Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach

Folk, Traditional, and Roots music WikiProject
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The Outreach department of WikiProject Roots music is the department that:

• Helps keep everyone up-to-date with what's happening
• Helps with the contact of new people

Userboxes

You may like some other Music-related userboxes.

Someday we hope to have more userboxes. Feel free to create some and list them here.

Project Userbox

If you're a member of this project, on your user page, we hope you will use one of these

{{participant|Roots music}}

which creates

This user is a participant in WikiProject Roots music.

from Template:participant.

or

{{User Roots music project}}

which creates

This user is a participant in
WikiProject Roots Music.

For more information, see Wikipedia:Userboxes, or see User:TimNelson for typical usage.

Folk music Userbox

If you yourself are a Folk music aficionado (ie. you like it), on your user page, we hope you will use

{{user folk music}}

which creates

This user enjoys folk music.

from Template:user folk music. This will also identify you as a Folk music listener, by adding you to Category:Wikipedians who listen to folk music.

For more information, see Wikipedia:Userboxes, or see User:TimNelson for typical usage

Electric folk Userbox

If you yourself are an Electric folk aficionado (ie. you like it), on your user page, we hope you will use

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach/User Anglo-Celtic electric folk task force}}

which creates

This user enjoys British folk rock music.

from Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach/User Anglo-Celtic electric folk task force. This will also identify you as an Electric folk listener, by adding you to Category:Wikipedians who listen to electric folk.

For more information, see Wikipedia:Userboxes, or see User:TimNelson for typical usage

News

It's recommended to all participants in WikiProject Roots music that they keep up with at least the News page ({{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/News}}) for this project. The methods recommended for doing this are any or all of:

• Add the abovementioned page to your watchlist
• Include the page on another page you look at regularly; for some, this is their user page, since they keep their personal "todo" list there. That would look something like:

News from WikiProject Roots music

Last change: 2011/02/22

All the news that is news from across the encyclopedia

Most important tasks

• Tag articles
• Discuss project (see below); especially any proposed task forces

Current discussions

Any important discussions:

• Any important items are under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Roots music

Welcome messages

When a new member joins the project, you can welcome them with the following. Just make sure you're not duplicating someone's work.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach/Welcome|~~~~}}

which creates

Hi, and welcome to WikiProject Roots music! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Roots, Folk, and Traditional music.

A few features that you might find helpful:

• Our navigation box points to most of the useful pages within the project.
• The News box will help to keep you up-to-date. You can watchlist it if you're interested; or, you can add it directly to your user page by including {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/News}} there.
• Most important discussions take place on the project's main discussion page; it is highly recommended that you watchlist it.
• The project has several departments, which handle article quality assessment and other tasks.
• For those who like userboxes, we have some available in the Outreach department

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to ask any experienced member of the project, and we'll be happy to help you. Again, welcome! We look forward to seeing you around!

from Wikipedia:WikiProject Roots music/Outreach/Welcome.

Invitation Template

Please do not use this indiscriminately, but if an editor catches your eye as someone that might be interested in this project, you can use this to paste into their Talk page, if you've ready the section below called "People already invited".

One way of inviting someone to join WikiProject Roots music is to go to their talk page and add

{{WP Roots music/Invitation}}

to their page. This creates a box that looks like

You are cordially invited to participate in WikiProject Roots music The goal of WikiProject Roots music is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Roots, Folk, and Traditional music available on Wikipedia. WikiProject Roots music as a group does not prefer any particular tradition of Roots, Folk, or Traditional music, but prefers that all traditions are fairly and accurately represented.

from Template:WP Roots music/Invitation

People already invited

Please do not invite people who have already been invited. This includes Roots music/Invitation&limit=500&from=0 those with current invitations, and the list below (culled from the previous link at various times) who have also already been invited.