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Wikipedia:WikiProject California
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Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to the U.S. state of California. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.
- To Create:
- To Expand:
- Moreland School District Pages
- [Members of the California State Legislature] needs more archival info (see [1] click state senate seat on the left, then "history details" under the graph for more info)
- To Cleanup:
- To Deorphan:
- Collaboration:
- To Improve to Featured standard:
- To Nominate at WP:FAC:
- California Counties:
- California Cities:
- To Destub: See:
- Wanted Pics/Graphics:
Map of California's counties.
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Title
WikiProject on California
Scope
 Related WikiProjects
WikiProject California is one of the United States WikiProjects.
Also related, and often overlapping heavily with US topics, are WikiProject Canada and WikiProject Mexico.
Descendant WikiProjects
Other WikiProjects
- California WikiPortals
- Related WikiPortals
- Similar WikiPortals
Portal:Florida, Portal:Maryland, # Portal:New Jersey, Portal:New York, New York City, Portal:North Carolina, Portal:Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Wisconsin
- see Category:United States portals for a more current list
Related collaborations
For more information on Collaborations, see m:Wikimedia COTW, Wikipedia:Collaboration of the week, Category:Wikipedia collaborations and {{COTWs}}.
Similar collaborations
User categorisation
California Wikipedians should add one of the following categories to the bottom of their User page:
- [[Category:Wikipedians in California|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
- [[Category:Wikipedians in Northern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
- [[Category:Wikipedians in Central California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
- [[Category:Wikipedians in Southern California|{{PAGENAME}}]]
This will put your User page into either Category:Wikipedians in California, Category:Wikipedians in Northern California, Category:Wikipedians in Central California or Category:Wikipedians in Southern California.
User Boxes
Instead of just adding the category to your user page, you could add the Userbox for Californians {{User California}} to your user page, which will also add your user page to the Wikipedians in California category.
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This user lives in or hails from the state of California. |
To identify youself specifically with this WikiProject, if you don't live in California or if you want your userboxes to represent your work on Wikipedia, you can add the {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_California/Userbox}} userbox to your page. It will look like this, but with a link back to this page:
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This user is a member of
WikiProject California. |
If you prefer not to use userboxes, but still want to be listed in the category for WikiProject California participants you place the following tag at the bottom of your user page:
- [[Category:WikiProject California participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
Sister Project searches
Participants
If you are also interested in Southern California issues, please visit WikiProject Southern California
To keep track of changes on this page, as well as discussions on the talk page, you can put this page on your watchlist.
You may be interested in adding this userbox to your userpage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject California/Userbox}}. This userbox automatically adds users to the WikiProject California participants category.
You can also add yourself to this category by adding the following tag to your userpage:
- [[Category:WikiProject California participants|{{subst:PAGENAME}}]]
- User:sanji1119 - schools in/around cupertino
- Stevey7788 - working on cities and towns in California
- Canaen - I'll be around.
- Dspserpico Covering things Bay Area, Baseball or both.
- Ombudsman
- Schmiteye - San Francisco Bay Area, The Peninsula and San Mateo
- (♠Taifarious1♠) - Contributing to California Articles from 10,000km's away!
- Evrik - Soy un angeleno nativo. ¿Que tienes que hacer? --evrik 04:55, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
- Zzyzx11 - will occasionally help with it
- Graham I'm interested in helping with California natural history.
- physicq210 will occasionally help in San Francisco Bay Area-related topics, among others
- Lord Kinbote
- Daniel Olsen Actively working on articles about the San Francisco Bay Area, Oakland in particular.
- NorCalHistory Historical topics specifically; other topics where I can help
- bulletproof 3:16 Usually around to expand Stadium/Arena articles
- Ba'Gamnan
- Anlace Working on ecology and historical articles for Northern California
- FCYTravis - Generally involved in air transportation and assorted East Bay articles. FCYTravis 06:49, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- J.S. - Well, thought I'd join, since I live here. :) ---J.S (t|c) 19:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
- physicq210 - Generally Bay Area-related articles
- Johntex - Various, especially San Diego area articles and college-football related.
- Hjal - mostly Marin County, Fremont, San Jose, environment, UCSC
- LorenzoB 03:48, 27 October 2006 (UTC)]] SoCal, Desert
- WTGDMan1986 - former California native since 1987, wishes to remove vandalism and wikify dates. --D.F. "Jun Kazama Master" Williams 17:04, 28 October 2006 (UTC)
- Erielhonan talk | contribs 仕方が無い 10:27, 6 November 2006 (UTC) - also working on Wikipedia:WikiProject Pennsylvania and Wikipedia:WikiProject Virginia
- Soccermum politics, etc
- KP Botany California flora, geology, natural history in general, in particular deserts, Sierra Nevada, Coast Ranges, Great Central Valley.
- AnthonyWS Central Valley and state politics. If I can be of any help, let me know.
- Ethicalhacker 05:29, 18 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Stockton, CA
- Moreau36 02:46, 20 November 2006 (UTC) Native of Los Angeles, lived part of my life throughout Southern California. Work mostly on city/town/unincorporated community articles.
- Kings bibby win 02:04, 21 November 2006 (UTC) Schools
- Exhartland 10:19, 16 December 2006 (UTC) , past mayors of San Francisco and other early Bay Area topics
- Itsfullofstars - covering the Monterey Bay area for the most part
- Carpet9
- Sue Rangell - Northern California.
