Wikipedia:WikiProject France
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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process. Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information. |
Welcome to Wikiproject France. We are a group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of France and Monaco related articles, through collaboration and cooperation. If you would like to join us, please add your username to the members list.
WikiProject France concerns coordination, creation, development, and organization of efforts on all articles related to France and Monaco.
- Get this project organized.
- To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to France/Monaco. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
- To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of France/Monaco in the English language.
- Build all Top Importance France Articles to Good Article status, at a minimum (FA is preferred). Current progress: 7 out of 93 articles meet this criteria.
Departments
- Assessment
- The assessment department assesses and tracks all project related articles. If you have made significant contributions to an article, feel free to list at this page.
- Review Department
- The Review department aims to create a centralized area for all project-related articles currently undergoing either formal review (Good Article, Featured Article) or informal review (Wikiproject France Peer Review). This is the place to get information about listing an article for review.
- Cleanup
- This department focuses on the clean up and copy editing of articles tagged in need of attention.
- Categorisation
- The categorisation department works toward increasing organisation of the project via placing articles in correct categories.
- Outreach
- Discussion and implementation of outreach strategies, including discussion of the next newsletter.
- Photo requests
- Please add any requested photos to this list.
Taskforces
- Paris
- Taskforce aims to develop, maintain, and improve articles relating to the capital.
If you can help with any of these topics, please add your name to the third column
| I need help with | Try | Project Member Volunteers |
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| Copy-editing | League of Copyeditors | User:Mcewan, User:Jordan Timothy James Busson |
| Content dispute | Requesting for comments |
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| General Feedback | WikiProject France talk page |
Lazulilasher, User:Jordan Timothy James Busson |
| Getting around WikiProject France | WikiProject France talk page | |
| Images (uploading) | Wikimedia Commons | ChrisDHDR |
| Improving an article | Using the Reviewing Cheatsheet WikiProject France talk page |
Lazulilasher, User:Jordan Timothy James Busson |
| Vandalism | Administrator intervention against vandalism |
Style Guides
Do you need help with the proper format of France/French terms or translations? See the Manual of Style links below:
- General Rules
- Orthography, covers accents, ligatures, and sorting.
- Naming Conventions, including noble titles, works of art, and place names.
- Administrative Conventions, covers political and geographic divisions within France.
- Transportation Conventions, Rail/Tram naming and terms (inlcuding SNCF related guidelines)
Wikipedia Release Version 0.7 will soon be ported to DVD. Some articles relating to the project were selected to appear. A number of articles have various clean-up tags, listed here. Please help out by addressing the concerns.
We are in the process of creating a new review department, in order to provide a central location for all France related reviews at Peer Review, Good Articles, or Featured Articles. The initiation of an A-class review departement has also been proposed.
Daft Punk became a Good Article.- Louvre Abu Dhabi became a Good Article.
The Project banner template has been updated with a parameter allowing articles within the scope of the Paris task force to be tagged as such. To tag an article, add |tf=Paris to the banner.
See the Review Department for discussion and full-listing of articles under review, or for information about listing an article for review. Please check the article alerts page for any unincorporated updates.
- Peer Reviews:
- Featured Article Review: French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools and Lazare Ponticelli were listed at Featured Article Review.
- Articles currently requesting assessment: None Listed
- Articles for Deletion:
- Categories for Discussion: None listed
- Place {{WikiProject France}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
- Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism
- Respond and ameliorate articles listed for cleanup, copyediting, citations, references, orignial research, etc.
- Respond in your area of expertise to editor's requesting Reviews of the project's articles.
- The following articles are in need of expert attention, if you can provide this, please do:
- Maintain and update the Template:France tasks (after completing a task, please replace the old with a new one by editing this template):
Current Article Statistics
| France articles |
Importance | ||||||
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| Top | High | Mid | Low | None | Total | ||
| Quality | |||||||
 FA |
3 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 14 | 35 | |
| FL |
1 | 1 | |||||
 A |
1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||
 GA |
4 | 6 | 13 | 3 | 26 | 52 | |
| B | 26 | 93 | 77 | 40 | 194 | 430 | |
| C | 14 | 15 | 37 | 17 | 59 | 142 | |
| Start | 14 | 80 | 268 | 457 | 2698 | 3517 | |
| Stub | 6 | 52 | 177 | 2312 | 12244 | 14791 | |
| List | 1 | 36 | 8 | 657 | 702 | ||
| Assessed | 68 | 256 | 614 | 2842 | 15893 | 19673 | |
| Unassessed | 3 | 7 | 4 | 8 | 12462 | 12484 | |
| Total | 71 | 263 | 618 | 2850 | 28355 | 32157 | |
Articles needing attention
See here for a complete list of France related articles that need attention. Please respond to these requests if you're able.
Featured Content
These Featured articles have been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the France portal.
The Featured images are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. France-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject France/Gallery. Note: This list includes images from Commons.
A Featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.
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Userboxes and medals
- Members can add one of the following userboxes to their userpage.
- There are at this time two barnstars, one for France and the other for French Guiana, which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in their specific field. A template is available for awarding a barnstar to users, more information about it is available at WikiProject France/Barnstar.
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Projects
- Wikipedia:WikiProject European Union
- Wikipedia:WikiProject france régions (completed)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French départements (completed)
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French communes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Paris Streets
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Films/French cinema task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/French military history task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Balzac
- Wikipedia:WikiProject French dialects
Portals
- Portal:European Union
- Portal:France
- Portal:French and Francophone literature
- Portal:Military history of France
- Portal:Paris
Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.
External resources
Directories
- Encyclopaedia Britannica - France's country page
- CIA - The World Factbook
- Official site of the French public service - Contains many links to various administrations and institutions
- Parks in France - National parks, nature parks, reserves and other protected areas in France
Tourism, history, gastronomy
- (French) The picturesque France
