Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals/2006

9/11 Truth Movement
Description: This proposed project seeks to create neutral articles about parties and actions associated with the 9/11 Truth Movement.

Temporary project page: User:Striver/WikiProject 9/11 Truth Movement


 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments
 * Striver, can you not deal with your various Muslim Wikiprojects first? Dev920 (Tory?) 16:29, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I'd say this is a bad idea. Seems to me to be a POV and soapbox push. -- Ned Scott 02:43, 10 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I agree, POV. -- Reaper  X  20:44, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Aerospace
Description: Detailed proposal at the temporary project page, but in short, I propose a Wikiproject to focus on and improve articles relating to the principles of flight and flight technology.

Temporary project page: User:Chrisd87/Project page

User: Chrisd87 16:50, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * 1) ZoFreX 17:18, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Alternative Dispute Resolution
Description: Project will address the improvement of articles relating to negotiation, conciliation, facilitation, mediation, arbitration and other processes providing an alternative to litigation.

Temporary project page: User:Edivorce/Proposed Project ADR

User: Edivorce

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Tyrenius
 * Wizardry Dragon 20:01, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

Hi, my name is Graham Martin and I have proposed a Peace and Conflict Resolution Project, however, I've now spotted this one, and I'm a little confused. I just wish to clarify whether this project is intended to cover issues around Conflict Resolution in the context of Peace Studies, or just the quasi-legal usage of different conflict resolution methods? I don't know if that made sense as my own understanding comes purely from a Peace and Conflict Resolution Studies angle. --Graham Martin 04:23, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Amazing Race
Description: A WikiProject to organize and make rules for the reality competition show The Amazing Race. Would include, table usage. What should be said about each episode (summary, challenges, who did what challenge) and season.

Interested Wikipedians: (add your name below if you're interested):
 * TeckWiz is 12 yrs oldTalk Contribs # of Edits 19:25, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

Comments

Another very narrow scope project, this could probably just as easily be done via the talk page of the main article. Also, remember our policy on TV and game guides, WP:NOT, which seems to discourage what you are suggesting. -- Ned Scott 18:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Association of Wikipedians with Mental Health Conditions
Description: To better meet the needs of users with recognised mental health conditions, I propose that we create a specific WikiProject where specific problems encountered while editing wikipedia could be addressed. This project could form a place for people to discuss issues relating to wikipedia, help others understand the problems faced by such users in editing wikipedia and in participating in the wiki-community.

Temporary project page: User:Salix alba/Association of Wikipedians with Mental Health Conditions

User: Salix alba (talk) 11:44, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments
 * Frankly, I don't want to tell the world of my mental health conditions, why should you have a Project for it? It's like the Association of Teenage Wikipedians: it deliberately forms barriers simply sets people apart by virtue of their existence. Dev920 (Tory?) 16:26, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Perhaps the scope of the project could be widened to include Wikipedians that do not have mental conditions helping those that did have mental conditions?--Dylan Lak e 07:11, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Australian Wine
Description: The project will address the lack of organised information regarding Australian Wines and the Australian Wine Industry.

Temporary project page: TBA

User: Tanzburg 10:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Scott Davis Talk

Baltic States
Description: This project originates to back when Renata3 proposed a WP Lithuania on December 14, 2005. A more general project has been proposed; it will cover the small European countries of Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia. If this project becomes more popular, subprojects for each country will be established for Latvia and Estonia, as Lithuania already has a project for it. Also, there is already a Portal:Lithuania.

Temporary project page: User:Icelandic Hurricane/WikiProject Baltic States

User: íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 01:45, 28 June 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians' (please add your name):
 * íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal)
 * Nick C

Billy Talent
Description: This project aims at improving all Billy Talent articles on Wikipedia. At the moment, all related articles require a thorough copyedit, are missing important information and are very un-coordiated.

