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A '''WikiProject''' is a group of people who want to work as a team to improve Wikipedia. This [[Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines|guideline]] outlines the accepted practices for starting and maintaining WikiProjects, as well as some tips for how to organize WikiProjects effectively. For more detailed instructions on how to start a WikiProject, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject]].

 

:''See also: [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2013-04-01/WikiProject report| FAQs about WikiProjects]]''

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{{strong|A WikiProject is fundamentally a {{em|social}} construct: its success depends on its ability to function as a cohesive group of editors working towards a common goal.}} Much of the work that participants do to sustain a successful WikiProject (quality assessment, peer review, coordination of volunteer editors, et al.) can be tedious, unrewarding, and unappreciated. To be effective, a WikiProject must foster an ''[[esprit de corps]]'' among its participants. When group cohesion is maintained—where, in other words, project participants are willing to share in the less exciting work—a WikiProject can muster the energy and direction to produce excellent articles systematically rather than incidentally.

 

WikiProjects exist in the [[Wikipedia:Project namespace|project namespace]] and can technically be started by any [[WP:AUTOCONFIRM|auto-confirmed user]]. However, to avoid the proliferation of unused and underutilized WikiProjects, it is '''strongly''' recommended that those interested in starting a WikiProject read the guidance below and propose their project at the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals|proposal page]].

 

Interested in starting a WikiProject? First, check to see if the project (or related projects) already exists. You can browse existing projects at the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory|manual directory]] and the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Directory|automatically curated directory]] as well as the [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/drb/WikiProjectList.html WikiProject list] maintained by {{U|Bamyers99}}. Additionally, you can use the searchbox below to text search for existing pages in the project space:

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If you're having trouble finding interested editors, consider that the scope of your proposed project may be too narrow. Wikipedia is a huge place with many draws on editors' attention; finding several long-term editors with a sustained interest in one topic may not be easy. Projects with overly narrow scopes tend to become inactive due to lack of editors, not enough associated encyclopedia pages for sustained effort, or competing with a broader-scoped more popular project that draws the time of interested editors. Broadening the proposed scope may help to bring in more pages and editors; although a scope too broad may fail to interest editors who wish to collaborate on only a subset of your topic.

 

 

If the project doesn't yet exist, but you've found interested editors, it's time to propose your project idea! Go to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals|WikiProject proposals]] page and search that page and its [[Help:Archiving a talk page|archives]] to see if your project idea has been proposed before (if it has, be prepared to justify why you feel this time the project will succeed). Follow the instructions on that page to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals#Creating_a_proposal|create a proposal]]. You'll need to list the pages and [[Help:Categories|categories]] that are key to your proposed group, as well as current WikiProjects that relate to those pages. Then interested users will sign-up to support the project (feel free to advertise this at related projects or pages. [[Wikipedia:Canvassing|Canvassing]] is not a concern here; however, filling the support roles with new accounts is unlikely to lead to a sustainable project). While there are no hard rules for what constitutes "sufficient" support, projects that are likely to succeed tend to start with at least 6 to 12 active Wikipedians. Once that threshold is reached, the proposal can be considered successful and the project created (see below). If there is insufficient support to start the project after a few months, the proposal will generally be [[:Category:Archived_WikiProject_proposals|archived]] for future reference.

 

 

Creating a WikiProject is technically as easy as starting a page titled [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Your Favorite Topic]]. However, various tools have been developed to help WikiProjects keep track of pages of interest and to facilitate collaboration on improving the encyclopedia coverage of a topic area. Getting a new project set up utilizing these tools is a slightly complicated process; detailed instructions can be found at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/WikiProject]]. Additionally, you may ask at [[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council]] where interested experienced editors may be willing to help.

