Wikipedia:WikiProject Trains/Portal task force

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The Portal task force is involved in updating and maintaining Portal:Trains.

Participants

1. Slambo (talk · contribs) - lead editor
2. Hirohisat (talk · contribs) - nominations and Japanese articles
3. Bluegoblin7 (talk · contribs) - Can help updating anything

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Portals

To do

General

• Tag all of the portal pages with {{TrainsWikiProject|class=NA|Portal=yes}}

Selected content

• Move all of the remaining past "Featured article" and "Featured picture" pages to "Selected article" and "Selected picture" pages; update links to avoid the redirects and then speedy delete the redirects.
• Ensure that all the content pages use "Selected" instead of "Featured"

Anniversaries

• Translate anniversary events from the French (index), German (index) and Japanese (index) Wikis.
• Expand the anniversaries listed to include more non-US events.
• Find free images for the anniversary pages that lack images.

Resources

Categories

• Category:Trains portal task force articles
• Category:Trains portal selected articles

Templates

Selected article

• {{Trains portal/FA image}} shows the image

Selected picture

• {{Trains portal/FI}} shows the image

Did you know

• {{Trains portal/Did you know}} shows the main Did you know section
• {{Trains portal/DYK image}} shows an image for the Did you know list (also used in the Anniversaries section)

Trains news templates

• {{Trains portal/News image}} shows one image with an optional border
• {{Trains portal/News image 2}} shows two images
• {{Trains portal/News image flag}} shows a national flag
• {{Trains portal/News image and Wikinews}} shows an image (with an optional border) and a Wikinews link to an associated article

Trains news sources

Links are listed in alphabetical order and are to the pages in English unless otherwise noted:

• Google News (helpful search: railroad | railway -underground-railroad)
• La Vie du Rail (français)
• Late Breaking Rail Industry News (Railway Age Magazine, North America news); current printed issue is also available for reading online via a java applet (link from the main page).
• Railnews (UK news; site under construction)
• Railway Market (Central and Eastern Europe news)
• Railway People (UK news)
• Railways Africa (Railways Africa Magazine, Africa news)
• Trains (Trains Magazine, mostly US news, login and magazine subscription required to access the Trains News Wire)

Railway regulatory agency news websites:

• Association of American Railroads
• Association of Train Operating Companies (United Kingdom)
• European Railway Agency
• Finnish Rail Administration

Lists of links with more rail news sites:

• ERRAC (European Rail Research Advisory Council)