Wikipedia:User categorisation

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This is a new Wikiproject dedicated to revamping the system by which users may categorize themselves. In the past (and partially for now until the new system is entirely in place) user categorization has been accomplished through hundreds of unsorted lists that are growing very large in some cases and are almost entirely unmanageable. The English Wikipedia is one of the few still using this defunct system. It has been proposed (and is currently being implemented) that these lists be replaced by a system of organised categories. Thus was spawned the WikiProject for User Categorisation.

The old system

Note: this information is outdated

Visit Wikipedia:Wikipedians to see the old system of categorisation. There is an extremely large and unwieldy Wikipedia:Alphabetical list of Wikipedians list, and many subpages for listing by region (for example, Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Argentina). These pages are entirely unsorted, voluntary listings that do not automatically reflect on user pages. They do offer annotation, which in the new system will be reserved for individual user pages (as it should be). The issue of being able to sub-categorise within countries and states has been raised, but there is no problem! Simply create sub-categories within the state you wish to break up (for example, in Canada, or large states like California there is good cause to create many sub-categories).

The new system

The 'master' category is Category:Wikipedians, with the bulk of the changes being made through its sub-category Category:Wikipedians by location which will eventually replace all of the regional listings through Wikipedia:Wikipedians. This will allow for the replacement of many unwieldy, unsorted voluntary-listing pages and also allow that categories a user is added to will reflect on their user page, which would not happen under the old system of lists.

Participants

Please list yourself here if you are going to help work on this project. Some users have had their names added by others because of large contributions.

rigan123 (talk · contribs)
RuMoR (talk · contribs)
falcofire (talk · contribs)
Andrew Hampe (talk · contribs)
Urthogie (talk · contribs)
This project was initiated by Thereverendeg (talk · contribs)
AxSkov (talk · contribs)
Phoenix-forgotten (talk · contribs)
I'll try this. — Bcat ^{(talk • email)} 16:08, 30 July 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Ianblair23 (talk · contribs)
PeepP (talk · contribs)
Sherool (talk · contribs)
Korivak (talk · contribs) -- I'm starting with Ottawa and working my way up to Ontario and eventually to Canada.
Army1987 (talk · contribs)
Justin.herald (talk · contribs)
Rmky87 (talk · contribs)
Doviende (talk · contribs) -- working on British Columbia first -- 18:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Skraz (talk · contribs)
Cooksey (talk · contribs)
Larix (talk · contribs)
o_keyes (talk · contribs)
Gundam785 (talk · contribs)
CQ (talk · contribs)
scott3 (talk · contribs)
Cswrye (talk · contribs)
Bastetmeow (talk · contribs) -- can someone contact me to tell me how to help? I'd like to but am not sure how
leujohn (talk · contribs) -- can someone tell me how to make new categories? Thanks
Bombyourselves (talk · contribs) -- I would also like to help but don't really know where to begin
tanstaafl28 (talk · contribs)--I'll give it a whack. Tanstaafl28 01:27, 2 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Moralis (talk · contribs)

How to help

See To-do below for detailed list of pages that need attention.

Thanks to all who lend a hand! To follow progress, please visit Wikipedia:Wikipedians and its subpages, where more instructions are temporarily provided according to the specific page.

The instructions on this page are also always open to clarification by anybody willing to help!

Creating new categories

If there are subsections within these pages, they should be reflected by sub-categories to the category that will be replacing the parent pages.

See below on how to populate the new category.

Every user category page should use one of the Usercat templates to insert a standard message to the category description.

Most pages will want to use Template:Usercat:

{{Usercat|Albania|.}}

This inserts a standard message like this:

This page is replacing Wikipedians/Albania. See User categorisation for more information.

Classification: Wikipedians | By location | Albania

Wikipedians who live in or are associated with Albania.

To add yourself to this list, insert the following on your user page:

[[Category:Wikipedians in Albania|{{PAGENAME}}]]

The third argument, in this case a period, is added to the end of the description, so you can add regional noticeboard links, etc.

For subcategories, use one of the Usercat-x templates, where x is a number. An example:

{{Usercat-1|Alberta|Canada|Canadian Wikipedians|Canada|.}}

The arguments are: Country name, the Wikipedia:Wikipedians subpage the category is replacing, the parent category link, the parent category visible link part (i.e. the parent country name) and the description, as in Usercat.

The Usercat-x templates with x bigger than 1 use a similar style for arguments, with the first, second and last being the same, and the arguments in the middle being parents in different levels (i.e. China | People's Republic of China | Mainland China).

