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Wikipedia:WikiProject California

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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of California. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page. Template:Californiatasks

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Title

WikiProject on California

Scope

Descendant WikiProjects

Other WikiProjects

California WikiPortals
Related WikiPortals
Similar WikiPortals

Portal:Florida, Portal:Maryland, # Portal:New Jersey, Portal:New York, New York City, Portal:North Carolina, Portal:Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin

see Category:United States portals for a more current list


User categorisation

California Wikipedians should add one of the following categories to the bottom of their User page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Northern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Central California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
[[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]


This will put your User page into either Category:Wikipedians in California, Category:Wikipedians in Northern California, Category:Wikipedians in Central California or Category:Wikipedians in Southern California.

User Boxes

Instead of just adding the category to your user page, you could add the Userbox for Californians {{User California}} to your user page, which will also add your user page to the Wikipedians in California category.


 This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of California.


To identify youself specifically with this WikiProject, if you don't live in California or if you want your userboxes to represent your work on Wikipedia, you can add the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}} userbox to your page. It will look like this, but with a link back to this page:


 This user participates in
WikiProject California.


If you prefer not to use userboxes, but still want to be listed in the category for WikiProject California participants you place the following tag at the bottom of your user page:

[[Category:WikiProject California participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]

Sister Project searches

Participants

If you are also interested in Southern California issues, please visit WikiProject Southern California

To keep track of changes on this page, as well as discussions on the talk page, you can put this page on your watchlist.

You may be interested in adding this userbox to your userpage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Userbox}}. This userbox automatically adds users to the WikiProject California participants category.

You can also add yourself to this category by adding the following tag to your userpage:

[[Category:WikiProject California participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
  1. User:sanji1119 - schools in/around cupertino
  2. Stevey7788 - working on cities and towns in California
  3. Canaen - I'll be around.
  4. Dspserpico Covering things Bay Area, Baseball or both.
  5. Ombudsman
  6. Schmiteye - San Francisco Bay Area, The Peninsula and San Mateo
  7. (♠Taifarious1♠) - Contributing to California Articles from 10,000km's away!
  8. Evrik - Soy un angeleno nativo. ¿Que tienes que hacer? --evrik 04:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  9. Zzyzx11 - will occasionally help with it
  10. Graham I'm interested in helping with California natural history.
  11. physicq210 will occasionally help in San Francisco Bay Area-related topics, among others
  12. Lord Kinbote
  13. Daniel Olsen Actively working on articles about the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland in particular.
  14. NorCalHistory Historical topics specifically; other topics where I can help
  15. bulletproof 3:16 Usually around to expand Stadium/Arena articles
  16. Ba'Gamnan
  17. Anlace Working on ecology and historical articles for Northern California
  18. FCYTravis - Generally involved in air transportation and assorted East Bay articles. FCYTravis 06:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  19. J.S. - Well, thought I'd join, since I live here. :) ---J.S (t|c) 19:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  20. physicq210 - Generally Bay Area-related articles
  21. Johntex - Various, especially San Diego area articles and college-football related.
  22. Hjal - mostly Marin County, Fremont, San Jose, environment, UCSC
  23. LorenzoB 03:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)]] SoCal, Desert[reply]
  24. WTGDMan1986 - former California native since 1987, wishes to remove vandalism and wikify dates. --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
  25.  Erielhonan  talk | contribs   仕方が無い   10:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC) - also working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania and Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia[reply]
  26. Soccermum politics, etc
  27. KP Botany California flora, geology, natural history in general, in particular deserts, Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges, Great Central Valley.
  28. AnthonyWS Central Valley and state politics. If I can be of any help, let me know.
  29. Ethicalhacker 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Stockton, CA[reply]
  30. Moreau36 02:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, lived part of my life throughout Southern California. Work mostly on city/town/unincorporated community articles.[reply]
  31. Kings bibby win 02:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Schools[reply]
  32. Exhartland 10:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC) , past mayors of San Francisco and other early Bay Area topics[reply]
  33. Itsfullofstars - covering the Monterey Bay area for the most part
  34. Carpet9
  35. Sue Rangell - Northern California.
  36. Jesse135
  37. Vgpclub 19:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  38. ronbo76 - enjoy historical articles about California.
  39. Patricknoddy
  40. Justvote - California political history
  41. Wikimania1011 - San Francisco Bay School Districts and Schools, Santa Cruz Area articles
  42. Hydrogen Iodide - Just about anything California-related, mountain passes, Sierras, San Francisco Bay Area, redwoods, skyscrapers, etc.
  43. Jamescocks - Architectural history, theory & criticism, as well as some technical aspects of buildings, such as materials, construction, maintenance, repair, and preservation.
  44. Valley2City - Let me put it this way, the first part of my name has to do with San Fernando
  45. Viriditas
  46. Ali
  47. Mattl2001
  48.  ThinkBlue  (Hit BLUE) Use to live in California; and working on Projects relating to the state. 14:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  49. User:notecardforfree - I will be working on articles related to California's history, and articles related to the East Bay
  50. Gmatsuda - Manzanar, Los Angeles Kings
  51. Agtaz - I too live in California, and I keep my eyes the main article, as as the Los Angeles area.
  52. Happyme22 - I'm a California native, and mostly deal with politicians from our state
  53. Cgingold (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC) I've worked on all manner of CA-related articles: history, locales, politicians & other bios, etc.[reply]
  54. Dureo - Live in Kings County will be working on local articles.
  55. Leo III - Live in 'West Side' Poway CA, Extremely into the Bear Flag Republic time Period!
  56. Calbear22 - California politics biography articles. Places in California too.
  57. User:Marcia Wright - Wilderness areas and wilderness legislation, lakes, reservoirs, nat'l forests and also Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park- California's only boat-in campground. 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  58. User:haha169 - Primarily Bay Area locations and schools.
  59. DevinCook - Sacramento, California. Interested in the history of the great California Republic.
  60. User:Johnl1479 - Sacramento, and its suburbs. Particularly those I have lived in, North Highlands and Antelope
  61. Zhukora - Death Valley, Scotty's Castle, the inhabitants of said castle, and the tangled web they weave.
  62. User:Queenqpawn - I live in California, and grew up there. Interested in parts of East Bay Regions.
  63. Optigan13 (talk) - SF Bay Area
  64. User:Xde 13 (User talk:Xde 13) - Sacramento, CA
  65. User:Rosiestep - both NorCal and SoCal

