Wikipedia:WikiProject Community

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Scope
This project's primary purpose is to build and manage Portal:Community (Wikipedia Community Reference) - a guide to articles that deal with the definitions of community and community development in general. The secondary purpose is to apply what we learn from that reference to the Wikipedia Community itself.

Parentage

 * Stepfather: WikiProject Sociology
 * Possible real dad: WikiProject Wikidemia
 * Mother: The Wikipedia Community

Descendant WikiProjects

 * BabyWikipedia - a local context version of the Wikipedia for towns, counties, regions and cities
 * WikiProject_Keywords - A tool for handling metadata from a userland perspective
 * WikiProject_Culture - a project for aggregating articles about Culture and helping to manage Portal:Culture

Similar WikiProjects
Similar WikiProjects are:
 * WikiProject Family and relationships
 * WikiProject Ecology
 * WikiProject Ecoregions
 * WikiProject Urban studies and planning

Participants

 * Computerjoe 's talk 15:58, 24 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Cormaggio
 * Covington 05:04, 6 April 2006 (UTC)
 * Ermeyers
 * Kentuckay
 * Khecaji Internet is providing people across the globe with new possibilities to share and evolve common interests - that's fascinating. Especially interested in how knowledge workers are using the new possibilities.
 * mennonot - I'm especially interested in classification of various kinds of Communities. Has anyone started on this?
 * Mr.Bip
 * Quinobi a.k.a. CQ
 * ShaunMacPherson
 * +sj +
 * Tractor (implement)
 * Bellagio99 Interested in community as social networks. I will lurk for a while to learn as this is my first Wikiproject.

Hierarchy definition
This project Community falls under The Social sciences as an Academic discipline in Sociology relating to Community, Community studies, Community development and other branches of Science such as Communications and Computational sociology.

The project scope branches and interfaces hierachically to:
 * Anthropology <- Cultural anthropology
 * Psychology <- Community psychology
 * Technology <- Communications
 * Geography <- Social geography

Primary (encyclopedic) Project Goals

 * 1) To apply higher standards for Wikipedia - the encyclopedia
 * Wikipedia:Version 1.0
 * Peer Review


 * 1) To develop a uniform reference for curriculum in community studies - the Wikipedia Community Reference
 * 2) To help in the Categorization of various kinds of Communities and Community-related topics
 * 3) To identify and promote articles that may serve to improve:
 * Internet standards relating to Virtual community
 * Community standards relating to Citizenship

Secondary (applied) Project Goals

 * 1) To help catylize positive work on Projects within Wikipedia - the Community
 * 2) To help facilitate a tighter community with Wikipedia sister projects
 * 3) To improve interpersonal relationships between Netizens in general - Sense of community
 * 4) To invoke the Spirit of Community in the context of a free global Internet.

See /Communitas!

Articles
Community has been nominated as a "Good article".

It is was on COTF.

Portal:Community is also in the process of being aligned with the main article to provide easy navigation along the pathways of community topics.

The List of community topics provides a classification of much Wikipedia content related to community and is this project's tool for keeping things organised and handy.

Featured article candidates
These aren't nominated anywhere but here (so far):
 * Sense of community well written citing numerous sources.
 * Community of practice fairly well developed
 * Virtual community well developed and of great interest
 * Intentional community topically interesting and relevant

Good article nominees

 * Community - Core topic

Needing attention

 * Virtual community - important article

Key articles
These articles are (or will be ) referred to in sections and subsections of the main Community article and (or) the Community Portal:
 * Community (disambiguation)
 * Community studies
 * Sense of community
 * International community
 * Community psychology
 * Community development
 * Virtual community
 * Intentional community

Related articles
List of community topics: Community (disambiguation), Organizational learning, Community development, Community building, Community organizing, Meritocracy, Computational sociology, Communitarianism, Organizational Development, Ecovillage, Global Ecovillage Network, Cooperative, Collectivism, Collective, Commune, Sense of community, Network of practice, Communication, Plenary, Gathering place, Affinity, Group, Community Boards, Community garden, Global Village, Global village, World Community, World community, Gathering place, The Well, The Farm, ...

Types of communities
Category:Types of communities:
 * Community of action
 * Community of circumstance
 * Community of interest
 * Community of place
 * Community of position
 * Community of purpose
 * Community of practice
 * Intentional community
 * Virtual community
 * Learning community

Types of cooperatives
Cooperatives:
 * Housing cooperative
 * Retailers' cooperative
 * Supermarket cooperative
 * Utility cooperative
 * Worker cooperative

Pages listed for deletion

 * Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Community building
 * Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Community Justice
 * Articles for deletion/The Social Capital Foundation

Portals
Portal:Community - The Community reference - is under construction.
 * /Portal - Queue and archive


 * An outline of things to include can be found here.
 * Instructions for editing a portal can be found here

Related Portals

 * Community_Portal (for Wikipedians)
 * Portal:Sociology (proposed)
 * Portal:Society
 * Portal:Culture

Tools
The box above is a summary of Community articles by quality. The following sections outline the process we're using to gather and cite sources, rewrite and refine community-related articles, and develop topically arraged navigational aids for our readers and editors. We are continually in need of participants, whether they join this project or not.

WikiProject Community is designed to be a community of practice akin to those who produce professional academic journals. We take the subject very seriously as Wikipedians interested in sociology, and are taking the tools "up one level" to support WikiProject Sociology. These tools were first used by WikiProject Chemistry. WikiProject The Beatles and many other WikiProjects have been instrumental in improving them.

This project also extends to Wikibooks, Wikiversity, Wikia and other Wiki sites through the /Communitas! program.

