Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/GDR task force

Welcome to the GDR task force of the Germany WikiProject!

Scope

This task force seeks to create, improve, maintain, and provide a standard of consistency for articles on all topics relating to the German Democratic Republic as well as create a forum in which interested editors can work together to improve articles.

If you are interested in becoming a regular contributor to the efforts of this task force, please feel free add yourself to the list below (in alphabetic order), listing your interests and expertise and signing your name with #{{subst:me}}. Also, if you have not already done so, we would encourage you to join our parent project WikiProject Germany.

Participants

Active members

To join the GDR task force, edit this section and add #{{subst:me}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username.

1. Aurorasparkle (talk) 22:39, 29 March 2017 (UTC) People with a background in technology and science
2. Bahavd Gita (talk) 06:24, 20 May 2011 (UTC) Mainly interested in DEFA's films and actors.
3. Brewer Bob (talk) 17:13, 9 June 2017 (UTC) Mainly interested in Berlin Wall and its victims
4. DEnglish (talk) 23:35, 9 August 2023 (UTC ) Keen German>English (UK) translator, former Leipzig student, often in DE. Interests: modern political history (Weimar Republic, NS-Regime, GDR, post-Wende), Leipzig, Bavaria, Berlin.
5. Deutschmark82 00:10:48, 4 July 2019 (UTC)  Since the 30th anniversary of die Wende in the DDR is coming up it, making some more of these articles better or at least more complete seems like a nice way to commemorate it in a very neutral way that contributes something.
6. Ehrentitle (talk) 22:52, 16 August 2017 (UTC) GDR Military, uniforms, and insigina
7. Eyeze (talk) 09:43, 17 January 2014 (UTC) GDR history
8. Кузьма^討論 15:03, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
9. Maxwhollymoralground (talk · contribs) 16:56:35, 22 May 2024 (UTC)  Have been editing and creating articles on GDR, especially SED politicians, for about a year now.
10. Quityergreeting (talk) 20:29, 21 March 2015 (UTC) Mainly interested in DDR politics and culture of the Honecker era, but just a general DDR nerd!
11. Sindinero (talk) 14:25, 19 May 2011 (UTC) GDR literature and culture, mostly.
12. TheaKantorska (talk) 15:37, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Member userbox

You may place Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/GDR taskforce userbox on your user page to display the following userbox:

This user is a member of the
German Democratic Republic
task force

This template will add your user page to:

• Category:Members of GDR taskforce

For other Germany user templates, please see:

• Wikipedia:Userboxes/Location/European Union/Germany

Tagging articles

Any article related to this task force should be marked with "GDR=yes" to the {{WikiProject Germany}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see usage instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:GDR task force articles.

The resulting code is usually:

{{WikiProject Germany
|class=
|importance=
|GDR=yes
|GDRImp=
}}

where GDRImp can be one of Top, High, Mid, Low.

These are the currently tagged articles with their quality and GDR importance ratings:

GDR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1		1			2	4
B		2	4	1		12	19
C	9	12	11	25		83	140
Start	8	12	39	114		353	526
Stub		2	1	139		186	328
List		1		7		28	36
Category					521		521
Disambig					1		1
File					4		4
Portal					17		17
Redirect				2	14		16
Template					20		20
NA					3		3
Other					1		1
Assessed	18	29	56	288	581	664	1,636
Unassessed						7	7
Total	18	29	56	288	581	671	1,643
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,223			Ω = 5.14

The assessment log can be seen here: Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/GDR articles by quality log.

Categorize articles

Add categories to GDR-related articles where appropriate. To do this, add a category template like [[Category:East German writers]] to the bottom of the article on Bertolt Brecht, for example. This will place the categorized page into a list like this one. A working list of GDR-related categories can be found here.

To-do

• Tag articles!
• Categorize articles!
• Recruit more members!
• Collaborate and join the discussions. If you know things, teach! (If you don't know things, Ask.)
• Add new articles! There are plenty of East German topics still unaccounted for!
• Expand articles (or merge if appropriate). All of these stubs would welcome further care and attention. Other articles needing expansion and improvement:
  • Literature of East Germany
  • DEFA
• Add things here!

Templates, etc.

You might find the following to be useful additions to GDR-related articles. Feel free to expand!

• {{GDR cinema}} - add this template to the bottom of articles on GDR cinema, films, directors, actors, etc.

East Germany Portal

Ampelmännchen

The East Germany Portal requires regular input and is always seeking volunteers.