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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!


We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members.

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ArticlesEdit

Popular pagesEdit

You can view a list of our popular pages, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Popular_pages

Lists and outlinesEdit

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The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them.

See also: Wikipedia:Timeline standards

Source for the sub-sections below: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration

Article alertsEdit

As per the notice at the top of this page, this project is not fully active. however, below are some automated features that you may find useful for working on articles on history-related topics.

Wikiproject structure and scopeEdit

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Founding and developmentEdit

Significant milestones for this WikiProject:

  • Founded on October 22, 2001, by User:Sjc and User:MichaelTinkler.
  • It was first formatted and explicitly labeled as a WikiProject after a series of edits by User:Reddi, which started on May 31, 2007 and ended around June 5, 2007.
  • as of July 2008, the four users below were the coordinators for this WikiProject, as per this version of the page for Coordinators:
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WikiProject structureEdit

WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:

  • Coordinators are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
  • Working groups host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and offline publication.
  • Task forces are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics within history.
  • WikiProject history recently expanded into Wikibooks.
  • See below for more information, including various additional roles and group information, in the section project staff and working groups.

GoalsEdit

The goals of this wikiproject are: a) to improve Wikipedia's coverage of history by creating, expanding, and maintaining history-related articles. b) to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of history. c) to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to history in Wikipedia, d) to maintain the history portal and its sub-portals, e) to answer queries about history on the reference desk, especially the humanities reference desk.

Outline of history articlesEdit

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please see the article Outline of history. Please look this over and fill-in missing topics.If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.

While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):

  • What's missing? Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject? Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.

It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics.

It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.Please help improve it. It's our bird's eye view.Thank you.

ScopeEdit

Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:

  • Articles with a "History" section, however long, are not in our scope
  • "History of..." articles are within our scope

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The list of history topics lists of basic history topics are some articles that are in this project's scope. The latter list is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, but rather an overview. The Lists of topics are intended to be comprehensive and to include links to every article related to the subject on Wikipedia. See List of mathematics topics and List of psychology topics as examples.

A number of lists and meta-lists are maintained in Wikipedia:

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Peer review requestsEdit

This is from the page: User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews

Article alertsEdit

Generated by bot as per Wikipedia:Article alerts.

To watch the page for Article alerts, please add this page to your watchlist: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Article alerts

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Project staff and working groupsEdit

The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic wikiproject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.

Project CoordinatorsEdit

WikiProject personnel

For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions.

  • Former project leaders, with thanks:


Please feel free to contact them directly if you have questions regarding this project which either haven't been responded to here or regarding any other matters you believe are relevant to this project.

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Coordinators. The coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.


ResponsibilitiesEdit

  • Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.


Working GroupsEdit

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AssessmentEdit

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The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales.
Current active members:

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

CollaborationEdit

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The Collaboration working group serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found in a section above.

Current active members:

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

ReviewEdit

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The Review working group carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope. Current active members:

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

OutreachEdit

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The Outreach working group acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives. Current active members:

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(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

Informal subgroupsEdit

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Informal subgroups are any individual subgroup that any editor wishes to set up, on an informal or formal basis, for the purpose of gathering any group of editors together. This will be to enable editors to form their own subgroups for working with and communicating with other editors, but without taking on the formal roles and responsibilities of an official task force.

These subgroups could be formed based on any criteria at all. so any editor could form a subgroup for communicating with editors who are new to this topical area. or it could be an informal group for brainstorming ideas for a particular topic, or a particular editing drive, or group effort, or for a specific effort to delve into a particular topic, or to set up a single new article or set of articles, or for any other reason.

Our reason for setting up this new type of subgrouping is simple; history is a very broad and varied field. We would like to encourage all editors to take an active role here, as much as they might wish. so if you wish to set up any such subgroup, please feel free to post a notice on the talk page. We will be glad to help to promote any such efforts here. thanks!! Template:Collapse bottom

Task forcesEdit

We can have Task Forces for specific historical eras, or alternatively for specific topical areas. Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on. If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!

Sub-page for Task Force information:


TF Modern and Contemporary HistoryEdit

Official banner: 

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  • Members:
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  • Writes and updates articles on contemporary history, including the items below.
    • Timelines for current year,
    • articles on current time periods;
    • historical articles in need of updates for current events.

TF Ancient HistoryEdit

Possible task forcesEdit

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TF Medieval History
TF Renaissiance
TF Early modern history
TF Late modern history

Task forces by subject areaEdit

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Outreach, members, templatesEdit

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UserboxesEdit

WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:

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Project templatesEdit

Project banner

The banner Template:Tl should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.

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Infobox Historical Event

The Infobox Template:Tl should be added to the pages of notable events.

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Country/Region history

A navbox from Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.

Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: Category:History and events templates.

Articles ShowcaseEdit

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TableEdit

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Featured articlesEdit

<categorytree depth=0>FA-Class history articles</categorytree>

A-Class articlesEdit

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Good articlesEdit

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Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial TeamEdit

The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.


Work productsEdit

DYKsEdit

The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:

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CategoriesEdit

Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.

Category tree: <categorytree depth=0>History</categorytree>


Organization of Category:History. Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and Human history. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories. Category names. The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.

Don't over-categorize

Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK. Template:Hidden Organization of national histories. Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.

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Related WikiProjectsEdit

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History WikiProjectsEdit

Related Child Projects: This project is parent to some other similar projects.


Related projectsEdit

Related subprojectsEdit

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ResourcesEdit

External sister projects

See alsoEdit

Technical items and resourcesEdit

Guidelines and resourcesEdit

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WikisourceEdit

  • Wikisource for original text (or primary sources). Wikisource is a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain, or are released under the GFDL.

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