Wikipedia:WikiProject Swimming

Welcome to WikiProject Swimming! This WikiProject is dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to competitive swimming and other aquatic sports.


 * Our goals
 * To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of swimming and water sports.
 * To improve Wikipedia's coverage of swimming and water sports by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
 * To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to swimming and water sports in Wikipedia.


 * Our scope
 * The project generally considers any article related to competitive swimming, long course swimming, short course swimming, open water swimming, diving, water polo, synchronized swimming, and participants, coaches and governing organizations of those disciplines to be within the scope of WikiProject Swimming.


 * Our structure
 * Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing its extensive work:
 * Departments, which coordinate work on certain specialized tasks, such as peer review or project-wide collaboration.

Assessment
The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's swimming and water sports articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the WP Swimming project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

Automation
The automation department uses various automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks that would be extremely tedious to do manually; it collects requests for tasks, discusses whether they are suitable for automation, and attempts to match them with bot operators or users of semi-automated tools for implementation. All project members are invited to request tasks and to comment on the suitability of outstanding requests.

Peer review
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of swimming and water sports related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

Task forces and subpages

 * Water polo work group
 * List of

Clear unassessed importance backlog

 * Details: Clear.
 * Person(s) assigned: It is a wonderful world
 * Start date: 2024-02-23
 * Expected completion date: Unknown
 * Current work: Reaching 500 mainspace edits so that I can apply for AutoWikiBrowser permissions.

Add Template:Infobox swimmer to all competitive swimmer biographies

 * Details: Add Template:Infobox swimmer to all competitive swimmer biographies.
 * Person(s) who completed: User:SarahTHunter
 * Start date: 2024-02-25
 * Completion date: 2024-06-09

Featured content
At this time, there is currently one swimming featured topic, meaning it represents Wikipedia's best work in covering a subject comprehensively and with items of consistently good quality:

There are currently twelve swimming featured articles, meaning that they represent the best of Wikipedia:
 * Neil Brooks
 * Avery Brundage
 * Peter Evans (swimmer)
 * Mark Kerry
 * Faith Leech
 * Sandra Morgan
 * Ian O'Brien
 * Kevin O'Halloran
 * Quietly Confident Quartet
 * Ian Thorpe
 * Mark Tonelli
 * Bob Windle

There are also three featured lists:
 * List of Olympic records in swimming
 * List of Australian Olympic medallists in swimming
 * List of Swimming World Swimmers of the Year

Helpful online references

 * Australian Olympic Committee, Olympian Search (free online database of Australian Olympic athlete profiles)


 * Matthew De George, Duels in the Pool: Swimming's Greatest Rivalries, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2013). ISBN 978-0810891753.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * Matthew De George, Pooling Talent: Swimming's Greatest Teams, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1-4422-3701-8.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * FINA, Athletes Biographies (free online database of current notable international swimmers)


 * FINA, HistoFINA Olympic and World Aquatics Championships medalists (free online PDF listing of all medalists)


 * FINA, World and Olympic Swimming Records (free online PDF listing of current world records, broken out several different ways)


 * GBRathletics.com, Commonwealth Games Medallists (free online Commonwealth Games database service, including medallists and times)


 * Graham Groom, The Complete Book of the Commonwealth Games, Lulu Press, Raleigh, North Carolina (2013). (portions available online for free preview)


 * International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Honorees by Last Name (free online database of ISHOF honoree profiles)


 * International Swimming Hall of Fame, List of Medalists, includes medalists for the Olympics (1896–2004), FINA World Championships (1973–2005), Pan Pacific Championships (1985–2002), Pan American Games (1951–2003), World University Games (1959–2005), Short Course World Championships (1993–2004). (freely archived from ISHOF original online PDF document)


 * John P. Lohn, Historical Dictionary of Competitive Swimming, Scarecrow Press, Inc., Lanham, Maryland (2010). ISBN 978-0810867758.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * John P. Lohn, The Most Memorable Moments in Olympic Swimming, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, Maryland (2014). ISBN 978-1442236998.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * David Maraniss, Rome 1960: The Olympics That Stirred the World, Simon & Schuster, New York, New York (2008). ISBN 978-1-4165-3407-5.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * National Collegiate Athletic Association, NCAA Division I Men's Swimming & Diving, NCAA, Indianapolis, Indiana (2014). (free online PDF copy of NCAA championship records and results through 2014)


 * Newspapers.com, Keyword Search (online subscription archive for historical newspapers -- free memberships available through Wikipedia)


 * The New York Times, Article Archive (online subscription newspaper article archive)


 * New Zealand Olympic Committee, New Zealand Medals (free online database of New Zealand medalists at Olympics and Commonwealth Games)


 * Steven Olderr, The Pan American Games: A Statistical History, 1951–1999, McFarland & Company, Inc., Jefferson, North Carolina (2009). ISBN 978-0-7864-4336-9.  (portions available online for free preview)


 * Sports Illustrated, Vault (free online archive of 60+ years of American sports magazine articles)


 * Sports-Reference.com, Olympic Athlete Directory (free online Olympics database service, including Olympic athlete profiles, team lists and event results; caution: please note that Sports-Reference incorrectly lists pre-1984 swimmers in preliminary heats of relays as medalists)


 * SwimSwam, News articles covering recent events and results


 * SwimVortex, News articles covering recent events and results


 * Swimming World Magazine, Swimming World News Archives (free online archive for last 20 years of swimming magazine articles)


 * USA Swimming, National Team Roster (free online database of current U.S. national team member profiles)


 * USA Swimming, World, American & U.S. Open Records (free online PDF listings of world, American and U.S. Open records, including record progressions)

Participants
Note: Please add your name to the bottom of the Active list if you would like to participate.

Active members

 * 1) Voltmetro
 * 2) Eileen Sandá (Creating, editing and expanding articles about swimmers, mainly Faroese and Danish)
 * 3) Gap9551 (General updates and improvements)
 * 4) Ianblair23
 * 5) matthewm192  (making sure current articles are correct and up to date)
 * 6) SmartyPants22
 * 7) Phikia (Creating, editing and expanding Wikipedia namespaces related to water polo)
 * 8) SarahTHunter (Creating bios of Paralympic swimmers)
 * 9) IAmHz (Expanding women swimmer biographies, mainly U.S. and Mexico in English and Spanish)
 * 10) It is a wonderful world (Lots of swimming edits!)

Talk page tags

 * WikiProject Swimming
 * WikiProject Water polo

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