Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Community

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This project is relative to the basic functions and ideals of Community in general and The Wikipedia Community.

Bootcamp
The Bootcamp is being redone. see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bootcamp

Adding communities from FIC directory to Wikipedia
I'd like to propose adding a new project goal of systematically adding the communities listed in the Fellowship of Intentional Community's directory to wikipedia. The directory already includes vital stats from each community and some may also have their own web pages.

This proposal seems to fall within the scope of the community project. I think it would also us a concrete goal to sink our teeth into. Most of the project goals right now are fairly abstract and its hard to know where to start. When adding communities from the directory it would simply be a matter of starting our way at the top of the list of communities and working down.

Finally, I think this would be a good way of raising the visibility of the Community project. We could promote this specific sub-project on like minded projects and forums. And if everyone referenced the community project in comments when editing pages we'd start showing up on the recent changes list as well. Activity usually attracts more activity. Just as no visible activity in a project reinforces that inactivity.

I'm open to feedback on this idea. The next step in moving forward would be to add it to the community project list of goals and then to see about automatically generating a list like those used in WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. The list could have a redlink to the most logical title and then a link to its page in the FIC directory. - Mennonot 01:36, 4 March 2006


 * Indeed, but the FIC directory is HUGE! I noticed we now have an article on the Fellowship for Intentional Community and have included a link to their site on Portal:Community/Web resources. A list of ecovillages exists, but if there is a list of other intentional communities, I'm not aware of it. Thanks for your feedback and support, mennonot especially for your vote to keep Portal:Community! - CQ 01:20, 15 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes there is: List of intentional communities &bull; CQ 07:15, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Building Community
The Wikipedia Community is in my opinion among the cream of the crop in online communities. The fact that it functions as a Community of practice with a focused task - building an encyclopedia - remains an organizing force that few web-enabled groups have. While Jimbo Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation have set up a strong central authority to assure the continuation of the project through some formal structures, there is still much room and freedom for organizing within the ranks of the community. This WikiProject is one of many grassroots efforts to tighten the fabric in a somwhat scientific and intentional way.

I'm proposing to develop a very comprehensive portal and categorization scheme to implement this from a taskforce perspective - seperate from, but completely aware of and complient with - the official channels and vehicles provided by our hosts through the Community Portal.

It is very important to differentiate Portal:Community, which is to become a reference for community builders everywhere, from the Community Portal which is expressly for Wikipedians. This little project space is here to help us focus on what Wikipedia - the encyclopedia has to say about community and to study and improve how Wikipedia - the community performs.

Let's build some community! -- CQ 13:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

Talkpage templates
On the project page for this WikiProject, there's a link to which causes it to show up on Category:Main pages with misplaced talk page templates. Would it bother anyone if I put a subst'd version of the talk page version of the template on the main page, so it no longer shows up in that category? Thanks. :)

~Kylu (u|t)  02:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks Kylu, but I fixed it by deactivating the template on our project page. -- CQ 04:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Note! This code: yields:

...and should only be used on talk pages.


 * Thanks CQ! I just figured I'd check before doing any editing, since it says "please do not edit" on there. I figured maybe someone had a good reason for wanting it there. :) ~Kylu (u|t)  01:56, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

TaskForce
The Community builders taskforce is working with User categorisation and Classification trying to build a handy task table. If you want to join the TaskForce, please say so below. CQ 15:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Members
Please add yourself below using followed by a brief message.

Community Builders TaskForce Members:
 * Trying to get this ball rolling
 * Will help where I can.
 * Sunray 19:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC) Great initiative! Will lend a pen, where needed, and wield a blue pencil, when necessary.

Current tasks
Currently, I'm working on the top-level tasks announcing this project, mainly here. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
 * Setting it up at WikiProject Community/Communitas! -- 18:35, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Proposed tasks
Heading toward United States Wikipedians and U.S. state WikiProjects that have Portals. See Listing of US state WikiProjects, Portals and Wikipedians. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Task template
We work through the one template, trying to keep it simple and effective. You can employ it by typing WP:CBTF. You can edit it here but please discuss your changes to the table content above. For technical or aesthetic changes use Template_talk:WP:CBTF. -- CQ 18:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC)

Comments
I'm finding that I'm quite busy with other things, and am only slowly getting my head around what the Community Builders TaskForce is doing... though I do like the user categorization mentioned above, and the whole idea of strengthening the community, including helping people collaborate with others of similar interest.

