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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. 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.

Announcements

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Events

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Standards

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  • Currently, none.

Alerts

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Did you know

Articles for deletion

  • 12 Nov 2024 – In Honor of a Lifetime of Sexual Assault (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Fram (t · c) was closed as keep by Doczilla (t · c) on 19 Nov 2024; see discussion (8 participants)

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Articles for creation

Philadelphia Meetups

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Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there.

 
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Participants and primary areas of interest

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Usernames Numeric and A-L Usernames M-Z

Presumed Inactive

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Usernames A-L Usernames M-Z
  • Magic (last contribution 2007)
  • Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles (last contribution 2008)
  • Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area. (last contribution 2010)
  • MechBrowman (last contribution 2006)
  • Medvedenko (last contribution 2012)
  • meebly (last contribution 2005)
  • Pacdude (last contribution 2013)
  • Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk (last contribution 2007)
  • Patricknoddy (last contribution 2007)
  • PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. (last contribution 2012)
  • SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly (last contribution 2013)
  • Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 (last contribution 2006)
  • SteinbDJ Arts and culture (last contribution 2013)
  • Sylent Northern Philly burbs (last contribution 2011)
  • TheSab University City, general Philly photography (last contribution 2012)
  • Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc. (last contribution 2008)
  • User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion (last contribution 2011)
  • Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street. (last contribution 2013)

Structure

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General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

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Goals

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  1. Improve Philadelphia 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

WikiProject ToDo list

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Article requests list

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Portal maintenance

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Assessment

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Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
  FA 5 12 12 29
  FL 1 12 13
  GA 3 8 29 92 132
B 13 87 151 283 7 541
C 3 106 233 918 21 1,281
Start 3 106 649 4,673 70 5,501
Stub 1 62 1,102 1 47 1,213
List 1 11 25 116 1 4 158
Category 1 490 491
Disambig 11 11
File 130 130
Portal 419 419
Project 1 18 19
Template 138 138
NA 3 13 134 275 425
Other 17 17
Assessed 23 328 1,174 7,344 1,500 149 10,518
Unassessed 1 28 29
Total 23 328 1,174 7,345 1,500 177 10,547
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 41,794 Ω = 4.81

Templates

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What to type What it makes What it's for
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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.
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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

Images

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  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}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey P.D {{PD-USGov}}
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}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10]) C.C. {{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11]) P.D. {{PD-USGov}}

For Pennsylvania-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Pennsylvania}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Pennsylvania. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.


 
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Recognition

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

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Wikimedia Pennsylvania

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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:

Thanks!

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Philadelphia task forces

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New articles

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Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here.

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