This page can be used to gauge support for potential wikiprojects before putting a lot of effort into creating a detailed project page.
Listing projects: Before listing here, write a brief description of your project on your user page. Then add your name and a link to your project to the list below.
Promoting projects: If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper project page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects.
Expressing interest: If you're interested in any of the projects listed here, simply add your name to the appropriate list and start contributing to the relevant articles.
List of proposed Wikiprojects
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Description: Project will address the improvement of articles relating to negotiation, conciliation, facilitation, mediation, arbitration and other processes providing an alternative to litigation.
Temporary project page: User:Edivorce/Proposed Project ADR
User: Edivorce
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Australian Wine
Description: The project will address the lack of organised information regarding Australian Wines and the Australian Wine Industry.
Temporary project page: TBA
User: Tanzburg 10:47, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Cemeteries of the United States
Description: A project to organize cemeteries by state and list prominent burials within. See a typical cemetery entry at Princeton Cemetery.
Temporary project page: User:Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )/Cemeteries of the United States
User: Richard Arthur Norton (1958- )
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Corrosion
Description:
Temporary project page: User:Sammo
User: Sammo 05:52, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Golf Courses of the World
Description:The aim of this project is to add more articles on golf courses around the world, and expand existing articles. We will set up a standardised structure for all articles hopefully including an infobox. Articles on golf courses is a glaring gap in Wikipedia.
Temporary project page: User:grovermj
User: Grovermj 09:23, 28 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation
Description: The purpose of the Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation is to create a common ground for wikipedians interested in greco-turkish related articles and are determined to maintain a high level of civility and cooperation while assuming good faith and sticking to the principles of NPOV. See the temporary project page below for more information.
Temporary project page: User:Michalis Famelis/Greek and Turkish wikipedians board of cooperation
User: User:Michalis Famelis
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name here or on the temporary project page.):
Hello! Project
Description: A project meant to expand, improve, and present for possible Featured Article status articles related to Japanese pop supergroup Morning Musume, their individual members, side projects, recordings, songs, and related bands and artists under the Hello! Project banner.
Temporary project page: User:Cjmarsicano/Wikipedia:WikiProject Hello! Project
User: Cjmarsicano 18:54, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Hurricane Katrina
Description: Hurricane Katrina created a bunch of pages this past fall -- a timeline, the locations affected, the failed levees and floodwalls, the myriad political/economic effects of the disaster, and so on. As the event is no longer so current, it's time to clean up the pages that were created quickly in immediate response. There's need for copyediting, sourcing, merging, and keeping an eye out for new information. I'm sure these things are already being done by many, but having a WikiProject couldn't hurt. It's definitely an active area!
Temporary project page: User:Lithogliff/Katrina
User: Litho 03:21, 23 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
- Evolauxia 01:09, 31 January 2006 (UTC) -- definitely warrants a project. I have background in meteorology but limited time, will do what I can.
- I support it as a sub-project of Wikipedia:WikiProject Tropical cyclones. CrazyC83 19:56, 2 February 2006 (UTC)
Legal defence
Description: Wikipedia's prominence is coming to the fore and eventually it might be beneficial for Wikipedia to deal with its legal opponents in some way or other. WikiProject Legal defense recruits users who are willing to spend time and effort in participating in legal matters on the behalf of the Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation, as well as seeking lawyers and other legal experts to aid Wikipedia and Wikimedia on this increasingly important issue. Legal action is unpleasant, and should of course be avoided in the face of other alternatives, but at times Wikipedia must stamp its foot down and say, "Nope. That's it! We've had enough!" and bring legal action against entities which continually break laws to sabotage Wikipedia. This includes problematic vandals like WiC and WoW, where for example on WiC's talkpage, a legal draft against WiC has already been proposed. Wikipedia must eventually assert its own rights sooner or later - users who wish to dedicate their resources against Wikipedia's bullies. This is very much possible: For example, User:Encyclopedist has proposed a legal basis we could pursue Willy on Wheels on here.
