Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia

WikiProject Australia  is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Australia. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and style of articles, which can be discussed at the project's notice board. To participate, simply add your name to the project members page.

Our goals

 * 1) To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australia.
 * 2) To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles in a fair and accurate manner.
 * 3) To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australia in Wikipedia.

Project scope
The project generally considers any article related to Australia to be a valid topic.

Project organisation
If you wish to help out, please add your name to the list of participants.
 *  It is recommended that Project members add each of the following Project pages to their watchlists. 


 * Discussion board - Main talk page for this project
 * Deletion board - Editor generated listing of current deletions
 * Article alerts - Bot generated listing of  deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews and move requests.
 * Unreferenced BLPs - Bot generated listing of Biographies with no references
 * New articles - Bot generated listing of new articles that may need assessment
 * To-do list - Editor generated listing of articles to be created and of articles that have problems.
 * Requested images - Editor generated listing of needed images.
 * Help & tools - A help page with search option, tips and tools
 * Popular pages - Bot generated listing  of the most viewed pages that should be improved  and watched over closely for vandalism
 * Featured content - Bot generated listing of FA and GA level articles and pictures
 * Outreach - A centralised work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts
 * Automation - A page about automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks.
 * Statistics - Overall statistics page
 * Userboxes - Australian related user page boxes
 * Assessment - Article classification system


 * List of .

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Australia-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:
 * Outline of Australia
 * Index of Australia-related articles

Sub-projects
This WikiProject is a parent project to many sub-projects dedicated to maintaining a wide variety of Australian topics. Editors are encouraged to also participate in the more regional and/or topic specific projects  listed below.

WikiProject Australian places· New South Wales (Riverina)· Northern Territory· Queensland

South Australia· Tasmania· Victoria· Western Australia· Australian Antarctic Territory

Australian WikiProject Cities· Adelaide· Brisbane· Canberra· Melbourne· Perth· Geelong· Sydney

Other Australia-related WikiProjects· Biota· Cinema· Crime· Demographics· Education· History (Exploration· Maritime· Military)· Indigenous peoples· Noongar· Law· Literature· Music (Crowded House· Kylie Minogue· Powderfinger)· Politics· Sports (Australian rules football· Baseball· Basketball· Football (soccer)· Motorsport)· Roads· Television· Transport

Departments
The WikiProject Australia assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australian articles. An assessment parameter (FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
 * Assessment
 * Classification

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.
 * Collaboration

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Australia (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

As collaborative efforts have slowed, there is no current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Australia articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.
 * Requested images

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.
 * Outreach

To do

 * WikiProject Australia Articles for review

Templates
Article recognition (Assessments) are performed via parameters in the WikiProject Australia project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.
 * Project banner

Portals may be placed in the See also section of Australian related articles, there are topic/regional  specific portals available.See: Category:Australian portals Navigational templates may be placed at the bottom of Australian related articles, there are topic/regional specific navboxs available. See: Category:Australian navigational boxes Templates used to help identify small Australian-related articles.
 * Portals
 * Navigational templates
 * Stubs

Add the following template to your user page to give yourself quick links to main Australia projects and project pages.
 * User page

To award this, simply add  to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.
 * The Australian Barnstar of National Merit

Indigenous source material
Please add any indigenous source material (or commons categories) here with a brief description of the content:
 * — A good entry point for Indigenous communities in Queensland, all CC-BY licensed and most of the information I have checked appears to include its sources, so a gateway to a broader set of sources
 * A high-level map showing indigenous language/tribal/nation groups. Please note the limitations mentioned.
 * A compilation of Noongar language resources is at Wikisource:Portal:Western Australia; some are being transcribed there, and added to Wiktionary also. See also Noongarpedia.
 * A directory created in South Australia to assist Aboriginal people removed from their families as a result of Australian government policies wishing to "establish connections to their family, community, culture and country."