Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia

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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Contents 1 Announcements 1.1 Events 1.2 Standards 2 Philadelphia Meetups 3 Participants and primary areas of interest 4 Structure 4.1 General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums 4.2 Goals 4.3 WikiProject ToDo list 4.4 Article requests list 4.5 Portal maintenance 5 Assessment 6 Templates 7 Images 8 Recognition 9 Wikimedia Pennsylvania 10 Related or Descendant WikiProjects 11 Philadelphia task forces 12 New articles 13 Similar WikiProjects

[edit] Announcements

[edit] Events

• Wikipedia Takes Philadelphia: Either Sunday, October 4th or Sunday, October 11. Please help us complete our List of articles that need pictures.

[edit] Standards

• A discussion is currently underway on the talk page as to the standardization for SEPTA article titles. Please drop by and add your insights.-- danntm ^T _C 21:27, 16 August 2006 (UTC)

• A more formalized proposal is now avaliable for review, comment, and consensus building here. Please stop by and add your two cents.-- danntm ^T _C 22:35, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion

• 7 Jul 2009 – People's Baptist Church, Philadelphia (talk) proposed for deletion by SoWhy.

Articles for deletion

• 5 Jul 2009 – Philadelphia Catholic League (talk) was kept; see discussion.
• 5 Jul 2009 – Philadelphia Public League (talk) was kept; see discussion.

Good article nominations

• 8 Jul 2009 – Hamilton Disston (talk) is promoted to GA status; see discussion.
• 7 Jul 2009 – The St. James (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Medvedenko.
• 8 Jun 2009 – The Residences at The Ritz-Carlton (Philadelphia) (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Medvedenko.
• 24 May 2009 – Steve Javie (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Chrishomingtang.
• 22 May 2009 – Tim Donaghy (talk) is nominated as GA candidate by Chrishomingtang.

Did you know

• 8 Jul 2009 – A fact from Condy Raguet (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 8 Jul 2009 – A fact from Shelly Gross (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 4 Jul 2009 – A fact from Frank Ford (broadcaster) (talk) appeared on the main page.
• 4 Jul 2009 – A fact from Syng inkstand (talk) appeared on the main page.

Bounty board

• 19 Jun 2009 – Bounty for bringing Religious Society of Friends (talk) to FA status: $15 donation by Quadell.

Other news

• 8 July 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 29 June 2009 – A compilation of Academic Journal has been generated from the |journal= parameter found in citation templates, identifying the 500 most cited journals, and 500 most cited journals without articles.
• 18 June 2009 – A new database dump is available. The cleanup listings from WolterBot should be updated.
• 15 June 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
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[edit] Philadelphia Meetups

November 2006 meetup

March 2007 meetup

April 2008 meetup

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Our next meetup date will be some time in August. See the meetup page for details from our last meeting.

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wikimedia meetups in Philadelphia

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
• Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

[edit] Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames A-J

Usernames L-Z

Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn Austinmurphy neighborhoods, corporations, crime, lists Bjewiki Sports Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education Briememory Sports Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU CComMack CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm Talk Contibutions - SEPTA, Politics Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GShton Sports, Culture Gorgeousp Hamburmk IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k

Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation Magic Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone MechBrowman Medvedenko meebly nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs Pacdude Passdoubt | Talk Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk Patricknoddy PAWiki Counties north of Philly (Bucks, Lehigh, Northampton), Philly sports (especially Eagles and Phillies), center city Philly and Philly-area people. PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. RegBarc Criminal Justice (courts, police), Far Northeast Philadelphia RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods South Philly -- email me for my opinion Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 Skiasaurus Spikebrennan SteinbDJ Arts and culture Sylent Northern Philly burbs Sab University City, general Philly photography Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles V60 VTalk - VDemolitions I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City.

[edit] Structure

[edit] General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

• General
• Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

[edit] Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

[edit] WikiProject ToDo list

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia:

Recruit active membership Featured Articles Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC Determine geographic scope Standardize neighborhood article names Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles Create SEPTA station/route article title standards Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}}

[edit] Article requests list

• Article requests

[edit] Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

[edit] Assessment

Philadelphia articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	1	3	2	1		7
	FL	1			5		6
	A		1	1	1		3
	GA	2	9	3	11	6	31
	B	9	29	21	25	27	111
	C		7	2	8	14	31
	Start	10	31	76	218	175	510
	Stub	3	8	46	304	246	607
	List	1	1	2	3	2	9
	Assessed	27	89	153	576	470	1315
	Unassessed		1		3	812	816
	Total	27	90	153	579	1282	2131

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc
• Philadelphia articles by quality log
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

[edit] Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{portalpar|Philadelphia|Libertybell alone small.jpg}} Talk	Philadelphia portal	Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	PhiladelphiaWikipedia:WikiProject PhiladelphiaTemplate:WikiProject PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia articles WikiProject Philadelphia   Philadelphia portal v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philadelphia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Philadelphia 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.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's quality scale.  ???  This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article is also supported by WikiProject Pennsylvania.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{user Philly}} Talk	This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk	39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°W / 39.8933; -75.2089Coordinates: 39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°W / 39.8933; -75.2089	To be used on street-sized pages.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaCOTM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Collaboration of the month! Please help to improve it to match the quality of an ideal Wikipedia Philadelphia article.	goes on the Collaboration of the Month
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk	You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!	to invite new members

[edit] Images

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-HABS}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-HAER}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov-HALS}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7])	P.D. (not all)	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-FWS}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10][11])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([12])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-USDA}}
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[edit] Recognition

The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

{{subst:Liberty Star|message ~~~~}}

[edit] Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

Thanks!

[edit] Related or Descendant WikiProjects

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania
• Wikipedia:Wikiproject U.S. cities
• WikiProject Pittsburgh

[edit] Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

[edit] New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

• Philadelphia Gas Works 11 April 2009
• Philadelphia general strike (1910) 10 July 2008
• Rohm and Haas Corporate Headquarters 22 May 2008
• Ora Washington 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society 2 May 2008
• Pennsylvania Hall (Philadelphia) 1 May 2008

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