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COVERAGE AREA
Louisville Metro (Jefferson County) Louisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN MSA (inclusive of Louisville Metro) Trimble County, KY (traditional part of Louisville MSA) Elizabethtown, KY MSA Fort Knox PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS See also100 most edited articles in past 30 daysUpdated February 15, 2026
PROJECT STATISTICS
📰 PROJECT NEWS Updated February 12, 2026 🗞️February 12, 2026 🗞️January 13, 2026 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for December, the 18th time in the past 25 months.Jennifer Lawrence was #2, andMuhammad Ali was #3. 🗞️January 12, 2026 There's now over 24,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️December 22, 2025 UPS Airlines Flight 2976 is, as predicted, ourmost popular article for November, with over 1.3 million views!Jennifer Lawrence was #2 with over 600K views, andTom Cruise was #3 with nearly 500K views. 🗞️November 12, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for October, the 17th time in the past 23 months. Also interesting is we likely already know November's most popular article.UPS Airlines Flight 2976 has already receivedtwice as many viewsso far in November than the article for Cruise received in all of October. This has been a very intense and horrifying period in Louisville's history, and the deadliest local aviation accident since1953, leaving 15 people dead and many injured. 🗞️October 12, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for September, the 16th time in the past 22 months. 🗞️September 12, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for August, the 15th time in the past 21 months. Interestingly,Lee Corso is a close second. Corso, head coach forLouisville Cardinals football from 1969 to 1972, recently retired from his longtime TV gig as an analyst onESPN'sCollege GameDay. 🗞️August 12, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for July, the 14th time in the past 20 months. 🗞️June 11, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for May, the twelfth time in the past eighteen months. 🗞️June 6, 2025 There's now over 23,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️March 11, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for February, the eleventh time in the past fifteen months. 🗞️January 9, 2025 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for December, the tenth time in the past thirteen months. 🗞️November 9, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for October, the ninth time in the past eleven months. 🗞️October 10, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for September, the eighth time in the past ten months. 🗞️September 10, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months. 🗞️August 10, 2024 Andy Beshear is ourmost popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination ofVice President of the United States in theDemocratic Party, is the 63rdGovernor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant GovernorJacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky. 🗞️July 10, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months. 🗞️June 23, 2024 There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️June 10, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, withKentucky Derby at #4,Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6,Valhalla Golf Club at #9,2024 Kentucky Derby at #16,Mint julep at #21,2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and2024 PGA Championship at #36. 🗞️May 24, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months. 🗞️May 22, 2024 There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️April 9, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for March, the third time in the past four months. 🗞️March 30, 2024 Walter A. Groves becomes agood article. (Category:Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty) 🗞️March 8, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for February, the second time in the past three months. 🗞️February 29, 2024 There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️February 9, 2024 Lamar Jackson is ourmost popular article for January. Jackson, American football player andHeisman Trophy winner who played for theLouisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for theBaltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimousMost Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award. 🗞️January 13, 2024 WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar,The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (perusage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go. 🗞️January 8, 2024 Tom Cruise is ourmost popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-placeJennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-timeGolden Globe winner Cruise attendedSt. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city. 🗞️December 28, 2023 There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️December 12, 2023 For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️December 8, 2023 Jennifer Lawrence is ourmost popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapperJack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9. 🗞️December 3, 2023 Check out WikiProject Louisville's newParticipation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to ourtalk page. 🗞️November 8, 2023 Jennifer Lawrence is ourmost popular article for October. Lawrence, anAcademy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro. 🗞️October 24, 2023 For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️October 21, 2023 WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new. 🗞️October 10, 2023 WikiProject Louisville'sAssessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to ourtalk page. 🗞️October 8, 2023 Deion Sanders is ourmost popular article for September. Sanders, a formerNFLandMLB player and currently the head coach ofColorado Buffaloes football, played for theLouisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01). 🗞️October 3, 2023 WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updatedaction items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the{{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages. Archive of news items over 5 years old 🗞️June 7, 2006 WikiProject Louisville begins. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WikiProject Louisville is anopen collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content coveringmetropolitanLouisville, Kentucky (a multi-county region in north-centralKentucky andSouthern Indiana) and related subjects in theWikipedia.
