Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities

The current scope of the Communities Division Workgroup of Project Iowa includes those communities that have an established geographical boundary. Currently these are the State of Iowa, Counties, Incorporated cities, Unincorporated cities and Townships. We are open to other types of communities in the future.  ''' Welcome to all who visit this page. '''

We very much  appreciate  volunteers.

The mission is to improve the articles of:

The state of Iowa to Featured Article status.

All 99 counties to C-Class or higher.

Cities with a population of 50,000 and more to A-Class.

Cities with a population of 25,000 and more to B-Class.

Cities with a population of 1000 and more to C-Class.

All other Incorporated cities to Start-Class or higher.

Select cities to attain Good or Featured article status.

All unincorporated cities to have articles created.

All townships to have articles created.

Milestones
  MAJOR MILESTONES 
 * 2010-12-09 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched.
 * 2010-12-18 Communities workgroup established.
 * 2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles created.


 * 2010-12-09 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched
 * 2010-12-10 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities page launched.
 * 2010-12-10 Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities page launched.
 * 2010-12-10 Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities page launched.
 * 2010-12-18 Communities workgroup established.
 * 2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles created.
 * 2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles by importance created.
 * 2010-12-18 Category:Iowa (communities) articles by quality created.

Membership
Volunteers are  appreciated 

You are encouraged to change your levels, city size, or activity choices at any time. List your 1st and 2nd activity preference
 * Level 1
 * 1 I am interested in Iowa communities but don't ask me I will help when I want
 * 2 I will commit to helping one or two days a month
 * 3 I will commit to working on the project at least one or two days a week
 * 4 I will commit to working on the project several days a week
 * 5 I will be active on the project almost every day
 * Level 2
 * 10 I do not want to participate on level 2
 * 11 Patroller, I will schedule days to check list daily for new postings and verify information.
 * 12 Call on me for special tasks
 * 13 I have the expertise and the commitment to advance articles to GA and/or FA class.
 * 14 I have the expertise and will evaluate articles for Class and Importance
 * Preferred Community Size to work on
 * 1 No preference
 * 2 Top 10 major cities
 * 3 Bigger cities 6,000+ residents  60 cities
 * 4 Smaller cities 1,000-6,000 residents 216 cities
 * 5 Very small cities <1,000 residents 700 + (exact number to determined)
 * 6 Townships (number to be determined)
 * 7 Counties 99
 * Preferred activity


 * 1 General
 * 2 Article building - Finding new information
 * 3 Fact checking
 * 4 Validating references
 * 5 Referencing - Research and providing references for existing articles.
 * 6 Edit for spelling, grammar, content flow
 * 7 Structure - Restructuring existing information to conform to WikiProject Cities/US Guideline
 * 8 Visual improvements pictures, maps, diagrams new and old

The state of Iowa
State of Iowa – The state of Iowa is a community, we all think of ourselves as Iowans.

States articles that have achieved FA-Class Minnesota Oklahoma Virginia

States articles that have achieved GA-Class South Dakota Texas

Ideas discussed in Mid 2009 on how to improve the Iowa article can be found at User:Ctjf83/Iowa.

Counties
All 99 counties have at a minimum a stub articles started for them.

List of counties in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically, More than just a list

Falls under the jurisdiction of WikiProject U.S. counties has a structure guideline.

Template Infobox U.S. county

Description and information County (United States)

For example a county article B-class Warren County, Indiana

Incorporated cities
All 949 incorporated cities have at a minimum a stub article started for them.

List of cities in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.

Falls under the jurisdiction of WikiProject Cities

Template Infobox settlement

Description and information City

For examples of incorporated city articles see the section Assessment.

The breakdown for these classifications and therefore the tables are based on the 2000 census.
 * Classification of incorporated cities for task tables


 * 60 Large cities 6,001 and more residents 2 tables of 30 cities
 * 216 Midsize cities 1,001–6,000 residents 5 tables - (4 of 43 cities & 1 of 44 cities)
 * 441 Small towns 201–1,000 residents 9 tables - (8 of 50 cities & 1 of 41 cities)
 * 232 Tiny towns 200 and less residents 5 tables - (4 of 50 cities & 1 of 32 Cities)




 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha) Over time with average views, has some flaws.
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics (beta) A month by month view.

