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{{Community}}


'''Welcome to the Community WikiProject!'''<br />
Home of the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Community#Community Builders TaskForce|Community Builders TaskForce]] and all things '''[[Community]]!'''   •   
''[[{{NAMESPACE}} talk:{{PAGENAME}}|Communicate]]''   •   ''[[{{NAMESPACE}}:{{PAGENAME}}#Participants|join]]''

==Scope==
This project's primary purpose is to build and manage [[Portal:Community]] (Wikipedia Community Reference) - a guide to articles that deal with the definitions of community and community development in general. The secondary purpose is to ''apply'' what we learn from that reference to the [[Wikipedia:Community_Portal|Wikipedia Community]] itself.

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==Parentage==
*Stepfather: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology|WikiProject Sociology]]
**Possible ''real'' dad: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikidemia|WikiProject Wikidemia]]
*Mother: [[m:The_Wikipedia_Community|The Wikipedia Community]]

==Descendant WikiProjects==
* [[m:BabyWikipedia]] - a local context version of the Wikipedia for [[town]]s, [[county|counties]], [[region]]s and [[city|cities]]
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Keywords]] - A tool for handling metadata from a [[userland]] perspective
* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Culture]] - a project for aggregating articles about [[Culture]] and helping to manage [[Portal:Culture]]
* [[Wikiversity]] - a free on-line learning community where self-expression is allowed and originality is encouraged 

==Similar WikiProjects==
Similar WikiProjects are:
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Family and relationships|WikiProject Family and relationships]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecology|WikiProject Ecology]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ecoregions|WikiProject Ecoregions]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Urban studies and planning|WikiProject Urban studies and planning]]
==Hierarchy definition==
This project [[Community]] falls under The [[Social sciences]] as an [[Academic discipline]] in [[Sociology]] relating to [[Community]], [[Community studies]], [[Community development]] and other branches of [[Science]] such as [[Communications]] and [[Computational sociology]].

The project scope branches and interfaces hierarchically to:
* [[Anthropology]] <- [[Cultural anthropology]]
* [[Psychology]] <- [[Community psychology]]
* [[Technology]] <- [[Communications]]
* [[Geography]] <- [[Social geography]]

==Goals==
===Primary (encyclopedic) Project Goals===
# To apply [[Wikipedia:Forum_for_Encyclopedic_Standards|higher standards]] for [[Main Page|Wikipedia - the encyclopedia]]
:* [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team|Wikipedia:Version 1.0]]
:* [[Wikipedia:Peer Review]]
# To develop a uniform [[reference]] for [[curriculum]] in [[community studies]] - the [[Portal:Community|Wikipedia Community Reference]]
# To help in the [[Wikipedia:Categorization|Categorization]] of various kinds of Communities and Community-related topics
# To identify and promote articles that may serve to improve:
:* [[Internet standard]]s relating to [[Virtual community]]
:* [[Community standards]] relating to [[Citizenship]]

===Secondary (applied) Project Goals===
# To help [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikidemia|catylize]] positive work on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|Project]]s within [[Wikipedia:Community_Portal|Wikipedia - the Community]]
# To help facilitate a tighter community with [[Interwiki|Wikipedia sister projects]]
# To improve interpersonal relationships between [[Netizen]]s in general - [[Sense of community]]
# To invoke the [[Community#the Spirit of Community|Spirit of Community]] in the context of a free global Internet.

See ''[[/Communitas!]]''

== Articles ==
'''[[Community]]''' has been nominated as a "[[WP:GA|Good article]]". 

It is was on [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Core_topics/Core_topics_COTF#Community_6|COTF]].

'''[[Portal:Community]]''' is also in the process of being aligned with the main article to provide easy navigation along the pathways of community topics.