Project Page: WikiProject Billy Talent

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name below):

Comments

Not sure I see the point of a WikiProject with such a narrow scope. Only a handful of articles would be effected. It seems all of the collaborative efforts could easily be done on the main article's talk page. -- Ned Scott 17:59, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
 * Same, I don't think it is healthy to have such a narrow WikiProject. -- Reaper  X  20:43, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

BSD Operating systems and related
Description: To make an orginized article with information about:
 * 1) The diffrent BSD's
 * 2) BSD programs/Systems (vinum, lpd, ect)
 * 3) How to use BSD
 * 4) ect

Temporary project page: User:Carpetsoker/WikiProject

User: Carpetsmoker 10:44, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Cameras
Description:

Wikiproject for the writing and improvement of articles on cameras and photographic equipment in general. There's right now an inactive WikiProject Digital Cameras; we may wish to subsume that under this more general umbrella.

Temporary project page: User:Morven/WikiProject Cameras

User: Matthew Brown (Morven) (T:C) 21:31, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Cemeteries of the United States
Description: A project to organize cemeteries by state and list prominent burials within. See a typical cemetery entry at Princeton Cemetery.

Temporary project page: User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Cemeteries of the United States

User: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )

Interested Wikipedians:
 * User:DavidBavousett
 * User:Kestenbaum

Children and Youth issues
Description Would focus on the much needed overhaul of many pages relating to issues affecting children and youth. Currently, some specific topics such as Emancipation of minors and Convention on the Rights of the Child are well written by experts. Other such as Drinking age, Voting age and Age of majority are nothing but lists and need some attention given to the debates and issues surrounding them. Currently Children's rights redirects to Children's rights movement, I would suggest the title simply be 'Children's Rights' and a complete overhaul of the issue - same with Youth rights.

There are a range of articles which could be also included, Youth representation, Juvenile Delinquency (Which is currently the target of a redirect from Youth crime) Youth voice, Youth-led media etc. etc.

The focus would primarily be political & social issues.

Temporary project page: User:Cooper-42/Children_and_youth_issues

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Chinese Romanization
Description: Due to strong lack of any knowledge on Chinese language in the Western world, many names and words which come from Chinese have a lousy Roman-script conversion. Confusion and misunderstandings are guaranteed. Improper/indexact/vague information doesn't belong to a encyclopedia anyways.

Temporary project page: User:LiangHH/Chinese Romanization

User: 亮HH 20:45, 12 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Roland Longbow
 * Ilthanar
 * Dragonbones
 * Bibliomaniac15 真棒!
 * Murdocke
 * Kyle Mullaney 孟柏凱

City of York
Description: To develop articles on the City of York, England; in particular many historical sites.

Temporary project page: User:Graham Martin/City of York

User: Graham Martin 04:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * GuillaumeTell 10:33, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Close Relationships
Description: The main goal of this project is to ensure Wikipedia readers have easy access to high quality articles on close relationships. This involves two subgoals: Temporary project page: User:Kc62301/WikiProject_Close_relationships
 * 1) Bring all articles in the close relationships project up to Wikipedia standards for good articles.
 * 2) Develop strategies and tools to help readers have easier access to all articles in the close relationships project.

User: Kelly 18:00, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name & area of interest): subjects
 * User:Kc62301 - Psychology
 * User:Bridesmill - Anthropology
 * User:Douglas R. White - Anthropology, 3 NPOV articles on Polygyny, NPOV coauthor of Standard Cross-Cultural Sample - willing to work on the Polygyny and related articles on anthropological
 * User:AWeidman - Psychology, Attachment, Treatment
 * DPeterson 20:22, 16 July 2006 (UTC) - Child treatment, psychology, attachment

Current UK MPs
Description: A project to bring the pages for current Members of the House of Commons up to standard, and then to keep them updated. It will also involve creating new pages when new members of Parliament are elected.