- Jesse135
- Vgpclub 19:22, 2 January 2007 (UTC)
- ronbo76 - enjoy historical articles about California.
- Patricknoddy
- KilgoreTrout 02:52, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- Justvote - California political history
- Wikimania1011 - San Francisco Bay School Districts and Schools, Santa Cruz Area articles
- Hydrogen Iodide - Just about anything California-related, mountain passes, Sierras, San Francisco Bay Area, redwoods, skyscrapers, etc.
- Jamescocks - Architectural history, theory & criticism, as well as some technical aspects of buildings, such as materials, construction, maintenance, repair, and preservation.
- Valley2City - Let me put it this way, the first part of my name has to do with San Fernando
- Viriditas
- Ali
- Mattl2001
- ThinkBlue (Hit BLUE) Use to live in California; and working on Projects relating to the state. 14:39, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
- User:notecardforfree - I will be working on articles related to California's history, and articles related to the East Bay
- Gmatsuda - Manzanar, Los Angeles Kings
- Agtaz - I too live in California, and I keep my eyes the main article, as as the Los Angeles area.
- Happyme22 - I'm a California native, and mostly deal with politicians from our state
- Cgingold (talk) 19:16, 23 November 2007 (UTC) I've worked on all manner of CA-related articles: history, locales, politicians & other bios, etc.
- Dureo - Live in Kings County will be working on local articles.
- Leo III - Live in 'West Side' Poway CA, Extremely into the Bear Flag Republic time Period!
- Calbear22 - California politics biography articles. Places in California too.
- User:Marcia Wright - Wilderness areas and wilderness legislation, lakes, reservoirs, nat'l forests and also Ahjumawi Lava Springs State Park- California's only boat-in campground. 19 January 2008 (UTC)
- User:haha169 - Primarily Bay Area locations and schools.
- DevinCook - Sacramento, California. Interested in the history of the great California Republic.
- User:Johnl1479 - Sacramento, and its suburbs. Particularly those I have lived in, North Highlands and Antelope
- Zhukora - Death Valley, Scotty's Castle, the inhabitants of said castle, and the tangled web they weave.
- User:Queenqpawn - I live in California, and grew up there. Interested in parts of East Bay Regions.
- Optigan13 (talk) - SF Bay Area
Goals
- To improve articles related to California so that they can be first taken to Peer review, then nominated as a Featured article candidate, and featured as a Featured article.
Projects
Open tasks
Missing articles, and stub articles that need expansion:
- Biology: California Juniper,
- Cities: Alpine Village, California, Mesa Vista, California, Amador City, California, Ione, California, Plymouth, California, Drytown, California, Martell, California, Pioneer, California, Herald, California, Biggs, California, Concow, California, Durham, California, Gridley, California, Oroville East, California, Palermo, California, Richvale, California (disorganized), South Oroville, California, Stirling City, California, Thermalito, California
- Counties:
- Colleges and Universities:
- Communities:
- Companies:
- Culture: Culture of California, Hinduism in California
- Environment: 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill
- Events: Pink Saturday, Los Angeles 2016 Olympic Bid,
- Freeways:
- Geography: Verdugo Mountains,
- Geology: Whittier Narrows earthquake, San Andreas Fault
- Government: California Coastal Conservancy, San Francisco Mint, California Constitution, California Public Utilities Commission, State Board of Equalization, California Department of Education, and several hundred more on this list ---> LIST.
- History: List of California Historical Landmarks, List of Registered Historic Places in California, Mariposa War, Mendocino War, Santa Barbara oil spill
- Institutions:
- Landmarks:
- Museums: Colton Hall
- Native Peoples: Yokut, Yuma Indians, Miwok
- Organizations:
- Parks & gardens: Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area,
- People:
- Artists:Ferdinand Burgdorf, Edwin Deakin, Mary Coulter
- Californios: Antonio Cruzado, Luis Jayme, Estevan Tapis, Anthony Ubach,
- Governors: Governors of California: John Bigler, J. Neely Johnson, Milton Latham, John G. Downey, Frederick Low, Henry Huntly Haight, William Irwin, George Clement Perkins, Washington Bartlett, Robert Waterman, Henry Markham, James Budd, Henry Gage, George Pardee, James Gillett, Friend Richardson, C. C. Young, James Rolph, Frank Merriam, Culbert Olson
- Governors, pre-statehood:pre-statehood governors: Pedro Fages, Luis Antonio Argüello, Pío Pico, Richard Barnes Mason, Bennett Riley + 19 red-links
- Politicians: list of Speakers of the California State Assembly (especially recent Speakers Bob Hertzberg and Herb Wesson, and Ralph M. Brown, author of California's Brown Act), Category:Members of the California State Assembly, & Category:California State Senators and numerous other lists such as Mayors of San Francisco—see /Lists, Category:Leaders of cities in California.
- Places:
- School districts: Fresno Unified School District, San Francisco Unified, Oakland Unified School District, Sacramento City Unified School District, San Juan Unified School District, Elk Grove Unified School District, Torrance Unified School District
- Stations:
- Streets:
Other subpages
Templates
- also see: California templates
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