Wikipedia:WikiProject Reenactment
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Historical reenactment, also referred to simply as reenactment. 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 and see the to-do list there.
Title[edit]
WikiProject on Reenactment
Scope[edit]
This WikiProject concerns articles that deal with reenactment of all historical periods.
In general, articles within the scope of this WikiProject should be included in Category:Historical reenactment or a sub-category under it.
How you can help[edit]
- Locate pages that need attention, then add them to the tasks list or the the Open Tasks list.
- Add the Open Tasks box to your User: or User_talk: page. (Add
{{ReenactmentTasks}}anywhere on the page.) - Add this page or the Open Tasks list to your watchlist, and work on projects listed.
- Complete open tasks and remove them from the list.
- Add Template:WikiProject Reenactment to the talk pages of related articles, by placing {{WikiProject Reenactment}} at the top of the talk page.
- Help assess articles for quality and importance within this project.
You can also add yourself to the list of participants below. Thanks for helping out!
Participants[edit]
- Ashmodai
- Ojw
- Wootking
- Awy
- Salvianus
- Lord Balin
- Virginia Confederate
- Hikari
- Alansmorrison
- Kageskull
- cmadler
- Royalmate1
- Csikos Lo Medieval and War Between the States (Confederate)
Similar WikiProjects[edit]
Reenactment editors may want to seek help from related WikiProjects. Although this will vary widely by article, it may commonly include:
- WikiProject Military History
- WikiProjects for geographic entities (nations, states/regions/provinces, cities)
- WikiProjects for time periods
Structure[edit]
Templates[edit]
- {{WikiProject Reenactment}}
- {{ReenactmentTasks}}
- {{Reenactment-stub}}
Infoboxes[edit]
OpenTasks[edit]
Here are some open WikiProject Reenactment tasks:
- Project-level:
- Locate pages that need attention, then add them to this tasks list.
- Add Template:WikiProject Reenactment to the talk pages of related articles, by placing {{WikiProjectReenactment}} at the top of the talk page.
- Help assess articles for quality and importance within this project.
- Goals and scope need to be defined
- Major work needed:
- List of historical reenactment groups needs work
- Historical reenactment needs to be abstracted (currently focuses on American Civil War)
- Authenticity (reenactment) needs to be expanded (currently focuses on less-authentic medieval reenactment)
- Codex Belli needs an English summary of the basic ruleset
- Living history needs to be expanded
- Articles to write:
- Stone Age reenactment (might be just experimental archaeology)
- Classical reenactment for Roman Empire, Ancient Greece
- Dark Age reenactment (redirect to Medieval reenactment?)
- Modern reenactment for 18th-20th century reenactment (American Civil War, Napoleonic Wars, World War II)
- Articles for major reenactment groups? (What defines a "major" reenactment group anyway?)
- Article about gunnery displays? Might be crossreferenced for details on black powder focused reenactment groups
- Boer War reenacting is a new (and experimental) trend, primarily with mostly modern reenactors.
- Categories:
- Category:American Civil War firearms is not generalized; there is only a Category:American Civil War rifles.
- Need a category (and probably sub-categories) for manufacturers of reproduction weapons, such as U.S. Fire Arms Manufacturing Company.
Feel free to edit this list or discuss these tasks.
Article Alerts[edit]
- No Article alerts at this time.
Important note: Living History v. Living history or living history[edit]
Please note that Living History is a book by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Living history or living history is the reenactment activity.
Category map[edit]
Category:Historical reenactment
- Category:Historical reenactment by period
- Category:Historical reenactment events
- Category:Historical reenactment groups
- Category:Living museums
- Category:Reenactment articles by importance [subcategories under this category are populated automatically using the "importance" parameter of the WikiProjectReenactment template]
- Category:Reenactment articles by quality [subcategories under this category are populated automatically using the "class" parameter of the WikiProjectReenactment template]
Proposed changes[edit]
- Rename "Ancient reenactment" to "Classical reenactment", per suggestion on the article Talk:Classical reenactment. This covers the period from c. 800 BC to c. 600 AD (end of Late Antiquity).
This change would help clarify the period structure: Classical from 800 BC to 600 AD; Medieval from 501 AD to 1500 AD; Renaissance from 1301 AD to 1700 AD; Modern from 1701 AD to present. Note that there are some overlaps by date, because, for example, the Renaissance began much earlier in Italy than in England. Cmadler (talk) 18:28, 23 December 2008 (UTC)