Agenda:
- Bring vandals to justice. Subpoenas should be issued to check long-time vandal's proxies' logs. They should contain entries of such vandal's real IP's, or in the very least, a trail of clues to follow, and eventually to justice.
- Pre-emptive defense. Entities which threaten us and where the threat is very real, this project will find means and ways to countersue Wikipedia's legal opponents, such as libel and slander. This is primarily a preventive measure.
- Enforcing trademarks. The trademark of Wikipedia and Wikimedia is currently being rampantly and wantonly infringed. http://Wikipediaclassaction.org, for instance, violates trademarks and a copyrighted image that is clearly not GFDL. If we do not defend our trademarks, Wikipedia and Wikimedia risks losing the ability to defend them, forever.
- Dignity and principle. It must be demonstrated that Wikipedia cannot be legally bullied, or malicious actions made with no consequence. Incidents like at Brian Chase showed how easily consequences could pursue an unwitting individual; bringing legal action against Joshua Gardner using the full armory of legal charges, including defamation, misusing our resources to implement a fraud, misusing resources to commit a felony (as a sex offender), as well as continuing to perpetuate the fraud after it was repeatedly, is not only possible, but a way to show that Wikipedia will not stand for such actions.
- Reclaiming damages. Wikipedia could gain funds in the process from legal pursuit of its bullies.
Clarifications:
This project will still stay within the realms of Wikipedia:No legal threats, and will firmly abide by it. Legal action will not be brought against any existing user, not even a vandal, unless the Wikimedia Foundation gives the green light to pursue. However, bringing action against other opponents on the behalf of Wikimedia, ranging from trademark infringement to maliicious offenders such as Gardner.
Temporary project page:
User: Elle vécut heureuse à jamais (Be eudaimonic!) 06:08, 14 January 2006 (UTC) (I am of course no expert, but I see the need to initiate such a project)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Looney Tunes characters
Description: As you can see, not every Looney Tunes character has a page and very many are linked to other characters on the Looney Tunes character page. I want to make sure every Looney Tune gets it's own page on Wikipedia, or at least more than a brief reference in one article, but I don't know enough to do it myself. Who's with me?
Temporary project page:
User: Wack'd Talk to me!
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Mega Man
Description: This Wikiproject would add articles of upcoming games and characters to the Mega Man series and maintain good qualitiy of the pages already existing.
Temporary project page: User_talk:Doug_teh_H-Nut/MegaManWikiproject
User: Doug teh H-Nut 16:04, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
MusicBrainz
Description: The goal of this project is to link every musician, album and song to their corresponding MusicBrainz entry. And on the other side, to relate every artist (and album and song if applicable) to their corresponding wikipedia page.
Temporary project page: User:CyberSkull/MusicBrainz
User: Dread Lord CyberSkull ✎☠ 08:37, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name here and in the participants section):
New Style role-playing games
Description: A series of articles about Hogshead Publishing's New Style line of games: De Profundis, The Extraordinary Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Pantheon, Puppetland & Powerkill, and Violence.
Temporary project page: User:SalvorHardin
User: Salvor Hardin 07:01, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Organized Crime
Description:
Temporary project page: User:MadMax/Organized crime
User: MadMax 00:40, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Painting
Description:
Temporary project page: User talk:Hraban/painting
User: Hraban 20:17, 11 December 2005 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Programming Language Design, Implementation and Theory
Description: Organizes and edits articles on the theory of programming languages, as well as technical issues related to their design and construction. Examples of likely topics would include:
- Formal models and calculii (the Lambda Calculus, the process calculii, etc).
- Compiler construction (parsing, lexing, semantic analysis, code generation, etc).
- Type theory and type systems
- Possibly, discussion of research programming languages
- Related areas in mathematics, i.e. computability theory
- Runtime design and implementation--topics such as garbage collection, virtual machines (in the context of programming languages), linkers and program loaders, etc.
