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WikiProject Australia
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WikiProject Australia is a WikiProject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to Australia. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and style of articles, which can be discussed at the project's notice board. To participate, simply add your name to the project members page.

Our goals[edit]

  1. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of Australia.
  2. To improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles in a fair and accurate manner.
  3. To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to Australia in Wikipedia.

Project scope[edit]

The project generally considers any article related to Australia to be a valid topic.

As of 8 April 2024, there are 202,194 articles within the scope of WikiProject Australia, of which 591 are featured and 879 are good articles. This makes up 2.97% of the articles on Wikipedia, 5.48% of all featured articles and lists, and 2.23% of all good articles (see WP:AUSFG). Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 515,336 pages in the project.

Project organisation[edit]

If you wish to help out, please add your name to the list of participants.

It is recommended that Project members add each of the following Project pages to their watchlists.
  • Discussion board - Main talk page for this project
  • Deletion board - Editor generated listing of current deletions
  • Article alerts - Bot generated listing of deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews and move requests.
  • Unreferenced BLPs - Bot generated listing of Biographies with no references
  • New articles - Bot generated listing of new articles that may need assessment
  • To-do list - Editor generated listing of articles to be created and of articles that have problems.
  • Requested images - Editor generated listing of needed images.
  • Help & tools - A help page with search option, tips and tools
  • Popular pages - Bot generated listing of the most viewed pages that should be improved and watched over closely for vandalism
  • Featured content - Bot generated listing of FA and GA level articles and pictures
  • Outreach - A centralised work area for project recruitment and member interaction efforts
  • Automation - A page about automated and semi-automated methods to perform batch tasks.
  • Statistics - Overall statistics page
  • Userboxes - Australian related user page boxes
  • Assessment - Article classification system
List of all subpages of this page.

The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Australia-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:

Sub-projects[edit]

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Australia-related WikiProjects‎ (21 C, 6 P)
Assessment log • [by quality] • [by importance]
Australia articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 8 26 145 295 474
FL 1 3 11 75 90
FM 180 180
A 1 24 42 67
GA 8 20 159 680 867
B 59 179 960 5,248 15 6,461
C 41 204 1,518 17,580 338 19,681
Start 6 176 2,390 71,819 1 3,130 77,522
Stub 4 517 82,143 2 4,757 87,423
List 3 31 257 8,790 58 66 9,205
Category 1 48 34,091 34,140
Disambig 17 549 566
File 1 2 3,384 3,387
Portal 195 195
Project 3 976 979
Redirect 6 74 3,134 5,548 8,762
Template 2 20 7,213 7,235
Draft 1 22 258 281
Assessed 126 651 6,059 189,918 52,455 8,306 257,515
Unassessed 1 33 34 146 214
Total 126 651 6,060 189,951 52,489 8,452 257,729
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 1,012,056 Ω = 5.26

This WikiProject is a parent project to many sub-projects dedicated to maintaining a wide variety of Australian topics.
Editors are encouraged to also participate in the more regional and/or topic specific projects listed below.

WikiProject Australian places · New South Wales (Riverina) · Northern Territory · Queensland

South Australia · Tasmania · Victoria · Western Australia · Australian Antarctic Territory

Australian WikiProject Cities · Adelaide · Brisbane · Canberra · Melbourne · Perth · Geelong · Sydney

Other Australia-related WikiProjects · Biota · Cinema · Crime · Demographics · Education · History (Exploration · Maritime · Military) · Indigenous peoples · Noongar · Law · Literature · Music (Crowded House · Kylie Minogue · Powderfinger) · Politics · Sports (Australian rules football · Baseball · Basketball · Football (soccer) · Motorsport) · Roads · Television · Transport

Departments[edit]

Assessment

The WikiProject Australia assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Australian articles.

Classification

An assessment parameter (FA, FL, A, GA, B, C, Start, or Stub) causes the article to be rated and grouped into categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Collaboration

The Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of Australia (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

As collaborative efforts have slowed, there is no current Australian Collaboration of the Fortnight.