The '''[[List of community topics]]''' provides a classification of much Wikipedia content related to community and is this project's tool for keeping things '''''[[/Organization|organised]] and [[/Assessment|handy]]'''''.
=== Featured article candidates ===
These aren't nominated anywhere but here (so far):
* [[Sense of community]] ''well written citing numerous sources.''
* [[Community of practice]] ''fairly well developed''
* [[Virtual community]] ''well developed and of great interest''
* [[Intentional community]] ''topically interesting and relevant''
=== Good article nominees ===
* [[Community]] - ''[[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Core topics|Core topic]]''

=== Needing attention ===
* [[Virtual community]] - important article
* [[Open source intelligence]]

=== Key articles ===
These articles are (or will be ) referred to in sections and subsections of the main [[Community]] article and (or) the [[Portal:Community|Community Portal]]:
* [[Community (disambiguation)]]
* [[Community studies]]
* [[Sense of community]]
* [[International community]]
* [[Community psychology]]
* [[Community development]]
* [[Virtual community]]
* [[Intentional community]]
*...

=== Related articles ===
'''[[List of community topics]]:''' [[Community (disambiguation)]], [[Organizational learning]], [[Community development]], [[Community building]], [[Community organizing]], [[Meritocracy]], [[Computational sociology]], [[Communitarianism]], [[Organizational Development]], [[Ecovillage]], [[Global Ecovillage Network]], [[Cooperative]], [[Collectivism]], [[Collective]], [[Commune]], [[Sense of community]], [[Network of practice]], [[Communication]], [[Plenary]], [[Gathering place]], [[Affinity]], [[Group]], [[Community Boards]], [[Community garden]], [[Global Village]], [[Global village]], [[World Community]], [[World community]], [[Gathering place]], [[The Well]], [[The Farm]], ...
==== Types of communities ====
'''[[:Category:Types of communities]]:'''
* [[Community of action]]
* [[Community of circumstance]]
* [[Community of interest]]
* [[Community of place]]
* [[Community of position]]
* [[Community of purpose]]
* [[Community of practice]]
* [[Intentional community]]
* [[Virtual community]]
* [[Learning community]]
* [[Professional Learning Community]]

==== Types of cooperatives ====
'''[[Cooperative]]s:'''
*[[Housing cooperative]]
*[[Retailers' cooperative]]
*[[Supermarket cooperative]]
*[[Utility cooperative]]
*[[Worker cooperative]]

=== Pages listed for deletion ===
*{{prodded|Night soil man||}}
*[[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 22#Category:Community building to Category:Community|Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Community building]]
*[[Wikipedia:Categories for deletion/Log/2006 April 22#Category:Community Justice|Wikipedia:Categories for deletion#Category:Community Justice]]
*{{afdl|The Social Capital Foundation||2007-10-16|2007-10-21|Keep}}

=== Portals ===
'''[[Portal:Community]]''' - The Community reference - is under construction.
*[[/Portal]] - Queue and archive

*An outline of things to include can be found [[/temp|here]].
*Instructions for editing a portal can be found [[Wikipedia:portal|here]]

==== Related Portals ====
* [[Wikipedia:Community_Portal]] (for [[Wikipedia:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]])
* [[Portal:Sociology]] (proposed)
* [[Portal:Society]]
* [[Portal:Culture]]

==Tools==
<div style="float: right; margin-left: 60px;">{{User:WP 1.0 bot/Tables/Project/Community}}</div>
This box shows a summary of [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Community articles by quality|Community articles by quality]]. The following sections outline the process we're using to gather and cite [[Wikipedia:Citing sources|sources]], rewrite and refine [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Community articles by importance|community-related articles]], and develop topically arranged [[Portal:community|navigational aids]] for our readers and editors. We are continually in need of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Community#Participants|participants]], whether they join this project or not. 

WikiProject Community is designed to be a [[community of practice]] akin to those who produce professional [[academic journal]]s. We take the subject very seriously as [[:Category:Wikipedians interested in sociology|Wikipedians interested in sociology]], and are taking the tools "up one level" to support [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology|WikiProject Sociology]]. These tools were first used by [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Chemistry|WikiProject Chemistry]]. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject The Beatles|WikiProject The Beatles]] and many other WikiProjects have been instrumental in improving them.

