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This WikiProject is about articles on databases. For the project about Wikipedia database analysis, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Database analysis

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Some Wikipedians have formed a WikiProject to assemble and compile a comprehensive Database reference for Wikipedia - The Free Encyclopedia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians.

If you would like to participate in this project, then you can add your name to the list of participants, keep in touch with project developments by clicking here to add Wikipedia:WikiProject Databases to your watchlist, and get involved on the talk page.

1 Scope and goals
- 1.1 Related WikiProjects
2 Articles That Need Attention
3 Templates
4 WP 1.0 Assessed Articles

Scope and goals

The content of this page was borrowed heavily from the parent WikiProject WikiProject Computer Science. Please feel free to update content as needed and help make it better.

The ultimate aim of this WikiProject is to create a comprehensive Database reference for Wikipedia. As a result, the scope of the project includes all articles in the area of databases, although there is likely to be some overlap with articles in areas such as mathematics, logic, and software engineering as well. The specific goals of the project are to:

Discover and classify all database articles into an organized reference (ambitious)
Split, merge, delete, and create articles as needed to build a useful and comprehensive body of knowledge
Develop individual database articles to the highest-possible standard
- Make all database articles accessible.
- Work towards featured article status for database articles
Build a community of interest around databases

Until we are able to begin an effort to draft a manual of style for database articles, this project will refer to the manual of style for computer science articles at Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style (computer science) - input and discussion is most welcome.

This project is descended from Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer Science and is closely related to Information Science.

This project covers all aspects of databases, including (but not limited to) logical design methodologies, query languages, storage systems, physical design, administration, and security. The information currently available on Wikipedia concerning this important, far-reaching, topic requires the talents of all available subject-matter experts, writers, editors, and those with organizational skills.

Feel free to help us better organize and improve the quality of database articles on Wikipedia.

Related WikiProjects

Articles That Need Attention

These articles are currently in need of attention:

Articles in need of attention
Article	Needs	Key?
Database	needs to cite references and sources	Yes
Database management system	cleanup	Yes
SQL	expansion, editing, cite references and sources	Yes
Data warehouse	editing, cite references, sourcing, images	Yes
Data mart	editing, content, references, sourcing, images	Yes

Feel free to add or modify this list. Please indicate what needs to be done to the article, and whether it is a "key" article. Some questions to ask when deciding which database articles are "key" articles might include:

Is the article Top or High importance (priority)?
Is the article high-profile? That is to say, is it a topic with a potentially very broad appeal to the general public?
Is the article in need of attention?

Templates

Articles that fall under the scope of this project should be marked on their talk pages using the {{WPDATABASE}} template:

The WikiProject banner below should be moved to this page's talk page.
If this is a demonstration of the template, please set the parameter |category=no to prevent this page being miscategorised.

WikiProject Databases

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Databases.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the quality scale.
???	This article has not yet received a rating on the importance scale.

The format to include this template is:

{{WPDATABASE
     |class = [ ''FA'' | ''GA'' | ''A'' | ''B'' | ''Start'' | ''Stub'' | ''NA'' ]
     |importance = [ ''Top'' | ''High'' | ''Mid'' | ''Low'' | ''NA'' ]}}

To mark an article as a stub, use the template {{database-stub}}:

This database-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

To include the User template, use {{User WikiProject Database}}:

This user is a member of WikiProject Databases.

WP 1.0 Assessed Articles

Database articles		Importance
Database articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA			1			1
	B	2	4	3	1		10
	C	1	2				3
	Start	7	5	3	4		19
	Stub	5	1	22	10	2	40
	Assessed	15	12	29	15	2	73
	Unassessed		29	9	11	38	87
	Total	15	41	38	26	40	160