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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members

Improve the bird's eye view
The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.

Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):


 * 1) What's missing?
 * 2) Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
 * 3) Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.

The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.

Please help improve it.

It's our bird's eye view.

Thank you.

Assessment
The Assessment department finds historical articles for the first time and rate them on quality and importance scales.

Collaboration
The Collaboration department serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found here

Review
The Review department carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope.

Outreach
The Outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.

Task forces
Task forces are used to focus attention on specific areas with a project's scope. WikiProject History has no task forces yet. Some may be introduced to work on specific areas if needed.

Participant information
  WikiProject History Participants

Userboxes
Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Members

Templates


 WikiProject History Templates 

Project banner
The banner WikiProject History should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.

Infobox Historical Event
The Infobox Infobox historical event should be added to the pages of notable events.

Country/Region history
A History of region navigational box should be added to History of a 'x' country pages. 

Former featured articles

 * History of Alaska

Former good articles

 * History of Baku
 * History of the world

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
 * American Revolutionary War
 * Battle of Midway
 * Christopher Columbus
 * David Hume
 * Herodotus
 * Historiography
 * History
 * History of Alaska
 * History of Arizona
 * History of Baltimore City College
 * History of Earth
 * History of the world
 * Industrial Revolution
 * List of European Union member states by accession
 * Napoleonic Wars
 * Renaissance
 * The Holocaust

DYKs
The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:
 * Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany - 6 June 2008.
 * History of African Americans in Chicago - 2 May 2007.
 * History of Berne - 19 March 2006.
 * History of Dhaka - 7 September 2006.



Categories
  WikiProject History Categories Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.

Category tree

 * List of

Organization of Category:History
Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and History of the world. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories

Category names
The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.

Organization of national histories
Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.

Don't over-categorize
Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.

Parentage
{|width=100%   Related Child Projects This project is parent to some other similar projects 

Children

 * WikiProject Years
 * WikiProject Ancient Germanic studies
 * WikiProject Iran
 * WikiProject United States History
 * WikiProject European history
 * WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome
 * WikiProject Dacia
 * WikiProject Military history
 * WikiProject History of Science
 * Wikiproject Mesoamerica
 * WikiProject Jewish history
 * WikiProject Former countries
 * WikiProject Australian maritime history
 * WikiProject Chinese history
 * WikiProject Three Kingdoms
 * WikiProject Indian history
 * WikiProject History of Pakistan
 * WikiProject Ancient Near East
 * WikiProject Ancient Egypt
 * WikiProject History of Poland
 * WikiProject Russian History
 * WikiProject Norse history and culture
 * WikiProject Medieval Scotland
 * WikiProject Hanseatic League
 * WikiProject Aztec
 * WikiProject Leaders by year
 * WikiProject Australian history
 * WikiProject Cold War
 * WikiProject History of photography
 * WikiProject Middle Ages
 * WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
 * WikiProject Piracy

Related Projects

 * WikiProject Biography
 * WikiProject Museums

Related subprojects

 * WikiProject Bangladesh/History Workgroup
 * WikiProject_Korea/History

Related
 External sister projects  History on Wikiquote History on Commons History on Wikisource History on Wikibooks 

General

 * Main: Historiography
 * Timelines: WikiProject Timelines -- Timeline standards
 * Portal: Wikiportal/History.
 * Resources: Category schemes -- Article titles
 * Other: History standards for China-related articles

Sourceberg
History