Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia



WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Standards

 * Currently, none.

Philadelphia Meetups
Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there.


 * Philadelphia meet-up invite list
 * Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

 * General
 * Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

Goals

 * 1) Improve Philadelphia to featured status.
 * 2) Standardization - WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
 * 3) Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
 * 4) Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
 * 5) Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
 * 6) Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

Article requests list

 * Article requests

Portal maintenance

 * Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

 * Recent changes to article assessments
 * Assessment – Our rating system
 * Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
 * V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
 * Philadelphia articles by quality log
 * Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

Wikimedia Pennsylvania
Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:
 * Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
 * Join our mailing list
 * Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
 * you can add your username to Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Thanks!

Related or descendant WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Pennsylvania
 * WikiProject Pittsburgh
 * WikiProject New Jersey
 * WikiProject Delaware
 * WikiProject Maryland

Philadelphia task forces

 * Category:SEPTA
 * Philadelphia Churches

New articles
Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.