Populating existing categories

Make sure that the new category page is using one of the Usercat template as described above in Creating new categories.
Visit the page that is being replaced (some of the new categories listed below do not have a page they are replacing, but the category page itself still needs formatting). The link to the left is generally the one being replaced.
1. If there are subsections to that page they warrant the creation of new subcategories (for example, on Wikipedia:Wikipedians/New York, there is an explicit New York City section that warrants a sub-category to Category:Wikipedians in New York (state)). If those subcats are not listed, they should be added to the list below until somebody adds them to help the community work out issues.
2. Visit the user pages listed and leave them a message on their talk page with this contents: {{Usercat_msg|country|category}}, where country is the country page the user was listed on and category is the new category that is replacing the list. This way, users can choose themselves whether they want to add their names to the category system or not, instead of rudely editing their user pages. Remember, you still have to sign the edit.
3. After the above two steps have been done, the page should be entirely erased except for a notice stating that the page has been replaced by the category (redirects to categories don't work correctly because of a bug in the MediaWiki software). Use an edit summary like Removed and redirected as part of [[Wikipedia:User categorisation]]., so if someone is watching the page, they won't get a knee-jerk reaction to revert. Use this notice:

 This page has been replaced by [[:Category:Wikipedians in Acadia]].

Once those steps are completed, the list below should be modified to reflect the completion by striking (<s>striking</s>) the replaced link and making the finished category bold ('''bold''').

To-do

Regional pages

The link on the left is a subpage of Wikipedia:Wikipedians that is to be replaced by its right-hand counterpart, which is a sub-category of Category:Wikipedians by location.

K

Korea → Category:Wikipedians in Korea (including both sides of the Korean peninsula, North Korea and South Korea)

L

Latvia → Category:Wikipedians in Latvia
Lebanon → Category:Wikipedians in Lebanon
Liberia → Category:Wikipedians in Liberia
Libya → Category:Wikipedians in Libya
Lithuania → Category:Wikipedians in Lithuania
Luxembourg → Category:Wikipedians in Luxembourg

M

Macao (a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China): See #Macao
Macedonia → Category:Wikipedians in Macedonia
Malaysia → Category:Wikipedians in Malaysia
Maldives → Category:Wikipedians in Maldives
Malta → Category:Wikipedians in Malta
Mexico → Category:Wikipedians in Mexico
Moldova → Category:Wikipedians in Moldova
Mongolia → Category:Wikipedians in Mongolia
Morocco → Category:Wikipedians in Morocco
Myanmar → Category:Wikipedians in Myanmar

N

Nepal → Category:Wikipedians in Nepal
Netherlands → Category:Wikipedians in the Netherlands
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Aruba → Category:Wikipedians in Aruba
New Zealand → Category:Wikipedians in New Zealand
Nigeria → Category:Wikipedians in Nigeria
Northern Ireland: See #Northern Ireland
Norway → Category:Wikipedians in Norway

O

Occitan → Category:Wikipedians in Occitan (divided between Spain, Andorra, Italy and France)
Ontario: See #Ontario

P

Palestine → Category:Wikipedians in Palestine
Pakistan → Category:Wikipedians in Pakistan
Paraguay → Category:Wikipedians in Paraguay
Peru → Category:Peruvian Wikipedians
Philippines → Category:Filipino Wikipedians
Pitcairn Islands (UK colony): See #Pitcairn Islands
Poland → Category:Wikipedians in Poland
Portugal → Category:Wikipedians in Portugal
Puerto Rico: See #Puerto Rico

Q

Québec: See #Quebec

R

Romania → Category:Wikipedians in Romania
Russia → Category:Wikipedians in Russia
- Chechnya → Category:Wikipedians in Chechnya (breakaway Russian republic)

S

Saint Lucia → Category:Wikipedians in Saint Lucia
San Marino → Category:Wikipedians in San Marino
Saudi Arabia → Category:Wikipedians in Saudi Arabia
Scotland: See #Scotland
Serbia and Montenegro → Category:Wikipedians in Serbia and Montenegro
Singapore → Category:Wikipedians in Singapore
Slovenia → Category:Wikipedians in Slovenia
Slovakia→ Category:Wikipedians in Slovakia
South Africa → Category:Wikipedians in South Africa
- Western Cape → Category:Wikipedians in the Western Cape
  - Cape Town → Category:Wikipedians in Cape Town
South Korea → Category:Wikipedians in South Korea
Spain → Category:Wikipedians in Spain
- Basque Country → Category:Wikipedians in Basque Country (divided between Spain and France)
- Catalonia → Category:Wikipedians in Catalonia (divided between Spain, Andorra and France)
- Occitan → Category:Wikipedians in Occitan (divided between Spain, Andorra, Italy and France)
Sri Lanka → Category:Wikipedians in Sri Lanka
Suriname → Category:Wikipedians in Suriname
Sweden → Category:Swedish Wikipedians
Switzerland → Category:Wikipedians in Switzerland
Syria → Category:Wikipedians in Syria

