Scope
This WikiProject aims to:
- tie in directly to the Politics Portal to improve accessibilty to high quality politics-related articles. The Portal is intended as a front page for Wikipedia's politics coverage, and should aid the reader in navigating around the articles. It should also draw attention to current events and some of Wikipedia's best politics articles.
- support the Portal by ensuring that the Portal has plenty of high-quality articles to showcase and ensuring that readers starting with the Portal can find their way around easily
- be as good as good in breadth as it is in depth. The namespace 'Politics' is rather broad, so although politics coverage can be augmented by more detailed projects, this particular project should oversee all coverage - this will involve making sure that the articles are well organised (through the use of categories) and ensuring that due attention is paid to the further reaches of the topic - for example, more obscure political theory. For the Portal, this should involve rotating the featured article and biography - rotating through domestic politics, international relations and political theory could be one way of doing this
- be truly international - this project particularly welcomes participants from non-Anglophone countries. The Portal should be used to highlight articles that concern political issues that most readers may not be aware of, and these are far less likely to concern, say, American politics
- Oversee the development of politics-related articles - for example, through the Collaboration of the fortnight
- Provide a clear structure of how politics articles are arranged on Wikipedia and present the Portal so as to facilitate reading and research
- Coordinate efforts and peer review articles
Templates
The following templates are related to politics:
Stubs
Click on the relevant template and select 'What links here' from the left-hand side of the page to see articles that have been tagged with that stub template - this will give you a list of such articles you can then expand.
Other templates
{{future election}}
Templates on countries
For every country a Politics of ... template has been created, linking to Politics of.., List of
political parties in .., Elections in .. and other articles on that country. This template is also placed in every party and election article.
Infoboxes
The following infoboxes are in use in Wikipedia's politics-related content:
Template:Infobox Politician (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox President (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox Senator (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox UNSecGen (talk, links, edit)
Template:Infobox BPM (talk, links, edit)
General strategy and discussion forums
Please see the project talk page to discuss any issues you would like to raise. Comments on the layout of the project and Portal are more than welcome. If you wish to notify other participants of a new article, please see the task console.
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Tasks
Getting the project off the ground
- Compile all templates, infoboxes and categories relating to the coverage of politics and link to them via this page (use a subpage if the list will be too long)
- Assemble a list of all featured content
- Advertise like mad! Add link to the politics portal on as many politics pages as possible - checklist Wikipedia:WikiProject Politics/Add Portal List here - please expand this in any way you see fit
- Amend stub templates (... you can help Wikiproject Politics by expanding it...)
- That's all for now, but please add to this list if you have further ideas on how to get this project and Portal up and running!
Featured material
- Articles
The following politics-related articles are Featured articles and appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page on the date given alongside.
Lists
The following politics-related lists are featured lists:
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