User:WereSpielChequers/Revive a WikiProject

Wikipedia has WikiProjects for a huge variety of topics. But what do you do if the topic you are interested in has a moribund Wikiproject? Well here are a number of things you can do to revive it:

1. Post a query on the talkpage, provided that query is along the lines of "please can anyone here advise if -------- is a typo or some specific bowls jargon" and not "would anyone watching like to revive this project?"
2. Check the timeline of the subject of the project and look for a notable anniversary. If one is coming up in the next couple of years, try to get it in Wikipedia:Selected_anniversaries#Steps_for_suggesting_new_listings. If the article isn't yet good enough, but you have a year or three, all the better - you can raise this on the Wikiproject talkpage and ask for help to get the article up to standard before the anniversary. Bonus points if you can get a relevant article to featured status - but that is a major undertaking.
3. Look at the WikiProject history, postings on the talkpage and people who have the Wikiproject among their userboxes. Check which of them have recently edited and ask them for advice and help with queries such as the two above.
4. Watchlist articles relevant to your WikiProject
5. Look at the relevant categories for your WikiProject and check that the articles in them have a talkpage tag for your WikiProject
6. When new editors make substantial edits to articles in the focus of that Wikiproject, check if they have been welcomed, and if not drop them a welcome, personalised with a mention of the WikiProject
7. If you are finding new editors and newish articles that might come under your WikiProject, you might come across new articles that are worth submitting at Wikipedia:Did you know. Getting a DYK is a great way to welcome a new editor, and something to report back to your WikiProject
8. If established editors who aren't members of the Wikiproject make substantial edits to articles relevant to the WikiProject, ask them if they'd be willing to help the WikiProject, or better, ask if they could help answer a specific query on your wikiproject talkpage
9. When Xmas or New Year are about to happen, send out greetings cards from the Wikiproject to those of its members who are still active on Wikipedia. (If you can find a vaguely relevant image or two, User:WereSpielChequers/Dec20 is a card you could crib from)

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Hope that helps, and no you don't need to do all of these steps.