Template:WikiProject status
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A Wikipedia:WikiProject is a group of people. The point of this tag is to help people figure out whether this set of pages is currently being used by a group of people. The pages associated with currently inactive and defunct groups are not normally deleted, and whether there is an active group of people for a given set of pages is not a comment on whether the subject is objectively important to the world. Marking groups' activity levels has a purely practical goal: It helps other editors know where they'll likely find the help they need.
Pages with this template are placed into the appropriate category depending on the status selected as shown below:
|activeor if left blank (default) = Category:Active WikiProjects|semi-active= Category:Semi-active WikiProjects|draft= Category:Draft WikiProjects|inactive= Category:Inactive WikiProjects|defunct= Category:Defunct WikiProjects
Example:
With no parameters or with the |active parameter:
Usage: Semi-active projects
Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be barely active:
{{WikiProject status|Semi-active}}
A project is generally considered semi-active when:
- there have been some, but relatively few, significant changes to the main project page for several months or
- there have been some, but relatively few, discussions on its talk page for several months.
Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently semi-active WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.
Example:
Usage: Draft or in-progress projects
Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be a proposal or still under construction to an extent that it is not yet usable:
{{WikiProject status|Draft}}
A project is generally considered draft when:
- it is a proposal at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals or
- It is obviously still being worked on to provide basic functionality; and
- there have been few or no discussions on its talk page for several months (a project could actually be active despite being in an incomplete state).
Neither work to reconfigure aspects of a project or add new features, nor some features becoming moribund, constitute a project lapsing into draft state.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently incomplete WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is in fact active.
Example:
Usage: Inactive projects
Place this template at the top of any WikiProject:
{{WikiProject status|Inactive}}
A project is generally considered inactive when:
- there are no editors listed as members or
- there have been no significant changes to the main project page for four months or
- there have been no discussions on its talk page for four months.
Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently inactive WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.
Example:
Usage: Defunct projects
Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be defunct:
{{WikiProject status|Defunct}}
Replace the {{inactive}} tag if it is present, or remove the inactive=yes parameter from {{Infobox Wikipedia WikiProject}}, if present.
Before applying the tag:
- process the list of project members, placing indefinitely blocked editors and editors inactive on Wikipedia for more than a year in separate subheadings. Check the project's userbox category/ies for unlisted members. If one or more active editors remain but it is still reasonable to think the project may be defunct, check with those editors individually if they agree.
- if the project has a working assessment system (typically a WP:1.0 banner/category structure), consider whether this information exists elsewhere. Even without activity, it may be useful. Consider proposing a merger with a related project if appropriate. You can ask for advice about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council.
- consider the likelihood the project may be revived in future. A few projects have a purpose which is so specific that the project may simply be complete (or obsolete). In general, the narrower the scope, or the more it overlaps with other projects, the more reasonable to consider the project defunct. The less the project achieved (some hardly get beyond the proposal stage), the less likely it will be revived. Consider marking or leaving the project marked as merely "inactive".
- consider whether the project may be relevant for Countering Systemic Bias. Discuss at WP:CSB if necessary. If it is, remind relevant related projects of the project's existence, and suggest possible merger.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently defunct WikiProject, after following the steps above. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active or at least revivable.
Example:
Optional parameters
Full code
{{WikiProject status
| margin =
| hide =
| style =
| image =
| project-type =
| topic =
| topiclc =
| taskforce =
| process =
| en-gb =
| wp =
| type =
| parent =
| mergedto =
| date =
| note =
| portal =
| sc1 =
| sc2 =
| sc3 =
| sc4 =
| sc5 =
| nocat =
}}
margin
margin=0px
en-gb
en-gb=yes- If using British/Commonwealth English (switches to -ise spellings)
parent
parent=- Name of parent WikiProject, e.g., for Wikipedia:WikiProject South America use
|parent=South America. Providing this adds"and/or the parent project"to the "why not join" message. Only works if status isinactiveordefunct.
type
type=- Choose from:
anime and manga,band,edu,game,geo,sports, orTV show; presently this feature is only used for subcategorization of WikiProjects in media, fandom, and youth subculture subject areas, as well as geographic subject areas. This is because those subject areas attract the creation of numerous narrowly topical projects.
mergedto
mergedto=- Indicates the target of a merge, merged to WikiProject Foo. This parameter's value is the name of the wikiproject without the "Wikipedia:WikiProject" part.
date
date=- Use to include the date when marking semi-active, inactive, and defunct projects (takes any format)
note
note=orreason=- Set a note that will appear in the banner.
portal
portal=- Adds a link to the associate portal page, e.g., for Portal:South America use
|portal=South America
Shortcut paramenters
sc1=WP:SHORTCUT1
sc2=WP:SHORTCUT2
sc3=WP:SHORTCUT3
sc4=WP:SHORTCUT4
sc5=WP:SHORTCUT5
nocat
nocat=- If set to
true, the category will be suppressed.
Task forces
Set these when using on the page of task force (a.k.a. work group), i.e. a sub-project.
project-type=- Set to either
topicorprocess, then complete in the matching parameter topic=- Use this for task forces working on a particular topic within a WikiProject
process=- Use this for task forces working on improvement of a particular process within a WikiProject
hide
|hide=yes- This will hide the banner, but keep the categorizations
TemplateData
TemplateData for WikiProject status
No description.
| Parameter | Description | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity status | 1 | no description
| Unknown | suggested |
| margin | margin | no description | Unknown | optional |
| hide | hide | no description | Unknown | optional |
| style | style | no description | Unknown | optional |
| image | image | no description | Unknown | optional |
| project-type | project-type | no description | Unknown | optional |
| topic | topic | no description | Unknown | optional |
| taskforce | taskforce | no description | Unknown | optional |
| topiclc | topiclc | no description | Unknown | optional |
| process | process | no description | Unknown | optional |
| en-gb | en-gb | no description | Unknown | optional |
| wp | wp | no description | Unknown | optional |
| type | type | no description | Unknown | optional |
| parent | parent | no description | Unknown | optional |
| mergedto | mergedto | no description | Unknown | optional |
| date | date | no description | Unknown | optional |
| note | note | no description | Unknown | optional |
| portal | portal | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sc1 | sc1 sc | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sc2 | sc2 | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sc3 | sc3 | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sc4 | sc4 | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sc5 | sc5 | no description | Unknown | optional |
| nocat | nocat | no description | Unknown | optional |
| sister | sister | no description | Unknown | optional |
| superceded | superceded | no description | Unknown | optional |
| reason | reason | no description | Unknown | optional |
See also
- Template index/Wikipedia namespace
- {{Historical}}
- {{Infobox Wikipedia WikiProject}}, which has an
inactiveparameter
- {{Project assessments}}
- {{Project categories}}
- {{Project heading}}
- {{Project information}}
- {{Project page header}}
- {{Project wikimedia}}
- {{Scrolling window}}
- {{WikiProject status}}