Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Orienteering

Logos
Re whether to use logos of orienteering groups (like this) under a claim of fair use, please see User_talk:ARBAY. --Una Smith (talk) 05:36, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * Proposing that all four IOF governed orienteering types should use the pictogram instead of the control symbol. By pictogram I mean like done on Trail O page. Opinions? I remembered these can be donwloaded from IOFs hompage. How about license to use them? Kslotte (talk) 14:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Improvement drive: Orienteering
Please help bring Orienteering to GA status. Anonymous101 (talk) 10:23, 18 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Good idea. I like moving the bulk of the history section to History of orienteering, and I have started to reorganize the content that should stay behind in Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 17:00, 31 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I have worked more on Orienteering. Is it ready for GA review?  Anyone, please look at it now (peer review it) and fix problems or note them on Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 05:09, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Assessment to-do list created to get us focused on the most important articles. --Kslotte (talk) 12:52, 1 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Could be good idea to move all to-dos into one sub-page. Currently we have a section on the main page and the Assessment to-do list. --Kslotte (talk) 18:48, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Improvement drive: Orienteering (update)
The article is very close to being ready for GA Review. Here is the updates list of tasks that need to be done:

(I move the task list to Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 16:32, 28 September 2008 (UTC))

I will continue to attempt to address these issues but the help of others is really needed.

Thanks and good luck in improving the article,

Anonymous101 (talk) 12:43, 28 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The improvement drive continues, and it has spawned a handful of new articles and other improvements. See Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Orienteering articles by quality log.  Also see Talk:Orienteering. --Una Smith (talk) 06:45, 1 October 2008 (UTC)


 * Is the article ready for GA review? See Good article criteria and comment here.  Thanks.  --Una Smith (talk) 02:36, 15 October 2008 (UTC)

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 * ✅ This has been implemented on the main Wikiproject page. Let's see what happens. --Kslotte (talk) 19:31, 25 April 2010 (UTC)

Assessment Guidelines
I made some type of assessment guidelines for importance when assessing articles. The guidelines are a draft and up for discussion. Kslotte (talk) 13:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Assessment to-do list
I made a page Assessment to-do list with list of articles that needs to be improved most of all to meat Wikipedia standards. --Kslotte (talk) 13:50, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Renamed from 'Assessment ToDo:s‎' to 'Assessment to-do list'.--Kslotte (talk) 08:58, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

New recruiting template
I propose to improve the recruiting template with a more clear message. What do you think? corrections? --Kslotte (talk) 14:53, 28 June 2009 (UTC)

Simple message
I have during this year used a more simplified message:

Thanks for contributing to Wikipedia articles related to orienteering. If you are interested in orienteering, you might want do discover WikiProject Orienteering, a collaboration area and open group of editors.

--Kslotte (talk) 12:59, 28 August 2010 (UTC)

Article propositions
I've made a proposition for two articles over at WikiProject Athletics if any here fancies helping out. Any thoughts appreciated. Cheers! Sillyfolkboy (talk) (edits) Join WikiProject Athletics!  21:33, 11 October 2009 (UTC)

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Anyone interested in creating and updating an article for the North American Orienteering Championships? They have been held every two years since the year 2000, alternating competition venues between the U.S. and Canada. This year, they will be held in Ontario, Canada. For more details, visit [].Emerald Evergreen 00:44, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

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 * Text about this downgrade written on main page. --Kslotte (talk) 14:31, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

Xenobot Mk V to tag articles in project scope and/or auto-assess unassessed articles
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Kslotte (talk) 11:55, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The categories in scope are: WikiProject Orienteering/Categories --Kslotte (talk) 11:56, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * The tagging went fine; but we still have to extend our Wikiproject template to cover categories, files and redirects (currently listed as NA). I will probably take a look at it. --Kslotte (talk) 07:25, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Feel free to extend our Wikiproject template if you have time to fix it. --Kslotte (talk) 14:48, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Images, categories and projects works fine. But redirects are still classified as NA. --Kslotte (talk) 16:59, 1 May 2010 (UTC)
 * The result can be found here: Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Orienteering_articles_by_quality_log --Kslotte (talk) 10:51, 27 April 2010 (UTC)
 * Assessment of the following articles is needed:


 * importance=Unknown-Class&quality=Stub-Class according to guidelines moved to main page
 * Jan Kjellström International Orienteering Festival done

✅ all incomplete tasks moved to main page. --Kslotte (talk) 17:40, 1 May 2010 (UTC)

User:AlexNewArtBot
An experimental usage of User:AlexNewArtBot has been started for Wikiproject Orienteering. The bot patrols for new orienteering articles. Feel free to edit the rules to meet the search scope better. The orienteering entry is found here. --Kslotte (talk) 12:02, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * New articles will be listed here. --Kslotte (talk) 12:32, 25 April 2010 (UTC)
 * ✅, implemented on main page.

Orienteering (Scoutcraft)
This article could use some work. It is one of the few articles on this project that focuses on Orienteering as a Scouting and military skill rather than a sport (which is really too bad, as probably more people do it as a skill than a sport)  Pur ple  back pack 89    04:49, 16 June 2010 (UTC)

Article monitoring
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But, I recommend to take a look at "new articles" and "recent changes", that are handy for following what is going on with orienteering articles. --Kslotte (talk) 12:56, 28 August 2010 (UTC)
 * "Recent changes" now also covers talk page an WikiProject pages. --Kslotte (talk) 12:44, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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Scope
Hello, at WikiProject Cycling we're looking at the scope of sports that involve cycling but are not core cycling sports - i.e. triathlon, duathlon and of interest here, mountain bike orienteering. I was wondering how you define this as part of your project? It's not of interest to too many cycling editors so we're not so sure how to include it in our scope. Let us know any thoughts? Cheers, SeveroTC 08:17, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Our scope is "collaboration to improve articles related to orienteering" and mountain bike orienteering satisfy that definition. I assume you have some similair defintion of your WikiProject. --Kslotte (talk) 11:04, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Mountain bike orienteering is combination sport of cycling and orienteering. Both Wikiprojects are appropiate in my opinion. --Kslotte (talk) 11:23, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * So how best to collaborate? I'm not arguing that it falls outside of the scope of either project! SeveroTC 11:58, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * I think the question is more like what mountain bike orienteering articles are appropiate to also tag as "Wikiproject Cycling". Severo, does this describe your intentions? --Kslotte (talk) 12:43, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * MTB-O articles are: 1. The main mountain bike orienteering article, 2. championships, 3. biographies. In my opinion all of these should be tagged with both WikiProject templates. --Kslotte (talk) 12:51, 20 September 2010 (UTC)
 * Severo, please exlpain what you mean about your collaboration question? --Kslotte (talk) 12:54, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

How about this? --Kslotte (talk) 13:18, 20 September 2010 (UTC)

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