- Programming paradigms.
- Other topics which are covered by the charter but which I haven't thought about.
There currently exists a Wikipedia:WikiProject Programming languages which is flagged as inactive, this existing project seems to focus on the following practical subjects:
- Cataloguing articles about programming languages themselves, and about popular implementations thereof
- Detailed topics on specific programming languages
In addition, many of the topics listed in the charter already have excellent articles on Wikipedia; this project wouldn't attempt any "hostile takeovers" on such (other than providing navboxes and the like).
Temporary project page: User:EngineerScotty/Programming Language Theory
User: EngineerScotty 00:22, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Sampling and digital recording
Description:
Temporary project page: User:trweiss/sampling and digital recording
User: User:trweiss
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Scottish Placename Etymology
Description:
Temporary project page: User_talk:Lianachan
User: Lianachan
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Sign language, Deaf culture and deafness
Description: Hope to link up people interested in these issues and improve the quality and consistency of articles that relate to them. Needs just a few more committed editors to get it off the ground.
Temporary project page: User:Ntennis/Deaf WikiProject proposal
User: All of those below :)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Star Wars
Description: There are numerous Star Wars pages, and plenty of editors in the portal to go along with it. Plus, there's plenty of things to be merged, expanded, improved, and so on.
Temporary Project Page: User:Deckiller/Star Wars Wikiproject
User: Deckiller
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Sustainable technologies
Description:
Temporary project page: User:Jwanders/Sustainable technologies
User: Jwanders 16:54, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Telecommunications
Description: There are plenty of telecom-related articles ranging from wireless to PSTN to numbering plans and so on, with seemingly no central community with which to coordinate effort. What there has been have been temporary ad-hoc collectives living briefly in the talk pages of various articles. Is it time to bring this together?
Temporary project page:
User: Keith D. Tyler ¶
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Theoretical Linguistics
Description: This project proposes to increase and improve the coverage in Wikipedia of theoretical linguistics and theories of language. A couple of us have talked this over, and decided to see what can be made out of a project.
Project page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Theoretical Linguistics
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Twin Peaks
Description: This project proposes to increase and improve the coverage in Wikipedia of the Twin Peaks television series, specifically the creation of individual pages for each episode.
Temporary project page: User:Morning star/WikiProject Twin Peaks
User: Morning star 16:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Venezuela
Description: A project with the objective of improving the quality of articles referring to the History, Culture, and other miscellanea of Venezuela. The project will look for more accurate information, the creation of new articles, periodics collaborations, expansion of stubs, better organization and categorization of the articles, the manteinance of the Portal:Venezuela, developing of references in the sister projects, etc. Always mantaining a neutral point of view. Since part of the sources are in Spanish languages, translators are also invited to join in. This wikiProject, once established, has plans to diversificate in the future.
Temporary project page: User:Alex Coiro/WikiProject Venezuela
User: Alex Coiro 20:39, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Warhammer 40,000
Description: Aim of the project is to organise and work, in a co-ordinated manner, on the Warhammer 40,000 related articles that are on wikipedia.
Temporary project page: User:Localzuk/Warhammer 40,000 Project
User: Localzuk (talk) 21:36, 31 January 2006 (UTC)
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):
Zoids
Description: Aim of the project is to expand Wikipedia in relation to the Zoids model range and associated fictional universe. For a toy range that has been selling in Japan, the U.S, Europe and the Asia-Pacific for twenty-three years (on and off in the latter regions), and has five anime series, a Game Boy Advance series, a Gamecube series, and several older games associated with it, when I first looked into the subject, content was sorely lacking. A handful of users have joined me in expanding this, but it has been suggested that now is the time to try and make a full-fledged Wikiproject of it.
Temporary project page: User:Saberwyn/Zoids expansion project
User: Saberwyn
Interested Wikipedians (please add your name):