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This WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the U.S. State of Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in an NPOV and accurate manner.

Current project

Article of the week: Minnesota State Fair - Very list-y and low on references. Lets see if we can get this article up to snuff before people start hitting it for the fair season.

"Main" articles not rated FA

Also what seems like high priority items would be:

"See also" articles

Core articles/High-level articles

Article Class Rationale Quality Comments
Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Climate of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA
Demographics of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Economy of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Geology of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
History of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent job!
Minneapolis Top WP:CORE GA What would it take to reach FA?
Minneapolis-St. Paul Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Mississippi River Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Music of Minnesota Top WP:CORE FA Excellent - keep it clean and tight
Politics of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Saint Paul, Minnesota Top WP:CORE B (GA failed) What would it take to reach GA?
Sports in Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
Transportation in Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
University of Minnesota Top WP:CORE B A good one to work on
University of Minnesota system Top WP:CORE Start Help!
Anoka County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Bloomington, Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Dakota County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Duluth, Minnesota High A High-level article GA What would it take to reach FA?
Eugene McCarthy High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Fort Snelling, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Hennepin County, Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Hiawatha Line High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Hubert Humphrey High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Iron Range High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Lake Minnetonka High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Lake Superior High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of Governors of Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of Minnesota state parks High A High-level article B A good one to work on
List of people from Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Mall of America High A High-level article Start Help!
Template:Minnesota High A High-level article Template This is good as-is
Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party High A High-level article Start Help!
Minnesota State Fair High A High-level article Start Help!
Template:Politics of Minnesota High A High-level article Template This is good as-is
Ramsey County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Regions of Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Rochester, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
Saint Anthony Falls High A High-level article Start Help!
St. Cloud, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!
St. Paul Pioneer Press High A High-level article Start Help!
Star Tribune High A High-level article Start Help!
United States Congressional Delegations from Minnesota High A High-level article B A good one to work on
WCCO-TV High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Walter Mondale High A High-level article B A good one to work on
Washington County, Minnesota High A High-level article Start Help!

Assessment

Minnesota articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 4 6 11
FL 1 4 6 11
GA 3 5 13 94 2 117
B 16 56 120 224 7 423
C 6 44 255 1,005 86 1,396
Start 1 42 543 6,421 262 7,269
Stub 3 102 5,334 893 6,332
List 1 15 104 154 8 282
Category 5,275 5,275
Disambig 22 22
File 92 92
Project 20 20
Redirect 4 130 1,589 1,723
Template 720 720
NA 1 1
Other 23 23
Assessed 28 166 1,149 13,374 7,742 1,258 23,717
Unassessed 3 14 17
Total 28 166 1,149 13,377 7,742 1,272 23,734
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 81,424 Ω = 5.24


Project divisions and current tasks

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

New article patrol

The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them

  1. The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
  2. Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
  3. If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template
  4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

General Minnesota resources

  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

Minnesota life

  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
  • Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
  • Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

Participants

If you are interested in helping WikiProject Minnesota, please add yourself to this list by clicking here if you like also type a note about what you plan on working on.

  1. andrew
  2. Appraiser - working on Twin Cities historical sites, parks, 19th century explorers
  3. Atom - Twin Cities Area, State parks, regional parks
  4. Azeroth - I try to follow the passenger rail developments
  5. Baron Dave - can help with SF fandom and some on Fresh Air Radio in Mpls
  6. BenFranske
  7. Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
  8. BWes - Western Suburbs
  9. Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
  10. Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota
  11. eagleeye
  12. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
  13. False Prophet helping with sports teams and main page sports section
  14. Gephart - Suburbs of Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, as well as high schools and high school athletic related articles
  15. Gnosbush
  16. Gopher backer - Minnesota climate & related historical events, sports, University of Minnesota
  17. Gopherbone - University of Minnesota, Golden Gopher athletics
  18. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
  19. Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
  20. Gtadoc - Medicine and medical education, and taking some pics of Rochester
  21. Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
  22. HeirloomGardener - I started working on Norwood Young America and Stiftungsfest, and I could help out with other places in that area
  23. Jakeschneider220 - best in articles related to southwest Minnesota
  24. JAYMEDINC
  25. Jcbutler - Southwest Minnesota
  26. Jonathan Kovaciny
  27. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
  28. Justin4gb
  29. Ksax - I will take pictures of some outstate places, please ask!
  30. LindaMorman - Politics, particularly creating/expanding entries on members of the State Legislature
  31. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
  32. matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
  33. Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
  34. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
  35. Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
  36. Mrfeek - Politics, history
  37. Mrtobacco
  38. Nathanm_mn
  39. Our Bold Hero
  40. P.Haney - Anything high school related as well as St. Paul related.
  41. Ravedave - work on Minnesota and park articles mostly
  42. ReverendG
  43. Rhelmerichs
  44. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
  45. RyguyMN
  46. sabeen557 - Some on history and parks, cities that are near me, and write and supply pictures for the Minnesota State Fair (In the summer, it looks bad now)
  47. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
  48. Smarterthanu91 - Don't ask why, but I like really tedious jobs. So throw your best dull job at me. I'm also a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams.
  49. Smith03
  50. Station Attendant - Southeast, highways.
  51. Susanlesch - maybe can edit but plate is full
  52. Thanatosimii State parks and the North Shore, mainly.
  53. The.dharma.bum - mostly in the St. Croix River valley, Washington County, etc.
  54. UBeR - Created glacial history of Minnesota. Can help on weather or hydrology related articles pertaining to Minnesota. Also have general knowledge on many Minnesota related topics.
  55. Umtc2011
  56. Unidiode
  57. Willy11009 - Rochester related articles
  58. Woogums - history
  59. WTGDMan1986
  60. ZJH
  61. WildFan48 - Minnesota sports of any kind

Templates

U.S. city infobox

U.S. county infobox

Minnesota Infobox

  • {{Minnesota}} - Infobox for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

WikiProject Minnesota

{{WikiProject Minnesota
 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.


Meetups

Minneapolis meetups occured in 2005 and 2006 see Wikipedia:Meetup/Minneapolis for more info.

Portal

Minnesota Portal -- Under development

Suggestions for Minnesota Portal features

Transcluded from Portal:Minnesota/Selected biographies/Suggest.

Portal:Minnesota/Selected biographies/Suggest

Child WikiProjects

Minnesota State Highways
Minnesota Twins
Minnesota Vikings

Collaborations

Template:USCOTW

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