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This project is relative to the basic functions and ideals of Community in general and The Wikipedia Community. [edit] BootcampThe Wikipedia:Bootcamp is being redone. see http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Bootcamp [edit] Adding communities from FIC directory to WikipediaI'd like to propose adding a new project goal of systematically adding the communities listed in the Fellowship of Intentional Community's directory to wikipedia. The directory already includes vital stats from each community and some may also have their own web pages. This proposal seems to fall within the scope of the community project. I think it would also us a concrete goal to sink our teeth into. Most of the project goals right now are fairly abstract and its hard to know where to start. When adding communities from the directory it would simply be a matter of starting our way at the top of the list of communities and working down. Finally, I think this would be a good way of raising the visibility of the Community project. We could promote this specific sub-project on like minded projects and forums. And if everyone referenced the community project in comments when editing pages we'd start showing up on the recent changes list as well. Activity usually attracts more activity. Just as no visible activity in a project reinforces that inactivity. I'm open to feedback on this idea. The next step in moving forward would be to add it to the community project list of goals and then to see about automatically generating a list like those used in Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles. The list could have a redlink to the most logical title and then a link to its page in the FIC directory. - Mennonot 01:36, 4 March 2006
[edit] Building Communitym:The Wikipedia Community is in my opinion among the cream of the crop in online communities. The fact that it functions as a Community of practice with a focused task - building an encyclopedia - remains an organizing force that few web-enabled groups have. While Jimbo Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation have set up a strong central authority to assure the continuation of the project through some formal structures, there is still much room and freedom for organizing within the ranks of the community. This WikiProject is one of many grassroots efforts to tighten the fabric in a somwhat scientific and intentional way. I'm proposing to develop a very comprehensive portal and categorization scheme to implement this from a taskforce perspective - seperate from, but completely aware of and complient with - the official channels and vehicles provided by our hosts through the Community Portal. It is very important to differentiate Portal:Community, which is to become a reference for community builders everywhere, from the Wikipedia:Community Portal which is expressly for Wikipedians. This little project space is here to help us focus on what Wikipedia - the encyclopedia has to say about community and to study and improve how Wikipedia - the community performs. Let's build some community! -- CQ 13:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC) [edit] Talkpage templatesOn the project page for this WikiProject, there's a link to {{Template:WikiProjectNotice|Community}} which causes it to show up on Category:Main pages with misplaced talk page templates. Would it bother anyone if I put a subst'd version of the talk page version of the template on the main page, so it no longer shows up in that category? Thanks. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 02:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)
Note! This code:{{WikiProjectNotice|Community}} yields: {{WikiProjectNotice|Community}} ...and should only be used on talk pages. [edit] TaskForceWelcome to the Community WikiProject! [edit] ScopeThis 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 itself.
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[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
[edit] Similar WikiProjectsSimilar WikiProjects are:
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[edit] Hierarchy definitionThis 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 hierachically to:
[edit] Goals[edit] Primary (encyclopedic) Project Goals
[edit] Secondary (applied) Project Goals
See /Communitas! [edit] ArticlesCommunity has been nominated as a "Good article". It is was on 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 organised and handy. [edit] Featured article candidatesThese aren't nominated anywhere but here (so far):
[edit] Good article nominees[edit] Needing attention
[edit] Key articlesThese articles are (or will be ) referred to in sections and subsections of the main Community article and (or) the Community Portal:
[edit] Related articlesList 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, ... [edit] Types of communitiesCategory:Types of communities:
[edit] Types of cooperatives
[edit] Pages listed for deletion
[edit] PortalsPortal:Community - The Community reference - is under construction.
[edit] Related Portals
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The box above is a summary of Community articles by quality. The following sections outline the process we're using to gather and cite sources, rewrite and refine community-related articles, and develop topically arraged navigational aids for our readers and editors. We are continually in need of 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 journals. We take the subject very seriously as Wikipedians interested in sociology, and are taking the tools "up one level" to support WikiProject Sociology. These tools were first used by WikiProject Chemistry. 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. [edit] ClassificationThe current classification of wikipedia articles relating to community can be found at the List of community topics. This list is mirrored here in the 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. [edit] AssessmentWe're working with the Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team to begin the process of pulling all community related articles up toward featured or at least good article status. The /Assessment page will contain Community articles by importance and 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 Featured portal status. See Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects for more information. [edit] OutreachThe local encyclopedic portal has counterparts on other sites:
[edit] Newsletter/Newsletter • Sent out mainly when something significant is going on. [edit] Infoboxes
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 our project's talk page. Please Don't place this infobox on an article page!
