2759 | |
| Stub | 1 | 60 | 539 | 406 | 1006 | ||
| Assessed | 20 | 55 | 342 | 3074 | 501 | 3992 | |
| Unassessed | 3 | 18 | 37 | 1063 | 1121 | ||
| Total | 20 | 58 | 360 | 3111 | 1564 | 5113 | |
| How to assess importance | |
|---|---|
| Page views per day | |
| Top | 1000+ |
| High | 500–1000 |
| Mid | 100–500 |
| Low | under 100 |
[edit] Project divisions and current tasks
Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.
[edit] New article patrol
The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them
- The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
- Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
- If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template
- Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed
[edit] Portal
Portal:Minnesota is a featured portal. Things you can do:
- Suggest or go right ahead and install a selected biography of the month.
- Suggest or go right ahead and install historical and upcoming events each month.
[edit] General Minnesota resources
- General — General information on Minnesota
- Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
- Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
- Identify articles needing images
- Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.
- Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.
[edit] Minnesota physical assets
- Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
- Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
- Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
- Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
- Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
- Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota
- Improve Transportation in Minnesota
- Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas
- Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals
[edit] Minnesota life
- People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
- Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
- Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
- Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
- Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
- Education — Education in Minnesota
- History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood
[edit] Participants
If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by typing # ~~~ (in alphabetical order, please). If you like also type a note about what you plan on working on. You may also add {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project and help promote it to other interested users.
- Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
- Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
- Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
- Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
- BenFranske
- Bobamnertiopsis - Minneapolis stuff, especially history in south Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Public Library branches.
- Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
- Boon0044 - Saint Peter/Mankato/New Ulm area, state and local media, southern suburbs
- BWes - Western Suburbs
- Chem8700 - Department of Natural Resources
- Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
- Davumaya - Focus is on article recording and minneapolis & south burbs
- Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota
- eagleeye
- elcobbola - Minneapolis/St. Paul, culture and misc.
- Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
- False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
- Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
- Gnosbush
- Gopherbone - University of Minnesota, Golden Gopher athletics
- Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
- Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
- Gtadoc - Medicine and medical education, and taking some pics of Rochester
- Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
- HeirloomGardener - I started working on Norwood Young America and Stiftungsfest, and I could help out with other places in that area
- Hlodynn
- Iulus Ascanius - I like to clean, organize, and add basic info to articles on small cities and towns
- Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
- JAYMEDINC
- Jcbutler - Southwest Minnesota
- Jonathan Kovaciny
- Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
- Justin4gb
- Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
- LindaMorman - Politics, particularly creating/expanding entries on members of the State Legislature
- Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
- matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
- MatthewUND - I live in Grand Forks, ND, but I will help with northwest MN...particularly the Red River Valley. I can also serve as a liason between WPMN and WPND.
- Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
- McGhiever - working mostly on parks
- Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
- Mrfeek - Politics, history
- Mrtobacco
- Myotus - Minnesota History, historical sites, Richfield
- Natalie Erin I can help with most general stuff and can provide requested free-content photos in the metro area.
- Nathanm_mn
- Our Bold Hero
- P.Haney - Anything high school related as well as St. Paul related.
- Ravedave - work on Minnesota and park articles mostly
- Rehcsif - Western 'burbs, parks, general misc.
- ReverendG
- Rhelmerichs
- Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
- RyguyMN
- sabeen557 - Some on history and parks, cities that are near me, and write and supply pictures for the Minnesota State Fair (In the summer, it looks bad now)
- Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
- Smarterthanu91 - Don't ask why, but I like really tedious jobs. So throw your best dull job at me. I'm also a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams.
- Smith03
- Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
- Steve 1521 (talk)
- SusanLesch
- TableManners
- Thanatosimii State parks and the North Shore, mainly.
- The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
- Trish Lewis - St. Vincent, Minnesota History
- UBeR - Created glacial history of Minnesota. Can help on weather or hydrology related articles pertaining to Minnesota. Also have general knowledge on many Minnesota related topics.
- Umtc2011
- Unidiode
- Willy11009 - Rochester related articles
- Woogums - history
- WTGDMan1986
- WxGopher - Almost exclusively editing weather articles, though occasionally Minnesota sports articles too.
- ZJH
- WildFan48 - Minnesota sports of any kind
- greyduk - Minnesota lakes and other random information.
- Voot 42 - Infrastructure, politics and random articles.
- Showers
- Russian F - Culture and history of Minnesota, Northern Minnesota
- Keeper 76. Born and raised. "over 30 years experience". NorthWoods or Northburbs, let me know where to help.
- Zenlax - born in Minnesota and currently call it my second home.
- Calebrw (talk) - South Minneapolis. Rice County. Northfield and the surrounding area. I can take requests on my talk page for pictures in those areas.
[edit] Templates
[edit] U.S. city infobox
- {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.
[edit] U.S. county infobox
- {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.
[edit] Minnesota template
- {{Minnesota}} - Template for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages
[edit] WikiProject Minnesota
- {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} - a smaller version of the WikiProject member template, Babel-style.
{{WikiProject Minnesota
|class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
|importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
|needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
|attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}
Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.
[edit] Stub notices
Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.
- {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
- {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
- {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
- {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools
[edit] Public domain
{{PD-MNGov}} can be added to works that may otherwise be "owned" by branches of the state of Minnesota, including municipalities. This may include such things as signs, plaques, flags, and seals, although not everyone on WP agrees with this rationale.
[edit] Requested photos
For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{reqphoto|in=Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.
[edit] Meetups
Minneapolis meetups occurred in 2005, 2006 and 2007, see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.
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Child WikiProjects
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Related WikiProjects
WikiProject Minnesota is one of the United States WikiProjects.
