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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
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WikiProject Christianity

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WP:Christianity
Christianity portal

Some Wikipedians have formed WP:X to better organize information in articles related to Christianity. This page and its sub-pages contain their suggestions. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. The goal of this WikiProject is to improve the quality and quantity of information about Christianity available on Wikipedia. As a group, we do not prefer any particular tradition or denomination of Christianity, but endeavor that all Christian traditions are fairly and accurately represented.

If you'd like to join and become a part of this project, sign the Membership Page.

  

Tasks

These are some things you can do to improve the quality of Wikipedia coverage of Christianity.

  1. Attract attention from editors interested in Christianity and Christianity-related topics.
  2. Look over the recent changes list for recent improvements to articles, other changes, and vandalism.
  3. Create collaborative projects to systematically improve coverage.
    • Possibly including:
    1. A regular collaboration.
    2. Adopted Topic, where a suite of topically related articles are targeted for improvement until there's a consensus to move on to a new topic. (see here)
    3. Article Review, for articles nominated by members for wider review. In this case the new ones go at the top and sink as new ones are added. (see here)
    4. Bring a more neutral voice to articles which categorize a movement as non-Christian or a cult.
  4. Improve the WPChristianity banner that goes at the head of Talk Pages to handle tags for unreferenced, copyedit needed, cleanup needed, expansion needed, and POV warning.
  5. Help the Maintenance Department
    1. Add more reward templates (barnstars), and have people in the task force actually watching logs and rewarding key contributors.
  

Departments

  • Assessment Department - These editors work to assess and categorize articles within the scope of the Christianity project. If you'd like to help, sign your name below.
Membership:
  • Maintenance Department - These editors work to maintain the project page, work groups, subpages, portal, etc. If you'd like to help, sign your name below.
Membership:
  • SECisek (talk) 22:52, 27 November 2007 (UTC)
  • John Carter (talk) 16:32, 28 November 2007 (UTC) - although I'll probably need more than a little prompting once in a while.
  • Tinucherian (talk) 05:47, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
  • Monsieurdl (talk) 13:23, 7 May 2008 (UTC) - Eastern Christianity Portal maintenance
  • Outreach Department - These editors work to recruit and welcome new editors to the project. If you'd like to help, sign your name below.
Membership:
  • Peer Review Department - These editors work to improve specific articles within the scope of the Christianity Project. If you'd like to help, sign your name below.
Membership:
  

Article assessments

Listing of Christianity articles by quality
Christianity
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 6 10 29 13 58
Featured list FL 2 2 2 6
A 1 1 1 17 20
Good article GA 5 6 15 63 51 140
B 42 95 162 256 1268 1823
C 2 3 8 38 51
Start 13 59 305 1267 7420 9064
Stub 17 141 2169 7896 10223
List 2 17 24 217 260
Assessed 61 190 653 3819 16922 21645
Unassessed 1 3 8 50 1541 1603
Total 62 193 661 3869 18463 23248
Article assessment
  

Recognized content

The articles listed on this page have all been recognized by the wikipedia community and are all related to at least one of the Christianity-releated WikiProjects.

FA Featured articles

Featured lists

Featured images

Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Christianity/Featured images

GA Good articles

DYK Did you knows (DYKs)

The following items all appeared in the Wikipedia:Main page's Did You Know section:

Current nominations for FA status

Current nominations for GA status

Former featured articles

Former good articles

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team selections

The following articles within the scope of this project have been selected by the Version 1.0 Editorial Team for inclusion in one or more release versions.

  

Templates

The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with the Christianity WikiProject. Click on a template's title to see a sample of what it produces when included on a page. For a full list of Christianity templates see the main template page.

Main templates

Stub templates

  

Images

Triumph of the cross

Chi Rho

Praying hands
  

Creating a New Article

11 easy steps to producing at least a B article
Starting from scratch and want to know how to take it from "0 to 60"? Follow these helpful tips! Some parts are also useful for already-existing articles.

Type a title:
and click "Create page"


  1. Create a new page.
  2. Create an outline for the article you started:
  3. Add the appropriate infobox.
  4. Add the {{Christianityportal}} to the article and the {{ChristianityWikiProject}} template to the Talk page.
  5. Populate your article with images such as obtained from Wikimedia Commons, image list, or by posting a request for an image from other Wikipedians.
  6. Add the appropriate categories.
    • Since categories at the bottom of the articles interwiki linked in your article may be appropriate to place in your article, go through each interwiki link in your article and review the categories at the bottom of the linked article for inclusion in your article.
  7. Confirm that the interwiki links, footnotes, and external (non-wiki) links in your article go where you want them to go.
  8. Post an article request at Wikipedia:Requested articles for each broken (red) interwiki link in your article OR remove the double brackets around the broken interwiki link OR write that article as well (these are your only three choices).
  9. Publicize your article by ...
  10. Request peer review of your article ONLY after you believe that you completed all the above steps.
  11. Relax! and take a break if you reached this point. You deserve it!
  

Naming conventions

Naming conventions

  • For people: [[John Calvin]], unless others by that name exist, in which case the activity for which the individual is best known should be bracketed, e.g., [[John Calvin (reformer)]] (not [[John Calvin (scholar)]], [[John Calivn (theologian)]], etc.)
    • For clergy: (minister), (deacon), (priest), (bishop)
    • For scholars: (theologian), (philosopher)
    • Other possibilities: (author), (martyr), (missionary), (religious)
  • For other subjects: The simpler the title the better, with redirects or disambiguation pages, as necessary.
  

Christianity Wikiprojects

  

Christianity Portals