Wiki143:WikiProject Gibraltar

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to expand and organise information better in articles related to Gibraltar. This page contains their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help but don't know what to do, inquire on our talk page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims to:

• Put the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag on the Talk page of all Gibraltar-related articles
  • The intention is to add the {{WikiProject Gibraltar}} tag to the talk pages of appropriate articles in all Gibraltar-related categories on this page.

• Expand the number of Gibraltar-related articles

• Improve the quality of Gibraltar-related articles (see discussion)

• Work towards the promotion of Gibraltar-related articles as "Good articles"

• Work towards the promotion of Gibraltar-related articles as "Featured articles"

• Add requested photos (map)

• Create a Gibraltar-related "Collaboration of the Week"

• Add Gibraltar-related articles to WikiProject Gibraltar's public watchlist

Recent developments log

• 151 articles have been identified as Gibraltar-related and tagged with {{WikiProject Gibraltar}}. See Category:WikiProject Gibraltar for the full list.
• Gibraltar-related categories have been identified and listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar/Gibraltar-related categories.
• Next step: creation of a shared watchlist to facilitate monitoring of recent changes to Gibraltar-related articles.

-- ChrisO 17:24, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• Initial version of public watchlist has been created - see Wikipedia:WikiProject Gibraltar/publicwatchlist. The list of image assets still needs to be populated.

-- ChrisO 18:01, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

• The list of image assets and templates has now been populated on the public watchlist. Next step - improving articles!

-- ChrisO 00:00, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

Region code

When adding coordinates to articles about features in Gibraltar, using Template:Tl, the |region= parameter should be set to "GI".

Recognised content

Featured articles

1. History of Gibraltar

Featured lists

1. Gibraltar national football team results
2. List of sieges of Gibraltar

Good articles

1. Europa Point Lighthouse
2. Flat Bastion
3. Flat Bastion Road
4. Fortifications of Gibraltar
5. M/V New Flame
6. Military history of Gibraltar during World War II
7. Moorish Gibraltar
8. Ocean Village Marina, Gibraltar
9. Twelfth Siege of Gibraltar

Featured pictures

• Gibraltar Barbary Macaque Image:Gibraltar Barbary Macaque.jpg. 27 September 2007.
• Antique map of the Iberian Peninsula c.1794 Image:Iberian Peninsula antique map.jpg. 11 November 2007.
• Map of Gibraltar Image:Gibraltar map-en-edit2.svg. 10 September 2008.

