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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Shortcut: WP:BRIDGE

Goals: To increase the number and quality of articles about bridges, improve their formatting and language, add references and media, and increase standardization.

Scope: This project is related to articles about specific bridges, types of bridges, lists of bridges, bridge categorization, and related templates.

If you would like to help, check the to do list or articles needing attention. Feel free to include yourself to the list of participants.

Parent projects

Membership Template

Template for members to include on their user page: {{WikiProject Bridges}}; or Use the following on your userbox form to show you are part of this project:

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This user is a member of WikiProject Bridges.

Article Template

Template to place on an article's talk page (pretty basic) {{WikiProject Bridges article}}. For a Start quality article, use {{WikiProject Bridges article}}. For a list of bridges, use {{WikiProject Bridges article}}.

Participants

Cacophony (talk · contribs)
Elkman (talk · contribs) - mostly Minneapolis-St. Paul area bridges
Ghirla (talk · contribs), responsible for all the stuff contained in Category:Bridges in Russia
IntrigueBlue (talk · contribs) will lend a hand with editing/clarifying, despite knowing nothing about anything.
Kvetner (talk · contribs) - UK bridges, bridge engineering generally.
Joturner (talk · contribs)
HarveyHenkelmann (talk · contribs) - Railroad bridges, trestles, and viaducts are my specialty.
Lar (talk · contribs) will help out when he can.
LeheckaG (talk · contribs) South-Eastern Alaska, British Columbia, Canada, North-Western Washington, and Northern Ohio bridges.
Leonard G. (talk · contribs)
Lpangelrob (talk · contribs) — associated with Wikipedia:WikiProject Chicago, Illinois bridges
Sam (talk · contribs) - mostly suspension bridges.
S charette (talk · contribs)
Sunweb52 (talk · contribs) - Bridges crossing the Delaware River
Myselfalso (talk · contribs)
Internazionale (talk · contribs)
Dskluz (talk · contribs)
TheBridgeOmnibus (talk · contribs) - Southeastern US bridges.
Vishwin60 (talk · contribs) - anywhere, anytime I can.
Bpaint (talk · contribs) new to wiki, old to bridge painting, lotsa pics, some knowledge, willing to help somehow?
fajji (talk · contribs) Portland, Oregon bridges
VerruckteDan (talk · contribs)
Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) I do NYC bridges
Scgatorfan (talk · contribs) - Start with Charleston, SC
Njhepler (talk · contribs) - I will work on bridges in Upstate NY
Jklamo (talk · contribs) - lists, bridges in Europe, China, Flickr image-digging
Denimadept (talk · contribs) - images of, and articles for, bridges on the Connecticut River, though I feel free to add for other places if I can.
Don Braffitt (talk · contribs)
WikiLeon (talk • contribs • • • • • )
Hydrogen Iodide (talk · contribs)
Blanchardb (talk · contribs) - I will maintain lists of bridges in Quebec (esp. Montreal) and will gather and update as much information as I can about individual bridges. Expect me to add a few pictures (taken by myself) as well.
Sanibel sun (talk · contribs) - Mostly cover bridges in Southwest Florida, mostly Fort Myers
Finale Wiki Geek (talk · contribs) I will help were ever
Peterlewis (talk · contribs) Bridge accidents and disasters!
Trulystand700 (talk · contribs) Bridges
Rigby27 (talk · contribs) Bridges in Maine
AlexNebraska (talk · contribs)
Seth Whales (talk · contribs) Bridges in the UK generally.
PennySpender1983 (talk · contribs)

To Do

Expand the guidelines for bridge articles
Nominate articles for good or featured status
Add infoboxes to articles
Standardize categorization for bridges - discuss on the talk page
Add introductory paragraphs to bridge category pages (defining the category)
Update the List of bridges in the United States with info from Cat:Bridges in the US
Add latitude and longitude information to articles (see WP:GEO)
Expand Category:Bridge (structure) stubs articles.

Guidelines

The basic Wiki guidelines should be followed normally. The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and Pulaski Skyway serve as good models.

Introduction

The introduction sentence should include what type of bridge it is, what it spans (river, canyon, etc.), and where it is located:

'''bridge''' is a [[bridge type]] that spans [[body of water/land]] between [[city, state]] and [[city, state]]. (Notableinformation here, like if it's oldest/tallest/largest of its type). It was built in [[year]] by [[agency responsible for construction]] and was designed by [[notable engineer or firm]].

Images and media

Please upload media to Wikimedia Commons so that it can be used across all Wikipedia projects easily. If there are many pictures a gallery at the bottom of the page is an option to consider.

Templates and infoboxes

Template:Infobox Bridge is the prefered template and works best for users if it is at the top of the page.

Categorization

The article should be included in the category for the type of bridge that it is (example Category:Suspension bridges). It should also contain a category based on location, such as Category:Bridges in New York

There has been much discussion at Wikipedia talk:Categorization and on this talk page about the best way to organize articles within categories. For this project we will place all bridge articles in a category based on location (by nation for countries not yet with a lot of bridge articles where subdivision hasn't happened (Category:Bridges in Japan), or small countries with relatively few bridges (Category:Bridges in Singapore)), or states/provinces for larger countries (Category:Bridges in New York). If these categories are further divided amongst subcategories, the articles will remain included within the larger category (For example: all the bridges in Category:Toll bridges in New York and Category:Bridges in New York City will be included in Category:Bridges in New York). This makes the category pages the easiest to navigate at the price of adding slightly redundant categories on the individual articles. This has been found to be the best solution until MetaWiki supports the inclusion of subcategory articles within parent category pages.

