Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is important to impart knowledge about architecture? Then, we would like to invite you to help us in this project.

This project develops ideas about how we might organize data in articles about architecture. First and foremost, we simply invite you to write articles.These ideas are only suggestions that do not necessarily need to be followed, but these guidelines can be helpful if you do not know what to write or where to begin.

Scope
This WikiProject aims to:
 * 1) Thoroughly explore architecture, buildings, construction globally and historically.
 * 2) Improve articles about architecture, architects, buildings and construction.
 * 3) Provide a place to discuss common issues on architecture, buildings, construction related pages.
 * 4) Organise and categorise Category:Architecture
 * 5) Ensure all pages meet the standards of Cite sources. See also WikiProject Fact and Reference Check.
 * 6) Develop standards and templates for architecture, buildings, construction related articles.
 * 7) Manage editing of the

Improve Outline of architecture
The outline of architecture is a centralized navigation hub for the subject of architecture. It is intended to summarize the entire subject of architecture and Wikipedia's coverage of it. In turn, it is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's contents systems.

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

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


 * 1) What's missing? (Among other things: pictures! Showcase the best buildings!)
 * 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 intended to be 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 this WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise architectural articles. It is a hub from which to organize architecture-related topics.

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

Improve articles

 * Improve articles which are listed as needing attention


 * Improve most viewed pages.
 * Improve Start-class articles.
 * Improve former featured articles: Cathedral of Magdeburg, City status in the United Kingdom, Colditz Castle, Deconstructivism, Eifel Aqueduct, Francis Petre, Robert Lawson, Moorgate, Templon, Parthenon, Palace of Westminster, John Vanbrugh, Xanadu House.
 * Help organise and Check categorisation of existing articles.

Expand articles

 * Expand architecture stub articles into full articles.
 * Upload images to the WikiMedia:Commons and add images to architecture pages.

Create new articles

 * Try to build an even coverage of buildings around the world by province and country in Category:Buildings and structures by country subdivision
 * Check requests and missing articles about architecture, buildings, city planning and public space in the following lists:
 * Requested articles
 * Missing encyclopedic articles - Hotlist of Art & Architecture
 * Skysmith's list of missing articles - Architecture and Engineering
 * Crowdsources missing female architects - redlist from WP Women in Red
 * Wikidata missing female architects - redlist from wikidata via WP Women in Red
 * See Help for Authors for guidelines.
 * Post new articles to the Architecture Bulletin.

Communicate

 * Create a request for a new article about Architecture, buildings, city planning and public space.
 * Discuss articles with members who have displayed interest in these subjects on the talk pages of the user or the article.
 * Nominate and vote for the Selected Article and Selected Picture on the Architecture Portal. (page currently inactive)
 * See: "Things you can do" on the architecture portal, and the WikiProject Task list.
 * Submit quality articles for Peer review or Featured article candidates.
 * List any questions or requests on the WikiProject talk page.
 * Answer requests for comments

Create new articles

 * Relevance: Is the article you want to create relevant or important for the Wikipedia? - see Importance
 * Naming: Generally: use the common name! - See Naming conventions (architecture)

Using starter templates
The starter templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings and infoboxes in your article. To use them follow this procedure:
 * 1) Create a blank article having first considered the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
 * 2) Copy one of the following templates and use it to start the article:
 * 3) Architect template for articles about architects
 * 4) Modern building template for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
 * 5) Historic building template for articles about buildings begun before 1900
 * 6) Save the article
 * 7) Edit the article again, and add the text for your article under the headings that are created.

Infoboxes
The starter templates above are embedded with the following infoboxes than can be inserted separately into an article - this is not compulsory - often architecture articles are better first illustrated by other means:
 * Please use the Template:Infobox architect for writing an article about an architect.
 * Use the Template:Infobox building for an article about a specific building.
 * Please use Template:Infobox bridge for a bridge structure.
 * See WikiProject Architecture/infobox for a full list of architecture Infoboxes, including instructions on usage and examples.

Templates to organise a series of articles
Use these series box templates for articles about:
 * History of architecture Architectural history
 * Modern architecture Modern architecture use
 * Postmodernism Postmodern architecture
 * Add the WikiProject Architecture template to the top of the Talk page for articles about architects and important topics in architecture, notable buildings and structures or anything else related to this WikiProject. For more information, see Article assessment below. Template will display the following:

Expand stub articles
If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.
 * for stub articles about architecture.
 * for stub articles about architectural style.
 * for stub articles about rooms in a building.
 * for architect stubs.
 * for American architects
 * for British architects
 * Please refer to Category:Building and structure stubs to use specific templates for the location of the building.
 * Other stubs can be found here - WikiProject Architecture/stub categories

Selecting the right category
Main topics are listed in Category:Architecture. Please place your article in the appropriate sub-category, not in the main architecture category, to reduce clutter
 * Go to 'WikiProject Architecture/Categories to get an overview, and to help place your article in the same sub-category as similar articles

Useful resources
External picture, drawing and media resources can be found here: here.

Develop overview and navigation pages

 * Outline of architecture
 * Portal:Architecture
 * Glossary of architecture

Architecture Peer Review
WikiProject Architecture has its own peer review process for articles:
 * Please submit articles to WikiProject Architecture/Peer review for comments from the WikiProject community.
 * Current article(s):

Featured Article and Featured List Candidates
Submit or comment on articles and lists under consideration for Featured article candidates and Featured list candidates. Current Featured article and Featured list nominations :

Featured Image Candidates
Submit or comment on articles under consideration for Featured image candidates. Current Featured Image nominations :

Monitor articles for deletion
It is important to monitor and add your feedback to WikiProject Deletion sorting/Architecture. This is a special page for incomplete articles about Architecture, buildings, construction, city planning and public space articles that may be removed, which needs to be maintained, updated.

Pages needing attention
Categories and articles for cleanup, expansion needed, expert attention, Wikification, neutrality in question and articles to be merged or split
 * American architecture lacks references, although otherwise and reasonably well-written and coherent.
 * Proposed merger of Frederician Rococo into Rococo.

Top-level articles that fail to provide an adequate overview of the subject. Most of these are hopelessly incomplete and / or unbalanced, and fail to provide even a competent guide to coverage of the subject elsewhere in Wikipedia. Wide-ranging expert knowledge and some research would be needed to get these to a decent standard.
 * Classical architecture
 * French architecture
 * Georgian architecture
 * Victorian architecture
 * History of construction

Structural elements articles, relatively easy to put right and very much in need of attention:
 * Arch
 * Atrium
 * Beam
 * Buttress
 * Cantilever
 * Column
 * Dome
 * Facade
 * Pier (architecture)
 * Post and lintel
 * Rain gutter and Leader Head disputed naming as well as poor coverage of the subject.
 * Span
 * Truss
 * Vault
 * Wall

Article assessment
WikiProject: Assessment Department - Instructions and FAQ

See also: , above.

New articles
Please feel free to add new architecture related articles to the list (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles, or articles with more than 1,500 characters of editing, that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box of the Main Page.

New article announcements:

Members
We welcome new members for WikiProject Architecture. Please put your name on the list here.

WikiProject User Boxes
Here are some templates for your use:

Featured content
Current Featured articles:

Did you know (DYK)s
Please feel free to add new DYKs to the list (newer articles at the top with date, please).

Parent project

 * The parent of this wikiproject is WikiProject Arts

Sister projects

 * Commons Project Architecture You are welcome to help organise media files for the project, started March 2006.
 * WikiProject Architecture/Categories lists the general framework of the architecture categories See also: Portal:Architecture/Categories, Portal talk:Architecture/Categories
 * WikiProject Engineering
 * WikiProject Industrial design
 * WikiProject Woodworking
 * WikiProject Lights Camera Wiki/Architecture

Daughter projects

 * WikiProject Airports
 * WikiProject Bridges and Tunnels
 * WikiProject Civil engineering
 * WikiProject Lighthouses
 * WikiProject Military History: Fortifications task force
 * WikiProject Mills covering windmills, watermills, animal powered engines, cotton mills and related subjects.
 * WikiProject Music venues
 * WikiProject National Register of Historic Places (started 2006)
 * WikiProject Skyscrapers
 * WikiProject Sports facilities
 * WikiProject Stations
 * WikiProject Urban studies and planning newly created - lots of work needed.
 * WikiProject U.S. Congress - deals with, in part, the buildings and facilities supporting the United States Congress.
 * WikiProject Religious Buildings, Architecture and Monasticism

There is a task force on Historic houses


 * Former projects
 * WikiProject Historic Homes (defunct) (but there is now a task force on Historic houses)
 * WikiProject Piers (defunct, now merged)

Proposed projects

 * Suggestion - Develop an Architecture Manual of Style
 * The proposed wikiprojects listed below are currently covered under the umbrella of the architecture wikiproject but by non-specialist. It is expected that wikiprojects or task forces for these subjects will eventually be created - you can do it today!
 * WikiProject Architectural heritage
 * WikiProject Construction
 * WikiProject Interior architecture and design
 * WikiProject Interior decorating
 * WikiProject Landscape architecture
 * Wikiproject Developers