This project also extends to [[Wikibooks]], [[Wikiversity]], [[Wikia]] and other [[Wiki]] sites through the ''[[/Communitas!]]'' program.

=== Classification ===
The current classification of Wikipedia articles relating to '''[[community]]''' can be found at the [[List of community topics]]. This list is mirrored here in the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Community|Community WikiProject]] space on '''[[/Organization]]''' from which the following [[/Assessment]] subpage is built. The goal of this subpage is to organise all of the content, comprehensively, according to its [[importance]] and [[relevance]]. Once we finish that task, we will produce another subpage, [[/Classification]]. 

=== Assessment ===
We're working with the [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team]] to begin the process of pulling all community related articles up toward [[Wikipedia:Featured article|featured]] or at least [[Wikipedia:Good article|good]] article status. The '''[[/Assessment]]''' page will contain [[:Category:Community articles by importance|Community articles by importance]] and [[:Category:Community articles by quality|Community articles by quality]]. We will be using the [[List of community topics]] and the main [[Community]] article as structural guides with a long-term goal of bringing [[Portal:Community]] up to [[Wikipedia:Featured portal|Featured portal]] status.

See [[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects|Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects]] for more information.

===Outreach===
The local encyclopedic portal has counterparts on other sites:
*[[v:Portal:Community|Community Studies at Wikiversity]]
*[[b:Community studies]] at Wikibooks
*[http://community.wikia.com community.wikia.com]
*[[m:Communitas]] at [[m:Main Page|Meta]]
*...

==== Newsletter ====
'''[[/Newsletter]]''' • Sent out mainly when something significant is going on.

=== Infoboxes ===
*'''WikiProject Community''' for [[Wikipedia:Talk_page|'''''talk''''' pages]] of community-related articles: {{tl|WikiProject Community}}
*'''Community User Box''' for WikiProject Community and TaskForce members: {{tl|User Community}} ''- [[Template talk:User Community|discuss]]''

Clicking on '''What links here''' reveals all articles linked to this WikiProject in this way. To discuss which Articles to add to (or remove from) the '''Articles''' list, please use [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Community|our project's talk page]]. Please '''''Don't''' place this infobox on an '''article''' page!''

*To learn more about WikiProject management, see [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_Best_practices]]
*See [[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team/Adding_to_the_lists_of_subjects]] to see how to help set up the bot for the [[/Assessment]] tools
*See [[Wikipedia:Userboxes]] 
----

=== Tags ===
'''{{[[Template:socio-stub|socio-stub]]}}:'''
The '''socio-stub''' tag can be used on articles you'd like to "pull into" this project at the parent level. 
Consider our lineage:
:[[Social sciences]]
::[[Sociology]]
:::[[Community]]

== Categories ==
These [[Categories]] yield articles that relate to Community, Communities and Community topics:

=== Community ===
'''[[:Category:Community|Community]]''' • Top-level Category
*[[:Category:Communities]] • actual communities of many types
**[[:Category:Types of communities]] • ''about'' those types
***[[:Category:Intentional communities]] • examples of type
***[[:Category:Virtual communities]] • examples of type
*[[:Category:Community development]] • formal, institutional and other ways to improve communities
**[[:Category:Community-building organizations]] • some of these are activist - some not
**[[:Category:Community building]] • less formal and less activist-oriented
**[[:Category:Community organizing]] • less formal and more activist-oriented
***[[:Category:Community organizers]] • notable community organizers
***[[:Category:Community and social services occupations]]

=== Sociology ===
'''[[:Category:Sociology]]:'''
*[[:Category:Social philosophy]]
*[[:Category:Social sciences]]
*[[:Category:Behavioural sciences]]
*[[:Category:Organizations]]
*[[:Category:Organizational_studies_and_human_resource_management]]

=== Psychology ===
'''[[:Category:Psychology]]'''
*[[:Category:Social psychology]]

=== About Categorization ===
[[:Category:Community]] &mdash; a Subcategory of [[:Category:Sociology]] is the main category for this [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]]. Our intent is to conform to the suggestions and guidelines of [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories|WikiProject Categories]] to create logical and complete [[Wikipedia:Categorization|category schemes]] without too much redundancy. 