 

 

Based on discussion at a WikiProject proposal or at a given WikiProject, you may instead wish to start a [[Wikipedia:Taskforce|task force]] under an existing WikiProject. A task force is a group of editors interested in a smaller part of a WikiProject's scope (e.g. [[WP:USMIL|United States military history task force]] is under the [[WP:MILHIST|Military history WikiProject]]). Creating a task force gives those editors space to collaborate on the part of the WikiProject scope they are interested in, without drowning out broader discussion on the WikiProject's talk page. Additionally, task forces tend to have reduced administrative overhead, as they can use the tools and templates already developed for the parent WikiProject. Instructions for how to setup a new task force are at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces]].

 

Many WikiProjects use [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/WikiProject#Talk_page_banners|talk page banners]] to mark certain pages as within the scope of the WikiProject. This helps the WikiProjects to organize their progress improving pages within the project's scope. Additionally, talk page banners may point interested editors towards relevant WikiProjects where they might become involved, or just ask a question about an article. Consequently, pages should only be marked with WikiProject banners for projects that intend to support the tagged pages. Pages of broad interest may fall within the scopes of several projects, and may therefore have several project banners on their talk page (these banners are often collapsed to be less visible with {{tlx|WikiProjectBannerShell}}). In general, one should not attempt to police which projects are sufficiently relevant to place their banners on a given talk page.<ref>In 2007, editors agreed to limit "WikiProject country" banners on articles about a city if the city has changed countries over the course of history. {{strong|If}} there is disagreement, then only the Wikiproject for the city's {{em|current}} country will template the article. For more information, see [[Talk:Karlovy Vary#WikiProject Germany|the 2007 discussion]].</ref> Conversely, projects that place their banners on a talk page have no special [[WP:OWN|ownership]] over that page, and the [[WP:CONLEVEL|consensus]] of project members can be overruled by a broader consensus at a more visible forum.

 

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Many editors place banners on behalf of WikiProjects in which they are not participants. This practice is normally welcomed by WikiProjects as it brings to their attention new and interesting articles. Be judicious in making such placements by carefully reviewing the scope of the project. Information about the project's scope is often available on the WikiProject's main page, and sometimes also on documentation associated with the template. All editors should avoid tagging an article with a disruptive number of WikiProject banners. If an article is only tangentially related to the scope of a WikiProject, then please do not place that project's banner on the article. For example, washing [[toy]]s for babies reduces transmission of some diseases, but the banners for [[WP:WikiProject Health and fitness]], [[WP:WikiProject Biology]], [[WP:WikiProject Viruses]] and/or [[WP:WikiProject Medicine]] do not need to be added to [[Talk:Toy]]. If you are uncertain that the placement will be welcomed, leave a note on the project's talk page instead of placing the banner yourself. Note that for projects involved in the [[WP:1.0]] assessment program (which is most of them), every banner placed is a demand for an assessment according to the project's guidelines. It is more friendly to omit outside WikiProjects that you think will rate the article as low importance relative to their specific field.

If you place a banner for a WikiProject in which you do not participate, and one of its regular participants removes it, do not re-add the banner without discussion. A WikiProject's participants define the scope of their project (the articles that they [[WP:VOLUNTEER|volunteer]] to track and support), which includes defining an article as being outside the scope of the project. Similarly, if a WikiProject says that an article is within their scope, do not [[WP:EDITWAR|edit-war]] to remove the banner.<ref>A [[Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Wikiproject tags on biographies of living people|large 2010 RfC]] concluded that removing WikiProject tags from talk pages (the RfC was specifically about [[WP:BLP|BLP pages]]) without consulting the WikiProject is unhelpful.</ref>

 

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There may still arise situations when there is a seemingly intractable disagreement between projects. If that happens, you can ask for advice from the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council|WikiProject Council]]. This group contains people who have generally shown some ability at working with and in groups. In severe cases, formal [[Wikipedia:dispute resolution|dispute resolution]] channels are available.

 

The community has developed a broad array of tools to help WikiProjects manage the articles that they're interested in. Actively maintained tools are listed below, as well as instructions for how to utilize them:

 

*Make your project visible:

: – add your project to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory|manually maintained]] WikiProject directory ([[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/WikiProject|instructions]]), and to a subcategory of [[:Category:WikiProjects]] (e.g. [[:Category:WikiProject Birds]] is in [[:Category:Biology WikiProjects]]) so that it will appear in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory]] (updated by {{U|Reports bot}}).

