Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Civil engineering
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 Archives |
Contents |
[edit] An infobox for this WikiProject
I think it would be beneficial to have an infobox outlining this project. Comments? Hydrogen Iodide 22:43, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- What do you mean? – Basar (talk ·contribs) 23:15, 10 September 2007 (UTC)
- I mean something like this:
|
||||||||||||||
Hydrogen Iodide 00:06, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- Sure, why not. Wow, I haven't been to the bay bridge since they started putting in the new one. It looks really nice. I'll put the infobox up since I doubt anyone will object, and I'll correct the links. I also didn't know they were separating the lanes like that. – Basar (talk · contribs) 03:28, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Structural eng cat
I am trying to organize the structural engineering cat, and I am having a difficult time. I am wondering if we should split it up into steel/concrete/timber instead of splitting it up by structural system/structural connector. I think that is the more traditional way, at least in school. – Basar (talk · contribs) 03:19, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- Phw... I don't know. I think steel/timber/concrete will generate more trouble than systems/connectors/analysis/etc. I was just looking at Category:Engineering and its totally bonkers. The structural cat doesn't look terrible based on a cursory glance (probably due to your cleaning). ZueJay (talk) 03:32, 12 September 2007 (UTC)
- I've been thinking about it more, and I think creating steel and timber categories would be good because 1) that is how it is broken up outside of Wikipedia 2) I have found a lot of articles that do not categorize well with the categories structural system and structural connector like the article I-beam. I also misrepresented the situation in my OP because the current system is half and half because the category concrete is created and that is how all the concrete articles are stored, and I also just had created structural connectors cat so it hasn't been a long standing method of sorting. Structural analysis would of course stay. This would leave the cats as structural analysis, concrete, timber, steel, continuum mechanics, structural engineers, and construction. It would also have buildings and structures and engineering failures, but I'm weary of those although I don't know how to change them yet. – Basar (talk · contribs) 04:42, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Scope
Since this has come up a few times, I have taken the liberty to write a proposal for our project scope:
This project generally considers any article on civil engineering topics—including the topics of its various sub-disciplines—to be within its scope. This, however, does not include specific engineering projects like particular bridges or buildings (we would be happy to provide consultation on these articles). Our project does include articles about the methods of analysis, theories, and engineering systems of civil engineers as well as articles about the people and organizations of civil engineering.
– Basar (talk · contribs) 04:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- That sounds pretty good. The current text under the "Scope" section is too vague and that could lead to problems as mentioned in the Assessment(2) section. Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 19:17, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Invitation template
It appears this project does not have an invitation template to invite new members (correct me if I'm wrong). I think having a template will help increase the number of participants in this project. It should look something like...
 |
You have been invited to join the WikiProject Civil Engineering, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of civil engineering. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading! ~~~~ |
Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 19:12, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- Ya, I've been wanting one of those. I usually just add a sentence on to the end of a welcome template. – Basar (talk · contribs) 17:27, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- It seems like this template could use an image. Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 00:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
- The bridge picture seems alright, but is there a better picture for the template? Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 02:47, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
- It seems like this template could use an image. Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 00:10, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
How about the Burj Dubai, or the Shanghai World Financial Center? Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 05:04, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
- Well, one thing I don't like about skyscrapers is that they are pretty structural centric whereas a bridge incorporates most major areas of civil engineering. I also couldn't find a picture of those two that was particularly exceptional. – Basar (talk · contribs) 23:04, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
-
- How about the Golden Gate Bridge? Or the Tsing Ma Bridge? Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 03:40, 22 September 2007 (UTC)
Here:
 |
You have been invited to join the WikiProject Civil Engineering, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of civil engineering. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading! ~~~~ |
Hydrogen Iodide (HI!) 07:48, 25 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Soil article
There is a discussion at Talk:Soil which is desiring additional participants if any of you are interested. – Basar (talk · contribs) 22:55, 20 September 2007 (UTC)
- The soil article needs peer and expert input from a civil engineering perspective. Unfortunately Basar, who had been working on this, {{retired}} as of a few days ago. Hopefully other CE-types will wander over to take his place. I would like to return to GA-status and that is not going to happen without a balance of perspectives. -- Paleorthid (talk) 00:37, 26 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Borehole
This article is now a stub with only a brief description, if anyone here would like to help flesh it out that would be great. Drillerguy 17:14, 24 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed deletion: Cribstone bridge
Cribstone bridge (via WP:PROD)
-
- --User:Ceyockey (talk to me) 01:38, 21 October 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Your help please
What ho, good engineering folk, I trust all is well with you. May I ask your help in expanding the stub Saltash Tunnel please? It is, apparently, the only 3 lane road tunnel in Europe, and its construction and maintenance have been the matter of some controversy, including a parliamentary debate. In part, at least, this controversy appears to arise from the contractors disregarding local knowledge of the site geology. I will do some expansion of the article, but would appreciate the contributions of editors who have a better knowledge of engineering issues than me. Thanks, DuncanHill 20:25, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
- I have (belatedly) expanded this article so that it now has info on the consultant, contractor and so forth as well as a description of the problems it has suffered from. That's as much info as I could find on it at the moment - Dumelow (talk) 15:15, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Importance Rating
I have just noticed several articles have had an importance rating added. Until now I thought we didn't rate articles for importance, has this changed? I'm not against an importance rating system, just wondering what happened. Dumelow (talk) 19:54, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] request for membership
Hi every one first of all I want to be a member of this group but i don't know how. I am a civil engineer and i want to contribute something. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Abuff (talk • contribs) 09:23, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
- Welcome to the project Abuff, to join simply add your name to the list of members, to do this simply enter # ~~~~ and then some text describing yourself to the bottom of the list. The # will automatically number the list entry and the ~~~~, known as four tildes, will automatically enter your name and links to your talk and contribution pages. It is good practice to add these four tildes to the end of every post you make to talk pages so that people can easily see who has written what.
- As far as the Civil Engineering Wikiproject goes we value any contributions on any topic relevent to the profession, you can find a list of topics that are below required size listed under stubs or start class articles on the assessment box (to the right of the assessment section) on the main project page or feel free to create your own article if we do not have it already. Do not be worried about being bold you will always find other editors who will answer your questions and help to build your articles. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me at my talk page. Cheers Dumelow (talk) 12:06, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
[edit] WikiProject Construction
Hi. Can I just ask if anyone would be interested in joining WikiProject Construction if it was created since it is a proposed daughter project on both WikiProject Architecture and WikiProject Engineering. Thanks. Tbo 157(talk) 10:55, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- I've proposed this on the WikiProject proposal page. WP:COUNCIL/P Mr. Welsh (talk) 14:25, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
