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- 1.3% List-Class
- 36.9% Stub-Class
- 49.4% Start-Class
- 8.7% C-Class
- 2.4% B-Class
- 1% GA-Class
- 0.3% FA-Class
Here are various resources useful to completing our tasks in WikiProject Louisville.
Categories[edit]
Main-space categories
Louisville, Kentucky
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Louisville metropolitan area
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Stub categories
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User-oriented categories
- Wikipedians in Louisville, Kentucky
- Wikipedians who are UofL alumni
- Wikipedians who are IU Southeast alumni
Project-oriented categories
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Templates[edit]
- Full list of templates included in WikiProject Louisville (in case they aren't all listed below)
- ((Louisville, Kentucky))
- ((Jefferson County, Kentucky))
- ((Kentucky Derby))
- ((Kentucky Kingdom))
- ((Louisville ancestry))
- ((Louisvillemalls))
- ((Louisville metro area parks))
- ((Louisville neighborhoods))
- ((Louisville Radio))
- ((Louisville TV))
- ((Louisville, Kentucky weatherbox))
- ((Mayors of Louisville, Kentucky))
- ((Muhammad Ali))
- ((Ohio Valley Wrestling))
- ((Universities and colleges in the Louisville metro area))
- ((1980 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball navbox))
- ((1986 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball navbox))
- ((2013 Louisville Cardinals men's basketball navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals baseball coach navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals baseball navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals bowl game navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals football coach navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals football navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals men's basketball coach navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals men's basketball navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals men's soccer coach navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals men's soccer navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals quarterback navbox))
- ((Louisville Cardinals women's basketball navbox))
- ((University of Louisville))
- ((University of Louisville presidents))
Stub templates
The following templates can be placed at the bottom of stub articles:
- ((LouisvilleMSA-stub)) — designates that an article is a Louisville metro area-related stub.
- ((Louisville-stub)) — designates that an article is a Louisville-related stub.
- ((Louisville-sport-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub related to sports in Louisville.
- ((KentuckyDerby-stub)) —designates that an article is a stub related to the Kentucky Derby.
- ((Louisville-struct-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub related to a building or structure in Louisville.
- ((ULouisville-stub)) — designates that an article is a University of Louisville-related stub.
- ((Louisville-sport-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub related to sports in Louisville.
- ((JeffersonCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Jefferson County.
- ((BullittCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Bullitt County.
- ((HardinCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Hardin County.
- ((HenryCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Henry County.
- ((LaRueCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in LaRue County.
- ((MeadeCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Meade County.
- ((NelsonCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Nelson County.
- ((OldhamCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Oldham County.
- ((ShelbyCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Shelby County.
- ((SpencerCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Spencer County.
- ((TrimbleCountyKY-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Trimble County.
- ((ClarkCountyIN-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Clark County, Indiana.
- ((FloydCountyIN-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Floyd County, Indiana.
- ((HarrisonCountyIN-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Harrison County, Indiana.
- ((ScottCountyIN-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Scott County, Indiana.
- ((WashingtonCountyIN-geo-stub)) — designates that an article is a stub about a location in Washington County, Indiana.
- ((Louisville-stub)) — designates that an article is a Louisville-related stub.
User-oriented templates
All of the following userboxes designate that a user is from Louisville Metro or an alumnus of a Louisville area university. Any one of them can be placed on a Wikipedian's user page and/or their associated talk page, but doesn't require listed participation in our project to use.
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((User Louisville)) |
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((User Louisville 2)) |
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((User Louisville 3)) |
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((User ULouisville)) |
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((User IUS)) |
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Project-oriented templates
The following are templates related to WikiProject Louisville:
((WikiProject United States|class=|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=))– This banner designates that an article is covered by WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the article's talk page.- ((WPLouisville page)) – This banner designates a project page or category dedicated for use in WikiProject Louisville.
- ((WPLouisville-Participant)) – This banner designates that a user is a listed participant in WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the participant's user page and/or their associated talk page. Participants who use this will see ongoing project alerts without having to also use the alerts template below.
- ((User WPLouisville)) – This userbox also designates that a user is a listed participant in WikiProject Louisville. Placed on the participant's user page and/or their associated talk page. Can be used in addition to or instead of the banner above, although if they don't use the banner, participants will not see project alerts.