Classification
The current classification of wikipedia articles relating to community can be found at the List of community topics. This list is mirrored here in the Community WikiProject space on /Organization from which the following /Assessment subpage is built. The goal of this subpage is to organise all of the content, comprehensively, according to its importance and relevance. Once we finish that task, we will produce another subpage, /Classification.

Assessment
We're working with the Version 1.0 Editorial Team to begin the process of pulling all community related articles up toward featured or at least good article status. The /Assessment page will contain Community articles by importance and Community articles by quality. We will be using the List of community topics and the main Community article as structural guides with a long-term goal of bringing Portal:Community up to Featured portal status.

See Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for more information.

Outreach
The local encyclopedic portal has counterparts on other sites:
 * Community Studies at Wikiversity
 * Community studies at Wikibooks
 * community.wikia.com
 * Communitas at Meta

Newsletter
/Newsletter • Sent out mainly when something significant is going on.

Infoboxes

 * WikiProject Community for talk pages of community-related articles: WikiProject Community
 * Community User Box for WikiProject Community and TaskForce members: User Community - discuss
 * WikiProjectNotice|Community to pull an article into WikiProject Community without activating the assessment robot: WikiProjectNotice (use piped link code -  )

Clicking on What links here reveals all articles linked to this WikiProject in this way. To discuss which Articles to add to (or remove from) the Articles list, please use our project's talk page. Please Don't place this infobox on an article page!


 * To learn more about Infoboxes like this one, see Template talk:WikiProjectNotice.
 * To learn more about WikiProject management, see WikiProject_Best_practices
 * See Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Adding_to_the_lists_of_subjects to see how to help set up the bot for the /Assessment tools
 * See Userboxes

Tags
Consider our lineage:
 * Social sciences
 * Sociology
 * Community

Categories
These Categories yield articles that relate to Community, Communities and Community topics:

Community
Community • Top-level Category
 * Category:Communities • actual communities of many types
 * Category:Types of communities • about those types
 * Category:Intentional communities • examples of type
 * Category:Virtual communities • examples of type
 * Category:Community development • formal, institutional and other ways to improve communities
 * Category:Community-building organizations • some of these are activist - some not
 * Category:Community building • less formal and less activist-oriented
 * Category:Community organizing • less formal and more activist-oriented
 * Category:Community organizers • notable community organizers
 * Category:Community and social service specialists• might merge with above

Sociology
Category:Sociology:
 * Category:Social philosophy
 * Category:Social sciences
 * Category:Behavioural sciences
 * Category:Organizations
 * Category:Organizational_studies_and_human_resource_management

Psychology
Category:Psychology
 * Category:Social psychology

About Categorization
Category:Community &mdash; a Subcategory of Category:Sociology is the main category for this WikiProject. Our intent is to conform to the suggestions and guidlines of WikiProject Categories to create logical and complete category schemes without too much redundancy.

Please participate in the discussions here and / or here after reading some things like this.

Community Builders TaskForce
Welcome to the Community Builders Task Force

"Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal." -- Jimmy Wales


 * Notes on Community and Catalysis --lilo @ freenode
 * Esperanza: An association that shares many of the goals of the Community Project.
 * Bootcamp: An IRC-enhanced training program for new wikipedians.
 * WikiProject: A set of project management workspaces for groups working on related articles and shared interests.

Applied community development at Wikipedia
A community builder is a person that is committed to getting in and learning how a community is organized, who's who, what's what, where things are and how things are done. Our focus areas are User categorisation, Classification and Wikipedia Version 1.0.

Our approach is to build a sense of community upon our sense of place, our shared interests and our common work methods. Our goal is to initiate a community building culture that we call Communitas &mdash; the spirit of community.

We have put into place a structure of meaning that we believe is shared by a substantial number of Wikipedians. This structure is best seen by looking at the topics at Top-importance community articles. We are going to set up a massive collaboration effort in a program we call /Communitas!

The purpose of this project is to produce a professional quality community development journal focused from within online communities called Communitas!

Main table
WikiProjects:
 * WikiProject Sociology
 * WikiProject Community

The table below identifies some logical starting points from a WP:CBTF perspective. Feel free to add it to your User page and work with it.

discuss

—=== Wikipedia community Welfare ===

In South Africa we've got a growing problem in abandoned babies, orphan babies and unwanted babies. There are babies left at birth in hospital everyday. The mother can't or doesn't want to look after the baby, and just leaves it behind at birth and goes home. There's a project called uMephi, which is managed and founded by the AFM Church, who addresses the problem of all these babies in need. Some babies are left on rubbish dumps, or somewhere in the field. The Welfare council identify's a town, who can Manage and run a babyhouse. Then the Welfare council purchase a house in that particular town. A Project Manager gets appointed to do all the local managing of the house, together with a Comitee, who does certain duties. A Houseparent gets screened and trained to live in the house with the babies, assisted with day & night shiftworkers. The houses are supported by funds and donations out of the community. Currently (year 2007) there are 23 such babyhouses in South Africa, who cares for these babies in need. The houses has designated Social Workers, who handles each case personally to ensure the best outcome for each and every baby in need. Once the baby is placed in the house, the Social Worker will search for family or relatives who'd want to take care of the baby. If there's nobody who'd like to take the baby, preferably a legally married couple, will be screened to take the baby into Forster Care, or Adoption, depending on the baby's circumstances. The house in Polokwane, South Africa is situated very close to the North Boarders, and is Managed by Yolande Stevens contact number: +27825525481 or email: kantoor@agsp.co.za   Feel free to contact for any further information

Elsewhere on the Web
About the Wikimedia project:
 * http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/

Wikia:
 * http://community.wikia.com
 * http://kentucky.wikia.com