Wikipedia:WikiProject Years
WikiProject Years is a project dedicated to improving all year-related articles on Wikipedia to Featured status. We cover all year, decade, century, and millennia articles and their subarticles. Our scope is incredibly large, so we rely a lot on automated bots to do more tedious tasks. Our current focus is on improving the 1340s article (see User:AndonicO/Tzatziki Squad/1340s), as well as hammering out some new policies and guidelines:
In 2009, WikiProject Years developed a guideline for the inclusion of events in year articles, especially more recent years.
Important policy discussions took place in January 2009 at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (dates and numbers) and at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Years.
Scope[edit]
This WikiProject's first aim was primarily to formalize the unofficial standard used for creating year pages. A standard was created and then transferred to Wikipedia:Timeline standards. The project still conceivably has responsibility for maintaining/improving that standard. The project currently oversees all year articles, (e.g. 1345, 2008), decade articles, century articles, and millennia articles, as well as their sub-articles (e.g. 2008 in sports).
Similar projects[edit]
The parent of this WikiProject is the WikiProject Time.
- WikiProject Current events (inactive)
- WikiProject years in science (inactive)
- WikiProject Days of the Year
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Timelines (inactive)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject History
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Leaders by year (inactive)
(Also, since year articles cover science, philosophy, arts, literature, and other subjects, this project has connections to several other projects not listed.)
To do[edit]
Open tasks for Wikipedia:WikiProject Years. Shortcuts: Recent changes | Categories | History |
- Urgent:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- To Improve to Featured standard: 1340s
- To Improve to GA standard: 1345, 1346
- Collaboration: 1929
- POV issues 1980s
- Worldwide view issues 1980s, 1950s
- To Expand/Destub: see Stub-Class Year articles
- To Clean up: 1970s
- To Review/Rate: see Unassessed Year articles
- To Merge/Split:
- Citation problems: 1950s
The collaboration of the week is 1929
Assessment and review[edit]
Collaborations |
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Today |
Today's articles for improvement |
Science & technology |
Miscellaneous |
The WP:YEARS department that assesses articles for quality and importance can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Years/Assessment. If you are interested in assessment and review, please add your name to the list of reviewers on the assessment page.
Current status[edit]
Years articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
GA | 1 | 1 | |||||
B | 1 | 1 | |||||
C | 1 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 42 | |
Start | 4 | 509 | 279 | 2 | 261 | 1,055 | |
Stub | 4 | 85 | 3 | 96 | 188 | ||
List | 3 | 270 | 1,246 | 4,298 | 25 | 1,228 | 7,070 |
Category | 71,464 | 71,464 | |||||
Disambig | 7 | 7 | |||||
Portal | 215 | 215 | |||||
Project | 1 | 1 | |||||
Template | 136 | 136 | |||||
NA | 229 | 229 | |||||
Other | 7 | 1 | 8 | ||||
Assessed | 4 | 283 | 1,776 | 4,675 | 72,082 | 1,597 | 80,417 |
Unassessed | 5,614 | 5,614 | |||||
Total | 4 | 283 | 1,776 | 4,675 | 72,082 | 7,211 | 86,031 |
Participants[edit]
- Olivier
- +sj + * (this project is why I joined WP in 2004)
- trevor MacInnis
- AMK152
- Fractalchez
- Art Smart*
- Wrad*
- User:Totnesmartin
- Pro66 (formerly known as Pathfinder2006)
- CG was here. (T - C - S - E) I will work on X in the United States articles.
- DerbyCountyinNZ
- User:Arthur Rubin (as well as elsewhere in WikiProject Time)
- jj137
- DudeWithAFeud
- Omnipedian (currently working on yrs in Music; aspiring to work on yrs in Comics, Architecture, Science)
- Tony1
- Icelilly
- FFMG
- Tocino
- Kendrick7talk 19:41, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
- Bud0011 (talk) 08:01, 5 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sean (talk || contribs) 20:10, 26 December 2009 (UTC)
- Tigerghost (talk || contribs) 07:34, 14 January 2010 (UTC)) (Work primarily on pages relating to the United States, and pages related to music or pop culture in general)
- Kransky Kransky (talk) 12:41, 9 February 2010 (UTC)
- MelbourneStar☆ (talk) (Interested in working on years in the past 5 years, making sure information is not removed due to conflict of interest etc.)
- DuanedoneckerU.S. History, World History
- Codrin.B (talk) 22:29, 7 November 2011 (UTC)
- Smjg (talk) 18:13, 15 January 2012 (UTC) (been here a long time, just now getting round to putting my name down)
- Flaviusvulso (talk) 01:49, 17 January 2012 (UTC)
- meco (talk) 14:02, 25 March 2012 (UTC)
- Arius1998 (talk) 12:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
- Matty.007 (talk) 20:27, 12 June 2013 (UTC)
- Typhoon2013 (talk) 03:44, 13 April 2014 (UTC)
- Jc3s5h
- Perry Middlemiss (talk) 11 January 2015, Australian lists
- Maestroso simplo (talk) 3 February 2015, Copyediting Years in Ireland going chronologically starting in the 1340s
- Jackninja5 (talk) 15:37, 31 January 2015 (UTC) Working on years in pages, mainly on Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Nigeria, the UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, Vietnam, Cambodia and North Korea.
- TheEditor867 (talk) 07:47, 6 July 2015 (UTC) Working on years in countries
- Zamorakphat (talk) 2:46, 20 October 2015
Inactive Participants[edit]
Editors who have not edited on Wikipedia for over six months
- LittleDan
- Spawn Man (Yay, It's all gonna be good.....But don't we need a splash of colour in here?)
- jredmond
- Lini*
- User:Dank55
- AprilBlood*
- Grimhelm (talk)*
- Tea and crumpets
- User:Yggur
- Orion11M87
- Foolestroupe
- Reliable♪ Forevertalk 23:29, 13 November 2008 (UTC)
- Davidzuccaro
- Orrelly Man
- WhatWasDone (talk) 08:42, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
- ShadeofTime09 (talk) 17:16, 3 July 2010 (UTC)
- Theologiae (talk) 12:31, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
- Phoenix B 1of3 (talk) 00:27, 3 September 2011 (UTC)
Accomplishments[edit]
- FAs
- GAs
- DYKs
Templates[edit]
What to type | What it makes | What it's for | ||||||||||||||||||
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{{Year box}} |
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The infobox for year pages. | ||||||||||||||||||
{{Births and deaths ToC}} | Table of contents for births and deaths sections of year pages. | |||||||||||||||||||
{{C21 year in topic}} | See Template:C21 year in topic | The topic infobox for year pages. | ||||||||||||||||||
{{WikiProject Years}} |
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The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited as part of the Years WikiProjects. For instructions, see assessment page. | ||||||||||||||||||
{{User WP Years}} | This userbox is for members of the project to put on their userpage and proclaim that they are a member of this project. |
Year in Topic boxes[edit]
Each century has a different year in topic box, depending on how much information is available in Wikipedia. The following have been created so far:
- {{C21YearInTopic}}
- {{C20YearInTopic}}
- {{C19YearInTopic}}
- {{C18YearInTopic}}
- {{C17YearInTopic}}
- {{C16YearInTopic}}
- {{C15YearInTopic}}
- {{C14YearInTopic}}
- {{C13YearInTopic}}
- {{C12YearInTopic}}
- {{C11YearInTopic}}
- {{M1YearInTopic}}
The last one is for the whole 1st millennium (1-1000 AD). However it has not yet been decided how many there should be. See talk page and survey for discussions.
Old surveys[edit]
Example Year[edit]
Warning: The following example is a bare bones idea of how a year page should look. If you believe something is missing want to add it to "2004", please don't edit this page but go to 2004.
Infobox[edit]
Each year should have an infobox at the top right. The templates will be the template {{Year box}}
followed by the template {{C21YearInTopic}} (or applicable centuries template, see above).
{{Year box}} {{C21YearInTopic}}
Intro Section[edit]
The first sentence in the introduction explains that the page is for a year and not a number. This statement should only be included if the number is on the List of numbers page. The second introduction sentence will describe the year (a link to a calendar) and the type of calendar the year belongs to. The following sentence lists any official designation the year has. For articles containing year summaries, the intro summarizes the year as a whole in a manner consistent with WP:LEAD.
''This article is about the year 2004. For other uses of 2004, see [[2004 (number)]]:'' '''2004''' is a [[leap year starting on Thursday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]]. It was designated the: *''International Year of [[Rice]]'' (by the [[United Nations]]) *''International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against [[Slavery]] and its Abolition'' (by [[UNESCO]]) *''Year of the Monkey'' (by the [[Chinese calendar]]) '''See [[The world in 2004]] for a description of the state of the world in this year.'''
Sections[edit]
Events[edit]
The events section is divided into months, each month has a calendar at the beginning and lists any important events that occurred. The month header once linked to the particular month in the year (e.g. January 2004), but no longer does. Each item links to the day.
==Events== ===January=== * [[January 3]] - [[Flash Airlines Flight 604]] crashes into the [[Red Sea]] off the coast of [[Egypt]], killing all 148 aboard. * [[January 4]] ** [[Mikhail Saakashvili]] wins the presidential elections in [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]. ** [[NASA]]'s [[MER-A]] (''Spirit'') lands on [[Mars (planet)|Mars]]. ===February=== * [[February 1]] - A [[hajj]] stampede in [[Mina, Saudi Arabia|Mina]], [[Saudi Arabia]], kills 251 pilgrims. ===March=== ===April=== ===May=== ===June=== ===July=== ===August=== ===September=== ===October=== ===November=== ===December===
Summary of year[edit]
A summary of the year may follow the timeline, describing events of the year. Be sure to cite everything in this section.
Births section[edit]
The Births section lists notable births in that year, divided into month sections. Each entry links to the day page, has a very short description of the person, and links to the death year if known.
==Births== ===January=== *[[January 21]] ** [[Princess Ingrid Alexandra of Norway]] ** [[another name]] (d. [[2005]]) American author *[[January 31]] - [[another name]] (d. [[2003]]) Polonesian King ===February===
Deaths section[edit]
The deaths section begins with a see also statement, and follows the same format as the births section: Month section, day link, name, and birth year link if known.
==Deaths== '''For more deaths see: [[Deaths in 2004]]''' ===January=== *[[January 27]] - [[Jack Paar]], American television show host (b. [[1918]]) ===December=== *[[December 28]] ** [[Jerry Orbach]], American actor (b. [[1935]]) ** [[Susan Sontag]], American writer and activist (b. [[1933]])
More[edit]
It has not yet been decided what else will be included on the year pages. Many currently have sections for awards, fiction, external links etc. These sections may be removed (or more likely moved to a separate page to be included on the infobox) later, but for now the following form can be followed to close out the page.
==External links== {{commonscat|2004}} [[Category:2004| ]]
Tools[edit]
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
External watchlist[edit]
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