Please participate in the discussions [[Wikipedia:Categories_for_deletion#Category:Community_building_to_Category:Community|here]] and / or [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Community#Building_Community|here]] after reading some things like [[Wikipedia:Classification|this]].

== Community Builders TaskForce ==
'''Welcome to the Community Builders Task Force'''

''"Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal."''  -- [[User:Jimbo_Wales/Statement_of_principles|Jimmy Wales]]

*''[http://freenode.net/catalysts Notes on Community and Catalysis]'' --[[Freenode|lilo @ freenode]]
*'''[[Wikipedia:Bootcamp|Bootcamp]]:''' An IRC-enhanced training program for new Wikipedians.
*'''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]]:''' A set of project management workspaces for groups working on related articles and shared interests.

=== Applied community development at Wikipedia ===

A '''community builder''' is a person that is committed to getting in and learning how a community is organized, who's who, what's what, where things are and how things are done. Our focus areas are [[Wikipedia:User categorisation|User categorisation]], [[Wikipedia:Classification|Classification]] and '''[[Wikipedia:Version_1.0_Editorial_Team|Wikipedia Version 1.0]]'''. 

Our approach is to build a '''[[sense of community]]''' upon our sense of '''[[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPPlaces|place]]''', our '''[[:Category:Wikipedians by interest|shared interests]]''' and our common '''[[Wikipedia:WikiProject|work methods]]'''. Our goal is to ''[[liminality|initiate]]'' a [[community building]] [[culture]] that we call '''[[Communitas]]''' &mdash; the ''[[spirit]] of [[community]]''. 

We have put into place a structure of meaning that we believe is shared by a substantial number of [[:Category:Wikipedians|Wikipedians]]. This structure is best seen by looking at the topics at [[:Category:Top-importance community articles|Top-importance community articles]]. We are going to set up a massive collaboration effort in a [[m:Communitas|program]] we call '''[[/Communitas!]]''' 

The purpose of this project is to produce a professional quality [[Academic publishing|community development journal]] focused ''from within'' [[online communities]] called '''''[[b:Communitas!|Communitas!]]''''' 

==== Main table ====
[[Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects|WikiProjects]]:
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Sociology]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Community]]

The table below identifies some logical starting points from a '''WP:CBTF''' perspective. Feel free to add it to your User page and work with it.

''[[Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Community#TaskForce|discuss]]''

=== Elsewhere on the Web ===
'''About the Wikimedia project:'''
* http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_12/ciffolilli/

'''[[Wikia]]:'''
* http://community.wikia.com
* http://collaboration.wikia.com
* http://nyc.wikia.com
* http://kentucky.wikia.com

==Tools==
:''Main tool page: [[tools:~dispenser/view/Tools|toolserver.org]]''
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Reflinks|Reflinks]] -  Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Checklinks|Checklinks]] - Edit and repair external links
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Dab_solver|Dab solver]] - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
*[[tools:~dispenser/view/Peer_reviewer|Peer reviewer]] - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.




==Participants==
{{Community}}
'''Welcome to the Community community!''' To join: Register/Login to Wikipedia, [ edit source ], find a proper place of your username in the alphabetical order below, start a new line with *, three tildes <nowiki>~~~</nowiki>, and an optional short note about yourself, Show Preview, Save Page, then scroll down to [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Community#Now what?|Now what?]]  Thanks!

