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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:UNI

WikiProject Universities

Main pages
Main project	talk
Participants	talk
Participants category	talk
Project category	talk
Portal	talk
Infobox	talk
Manual of style
Article guidelines	talk
Templates	talk
University stubs	talk
Departments
Assessment	talk
Collaboration of the Fortnight	talk
Outreach	talk
Articles
List of articles	talk
Accomplishments	talk
Articles for Deletion	talk
Archive	talk
Clean-up List	talk
Task Forces
Student Affairs	talk
Things To Do
Continue upkeep of University Portal Work on articles that need cleanup. A randomized short list is here Create a page for each and every university and college and add {{infobox University}} for it. See the missing list for those institutions still awaiting articles. Place {{WikiProject Universities}} on every related talk page. Ensure Featured articles are consistent with the article guidelines.


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WikiProject Universities aims to improve coverage of universities and colleges.

Our goals include:

Standardize the structure and content of all college and university articles
Represent the interests of colleges and universities in and ensure their articles' compliance with Wikipedia-wide policies
Improve Wikipedia's coverage of university articles, propelling them to featured article status
Serve as the central resource for all discussions and information related to colleges and universities on Wikipedia

Participants

Main article: /Participants

Task Forces

Task forces are meant to provide centralized information and discussion for topics that have a sufficiently large scope, but would not benefit from having a separate WikiProject with all the associated bureaucracy that would involve. The currently organized task forces are:

The Student Affairs task force

Structure

Main article: WikiProject Universities Article Guidelines

National differences

University and college systems vary to a great degree between different countries. Here are some good practice-adaptations of the WikiProject Universities for different countries:

UK: University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, etc

Templates

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Templates

Example Infobox for {{Infobox University}}

Lund University
Lunds universitet

Latin: Universitas Lundensis or Universitas Gothorum Carolina. Also the older Academia Carolina lundensis, or Academia Carolina conciliatrix.
Motto:	Ad utrumque
Motto in English:	Prepared for both
Established:	1666
Type:	Public
Rector:	Prof. Göran Bexell
Staff:	6,000
Undergraduates:	42,500
Postgraduates:	30,800
Doctoral students:	3,200
Location:	Lund, Skåne, Sweden
Campus:	Both urban and rural.
Affiliations:	Universitas 21, EUA
Website:	http://www.lu.se/

{{Infobox University
|name = Lund University
|native_name = Lunds universitet
|latin_name = Universitas Lundensis
''or'' Universitas Gothorum Carolina.
''Also the older'' Academia Carolina lundensis,
''or'' Academia Carolina conciliatrix.
|image_name = Cambridge University Crest - flat.png
|image_size = 100px
|motto = ''Ad utrumque''
|mottoeng = Prepared for both
|established = [[1666]]
|type = Public
|endowment = 
|staff = 6,000
|faculty = 
|president = 
|provost =
|principal = 
|rector = Prof. [[Göran Bexell]]
|chancellor = 
|vice_chancellor = 
|dean = 
|head_label = 
|head = 
|students = 
|undergrad = 42,500
|postgrad = 30,800
|doctoral = 3,200
|city = [[Lund]]
|state = [[Skåne]]
|country = [[Sweden]]
|campus = Both urban and rural.
|free_label = 
|free = 
|colors = 
|colours = 
|mascot = 
|nickname =
|affiliations = [[Universitas 21]], [[European University Association|EUA]]
|website = http://www.lu.se/
}}

Articles

New Wikipedia articles related to universities

Universities articles		Importance
Universities articles		None	Total
Quality
	FA	21	21
	FL	19	19
	A	2	2
	GA	56	56
	B	496	496
	C	37	37
	Start	1784	1784
	Stub	2312	2312
	List	144	144
	Assessed	4871	4871
	Unassessed	128	128
	Total	4999	4999

Please feel free to list your new University-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

Davidson County Community College --Bbcbrown (talk)
Universidad Autónoma Benito Juárez de Oaxaca --Nsaum75 (talk) 08:39, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
E. J. Ourso College of Business --Enric Naval (talk) 22:57, 5 June 2008 (UTC)

Article Assessment

Main article: Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities/Assessment

Did you know?

Activism at Ohio Wesleyan University appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 12 December 2006.
Richard C. McCarty appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 16 January 2008.
Zimbabwe Open University appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 3 May 2008.

Collaboration of the Fortnight

The current University Collaborations of the Fortnight are:
Editor Nominated Topic	East Carolina University
B-Class Improvement Drive	Mills College
Start/Stub Improvement Drive	Jamia Millia Islamia
Every fortnight three higher education-related topics, stubs, or red linked articles are chosen for you to improve. Be bold! This COTF is organized by Wikipedia:WikiProject Universities. (Nominate future collaborations or see past collaborations.) This WP:UNI/COTF is effective: Apr 18, 2008 ~ May 01, 2008.

Peer review

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Accomplishments

Featured articles

Featured lists

Featured list candidates

Featured article candidates

Featured article review

Former featured articles

Rajshahi University

Featured topics

Featured topic removal candidates

Good articles

Good article nominations

Good article reassessment

Featured pictures

The Radcliffe Camera at the University of Oxford, by Diliff	The University of California, Berkeley's, Sather Tower at sunset, by Tristan Harward	The Royal College of Music, by Diliff	Cleveland Tower at Princeton University, by David Liao
Stanford University after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, by W. C. Mendenhall (edited by trialsanderrors)	United States Naval Academy graduation, by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain