Welcome toWikiProject United States on the English Wikipedia! We are aproject dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to theUnited States, with an emphasis on subjects with regional and national significance. This project was formed to coordinate the development of United States related articles and help maintain theUnited States Portal. Some project goals are to help list and categorize United States related articles, develop quality standards for articles and build templates that help users browse the articles that fall under this project. This project also provides a place for Wikipedians to share information and resources regarding improvements to United States related articles. Here, editors can ask for help with certain articles and bring otherwise overlooked articles and problems, to the attention of other editors. For more information of the role of WikiProjects, check outWikiProject guidelines.
Articles of note
This section highlights some of the US related content that has been promoted to Featured Status in the last 2 months: Note:Articles pertain to one or more of the WikiProjects relating to United States topics but not necessarily WikiProject United States.
As with the previous few months, October and November have continued to see a lot of activity with the project. We have completed determining what US related projects are interested in collaboration and for the most part the projects now represented on the project page should be the last of them. From this point forward we should see much fewer projects being added although we continue to build relationships with other US related projects and look forward to those expanding further in the future. We are continuing to integrate and standardize some of the functionality of the supported projects and it may be another month or two before the process of setting up these projects is complete.
Events and meetups
In case you haven't noticed the big banner on the top of your watchlist you are invited to participate in the Wikimedia DCFine Art Edit-a-Thon and GLAM-WIKI Meetup on Saturday, December 17, 2011 in Washington, D.C.!
There is another DC meetup scheduled for sometime in January TBD. If you are interested in attending the information can be foundhere.
In 2012, Wiki Loves Monuments will come to the United States. If you are interested in photography or in monuments this might be an interesting event for you. More information is availablehere.
Wikimania 2012 is coming fast. As some may have heard, Washington, D.C., was selected as the 2012 site for Wikimania, and we're down to about 215 days. If you are interested in attending, more information can be foundhere.
Portals and portal related content
TheUnited States portal is getting very close to Featured portal status. With the new push to get a space on the main page for featured portals I would like to start devoting some time to getting this one built up. If anyone would like to help out with this leave a message on the talk pagehere.
In addition toPortal:United StatesPortal:Supreme Court of the United States was recently promoted to featured status as well. We have a lot of portals related to the United States that could be promoted relatively quickly and with minimal work. If you have any recommendations for a portal that you would like to get promoted please let the project know.
Some other possibilities for future collaborations can be found on the collaborations talk page and are:Camp David, theWhite House,Charles Lindbergh andBasilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. If one of these sounds like a good candidate please add it to the list of candidates or add your own if you have some ideas about an article that would make a good collaboration.
Caution: The projects in this section are associated or maintained by multiple projects. Under no circumstances should the banner from another project be replaced with the banner for WikiProject United States.
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