Temporary project page: User:Seivad/WikiProject

User: Seivad 12:42, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Comments
 * If you're interested, you can join WikiProject Biography and we can make you a task force so that you don't have to spend all the resources of making a WikiProject. Just let me know. This will be similar to how WP:MILHIST does theirs -plange 08:58, 29 July 2006 (UTC)
 * If any Conservative would like to focus on Tory MPs, sign up to the thing after my username. Dev920 (Tory?) 16:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Edit Analysis
Description: A project of limited scope to categorise a large number of recent edits by author and quality. The analysis of this data would produce very useful statistics which would be useful in the ongoing battle against vandalism, as well as other uses.

Temporary Page: User:Happy-melon/Edit sorting

Please sign your name on the above linked page rather than here.

Happy-melon 09:22, 10 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Bibliomaniac15

Enigma (musical project)
Description: The aim of this project is to first start, expand and improve the quality of the articles that fall within this WikiProject (the list of articles is already prepared) and someday get at least one of those articles up to Featured Article status. The articles all revolve around the musical project, Enigma and it would be definitely be a useful to Wikipedia and its readers if we get those articles fixed up. :)

Temporary project page: User:Andylkl/WikiProject Enigma

User: Andylkl [ talk! 19:18, 1 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Markornikov 15:41, 9 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Mart Owen 02:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Eroge
Description: The eroge wikiproject aims to create a comprehensive list and description of the many varities of Japanese eroge available at the current time. It also aims to give details on the companies producing such games.

Temporary project page: User:Nihon%3F/Eroge_Project

User: User:Nihon%3F

Interested Wikipedians (Please add your name):
 * Merovingian - Talk

Essential articles
Description: The aim of this project is to improve essential/core articles. The articles will be taken from several lists including Core Topics and List of featured articles Wikipedia should have. There will be a collaboration of the week, similar to WP:AID but broader and without nominations such as Homer Simpson... This project will also be helpful towards the WP:1.0 project. Comments and suggestions are welcome.

Temporary project page: Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Core topics/Core topics COTW

User: Gflores Talk

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Everyday item
Description: to coordinate efforts to expand and improve everyday items of all sorts, such as furniture, home appliances and clothing.

Temporary project page: none yet User: Circeus 02:05, 1 April 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians:
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:41, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Father Ted
Description: A project tat has a purpose - to create new articles about this fantastic, cult Irish television sitcom. Also, to expand upon the brilliant content that is already on the Father Ted-related articles

Temporary project page: User:Foxearth/Father Ted

User: Foxearth (talk) 14 June 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * User:Foxearth
 * Edward Elizabeth Hitler

Featured Articles
Description: This project's purpose would be to improve older featured articles that have fallen below current featured article standard and maintain current featured articles.

Temporary project page: User:Cuivienen/WikiProject Featured Articles

User: Cuivienen 13:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Cuivienen 13:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Johnleemk | Talk 18:11, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * UnDeadGoat 23:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Runa27 21:48, 20 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Josen 19:53, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * H ig hway Batman! 21:03, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Bibliomaniac15 20:50, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * AE123
 * David Iberri (talk) 02:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)
 * David Iberri (talk) 02:33, 5 October 2006 (UTC)

Comments Instead of creating a WikiProject why not go to featured article review and improve an article. Joelito (talk) 00:00, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Fighting genre Video games
Description: -Project will focus on the issue of analyzing and the construction regarding the formatting of articles pertaining to the fighting genre of Video games. Discussion would enthrall the use of what images go in articles, templates, structuring, sources, gamepaly analysis and conforming the articles to a higher standard of quality. Some examples cited that could benefit would be the King of Fighters series character articles, the Tekken character articles, and many more. It has come to my attention the video-gaming community is lacking in regard to giving these articles sufficent attention. Hopefully, this project will be a feasible solution.

Temporary project page: User talk:MegamanZero

User: ZeroTalk

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) (with an eye to merging and cleaning up unencyclopedic advice/trivia)
 * Bibliomaniac15 00:59, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * ~VNinja~ 03:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

Go
Description: There are many Go articles around Wikipedia, the bulk being stubs. The main idea of this project is to gather more information on topics such as old and new players, competitions, and sorts.

