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Wikipedia:WikiProject Aviation
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Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation.
(For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects).
- Goals
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of aviation.
- Create guidelines for articles about aviation.
- Unite all projects relating to aviation under one roof!
- Scope
- The project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope. A more detailed description of the scope, and our primary focus areas within it, may be found in the section on project scope.
- Structure
- Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our extensive work:
- Departments, which host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, writing contests, and detailed article review.
- Child projects and task forces for collaboration on specific topics within aviation, such as aircraft, defunct airlines, or gliding.
Scope
As noted above, the project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope.
Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:
- Aviation terminology (e.g., stall, Mach)
- Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., Airport Surveillance Radar)
- Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
- Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
- Aviation history
Announcements and Open tasks
Style guide and essays
The project's style guide contains most of the editorial guidelines developed by the project. The guide covers the following areas:
- Naming conventions
- Notability
- Article content
- Usage and style
- Sourcing and citation
- Templates
- Categories
All project members are encouraged to consult the relevant portions of the guide as they work on articles.
Project organization
Members
The full list of project members is located on a separate subpage; please feel free to add your name to it if you would like to join the project!
Departments
- Assessment
- The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
- Collaboration
- The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is B-52 Stratofortress.
- Outreach
- The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.
- Review
- The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.
Child projects and task forces
Sub-projects
Task forces
Other related projects
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