Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Task forces

The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic wikiproject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.

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Coordinators. The coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

• Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
• {{u|sm8900}}
  
• Coordinators::
• {{u|Iazyges}}
• Key Editors:
• {{u|Gog the Mild}}
• Former project leaders, with thanks:
• {{u|Vami_IV}}, joined June 22, 2022.

• Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.

:There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.

: The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.

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The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales.

Current active members:

• {{u|Iazyges}}
• {{u|Gog the Mild}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

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The Collaboration working group serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found in a section above.

Current active members:

• Vami_IV

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

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The Review working group carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope.

Current active members:

• {{u|Iazyges}}
• {{u|Gog the Mild}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

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The Outreach working group acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.

Current active members:

• {{user|Sm8900}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

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Informal subgroups are any individual subgroup that any editor wishes to set up, on an informal or formal basis, for the purpose of gathering any group of editors together. This will be to enable editors to form their own subgroups for working with and communicating with other editors, but without taking on the formal roles and responsibilities of an official task force.

These subgroups could be formed based on any criteria at all. so any editor could form a subgroup for communicating with editors who are new to this topical area. or it could be an informal group for brainstorming ideas for a particular topic, or a particular editing drive, or group effort, or for a specific effort to delve into a particular topic, or to set up a single new article or set of articles, or for any other reason.

Our reason for setting up this new type of subgrouping is simple; history is a very broad and varied field. We would like to encourage all editors to take an active role here, as much as they might wish. so if you wish to set up any such subgroup, please feel free to post a notice on the talk page. We will be glad to help to promote any such efforts here. thanks!!

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We can have Task Forces for specific historical eras, or alternatively for specific topical areas. Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on.

If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!

Sub-page for Task Force information:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces

Official banner:

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• Task Force page
• Members:
• {{user|sm8900}}
• {{user|keepcalmandchill}}
• Writes and updates articles on contemporary history, including the items below.
• Timelines for current year,
• articles on current time periods;
• historical articles in need of updates for current events.

• Members:
• {{user|JayTee32}} (Coordinater)
• Covers Ancient history; usually defined as history from the earliest civilizations up to the fall of the Roman Empire.
• Goals (will be updated):

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;TF Medieval History:

• Members:
• None
• Covers Medieval history;, usually defined as history from the the fall of the Roman Empire until the Renaissance.

;TF Renaissiance:

• Members
• None.
• Covers the Renaissance era

;TF Early modern history:

• Members:
• None.
• Covers Early modern history, usually defined as approximately 1500 until 1800.

;TF Late modern history:

• Members:
• None.
• Covers Late modern history, usually defined as the 1800 until the present day.

• Industrial history
• Members:
• None.
• Covers History of industry
• Cultural history
• Members:
• None.
• Covers History of Culture
• Economic history
• Members:
• None.
• Covers History of economics
• Technological history
• Members:
• None.
• Covers History of technology, , History of communications, History of writing, History of printing, History of transport, and the broad range of human inventions, technological development, and civilization throughout human history; as well as specific key areas such as the rise of History of telecommunication, the Industrial Revolution, modern forms of transport, and the development of computers and artificial intelligence which characterize the Modern Age.

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WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:

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Project banner

The banner {{tl|WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.

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Infobox Historical Event

The Infobox {{tl|Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.

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Country/Region history

A navbox from :Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.

Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: :Category:History and events templates.

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FA-Class history articles

A-Class history articles

GA-Class history articles

• Former featured articles
• History of Alaska
• Former good article
• History of Baku
• Human history

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• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

The following articles have been selected for inclusion in one or more release versions of Wikipedia. Please help ensure that these articles remain of the highest possible quality.

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The following articles have all been featured in the Main page Did You Know section:

• Anti-tobacco movement in Nazi Germany – 6 June 2008.
• History of African Americans in Chicago – 2 May 2007.
• History of Berne – 19 March 2006.
• History of Dhaka – 7 September 2006.

Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the :Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in :Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.

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Category tree:

History

Organization of :Category:History. :Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and Human history. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories.

Category names. The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.

Don't over-categorize

Having added an article to, say, :Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to :Category:Military history, :Category:History of the United Kingdom, :Category:United Kingdom or :Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.

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• :Category:History by nation contains the histories of modern nations. It should contain one category for each modern nation, for example :History of the United Kingdom.
• :Category:History by region contains the histories of regions larger than a nation, for example :Category:European history.
• :Category:History by period contains histories organized by chronology, for example :Category:Ancient history.
• :Category:History by topic contains histories not organized by geography or chronology, for example :Category:History of science.
• :Category:Historiography contains articles about the study of history and historians.
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Organization of national histories. Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.

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Using the United Kingdom as an example:

• Have separate history categories for each major geographical part and historical predecessor of that nation: :Category:History of Wales, :Category:History of England, :Category:History of Scotland, :Category:History of Great Britain, :Category:History of Northern Ireland, etc.
• Use the common names where possible even if this creates ambiguity. For example, England is both a historical nation and a geographical region: logically speaking we might prefer a category named like "History of England (1066–1707)", but unfortunately no-one is likely to use such a category name unless they are familiar with the categorization scheme. So :Category:History of England must do for both.
• A geographical subdivision includes the categories for its parts; a historical subdivision includes the categories for its predecessors. This might create loops in the categories, for example :Category:History of Ireland is in :Category:History of the Republic of Ireland by the historical rule, and the latter is in the former by the geographical rule. This does no harm.
• The category "History of X" always belongs to the category for "X", if it exists. So :Category:History of England belongs to :Category:England.
• Put events in the most specific categor(ies) to which they apply. So the Wars of Scottish Independence go in both :Category:History of England and :Category:History of Scotland, but :Category:Seven Years' War goes in :Category:History of Great Britain.

Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system:

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(This diagram is far from complete: there is a :Category:British Empire, not shown. :Category:History of the United Kingdom is in :Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.)

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Related Child Projects: This project is parent to some other similar projects.

• Wikipedia:Userboxes/History

;Main:

• Historiography

;Timeline guides:

• Wikipedia:Timeline
• Wikipedia:Timeline standards

;Portal:

• Portal:History

;Resources:

• Wikipedia:Category schemes
• Wikipedia:Article titles

;Other:

• Wikipedia:History standards for China-related articles

• [http://sources.wikipedia.org/ Wikisource] for original text (or primary sources). Wikisource is a repository of source texts in any language which are either in the public domain, or are released under the GFDL.

• Wikipedia:What Wikipedia is not
• Wikipedia:Verifiability
• Wikipedia:Public domain resources