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WikiProject Germany

WillkommentoWikiProject Germany!We are agroupof editors dedicated to the expansion and refinement of Wikipedia’s coverage of theGerman republic,people,monuments andculture.If you wish to join us, simply sign your name onour roster.

Should you have any questions about our project, just drop us a line on ourdiscussion page.If you’re lucky, you might even find some fellow project members in theWikipedia IRC chat (#wikipedia-en).If you speakGerman,you may want to also trythe German Wikipedia chatroom (#wikipedia-de).

DivisionsScope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation ofGermany,its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Germany in a fair and accurate manner.

As of9 July 2024,there are152,015articles and other project resources within the scope of WikiProject Germany. For a more detailed overview seeGermany article statistics.

A monthly top 1000 list of Germany-relatedpopular articlesis available atWikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Popular pages.

Goals
  1. Kill all backlogs.
  2. Get this project organized.
  3. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to Germany. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
  4. To create the foremostreliable and accuratefree-content encyclopedia of Germany in the English language.
  5. Build allTop Importance Germany Articlesto Good Article status at a minimum. Current progress:11 out of 136meet this criteria.[a]

Project divisionsProject divisions

  • Reference and navigation- the "keys to the country" (and of key importance)
  • Cities(talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
  • People(talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Germany's predecessor states who have shaped Germany
  • Photo requests(talk) – adding and requesting images of Germany.

Related groups

Task forces

Article alerts

Today's featured articles

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Articles for deletion

(3 more...)

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Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

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Featured article candidates

Good article nominees

Featured article reviews

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

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Articles for creation

(35 more...)

Related Portals

The main portal for this project isPortal:Germany.Other Germany-related portals are being deleted or moved to project space so they can continue to be useful for topic development:

Federal states

Regions and history

For more Germany-related portals (history, regions, etc.) seeCategory:Germany portaland "Portal" lists inGermany article statisticsin the sidebar.

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Barnstars

German Barnstar of National Merit, as rendered by Antou

Our project, like the other national WikiProjects, possesses a barnstar that may be awarded to outstanding contributors to the project or members particularly deserving of recognition for some effort made for the cause of the project.

  • {{subst:The Germany Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
The Germany Barnstar
{{{1}}}

ResourcesResources

InfoboxesInfoboxes

StubsStubs

For information on which stubs to use on Germany-related articles, see the list of stubs atWikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Stub templates

Subpages

TemplatesTemplates

What to type What it makes What it's for
{{WikiProject Germany}}
WikiProject iconGermanyUnassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope ofWikiProject Germany,a collaborative effort to improve the coverage ofGermanyon Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can jointhe discussionand see a list of open tasks.
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia'scontent assessmentscale.
Template placed on the top of talk pages,noton article pages
{{User WikiProject Germany}} Userboxes for WikiProject members, add either to the your userpage
{{User WP Germany}}
{{Infobox German location}}
WikiProject Germany
CountryGermany
Time zoneUTC+01:00(CET)
• Summer (DST)UTC+02:00(CEST)
Template allowing town info to be copied directly from de.wiki.
{{IPA}} German pronunciation:[...] Template for indicating German pronunciation. SeeHelp:IPA/Standard Germanfor transcription used.
{{translated|de}} Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia - to be placed on talk pages
{{subst:WelcomeGER}}~~~~ == Welcome to WikiProject Germany ==

Welcome, WikiProject Germany, to theWikiProject Germany!Please direct any questions about the project to itstalk page.If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at ourannouncement pageand tag their talk page with our project template{{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project'sNavigation boxpoints to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project'smain talk page;you may find it useful towatchlist it.
  • We've developed a number ofguidelinesfor names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

Here are sometasks you can do.Please remove completed tasks from the list.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!

Welcome message for new project members
{{User German Road Guru}}
WikiProject Germany/TransportationThis user is aGerman RoadGuru who can also claim themselves as a "German Road Warrior"WikiProject Germany Transportation DivisionFrei Fahren ist Frei Schreiben.
This Template can be for anyone who has driven on German roads and wants to claim themselves as "German Road Warriors"

Conventions

External linksWebsites

For articles to be translated, seeCategory:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia

Notes

  1. ^Featured and Good Articles are added to form this number.