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Wisconsin
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Hello and welcome to the Wisconsin Highways task force If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing. If you would like to join the group, please sign up below.

Scope

To create the balance of and to standardize the Wisconsin State Highway articles and generate featured articles

Goals

We are currently working towards these major milestones:

10 featured articles: 20% complete

5 featured lists: 0% complete

10 good articles: 10% complete

All articles rated Start-Class or better: 99.1% complete

Assessment progression

• 7.3% List-Class
• 0.9% Stub-Class
• 35.8% Start-Class
• 50.4% C-Class
• 4.3% B-Class
• 0.4% GA-Class
• 0.9% FA-Class

Assessment

Wisconsin road transport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA			2			2
GA			1			1
B			9	1		10
C	1		114	2		117
Start			74	9		83
Stub			2			2
List		5	2	10	3	20
Category					52	52
File					13	13
Project					9	9
Redirect					60	60
Template					5	5
Assessed	1	5	204	22	142	374
Unassessed					6	6
Total	1	5	204	22	148	380
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 927			Ω = 4.31

See WP:USRD/A for information and hints on Assessment

Recognized content

Featured articles

• U.S. Route 8
• U.S. Route 141

Good articles

• Wisconsin Highway 131

Main page featured articles

• U.S. Route 141 (2020-09-14)
• U.S. Route 8 (2022-12-30)

Did you know? articles

• Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive (2007-08-27)
• U.S. Route 151 (2008-10-27)
• Wisconsin Highway 57 (2008-11-08)
• Wisconsin Highway 131 (2009-01-24)
• Zoo Interchange (2019-02-24)

Former good articles

• Interstate 43

Resources

• commons:Category:Official road maps of Wisconsin, public domain copies of official state highway maps, can be cited using {{cite WisDOT map}} along with copies hosted on WisDOT's website
• Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT)
  • WisDOT highway maps, including historical maps from 1916–present
  • Map of Wisconsin's Corridors 2020 routes from WisDOT
  • Links to County maps - details every route and updated to 2007 from WisDOT, good for Junction Lists and Route Descriptions
  • archive of old maps source the original document, not the website.
  • Rustic Roads from WisDOT
• Chris Bessert's "Wisconsin Highways" site
• 1922 Official Wisconsin Motorists Association handbook, EXCELLENT section lists routes and mileages
• the Federal Highway Administration (road lengths)
• maps through 1939
• American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection in the UW-Milwaukee libraries, includes official Wisconsin highway maps from most years
• some old maps including a map of the 1918 system
• 1925? highway list
• /Early highway history
• /1926 renumbering
• /Laws

• List page: List of Wisconsin numbered highways
• Redirect completion list: Completion list
• Assessment levels and comments Status page

Marker graphics

All of the state highway markers past and present have been created and reside on the Commons. All single, double and triple-letter County markers have been made and reside on the Commons. In addition the default markers for Rustic Roads and Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive also reside there - with the State highway shields.

Shield pages in Sister projects

State Highway shields on Commons	County Highway shields on Commons

Maps

Maps have been created or will be created for the state highway articles in conjunction with the U.S Roads Maps Task Force using Quantum GIS or similar product.

Map pages in Sister projects

State Highway maps on Commons

GIS Data for the maps courtesy of:

• the U.S.Census Bureau for the state/county outlines, urban areas and water outlines
• the Federal Highway Administration for the roads themselves.

Structure

See also: WP:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Standards

Article naming convention

The contents of each article in this project should reside at Wisconsin Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Wisconsin State Highway XXX and WIS-XXX and Highway xxx (Wisconsin) should redirect to the article as well. (see WP:USSH)

Tolls

Since Wisconsin does not have toll roads, this section is inappropriate for the articles.

Media

Media related to Wisconsin highways should be stored on Wikimedia Commons. Place the {{Commons category}} template near the end of the article using the form: {{Commons category|NAME}}, where NAME is the name of the category on Commons. For example, the application for Wisconsin Highway 52 is {{Commons category|Wisconsin Highway 52}}. All of the categories are children of the Commons category Category:Roads in Wisconsin.

Categories

Add the following to the bottom of the page include in the Category for the article: [[Category:State highways in Wisconsin|###]] for state trunk highways; the number should be three digits, padded with leading zeroes as needed. For Interstate, US, and former highways, there are Interstate Highways in Wisconsin‎, U.S. Highways in Wisconsin, and Former state highways in Wisconsin respectively.

Lists

• List of Wisconsin numbered highways

Wikipedia articles

• create articles for
  • Rustic Roads (Wisconsin),
  • List of Wisconsin bannered routes - Such as Spur and Business Routes. No individual articles are necessary.
  • County Trunk Highways (Wisconsin)
• Wisconsin State Highways

New Wikipedia articles

Please feel free to list your new Wisconsin State Highways-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

The following Wisconsin Highways articles have been featured on the main page via a Did You Know?

• Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive

Templates

Browse Template

If an article does not have a browser in the infobox, use the following.

{{start srbox}}
{{wi browse|previous_type=WI|previous_route=XX|route=WI|next_type=WI|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}

will create something like

Browse numbered routes
← WIS 21	WI	→ WIS 23

Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Wisconsin state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=I On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the wi browse, keeping the list in alphabetical order. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

Junction list

Use {{WIint}} and the rest of the {{jctint}} family of templates.

Stub sorting

Use {{Wisconsin-road-stub}} to label stub articles.

Talk page banner

Add {{WikiProject U.S. Roads|state=WI}} to the Talk page of the article.

User Templates

The userbox {{Wikipedia:WikiProject U.S. Roads/Wisconsin/Userbox|29}} can be added to your user page. Replace 29 with your favorite Wisconsin highway number. Leaving the route number out will show the blank highway marker image.

This user edits articles about Wisconsin Highways.