Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Wisconsin

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Scope
To create the balance of and to standardize the Wisconsin State Highway articles and generate featured articles

Goals
We are currently working towards these major milestones:

Assessment progression

Assessment
See WP:USRD/A for information and hints on Assessment

Resources

 * commons:Category:Official road maps of Wisconsin, public domain copies of official state highway maps, can be cited using cite WisDOT map along with copies hosted on WisDOT's website
 * Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT)
 * WisDOT highway maps, including historical maps from 1916–present
 * Map of Wisconsin's Corridors 2020 routes from WisDOT
 * Links to County maps - details every route and updated to 2007 from WisDOT, good for Junction Lists and Route Descriptions
 * archive of old maps source the original document, not the website.
 * Rustic Roads from WisDOT
 * Chris Bessert's "Wisconsin Highways" site
 * 1922 Official Wisconsin Motorists Association handbook, EXCELLENT section lists routes and mileages
 * the Federal Highway Administration (road lengths)
 * maps through 1939
 * American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection in the UW-Milwaukee libraries, includes official Wisconsin highway maps from most years
 * some old maps including a map of the 1918 system
 * 1925? highway list
 * /Early highway history
 * /1926 renumbering
 * /Laws


 * List page: List of Wisconsin numbered highways
 * Redirect completion list: Completion list
 * Assessment levels and comments Status page

Marker graphics
All of the state highway markers past and present have been created and reside on the Commons. All single, double and triple-letter County markers have been made and reside on the Commons. In addition the default markers for Rustic Roads and Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive also reside there - with the State highway shields.

Shield pages in Sister projects

Maps
Maps have been created or will be created for the state highway articles in conjunction with the U.S Roads Maps Task Force using Quantum GIS or similar product.

Map pages in Sister projects

GIS Data for the maps courtesy of:


 * the U.S.Census Bureau for the state/county outlines, urban areas and water outlines
 * the Federal Highway Administration for the roads themselves.

Article naming convention
The contents of each article in this project should reside at Wisconsin Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Wisconsin State Highway XXX and WIS-XXX and Highway xxx (Wisconsin) should redirect to the article as well. (see WP:USSH)

Tolls
Since Wisconsin does not have toll roads, this section is inappropriate for the articles.

Media
Media related to Wisconsin highways should be stored on Wikimedia Commons. Place the Commons category template near the end of the article using the form:, where NAME is the name of the category on Commons. For example, the application for Wisconsin Highway 52 is. All of the categories are children of the Commons category Category:Roads in Wisconsin.

Categories
Add the following to the bottom of the page include in the Category for the article:  for state trunk highways; the number should be three digits, padded with leading zeroes as needed. For Interstate, US, and former highways, there are, , and   respectively.

Lists

 * List of Wisconsin numbered highways

Wikipedia articles

 * create articles for
 * Rustic Roads (Wisconsin),
 * List of Wisconsin bannered routes - Such as Spur and Business Routes. No individual articles are necessary.
 * County Trunk Highways (Wisconsin)
 * Wisconsin State Highways

New Wikipedia articles
Please feel free to list your new Wisconsin State Highways-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?
The following Wisconsin Highways articles have been featured on the main page via a Did You Know?
 * Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive

Browse Template
If an article does not have a browser in the infobox, use the following.

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Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Wisconsin state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=I On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the wi browse, keeping the list in alphabetical order. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

Junction list
Use WIint and the rest of the jctint family of templates.

Stub sorting
Use Wisconsin-road-stub to label stub articles.

Talk page banner
Add to the Talk page of the article.

User Templates
The userbox   can be added to your user page. Replace 29 with your favorite Wisconsin highway number. Leaving the route number out will show the blank highway marker image.