Wikipedia:WikiProject Reenactment

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Historical reenactment, also referred to simply as reenactment. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Title

WikiProject on Reenactment

Scope

This WikiProject concerns articles that deal with reenactment of all historical periods.

In general, articles within the scope of this WikiProject should be included in Category:Historical reenactment or a sub-category under it.

How you can help

1. Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the tasks list or the the Open Tasks list.
2. Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add {{ReenactmentTasks}} anywhere on the page.)
3. Add this page or the Open Tasks list to your watchlist, and work on projects listed.
4. Complete open tasks and remove them from the list.
5. Add Template:WikiProject Reenactment to the talk pages of related articles, by placing {{WikiProject Reenactment}} at the top of the talk page.
6. Help assess articles for quality and importance within this project.

You can also add yourself to the list of participants below. Thanks for helping out!

Participants

• Ashmodai
• Ojw
• Wootking
• Awy
• Salvianus
• Lord Balin
• Virginia Confederate
• Hikari
• Alansmorrison
• Kageskull
• cmadler
• Royalmate1
• Csikos Lo Medieval and War Between the States (Confederate)

Similar WikiProjects

Reenactment editors may want to seek help from related WikiProjects. Although this will vary widely by article, it may commonly include:

• WikiProject Military History
• WikiProjects for geographic entities (nations, states/regions/provinces, cities)
• WikiProjects for time periods

Templates

• {{WikiProject Reenactment}}
• {{ReenactmentTasks}}
• {{Reenactment-stub}}

Infoboxes

• {{Reenactment group}}

OpenTasks

Here are some open WikiProject Reenactment tasks:

• Project-level:
  • Locate pages that need attention, then add them to this tasks list.
  • Add Template:WikiProject Reenactment to the talk pages of related articles, by placing {{WikiProjectReenactment}} at the top of the talk page.
  • Help assess articles for quality and importance within this project.
  • Goals and scope need to be defined

• Major work needed:
  • List of historical reenactment groups needs work
  • Historical reenactment needs to be abstracted (currently focuses on American Civil War)
  • Authenticity (reenactment) needs to be expanded (currently focuses on less-authentic medieval reenactment)
  • Codex Belli needs an English summary of the basic ruleset
  • Living history needs to be expanded

• Articles to write:
  • Stone Age reenactment (might be just experimental archaeology)
  • Classical reenactment for Roman Empire, Ancient Greece
  • Dark Age reenactment (redirect to Medieval reenactment?)
  • Modern reenactment for 18th-20th century reenactment (American Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, World War II)
  • Articles for major reenactment groups? (What defines a "major" reenactment group anyway?)
  • Article about gunnery displays? Might be crossreferenced for details on black powder focused reenactment groups
  • Boer War reenacting is a new (and experimental) trend, primarily with mostly modern reenactors.

• Categories:
  • Category:American Civil War firearms is not generalized; there is only a Category:American Civil War rifles.
  • Need a category (and probably sub-categories) for manufacturers of reproduction weapons, such as U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Company.

Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.

Article Alerts

No Article alerts at this time.

Important note: Living History v. Living history or living history

Please note that Living History is a book by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living history or living history is the reenactment activity.

Category map

Category:Historical reenactment

Category:Historical reenactment by period

Category:Ancient reenactment

Category:Medieval reenactment

Category:Viking reenactment

Category:Renaissance reenactment

Category:English Civil War reenactment

Category:Renaissance fair

Category:Renaissance Fairs

Category:Renaissance fair performers

Category:Modern reenactment

Category:American Civil War reenactment

Category:Historical reenactment events

Category:Historical reenactment groups

Category:Living museums

Category:Living museums in Canada

Category:Reenactment articles by importance [subcategories under this category are populated automatically using the "importance" parameter of the WikiProjectReenactment template]

Category:Reenactment articles by quality [subcategories under this category are populated automatically using the "class" parameter of the WikiProjectReenactment template]

Proposed changes

• Rename "Ancient reenactment" to "Classical reenactment", per suggestion on the article Talk:Classical reenactment. This covers the period from c. 800 BC to c. 600 AD (end of Late Antiquity).

This change would help clarify the period structure: Classical from 800 BC to 600 AD; Medieval from 501 AD to 1500 AD; Renaissance from 1301 AD to 1700 AD; Modern from 1701 AD to present. Note that there are some overlaps by date, because, for example, the Renaissance began much earlier in Italy than in England. Cmadler (talk) 18:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)