Wikipedia:WikiProject Lists

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Welcome to the WikiProject Lists, an effort to collaboratively develop Wikipedia's list articles and embedded lists.

Goals

Scope

Tools

List-friendly search results enhancements

  • SearchSuite.js provides menu items to modify your search results. Some of the features include sort, hide details (listify), and even format your search results for easy copying and pasting into lists, with a click of your mouse. And more.

Guidelines

Assessment

The assessment department gives details of our Quality and Importance statistics. This project will use only FL, List, and Stub for articles. Quality Classes such as Image, Template, Portal, Disambiguation, Category and Project will only be included in order to conform with the predefined Wikipedia:Namespace.

Currently, this project uses the Version 1.0 Editorial Team bot for article statistics. Therefore, it has become necessary for the project create a Custom mask for Quality class. The Custom mask for WikiProject Lists limits class to FL, List, and Stub for articles, and automatically changes incorrect class codes.

Article statistics
List articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
Featured list FL 2 15 70 923 505 1,515
Stub 13 5 18
List 29 135 1,200 25,263 1,232 65,200 93,059
Book 1 1
Category 12,812 12,812
Disambig 1 6 7
File 1 1
Portal 287 287
Project 2 42 44
Redirect 1 25 892 2 920
Template 1 1 2 1,180 1,184
NA 1 6 7
Other 1 2 15 18
Assessed 33 153 1,273 26,229 16,473 65,712 109,873
Unassessed 1 19 80 3 2,265 2,368
Total 33 154 1,292 26,309 16,476 67,977 112,241
WikiWork factors (?) ฯ‰ = 138 ฮฉ = 6.00


After adding our Project template to a talk page, you may run our Assessment bot by clicking Run the bot right away on the bot's User page. Type the word List, then click Submit.

Lists of Wikipedia lists

Search google for intitle:list or intitle:comparison, to pull up thousands of examples of Wikipedia lists and comparison tables.

See also Wikipedia:Contents.

Articles

New articles

A list of recently created list articles can be found at User:AlexNewArtBot/ListsSearchResult. This list is updated daily.

When reviewing new articles, be sure to perform the following tasks, where appropriate:

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

( 170 more...)

Proposed deletions

( 8 more...)

Categories for discussion

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Featured list candidates

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Featured topic candidates

A-Class review

Good topic candidates

Featured list removal candidates

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

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Incomplete lists

Main category: Category:Incomplete lists.

Because of Wikipedia's role as an almanac as well as an encyclopedia, it contains a large number of lists. Some lists, such as the list of U.S. state birds, are typically complete and unlikely to change for a long time.

Some lists, however, cannot be considered complete, or even representative of the class of items being listed; such lists should be immediately preceded by the {{Expand list}} template, or one of the topic-specific variations that can be found at Category:Hatnote templates for lists. Other lists, such as List of numbers, may never be fully complete, or may require constant updates to remain current โ€“ these are known as "dynamic lists", and should be preceded by the {{Dynamic list}} template.

It is our hope that other Wikipedians will pick up where we leave off, and add more items to the list, bringing it closer, if not to completion, then at least to a mature state in which only minor updates are required as times change. Of course, it's not clear for all lists what should or shouldn't be on it, and so completion may never be clear for these lists, but there should at least come a point where most representative and widely agreed upon entries are present.

Members and userbox

A list of participants can be found at Category:WikiProject Lists participants.

To add yourself to the project add the following to your userpage:

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

Or, if you wish to use the userbox, add {{User WPLISTS}} or {{User WP Lists}} to your user page instead as it includes the above wikicode.

Member list

Templates

See: Wikipedia:Template messages/Lists and Category:Hatnote templates for lists

Project

Place the {{WikiProject Lists}} banner on all talk pages of list articles using the following code: 

{{WikiProject Lists|class=list|importance=}}

which produces the following box:

and includes the article in the project.

Requests for article improvement

Below are examples of template code to paste at the top of a list section or list article. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.

This transport-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
8thNote.svg This list of songs or music-related items is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
Video-x-generic.svg This film-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
HD Television.svg This television-related list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.

Stub templates are placed at the end of articles, below the categories. If the article's content consists of only list material, please use a Request for improvement template rather than a stub template.

Navbox

{{List navbox}} <---Place this footer at the bottom of articles, just above categories.

(Discuss the List navbox Template)

Talk header

Below is template code that can be pasted at the top of a list talk page, for stand-alone lists where inappropriate subjects are often added. Paste the code with the curly brackets. The code is followed by what it displays.


Related WikiProjects

External watchlist