Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations

Welcome to the Organizations WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of local, regional and international organizations. If you would like to join us, please feel free to [ add your name] to the list of project members!

Goals

 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe organizations.


 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of organizations by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.


 * To develop and maintain a featured quality portal, with an intuitive system of navigation templates, as well as various infoboxes and an integrated assessment process for articles.


 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to organizations in Wikipedia.

Scope

 * The project generally considers articles about any incorporated, registered, or otherwise legitimate organization to be within its scope. The term "organization" is applicable to any active or historical association, society, union, foundation, federation or corporation as well as any related and notable conferences or events. That said, companies are already covered by WikiProject Companies, so the emphasis is more on other types of organization.

General

 * Structure
 * Modelled after WP:WARS, internally the project will develop several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:
 * Coordinators, who are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project.
 * Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as the (now-deleted) Portal:Organizations, article assessment, peer review, or other project-wide collaboration.
 * Task forces, which are more informal groups for collaboration on specific areas of organizations, such as particular locations, regions, or types.
 * Redlinks list


 * History
 * A history of the project is available to track its progress.

Guidelines
Relevant guidelines for developing articles on organizations: WP:ORGS/Guidelines

Bulletin board
The Bulletin Board is for announcement of issues, ongoing disputes or *FDs, problems, proposed new projects, etc.

Departments and task forces
Task force pages should be set up to handle issues with the organizations categories structure, infoboxes, notability standards, and other issues. For now, these are lists of tasks that need to be done that could eventually become a taskforce.


 *  Categorization Taskforce
 *  Notability Taskforce
 * Deletion notices on Notability TF and also at WikiProject Deletion sorting/Organizations
 * New articles

Recognised content
For more information about Version 1.0 assessments, see WP:1.0 and WP:WVWP.
 * Category:WikiProject Organizations articles
 * Category:Organization articles by quality
 * /Assessment

Content organization

 * Organization
 * Organizational studies
 * Society
 * Category:Organization stubs

Project banner

 * WikiProject Organizations
 * WikiProject Organizations CoopBanner

Infobox

 * infobox Organization – An infobox for articles about organisations.



Members
If you would like to join us, please feel free to [ add your name] to the list of project members, alphabetically!

You are also encouraged to participate in any of our task forces that might interest you.


 * Userboxes for members include:
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject Organizations/Userbox
 * WP:KIS/WPOrganizations


 * Coordinators have included:
 * Oldsoul
 * Lquilter


 * Members

Resources

 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Geographical/North_America
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Colours
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Navigational_templates
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Alberta
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:WikiProject
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Todo
 * Existing Organization template
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organisations_by_city
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Organizations_by_country
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Organization

Related projects

 * WikiProject Crime and Criminal Biography/Organized crime task force
 * WikiProject Sociology
 * WikiProject Business
 * WikiProject Systems
 * Companies, corporations and economic information