* [[User:Bellagio99|Bellagio99]] Interested in community as social networks. I will lurk for a while to learn as this is my first Wikiproject.
* [[User:Cassandra|CassDroid]]
* [[User:ComputerGuy890100]]
* [[User:Computerjoe|Computerjoe]][[User talk:Computerjoe|<span style="color:red">'s talk</span>]] 
* [[User:Cormaggio|Cormaggio]]
* [[User:Covington|Covington]]
* [[User:CrafterNova|<span style="color:#00FF00;font-variant:small-caps">'''CrafterNova'''</span>]]&nbsp;<sup>[[User talk:CrafterNova|<span style="color:#3366BB">'''[ TALK ]'''</span>]]&nbsp; [[Special:Contributions/CrafterNova|'''[ CONT ]''']]</sup>
* [[User:Ermeyers|Ermeyers]]
*[[User:Homecommunity|Homecommunity]] ([[User talk:Homecommunity|talk]])  Interested in urban farming and sustainable food systems/hubs in low-income communities, especially re: food entrepreneurship
* [[User:Jamesrnorwood|Jamesrnorwood]] I'm new to the project but will help out anywhere I can.
* [[User:Kentuckay|Kentuckay]]
* [[User:Khecaji|Khecaji]] Internet is providing people across the globe with new possibilities to share and evolve common interests - that's fascinating. Especially interested in how knowledge workers are using the new possibilities. 
* [[User:Matt.9.johnson|matt.9.johnson]] ([[User talk:Matt.9.johnson|talk]]) 
* [[User:Mennonot|mennonot]] - I'm especially interested in classification of various kinds of Communities. Has anyone started on this?
* [[User:Mr.Bip|Mr.Bip]]
* [[User:Quinobi|Quinobi]] a.k.a. [[User:CQ|CQ]]
* [[User:Peaceray|Peaceray]] ([[User talk:Peaceray|talk]])
* [[User:Sean|Sean]] ([[User_talk:Sean|talk]] || [[Special:Contributions/Sean|contribs]])
* [[User:ShabbyHoose|ShabbyHoose]]
* [[User:ShaunMacPherson|ShaunMacPherson]]
* [[User:Sj|+sj ]][[User Talk:Sj|<span style="color:#ff6996;">+</span>]]
* [[User:SpicyMemes123|SpicyMemes123]] I want to be part of the community of Community!
* [[User:TBCRogers|TBCRogers]] Interested in coming together in partnership with various community leaders, developers, and organizers, who want to spread the message of expanding programs/services to those who need them the most nationally and internationally. 
* [[User:Tractor|Tractor]] (implement)
* [[User:Sm8900]]  I'd be very interested to get this WikiProject up and running again. please feel free to ping me if interested! --[[User:Sm8900|Sm8900]] ([[User talk:Sm8900|talk]]) 16:54, 16 January 2020 (UTC)

==Now what?==

Go out and play, stay and play, and/or/and both. Job #1: have fun. Job #2: while doing that, try to improve the quality of articles that relate to the community stuff we do. For example (f.e):
*Improve the '''[[Community]]''' article - this is the main one - Needs Improvement. As of 11.29.15, I'd give it an F for Funny. [that's {{u|LeoRomero}} snarking. NB: '''No snarking on Wikipedia'''. Also, no pretending to be Roman by using NB, e.g., i.e, etc. Plain English versions: N!, f.e,  t.i, a.so. (PS: PS is still PS)]
*Improve any article in our Template (that box on the right); apply the template to the article you fixed (if it's not already there) by typing <nowiki>{{Community}}</nowiki> where it belongs in the article you improved
*Improve the template: this will be the Table of Contents to '''The Encyclopedia of Community''' on Wikipedia 
*Improve this Community Project Page
*Improve the '''[[Outline of community|Outline]]'''
*Improve '''[[Portal:Community|Community portal]]'''
*Spellcheck, copyedit, dejargonificize - clear and simple as the truth
*Talk among yourselves
*Kick back and watch Community come to life
*Do whatever you like 

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