- ((WikiProject Louisville alerts)) – This banner displays project alerts if any currently exist. Normally placed on user pages or project pages.
- ((WP:WikiProject Louisville/Navigation)) – This infobox shows the departments and tasks of WikiProject Louisville. Placed on WikiProject Louisville department pages.
- ((subst:WPLouInvite)) – This banner is placed on talk pages to invite potential participants to join our project.
- ((subst:WPLouWelcome)) – This banner is placed on talk pages of newly listed participants.
- ((subst:WPLouCleanupReq)) – This banner is placed on talk pages of (typically) articles included in our project to ask for special cleanup assistance. Please don't use this unless there are an unusually high number of issues and you are not in a good position to address them yourself.
- ((WPLouNews)) – Participants can use this info window to display our project's latest news.
- ((subst:Louisville Barnstar)) – Participants place this banner on talk pages of Wikipedians who have done exemplary work on Louisville area-related articles and other pages or have provided assistance in WikiProject Louisville.
- ((Wikipedia ads|ad=289)) – Show our project ad on your user pages or other allowed locations:
Sources and references[edit]
Following is a list of helpful sources for researching Louisville area-related subjects:
Books
- A place in time: The story of Louisville's neighborhoods. Louisville, Kentucky: The Courier-Journal. 1989.
- Kleber, John E., ed. (2001). The Encyclopedia of Louisville. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2100-0. OCLC 247857447.
- Yater, George H. (1987). Two Hundred Years at the Fall of the Ohio: A History of Louisville and Jefferson County (2nd ed.). Louisville, Kentucky: Filson Club, Incorporated. ISBN 0-9601072-3-1.
Online
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louisville metropolitan area.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Louisville, Kentucky.
- LouisvilleKY.gov – Official website of Louisville Metro Government
- Courier Journal – Louisville's newspaper of record
- Louisville Free Public Library:
- National Register of Historic Places – Recent Listings
- LOJIC – Louisville area geographic information
- Louisville After the Bombings? (unsecure) – includes many photos of buildings no longer in existence
- Digital Collections at the UofL Libraries:
- Historic maps of Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky
- Browse items related to:
- Louisville streets
- Newspapers (seems to be mostly UofL publications including The Louisville Cardinal)
- Neighborhoods (digital resources can be filtered by neighborhood)
- University of Louisville
- The Wikipedia Library – if you're eligible, you can freely access many works, including past editions of the Courier Journal via newspapers.com
Apps and user scripts[edit]
Editing
- AjaxPreview (user script) – Preview how citations will appear when editing sections (Note: this has been rendered partially obsolete by recent MediaWiki improvements)
- AutoWikiBrowser (AWB) (Windows app) – Semi-automate your edits. Notes:
- AWB is a very powerful tool recommended only to those who are technically oriented ('tis not for the faint of heart).
- All edits you make, whether using AWB or not, are your responsibility.
- AWB is great for checking typos, although it is not complete nor perfect (it helps if you're already a good speller, good with grammar, and have a good grasp of Wikipedia's Manual of Style).
- Capricorn (user script) – Create/edit redirect pages with a user interface (esp. helpful for redirecting to sections or placing correct redirect templates on the page)
- Dashes (user script) – Correct use of dashes in an article
- Duplinks (user script) – Find duplicate links in an article
- FindArgDups (user script) – Find duplicate arguments in templates (can uncover hidden content sometimes)
- Heading editor (user script) – Modify section headings when viewing a page, starting with a single click on the heading, usually to conform to sentence case per MOS:HEADER
- HideTopContrib (user script) – Hide all the contributions where you were the last editor; this is useful for following up on changes made since you last edited an article, without having to add everything you'ved changed to your watchlist
- LinkClassifier (user script) – Color-code links on pages to inform you of their nature; this is particularly useful for finding ambiguous and self-redirecting links
- MOSNUM dates (user script) – Delink all dates and date fragments, and converts them all to the same format
- PetScan (web app) – Determine intersections of category trees (AWB's "List comparer" can be used for much of this function)
- ReFill – Expand bare references (adds cite template with title, dates, etc.)
