Template:WikiProject status/doc

Usage

A Wikipedia:WikiProject is a group of people. The point of this tag is to help people figure out whether this set of pages is currently being used by a group of people. The pages associated with currently inactive and defunct groups are not normally deleted, and whether there is an active group of people for a given set of pages is not a comment on whether the subject is objectively important to the world. Marking groups' activity levels has a purely practical goal: It helps other editors know where they'll likely find the help they need.

Pages with this template are placed into the appropriate category depending on the status selected as shown below:

• |active or if left blank (default) = Category:Active WikiProjects
• |semi-active = Category:Semi-active WikiProjects
• |draft = Category:Draft WikiProjects
• |inactive = Category:Inactive WikiProjects
• |defunct = Category:Defunct WikiProjects

Example:
With no parameters or with the |active parameter:

Usage: Semi-active projects

Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be barely active:

{{WikiProject status|Semi-active}}

A project is generally considered semi-active when:

• there have been some, but relatively few, significant changes to the main project page for several months or
• there have been some, but relatively few, discussions on its talk page for several months.

Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently semi-active WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.

Example:

Usage: Draft or in-progress projects

Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be a proposal or still under construction to an extent that it is not yet usable:

{{WikiProject status|Draft}}

A project is generally considered draft when:

• it is a proposal at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals or
• It is obviously still being worked on to provide basic functionality; and
• there have been few or no discussions on its talk page for several months (a project could actually be active despite being in an incomplete state).

Neither work to reconfigure aspects of a project or add new features, nor some features becoming moribund, constitute a project lapsing into draft state.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently incomplete WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is in fact active.

Example:

Usage: Inactive projects

Place this template at the top of any WikiProject:

{{WikiProject status|Inactive}}

A project is generally considered inactive when:

• there are no editors listed as members or
• there have been no significant changes to the main project page for four months or
• there have been no discussions on its talk page for four months.

Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently inactive WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.

Example:

Usage: Defunct projects

Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be defunct:

{{WikiProject status|Defunct}}

Replace the {{inactive}} tag if it is present, or remove the inactive=yes parameter from {{Infobox Wikipedia WikiProject}}, if present.

Before applying the tag:

1. process the list of project members, placing indefinitely blocked editors and editors inactive on Wikipedia for more than a year in separate subheadings. Check the project's userbox category/ies for unlisted members. If one or more active editors remain but it is still reasonable to think the project may be defunct, check with those editors individually if they agree.
2. if the project has a working assessment system (typically a WP:1.0 banner/category structure), consider whether this information exists elsewhere. Even without activity, it may be useful. Consider proposing a merger with a related project if appropriate. You can ask for advice about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council.
3. consider the likelihood the project may be revived in future. A few projects have a purpose which is so specific that the project may simply be complete (or obsolete). In general, the narrower the scope, or the more it overlaps with other projects, the more reasonable to consider the project defunct. The less the project achieved (some hardly get beyond the proposal stage), the less likely it will be revived. Consider marking or leaving the project marked as merely "inactive".
4. consider whether the project may be relevant for Countering Systemic Bias. Discuss at WP:CSB if necessary. If it is, remind relevant related projects of the project's existence, and suggest possible merger.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently defunct WikiProject, after following the steps above. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active or at least revivable.

Example:

Optional parameters

Full code

{{WikiProject status
| margin       =
| hide         =
| style        =
| image        =
| project-type =
| topic        =
| topiclc      =
| taskforce    =
| process      =
| en-gb        =
| wp           =
| type         =
| parent       =
| mergedto     =
| date         =
| note         =
| portal       =
| sc1          =
| sc2          =
| sc3          =
| sc4          =
| sc5          =
| nocat        =
}}

margin

margin=0px

en-gb

en-gb=yes

If using British/Commonwealth English (switches to -ise spellings)

parent

parent=

Name of parent WikiProject, e.g., for Wikipedia:WikiProject South America use |parent=South America. Providing this adds "and/or the parent project" to the "why not join" message. Only works if status is inactive or defunct.

type

type=

Choose from: anime and manga, band, edu, game, geo, sports, or TV show; presently this feature is only used for subcategorization of WikiProjects in media, fandom, and youth subculture subject areas, as well as geographic subject areas. This is because those subject areas attract the creation of numerous narrowly topical projects.

mergedto

mergedto=

Indicates the target of a merge, merged to WikiProject Foo. This parameter's value is the name of the wikiproject without the "Wikipedia:WikiProject" part.

date

date=

Use to include the date when marking semi-active, inactive, and defunct projects (takes any format)

note

note= or reason=

Set a note that will appear in the banner.

portal

portal=

Adds a link to the associate portal page, e.g., for Portal:South America use |portal=South America

Shortcut paramenters

sc1=WP:SHORTCUT1

sc2=WP:SHORTCUT2

sc3=WP:SHORTCUT3

sc4=WP:SHORTCUT4

sc5=WP:SHORTCUT5

nocat

nocat=

If set to true, the category will be suppressed.

Task forces

Set these when using on the page of task force (a.k.a. work group), i.e. a sub-project.

project-type=

Set to either topic or process, then complete in the matching parameter

topic=

Use this for task forces working on a particular topic within a WikiProject

process=

Use this for task forces working on improvement of a particular process within a WikiProject

hide

|hide=yes

This will hide the banner, but keep the categorizations

TemplateData

This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:WikiProject status in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for WikiProject status

No description.

Template parameters

Parameter		Description	Type	Status
Activity status	1	no description Suggested values active semi-active draft inactive defunct Default active	Unknown	suggested
margin	margin	no description	Unknown	optional
hide	hide	no description	Unknown	optional
style	style	no description	Unknown	optional
image	image	no description	Unknown	optional
project-type	project-type	no description	Unknown	optional
topic	topic	no description	Unknown	optional
taskforce	taskforce	no description	Unknown	optional
topiclc	topiclc	no description	Unknown	optional
process	process	no description	Unknown	optional
en-gb	en-gb	no description	Unknown	optional
wp	wp	no description	Unknown	optional
type	type	no description	Unknown	optional
parent	parent	no description	Unknown	optional
mergedto	mergedto	no description	Unknown	optional
date	date	no description	Unknown	optional
note	note	no description	Unknown	optional
portal	portal	no description	Unknown	optional
sc1	sc1 sc	no description	Unknown	optional
sc2	sc2	no description	Unknown	optional
sc3	sc3	no description	Unknown	optional
sc4	sc4	no description	Unknown	optional
sc5	sc5	no description	Unknown	optional
nocat	nocat	no description	Unknown	optional
sister	sister	no description	Unknown	optional
superceded	superceded	no description	Unknown	optional
reason	reason	no description	Unknown	optional

See also

• Template index/Wikipedia namespace
• {{Historical}}
• {{Infobox Wikipedia WikiProject}}, which has an inactive parameter

• {{Project assessments}}
• {{Project categories}}
• {{Project heading}}
• {{Project information}}
• {{Project page header}}
• {{Project wikimedia}}
• {{Scrolling window}}
• {{WikiProject status}}

Related templates

• {{Portal template list}}