Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture

You employ stone, wood and concrete, and with these materials you build houses and palaces: that is construction. Ingenuity is at work. But suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good. I am happy and I say: "This is beautiful. That is Architecture. Art enters in......" Le Corbusier, Vers Une Architecture, 1923

Hello! Are you interested in architecture? Do you think it is importand to impart knowledge about architecture? Then we would like to invite you to help us in this Project!

An important note for everyone to remember: This project develops ideas about how we might organize data in articles about architecture. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

Project pages
Categories	WikiProject Architecture/Categories
Stubs	WikiProject Architecture/stubs
Infobox	WikiProject Architecture/infobox

Scope

This WikiProject aims to

• Develop standards and templates for architecture-related articles
• Improve architecture-related articles
  • Lists: List of buildings, List of building types, List of architects
  • Wikipedia:Stubs: see Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/stubs
  • Portal:Architecture
• Organise Category:Architecture

Similar Wikiprojects

• Commons: Since 5th March 2006 there is a Commons Project, organising the files in the Commons. If you like to help you're very welcome: CommonsProject_Architecture
• DE: Since 27th July 2004 the german Wikipedia has a WikiProjekt Architecture and building industry. For coordination please look at the Discussion Page.
• The parent of this wikiproject is Wikipedia:WikiProject Arts
• Wikipedia:WikiProject:Urban studies and planning

Participants

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• Secretlondon
• KRS
• Pinkville
• Burschik
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• Dubud 13:28, 16 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject User Boxes

Here are some templates for your use:

Code	Result	Usage
{{User WP Architecture}}	This user participates in WikiProject Architecture.	WikiProject Architecture userbox
{{user architecture}}	Template:User architecture	Userbox for those interested in architecture
{{User Architecture}}	Template:User Architecture	Another userbox for those interested in architecture
{{User architect}}	This user is an architect.	Userbox for architects

Help for authors

Create new articles

• Relevance: Is the Article you want to create relevant or importand for the Wikipedia? - see Wikipedia:Importance
• Naming: Generally: use the common name!
  • Buildings: common name, plus the City / country where necessary. Examples:
    • Eiffeltower (only one)
    • St Mary Aldermary, St Mary Woolnoth (many St Mary churches) - additions without comma or brackets (NOT: "St Mary, Aldermary" AND NOT: "St Mary (Aldermary)")
    • compare: wikipedia:Naming conventions (Western clergy)#Buildings named after people (outdated? maybe time to separate that paragraph from a NC guideline that's essentially on people and not on buildings, and start a new NC on buildings - and landmarks? - in general - which maybe could be rather related to the places NC's, see wikipedia:naming conventions#Places for a few links).
    • compare: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions/archive6#Mount, Mt., Mt and Saint, St., St and Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (names and titles)#"Saint" / inconsistent use of "St" and "St."- discusses tangentially whether to use "St." or "St" in names of buildings (for persons not abbreviated: "Saint"; for places there is some prior practice to use "St." for places in the US, "St" for places in the UK, and mostly without abbreviation if there's no established practice in the country of origin, e.g. Saint Petersburg in Russia; St. Petersburg, Florida for the US city, St Albans in the UK - would that work for buildings too?).
  • Architects: Le Corbusier, not "Corbusier, Le" or even "Charles Edouard Jeanneret(-Gris))", compare:
    • Category:Architects
    • Wikipedia:Naming conventions (people) (PS: Le Corbusier is used as an example on that page, as are Antoni Gaudí and Josep Puig i Cadafalch... - Architects maybe need no separate NC from the "people" NC, while there are probably no special rules that can be defined for "architects": e.g. "artist's name" occurs in many other professions, and is already covered by the "people" NC guideline)
• Using Blank Templates

The templates listed below can assist you by setting up standard headings, infoboxes etc. in your article. To use them follow this procedure:-

1. Create a blank article having first considered the the information above concerning naming conventions and relevance.
2. Edit the blank article and copy-paste
   1. {{subst:Architect}} for articles about architects
   2. {{subst:Modern building}} for articles about buildings begun on or after 1900
   3. {{subst:Historic building}} for articles about buildings begun before 1900
3. Save the article
4. Edit the article again and write your article under the headings created.

Templates

• For writing an article about architecture, buildings, structures, an architect or anything else related to this Wikiproject put this Template at the top of the articles talk page. {{Architecture}} which will display this:-

  The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page. If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

  	Architecture NA‑class
  Architecture portal This page is within the scope of WikiProject Architecture, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Architecture on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks. NA This page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

  • If you want to include a series box relating to architectural history then use {{Archhistory}}.
  • If you want to include a series box relating to Modern architecture use {{Modernarch}}.
  • If you want to include a series box relating to Postmodernism use {{Postmodernism}}.

  Infoboxes

  • For writing an article about an architect please use the Template:Infobox Architect.
  • For writing an article about a structure or building please use the Template:Infobox Modern building or Template:Infobox Historic building.
  • If the structure is a Bridge please use Template:Infobox Bridge.

  Stubs

  If your article is a stub, please add one of the following stub templates to the bottom of the article.

  • {{architecture-stub}} for architecure stubs
  • {{architect-stub}} for architect stubs.
  • For Building and structure stubs please refer to Category:Buildings and structures stubs or it's subcategories for a precise locational stub.
  • For Urban studies and planning stubs use:-
    • {{UK-planning-stub}}

  Other stubs can be found here - Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/stubs

  Edit Articles

  • Please use pictures and drawings in the article! You find many in the Category:Architecture in the Commons

  Useful Sources

  Pictures

  • Category:Architecture in the Commons
  • www.greatbuildings.com - Architecture database

  Databases

  • www.archinform.net - Architecture database archINFORM (en/de), here you can find many literature links
  • www.mip.berkeley.edu/spiro - SPIRO, an image database, from the Architecture Visual Resources Library at UC Berkeley
  • www.structurae.de - Database Structurae with engineer buildings (en/de/fr)
  • Online Catalogue of the Canadian Centre for Architecture - architects and architecture (photographs, prints, drawings)

  Text

  • aat - a source of controlled vocabulary (used in CCA documentation) for art and architectural terms

  The right Category

  The Category:Architecture is the main Category for architecture-related articles. To get an overview and help to find the right category for your article please got to Wikipedia:WikiProject Architecture/Categories

  Pictures and Media Files

  Pictures, drawings, videos etc. should be uploaded not to any national Wikipedia, but to the Commons. For more information see Commons:About and the Commons:FAQ. For naming the Files in Commons:CommonsProject_Architecture#Naming_of_Files.

  Tasks

  Pages needing attention

  Wikipedia:Pages needing attention listings are no longer being updated. For by-topic listings of articles that need attention, see:

  • Category:Articles needing attention
  • WikiProject Cleanup Listings

  To flag an article for attention, add a cleanup template to the article or talk page. See Wikipedia:Template index/Cleanup for a listing. All previously listed articles have either been fixed or tagged.

  See also the page history of Wikipedia:Votes for rewrite which ran from May 2002-June 2003 then was redirected to here.