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WikiProject Philadelphia is a project to better organize information in articles related to Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. This page and its subpages contain the suggestions and opinions of interested contributors; it is hoped that this project will help to focus and coordinate the efforts of all.

This WikiProject aims primarily to coordinate, organize and develop all Wikipedia activities concerning the City of Brotherly Love and the Delaware Valley. The parent of this WikiProject is WikiProject Cities.

To help, please inquire on the discussion page or look at the to-do list below.

• Currently, none.

Of interest to Wikipedians in travel distance of Philadelphia; We have periodic meetups in the Philadelphia area. Please watch our meetup page for details, and add yourself to the email list there.

• Philadelphia meet-up invite list
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Usernames Numeric and A-L

Usernames M-Z

47thPennVols History, museums, religion and spirituality Accurizer – History, museums, attractions, suburbs Alphageekpa American Revolutionary War in SE PA, historic buildings and sites, history of roads, Montco, some local art history AndAllForWhat? – Politics, politicians, history, neighborhoods Arjsd politics, transit, history BillFlis history, landmarks (esp NRHP sites), portal maintenance, copy editing Briememory Sports CanonLawJunkie (talk) Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia CComMack chsh Government, Schools, Main Philadelphia page. CobaltBlueTony Center City, University City, Philadelphia County, pre-Act of Consolidation, 1854 Coemgenus of the great Northeast Coplan General Cleanup as time allows, people, landscape architecture, architecture, etc. danntm Talk Contributions - SEPTA, Politics dorevabelfiore - Northwest Philadelphia, Women in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley, galleries, libraries and archives (GLAM), photos for Commons Dream out loud – Public transit (SEPTA), roadways, buildings DThomsen8 talk - History, Government, Photos Eagles247 - Philadelphia Eagles EaglesFanInTampa - the South Jersey suburbs and counties Ethan Parmet - History, The US Mint Galaxiaad George100 - Culture, institutions, center city. GhostRiver – sports (esp. Phillies and Flyers), SEPTA, Penn, South Philly GPL93 (talk 06:30, 15 June 2018 (UTC) Politics and history, suburbs[reply] ike9898 - historical stuff in the northern burbs ImmortalGoddezz Drexel University Jim62sch History, food, sports teams, music john k Keystone18 People, organizations, city and suburbs, sports, high schools and universities/colleges Krimpet Roads, trails, politics, other bits and pieces including sorting and linking stuff to the Commons Libertybison History Looper5920 Luciuskwok Transportation

Marketstel - Transportation, esp. mass transit; Architecture and notable buildings; History; Politics; Geography; Food, food culture, and dining out; general fact-checking and editing for style and tone Mary Mark Ockerbloom (talk) 16:16, 12 June 2013 (UTC) I live in Philadelphia and am very interested in women writers. See: A Celebration of Women Writers[reply] Maxim Stoyalov Narsk (talk) - Philly politics, activism, public transit, history, power mapping and trying increase the quality of all Philly articles. Newyorkadam General Philadelphia and Philadelphia sports articles nfutvol Villanova University, Transit Systems Nnev66 Northwest Philadelphia, Government, Judaism, Science Nutiketaiel (talk) Northeast Philadelphia; Eagles; Government; Suburbs O (talk • edits) I will help with the western suburbs, West Philly, and University City. Ocaasi t | c 02:08, 26 April 2013 (UTC)[reply] Ouanor Public transit (SEPTA), politics, business Passdoubt | Talk Red0ctober22 RunnerupNJ - design / layout, railroads (especially PRR), trolleys SB_Johnny - Plants, bugs, gardens, etc. I primarily contribute to Wikiversity, but am active here and on other projects as well. Shoessss Northeast neighborhoods Skiasaurus Smallbones History, NRHP, Museums, photos Sm8900 History of America, History of Philadelphia, philadelphia sites, cultural institutions, neighborhoods, communities. Spikebrennan thnidu language, linguistics, general proofreading & editing TartarTorte The Midnite Wolf history, music, photos Triphora — SEPTA and affairs with your southerly neighbor, Delaware Unbandito History, neighborhoods, rescuing archived public media and preserving the memory of daily life in different eras and communities. Underswamp West Philly neighborhoods, religion, culture Waarmstr Churches, history, neighborhoods, linking articles to Philly Portal. Teletoonek all

Usernames A-L

Usernames M-Z

alteripse eastern pa in general, CHOP, Penn (last contribution 2013) Bjewiki Sports (last contribution 2013) Bobval Suburbs, Culture, Music, Education (last contribution 2006) Bus2Beezlebub Big 5, SJU (last contribution 2011) FateSmiled&DestinyLaughed I'll contribute where I can (last contribution 2012) Gorgeousp (last contribution 2007) GShton Sports, Culture (last contribution 2011) Hamburmk (last contribution 2012) IanBlade Frankford, Northeast Philadelphia, Frankford Yellow Jackets (last contribution 2007) JA10 T · C 23:03, 22 May 2007 (UTC) Routes and Highways in Philadelphia. (last contribution 2013)[reply]