I'm wondering if we should separate the project focusing on community-related articles in sociology (e.g. co-housing) from the project aiming to strengthen community & cooperation in Wikipedia.

So I'll leave my name here, but just consider me a peripheral member - I'll check in and contribute from time to time. Feel free to ask for my input if there's a specific issue. --Singkong2005 talk 06:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC)

Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 project
Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPHumanities

Waiting to be contacted. See WikiProject Community/Assessment page when you get here. Thanks. &bull; CQ 21:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC)

What kind of help do you need? I'm not an official member of the 1.0 Ed team but I've helped other projects set up categories and templates to do rating. I take it you want to rate your articles? Take a look at Beatles, Firefly, Indigenous Peoples of North America or any of the other projects to see how to set things up, it's not hard. But with only 4 articles you can just create the categories and add the articles by hand if you want. ++Lar: t/c 23:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)


 * OK, I added in the parameters for your "top-level" article, Community with this edit. Since it is the lead article for the project, it is also automatically top level in importance. After that you need simply to create the relevant categories for the bot to read, as follows:

Hope this helps, Walkerma 00:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Create a category called Category:Community articles by quality, and place this in Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments (You've done that already)
 * 2) Tag a few article talk pages with the template, ideally using articles at every level of the assessment scale - FA, A, GA, B, Start and Stub, and also an NA (not assessed). Click on the categories created by the template, and place all of these into the category you made before, Category:Community articles by quality. (If you don't have any FAs etc, just create the empty categories ready for when you do).
 * 3) If you want to do importance too (it seems you do), then do the same as you did with quality, only place these in the category Category:Community articles by importance. (you've already created this)
 * 4) Wait for the bot to pick it all up!


 * Thank you very much Lar and Walkerma. Yes, that helped a bunch! It's all starting to make sense, now. I'm pretty sure I put some articles in class=Start that should remain NA or Stub. I will kick them back down once the Bot makes a round and I mirror the table to our projects /Assessment area. Assessment talk. CQ 03:30, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I removed the lower-level categories (such as Start-Class community articles) from the top category Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments, they might confuse the bot and get counted twice! There is a hierarchy Category:Wikipedia_1.0_assessments > Category:Community articles by quality > Category:XXX-Class community articles.  It looks as if the bot couldn't find the articles - I hope I fixed the problem. We'll have to see tomorrow night. Walkerma 05:17, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Ah, OK. I got a bit confused on the Category scheme, and probably messed up something. I think they are OK now. I tried to get everything relevant into Category:WikiProject Community. Hope that don't mess up the bot. A big problem we'll have for a while is that all of the articles are Start class or less! Walkerma: Thanks a heap for the '''help! &bull; CQ 06:26, 18 July 2006 (UTC)

Collaboration of the Month - August 2006
Communitas!

The spirit of community can't be free without the sense of community. True? &bull; CQ &bull; 20:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Education
Education and community have alway been intertwined. I've made some initial contact with WikiProject Education, being very impressed with the scope that they are tackling and the level of organization the project has achieved. Hoping to hear from them soon.


 * The articles, Situated learning and Learning object are loosly|moderately|tightly relevant to our scope. Thoughts? &bull; CQ 20:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Tagging talk pages and assessing articles
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.

The plugin has two main modes of operation:
 * Tagging talk pages, great for high-speed tagging
 * Assessments mode, for reviewing articles (pictured)

As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.

For more information see:
 * About the plugin
 * About support for "generic" WikiProject templates
 * User guide
 * About AWB (AutoWikiBrowser)

Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 12:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Stablepedia
Beginning cross-post.
 * See Wikipedia talk:Version 1.0 Editorial Team. If you wish to comment, please comment there. ★ MESSED  ROCKER ★  03:29, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

''End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section.''

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Conspiracy Con AfD
Conspiracy Con (which I believe would fall under this project since it is a convention devoted to the conspiracy community) has been nominated for deletion--even after extensive sourcing. Please give your comments/vote. Thanks. -Eερ² (t 21:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC)