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Revision as of 16:36, 2 November 2010
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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- 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
Guidelines
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
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This is a list of sub-projects which focus on a specific topic within the scope of Canada.
- Provinces/territories
- Communities
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Outline and index
- Refine and maintain the Index of Canada-related articles, key guides on Wikipedia to Canada as a subject.
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=???}}
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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.
- {{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.
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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
Questions about using and contributing to Wikipedia
Your question might already be answered in the Frequently Asked Questions, otherwise:
- Help Desk is the main place to ask a question and also where to turn when all else fails.
- New users' help page is the place to ask your first questions.
- Editor assistance/Requests is a place to ask for help regarding content issues and disputes.
- The Village Pump is the forum for discussion of more complex project-wide technical issues, policies, proposals, and operations of Wikipedia.
- Media copyright questions covers the use of images and other media on Wikipedia.
- Requests lists further request departments.
Need help starting a new article? The article wizard it will help you through the process of submitting a new article to Wikipedia.
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.