Wikipedia:WikiProject Saskatchewan

[[Image:Nuvola apps kpdf.png|20px|Introduction]]Introduction
This WikiProject aims to organize, improve the quality, and provide accurate information in an established, community-driven, Wikipedia standard for the province of Saskatchewan, Canada, and its related articles, such as cities, rural municipalities, geography, transportation, culture, education, history &c. The importance of these articles for new users, researchers, students, and educators, in the pursuit of accumulated knowledge will be accomplished through our efforts in providing a consistent format and standard to our articles. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to participate, please follow the instruction on the to do list.

[[Image:Nuvola apps amor.png|20px|Scope and Motivation]] Scope and Motivation

 * 1) Saskatchewan is the originating province of Canadian medicare.
 * 2) Saskatchewan is Canada's largest producer of potash and Canada is the largest producer of potash worldwide.
 * 3) Saskatchewan is the world's largest producer of uranium.
 * 4) Saskatchewan has Canada's Largest Turtle, a roadside attraction named Ernie. Turtleford
 * 5) Saskatchewan has the World's Largest Honeybee, a roadside attraction.  Tisdale
 * 6) Saskatchewan has the largest wheat, peas, lentils and chickpeas producing industry in Canada.
 * 7) Saskatchewan is Canada's second largest oil-producing province.
 * 8) Saskatchewan has Canada's largest pork producers and largest meat processors.
 * 9) Saskatchewan has had Canada's largest hailstone (10 cm diameter, 290 grams).

Help
We need your help! If you are a resident, expat, or have some knowledge about Saskatchewan or a related article, YOU can:

[[Image:Nuvola apps edu miscellaneous.png|20px]]Structure
Please use Banners, Templates (with rankings), Categories and User boxes.

[[Image:Gnome-fs-blockdev.svg|20px|Wikiproject Saskatchewan pages]]For Wikiproject Saskatchewan pages
For general guidance on article structure
 * 1) always start articles with a standardized template; see Infobox template
 * 2) create the relevant sections in the article
 * 3) add a photo
 * 4) below any See also and External links sections, insert (don't subst!) the appropriate navigation bar
 * 5) below the navigation bar, if necessary, insert (don't subst!) one of the appropriate stub template:
 * 6) * Saskatchewan-school-stub
 * 7) * Saskatchewan-geo-stub
 * 8) * Saskatchewan-politician-stub
 * 9) * Saskatchewan-bio-stub
 * 10) * Saskatchewan-road-stub
 * 11) * Saskatchewan-stub
 * 12) lastly, at the bottom of the article should be the appropriate categories (more on this below)
 * 13) on the very top of the article's talk page, use the template     For more information and categories: Wikiproject Canada Template
 * 14) Create an article introduction which summarizes the content of the whole article, and every section.


 * For articles needing photos to improve the quality use the banner.

Templates

 * Add this template Saskatchewan quick links to your user page to give editors more information about Saskatchewan on Wikipedia.

[[Image:Nuvola apps edu languages.svg|20px|Templates]] Infoboxes

 * See WikiProject Saskatchewan/Templates

Try to add a Saskatchewan or Canadian Template to each article. Where one of the above is not available use a generic topic template.
 * All settlements in Saskatchewan should use Infobox Settlement. This infobox provides a consistent look between the various types settlements in Saskatchewan like Saskatoon and North Battleford and to settlements in the other parts of Canada like Toronto, Montreal, St. John's, and Edmonton. The default "settlement_type" is city, but it can be changed to reflect any type of settlement, like counties, towns, villages, etc.  Infobox Settlement also has a super imposable dot map feature that allows a map to be used with any settlement in Saskatchewan.
 * for example use the infobox road template for your new Saskatchewan Road article creations.

[[Image:Cscr-featured.png|20px|Featured Content]] Featured Content
Moved this section to the new Assessment page!

Newsletters / What's New?

 * Newsletter archives and future issues: WP Sask Outreach
 * New Articles

[[Image:Nuvola devices print class.png|20px|Tips]] Tips
'''To get an article to featured article status, make sure to follow these steps to ensure all articles we submit to Featured article candidates meet the FA criteria. All of these apply to almost any good article, so keep them in mind when editing even outside of Saskatchewan articles. The suggestions are:'''

[[Image:Nuvola apps kate.png|20px|To do]] To do
1.  Expand articles listed in:

1a. *Category:Saskatchewan stubs

1b. *Category:Saskatchewan geography stubs

2. Organize list structure and add to list of needed articles:

2a.*WikiProject Saskatchewan/Article requests

3. Check for and do needed articles at:

3a.*WikiProject Saskatchewan/Article requests

3b. Establish collaborations and improvements for Saskatchewan related articles

4. Photo Requests. .

5. Map Requests. Use on talk page of articles needing maps which will list maps needed at: Category:Wikipedia requested maps in Saskatchewan. Use the coordinates map template and one of the options for either degree, minutes and seconds or decimal latitude and longitude.


 * There has been a Location map for Saskatchewan created. Just enter the placename and longitude and latitude and the marker will identify the location on the Saskatchewan map.  See Simpson and Location map options and instructions for an example of its use.

6. Update census demographic information to the 2006 Census version on community pages and remove. This is a template for this; just modify the appropriate variables for the community profile in question.

7. Review existing assessment of articles and reassess following Assessment guidelines. Clarify assessment criteria at Assessment guidelines

8. Place banners on talk pages and rate Saskatchewan articles via the banner placed upon the article's talk page template in this way:   For more information see the Saskatchewan wikiproject Assessment page.

9. Articles which contain the word Saskatchewan or are Saskatchewan related which have error template tags on them. To Do listing Please clean up articles, remove tag, and remove from both lists on page.

10. Here are some of the many SK categories (drill to sub and parent categories as well) where you can look for untagged articles and articles to expand:


 * [+] Saskatchewan - Articles which are stubs
 * [+] Saskatchewan - Articles in categories

Recognition and awards
Awards and Barnstars: To award a WikiProject Saskatchewan Barnstar add to the user's talk page.


 * (Where type=red, type=silver, or type=gold)

Parent project:

 * WikiProject Canada

Descendant WikiProjects

 * WikiProject on Saskatchewan Roads & Highways
 * WikiProject Saskatchewan communities

Related WikiProjects and collaborations

 * Canadian Collaboration of the week
 * Canada notice board

Related U.S. WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Montana
 * WikiProject North Dakota

Overlapping WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Indigenous peoples of North America
 * WikiProject Endangered languages
 * WikiProject Rivers
 * WikiProject Lakes
 * WikiProject Trains
 * WikiProject Biography
 * WikiProject Sports
 * Wikiproject City

[[Image:Gtk-redo-ltr.svg|20px|See also]] See also

 * Canadian wikipedians' notice board/Saskatchewan
 * Portal:Canada
 * List of Saskatchewan-related topics
 * Category:Saskatchewan

[[Image:Nuvola apps keditbookmarks.png|20px|External Websites]]External Websites:

 * Government of Saskatchewan
 * Saskatchewan!
 * SaskTourism
 * SaskSearch
 * SaskFilm
 * Sask Gen Web
 * Directory of Saskatchewan Churches
 * CBC Digital Archives - Showdown on the Prairies: A History of Saskatchewan Elections
 * CBC Digital Archives - Saskatchewan @ 100
 * Saskatchewan Council for Archives and Archivists - listing of Saskatchewan archives and archival holdings

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.