T

Taiwan: See #Taiwan
Thailand → Category:Wikipedians in Thailand
Trinidad and Tobago → Category:Wikipedians in Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey → Category:Wikipedians in Turkey

U

Uganda → Category:Wikipedians in Uganda
Ukraine → Category:Wikipedians in Ukraine
United Arab Emirates → Category:Wikipedians in United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom → Category:Wikipedians in the United Kingdom
- England → Category:Wikipedians in England
  - Bucks → Category:Wikipedians in Buckinghamshire
  - Cornwall → Category:Wikipedians in Cornwall
- Northern Ireland → Category:Wikipedians in Northern Ireland
- Scotland → Category:Wikipedians in Scotland
- Wales → Category:Wikipedians in Wales
- Pitcairn Islands → Category:Wikipedians in Pitcairn Islands (UK colony)
United States of America → Category:Wikipedians in the United States
- Each state also needs to be completed:
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Alabama → Category:Wikipedians in Alabama
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Alaska → Category:Wikipedians in Alaska
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/American Samoa → Category:Wikipedians in American Samoa
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Arizona → Category:Wikipedians in Arizona
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Arkansas → Category:Wikipedians in Arkansas
- California → Category:Wikipedians in California - This one needs some time and help! (see talk page)
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Colorado → Category:Wikipedians in Colorado
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Connecticut → Category:Wikipedians in Connecticut
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Delaware → Category:Wikipedians in Delaware
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/District of Columbia → Category:Wikipedians in District of Columbia
- Florida → Category:Wikipedians in Florida
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Georgia → Category:Wikipedians in Georgia, USA
- Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Guam → Category:Wikipedians in Guam
- Hawaii → Category:Wikipedians in Hawaii
- Idaho → Category:Wikipedians in Idaho
- Illinois → Category:Wikipedians in Illinois
  - Category:Wikipedians in Chicago
- Indiana → Category:Wikipedians in Indiana
  - Category:Wikipedians in Evansville
  - Category:Wikipedians in Gary
  - Category:Wikipedians in Indianapolis
- Iowa → Category:Wikipedians in Iowa
- Kansas → Category:Wikipedians in Kansas
- Kentucky → Category:Wikipedians in Kentucky
- Louisiana → Category:Wikipedians in Louisiana
- Maine → Category:Wikipedians in Maine
- Maryland → Category:Wikipedians in Maryland
- Massachusetts → Category:Wikipedians in Massachusetts
- Michigan → Category:Wikipedians in Michigan
- Minnesota → Category:Wikipedians in Minnesota
- Mississippi → Category:Wikipedians in Mississippi
- Missouri → Category:Wikipedians in Missouri
- Montana → Category:Wikipedians in Montana
- Nebraska → Category:Wikipedians in Nebraska
- Nevada → Category:Wikipedians in Nevada
- New Hampshire → Category:Wikipedians in New Hampshire
- New Mexico → Category:Wikipedians in New Mexico
- New Jersey → Category:Wikipedians in New Jersey
- New York → Category:Wikipedians in New York (state)
- North Carolina → Category:Wikipedians in North Carolina
- North Dakota → Category:Wikipedians in North Dakota
- Northern Mariana Islands → Category:Wikipedians in Northern Mariana Islands
- Ohio → Category:Wikipedians in Ohio
- Oklahoma → Category:Wikipedians in Oklahoma
- Oregon → Category:Wikipedians in Oregon
- Pennsylvania → Category:Wikipedians in Pennsylvania
- Puerto Rico → Category:Wikipedians in Puerto Rico (a commonwealth of the United States of America)
- Rhode Island → Category:Wikipedians in Rhode Island
- South Carolina → Category:Wikipedians in South Carolina
- South Dakota → Category:Wikipedians in South Dakota
- Tennessee → Category:Wikipedians in Tennessee — Notified all users listed Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 07:20, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Texas → Category:Wikipedians in Texas or Category:Wikipedians from Texas
- U.S. Virgin Islands → Category:Wikipedians in U.S. Virgin Islands
- Utah → Category:Wikipedians in Utah
- Vermont → Category:Wikipedians in Vermont
- Virginia → Category:Wikipedians in Virginia - all users notified, waiting for list to clear -skraz (talk) 02:12, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- Washington → Category:Wikipedians in Washington — Notified all users listed Roby Wayne ^{Talk • Hist} 07:20, 8 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]
- West Virginia → Category:Wikipedians in West Virginia
- Wisconsin → Category:Wikipedians in Wisconsin
- Wyoming → Category:Wikipedians in Wyoming
- Somewhere unspecified in the United States of America → Category:Wikipedians somewhere unspecified in the United States
Uruguay → Category:Wikipedians in Uruguay