Temporary project page: User:CanbekEsen/Project page

User: Can

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Hurricane Katrina
Description: Hurricane Katrina created a bunch of pages this past fall -- a timeline, the locations affected, the failed levees and floodwalls, the myriad political/economic effects of the disaster, and so on. As the event is no longer so current, it's time to clean up the pages that were created quickly in immediate response. There's need for copyediting, sourcing, merging, and keeping an eye out for new information. I'm sure these things are already being done by many, but having a WikiProject couldn't hurt. It's definitely an active area!

Temporary project page: User:Lithogliff/Katrina

User: Litho 03:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


 * Evolauxia 01:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC) -- definitely warrants a project. I have background in meteorology but limited time, will do what I can.


 * I support it as a sub-project of WikiProject Tropical cyclones. Already part of that group, but I'd be willing to go into this one. CrazyC83 19:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)


 * A subproject sounds like a better idea. -- §  Hurricane  E  RIC  §Damages archive 22:07, 5 February 2006 (UTC)

I think it's fine either way. But if it becomes its own project, I'm a member. Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 19:27, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Iceland
Description: The project will organized and expand all existing articles on the island country of Iceland. From there, articles will be made or expanded on people, such as the presidents and prime ministers of Iceland.

Temporary project page: User:Icelandic Hurricane/Wikipedia: WikiProject Iceland

User: Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 15:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * 1) Icelandic Hurricane #12(talk) 15:06, 28 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) ForestH2 00:49, 27 June 2006 (UTC)

International Relations
Description A project which would be concerned with coordinating the creation and improvement of articles dealing with the study and practice of international relations. I'm really open to any idea's anyone may have on how to format the project, such as articles of the month, tages, etc., but I really do feel that this encyclopedia could benefit greatly from such a project, given the increasing importance of international relations in a globalized world.

Temporary project page:' User:Trojan traveler/WikiProject

User: Trojan traveler

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * 1) Jakob mark 16:06, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) Cxk271 09:34, 9 August 2006 (UTC) I think its a good idea, the IR stuff at the moment on wikipedia is a bit sloppy, there's quite a lot of overlap and it could do with some more coherent shaping.

Interwiki
He Who Is[ Talk ] 20:01, 22 June 2006 (UTC)

Description: Import information between wikipedia and wiktionary. Create identical articles and entries on both wikis where applicable.

User: He Who Is[ Talk ]

Discussion: User:He Who Is/Interwiki

Interested Wikipedians: (List yourself below)

Jordan
Description: A project specifically for Articles related to Jordan, many articles are already in place but of such poor quality, since usually articles are of jordan are listed in the middle east categories, we will work to correctly categorize articles for jordan. Most categories are already in place.

Also, to make Jordan an article with feature article quality.

Temporary project page: User:raraa/Wikiproject Jordan

'Interested Wikipedians: (Please add your name):

Looney Tunes characters
Description: As you can see, not every Looney Tunes character has a page and very many are linked to other characters on the Looney Tunes character page. I want to make sure every Looney Tune gets its own page on Wikipedia, or at least more than a brief reference in one article, but I don't know enough to do it myself. Who's with me?

Temporary project page:

User: Wack'd Talk to me!

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Mr. Garrison 18:29, 2 October 2006 (UTC) - Great idea!

Comments: You might want to try joining up with the slightly in-active WikiProject American Animation on this. -- Ned Scott 02:57, 19 October 2006 (UTC)

Marc Bolan and T. Rex
To build a comprehensive database on one of the most influential acts of the 1970s. --

User:Haveaguess 18:43, 30 June 2006 (UTC) (come see my page for more)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)

Marine life
Description: Project will work to improve and expand articles on Wikipedia in regards to marine fishes, invertabrates, coral, and so forth. The group will also work to increase the information about the hobby of marine husbandry. Both of which topic are lacking.

Temporary project page: User:Dark jedi requiem/marinelife

User: Dark jedi requiem

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Sidious1701 01:14, 18 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:00, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

M*A*S*H
Description: ... to provide a common layout for articles about and concerning M*A*S*H, whether it be the novels, the film or the television series. Also for maintentance of the Portal.

Temporary project page: User:Sarsaparilla39/WikiProject M*A*S*H

User: Sarsaparilla39 08:48, 9 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Isabella123

Medieval women
Description: A project to create articles on all medieval women of note, and to fill out Wikipedia's coverage of an area of history that is starting to get scholarly notice. Project would include improving existing articles as well as creating new ones, and possibly creating a portal that would make it easier to see connections between the lives of women of this period.

Temporary project page: User:Cantara/WikiProject Medieval women

User: Cantara 20:50, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

BengalRenaissanceEccentrica 02:27, 17 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:06, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * Kjsmith7 15:24, 4 April 2006 (GMT)

Comments
 * If you're interested, you can join WikiProject Biography and we can make you a task force so that you don't have to spend all the resources of making a WikiProject. Just let me know. This will be similar to how WP:MILHIST does theirs -plange 09:00, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Mega Man
Description: This Wikiproject would add articles of upcoming games and characters to the Mega Man series and maintain good qualitiy of the pages already existing.

Temporary project page: User_talk:Doug_teh_H-Nut/MegaManWikiproject

User: Doug teh H-Nut 16:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * - A Man In Bl♟ck (conspire | past ops) (with an eye to merging and cleaning up unencyclopedic advice/trivia)

Motorcycles
Description:

Wikiproject for the writing and improvement of articles on motorcycles in general.

Temporary project page: User:Seasalt/Project_Motorcycles

User: Seasalt 01:08, 10 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * ww2censor 13:44, 13 October 2006 (UTC) Isle of Man TT results and other motorcycle racing, British marques and some technology
 * Izaakb 15:09, 13 October 2006 (UTC) (certain Italian marques)

So it is started, but called WikiProject_Motorcycling not Motorcycles as that seems better.

Neighbours
Description: An attempt to improve the quality of the Neighbours articles in general, and hopefully have some sort of standard implemented.

Temporary project page: User:JD_UK/WikiProject Neighbours

User: JD talkemail 19:38, 12 June 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * User:JD_UK
 * Abcdefghijklm

Nelvana
Description: A collaborative effort to build a guide of articles concerning the world of the Canadian animation company, Nelvana Limited.

Temporary project page: User:Slgrandson/WikiProject Nelvana

User: Slgr @ ndson (page - messages - contribs) 15:05, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

New Member Recruitment
Description: As an alternative to Newbie Recruitment Initiative - finding ways to attract more people to come and edit wikipedia, especially people interested in under-represented subjects. Could involve posting on bulletin boards, sending emails, researching what motivates people to participate, and discuss strategies. (Note that Building Wikipedia membership already exists)

Temporary project page: User:Flammifer/Wikiproject New member recruitment

User: Flammifer 08:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Flammifer 08:42, 23 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:42, 6 May 2006 (UTC)- Now this is what I'm talking about.
 * Lbr123 20:56, 13 June 2006 (UTC)

New Style role-playing games
Description: A series of articles about Hogshead Publishing's New Style line of games: De Profundis, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Pantheon, Puppetland & Powerkill, and Violence.

Temporary project page: User:SalvorHardin

User: Salvor Hardin 07:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Organized Crime
Description:

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/Organized crime

User: MadMax 00:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * MadMax
 * Steven Petersen
 * PeteShanosky
 * Mantanmoreland

Peace
Description: This project would work to improve and develop articles which are useful for Peace Education, covering concepts, theories and theorists from within the field of Peace Studies and Conflict Resolution Studies.

Someone has suggested I rename the proposal, which I have now done.

