Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota

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This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in an NPOV and accurate manner.

Current project

Get Minnesota to Featured article status.

Note: Minnesota acheived Good article status. Way to go!

Project divisions and current tasks

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

General Minnesota resources

• General — General information on Minnesota

1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
3. Identify articles needing images

• Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.

1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

• Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota

• Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures

1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs

• Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota

1. Improve Minnesota#Transportation

• Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

• Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals

Minnesota life

• People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota

1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.

• Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.

• Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota

• Education — Education in Minnesota

• History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

1. Clean up History of Minnesota. See Featured Articles History of Arizona and History of New Jersey for inspiration.

Participants

If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by clicking here

1. Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
2. andrew
3. Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
4. Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
5. BenFranske
6. Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
7. Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
8. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
9. False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
10. Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
11. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
12. Grika
13. Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
14. Jonathan Kovaciny
15. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
16. Justin4gb
17. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
18. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
19. matt91486 - Work on sport figures; sister cities
20. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
21. Mrtobacco
22. Our Bold Hero
23. Phl
24. Ravedave
25. ReverendG
26. Rhelmerichs
27. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
28. RyguyMN
29. Unidiode
30. The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
31. Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
32. Woogums - history
33. WTGDMan1986

Templates

Minnesota Infobox

• {{Minnesota}} - Infobox for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

WikiProject Minnesota

• {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} - a smaller version of the WikiProject member template, Babel-style.

{{WikiProject Minnesota
 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
• {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
• {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
• {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools

Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.

Meetups

Minneapolis meetups occured in 2005 and 2006 see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.

Template for a U.S. City

• Template for a U.S. City

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