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Welcome to the London WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Greater London area. If you are wondering what you can do to help, visit Call for Editors for a list of articles that are in need of assistance.

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Aims

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:Our aims in the short term are to achieve the following:

  1. Obtain FA status for the Vital-classified article, London
  2. Obtain GA status for City of London, City of Westminster and Greater London
  3. Restore former featured articles to GA/FA: London Underground, Moorgate, Palace of Westminster
  4. Maintain Portal:London
  5. Obtain GA status for 22 districts (11 largest, 11 most viewed): Wikipedia:WikiProject London/London districts task force
  6. Obtain FL status for List of people from London daughter articles

:Our aims in the mid-term are to achieve the following:

  1. Obtain GA status for all other London borough articles
  2. Identify articles in all London-related categories for priority
  3. Obtain FA status for City of London, City of Westminster, Greater London and 22 districts
  4. Expand districts task force to a further tier of districts

:Our long term aims for the project are:

  1. Obtain FA status for all London borough articles
  2. Expand districts task force to all districts

Requested articles

{{see|Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Call for Editors#Requested articles}}

Resources

=Project pages=

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! Article alerts

| Automated alerts for status changes to London-related articles.

Recognised Content

| {{classicon|FA}}/{{classicon|GA}} An automated list of our featured and good articles.

Assessment

| Automated statistics about London-related tagged articles. Also explains our article rating system.

Call for Editors

| Articles in need of attention.

Categories

| Explanation of the categorisation of London-related articles.

[https://tools.wmflabs.org/bambots/cwb/alpha/London.html Cleanup listing]

| Automated listing of articles tagged for cleanup or other problems

Naming conventions

| How we decide the names of articles.

Participants

| Who is involved in the project.

Popular pages list

| Automated list of popular pages

Templates

| Templates for use on articles relating to the project.

=Article assessment=

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=External sources=

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  • [http://www.familia.org.uk/places.html Familia: find information about places in the UK]
  • [http://www.cityoflondonchurches.com/ City of London Churches site]
  • [http://www.davros.org/rail/culg/ Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides]
  • [http://dmoz.org/Regional/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/London/Transport/Underground/ DMOZ category for the Underground]
  • [http://www.victorianlondon.org/publications/dictionary.htm Dickens's Dictionary of London (1879)] – public copy of Dickens's Dictionary of London by Charles Dickens, Jr
  • [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/NeighbourhoodProfileSearch.do?profileSearch=london London neighbourhood statistics] (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
  • [http://www.transtat.dft.gov.uk/tables/1999/tsl/tsl.htm Transport Statistics for London: 1999] (Crown Copyright, too – and apparently not online any longer at DfT or TfL).
  • [http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/London-travel-report-2007-final.pdf London Travel Report 2007] (largely Crown Copyright)
  • [http://www.lho.org.uk/meth/vs.htm London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London] (Crown Copyright again).
  • [http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/london/mortality.html London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900]
  • [http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/london/population.html London Population Data: 1850 to 1900]
  • [http://www.london.gov.uk/approot/gla/publications/without_prejudice/without_prejudice1.jsp London population statistics by ethnic group] from the GLA
  • [http://www.british-history.ac.uk/catalogue.asp?gid=66 Victoria County History: Middlesex (British History online)] Collected primary sources on London History
  • [http://www.histpop.org/ohpr/servlet/ A collection of British Historical Population Reports] (1801–1937) Essex Uni
  • ward profiles (demographic data etc. from the 2001 census) are available from the website of every London Borough. You may have to search to find them but they will exist.
  • [http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/cat.asp?cat=2129 London Councils]provide London Facts including: [http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/cat.asp?cat=2141 Key facts about London] and [http://www.londoncouncils.gov.uk/cat.asp?cat=2142 London Statistics]

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