Temporary project page: User:Graham Martin/Peace and Conflict Resolution

User: Graham Martin 04:13, 11 May 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


 * Edward Lalone 01:23, 12 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Madris 05:24, 17 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Donnerstag 01:49, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

Phaidon Design Classics book set
Description: a Wikipedia version of Phaidon's Design Classics Book set ISBN: 0 7148 4399 7 on Amazon.com . Its basically an illustrated list of objects-as far as I am aware you cant copyright a list (obviously the text and images etc of the book set are). I think it would make a great project/portal (I'm new here at Wikipedia- not too sure of the jargon!). The book set is beautiful but costs a heavy $175/€150. I dont actually mean to title the project Phaidon Design Classic but, the list of the objects from that book set would be the core of the project.

Temporary project page: I don't have one yet. I was testing the waters so to speak

User: Trounce 15:42, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Piracy
Description: As with the proposed "Wild West" WikiProject, this project will also attempt to improve the quality and general covering of subjects relating to Piracy, especially its "Golden Age" (1690-1730), as well as the Sea Dog/Corsair (1580-1650) and Buccaneering (1640-1690) eras.

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/WikiProject Piracy (will create one if project generates interest)

User: MadMax 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * User:MadMax
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:45, 6 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Josen 19:54, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Awiseman 03:58, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * íslenska hurikein #12(samtal) 11:52, 11 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Adolphus79 21:09, 21 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Aardvark92 16:56, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Place names

 * Description : The idea of the project is to have a page where one might find the answer to questions like:
 * "How many places in the world are named XXXXX?" or
 * "What other places are called XXXXX?"

This is a little more complex than a simple category in which an article about a certain place would be given the tag, because when a person visited that Category list the intention would be to not only see a list of all the articles which are linked in Wikipedia, but also a brief note to aid the user in choosing the one which might be most useful or appropriate to their needs.

For example if one was interested in "Victoria" the name Victoria would be found in the list and it would carry brief information such as that found in Victoria for any and all places that have "Victoria" as part of their name.

Why not simply incorporate this information into new and existing articles so that it appears as it does in the article called Victoria? Although it would be great, there are reasons to have a separate alphabetical list of places:


 * 1) Because a searcher might not find an article which is simply based on the name he is seeking, or the main article which dealt with the term might not be about a place. (eg Hope)
 * 2) Because the creator of a new article using a term which is a place name might not even be aware that it is a place name.

The project I imagine would show each name which had more than one location attached to it as an expandible link eg:
 * +Place name, which, when it was clicked would display all the names in the list together with their brief descriptions.

In addition, Place names could be included into sub groups, such as "Place names in Africa", or even Place names by other divisions, such as continent, country, etc.

Proposed by:  J A X HERE  |  T a l k  15:15, 27 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Interested Wikipedians (please add your name)
 * 1) [your name here]


 * Comments

Programming Language Design, Implementation and Theory
Description: Organizes and edits articles on the theory of programming languages, as well as technical issues related to their design and construction. Examples of likely topics would include:


 * Formal models and calculii (the Lambda Calculus, the process calculii, etc).
 * Compiler construction (parsing, lexing, semantic analysis, code generation, etc).
 * Type theory and type systems
 * Possibly, discussion of research programming languages
 * Related areas in mathematics, i.e. computability theory
 * Runtime design and implementation--topics such as garbage collection, virtual machines (in the context of programming languages), linkers and program loaders, etc.
 * Programming paradigms.
 * Other topics which are covered by the charter but which I haven't thought about.

There currently exists a WikiProject Programming languages which is flagged as inactive, this existing project seems to focus on the following practical subjects:


 * Cataloguing articles about programming languages themselves, and about popular implementations thereof
 * Detailed topics on specific programming languages

In addition, many of the topics listed in the charter already have excellent articles on Wikipedia; this project wouldn't attempt any "hostile takeovers" on such (other than providing navboxes and the like).

Temporary project page: User:EngineerScotty/Programming Language Theory

User: EngineerScotty 00:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):


 * 1) Alienus 18:11, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) CWC (talk) 17:13, 17 May 2006 (UTC)

Roller coasters
Description: The objective of the Wiki Roller Coaster project is to improve the quality of the roller coaster articles. Some of them are very bad and there is no concensus on formatting etc. I've created an infobox, but there is still lots of work to do.

