Wikipedia:WikiProject Orienteering

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WikiProject Orienteering is a collaboration to improve articles related to orienteering. This includes both orienteering from a sport and recreation point of view.

Article monitoring
Articles are monitored from different aspects to gain information where work is needed:
 * A cleanup listing per category or as a table generated weekly by CleanupWorklistBot.
 * Recent changes (50 entries, 7 days) or (500 entries, 30 days), Open watchlist
 * A list of new articles is generated by User:AlexNewArtBot bot with predefined rules (log page).

Article assessment
To add an article to this project for assemssment, and to have it counted in the assessment table (above), use Template:WikiProject Orienteering. To use it, place it at the top of the article's talk page: .

The classifications, importance and further information can be found on the assessment page.

Trophies
The highest possible classification FA class was assigned on January 2006 to article Amateur radio direction finding. The article was downgraded on April 2010 to C class due to lack of references.

Improvement of articles
Based on the classification and importance, a list of articles that needs to be improved most of all exist. The goal is to improve the articles to match good Wikipedia standards. The list is based on the WikiProject classifications. Please, help expand these articles if you have something to contribute.

Assessment guidelines
Orienteering articles has assessment guidelines that helps with assessing importance for articles. The guidelines doesn't give indications in all cases but gives help in finding what important in Wikipedia from orienteering point of view.

Did you know?
Orienteering has been featured on the English Wikipedia Main Page with these Did you know "hooks":
 * 2005 August 23 (archive): ... that Simone Niggli-Luder from Switzerland won all four women's competitions at the orienteering world championships 2005 in Aichi, Japan, repeating her performance of 2003?
 * 2008 June 21 (archive): ... that the orienteering map (example pictured), along with the compass, is the primary aid for an orienteering competitor to complete a course of control points? Page view impact was 2.6K for Orienteering map (graph) and 1.4K for Orienteering (graph).
 * 2008 June 26 (archive): ... that having won three of the first five races, Anne Margrethe Hausken is currently leading this year's World Cup in orienteering? Page view impact was 1.1K for Anne Margrethe Hausken (graph), 294 for Orienteering World Cup (graph), and 2.8K for Orienteering (graph).
 * 2008 October 6 (archive): ... that the first public Swedish orienteering competition, held in 1901, had two churches, Spånga and Bromma kyrka (pictured) as control points? Page view impact was 2.6K for orienteering (graph), 443 for Spånga kyrka (graph), 640 for Bromma kyrka (graph), and 727 for Control point (orienteering) (graph).
 * 2008 October 20 (archive): ... that the volcanic ring dike at Pawtuckaway State Park (pictured), an important orienteering venue in New Hampshire, resembles a meteor impact crater? Page view impact was 4.9K for Pawtuckaway State Park (graph) and 1.4K for orienteering (graph).
 * 2009 January 20 (archive): ... that Jon Tvedt took up competitive mountain running in his late thirties, his career in orienteering having peaked several years earlier?
 * 2009 April 7 (archive): ... that Sinikka Kukkonen was the first World Champion in ski orienteering?
 * 2009 May 14 (archive): ... that cartographer Jan Martin Larsen was a pioneer in the development of the specialized orienteering map?
 * 2009 June 28 (archive): ... that Mika Tervala won gold medals in all the first five World Championships in mountain bike orienteering?
 * 2009 July 3 (archive): ... that Finnish mountain bike orienteer Päivi Tommola has won eight medals at the World Championships?
 * 2009 July 31 (archive): ... that while Per Kristiansen chaired the training committee of the Norges Orienteringsforbund, Norway's orienteering team, from 1967 to 1973, team members won gold medals at three world championships?
 * 2009 August 9 (archive): ... that Canadian Sandy Hott´s result in 2005 was the highest placement ever at the World Orienteering Championships by a competitor from the North American continent?
 * 2009 September 11: ... that while racing in the 2009 World Orienteering Championships gold medalist Thierry Gueorgiou rescued an injured competitor?
 * 2009 September 15: ... that Anders Nordberg was elected Orienteer of the year 2007 by Norwegian sports journalists?
 * 2009 September 18: ... that Czech Republic orienteering world champion Michal Smola joined an orienteering club at age 12 and won his first national championship race at age 14?
 * 2009 September 23: ... that while in the lead of the last relay leg of the 2009 World Orienteering Championships, Martin Johansson was injured by a wooden stick penetrating 12 cm into his leg?
 * 2010 February 1 (archive): ... that Ruth Humbel, member of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland, has won three bronze medals at the World Orienteering Championships?
 * 2010 May 14: ... that Åge Hadler won the first individual World Championship title in men's orienteering, in 1966?
 * 2010 July 24: ... that among the orienteering pioneers in IL Heming in the 1930s was Per Bergsland, one of the three men who escaped to freedom in the "Great Escape" from Stalag Luft III in 1944?
 * 2010 July 30: ... that Norwegian orienteer Finn Varde Jespersen was shot down as a pilot for the RAF 97 Squadron during the invasion of Normandy in 1944?
 * 2010 August 23: ... that Danish orienteer Ida Bobach won three gold medals at the 2010 Junior World Orienteering Championships, winning the sprint, the long course and the relay?
 * 2010 September 3: ... that among mountain bike orienteers with multiple world championships gold medals are Michaela Gigon, Christine Schaffner (pictured), Ksenia Chernykh, Adrian Jackson and Ruslan Gritsan?
 * 2011 February 13: ... that Olga Novikova of Kazakhstan won four gold medals, winning every women's event in ski orienteering, at the 2011 Asian Winter Games?

