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 a NPOV and accurate manner.
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.
Article Alerts
Current project
Please help with the Unassessed Minnesota articles. There are 30 remaining to be assessed as of December 14, 2016.
Core articles/High-level articles
Assessment
Importance Scale
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the Minnesota.
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.
New article patrol
The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them
- The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
- Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
- If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template as {{WikiProject Minnesota}}.
- Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed
Portal
Portal:Minnesota is a featured portal. Things you can do:
- Suggest or go right ahead and install a selected biography of the month.
- Suggest or go right ahead and install historical and upcoming events each month.
General Minnesota resources
- General â€" General information on Minnesota
- Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
- Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
- Identify articles needing images
- Recent changes â€" View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.
- Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.
Minnesota physical assets
- Government â€" Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
- Places â€" Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
- Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
- Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
- Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
- Provide missing geocoordinate data
- Transportation â€" Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota
- Improve Transportation in Minnesota
- Parks â€" State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas
- Nature and geography â€" Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals
Minnesota life
- People â€" Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
- Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
- Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
- Culture â€" Music, art, sports, media, etc.
- Commerce â€" Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
- Education â€" Education in Minnesota
- History â€" history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood
Participants
If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by typing # ~~~ (in alphabetical order, please). If you like also type a note about what you plan on working on. You may also add {{User WikiProject Minnesota}} to your user page to identify yourself as a member of the project and help promote it to other interested users.
Meetups
At least one Minnesota meetup has been held every year since 2005. See the meetup talk page to see planned meetups and discuss future events.
Templates
U.S. city infobox
- {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.
U.S. county infobox
- {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.
Minnesota template
- {{Minnesota}} - Template for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages
Userboxes
WikiProject Minnesota
{{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.
Cleanup listing
- Cleanup listing for the project (old cleanup listing)
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 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.
- Minnesota State Highways
- Minnesota Twins
- Minnesota Vikings
- Minnesota Deletion sorting
WikiProject Minnesota is one of the United States WikiProjects.
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.
External watchlist
- Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Minnesota