User:Bdhamilton/WPX Sandbox

I'd love to clean up the WP:X pages, some of which have now been abandoned for over a decade. I'm working through all of its backlogs and I'm trying to work out what's still useful. These are my notes.

Reconstructed Project Design
Good models for big-tent WikiProjects are the projects on Military history and Video games. Both pages begin with a mission statement and display a visual representation of some milestones they're trying to reach. I'm especially impressed by WP:Military History's organization, which consists primarily in a single set of top nav links.

Following their model, WP:X could look something like this:


 * Main page
 * Discussion
 * News & Tasks
 * Assessment
 * Resources (including templates and showcase)
 * Members

Current Top Nav

 * Articles: Links to Wikipedia Server 1.0 page listing all articles ranked
 * Categories: Links to category page
 * Deletion: Links to autopopulated list of AfDs
 * Guide: Generic WikiProject guide
 * Newsletter: Defunct newsletter
 * Portal: Portal
 * Projects: List of working groups and subprojects
 * Main Page
 * Showcase: Autopopulated list of featured articles, lists, etc.
 * Assessment: Assessment department page
 * Plan: Planning department page
 * Members: Current list of members
 * Noticeboard: Talk page
 * Peer review: Peer review department page
 * Requests: Empty request page

Links on Current 'Project Navigation' Template

 * Main
 * Members
 * WikiGrail Contest : Last run in 2012.
 * Coordinators : Definitely defunct, but does have some old planning info that might be useful.
 * Reading list : Not necessary, but maybe an "exemplary articles" page instead?
 * Christianity portal: Not much activity there. For the past couple of years the only serious editor has been Northamerica1000.
 * Project category: Exists, probably worthy of some work
 * Departments
 * Assessment: Still needed; could simplify or reorganize.
 * Outreach: Consists mainly of a welcome banner template and a newsletter that hasn't been updated since January 2020.
 * Peer review: Hasn't been updated for at least five years, and it seems that no one has responded to peer review requests for far longer than that. Could be merged somehow with Assessment?
 * Planning: Hasn't been updated since 2011, but has some useful ideas for things to think about for further improvement.
 * Some good options for planning ideas can be found on the old coordinators page
 * Tasks. I think this could make a good single page for people who are coming into the project and looking for ways to pitch in.
 * Adopted topics : Defunct, unnecessary
 * Articles needing attention: Worth keeping.
 * Articles needing cleanup : Defunct since 2009
 * Article requests: Worth keeping. People have still been adding to this list over the years, though it's not clear if anyone has been responding.
 * Deletions: Keep
 * Destubbification campaign: For the most part I'm happy for this just to be a link to a category listing of stub, but it does make sense to have a place for people to nominate particular stubs in need of attention.
 * Work groups
 * Anabaptist: Marked semiactive in 2016
 * Baptist: Marked inactive in 2016
 * Christianity in China: Marked defunct and reverted to inactive in 2014
 * Christian film: not marked in active, but no real activity on the main page since 2011
 * Christianity in India: Marked inactive for years; made active again in 2019, but no real activity
 * Jesus: Inactive
 * Methodism: Apart from one valiant member, inactive since at least 2015
 * Syriac Christianity: Inactive since 2016
 * Theology: Marked Semi-active since 2014; briefly marked defunct
 * Unitarianism and Universalism: brief spurt of activity in 2021 by a new member; otherwise inactive
 * Subprojects—all except bolded seem essentially devoid of life
 * Anglicanism
 * Arminianism
 * Bible
 * Biblical criticism
 * Calvinism
 * Catholicism
 * Charismatic Christianity
 * WikiProject Christian music
 * Eastern Orthodoxy
 * Holiness Movement
 * Jehovah's Witnesses
 * Latter Day Saint movement
 * Lutheranism
 * Jewish Christianity
 * Oriental Orthodoxy
 * Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
 * Saints
 * Seventh-day Adventist Church
 * Templates
 * Portal
 * WikiProject Christianity: Should consider downsizing list of working group and subproject tags
 * User WikiProject Christianity
 * Christianity-stub
 * Church-stub

Milestones
We are currently working towards five major milestones: