Wikipedia:WikiProject District of Columbia

Welcome to the District of Columbia WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Washington, D.C.


 * Goals
 * The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage on subjects related to Washington, D.C., by expanding articles on people, places, and things resident or native to the District of Columbia.
 * Increase the number of Washington, D.C. related good articles and featured articles.


 * Scope
 * This project proposes to work with all pages related to the District of Columbia, its history, geography, and people.

Open tasks
All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

New articles
Please feel free to list your new District of Columbia-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box the Main Page. Please also make sure that each new article created is put into one of the categories for the District of Columbia, so that the articles will appear there.


 * 2101 Connecticut Avenue
 * 1864 Washington Arsenal explosion
 * Navy Yard Urns
 * Norwegian Christmas Tree in Washington, D.C.
 * Key House

Newly tagged articles

 * Faith and Confidence
 * Call Your Mother (restaurant)
 * Dolores Kendrick
 * Isabel Haslup Lamb
 * Ida Heiberger

Departments

 * Assessment - rates articles for both quality and importance to this project.


 * Collaboration of the week


 * Peer review

Project banner

 * The template should be placed on the talk pages of relevant articles to put them under the project's radar. It looks like this:

Stubs








'NOTE: Stubs are managed by the Stub-sorting WikiProject. Before creating a new stub, you should propose it at WikiProject Stub sorting/Proposals. See Stub for general guidelines on proposing stub templates and categories. DO NOT simply create new stub templates, as these will be deleted.'

Subpages

 * List of

Resources

 * Official Website
 * Washington, D.C. Convention and Tourism Corporation
 * Listing of Washington D.C. services
 * Memorials and Monuments
 * USGS real-time, geographic, and other scientific resources of Washington, D.C.
 * The L'Enfant and MacMillan city plans for Washington DC
 * Washington Monument Capitol Building Webcam
 * Washington Monument Capitol Building Potomac River Webcam
 * Locations of boundary stones
 * Washington, D.C. Crime Map
 * Washington, D.C. School map
 * Washington, D.C. School map

Online resources
The following periodicals are available on one or more commercial databanks. Should any editors wish to access them but lack access to those databanks, please drop me an e-mail indicating your own e-mail address and the specific indications of the subject you are interested in, and I will forward the information to you. John Carter (talk) 17:32, 6 February 2011 (UTC)
 * 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (2008-2009)

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.