Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada

For the Canadian wikipedians' notice board, see WP:CWNB.

WikiProject Canada was formed to foster better articles on the country of Canada with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the project member page.

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Canada, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Canada in a fair and accurate manner.

• To join WikiProject Canada (anyone may join), simply list your name under the member page.

As of 2 October, 2010, there are 56,420 articles within the scope of WikiProject Canada, of which 163 are featured. This makes up 1.6% of the articles on Wikipedia and 3.3% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 123,502 pages in the project.

Project organisation

• Canadian discussion board
• Canadian notice board
• Canadian articles to improve
• Canadian requested articles
• Canadian article alerts (currently down)

For requested photographs, in addition to posting your image requests on athe WikiProject's requested photograph list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Guidelines

Main page: Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Canada-related articles)

The Canadian Manual of Style is a guide applicable to all Canadian Wikipedia articles. It presents Canadian styles, and is intended to help editors to produce articles with proper Canadian language, layout, and formatting that are consistent, clear, and precise.

Projects within Canada and overall stats

Canada-related articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 2 23 61 79 165 FL 2 26 22 58 108 A 1 5 1 7 GA 6 35 158 673 872 B 34 216 825 1,923 5 3,003 C 18 224 1,402 7,898 4 9,546 Start 2 275 6,540 52,570 2 18 59,407 Stub 26 2,755 64,703 3 14 67,501 List 2 78 893 4,354 150 5,477 Category 38,146 38,146 Disambig 413 413 File 993 993 Portal 14 14 Project 196 196 Redirect 5 18,342 18,347 Template 12,417 12,417 Draft 19 292 311 Assessed 66 904 12,661 132,283 70,968 41 216,923 Unassessed 1 27 12 49 89 Total 66 904 12,662 132,310 70,980 90 217,012 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 750,990 Ω = 5.35

This is a list of sub-projects which focus on a specific topic within the scope of Canada.

WikiProject Canada

Provinces/territories

• Alberta
• British Columbia
• Manitoba
• New Brunswick
• Newfoundland & Labrador
• Nova Scotia
• Ontario
• Prince Edward Island
• Quebec
• Saskatchewan
• Canadian Territories

Communities

• Communities
  • Montreal
  • Okanagan
  • Ottawa
  • Toronto
  • Vancouver
  • SK communities

Topics

• Education in Canada
• Canada roads
• Canadian sport
  • Canadian football
• Geography of Canada
• History of Canada

Politics

• Government
  • Electoral districts
  • Political parties and politicians
  • Canadian law

Entertainment

• Canadian music
• Canadian television
  • Degrassi

Tasks forces & work groups

• Canadian animation
• Canadian cinema
• Canadian comics/cartooning
• Canadian military history
• Volcanism of Canada

Notice boards

• Canada
• Quebec

Outline and index

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Canada-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

• Outline of Canada - Index of Canada-related articles
  
  • Refine and maintain the Outline of Canada, a key guide on Wikipedia to Canada as a subject. It serves as a table of contents, summary, and topic outline of coverage on Canada and is the most useful tool on Wikipedia for exploring and understanding fundamental material about Canada (and how it fits together) on Wikipedia. Its purpose is an important one: it simply enables readers to see at a glance how the subject of Canada is broken down, what the main component topics are, and how they relate to each other - that is, how information on Canada is organized (here, and in the world-at-large). It is a site map and outline of knowledge that demystifies the subject known as "Canada". Because of its central role in the presentation of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject, it is very important to develop and maintain it to the highest level of quality: to help readers improve their conceptual awareness and understanding of Canada as well as find their way around the subject on Wikipedia. The Outline of Canada and Index of Canada-related articles, is incomplete, needs your editing contributions.

See also List of Canada-related topics by provinces and territories

Templates

Main page: Category:Canada templates

Project banner

To tag articles under the scope of WikiProject Canada, place {{WikiProject Canada}} on the article talk page.
Parameters: {{WikiProject Canada|[sub-project]=yes|[province mnemonic]=yes|class=???|importance=???}}

Portals

The Canada portal template {{Portal|Canada}} may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of a Canadian article, however there are other, topic specific Canadian portals available like {{Portal|History of Canada}}. See Portal:Canada/Related portals for a list.

Navigational templates

Main page: Category:Canadian navigational boxes

• {{Canada topics}}

Wikiproject pages

For tagging other WikiProjects and portals that goes under the scope of WikiProject Canada, visit {{PartofWPCANADA}} and follow the instructions.

Infoboxes

• {{Infobox Settlement}} - Provides a consistent look and function for all places in Canada such as:

counties (e.g., Queens County),

cities (e.g., Montreal),

towns (e.g., Westville),

villages (e.g., Bawlf),

Indian reserves (e.g., Tsuu T'ina Nation 145), and

hamlets (e.g., Elkwater).

rural municipalities (e.g., Tecumseh No. 65, Saskatchewan)

neighbourhoods (e.g., Wildwood, Saskatoon)

Geography

• {{Infobox Settlement}} - for Cities, towns, villages, hamlets, or any other location.
• {{Infobox Province or territory of Canada}} - for Provinces and territories of Canada
• {{Saskatchewan Communities}} - a substitution template for starting communities of Saskatchewan

Politics and Government

• {{Government Departments of Canada}}
• {{lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases, thus: {{lang|fr|conférences régionales des élus}}.
• {{Infobox Prime Minister}} - for Prime Minister of Canada
• {{Infobox CanadianMP}} - for members of the Canadian House of Commons
• {{Infobox Canadian budget}} - for federal budgets

Userpage

Add this template {{Canadian quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Canada on Wikipedia.

Add this userbox {{User WikiProject Canada}} to your userboxes to direct editors to WikiProject Canada from your userpage.

This user is a participant in WikiProject Canada.

Awards

Both of these awards can be given by any user to any other user who you think is worthy.

The Canadian Content Award

{{award2|image=Barnstar-CanCon.jpg|size=100px|topic=The Canadian Content Award|text=Awarded for...}}

The Canadian Content Award This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia. Evrik 13:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC)

The Maple Leaf Award (red, silver, or gold)

{{subst:The Maple Leaf Award| type=... | Awarded for... }}
Use type=Red to give a user a small kudos for a useful series of edits that you saw them make or for one particularly clever edit that deserves mention. The type=Silver level is for completion of a major initiative, such as writing a featured article about Canada or standardising a series about one Canada-related topic. The type=Gold level is awarded for a user that you have seen put months or years of hard work into all aspects of Canada-related articles.

The Maple Leaf Award Award for editors that contribute to Canada related projects and topics. --Qyd (talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Canada-related articles, see the list of stubs at Category:Canada stubs.

Category and Sister-links

Canada

Canada-related lists

Buildings and structures in Canada

Culture of Canada

Economy of Canada

Education in Canada

Environment of Canada

Geography of Canada

Government of Canada

Health in Canada

History of Canada

Canadian people

Politics of Canada

Society of Canada

Images of Canada

Canada stubs

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.