Everyone is welcome to participate! ❤️ Louisville? → ❤️ writing/editing? →  B You're in the right place!
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| Concern | Total | % of Articles Affected | Data Freshness |
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| Cleanup issues | 3,581 in 2,286 articles | 31.1 | February 10, 2026 |
| Stubs needing expansion or reassessment | 2,335 | 31.8 | Last cache* |
| Articlespossibly undercategorized | 1,046 | 14.2 | February 15, 2026 |
| Articlespossibly too isolated from mainspace | 1,021 | 13.9 | February 15, 2026 |
| Forgotten articles | 789 | 10.7 | February 14, 2026 |
| Articles with old cleanup issues | 586 | 8 | February 14, 2026 |
| Photo/image requests(Breakdown) | 344 | 4.7 | Last cache* |
| Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags | 291 | 4 | February 15, 2026 |
* You may need to purge the cache to see the most up-to-date total.
The goal of ourWikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive,reliably sourced coverage ofnotable subjects pertaining to theLouisville metropolitan area bycreating,improving,connecting,assessing andmonitoring articles, lists, templates and all other pages about the area and any subject/person well connected to it (usually identified from Louisville area-related categorization).
Our scope isLouisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, specifically thecombined statistical area, consisting of multiple counties inKentucky andSouthern Indiana, as follows:
Kentucky
* These counties include parts ofFort Knox
** Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA
Indiana
As of15 February 2026, there are7,351 articles within the scope of WikiProject Louisville, of which16 arefeatured and72 aregood articles. This makes up 0.1% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.14% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.17% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are24,106 pages in the project.
Articles and other pages are included in this project by adding{{WikiProject United States|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=}} to their talk pages.
| 1% of articles and lists FA-Class:21.8% complete | ||
| 2% of articles and lists GA-Class or better:59.9% complete | ||
| 10% of articles B-Class or better:60% complete | ||
| 20% of articles C-Class or better:93.1% complete | ||
| 80% of articles Start-Class or better:83.6% complete | ||
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WikiProject Louisville shares coverage with and sometimes supersedes coverage for the following projects:
Notes:
Following are insights, that is, project-oriented lists, logs and query results you may find useful in your project work. They are automatically generated by bots or your clicks.
| Concern | List/Log/Results (Linked) | Update Frequency | Description/Usage |
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| Assessment | Activity log | ~Daily | This shows the latest project-included pages, page assessments/re-assessments, page renames and page removals/deletes. |
| 500 largest stubs | When clicked | See if the largest aren't really stubs and deserve to be reassessed to Start or higher. | |
| 500 largest starts | When clicked | See if the largest deserve to be reassessed to C or B. | |
| Change Patrol | 500 last articles changed | When clicked | This includes all regular and list articles included in the project, but not all mainspace pages (i.e. redirects and disambiguation pages are excluded). Use this as an alternative for our regularChange Patrol. |
| 10 most edited articles over past 7 days | Last time query was run | This mimics the "Past Week's Hot Edits" list on our front page except that it also shows the maximum and minimum page sizes during this period as well as the article's importance. Click "Fork" and then "Submit Query" to get the most up-to-date results. | |
| 100 most edited articles over past 30 days | Daily | This is a more expansive view of "Hot Edits", going back roughly a month. This list can be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place over many edits. | |
| 100 most volatile articles (by size) over past 30 days | Daily | This list can also be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place size-wise. | |
| 500 last pages changed | When clicked | This includes subject (non-talk) pages of any type except File included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| 500 last talk pages changed | When clicked | This includes all talk pages of any type included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| Cleanup | All issues, categorized | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, separated into cleanup categories. |
| All Issues, alphabetic by article name | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, initially sorted alphabetically by article name. The list is resortable by quality, project importance and problem count. | |
| Old issues, grouped by year | Daily | Articles in project with a cleanup tag/category dating over 10 years | |