Infoboxes

Template:Infobox Bridge is the prefered infobox for individual bridges. There are instructions on how to use it on the template page. Template:BridgeTypePix should be used for bridge design types.

Why write an article about this bridge?

A good article should contain as much of the following, and more, as possible: WHAT is this bridge?

How long/wide/high/tall is it?
What sort of construction is it? (see bridge types, below) Made of what? Concrete, steel, reinforced spittle?
When was it built?
Why was it built?
Who built it?
What precedes it? That is, any previous bridges on that site? Maybe a ferry?
What context is it in? Any history? Battles or other events?
What kind of effort went into it?
Provide a picture! Or several!
What are its coordinates?
What makes it worth an article?

The more you can put into an article, the more references (more references mean more people care), the more data in general, the less susceptible to an AfD the article is.

Lists

Category:Lists of bridges

Articles (bridge types)

Bridge

Arch bridge
Aqueduct
Bailey bridge
Bascule bridge
Beam bridge
Box girder bridge
Cable-stayed bridge
Caisson
Cantilever bridge
Cantilever spar cable-stayed bridge
Clapper bridge
Compression arch suspended-deck bridge
Covered bridge
Curling bridge
Drawbridge
Extradosed bridge (IMAGE NEEDED)
Folding bridge
Girder bridge
Inca rope bridge
Jetway
Lattice truss bridge
Log bridge
Mabey Logistic Support Bridge or Mabey-Johnson Bridge
Moon bridge
Plate girder bridge
Pontoon bridge
Retractable bridge (Thrust bridge)
Self-anchored suspension bridge
Segmental bridge
Side-spar cable-stayed bridge
Simple suspension bridge
Step-stone bridge
Stressed ribbon bridge
Submersible bridge
Suspension bridge
Swing bridge
Tied arch bridge
Tilt bridge
Toll bridge
Transporter bridge
Trestle
Truss arch bridge
Truss bridge
Tubular bridge
Vertical lift bridge
Viaduct
Vierendeel bridge
Weigh bridge
Zig-zag bridge

Articles in need of attention

Specific bridges

Mountain Creek Lake Bridge was copied fron an external source and needs to be rewritten.
Niagara Cantilever Bridge Needs review. I expanded it a lot but it still could use more work. ++Lar 05:06, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Peoria, Illinois bridges needs to be broken into individual articles.
Triborough Bridge needs to be reworked, possibly to include 3 infoboxes, more images, diagrams, etc.
Hampton Bridge is marked with a cleanup template
Schwandbach Bridge, new article, would really benefit from a photo
Bluff Dale Suspension Bridge, Spanning Paluxy River at County Route 149, Bluff Dale, Erath County, TX, a hybrid cable-stayed suspension bridge (built 1890), see http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/hhh.tx076. Near as I can tell, this bridge is unused, but still standing.

See the list of Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks at the ASCE history list (also at List of historic civil engineering landmarks); the bridges below don't have articles yet, unless they're here under another name:

Bridgeport Covered Bridge
Bridges of Keeseville
Bridges of Niagara
Bunker Hill Covered Bridge
Cortland Street Drawbridge
Duck Creek Aqueduct
Dunlap's Creek Bridge
Fink Deck Truss Bridge
Fink Through Truss Bridge
Missouri River Bridges (Chamberlain, South Dakota)
Old Blenheim Bridge
Sewall's Bridge
Whipple Bowstring Truss Bridge

Since these bridges are listed as Historic Civil Engineering Landmarks, they're probably noteworthy enough to deserve articles.

Now-demolished bridges

Bridges that were landmarks in their time but are now gone, but which heartily deserve articles.

Lansdowne Bridge over the Indus, the longest cantilever bridge when built (and the ugliest!)
Buildwas Bridge, Telford's major cast iron structure

Bridge engineers

* Joseph Chaley - important pioneer of the wire cable suspension bridge

Guillaume Henri Dufour - suspension bridge pioneer, but article barely mentions his bridge works
James Finley (engineer) - more detail to be added
Ulrich Finsterwalder - cable-stay and post-tensioning pioneer
Louis Harper - needs a photo
Jean-Rodolphe Perronet - French engineer who advanced masonry arches considerably
David Rowell & Co. - needs a photo
Marc Seguin - needs amendments and expansion on suspension bridges
Jiri Strasky - Czech developer of stressed-ribbon bridge concept
Eduardo Torroja - famous Spanish structural engineer
Squire Whipple - stub, would benefit from expansion

Pages needing attention

Portal:Bridges Presentation of some of its sections.

Useful websites

Pghbridges.com (external link) - good for Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area)
bridges.midwestplaces.com Historic Bridges of the Midwest - Good for bridges anywhere in the US Midwest
historicbridges.org Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere - Good for bridges in the Midwest, Great Lakes, and Ontario.
Structurae.de (external link) - Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures - largest bridge database on-line
Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey, source of photos and info
Historic Bridges of the United States - limited and error-ridden, but potentially useful
Covered Spans of Yesteryear - present and former covered wooden truss bridges in the United States and Canada

Featured lists

List of largest suspension bridges

Featured pictures

The Big Obukhovsky Bridge, Saint-Petersburg	The Golden Gate Bridge.	The Sydney Harbour Bridge	London Millennium Bridge
Tamar Bridge and Royal Albert Bridge panorama	The Brooklyn Bridge at night	Tower Bridge at night	Alcántara Bridge, Spain
The Maza bridge at San Vicente de la Barquera	The bridge over the River Rhône at Avignon	Golden Gate Bridge from above	John A. Roebling Suspension Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge in fog	Tower Bridge in Sacramento, California	Second Severn Crossing between England and Wales	Milwaukee Art Museum
Manhattan Bridge Construction	Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse