Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national music/Outreach

Regional and national music taskforce
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The Outreach department of WikiProject Regional and national music is the department that:

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

News

It's recommended to all participants in WikiProject Regional and national music that they keep up with at least the News page ({{Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national 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 World music

Last change: 2007/05/29

All the news that is news from across the encyclopedia

Most important tasks

• Add your name to the Participants list at Wikipedia:WikiProject World music#Participants
• Participate in discussions below

Current discussions

Any important discussions:

• We're discussing the definition of World music at the Definitions page
• The following are under discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject World music:
  • Scale problems and task forces

Userboxes

Project Userbox

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

{{participant|Regional and national music}}

which creates

This user is a participant in WikiProject Regional and national music.

from Template:participant.

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

Listener Userbox

If you listen to World music, on your user page, we hope you will use

{{user world music}}

which creates

This user listens to World Music.

from Template:user world music.

For more information, see Wikipedia:Userboxes.

There are plenty more music-related userboxes at Wikipedia:Userboxes/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 Regional and national music/Outreach/Welcome|~~~~}}

which creates

Hi, and welcome to WikiProject World music! As you may have guessed, we're a group of editors working to improve Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to World 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 World 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.
• We've collected a variety of guidelines for article structure and content, template use, categorization, and other issues that you may find useful.
• 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 Regional and national 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 Regional and national music is to go to their talk page and add

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national music/Invitation}}

to their page. This creates a box that looks like

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

from Wikipedia:WikiProject Regional and national music/Invitation

People already invited

Please do not invite people who have already been invited. This includes those with current invitations.