Wiki143:WikiProject Philadelphia

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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

Announcements

Standards

• Currently, none.

Philadelphia Meetups

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there. Template:Sister project

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
• Philadelphia meet-up do not invite list

Participants and primary areas of interest

Usernames Numeric and A-L

Usernames M-Z

47thPennVols History, museums, religion and spirituality Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history Arjsd politics, transit, history BillFlis history, landmarks (esp NRHP sites), portal maintenance, copy editing Briememory Sports CanonLawJunkie (talk) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia CComMack chsh Government, Schools, Main Philadelphia page. CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm Talk Contributions - SEPTA, Politics dorevabelfiore - Northwest Philadelphia, Women in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, galleries, libraries and archives (GLAM), photos for Commons Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties Ethan Parmet - History, The US Mint Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GhostRiver – sports (esp. Phillies and Flyers), SEPTA, Penn, South Philly GPL93 (talk 06:30, 15 June 2018 (UTC) Politics and history, suburbs ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k Keystone18 People, organizations, city and suburbs, sports, high schools and universities/colleges Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Libertybison History Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation

Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:16, 12 June 2013 (UTC) I live in Philadelphia and am very interested in women writers. See: A Celebration of Women Writers Maxim Stoyalov Narsk (talk) - Philly politics, activism, public transit, history, power mapping and trying increase the quality of all Philly articles. Newyorkadam General Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports articles nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nnev66 Northwest Philadelphia, Government, Judaism, Science Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs O (talk • edits) I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City. Ocaasi t | c 02:08, 26 April 2013 (UTC) Ouanor Public transit (SEPTA), politics, business Passdoubt | Talk Red0ctober22 RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods Skiasaurus Smallbones History, NRHP, Museums, photos Sm8900 History of America, History of Philadelphia, philadelphia sites, cultural institutions, neighborhoods, communities. Spikebrennan thnidu language, linguistics, general proofreading & editing TartarTorte The Midnite Wolf history, music, photos Triphora — SEPTA and affairs with your southerly neighbor, Delaware Unbandito History, neighborhoods, rescuing archived public media and preserving the memory of daily life in different eras and communities. Underswamp West Philly neighborhoods, religion, culture Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Teletoonek all

Presumed Inactive

Usernames A-L

Usernames M-Z

alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn (last contribution 2013) Bjewiki Sports (last contribution 2013) Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education (last contribution 2006) Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU (last contribution 2011) FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can (last contribution 2012) Gorgeousp (last contribution 2007) GShton Sports, Culture (last contribution 2011) Hamburmk (last contribution 2012) IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets (last contribution 2007) JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. (last contribution 2013)

Magic (last contribution 2007) Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles (last contribution 2008) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area. (last contribution 2010) MechBrowman (last contribution 2006) Medvedenko (last contribution 2012) meebly (last contribution 2005) Pacdude (last contribution 2013) Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk (last contribution 2007) Patricknoddy (last contribution 2007) PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. (last contribution 2012) SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly (last contribution 2013) Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 (last contribution 2006) SteinbDJ Arts and culture (last contribution 2013) Sylent Northern Philly burbs (last contribution 2011) TheSab University City, general Philly photography (last contribution 2012) Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc. (last contribution 2008) User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion (last contribution 2011) Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street. (last contribution 2013)

Structure

General strategy, goals, projects and discussion forums

• General
• Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

Goals

1. Improve Philadelphia to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

Article requests list

• Article requests

Portal maintenance

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

Assessment

• Recent changes to article assessments
• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
• Philadelphia articles by quality log
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk		Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
Template:Tl Talk		Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
Template:Tl Talk	Template:Template other	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
Template:Tl Talk	Template:User Philly	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk	Template:Coord	To be used on street-sized pages.
Template:Tl Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
Template:Tl Talk	Template:WP Philadelphia invite	to invite new members

Recognition

The Liberty Star

The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

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Wikimedia Pennsylvania

Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
• Join our mailing list
• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

Thanks!

Related or descendant WikiProjects

• WikiProject Pennsylvania
• WikiProject Pittsburgh
• WikiProject New Jersey
• WikiProject Delaware
• WikiProject Maryland

Philadelphia task forces

• Category:SEPTA
• Philadelphia Churches

New articles

Please list all new Philadelphia related articles here. Template:Scroll box

Similar WikiProjects

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External links

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Philadelphia