V

Venezuela → Category:Wikipedians in Venezuela
Vietnam → Category:Wikipedians in Vietnam -- Notified all users on this list -- Gurch 17:07, 5 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]

W

Wales: See #Wales

Other conversions

Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by language → Category:Wikipedians by language
Possibly more from Wikipedia:Wikipedians
Wikipedia:Wikipedians_by_alma_mater → Category:Wikipedians who have graduated from college
- The sub-pages use "by alma mater", that is Category:Wikipedians by alma mater.

Categories to remove

There are some duplicates and misc. other such garbage lying around that needs to be taken care of at some point. If you are an administrator, it would be greatly appreciated if you would consider deleting some of the pages listed below. Also, if anyone sees red links in the left column, the line can be removed. Thanks!

Categories named differently from others

It has not been agreed what to name these, but they are different, and should be renamed once a consensus on naming style has been achieved (see Wikipedia_talk:Category_titles).

Use Usercat templates

Alphabetical sections, mark bold when everything under that section is using the Usercat templates (except those listed below):

#A #B #C #D #E #F #G #H #I #J #K #L #M #N #O #P #Q #R #S #T #U #V #W

These don't have Wikipedia:Wikipedians subpages, so can't use templates on them while a link to that is shown.

These need to do country link disambiguation:

These pages (and several others) need to handle several parents.

Cleanup

The pages we are replacing will need some cleaning up as things come along. For example, the Wikipedia:Wikipedians page has the full listing of countries with links to its subpage lists and also accompanying links to the new categories. This should eventually be cleaned up to reflect the new system so that the page doesn't look like such a mess (that is it should simply refer to Category:Wikipedians by location rather than having a huge list of pages). For now, however, it might make sense to leave the list up as a reflection of the progress being made here. That said, as things are completed through this project, the changes should be noted not only here, but in the appropriate page where the old list was linked.

It will also be a good idea to check out the What links here pages and try to correct any links to pages such as Wikipedia:Wikipedians/Acadia by replacing them with a link to the new category, in this example Category:Wikipedians in Acadia. This will help from creating such a chaotic mess of dysfunctional links while this project is still in progress.

Please see Wikipedia:User categorisation/link cleanup for this.

Active Wiki Fixup Projects
Must be active, systematic, have lists, & need help.
Writing
Articles that need to be wikified Massive backlog. Ongoing (category) Dead-end pages These pages are not wikified. Ongoing (category) Missing articles Wikipedia is not as complete as you might think. Ongoing Most wanted articles Updated February 2015 Oldest requested articles Updated November 2012
Other
Articles needing geo-coordinates Help locate places. See WP:GEO. Ongoing (category) Articles written by a single editor Reviewing articles written by a newer editor. Updated February 2013 Bluelink patrol Directing wayward links to the intended articles. Ongoing Check Wikipedia Fix the syntax of Wikipedia. Updated every 15 minutes Disambiguation pages with links Directing ambiguous links to the intended articles. Ongoing Fix Common Mistakes Fix common mistakes in English grammar (e.g. "the the", "and and"). Ongoing moss Currently doing a collaborative spell-check of the entire encyclopedia. Moving free images to Wikimedia Commons Moving free images to the Commons so they are easier to find. Ongoing (categories) Orphaned articles Help link to these orphaned articles. Ongoing (category) Red Link Recovery Turn red links blue. Ongoing Stubsensor Help remove stub tags from articles they don't belong on. Updated August 2011 Uncategorised articles Help categorise articles. Ongoing (category) Unreferenced articles Ensuring articles include at least one reference or source. Ongoing (category) Main Inactive Mini
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