Wikipedia:WikiProject Ireland

WikiProject Ireland  is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the island of Ireland. This page and its subpages contain their ideas; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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This project has been created in an attempt to:
 * Improve existing articles relating to Ireland,
 * Create needed articles relating to Ireland, and
 * Provide information in standardised format so that there is consistency for articles on places in, or related to Ireland.

Articles and categories relating to Ireland are extensive and work needs to be/is being done across a multitude of areas. In order to gain the benefits of collaboration, please update this page with any relevant "to do’s.

Major pending tasks

 * 1) Get the main Ireland article to featured article status.
 * 2) Improve at least several articles enough that they can become featured articles.
 * 3) Aid the maintenance and improvement of the Ireland Portal and the Northern Ireland Portal

Participants

 * See: WikiProject Ireland/Members

Manual of Style (conventions)

 * See Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles)

Creation of articles
For a full list of articles created since the project began, see WikiProject Ireland/Log.


 * 1) Examine the number of red-links in articles within the scope, and determine if they should be de-linked, or that articles should be created.

Templates

 * See WikiProject Ireland/Templates

The WPI template follows the hierarchy structure found in WikiProject Australia.

Banner
Articles which fall within our scope should be labeled as such on their talk pages. To do so, simply place  at the top of article's talk page.

Categories
Category norms for Ireland can be found here: Ireland Category norms

Done

 * Category:WikiProject Ireland participants
 * Create a category of Ireland related stubs

To do

 * The main Dublin article needs to achieve featured status.
 * Every locality needs at least a 500-character stub article, built on top of its framework article.
 * All areas of historic importance need substantial articles.
 * The article on the Mahon Tribunal needs to be tidied up, verified, and fact-checked.
 * Irish language words and phrases should be marked up using lang, thus:.

Articles that have been tagged with templates
To list individual Ireland related articles need images fill in the "image-needed" parameter in the project tag WikiProject Ireland on the article talk page and it will be listed here

Tagged with WPIE template
For a complete list of the progress in tagging Irish related articles with the project template, see WikiProject Ireland/Assessment and their current statistics. Since July 2007, when 1,044 articles were tagged and many were unassessed or unclassified, much work was been done and by 19 March, 2008, 12,705 articles were tagged with none being unassessed and around 1,000 being unclassified, most being stubs. By mid-2008, over 20,000 pages had been tagged. As of the end of November 2017 a total of almost 60,000 project banners existed, of which less then 3,000 were for articles better than Start and Stub-class, which between them accounted for 34,000 pages, while category-class and template-class pages amounted to almost 20,000. By January 2022 we had reached over 90,000 pages tagged, with just 3,500 stubs left to be priority-rated. Much work can still be done to improve the Start and Stub-class articles and increase the number of higher quality articles, including securing more GA and FA pages.

Request Photo
In order to create a gallery from which Wikipedians can source pictures of Ireland for use in articles, upload to Wikimedia Commons and please list freely-licensed pictures here.

If you require pictures, please add Image requested with the appropriate county parameter to the talk page of the article. This will add the article to the correct category under Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ireland

If you would like to help with sourcing pictures please check out the sub-categories of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Ireland

Assessment
WikiProject Ireland/Assessment - the assessment department
 * Completed 30 Sept. 2022 - assessment of all articles tagged to the Project. Well done to all, it's been a long road (more than 1.5 decades...). Now we can refine at leisure. SeoR (talk) 19:55, 30 September 2022 (UTC)

Useful categories
Find articles of interest to edit or improve in the following categories:


 * Category:Ireland
 * Category:Irish culture
 * Category:Sport in Ireland
 * Category:History of Ireland
 * Category:Education in Ireland
 * Category:Transport in Ireland
 * Category:Ireland
 * Category:Geography of Ireland
 * Category:Rivers of Ireland
 * Category:Towns in Ireland
 * Category:Churches in Ireland
 * Category:Hospitals in Ireland
 * Category:Transport in Ireland
 * Category:Government of Ireland

Projects and tasks
To Do List:
 * 1) Invite new members, by contacting editors who have made substantial Ireland-related edits in the past
 * 2) Fix templates to talk pages
 * 3) Construct Article Classification by following the category 'tree'


 * 1) Assess articles at Article Classification
 * 2) Compile a list of missing articles and catalogue them by status - see WikiProject Ireland/Missing articles

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced. Check WikiProject Melbourne to see how this section is used.
 * Example article: User:Example

Other subpages

 * List of
 * /Log
 * /Missing articles (and article requests)

Red links
See /Red links for a full list.

Lists
See Category:Ireland-related lists

Page view stats for WikiProject articles
A list of WikiProject Ireland articles ranked by page views is updated on a monthly basis.

Wikipedia namespace and Meta-Wiki articles

 * Ireland
 * Wikimedia Ireland (proposed Wikimedia chapter for Ireland)
 * Wikimedia Ireland mailing list

New Wikipedia articles related to Ireland
Please feel free to list your new Ireland articles-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 on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 5 day time limit from the creation of the article and must be 1500+ characters of prose.

Many newly created Irish related articles appear on the Ireland search results


 * Treasury Building (Dublin)
 * Burning of British Embassy, Dublin
 * Exclusive economic zone of Ireland
 * 2022 Russian military exercise controversy
 * Imperial Hotel, Dublin
 * Irish Gothic literature
 * Criminal Justice (Public Order) Act, 1994

Wikipedia surveys

 * Requested moves:
 * Requests for Comments:

Deletion links

 * Articles for deletion (Article deletion):
 * Deletion review (Article undeletion):
 * Templates for deletion:
 * Categories for deletion:
 * Images for deletion:
 * Redirects for deletion:

WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The Ireland-related articles at VFD are listed at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Ireland.

Requests
"Please post requests at Wikiproject Ireland/Requests

Parentage
This project is categorized under the Category:Northern Europe WikiProjects. The regional parent would be Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union.

Until the creation of specific daughter projects, the project covers a wide range of subjects (History, Society, Geography, Politics, Biography etc.) and, as a result has no single parent to it.

Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject are:
 * WikiProject Northern Ireland
 * WikiProject Belfast
 * WikiProject Gaelic games
 * WikiProject Irish literature
 * WikiProject Irish music (inactive)
 * WikiProject Irish Maritime (defunct)
 * WikiProject Ireland Collaboration
 * WikiProject Irish Republicanism
 * WikiProject Unionism in Ireland (defunct)

Task forces of this WikiProject

 * Gaeilge task force
 * Ireland disambiguation task force
 * British Isles Terminology task force

Related Portals

 * Portal:Ireland
 * Portal:Northern Ireland

Related Collaborations

 * WikiProject Ireland Collaboration

Related Regional notice boards

 * Irish Wikipedians' notice board
 * Northern Irish Wikipedians' notice board

Related groups of Wikipedians

 * Category:Wikipedians in Ireland
 * Category:Wikipedians in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Irish Wikipedians
 * Category:Wikipedians from Northern Ireland


 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Ireland
 * Category:Wikipedians interested in Northern Ireland
 * Category:Irish-American Wikipedians

Image resources

 * Flickr user infomatique has thousands of varied freely licensed Irish-related images
 * Geograph freely licensed photos of many locations in Ireland with usable license
 * Jon Sulliven has a few hundred freely licensed Irish geographical images

External resources

 * Familia: find information about places in the UK & Ireland