[edit] Tags{{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: [edit] CategoriesThese Categories yield articles that relate to Community, Communities and Community topics: [edit] CommunityCommunity • Top-level Category
[edit] Sociology
[edit] Psychology[edit] About CategorizationCategory:Community — a Subcategory of Category:Sociology is the main category for this WikiProject. Our intent is to conform to the suggestions and guidlines of WikiProject Categories to create logical and complete category schemes without too much redundancy. Please participate in the discussions here and / or here after reading some things like this. [edit] Community Builders TaskForceWelcome to the Community Builders Task Force "Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal." -- Jimmy Wales
[edit] Applied community development at WikipediaA 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 User categorisation, Classification and Wikipedia Version 1.0. Our approach is to build a sense of community upon our sense of place, our shared interests and our common work methods. Our goal is to initiate a community building culture that we call Communitas — the spirit of community. We have put into place a structure of meaning that we believe is shared by a substantial number of Wikipedians. This structure is best seen by looking at the topics at Top-importance community articles. We are going to set up a massive collaboration effort in a program we call /Communitas! The purpose of this project is to produce a professional quality community development journal focused from within online communities called Communitas! [edit] Main tableThe 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 community Welfare === In South Africa we've got a growing problem in abandoned babies, orphan babies and unwanted babies. There are babies left at birth in hospital everyday. The mother can't or doesn't want to look after the baby, and just leaves it behind at birth and goes home. There's a project called uMephi, which is managed and founded by the AFM Church, who addresses the problem of all these babies in need. Some babies are left on rubbish dumps, or somewhere in the field. The Welfare council identify's a town, who can Manage and run a babyhouse. Then the Welfare council purchase a house in that particular town. A Project Manager gets appointed to do all the local managing of the house, together with a Comitee, who does certain duties. A Houseparent gets screened and trained to live in the house with the babies, assisted with day & night shiftworkers. The houses are supported by funds and donations out of the community. Currently (year 2007) there are 23 such babyhouses in South Africa, who cares for these babies in need. The houses has designated Social Workers, who handles each case personally to ensure the best outcome for each and every baby in need. Once the baby is placed in the house, the Social Worker will search for family or relatives who'd want to take care of the baby. If there's nobody who'd like to take the baby, preferably a legally married couple, will be screened to take the baby into Forster Care, or Adoption, depending on the baby's circumstances. The house in Polokwane, South Africa is situated very close to the North Boarders, and is Managed by Yolande Stevens contact number: +27825525481 or email: kantoor@agsp.co.za Feel free to contact for any further information [edit] Elsewhere on the WebAbout the Wikimedia project:
The Community builders taskforce is working with User categorisation and Classification trying to build a handy task table. If you want to join the TaskForce, please say so below. CQ 15:27, 18 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] MembersPlease add yourself below using {{user|yourname}} followed by a brief message. Community Builders TaskForce Members:
[edit] Current tasksCurrently, I'm working on the top-level tasks announcing this project, mainly here. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Proposed tasksHeading toward United States Wikipedians and U.S. state WikiProjects that have Portals. See Listing of US state WikiProjects, Portals and Wikipedians. -- CQ 17:24, 18 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] Task templateWe work through the one template, trying to keep it simple and effective. You can employ it by typing {{WP:CBTF}}. You can edit it here but please discuss your changes to the table content above. For technical or aesthetic changes use Template_talk:WP:CBTF. -- CQ 18:35, 18 June 2006 (UTC) [edit] CommentsI'm finding that I'm quite busy with other things, and am only slowly getting my head around what the Community Builders TaskForce is doing... though I do like the user categorization mentioned above, and the whole idea of strengthening the community, including helping people collaborate with others of similar interest. I'm wondering if we should separate the project focusing on community-related articles in sociology (e.g. co-housing) from the project aiming to strengthen community & cooperation in Wikipedia. So I'll leave my name here, but just consider me a peripheral member - I'll check in and contribute from time to time. Feel free to ask for my input if there's a specific issue. --Singkong2005 talk 06:12, 12 August 2006 (UTC) [edit] Articles for the Wikipedia 1.0 projectWikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/WPHumanities#Wikipedia:WikiProject_Community Waiting to be contacted. See WikiProject Community/Assessment page when you get here. Thanks. • CQ 21:56, 17 July 2006 (UTC) What kind of help do you need? I'm not an official member of the 1.0 Ed team but I've helped other projects set up categories and templates to do rating. I take it you want to rate your articles? Take a look at Beatles, Firefly, Indigenous Peoples of North America or any of the other projects to see how to set things up, it's not hard. But with only 4 articles you can just create the categories and add the articles by hand if you want. ++Lar: t/c 23:12, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