Tables

 * Bigger cities 30 Altoona-Indianola
 * Bigger cities 30 Iowa City-West Des Moines
 * Smaller cities 27 A=16 B=11
 * Smaller cities 29 C=21 D=8
 * Smaller cities 28 E=11 F=4 G=13
 * Smaller cities 33 H=10 I=2 J=3 K=4 L=14
 * Smaller cities 36 M=22 N=7 O=7
 * Smaller cities 38 P=10 R=7 S=21
 * Smaller cities 25 T=5 U=1 V=2 W=17
 * Very small cities 8 tables of 50 cities and 1 table of 41 cities
 * Rearrange the Smaller cities into even tables of 44 or 43 cities
 * 230 Tiny towns of less than 200 residents 5 tables
 * Table of all 949 cities

  WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncALL CITIES  A searchable table of all 949 incorporated cities located on another page. Searchable by Population, Land area, By county(ies) the city is located in.

Tasks to do
The Task tables is a system of notifying members of who is working on what table and priority. The theory is to elevate all communities in Iowa to respectable levels for the type of community and to avoid members working on the same table (city, county, township) at the same time. You are able to "check out" (like a library book) and then copy and paste the table into your own sandbox. When you have completed the task for that table or if decide to stop working on the task you can "check back in" the table with whatever progress you have made. We will then have a record so the next member can continue on.

These next 3 lines are in every table and explanations are in the column code.

The 1st line is title line, the 2nd line is description of maximum space requirements.

|Name of Community|| 2000 Pop. || 2010 Pop.|| P1 || P2 || P3 || I / C Class || I / C Scale  || Notes

| use city, state || 0000,000 || 000,000 ||||||||FA/FA||Top/High||blank


 * Name of Community = Name of Community (already in table)
 * 2000 Pop = 2000 Population (already in table)
 * 2010 Pop = 2010 Population (data to be inputted)

The Priorities explanation can be found at WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities

The first goal is raise all incorporated cities articles to Priority 1 level starting with the Large cities first.


 * P1 = Priority one (input the template when completed)
 * P2 = Priority two (input the template when completed)
 * P3 = Priority three (input the template when completed)
 * I / C Class = Article class Project Iowa / Project Cities (default is stub, may be eliminated)
 * I / C Scale = Article Importance Scale Project Iowa / Project Cities ( may be eliminated)
 * Notes = Notes

Unincorporated cities
Approximately 5% have articles started.

List of unincorporated communities in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.

Falls under the jurisdiction of WikiProject Cities

Template Infobox settlement

Description and information Unincorporated area and Town

For example a unincorporated city article (need one)

  WikiProject Iowa/Communities/UnincALL CITIES  A table of all 1183 Unincorporated communities located on another page. 132 Article Stubs created before Communities Division was activated. Currently there is 132 articles with the classification of Stub-Class Currently there is no articles with the classification of Start-Class Shows status of an article's individual development.

Townships
Approximately 20% have articles started.

List of townships in Iowa by county Alphabetically listed Counties first then townships

List of townships in Iowa Can be searched alphabetically.

Falls under the jurisdiction of WikiProject Cities

Template Infobox settlement

Description and information Township (United States)

For example a township article GA Class Hyde Park Township, Cook County, Illinois

For example a township article B-Class Prairie Ronde Township, Michigan

Sources for information
WikiProject Cities

Some sources may require use of other programs like pdf reader, MS word, MS excel
 * State Library of Iowa Wealth of information.
 * American FactFinder
 * U.S. Census Bureau People, Business, Government finances (state, local, school) and more
 * Population estimates
 * State Historical Society of Iowa
 * Iowa Department of Public Health
 * Iowa GenWeb Project Genealogy and area History some lists of political positions.
 * National Register of Historic Places
 * 50states Iowa Trivia
 * City-Data Comprehensive Statistical Data about most communities. - Can target a locale in a reference.

Coordinates for communities
The Coord template is used to standardize the presentation of coordinates (latitude and longitude) in Wikipedia articles. Complete documentation for the Coord template is at Template:Coord/doc. Coord can place coordinates in the text of an article, in the title area (top right corner), or in both places. Coordinates can also appear in infoboxes.

Per WikiProject Cities/US Guideline, if a community's article has an infobox, then the community's overall coordinates should appear there and not in the body of the article. (Coordinates of specific features within the community may still appear in the body.)
 * All incorporated cities of Iowa now have Infobox settlement, so their coordinates should be coded there. Once this is done, any overall coordinates in the body of the article (including the Geography section) should be removed.
 * Articles about townships and unincorporated communities should eventually use Infobox settlement. Please add infoboxes to these articles if they don't have it.  Once the overall coordinates are coded in the infobox, they can be removed from the body of the article.
 * Infobox U.S. county, however, does not provide parameters for specifying coordinates. Articles about counties should therefore use the Coord template.  Coord can be placed anywhere in an article.  It often appears in the Geography section or just before the categories. (See User:Dispenser for a partial explanation.)
 * The Geographic Names Information System is a good source for Iowa coordinates.
 * Please don't specify coordinates with excessive precision. Note that 0.0001 degree is less than 35 feet and 1 second is less than 100 ft.

Infobox settlement uses the following parameters:
 * latd // degrees of latitude (non-negative number)
 * latm // minutes of latitude (non-negative number less than 60)
 * lats // seconds of latitude (non-negative number less than 60)
 * latNS // N for "North"
 * longd // degrees of longitude (non-negative number)
 * longm // minutes of longitude (non-negative number less than 60)
 * longs // seconds of longitude (non-negative number less than 60)
 * longEW // W for "West"
 * coor_pinpoint // what coordinates refer to, if known (e.g. Town Hall)
 * coordinates_type // for township type:adm3rd_region:US-IA; otherwise leave blank
 * coordinates_display // inline,title
 * coordinates_footnotes // reference(s) for coordinates, placed within

Coord recognizes many formats, including:
 * The basic degree-minute format, displayed in title area only:


 * The basic decimal-degree format, displayed in title area only:

Coord also accepts an additional positional parameter containing coordinate parameters:
 * Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm1st for a state like Iowa
 * Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm2nd" for an Iowa county.
 * Use "|region:US-IA_type:adm3rd" for an Iowa township.
 * Use "|region:US-IA_type:city" for an Iowa city, town, or unincorporated community with unspecified population.
 * Use "|region:US-IA_type:city(nnn)" for an Iowa city, town, or unincorporated community with population nnn.

See the Coord documentation at Template:Coord/doc for more coordinate parameters. There are 19 parameters just for type. Note that coordinate parameters may appear in any order, separated by underscores. They must not contain spaces, stiles, or equal-signs.

Examples

 * State of Iowa

Note: "_scale:3000000" overrides the default map scale for type:adm1st.


 * Scott County, Iowa

Note: "_source:dewiki" indicates that the coordinates were copied from the German Wikipedia.

{{Infobox settlement ... ... ...
 * Hiawatha, Iowa (incorporated city)
 * coordinates_type   = region:US-IA_type:city
 * coordinates_display = inline,title
 * coordinates_footnotes =
 * latd = 42 |latm = 2 |lats = 52 |latNS = N
 * longd = 91 |longm = 41 |longs = 12 |longEW = W

{{coord|41|39|54|N|93|32|42|W|type:city_region:US-IA|display=title}}
 * Berwick, Iowa (unincorporated community without an infobox)

Note: needs {{Tl|Infobox settlement}}. Update: added infobox Kepper66 (talk) 23:28, 22 January 2012 (UTC)

{{coord|42.073928|-92.478991|display=title|type:adm3rd_region:US-IA}}
 * Carroll Township, Tama County, Iowa

Note: needs {{Tl|Infobox settlement}}.

Assessment
Assesment of the articles by Class and importance.


 * Table and information for the communities workgroup will be coming in the future.

Council Bluffs, Des Moines. Dubuque, Iowa City
 * Interesting assessment facts as of 2010-12-27
 * There is 49,215 articles under the WikiProject Cities
 * 60 have achieved Featured Article status. Category:FA-Class WikiProject Cities articles
 * FA to use as examples: Hillsboro, Oregon, Kent, Ohio, Grand Forks, North Dakota
 * 118 have achieved Good Article status. Category:GA-Class WikiProject Cities articles
 * GA to use as examples: Harrisburg, Illinois, Columbia, Missouri, Omaha, Nebraska
 * There are 7 in the A-Class category including Davenport, Iowa.
 * 714 are classified as B-Class of which these are in Iowa:
 * Interesting also is WikiProject Cities/Top 25 US Cities Classes

Classification of articles Stub to and through C-Class is subjective.
 * Unincorporated communities and townships assessment

The following classifications are for communities division only.

infobox with name, coordinate information, subdivisions information, time zone, Zip code, GNIS code # history (brief - preferably date established and explanation of name choice) transportation (main roads) references county template geography (water ways, land formations) demographics expand transportation (railroads, airports trails) demographics parks and recreation notable people if applicable.
 * Stub would be any article started with a lede (lead for american english) statement.
 * Quality Stub
 * Quality Stub for townships would also include a description of any communities located within it's borders
 * Start-Class would have an expanded history
 * Quality Start to be determined.
 * C-Class to be determined

Communities Page to do list

 * Administration
 * 1) 2010-12-08 Make patrollers schedule  ❌ Need somebody to make calendar setup
 * 2) 2010-12-10 Make a Project Iowa/Communities Barnstar and/or Award  See talk page
 * 3) 2010-12-19 Make a table for quality and importance.


