Wikipedia:WikiProject Media

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WikiProject Media
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WikiProject Media has a two-fold purpose: 1) To improve the organization and quality of existing articles, categories, lists and resources, of or related to print or electronic media and to help generate ideas for new items and expansion to same. 2) To improve the organization and quality of existing articles, categories, lists and resources, of or related to mass media and to help generate ideas for new items and expansion to same.

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Contents 1 Goals 2 Scope 3 Open tasks 4 Participants 5 Templates 5.1 Infoboxes 5.2 Stub templates 5.3 Project templates 6 Articles 6.1 Project relevant Wikipedia articles 6.2 New Wikipedia articles related to Media 6.3 Did you know? 6.4 Article improvement drive 6.5 Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates 6.6 Collaboration of the week 6.7 Peer review 6.8 Good Articles 6.9 Featured article candidates 6.10 Featured articles 7 Categories and subpages 8 Wikipedia surveys 8.1 Ad hoc surveys 8.2 Ongoing Wikipedia surveys 8.2.1 Votes for deletion 9 Requests 9.1 Suggestions for new projects 10 Resources 10.1 Related WikiProjects

[edit] Goals

This project was formed primarily to develop an objective approach to a conceptual framework, that might shed some light on systemic bias within the Mass media industries. The scope has been expanded to be inclusive of the circumstances of the technology involved, as it applies to the cultures it effects.

[edit] Scope

Log line -- A broadbased WikiProject covering 1) the technical and creative factors required for print and electronic media, and 2) the economic and social issues related to media.

1. Technical and application:
   1. All articles relating to Media, mediums of all types and formats, covering -- aquisition, editorial, creative, authoring, delivery, transmission, storage, archiving, consumer and professional equipment and formats, networks, broadcast, cable, microwave, satellite transmission and low-power broadcasting.
2. Theory, analysis, economics, ethics, criticism
   1. Articles dealing with specific issues in mass media, media regulatory issues, media culture, eletronic journalism, media bias, news propaganda, criticism, media ethics, standards and pratices, media economics, news industry, political media, media creative specialties and skill sets.

[edit] Open tasks

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Media:
Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Myanmar News Agency, Lisa Sylvester (CNN reporter) Verify: Multimedia, Alternative media, Alternative newspaper Cleanup: Media influence, Video game culture NPOV: Content (media and publishing)

[edit] Participants

Put # {{user2|YOURUSERNAME}} in this section in order to become a part of the project:

1. Bine maya (talk • contribs • count)
2. Calicocat (talk • contribs • count)
3. ebmonkey2 (talk • contribs • count)
4. Flatterworld (talk • contribs • count)
5. Guidewell (talk · contribs) (medically retired concert and recording pianoforte technician - instrumental in the introduction of computer technology into the music industry during the 1980s with special emphasis on the adoption of various media types for music, music literature and music education presentation)
6. Humbleradio (talk • contribs • count)
7. Jorfer (talk • contribs • count)
8. Lighthead (talk • contribs • count)
9. Maurreen (talk • contribs • count)
10. Parhamr (talk • contribs • count)
11. Quinobi (talk • contribs • count)
12. SeanMon411 (talk • contribs • count)
13. Thomprod (talk • contribs • count)
14. Tinminer (talk • contribs • count)
15. Will Lakeman (talk • contribs • count)
16. Donegal92 (talk • contribs • count)
17. Marianian (talk • contribs • count) (mathematics A-level ^{[disambiguation needed]} student)
18. Pro66 (talk • contribs • count) (study media for few years)
19. CTPlurker (talk • contribs • count)
20. TomCat4680 (talk • contribs • count) interested in improving news and sports TV channel articles, as well as local TV stations, radio stations and local sports TV and radio networks articles.

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infoboxes

• {{Media infobox}}
• {{Infobox media}}

[edit] Stub templates

• {{publish-stub}}

[edit] Project templates

• Project Templates gallery (subpage)

The following templates are in use in this project:

• {{WikiProject Media}}
• {{templateMedia}} - template for internal project use
• {{MediaProjectTemplate}} - for possible use in articles related to the project

[edit] Articles

[edit] Project relevant Wikipedia articles

Articles can be found at: Category:WikiProject Media

The media (disambiguation) page.

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Media

Please feel free to list your new Media-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.

[edit] Did you know?

[edit] Article improvement drive

• Media (communication)

[edit] Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates

[edit] Collaboration of the week

• Media Bias

[edit] Peer review

[edit] Good Articles

• Al Jazeera
• BBC
• BBC News 24
• BBC UK regional TV on satellite
• DuMont Television Network
• Film
• Monty Python
• Napster
• Nelvana
• Thomas Edison

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Featured articles

• Blues
• Compact Cassette
• Panavision

[edit] Categories and subpages

• List of all subpages of this page
• Category:Media

[edit] Wikipedia surveys

[edit] Ad hoc surveys

[edit] Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

• Requested moves:
• Requests for Comments:

[edit] Votes for deletion

• Votes for deletion (Article deletion):
• Votes for undelete (Article undeletion}:
• Templates for deletion:

Wikipedia:Templates for deletion/Log/2008 December 27#Template:Video

See talk page Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Media#Template:Video going, going ...

• Categories for deletion:
• Images for deletion:
• Redirects for deletion:

[edit] Requests

[edit] Suggestions for new projects

1. Read Wikiproject Best practices for tips on leading a WikiProject.
2. Create the main project page at Wikipedia:WikiProject projectname. (See Starting a new page)
3. Create an outline on your project page:
   • Add {{subst:WikiProject|projectname}} into your main project page and save. (See m:Help:Template for details.)
4. Identify pages within the scope of your project:
   • A good way to do this is to copy the listings of Special:Whatlinkshere for the most important articles related to your project.
   • You will probably want to save a copy of the list on a project status subpage.
5. Create a project to-do list to focus and coordinate your collaborative efforts.
6. If possible, link to a sample article to give other Wikipedians a feel for the project's goals.
7. Advertise!
   • Create a project notice template, and insert it at the top of the talk page of related articles.
8. Write an article for the scope and history of the word "media". Links to the media disambiguation page are being directed to articles that oversimplify the context.

[edit] Resources

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• WikiProject Films
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• WikiProject Journalism
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