Did you know (DYK)s

• ... that Prof. Clive Finlayson has theorised that the genetic similarities between neanderthals and humans are not only due to interbreeding but could also originate from a common African ancestor...?
• ... that philanthropist John Mackintosh left a will allowing the provision of a public trust for the advancement of education in Gibraltar?
• ... that naval officer James Coutts Crawford served in three sieges in the American War of Independence, once as part of the besieging forces (Charleston) and twice as a defender (Savannah and Gibraltar)?
• ... that Dorothy Ellicott was the first woman to be elected to two different Gibraltar Councils and was posthumously awarded the Gibraltar Medallion of Honour on Gibraltar National Day 2008?
• ... that in 1939, excavations beneath John Mackintosh Square in Gibraltar for the construction of an air-raid shelter revealed no signs of any foundations, suggesting it has always been an open square?
• ... that Juan Mateos was the founder of Gibraltar's first hospital which remained on the same site and served the people of Gibraltar for almost four and a half centuries?
• ... that Gibtelecom is the largest telecommunications operator in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar and the official sponsor of the annual Gibtelecom International Chess Festival?
• ... that all of early 14th century Europe was consecrated under the protection of Our Lady of Europe (statue pictured) in Gibraltar where devotion has continued for over 700 years?
• ... that Giovanni Battista Calvi was an Italian military engineer who worked on many important Spanish defensive projects in the 1500s, to include those in the now British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar?
• ... that Gibraltar's National Day is celebrated every 10 September by releasing 30,000 red and white balloons (pictured) which represent the people of Gibraltar?
• ... that since 2006, a Gibraltarian no longer needs be a Member of Parliament to become Mayor of Gibraltar?
• ... that in 1704 Simón Susarte, a Spanish Gibraltarian goatherd, revealed a concealed path (pictured) to the Spanish Army which led to the top of the Rock of Gibraltar, so they could surprise the Anglo-Dutch troops based there?
• ... that Gibraltar's St. Michael's Cave (pictured), prepared as an emergency hospital during World War II, at present contains an auditorium and receives almost a million visitors a year?
• ... that Gibraltarian pop rock band Taxi is made up of three of Melon Diesel's former members and write songs in Spanish only despite their being British?
• ... that the Gibraltar Football Association had their UEFA membership application blocked by Spain due to their claim on the territory?
• ... that Gibraltarian degree level students studying in a UK university receive a full scholarship from the Government of Gibraltar?
• ... that Gibraltar passports are full British passports which are particularly issued to Gibraltarians and only differ in some wording?
• ... that a statue originally created in 1815 for the The Alameda Gibraltar Botanic Gardens was carved from the bowsprit of the Spanish ship San Juan Nepomuceno, taken at the Battle of Trafalgar?
• ... that the cuisine of Gibraltar includes Maltese, Genoese and Portuguese culinary influences?
• ... that Operation Tracer was a top-secret WWII mission in which six men were to be buried alive inside the Rock of Gibraltar so that they could monitor enemy movements after the Rock's capture?
• ... that news of the British victory in the Battle of Trafalgar was reported in the Gibraltar Chronicle a fortnight before it reached England?
• ... that in 2006 Gibraltar was granted a new constitution, giving it a modern constitutional relationship with the United Kingdom?
• ... that Horace Walpole called John Trumbull's oil-on-canvas The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789 (pictured) "the finest picture [he] had ever seen painted on the northern side of the Alps"?
• ... that Mozart never finished his composition for voice and piano to celebrate the Great Siege of Gibraltar during the American Revolutionary War?
• ... that John Singleton Copley's oil-on-canvas The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782 is one of Britain’s largest oil paintings?
• ... that the Governor's residence in Gibraltar (pictured) is supposedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who was bricked up alive into a chamber wall?
• ... that Thomas William Bowlby (1818 - 1860), a Gibraltar-born correspondent for The Times was captured and imprisoned by the Tartar General Sengge Rinchen whilst on correspondence in Tongzhou, Beijing?
• ... that the English Law (Application) Act 1962 ended legal recognition of seduction as a civil offence in Gibraltar?

Participants

Active participants

To join WikiProject Gibraltar, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of participants. Participants should also place participant identification on their user page.

1. Prof TPMS (talk)
2. Prioryman (talk)
3. Johntex
4. Robotforaday 22:18, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
5. Asterion^talk 12:48, 19 August 2007 (UTC)
6. Biofoundationsoflanguage 14:18, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
7. Leitz
8. Ecemaml
9. Inter-man
10. GibCat
11. Subtropical-man
12. Callagar (Talk)

Former participants

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. 01:48:58, 19 March 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

Participant identification

WikiProject Gibraltar participants should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Gibraltar participants. Template:Yytop Template:Yycat Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yyend For other Gibraltar user templates see Category:Gibraltar user templates.

Portal

Template:Tnull

File:Flag of Gibraltar.svg Portal:Gibraltar

Assessment

{{Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Gibraltar articles by quality statistics}}

Categories

• List of all subpages of this page

Stubs

Some stub categories to put Gibraltar-related articles are collected here.

Templates

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
Template:Tl	Template:Template otherTemplate:Ucat	To be used on your user page, to show you joined this WikiProject.
Template:Tl		The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been edited, or is intended to be edited, as part of this WikiProject.
Template:Tl	File:Flag of Gibraltar.svg You are invited to join the Gibraltar WikiProject, an attempt to expand and better organise information on Gibraltar related articles on Wikipedia. To join, simply add your name to the members section of project page.	To invite particular users who have shown an interest in Gibraltar related articles to participate in this WikiProject.

Sister Project links

• GibraltarpediA

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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