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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia! We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members
Goals
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The goals of this wikiproject are:
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The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems.
Please look it over and fill-in missing topics. If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them.
While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
- What's missing?
- Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject?
- Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.
The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject.
It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics.
It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.
Please help improve it.
It's our bird's eye view.
Thank you.
Structure
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WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work
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Scope
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Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:
As of 29 November 2024, there are 52,532 articles within the scope of WikiProject history, of which 368 are featured. This makes up 0.76% of the articles on Wikipedia and 3.3% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 196,898 pages in the project. The list of history topics lists of basic history topics are some articles that are in this projects scope. The latter list is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, but rather an overview. The Lists of topics are intended to be comprehensive and to include links to every article related to the subject on Wikipedia. See List of mathematics topics and List of psychology topics as examples. A number of lists and meta-lists are maintained in Wikipedia:
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Work
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The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them. History of Lacock Requires a rating and possible expansion/cleanup
History at Wikipedia's sister projects
ParticipantseditCurrent active members: Please feel free to add your name to join!!!! @Vami IV:, this is your page. please feel free to use this, modify, etc., as you wish. thanks!! --Sm8900 (talk) 19:37, 3 June 2022 (UTC) TaskseditVital articleseditThese articles need to gain featured status as soon as possible:
Open taskseditYou can add notes here on any tasks to be done, items to be addressed, articles needing improvement, etc. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.
Article alertseditDid you know
Articles for deletion
Proposed deletions Categories for discussion
Templates for discussion
Redirects for discussion
Files for discussion
Featured article candidates
Good article nominees
Featured article reviews
Requests for comments
Peer reviews
Requested moves
Articles to be merged
Articles to be split
Articles for creation
Articles to be worked oneditFeel free to add any articles needing improvement you come across here. Please add your signature to any items that you add here.
Articles that Need Improvementedit
List of golden treasures - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:List_of_oldest_golden_treasures - if some history nerd wants to help with information and creating the article i would greatly appreciate the gesture , maybe even buy you a beer :) Unknown class and importanceedit
Outside of WikiProject Historyedit
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Organization
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- Description
The project coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.
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Coordinators |
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For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions. Please feel free to contact them directly if you have questions regarding this project which either haven't been responded to here or regarding any other matters you believe are relevant to this project. |
- Responsibilities
The primary responsibility of the project coordinators are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project.
In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.
Departments
editWorking Groups at WikiProject History:
Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces
The Assessment department finds historical articles for the first time and rate them on quality and importance scales.
The Collaboration department serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found here
The Review department carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope.
The Outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
Task forces are used to focus attention on specific areas with a project's scope. WikiProject History has no task forces yet. Some may be introduced to work on specific areas if needed.
Participant information
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WikiProject History Participants
Userboxes
edit{{Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach}} {{Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Members}}
Templates
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WikiProject History Templates
Project banner
editThe banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
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Infobox Historical Event
editThe Infobox {{Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.
Country/Region history
editA History of region navigational box should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.
Showcase
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Featured articles
editA-Class articles
editGood articles
editFormer featured articles
editFormer good articles
editWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team
edit- Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.
- American Revolutionary War
- Battle of Midway
- Christopher Columbus
- David Hume
- Herodotus
- Historiography
- History
- History of Alaska
- History of Arizona
- History of Baltimore City College
- History of Earth
- History of the world
- Industrial Revolution
- List of European Union member states by accession
- Napoleonic Wars
- Renaissance
- The Holocaust
DYKs
editThe following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:
- Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany - 6 June 2008.
- History of African Americans in Chicago - 2 May 2007.
- History of Berne - 19 March 2006.
- History of Dhaka - 7 September 2006.
Categories
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WikiProject History Categories
Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.
Category tree
edit- List of all subpages of this page
Organization of Category:History
editCategory:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and History of the world. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories
- Category:History by nation contains the histories of modern nations. It should contain one category for each modern nation, for example History of the United Kingdom.
- Category:History by region contains the histories of regions larger than a nation, for example Category:European history.
- Category:History by period contains histories organized by chronology, for example Category:Ancient history.
- Category:History by topic contains histories not organized by geography or chronology, for example Category:History of science.
- Category:Historiography contains articles about the study of history and historians.
See also: Wikipedia:Auto-categorization
Category names
editThe category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.
The history of subject Y should be categorized under "History of Y". But the alternate name "Xish history" is acceptable. When a country no longer exists, there's no need to have a separate "History of" category for it. For example, since we have Category:Ancient Rome, there's no need for a category "History of Ancient Rome".
When "History of X" becomes large (more than fifty articles, say), create sub-categories and move articles to them. Standard sub-categories include:
- "Political history of X"
- "Economic history of X"
- "Religious history of X"
- "Legal history of X"
- "Cultural history of X"
- "Military history of X"
- "Presidents/Prime ministers/Monarchs/Heads of State/Rulers of X" (delete as appropriate)
Don't create sub-categories until you have enough articles to populate them. As a rough guide, it's not worth creating a sub-category unless you have five articles to put in it.
"Y history of X" should be a sub-category of both "History of X" and of "History of Y". For example, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom is a sub-category of both Category:Military history and of Category:History of the United Kingdom.
Organization of national histories
editFew nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.
Using the United Kingdom as an example:
- Have separate history categories for each major geographical part and historical predecessor of that nation: Category:History of Wales, Category:History of England, Category:History of Scotland, Category:History of Great Britain, Category:History of Northern Ireland, etc.
- Use the common names where possible even if this creates ambiguity. For example, England is both a historical nation and a geographical region: logically speaking we might prefer a category named like "History of England (1066-1707)", but unfortunately no-one is likely to use such a category name unless they are familiar with the categorization scheme. So Category:History of England must do for both.
- A geographical subdivision includes the categories for its parts; a historical subdivision includes the categories for its predecessors. This might create loops in the categories, for example Category:History of Ireland is in Category:History of the Republic of Ireland by the historical rule, and the latter is in the former by the geographical rule. This does no harm.
- The category "History of X" always belongs to the category for "X", if it exists. So Category:History of England belongs to Category:England.
- Put events in the most specific categor(ies) to which they apply. So the Wars of Scottish Independence go in both Category:History of England and Category:History of Scotland, but Category:Seven Years' War goes in Category:History of Great Britain.
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system:
History | .---------+------------------. | | History by nation History by period | | .----------+-----------+ .--. | | | | | | United Kingdom Republic of Ireland | Ancient history | | | | | | | .----------+-------+ | | `------------+----+ | | | | | | | | | .----+-----. | Great Britain | | `-------. Ireland <-------' | | | | | `------. | | | | +----------+-------+---. | `----+--' | Ancient Rome | | | | | | | | England Scotland | Northern Ireland | | | | | | | `-+--------' `-----------+----------------+--. | | | | | Wales Ancient Britain Roman Britain
(This diagram is far from complete: there is a Category:British Empire, not shown. Category:History of the United Kingdom is in Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.)
Don't over-categorize
editHaving added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.