 * 2010-12-08 Start WikiProject Iowa/Communities.
 * 2010-12-08 Start talk: WikiProject Iowa/Communities.
 * 2010-12-08 Make Description of Members level of activity.
 * 2010-12-08 Make Members table.
 * 2010-12-08 Make Project Iowa and invite message.
 * 2010-12-08 Place message on WikiProject Iowa.
 * 2010-12-08 Send Invite message to Project Iowa members.
 * 2010-12-10 Start WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities.
 * 2010-12-10 Start talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities.
 * 2010-12-10 Make Communities priority page.
 * 2010-12-10 Make infobox for Project Iowa/Communities/Priorities.
 * 2010-12-10 Make To do list Administration "completed" into a collapsed list
 * 2010-12-10 Make To do list Article "completed" into a collapsed list
 * 2010-12-16 Make incorporated cities Tables into 3 collapsed categories.
 * 2010-12-18 Create incorporated cities tables page.
 * 2010-12-18 Create Communities workgroup.
 * 2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles.
 * 2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles by importance.
 * 2010-12-18 Create Category:Iowa (communities) articles by quality.

See detailed description at WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities
 * Article
 * 1) 2010-12-08 Discussion and consensus on priorities
 * 1) 2010-12-31 Break up Unincorporated cities list into tables
 * 2) 2010-12-31 Break up Townships list into tables
 * 3) 2010-12-31 Break up Counties list into tables
 * 4) 2011-01-02 Establish assessement criteria for Stub through C-Class
 * 5) 2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all unincorporated communities
 * 6) 2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all Townships
 * 7) 2011-01-02 Create assessment progress table for all Counties

Large 60 Midsize 216 Small 441 Tiny
 * 2010-12-08 Make Tasks into a table
 * 2010-12-08 Break up Incorporated cities list into tables

Patrol schedule
Patrolling Incorporated Cities Patrolling All Iowa Communities
 * Entire section needs development.
 * Calendar
 * Other ideas?
 * An Iowa incorporated cities patrolling link that shows recent changes to just those cities can be found at:
 * An Iowa Communities patrolling link that shows recent changes to all Iowa's communities can be found at:

Invite message
Wikipedia:WikiProject Iowa/Communities is linked in the message, just not active on this page. It will be "blue linked" on any other page.  ''' GOOD NEWS The division of WikiProject Iowa called WikiProject Iowa/Communities has been activated. '''

Assorted information

 * Assorted Ideas without form. (dumping ground for suggestions)

Links

 * Iowa
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics (alpha) Over time with average views, has some flaws.
 * Wikipedia article traffic statistics (beta) A month by month view.
 * City Data bigger cities
 * City Data smaller cities
 * City Data very small towns

WikiProject Cities/US Guideline

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Cities/US Guideline

WikiProject Iowa

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities

Wikipedia :WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities

Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Iowa/Communities/Priorities

WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncCITIES

WikiProject Iowa/Communities/IncALL CITIES

WikiProject Iowa/Communities/UnincALL CITIES

User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Iowa (communities) WikiProject Cities/U.S. municipality notes

Categories

 * Category:Iowa-related lists
 * Category:Unincorporated communities in Iowa
 * Category:Townships in Iowa
 * Category:Populated places in Iowa
 * Category:Cities in Iowa
 * Category:Iowa counties


 * Category:Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Iowa (communities) articles by importance
 * Category:Iowa (communities) articles by quality


 * Category:Top-importance Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:High-importance Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Mid-importance Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Low-importance Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:NA-importance Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Unknown-importance Iowa (communities) articles


 * Category:FA-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:A-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:GA-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:B-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:C-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Start-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Stub-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:FL-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:List-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:NA-Class Iowa (communities) articles
 * Category:Unassessed Iowa (communities) articles

Lists

 * List of cities in Iowa Search Alphabetically
 * List of unincorporated communities in Iowa
 * List of townships in Iowa by county Alphabetically listed Counties first then townships
 * List of townships in Iowa Search Alphabetically
 * List of counties in Iowa More than just a list