Hope this helps, Walkerma 00:06, 18 July 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Collaboration of the Month - August 2006The spirit of community can't be free without the sense of community. True? • CQ • 20:50, 29 July 2006 (UTC) [edit] EducationEducation and community have alway been intertwined. I've made some initial contact with Wikipedia:WikiProject Education, being very impressed with the scope that they are tackling and the level of organization the project has achieved. Hoping to hear from them soon.
[edit] Tagging talk pages and assessing articles Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you. The plugin has two main modes of operation:
As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify. For more information see:
Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 12:20, 20 September 2006 (UTC) [edit] Project directoryHello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 20:59, 25 October 2006 (UTC) [edit] StablepediaBeginning cross-post.
End cross-post. Please do not comment more in this section. [edit] Wikipedia Day AwardsHello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 22:45, 29 December 2006 (UTC) [edit] Conspiracy Con AfDConspiracy Con (which I believe would fall under this project since it is a convention devoted to the conspiracy community) has been nominated for deletion--even after extensive sourcing. Please give your comments/vote. Thanks. -Eερ² (t|c) 21:49, 18 May 2007 (UTC) [edit] Notice of List articlesPage(s) related to this project have been created and/or added to one of the Wikipedia:Contents subpages (not by me). This note is to let you know, so that experts in the field can expand them and check them for accuracy, and so that they can be added to any watchlists/tasklists, and have any appropriate project banners added, etc. Thanks. --Quiddity 20:00, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Finding a home for articlesHello WP Community - its good to find you. At the risk of sounding desperate, I want to find a WP that can assist with the following articles, and aside from a non-existent WP on youth studies this might be the best location for these. However, I do not want to tag a bunch of articles where they're not wanted... Any feedback would be appreciated; following are the articles: Youth voice, Youth studies, Adultism, Adultcentrism, Evolving capacities, Fear of youth, Fear of children, Youth politics, Youth leadership, Youth development, Community youth development, Positive youth development, Youth activism, Youth participation, Youth empowerment, Youth-led media, Children's rights, Timeline of children's rights in the United States, Youth rights, History of Youth Rights in the United States, Youth philanthropy, Aging out, Youth movement, Youth engagement, Youth-adult partnerships, Youth council. • Freechild'sup? 19:18, 8 May 2008 (UTC) [edit] Wikiproject PrisonsIf anyone's interested, I've proposed a new wikiproject for the creation of articles regarding specific prisons here. --Cdogsimmons (talk) 20:51, 8 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] Community GA Sweeps Review: On HoldAs part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Community and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are some issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and several other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! --Nehrams2020 (talk) 05:02, 22 June 2008 (UTC) [edit] Rename proposal for the lists of basic topicsThis project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics. See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages. The Transhumanist 09:55, 4 July 2008 (UTC) [edit] Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment schemeAs you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles. Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot (Disable) 22:04, 4 July 2008 (UTC) [edit] Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for CommunityWikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7. We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Wikipedia:Release Version Nominations. A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible. We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:26, 15 September 2008 (UTC) [edit] Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:46, 1 February 2009 (UTC) [edit] Coordinators' working groupHi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators. All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. — Delievered by §hepBot (Disable) on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:10, 28 February 2009 (UTC) [edit] Article alertsThis is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here. If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here. Thanks. — Headbomb {ταλκκοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:59, 15 March, 2009 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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