| Articles with old issues, alphabetic by article name | Daily | (same) | |
| Articles with citation errors | Daily | Articles in project with at least one citation error. These denote issues that definitely necessitate editing citations to fix. | |
| Articles with citation maintenance messages | Daily | Articles in project with at least one citation maintenance message. These messagesmay or may not denote an issue that necessitates editing the citation. | |
| Connecting (Links and Categories) | Top 500 articles with the lowest link density | Daily | Add useful links to listed articles perWP:LINK or see if an listed article has a peculiar issue that manifests itself with a low link density. |
| Articlespossibly too isolated (least linked to) from mainspace | Daily | This concerns incoming links from other articles or mainspace pages in general. Use this to add links in articles or lists that go to the listed articles, preferably within prose but also fromSee also (don't go overboard on the latter). SeeWP:LINK. Also create useful redirects to these articles to enhance readers' ability to find them. Where plausible, add links from disambiguation pages or disambiguating article hatnotes. | |
| Possibly undercategorized articles | Daily | Add pertinent categories to listed articles perWP:CAT. Caveats: 1) Make sure not to add parent categories for ones already there; 2) If you find a child category that more closely describes the article's subject, then use it to replace the existing more general one (WP:HOTCAT helps here). | |
| Neglected articles | Forgotten articles | Daily | Articles in project which haven't been edited by a human being in over a year. The report lists various tasks you can complete to freshen up neglected articles or make sure editors who may want to work on them are maximally aware of their existence. |
| 500 oldest stubs | When clicked | Find stub articles that have needed further development for a long time, and see if they can be expanded or possibly merged into another article. Also treat them as you would forgotten articles in general. | |
| Participation | Leaderboard | Daily | This is a list of the top 100 editors of WP Louisville's included pages (articles + all other subject pages) in the past 30 days, excluding bots. Use this to discover other editors working on Louisville area-related subjects for the sake of collaboration, inviting tojoin our project as a listed participant, or just showing someWP:LOVE (including awardingour project's barnstar). |
| Potential Article Bloat or Undue Weight | 500 largest articles | When clicked | Find articles that are overly verbose or cover aspects in an out-of-balance manner (noting that an article can be large without these issues) which can be reduced appropriately. Also, find articles which can be split or spun off into subarticles. |
| Producing Articles of Highest Quality | Latest determined priority articles | Weekly | These are the project's most important articles closest to being ready to take to theGood orFeatured stage, that is,high ortop-importance articles with aGA-class (good),B-class orC-class quality, or classed as aList. |
| 50 largest 'B' articles | When clicked | B-class articles that may be ready to be developed toward and achieve aGood rating. | |
| 50 largest 'C' articles | When clicked | C-class articles that may be ready to be re-assessed as B, or close enough to be improved to deserve a B rating. | |
| Project Inclusion Determination and Early Article Improvement | New articles/pages identified by project keywords | ~Daily | New articles/pages that are likely Kentucky-related (sometimes including Louisville-related ones). Use this to find articles to include in either WP Kentucky or WP Louisville. Also see if these articles need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization (esp. with respect to Kentucky or Louisville). |
| 500 newest articles | When clicked | See if project-included articles newest to Wikipedia* need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization. (*but not necessarily newest to our project, as some articles are discovered for inclusion much later than they are created.) | |
| 100 newest articles | Daily | WikiProject Louisville's "Nursery". Shorter list that follows the same idea as "500 newest articles", but shows additional info, including the creator, rating and project importance. | |
| Stubs / Building Up Small Articles | 500 largest stubs | When clicked | Find articles that can be easily improved to become a Start or higher. |
| 500 oldest stubs | When clicked | Find stub articles that have needed further development for a long time, and see if they can be expanded or possibly merged into another article. | |
| 500 smallest articles | When clicked | Find articles to expand, articles which could use a stub tag, or articles which have been incorrectly assessed as Start or higher. | |
| Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags | Daily | Find articles our project assessed as Stub but don't have any stub tags at the bottom of the article. |
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