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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Contents

[edit] Announcements

[edit] Article watchlist

[edit] Housekeeping

[edit] Standards

  • A discussion is currently underway on the talk page as to the standardization for SEPTA article titles. Please drop by and add your insights.-- danntm T C 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
  • A more formalized proposal is now avaliable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm T C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Philadelphia Meetups

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; it has been proposed to have a Wikipedia Meetup in July 2008. See the meetup page for details and to RSVP.

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[edit] Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames A-J Usernames L-Z
  • Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons
  • Looper5920
  • Luciuskwok Transportation
  • Magic
  • Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone
  • MechBrowman
  • Medvedenko
  • meebly
  • nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems
  • Pacdude
  • Passdoubt | Talk
  • Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk
  • Patricknoddy
  • PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people.
  • PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across.
  • RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia
  • RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys
  • SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well.
  • SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly
  • Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods
  • South Philly -- email me for my opinion
  • Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007
  • Skiasaurus
  • Spikebrennan
  • SteinbDJ Arts and culture
  • Sylent Northern Philly burbs
  • Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc
  • Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal.
  • Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles
  • V60 VTalk - VDemolitions I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.

[edit] Structure

[edit] General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

[edit] Goals

  1. Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
  2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
  3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
  4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
  5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
  6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

[edit] WikiProject ToDo list

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia:
  1. Recruit active membership
  2. Featured Articles
    1. Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status
    2. Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback
    3. Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback
    4. Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC
  3. Determine geographic scope
  4. Standardize neighborhood article names
  5. Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement
  6. Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles
  7. Create SEPTA station/route article title standards
  8. Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals.
    1. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

[edit] Article requests list

[edit] Portal maintenance

[edit] Assessment

Philadelphia
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 3 2 1 7
Featured list FL 1 2 3
A 2 1 3 6
Good article GA 2 7 2 2 1 14
B 9 28 16 18 26 97
Start 11 35 73 181 137 437
Stub 3 7 41 280 191 522
List 1 1 2 2 2 8
Assessed 28 83 137 489 357 1094
Unassessed 1 787 788
Total 28 83 137 490 1144 1882

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This article falls within the scope of WikiProject Philadelphia, a WikiProject interested in improving the encyclopedic coverage and content of articles relating to Philadelphia, its people, history, accomplishments and other topics. If you would like to help out, you are welcome to drop by the project page and/or leave a query at the project's talk page.
This article is also supported by WikiProject Pennsylvania.

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Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia Philadelphia article.



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You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated!

You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!


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[edit] Images

Flag of the United States Free image sources for the United States
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[edit] Recognition

The Liberty Star The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

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[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

Thanks!

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