Magic (last contribution 2007) Marphilly I'm from South Philly and attended Temple; I may be particularly helpful with those articles (last contribution 2008) Maughangl (talk · contribs) I can be helpful with information on University City, Center City and the South Street area. (last contribution 2010) MechBrowman (last contribution 2006) Medvedenko (last contribution 2012) meebly (last contribution 2005) Pacdude (last contribution 2013) Pastricide Neighborhoods, Philly stubs, organizing the Main Page | Talk (last contribution 2007) Patricknoddy (last contribution 2007) PYLrulz Ill help edit and fix up articles I run across. (last contribution 2012) SearedIce Center City / University City / Penn's Landing / Suburbs of Philly (last contribution 2013) Shawnthe1/ahwang Penn's landing, Center & University City! esp from May 2007 (last contribution 2006) SteinbDJ Arts and culture (last contribution 2013) Sylent Northern Philly burbs (last contribution 2011) TheSab University City, general Philly photography (last contribution 2012) Thoth Inner city neighborhoods, North Phil, Kenzo, etc. (last contribution 2008) User:Thunderball15 Southwest Philly -- email me for my opinion (last contribution 2011) Violarulez Free library, center city, Rittenhouse square, SEPTA, Chinatown, South Street. (last contribution 2013)

• General
• Rules & Standards – Our agreed-upon rules and standards

1. Improve Philadelphia to featured status.
2. Standardization - Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia/RulesStandards
3. Building and consensus nomenclature for neighborhood articles, including elimination of all redlinks on List of Philadelphia neighborhoods.
4. Standardization of articles relating to SEPTA.
5. Updating Portal:Current events with Philly related items
6. Updating wikinews:Portal:United_States with Philly related items

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Philadelphia: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2017-09-20 Recruit active membership Featured Articles Elevate Philadelphia to Featured Article status Send Liberty Bell through Peer review and act on feedback Send Independence Hall through Peer review and act on feedback Make sure all Peer Review suggestions/requests are acted upon before FAC Determine geographic scope Standardize neighborhood article names Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles in need of improvement Identify other Delaware Valley-related articles that are potential Featured Articles Create SEPTA station/route article title standards Improve upon Portal:Philadelphia part of the Wikiportals. Tag extant stubs with {{philadelphia-stub}} All articles in Category:People from Philadelphia should have this project's template placed on the page's discussion page.

• Article requests

• Portal talk:Philadelphia

Philadelphia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	12	12			28
FL		1	1	12			14
GA	2	8	30	101			141
B	15	92	149	305		17	578
C	3	103	253	1,018		42	1,419
Start	3	108	651	4,810		130	5,702
Stub			63	1,522		95	1,680
List	1	11	25	123	1	8	169
Category					528		528
Disambig					13		13
File					150		150
Portal					419		419
Project					19		19
Template					149		149
NA		3	16	157	291		467
Other					24		24
Assessed	24	330	1,200	8,060	1,594	292	11,500
Unassessed				3		7	10
Total	24	330	1,200	8,063	1,594	299	11,510
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 46,282			Ω = 4.85

• Recent changes to article assessments
• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
• Philadelphia articles by quality log
• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Philadelphia articles by quality

What to type	What it makes	What it's for
{{Portal|Philadelphia}} Talk		Please put this in the See also article main pages (see the "How you can help" section on this page for more details)
{{WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	Philadelphia This article is within the scope of WikiProject Philadelphia, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Philadelphia 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.PhiladelphiaWikipedia:WikiProject PhiladelphiaTemplate:WikiProject PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{User WikiProject Philadelphia}} Talk	This user is working on WikiProject Philadelphia.	Please put this on the discussion page of all Philadelphia related pages.
{{user Philly}} Talk	This user lives in or hails from Philadelphia.	to place the Philadelphia Userbox on your page
{{coord|39.8933|N|75.2089|W|region:US-PA_type:landmark|display=inline,title}} Talk	39°53′36″N 75°12′32″W / 39.8933°N 75.2089°W / 39.8933; -75.2089	To be used on street-sized pages.
{{Current-PhiladelphiaSATM}} Talk	This is the current WikiProject Philadelphia Selected article of the month! It may be worthy of Good Article or Featured Article status. Please consider nominating it or improving it.	goes on the Selected Article of the Month
{{WP Philadelphia invite}} Talk	You are invited to participate in WikiProject Philadelphia, a project dedicated to developing and improving articles about Philadelphia. We are currently discussing prospects for the project. Your input would be greatly appreciated! You can also add yourself to the list of people to be invited to our next meet-up!	to invite new members

Free image sources for the United States
Source	License	Tag
Wikimedia Commons (Cat:United States)	Various	N/A
Historic American Buildings Survey ([1])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Engineering Record ([2])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Historic American Landscapes Survey	P.D	{{PD-USGov}}
National Park Service ([3] and [4])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-Interior-NPS}}
U.S. Coast Guard ([5])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DHS-CG}}
Library of Congress - American Memory ([6])	P.D.	{{LOC-image}}
Library of Congress - Prints and Photographs ([7])	P.D. (not all)	{{LOC-image}}
NOAA ([8])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov-DOC-NOAA}}
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ([9])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
Creative Commons (by,sa) on Flickr ([10])	C.C.	{{cc-by-2.0}}{{cc-by-sa-2.0}}
U.S. Department of Agriculture ([11])	P.D.	{{PD-USGov}}
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The Liberty Star is given by WikiProject Philadelphia for outstanding work on Philadelphia-related articles. Introduced by South Philly and designed by smurrayinchester

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Hello there!

We are now forming the first local Wikimedia Chapter in the United States: Wikimedia Pennsylvania. Our goals are to perform outreach and fundraising activities on behalf of the various Wikimedia projects. If you're interested in being a part of the chapter, or just want to know more, you can:

• Contact us on IRC at #wikimedia-pa
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• Visit our blog at http://wmfpa.blogspot.com
• you can add your username to m:Wikimedia Pennsylvania#Interested Participants

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