Goals

  1. To improve articles related to California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and featured as a Featured article.

Projects

Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Open tasks


Other subpages

Templates

also see: California templates

Infoboxes and navigation boxes


User page templates

{{User Californian}}

  This user is from California.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}}

 This user participates in
WikiProject California.

Stub templates

{{California-stub}} / Category:California stubs

Please use the most precise stub tag whenever possible. When the smaller stubs have at least 60 articles in them, they will be given a category of their own.

Other templates

  • {{PD-CAGov}}
    "<work of a State of California employee, taken or made during the course of the person's official duties,...is consequently in the public domain."
  • {{WikiProject California}}
    Add {{WikiProject California}} to any Wikipedia article's talk pages that are receiving special attention from the WikiProject California
 California NA‑class
 This page is within the scope of WikiProject California, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the U.S. state of California on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CaliforniaWikipedia:WikiProject CaliforniaTemplate:WikiProject CaliforniaCalifornia articles
NAThis page does not require a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
See Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Assessment for a list of the various parameters for the template, and the criteria for each option.

WikiProject Award

Image What to type Description
  {{subst:The California Star|message ~~~~}}

The California Star is awarded for excellence in editing California related articles. It is also the WikiProject Award for California, WP San Francisco Bay Area, WP Southern California, WP Santa Barbara County, WP California State Highways and WP California County Routes.

This award was suggested by Ronbo76; it was designed by thuglas. It was introduced on March 6, 2007.


Categories

Lists

For a more complete list of California-related lists, see /Lists

see also:

Images

WikiProject California uses Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California to monitor all California articles that may benefit from additional images. In addition, Wikipedian photographers living in California use the subcategories at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California to locate those subjects near where they typically take photographs. The "imageneeded=" and "in=" parameters of {{WikiProject California}} populate this category.

  • To request an image for an article, use the "imageneeded=yes" parameter in the {{WikiProject California}} article talk page template. Please use the "in=" parameter in the {{WikiProject California}} template to specify the California county where the photograph may be taken. Up to three locations may be specified, such as {{WikiProject California|class=Start|importance=Low|imageneeded=yes|in=Los Angeles County, California|in2=Orange County, California|in3=Sacramento County, California|nested=yes|unref=yes}}
  • If you need to specify four or more locations (such as a road passing through eight California counties), use {{reqphoto}} and its multiple "in=" parameters.

Articles

Major review articles on California

California regions

Miscellaneous state-wide articles

Ongoing Wikipedia surveys

Article votes for deletion

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California

New Wikipedia articles on California topics

Please feel free to list your new California-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a five day time limit from the creation of the article.

Did you know?

Front page articles

Article improvement drive

For improving articles larger than a stub.

Collaboration of the week

Failed COTW's

Peer review

Current Peer reviews

Past Peer reviews

Votes for deletion


Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting is a new effort that attempts to classify various articles nominated for votes for deletion by major categories. The California-related articles at VFD are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/California.

note: This page is currently unmaintained


Featured content

Featured article candidates

Current Featured article candidates

Failed Featured article candidates

Individuals
Good articles

Former featured articles removed through Featured article removal

Assessment

California articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
  FA 1 18 31 99 4 153
  FL 1 2 10 86 99
  FM 126 126
  A 1 1
  GA 2 26 83 521 25 657
B 33 147 408 1,467 472 2,527
C 25 206 910 5,440 3 1,441 8,025
Start 10 199 1,598 17,357 12 6,776 25,952
Stub 15 318 13,261 10 6,031 19,635
List 6 19 78 873 2 355 1,333
Draft 10 121 131
Category 1 2 12,332 12,335
Disambig 1 201 202
File 6 466 472
Portal 1,383 1,383
Project 114 114
Redirect 2 5 37 812 3,129 3,985
Template 1 7 1,627 1,635
NA 1 2 15 11 29
Assessed 80 640 3,475 39,958 19,537 15,104 78,794
Unassessed 63 9 1,143 1,215
Total 80 640 3,475 40,021 19,546 16,247 80,009
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 288,462 Ω = 5.07


Requests

Photos

See also: Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in California

Resources

 
Wikimedia Commons has media related to California.
 
Look up California in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
 
Wikinews has news related to:
 
Wikinews has related news:


 

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

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