Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Portal task force



The Portal task force is involved in updating and maintaining Portal:Trains.

Participants

 * 1)  - lead editor
 * 2)  - nominations and Japanese articles
 * 3)  - Can help updating anything

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Portals

General

 * Tag all of the portal pages with

Selected content

 * Move all of the remaining past "Featured article" and "Featured picture" pages to "Selected article" and "Selected picture" pages; update links to avoid the redirects and then speedy delete the redirects.
 * Ensure that all the content pages use "Selected" instead of "Featured"

Anniversaries

 * Translate anniversary events from the French (index), German (index) and Japanese (index) Wikis.
 * Expand the anniversaries listed to include more non-US events.
 * Find free images for the anniversary pages that lack images.

Templates

 * Selected article
 * Trains portal/FA image shows the image


 * Selected picture
 * Trains portal/FI shows the image


 * Did you know:
 * Trains portal/Did you know shows the main Did you know section
 * Trains portal/DYK image shows an image for the Did you know list (also used in the Anniversaries section)


 * Trains news templates:
 * Trains portal/News image shows one image with an optional border
 * Trains portal/News image 2 shows two images
 * Trains portal/News image flag shows a national flag
 * Trains portal/News image and Wikinews shows an image (with an optional border) and a Wikinews link to an associated article

Trains news sources
Links are listed in alphabetical order and are to the pages in English unless otherwise noted:
 * Google News (helpful search: railroad | railway -underground-railroad)
 * La Vie du Rail
 * Late Breaking Rail Industry News (Railway Age Magazine, North America news); current printed issue is also available for reading online via a java applet (link from the main page).
 * Railnews (UK news; site under construction)
 * Railway Market (Central and Eastern Europe news)
 * Railway People (UK news)
 * Railways Africa (Railways Africa Magazine, Africa news)
 * Trains (Trains Magazine, mostly US news, login and magazine subscription required to access the Trains News Wire)

Railway regulatory agency news websites:
 * Association of American Railroads
 * Association of Train Operating Companies (United Kingdom)
 * European Railway Agency
 * Finnish Rail Administration

Lists of links with more rail news sites:
 * ERRAC (European Rail Research Advisory Council)