Requested images

The Requested images department aims to provide a collection of high-quality photographs, maps and images for use in Australia articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

Outreach

The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.

To do[edit]

Main page: Wikipedia:WikiProject Australia/To-do
Things to do Backlog
Australia articles needing attention 133
 → Australia articles needing expert attention 6
 → Australia-centric articles 30
Underpopulated Australia categories 0
Unassessed Australia articles 231

Current discussions[edit]

Today's featured articles

Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Articles for deletion

(22 more...)

Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

Templates for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Featured article candidates

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

Good article reassessments

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

(3 more...)

Articles to be merged

(9 more...)

Articles to be split

(4 more...)

Articles for creation

(22 more...)

Templates[edit]

Main page: Category:Australia templates
Project banner

Article recognition (Assessments) are performed via parameters in the ((WikiProject Australia)) project banner which is posted to an article's talk page.

WikiProject iconAustralia NA‑class
WikiProject iconWikiProject Australia is within the scope of WikiProject Australia, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Australia and Australia-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page.AustraliaWikipedia:WikiProject AustraliaTemplate:WikiProject AustraliaAustralia articles
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
Portals

Portals may be placed in the See also section of Australian related articles, there are topic/regional specific portals available.See: Category:Australian portals

Template code Result
((Portal|Australia))
((Portal|Military of Australia))
Navigational templates

Navigational templates may be placed at the bottom of Australian related articles, there are topic/regional specific navboxs available. See: Category:Australian navigational boxes

Template code Result
((Australia topics))
Stubs

Templates used to help identify small Australian-related articles.

Template code Result
((Australia-stub))
User page

Add the following template to your user page to give yourself quick links to main Australia projects and project pages.

Wikitext Result
((Australian quick links))
The Australian Barnstar of National Merit

To award this, simply add ((subst:The Australian Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~)) to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

The Australian Barnstar of National Merit
(({1))}


Category and Sister-links[edit]

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Australia‎ (18 C, 7 P)
Australia-related lists‎ (24 C, 5 P)
Australian plays presented by J.C. Williamson's‎ (8 P)
Australian plays presented by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust‎ (15 P)
Buildings and structures in Australia‎ (13 C)
Culture of Australia‎ (39 C, 70 P)
Economy of Australia‎ (31 C, 24 P)
Education in Australia‎ (30 C, 50 P)
Environment of Australia‎ (22 C, 26 P)
Geography of Australia‎ (36 C, 21 P)
Government of Australia‎ (26 C, 35 P)
Health in Australia‎ (26 C, 7 P)
History of Australia‎ (8 C, 9 P)
Organisations based in Australia‎ (14 C, 8 P)
Australian people‎ (46 C, 14 P)
Politics of Australia‎ (18 C, 46 P, 2 F)
Society of Australia‎ (36 C, 15 P)
Images of Australia‎ (10 C, 6 F)
Australia stubs‎ (24 C, 97 P)

Indigenous source material[edit]

Please add any indigenous source material (or commons categories) here with a brief description of the content:

  • "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community histories". Queensland Government. Retrieved 15 May 2017. — A good entry point for Indigenous communities in Queensland, all CC-BY licensed and most of the information I have checked appears to include its sources, so a gateway to a broader set of sources
  • "AIATSIS map of Indigenous Australia". Retrieved 15 May 2017. A high-level map showing indigenous language/tribal/nation groups. Please note the limitations mentioned.
  • A compilation of Noongar language resources is at Wikisource:Portal:Western Australia; some are being transcribed there, and added to Wiktionary also. See also Meta:Noongarpedia.
  • George, Karen (2005). "Finding Your Own Way". Nunkuwarrin Yunti of South Australia Inc. Retrieved 4 December 2019. A directory created in South Australia to assist Aboriginal people removed from their families as a result of Australian government policies wishing to "establish connections to their family, community, culture and country."
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