*Find editors active in your area – For each project in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory]], {{U|Reports bot}} makes a list of editors active on those pages (e.g. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Directory/Description/WikiProject Birds|WikiProject Birds]]).

 

*Article statistics – [[User:WP 1.0 bot|WP 1.0 bot]] generates tables summarizing article quality and importance statistics. For more information, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide/WikiProject#Tracking_progress|here]].

*New pages relevant to your project – {{U|AlexNewArtBot}} (now run by {{U|InceptionBot}}) searches newly created pages for keywords related to projects, and makes a list of all new pages in the last 14 days that may be of interest to your project ([[User:AlexNewArtBot/BirdsSearchResult|example]]). Sign-up instructions are [[User:AlexNewArtBot#How_to_add_feeds_to_the_new_article_bot|here]], or you can ask for help at [[User talk:Bamyers99|the bot operator's talk page]].

*[[User:Evad37/rater|Evad37's rater script]] makes it easier to fill out assessments on WikiProject talk banners. Instructions for installing it are [[User:Evad37/rater|here]].

 

* Tracking maintenance templates on project articles – {{U|CleanupWorklistBot}} produces a weekly report of all project articles tagged with various maintenance templates ([https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/Birds.html example]). Instructions for adding a project are [[User:CleanupWorklistBot|here]].

* Tracking and displaying recognized content – {{U|JL-Bot}} can generate a subpage listing the recognized content (Featured Articles, Good Articles, In The News, etc.) of a WikiProject. See [[User:JL-Bot/Project content]] for details.

 

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Many WikiProjects fall inactive after some time. While inactive projects do no harm to the encyclopedia, it may be beneficial to tag them as inactive, in order to divert interested editors to more active projects on similar topics. Projects are generally considered inactive if the talk page has received nothing other than routine/automated announcements or unanswered queries for a year or more. To verify that a project is inactive, post on its talk page asking if anyone minds marking it as such. If there are no objections, you can add <code>inactive</code> to the {{tlx|WikiProject status}} template at the top of the WikiProject page. This will add the project to [[:Category:Inactive WikiProjects]] and display a message at the top of the page notifying editors of the project's status.

 

Alternatively, a project that has gone inactive because it has served its stated purpose, had an unrealistic scope, or is otherwise unlikely to be ever revived can be marked as "defunct" per the instructions at [[Template:WikiProject status#Usage: Defunct projects]]. This will generate a more discouraging message, suggesting interested editors look for related projects. Sometimes small, inactive projects are simply [[WP:MERGE|merged]] into larger, more active projects. This could be good option if you wish for links to the smaller project to now point to the larger project. If there's still an active community at the smaller project, it could instead be merged as a task force of a larger project. Guidance on that can be found [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Task forces#Converting_existing_projects_to_task_forces|here]]. If an inactive project never seems to have grown beyond its founding, you may consider moving it to the founder's [[WP:UFY|userspace]] or nominating it for [[WP:DELETION|deletion]] at [[WP:MfD|MfD]]. In general, medium or larger projects are marked as defunct rather than deleted to preserve the project's history. For more, see [[Wikipedia:Project namespace#Deletion of project pages]].

 

{{See also|Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2011-05-16/WikiProject report#Back to Life: Reviving WikiProjects}}

 

# Respond promptly to queries and post occasional messages at the WikiProject's talk page to let people know what you're working on and how they can help.

 

Renaming a WikiProject is not as simple as moving the WikiProject page itself. The steps involved would generally include:

# Ensure there is [[Wikipedia:Consensus|consensus]] for the rename.

# If the WikiProject uses any of the tools referenced above, you may need to update the WikiProject listings used by those tools to ensure the tools will still work with the new WikiProject name.

 

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Guide/Technical notes]]

* [[Wikipedia:Banner standardisation]]

* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Inactive projects]] (list of inactive projects), [[:Category:Inactive WikiProjects]] and [[:Category:Defunct WikiProjects]]

 

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