Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic
Subject-area collaboration
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Assessment
- All articles relevant to the project should be tagged on the article talk pages with {{WikiProject Arctic}}
- See the assessment department of this project, at Wikipedia:WikiProject Arctic/Assessment
Quality articles
Articles
List the WP:FAs first, followed by WP:GAs.
| Arctic articles by quality and importance | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
 FA |
1 | 3 | 13 | 2 | 19 | ||
| FL |
2 | 2 | |||||
 GA |
4 | 11 | 18 | 3 | 36 | ||
| B | 17 | 26 | 32 | 60 | 21 | 156 | |
| C | 14 | 28 | 76 | 112 | 62 | 292 | |
| Start | 8 | 46 | 99 | 290 | 244 | 687 | |
| Stub | 2 | 9 | 30 | 971 | 408 | 1,420 | |
| List | 3 | 3 | 16 | 6 | 28 | ||
| Category | 419 | 419 | |||||
| Disambig | 6 | 6 | |||||
| File | 25 | 25 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Project | 12 | 12 | |||||
| Template | 42 | 42 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 21 | 60 | 82 | |||
| Other | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Assessed | 42 | 119 | 265 | 1,492 | 571 | 744 | 3,233 |
| Unassessed | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 42 | 119 | 265 | 1,492 | 571 | 745 | 3,234 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 13,663 | Ω = 5.23 | |||||
WP:DYKs and hooks
Note next to the article its date of appearance at T:DYK, with either a Diff to that appearance or a link to the relevant archive at WP:Recent additions.
- Ziegler Polar Expedition - July 15, 2008 - Wikipedia:Recent additions 222 - Portal DYK 30
- Arctic Environmental Protection Strategy - September 28, 2008 - Wikipedia:Recent additions 231 -Portal DYK 29
- Henry Parkyns Hoppner - October 9, 2008 - Wikipedia:Recent additions 232
Featured pictures
Reindeer, Archangelsk, Russia
Barren ground caribou- Polar bear nursing
Polar bears
Vinland map
Ziegler polar expedition
Andrees station at Spitzbergen, Norway
Iceberg
Iceberg
Eyjafjallajökull
Vatnajökull
Eclipse seen from space
Category tree
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Participants
Active members
To join WikiProject Arctic, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- DurovaCharge! 00:44, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
- Carcharoth (talk) 00:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
- CambridgeBayWeather Have a gorilla 03:31, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
- SriMesh | talk 04:46, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
- Clevelander96 (talk) 11:43, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
- Ratzer | talk 21:02, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
- BaShildy | talk 22:24, 18 November 2008 (UTC)
- Jack1956 09:59, 23 December 2008
- Andrewjlockley (talk) 14:13, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
- Polargeo (talk) 16:35, 15 May 2009 (UTC)
- Av9 (talk) 20:15, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
- Belugaboy535136 contribs 21:54, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
- Arsenikk (talk) 11:50, 6 April 2010 (UTC)
- Angelikfire (talk) 17:34, 27 December 2010 (UTC)
- 08OceanBeachS.D. 01:44, 14 August 2011 (UTC)
- Tezamen Tezamen (talk) 05:53, 19 December 2014 (UTC)
- Avismother | talk 01:35, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
- Astrophobe (talk · contribs) 04:25:14, 13 October 2019 (UTC)
- PaulTheBoatman10 (talk · contribs) 21:37:05, 3 February 2021 (UTC)
- Starkenborgher (talk · contribs) 01:44:10, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- ARoseWolf 16:35, 24 May 2021 (UTC)
- Liam2520 (talk) 08:39, 3 November 2021 (UTC)
- Mycranthebigman (talk · contribs) 21:36:46, 10 June 2022 (UTC) Works on Alaskan articles
- HalfwayAffable (talk · contribs) 2024
Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
Member identification
Members of WikiProject Arctic should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Arctic participants.
| Wikitext | userbox | where used | ||
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| [[Category:WikiProject Arctic participants]] | none | linked pages | ||
{{Template:User Arctic Project}} |
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linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WP Arctic}} |
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linked pages | ||
{{Template:User WP Arctic |
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linked pages |
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For other Arctic user templates, see Category:Arctic user templates.
To do
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Outreach
Invite new users to participate in WikiProject Arctic:
New articles
Article alerts
Did you know
- 02 Aug 2026 – Hendrickson Island (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Weltwirdhund (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 16 Aug 2026 – The Arctic Institute – Center for Circumpolar Security Studies (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Longhornsg (t · c); see discussion (4 participants; relisted)
Categories for discussion
- 12 Aug 2026 – Category:Jan Mayen user templates (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Andrybak (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Aug 2026 – Category:Arctic user templates (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Andrybak (t · c); see discussion
- 29 Jul 2026 – Category:Sámi publications (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion
Redirects for discussion
- 12 Aug 2026 – Jõuluvana (talk · edit · hist) →Santa Claus was RfDed by Consarn (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 23 Aug 2026 – Penny the Polar Bear (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Finnfrog99 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 01 Sep 2026 – Draft:Amautalik (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Prof. Cricket (t · c)
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.