Wikipedia:WikiProject Library of Congress Country Studies

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better and systematically use information in articles related from the public domain Library of Congress Country Studies. 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. This project is new, so suggestions on goals, strategy, and other aspects of implementation are welcome.

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Title

WikiProject on Library of Congress Country Studies

Scope

This project is designed to take text and information from the 101 Library of Congress Country Studies and the associated 48 country profiles (some of which are pending). The text from these documents is in the public domain and may be incorporated into Wikipedia. Many Wikipedia articles already contain text from the LOCCS, but this project will attempt to ensure that the texts are used systematically. The LOCCS specializes in often overlooked countries. Including information about them will fight systemic bias in Wikipedia.

Parentage

This project drew inspiration from:

Descendant WikiProjects

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Participants

To join add your name to the list below:

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Strategy

A list of the countries with Country Studies and/or Profiles will appear below. Eventually, each country name will link to a page in the subspace devoted to that country. The page will contain a table of contents of the Country Study and the text of the Profile. As participants incorporate sections they should strike out what they have used with the html command <s>...</s>. Also strike outdated and unusable text. Once no useful information is left, the country will be considered completed.

The Country Studies are old, but some information may have a place. For instance, old economic information from the CS on Spain was used to make the Economic history of Spain.

Goals

In order of priority

Fill in the gaps. Find areas covered in the LOCCS but not on Wikipedia.
- Fully utilize the Profiles on all countries that have them. The profiles offer recent information.
- Go through Country Studies and find whats useful.
Check to see that all LOCCS information is fully utilized, even on subjects already covered on Wikipedia.

Projects

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Tasks

Set up the list of countries
Begin incorporating country information
- Some information may be redundant with what's already in Wikipedia, but these documents have information that can be used to create articles that often do not yet exist on Wikipedia for a many countries such as Economic history of Foo, Media of Foo, Human rights of Foo, Education of Foo, and Environment of Foo.

Country list

Click on the country name in the country list to go to that country's subpage. The subpage will show the progress made on that country.

Adopt a Country

Take responsibility for dealing with a specific country. Put your name on a list below:

Templates

Infoboxes

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e.g.{{Infobox Library of Congress Country Studies}}

Other templates

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