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    Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!

    We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members.

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    A monthly popular pages report for this project is available, updated by Community Tech bot.

    You can view a list of our popular pages, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Popular pages

    Lists and outlines

    The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them.

    See also: Wikipedia:Timeline standards

    Source for the sub-sections below: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration

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    As per the notice at the top of this page, this project is not fully active. however, below are some automated features that you may find useful for working on articles on history-related topics.

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    Project staff and working groups

    The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic WikiProject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.

    Project Coordinators

    WikiProject personnel

    For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions.

    • Former project leaders, with thanks:
      • Vami_IV, joined June 22, 2022. (deceased)


    Please feel free to contact them directly if you have questions regarding this project which either haven't been responded to here or regarding any other matters you believe are relevant to this project.

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    Coordinators. The coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.

    • Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
    • Coordinators::
    • Key Editors:
    • Former project leaders, with thanks:
      • Vami_IV, joined June 22, 2022. (deceased)


    Responsibilities

    • Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
    There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
    The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.


    Working Groups

    Working Groups at WikiProject History:

    Task forces

    We can have Task Forces for specific historical eras, or alternatively for specific topical areas. Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on. If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!

    Sub-page for Task Force information:

    TF Modern and Contemporary History

    Official banner: 

     {{WikiProject History|importance=Mid|attention=|auto=|needs-infobox=|Contemporary History=yes|Contemporary history-importance=Top}}

    TF Ancient History

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    Outreach, members, templates

    If you want to post the photo from the logo for WikiProject History, you can do so using this text: [[File:MontreGousset001.jpg|x45px]]. this image will appear in line, as it does here.

    Membership

    This section is transcluded from Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Participants. (edit | history)

    If you would like to be a member of the project, then please add your name at the bottom of the list below, with this text: # {{user|your username}}.

    Members can also feel free to add {{User WikiProject History}} to their user pages.

    Members

    Below is a list of members. Feel free to add yourself by adding your signature.

    Userboxes

    WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:

    This user participates in WikiProject History.
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    Project templates

    Project banner

    The banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.

    WikiProject iconHistory
    WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject History, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the subject of History on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.HistoryWikipedia:WikiProject HistoryTemplate:WikiProject Historyhistory
    ???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.

    Infobox Historical Event

    The Infobox {{Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.

    {{Infobox historical event}}

    Country/Region history

    A navbox from Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages.

    Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: Category:History and events templates.

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    Categories

    Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.

    Category tree:

    History

    Organization of Category:History. Category:History contains only the most general articles, such as History and Human history. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories. Category names. The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.

    Don't over-categorize

    Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.

    Organization of national histories. Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes.

    Using the United Kingdom as an example:

    Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system: 

                                                History
                                              |
                                    .---------+------------------.
                                    |                            |
                            History by nation             History by period
                                    |                            |
                         .----------+-----------+    .--.        |
                         |                      |    |  |        |
                   United Kingdom   Republic of Ireland |  Ancient history
                     |  |  |  |                 |       |        |
  .----------+-------+  |  |  `------------+----+       |        |
  |          |       |  |  |               |            |   .----+-----.
  |    Great Britain |  |  `-------.    Ireland <-------'   |          |
  |          |       |  `------.   |       |                |          |
  +----------+-------+---.     |   `----+--'                |    Ancient Rome
  |          |           |     |        |                   |          |
  |       England     Scotland |   Northern Ireland         |          |
  |          |                 |                            |          |
  `-+--------'                 `-----------+----------------+--.       |
    |                                      |                   |       |
  Wales                              Ancient Britain         Roman Britain

    (This diagram is far from complete: there is a Category:British Empire, not shown. Category:History of the United Kingdom is in Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.)

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