- RefRenamer (user script) – Replace reference names that were auto-generated (e.g. :1 or auto) so they are more meaningful
Statistics
- Massviews – Shows view counts from a set of articles
- To show the view counts of WikiProject Louisville-included articles, enter the URL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Louisville_articles as the category source and check "Use subject page instead of talk page" (runs very slow)
WikiProject maintenance
- Rater (user script) – Aids in assessing articles for WikiProjects (Note: this may cause problems with some pages loading completely)
- Update project data (web app) – Updates assessment-related files - run this when assessment table updates fall behind
Lists, logs and query results[edit]
Everything below is automatically generated by bots or your clicks:
| Concern | List/Log/Results (Linked) | Update Frequency | Description/Usage |
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| Assessment | Activity log | ~Daily | This shows the latest project-included pages, page assessments/re-assessments, page renames and page removals/deletes. |
| 500 largest stubs | When clicked | See if the largest aren't really stubs and deserve to be reassessed to Start or higher. | |
| Change Patrol | 500 last articles changed | When clicked | This includes all regular and list articles included in the project, but not all mainspace pages (i.e. redirects and disambiguation pages are excluded). Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. |
| 10 most edited articles over past 7 days | Last time query was run | This mimics the "Past Week's Hot Edits" list on our front page except that it also shows the maximum and minimum page sizes during this period as well as the assessment rating for each article. Click "Submit Query" to get the most up-to-date results. | |
| 100 most edited articles over past 30 days | Daily | This is a more expansive view of "Hot Edits", going back roughly a month. This list can be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place over many edits. | |
| 500 last pages changed | When clicked | This includes subject (non-talk) pages of any type except File included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| 500 last talk pages changed | When clicked | This includes all talk pages of any type included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| Cleanup | All issues, categorized | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, separated into cleanup categories. |
| All Issues, alphabetic by article name | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, initially sorted alphabetically by article name. The list is resortable by quality, project importance and problem count. | |
| Old issues, grouped by year | Daily | Articles in project with a cleanup tag/category dating over 10 years | |
| Connecting (Links, Categories, etc.) | 500 articles least linked to from mainspace | Daily | This concerns incoming links from other articles or mainspace pages in general. Use this to add links in articles or lists that go to these articles, preferably within prose but also from See also (don't go overboard on the latter). Also create useful redirects to these articles to enhance readers' ability to find them. Where plausible, add links from disambiguation pages or disambiguating article hatnotes |
| Possibly undercategorized articles | Daily | Add pertinent categories to listed articles per WP:CAT. Caveats: 1) Make sure not to add parent categories for ones already there; 2) If you find a child category that more closely describes the article's subject, then use it to replace the existing more general one (WP:HOTCAT helps here). | |
| Potential Article Bloat or Undue Weight | 500 largest articles | When clicked | Find articles that are overly verbose or cover aspects in an out-of-balance manner (noting that an article can be large without these issues) which can be reduced appropriately. Also, find articles which can be split or spun off into subarticles. |
| Producing Articles of Highest Quality | Latest determined priority articles | Daily | These are the project's most important articles closest to being ready to take to the Good or Featured stage, that is, high or top-importance articles with a GA-class (good), B-class or C-class quality. |
| 50 largest 'B' articles | When clicked | B-class articles that may tend to be close to being worthy of being called "Good". | |
| Project Inclusion Determination and Early Article Improvement | New articles/pages identified by project keywords | ~Daily | New articles/pages that are likely Kentucky-related (sometimes including Louisville-related ones). Use this to find articles to include in either WP Kentucky or WP Louisville. Also see if these articles need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization (esp. with respect to Kentucky or Louisville). |
| 500 newest articles | When clicked | See if project-included articles newest to Wikipedia* need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization. (*but not necessarily newest to our project, as some articles are discovered for inclusion much later than they are created.) | |
| Stubs / Building Up Small Articles | 500 largest stubs | When clicked | Find articles that can be easily improved to become a Start or higher. |
| 500 oldest stubs | When clicked | Find neglected articles that can be readily expanded or possibly merged into another article. Also, investigate aspects of neglected articles that made them stay neglected (under- or mis-categorized, too few incoming links, etc.). | |
| 500 smallest articles | When clicked | Find articles to expand, articles which could use a stub tag, or articles which have been incorrectly assessed as Start or higher. |