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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. |
Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Holidays. 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 help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there, and add your name to the participants list.
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Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to organize and standardize articles relating to holidays.
To do
- Place the {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner on all article talk pages that fall within the scope of this project.
- Check to see if title follows standardized format.
- Make a Holiday Infobox for each article.
- Add the Holiday portal template to the See also section of each article.
- Add appropriate subcategory classification and remove unnecessary super categories to allow for an efficient category tree.
- Add them to the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Articles.
- Check for recent changes recent improvements, other changes, and vandalism to these articles.
- Check Category:Holiday stubs for articles needing improvement.
- Check Category:Holidays articles needing attention for articles requiring immediate attention.
- Add Template:Holiday-stub to Holiday articles that need more content or are assessed as stubs.
Participants
All members should feel free to add {{User WikiProject Holidays}} to their userpages.
- —
- For Jewish holidays. [[User:Neutrality|Neutrality (talk)]] 03:10, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC) (Also contact RK)
- UK and Christian Holidays. Darksun
- Page me for Indian holidays (incudes Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, Parsee & Muslim festivals)
- And page me for Bangladeshi holidays (Bengali New Years day, Musilm Eid festivals, Hindu Durga puja, Buddhist Full Moon holiday and the Bangladeshi national holidays). --Ragib 21:24, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
- Mainly Indian/Aussie holidays, may contribute to others.
- On a campaign to add Template: Infobox Holiday to all the holiday pages. joturner 20:31, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
- Have already hijacked the , so I'll sign up :) →
- Badbilltucker - Primarily Western holidays.
- some cross catagory holidays, usually with secular ties Some thing 17:23, 27 December 2006 (UTC)
- Sefringle
- Reedguner European and Celtic
- User:Tregoweth - might as well, after creating Category:Observances by month and its subcategories. :) ‣tregoweth (talk) 17:14, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
- Gareth Hughes
- SportsFan411- February 2006
- Wesley 13:04, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- Tremont30 02:51, 8 November 2005 (UTC)
- --HybridBoy 2008-11-18T02:46 UTC
- WTGDMan1986 Additional information inclusion and vandalism reverts. --DFW 12:27, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
- Merond e For working on articles relating to Christmas. --
- Elle (talk) 05:50, 27 February 2008 (UTC) especially for winter and Pagan holidays
- Cheesefee (talk · contribs) - merged from Wikipedia:WikiProject Christmas
- Yoshi thomas - unusual holidays and tagging articles Yoshi thomas (talk) 00:42, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Departments
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Holidays/Assessment - the assessment department.
- /General
- /Strategy
Goals
- Well, I suppose our first goal is to get this Project up and running, after that we should pick an article to re-do to make an example, and then we should restructure all Holiday articles. User:Ilyanep
- to standardize in a way that makes holiday navigation less confusing. Some thing 03:44, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
Article Structure
This is not yet decided, just a proposal: —
It should be : Infobox, Introduction, Date, History, Celebration
Titles
i suggest we pin down the formula for titles of holidays for different countries. the name would be in the native language of that country and in the case of there being other country articles for the same holiday then the name would be followed by the country in parenthesis. ie, Instead of Midsummer in Latvia it would be jani, and if another country also had a holiday named jani then you can specify the holiday as Jani (Latvia). maybe this is stating the obvious. Some thing 00:39, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
if there are very many countries with holidays by the same name then consider either merging them into one article (if they are basically the same) or creating a category for them.Some thing 03:54, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
also it might be a good idea to mention the english equivalent some where in the introduction to ensure easy wikisearches by those unfamiliar with that countries name for an international holiday. Some thing 21:10, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Infoboxes
| Thanksgiving | |
 The First Thanksgiving, after the painting by Jean Louis Gerome Ferris (1863–1930) |
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| Also called | Turkey Day, T-Day, Macy's Day, Yanksday |
|---|---|
| Observed by | Canada, The United States of America |
| Type | Cultural |
| Significance | A celebration of being thankful for what one has |
| Date | second Monday in October (Canada), fourth Thursday in November (USA) |
| 2007 date | October 8 (Canada) November 22 (USA) |
| 2008 date | October 13 (Canada) November 27 (USA) |
| 2009 date | October 12 (Canada) November 26 (USA) |
| Celebrations | Parades, Spending Time with Family, Eating Large Dinners, Football games |
| Related to | Christmas and New Year's Day which conclude the North American holiday season, and Columbus Day which coincides with Canada's Thanksgiving |
| {{{holiday_name}}} |
NOTE: If you use this, do {{subst:HolidayInfo}} and then change the stuff to your liking (and add stuff too if you need). A good idea given by Neutrality was to change the colors depending on holiday (blue/white for jewish, green/red for christmas, national colors for national holidays, etc). Table by Neutrality. (By the way, the table looks better on the page than here).
Articles this table is currently being used in:
- I've changed the infobox template {{Infobox Holiday. It looks like what you see to the right. I'm in the process of adding them to holiday pages. Your help would be appreciated. For information on using the Infobox, go to its talk page. joturner 14:26, 8 January 2006 (UTC)
it would be advantageous to have an infobox script in which the color can be manually set to suit the holiday.Some thing 21:51, 17 March 2007 (UTC)
Introduction
Just a general overview of the article, like we have in most articles on Wikipedia. Just mention the most important stuff covered in all the other sections (see Wikipedia:Lead section)
Date
First of all, describe when the date is (e.g. 4th of July), and the significance of that date (e.g. when the United States declaration of independance was signed). If the date changes (e.g. Jewish holidays), put the date on the calendar where it's stationary (e.g. Purim on the 14th of Adar) and the dates for the next couple of years (we might want a table similar to that which is on Rosh Hashana). Also, the reason why the date changes if there is one (e.g. Lunar Calandar or first monday of month).
History
Put the history of this holiday. What this holiday means. We might also want to add pop culture references to this holiday if there are any. This can, of course, be multiple sections.
Celebration/Traditions/Customs/Rituals
What did people used to do on this holiday? What do they do now?
Remember to write in the proper style for an encyclopedic article.
Basically, most articles should have been written in this format already, as it's just most logical.
Perhaps we should add some more sections
Templates
The {{WikiProject Holidays}} banner should be placed on the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of this project.
Perhaps templates for next holiday in the category, such as Template:JewishHolidays — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 20:54, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
Created Template:Holiday-stub. add where needed.Some thing 07:10, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
Category Structure
This is a retailoring of Ilγαηερ's (Tαlκ) proposal and proposal 3a. i’ve tried to specify a detailed hierarchical model that will work with much of the existing categories. its still pretty rough but you get the idea. Some thing 13:18, 8 March 2007
(UTC)
General issues. articles can hopefully be dispersed in to as many appropriate subcategories as possible. for example there should never be an actual holiday with 'category:holidays' on it. to be more specific i think the secular holidays may need more dispersal. 'national holidays' should only contain common national holiday titles. specific country holidays could go within its subcategories.Some thing 21:20, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
Recognized content
Featured content
Good articles
Did you know (DYK)
Dísablót - 4 December 2006.
Anyone out there?
You are invited to here. We are looking you new articles for the front page on October 31st. Victuallers (talk) 19:18, 20 October 2008 (UTC)
