Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Operation Great War Centennial

June 2014 saw the centenary of the start of World War I. This was a mammoth commemoration of one of the most significant wars in history, attracting vast interest from schools, universities, veterans groups and the media. It offered us the chance to showcase what a brilliant resource Wikipedia is by producing a string of FA-quality articles covering all the most significant topics in World War I.

Operation Great War Centennial attempted to identify core topics on World War I and aimed to bring them to top quality before the Centenary. Initially, the effort focused on producing a list of core topics and encouraging existing Military history WikiProject editors to improve them. The plan was to reach out to other relevant WikiProjects and editors in general to encourage participation and get balanced viewpoints.

Feature pictures project
An attempt to illustrate WWI related articles with newly-restored featured images.

New FPs: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Core Topics List
Provisional list of top-level World War I topics:
 * Article Name, 1 hour pageviews, Total pageviews from stats server.

The stats were produced by searching the raw text of the 14/12/2008 2100 stats file.

High-level topics
i.e. World War I itself and 'Main Article's branching from it

Core Western Front Topics
An estimate of all the highest-importance topics for the Western Front. Generating a list like this for each of the high-level topics would probably result in a list of all core WWI topics.

Serbia

 * Serbian Campaign (World War I)
 * Battle of Cer
 * Battle of Drina
 * Battle of Kolubara
 * Battle of Morava
 * Battle of Kosovo (1915)
 * Serbian Land Forces
 * Radomir Putnik

Salonika

 * Macedonian front (World War I)
 * Eleftherios Venizelos
 * Bulgaria during World War I
 * Battle of Doiran (1916)
 * Battle of Doiran (1917)
 * Battle of Dobro Pole
 * Battle of Doiran (1918) (currently at Battle of Doiran...
 * Armistice with Bulgaria (World War I)
 * Gallipoli Campaign
 * Nikola Zhekov

Arab Revolt

 * Lawrence of Arabia
 * Siege of Kut
 * İsmail Enver
 * Dunsterforce
 * South Arabia during World War I

Africa

 * African theatre of World War I
 * East African Campaign (World War I)
 * West Africa Campaign (World War I)
 * Chilembwe uprising
 * Makombe and Barue uprisings (Portuguese East Africa)
 * Ruanda-Urundi offensive (1916)

Asia & Pacific

 * German East Asia Squadron
 * Siege of Tsingtao
 * Siege of Toma
 * Bombardment of Papeete
 * Battle of Coronel
 * Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force
 * Australian occupation of German New Guinea
 * Occupation of German Samoa
 * Battle of Bita Paka

Non-core but interesting topics

 * Detroit's Effort in the Great War-Before the US entered the War,US men going to Canada, 16th  Regiment of Engineers(RailWay)
 * George Lawrence Price - last commonwealth soldier to die in WWI
 * Victoria Cross recipients of World War I (see List of First World War Victoria Cross recipients)
 * Medal of Honor recipients of World War I (see List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I)
 * Pour le Mérite recipients of World War I (see List of the Pour le Mérite (military class) recipients)
 * Frank Buckles - Last American WWI veteran; died 27 February 2011
 * Claude Choules - Last Male British WWI veteran; died 5 May 2011
 * Florence Green - Last Female British WWI veteran; died 4 February 2012
 * Braid movement - Niger delta religious movement which boomed during World War I
 * Songs of World War I