Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Lakes

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Lakes Wikipedia:WikiProject Lakes is within the scope of WikiProject Lakes, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of lake-related articles on Wikipedia, using the tools on the project page. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.LakesWikipedia:WikiProject LakesTemplate:WikiProject LakesLakes

Note: Articles listed in bold text have tags for cleanup, expansion, or references.

• Collaboration:
  • List of lakes - naming consistency and redirects. Some use List of Lakes "in" and other List of Lakes "of". See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes#Natural_vs_Manmade
• Requested Assessment & Reassessment:
  • Brown Lake (Stradbroke Island) has been expanded and improved. It is currently a stub article and I would like to request an assessment review.SnoMurWal (talk) 01:44, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

    It looks like the article was re-assessed some time ago. This to-do could be removed Uninspired Username (talk) 01:49, 17 April 2023 (UTC)

  • West Point Lake Major overhaul done, attempted for B grade, soon GA status. Also check importance.
• To Improve to FA standard:
• To improve to GA standard:
• To Expand:
  • List of lakes - Setup outline and scope improvement for discussion see:Talk:List_of_lakes - requires collaboration on identifying 5 lakes per section globally for top level list. Then has TODO with a fraction of the redirects with potential for all the countries that need Lists of Lakes of created.
• To De-stub:
• Contribute images
• To Create:
• To Add Features:
• Work on OpenTasks:
  • Add infoboxes to articles: Category:Lakes_articles_needing_infoboxes
  • Add photos to articles: Category:Articles using infobox body of water without image
  • add {{todo, lakes}} with comments on articles and lists on how they can be improved to higher class and other tasks. See todo, lakes doc
  • Cleanup listing: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Lakes#Cleanup_listing
    • Split Infobox Lakes legacy titles to Infobox Body of Water from |name= to |other_name= or |native_name= where the <br> is found
    • Split Infobox body of water using <br> in the |name= field to |other_name= or |native_name= where <br> is found
    • Check names for other patterns like / has been used in a few
  • Tagging Redirects - to help with tracking of best practices tracking common name variant redirects like "in" vs "of" can be tagged with the project template which classifies as NA, but allows tracking if the redirect exists or is deleted where it may be a common variant. This or other proposal to help track linking would be good to develop. It would be good to have an overview of articles with possibilities just for WP Lakes instead of sifting through Category:Redirects_with_possibilities
• Project Development
  • Documentation Update - In Progress
    • Add lake article examples to importance assessment - Template:Grading_scheme
    • Add lake article examples to importance assessment - Template:Grading_scheme
    • Create or curate examples and text to Distinguish between List - Index - Outlines in context of bodies of water (looking at List of lakes these are conflated across the country list format)
    • Migrate guides of further advice to separate pages with templates - Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Guide#Advice_pages
      • Nominate mature conventions for broader consensus and feedback. Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#Proposals
  • Automate Project tagging where reliable - setup in progress - recursive tagging of lakes by country with category pattern filters - setup discussion - Requested bot monitor Category:Lakes by country and tag.
  • Automate WikiProject Lakes Watchlist - currently articles are manually added.
  • Create redirect tracking category for possibilities like Category:Redirects with possibilities by WikiProject
  • Look at Collaboration of the Week structure - Template:COTWs and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Birds/Collaboration for ideas for Lakes
  • Performance Goals and Tasks
    • Set Measurable Goals
      • Minimum threshold of coverage per region
    • Develop metrics for bias in coverage
      • Geographic coverage balance per region
      • Quality of coverage per region