Members
You can add yourself to this list:
 * Spiralwidget (talk)
 * Ahi-nama (talk)
 * Anonymous101 (talk
 * Radagast (talk)
 * Kjetil (talk)
 * Kslotte (talk)
 * User:HOUZI (talk)
 * DeMoN 2009
 * User:Lisa Beck (talk)
 * User:miklcct
 * User:Rabbit Elizabeth
 * User:Jaredroach
 * User:Lauvaan

Wikiproject Orienteering userbox
You can add the userbox to your user page by filling in with wiki syntax: 

Orienteerer userbox
You can add the orienteerer userbox to your user page by filling in with wiki syntax: 

User recruiting
To recruit another user to WikiProject Orienteering place the following wiki syntax on the user's talk page:

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Orienteering barnstar
It is the custom to reward Wikipedia contributors for hard work and due diligence by awarding them a barnstar. To give the award to someone, just place the image on their talk page, and say why you have given it to them. If you are sure the barnstar is appropriate, don't be shy!

Orienteering has its own barnstar named Orienteering barnstar. To give a user the orienteering barnstar place it on the user's talk page with following wiki syntax:



Navboxes
A navigation template, navbox or topicbox is a grouping of links used in multiple orienteering related articles to facilitate navigation between those articles. Editing of a navigation template is done in a central place, the template page.

Orienteering
Orienteering used for articles related to orienteering. It meant cover all essential information regarding orienteering and related subjects.

International Orienteering Federation Members
International Orienteering Federation Members about IOF members and associate organizations

Orienteering Competitions
For orienteering competitions there exist the following templates:
 * Orienteering World Cup Men
 * Orienteering World Cup Women
 * World Cup in Ski Orienteering Men
 * World Cup in Ski Orienteering Women
 * World Champions Men
 * World Champions Women

Source: Orienteering templates, 1 May 2010

Stubs and their categories
The complete current structure of stubs and their categories (as of 11th of August 2009):
 * Orienteering stubs (51), Stub parent | orienteering-stub
 * Orienteering-org-stub (39) feeds into categories Orienteering stubs and Sports organization stubs
 * Orienteering biography stubs (155), Secondary stub parent | orienteering-bio-stub
 * Switzerland-orienteering-bio-stub (30) feeds into categories Orienteering biography stubs and Swiss sportspeople stubs
 * Russia-orienteering-bio-stub (31) feeds into categories Orienteering biography stubs and Russian sportspeople stubs
 * CzechRepublic-orienteering-bio-stub (28) feeds into categories Orienteering biography stubs and Czech sportspeople stubs
 * Finnish orienteering biography stubs (97), Secondary stub parent | Finland-orienteering-bio-stub
 * Norwegian orienteering biography stubs (78), Secondary stub parent | Norway-orienteering-bio-stub
 * Swedish orienteering biography stubs (117), Secondary stub parent | Sweden-orienteering-bio-stub

Stub structure change history

 * January 2009
 * June 2009

Category and article structure
Category structure, can be browsed through this link or see a three structure below:

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 * List of categories
 * List of articles, templates, images and categories

Other to-dos

 * Biography of trail orienteers
 * Biography Helena Jansson needs some text and references
 * Expand new article on Delaware Valley Orienteering Association
 * Classify importance for unknown-importance articles according to guidelines
 * Assess quality for automatically assessed articles according to guidelines
 * Make WikiProject template to be able to handle Redirect-Class (advanced task)

Similar Wikiprojects

 * WikiProject Backpacking
 * WikiProject Cycling
 * WikiProject Hiking Trails
 * WikiProject Maps
 * WikiProject Running
 * WikiProject Skiing and Snowboarding
 * WikiProject Sports
 * WikiProject Sports Results