User:GreenReaper/StartingAWikiProject


 * When to start a WikiProject
 * Topic you are passionate about needs help
 * Important subtopics not covered
 * Articles lack rigour and citations, languish without edits
 * Goals
 * Drive quality improvements (ultimately: featured topic)
 * Foster sense of community among internal topic editors
 * Bring in editors from external topic-specific communities
 * Support external interests within Wikipedia's boundaries
 * when _not_ to start a WikiProject
 * It's just too small
 * Try organizing on the talk page of the main topic
 * Consider starting a task-force of an existing group
 * Your topic is largely unverifiable, or:
 * More detailed/original coverage than Wikipedia allows
 * Start a separate wiki, bring some topics back later
 * WikiProjects are about better articles, not necessarily more
 * The mindset you need
 * Meta-admin. You're designing a mini site within Wikipedia.
 * What's a new reader going to need? Where's the gaps?
 * Housekeeper. The project coordinators get to do the grunt work.
 * Community builder. Editors are precious, search for consensus.
 * Wear your Wikipedia hat. WikiProjects can't avoid policy.
 * External project deliverables
 * Assessment (assessment guidelines)
 * Overview (topic portal)
 * Infoboxes and navboxes (project talk page)
 * Scope
 * What are you *not* doing? WP:NOT on a small scale.
 * What will your editors know more about than anyone else?
 * Don't overreach yourself by tagging unrelated aritlces
 * Example: WP:FURRY - not werewolves, not all anthropomorphic animals
 * Seek to expand within your scope. Aim for a scope of 100+ articles.
 * Make a mission statement
 * Internal processes
 * Good/featured content drive
 * Peer reviews (review page)
 * Requested articles
 * Todo
 * Categories
 * Internal promotion
 * Userboxes
 * Project banner tags on talk pages of *relevant* articles
 * Vital for Wikipedia 1.0 inclusion
 * Personal intorductions/talk templates
 * Project newsletters
 * Barnstars
 * External promotion
 * Forum posts
 * Keep them updated with progress/interesting articles
 * Mailing lists
 * Chat
 * Embassy/partnership with topic-specific sites (esp. wikis)
 * What should you end up with?
 * Better (and perhaps more) articles
 * Better (and perhaps more) editors