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- Members
- Notice board (related pages)
- Discussion board
- Featured and good content
- Portal
- All related pages
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- WikiProject Canada
- WikiProject Canada
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- Provinces/territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Canadian Territories
- Communities
- Canadian Topics
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Canada-related tasks in other projects
- Notice Boards
- For the Canadian wikipedians' notice board, see WP:CWNB.
WikiProject Canada was formed to foster better articles on the country of Canada with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page. To participate, simply add your name at the project member page.
Contents
- 1 Scope
- 2 Project organisation
- 3 Tables of contents and indexes, and related tasks
- 4 Tools
- 5 Templates
- 6 External links
Scope
This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Canada, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Canada in a fair and accurate manner.
As of 19 July, 2010, there are 53,715 articles within the scope of WikiProject Canada, of which 157 are featured. This makes up 1.6% of the articles on Wikipedia and 3.3% of featured articles and lists. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 117,730 pages in the project.
Project organisation
To join WikiProject Canada, simply list your name under the member page.
Projects within Canada
This is a list of projects which focus on a specific subject within the scope of Canada.
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- WikiProject Canada
- WikiProject Canada
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- Provinces/territories
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Manitoba
- New Brunswick
- Newfoundland & Labrador
- Nova Scotia
- Ontario
- Prince Edward Island
- Quebec
- Saskatchewan
- Canadian Territories
- Communities
- Canadian Topics
- Politics
- Entertainment
- Canada-related tasks in other projects
- Notice Boards
To tag articles under the scope of WikiProject Canada, place {{WikiProject Canada|[sub-project]=yes|[province mnemonic]=yes|class=???|importance=???}} on the article talk page. For tagging other WikiProjects and portals that goes under the scope of WikiProject Canada, visit {{PartofWPCANADA}} and follow the instructions.
Userpage
Add this userbox {{User WikiProject Canada}} to your userboxes to direct editors to WikiProject Canada from your userpage.
Add this template {{Canadian quick links}} to your user page to give editors more information about Canada on Wikipedia.
Awards
Both of these awards can be given by any user to any other user who you think is worthy.
The Canadian Content Award
{{award2|image=Barnstar-CanCon.jpg|size=100px|topic=The Canadian Content Award|text=Awarded for...}}
The Canadian Content Award This is for outstanding contributions to Canadian related pages on Wikipedia. Evrik 13:31, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
The Maple Leaf Award (red, silver, or gold)
{{subst:The Maple Leaf Award| type=... | Awarded for... }}
Use type=Red to give a user a small kudos for a useful series of edits that you saw them make or for one particularly clever edit that deserves mention. The type=Silver level is for completion of a major initiative, such as writing a featured article about Canada or standardising a series about one Canada-related topic. The type=Gold level is awarded for a user that you have seen put months or years of hard work into all aspects of Canada-related articles.
The Maple Leaf Award Award for editors that contribute to Canada related projects and topics. --Qyd (talk) 21:05, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
The following pages serve as tables of contents or indexes to Canada-related content on Wikipedia. They need to be developed, and maintained:
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Outline of Canada - Index of Canada-related articles
- Refine and maintain the Outline of Canada, a key guide on Wikipedia to Canada as a subject. It serves as a table of contents, summary, and topic outline of coverage on Canada and is the most useful tool on Wikipedia for exploring and understanding fundamental material about Canada (and how it fits together) on Wikipedia. Its purpose is an important one: it simply enables readers to see at a glance how the subject of Canada is broken down, what the main component topics are, and how they relate to each other - that is, how information on Canada is organized (here, and in the world-at-large). It is a site map and outline of knowledge that demystifies the subject known as "Canada". Because of its central role in the presentation of Wikipedia's coverage of this subject, it is very important to develop and maintain it to the highest level of quality: to help readers improve their conceptual awareness and understanding of Canada as well as find their way around the subject on Wikipedia. The Outline of Canada and Index of Canada-related articles, is incomplete, needs your editing contributions.
- See: Category:Outlines of countries for a complete listing of outlines by country
Tools
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
Templates
| Canada-related articles by quality and importance | |||||||
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA
| 2 | 13 | 39 | 25 | 79 | ||
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FL
| 2 | 15 | 31 | 34 | 82 | ||
 GA
| 5 | 16 | 78 | 86 | 185 | ||
| B | 32 | 210 | 678 | 622 | 1,542 | ||
| C | 5 | 57 | 289 | 595 | 946 | ||
| Start | 6 | 243 | 3,708 | 9,421 | 562 | 13,940 | |
| Stub | 69 | 4,331 | 25,128 | 4,758 | 34,286 | ||
| List | 1 | 52 | 544 | 1,033 | 51 | 54 | 1,735 |
| Book | 16 | 16 | |||||
| Category | 1 | 3,170 | 3,171 | ||||
| Disambig | 147 | 147 | |||||
| File | 166 | 166 | |||||
| Portal | 65 | 65 | |||||
| Project | 54 | 54 | |||||
| Redirect | 1,066 | 1,066 | |||||
| Template | 563 | 563 | |||||
| Assessed | 53 | 675 | 9,698 | 36,945 | 5,298 | 5,374 | 58,043 |
| Unassessed | 12 | 2,914 | 2,926 | ||||
| Total | 53 | 675 | 9,698 | 36,957 | 5,298 | 8,288 | 60,969 |
Find more about Canada on Wikipedia's sister projects:
Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity- {{Government Departments of Canada}}
- {{lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases, thus: {{lang|fr|conférences régionales des élus}}.
Portals
The Canada portal template {{Portal|Canada}} may be placed in the See also or another appropriate section of a Canadian article, however there are other, more specific Canadian portals available. See Portal:Canada/Related portals for a list.
Infoboxes
- {{Infobox Settlement}} - Provides a consistent look and function for all places in Canada such as:
- counties (e.g., Queens County),
- cities (e.g., Montreal),
- towns (e.g., Westville),
- villages (e.g., Bawlf),
- Indian reserves (e.g., Tsuu T'ina Nation 145), and
- hamlets (e.g., Elkwater).
- rural municipalities (e.g., Tecumseh No. 65, Saskatchewan)
- neighbourhoods (e.g., Wildwood, Saskatoon)
Geography
- {{Infobox Settlement}} - for Cities, towns, villages, hamlets, or any other location.
- {{Infobox Province or territory of Canada}} - for Provinces and territories of Canada
- {{Saskatchewan Communities}} - a substitution template for starting communities of Saskatchewan
Politics
- {{Infobox Prime Minister}} - for Prime Minister of Canada
- {{Infobox CanadianMP}} - for members of the Canadian House of Commons
- {{Infobox Canadian budget}} - for federal budgets
Stubs
For information on which stubs to use on Canada-related articles, see the list of stubs at Category:Canada stubs.
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