Temporary project page: Wikiproject Roller Coaster

User: Snailwalker | talk 22:07, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:04, 22 March 2006 (UTC)
 * J.reed [[Image:Flag_of_the_United_States.svg|24px]] 23:48, 3 May 2006 (UTC)

Salmonidae
Description: This project will work on salmon and trout articles, verify information, turn stubs into non-stubs, and attempt to achieve good and featured article status for those articles.

Temporary project page: User talk:Josen/Wikiproject: Salmon

User: Josen

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * 1) Josen
 * 2) Bibliomaniac15- busy, but I'll see whether I can squeeze some time in

Saturday Night Live
Description: Everything related to the NBC show Saturday Night Live, its casts, characters, crews, sketches, seasons, and spin-off movies.
 * User: User:Lbr123
 * Temorary Project Page: (coming soon)
 * Interested Wikipedians: (please add your name):

Twin Peaks
Description: This project proposes to increase and improve the coverage in Wikipedia of the Twin Peaks television series, specifically the creation of individual pages for each episode.

Temporary project page: User:Morning star/WikiProject Twin Peaks

User: Morning star 16:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Ncsaint
 * Myles Long/cDc
 * Blood Victory

Unincorporated communities in the United States
Description: To consolidate articles about unincorporated communities that have been split into multiple articles about the census-designated places within those communities, or, to write new articles about such communities reflecting their identities as single communities. Also to rewrite the opening of articles about unincorporated communities to say something other than (for example) "Borrego Springs is a census-designated place".

Temporary project page: User:Rsduhamel/cdp

User: Rsduhamel 06:33, 24 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * 1) íslenska hurikein #12 (samtal) 11:57, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2) AE123

US Exec Branch
Description: Well.. I noticed alot of the US Exec Department sites do not have any formataility and they are very unorginized because of the many "sub" departments each part has. This main "project" would serve many sub projects. including the already started WikiProject FBI project.

Temporary project page: Would be based off the WikiProject FBI design.

User: Shane (talk/contrib) 00:36, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):

Veterinary Biology
Description: A project which has the aims of making articles on the Wikipedia relating to Veterinary medicines, treatment, conditions and general animal health, better and easier to locate. Because this articles falling under this project use a lot of technical language relating to the veterinary profession, we would be most happy to welcome practising and retired veterinarians (large or small animal practice), veterinary students, veterinary nurses and anyone else involved with the treatment or care of animals. A good command of the English language is required for this one, users en-3 and above. The goal of the project is to provide a fast way of getting accurate and complete information and references for all veterinary articles on Wikipedia.

Temporary project page: User:Tmalmjursson/wikiprojectproposal:veterinarybiology

User: Thor Malmjursson 00:55, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Bibliomaniac15 01:43, 6 May 2006 (UTC)

Warhammer Fantasy
Description a general drive to devolop a standard format and improve current Warhammer Fantasy articles as many are not as good as their Warhammer 40k counterparts and as the rich subject matter deserves.

User Davard 7:37, 24 April 2006

'Interested Wikipedians
 * Davard 7:37, 24 April 2006
 * MaxPowers 1:15, 27 May 2006

Wild West
Description: This project will attempt to improve the quality and of subjects relating to the "Wild West" era of the American southwest during the 19th century (and possibly oversee the consolidation and overall reorganization of said category).

Temporary project page: User:MadMax/WikiProject Wild West (will create one if project generates interest)

User: MadMax 21:53, 27 March 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * User:MadMax
 * User:BlackJack

Zoo
Description: WikiProject Zoo will be a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to zoos, aquariums, and aviaries. I have experience setting up and running an organized WikiProject (see WikiProject Guitarists) so this will be properly maintained if interest is there.

Temporary project page: User:Aguerriero/WikiProject Zoo

User: Aguerriero  ( talk ) 22:04, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
 * Sure. I recently have created Template:Infobox zoo and added them to all of the AZA members, so there's a start already. Cburnett 14:32, 1 November 2006 (UTC)