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Welcome to the History WikiProject on the English Wikipedia!
We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to history. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the list of project members.
Articles
[edit]Popular pages
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A monthly popular pages report for this project is available, updated by Community Tech bot.
You can view a list of our popular pages, at: Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Popular_pages
Lists and outlines
[edit]The list of basic history topics is intended to provide an overview of the coverage of history on Wikipedia. It is rapidly becoming one of the best history browsing tools on Wikipedia. The List of history topics page provides a history link for every subject for which there is a list on that page, still has some redlinks. Some of those redlinks can be edited to point to existing article sections (in the main article for the corresponding subject), while the rest need articles or sections created so that they can be pointed to them.
- See also: Wikipedia:Timeline standards
Source for the sub-sections below: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration
Article alerts
[edit]As per the notice at the top of this page, this project is not fully active. however, below are some automated features that you may find useful for working on articles on history-related topics.
- "Article Alerts" is an automated feature that provides constant updates on various articles that relate to history.
- You can view a list of all sub-pages of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Index
- You can view a list of all task forces of this WikiProject, at the page: Wikipedia: WikiProject History/Task forces
Wikiproject structure and scope
[edit]WikiProject structure and scope
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Founding and development[edit]Significant milestones for this WikiProject:
WikiProject structure[edit]WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:
Goals[edit]The goals of this wikiproject are: a) to improve Wikipedia's coverage of history by creating, expanding, and maintaining history-related articles. b) to provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of history. c) to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to history in Wikipedia, d) to maintain the history portal and its sub-portals, e) to answer queries about history on the reference desk, especially the humanities reference desk. Outline of history articles[edit]The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the Outline of history and its branch outlines. These are in turn is part of Wikipedia's outline system which is one of Wikipedia's main contents systems. Please see the article Outline of history. Please look this over and fill-in missing topics.If Wikipedia has an article or article section about those topics, please add links to them. While analyzing the outline, please answer the following questions (and fix the outline as needed):
The overall purpose of the outline is to help readers comprehend the subject by showing what belongs to it, and within the subject what belongs to what.The outline is a taxonomy of the subject, and also serves as a table of contents and navigation aid to browse Wikipedia's articles (and article sections) about the subject. It is also a useful tool for the WikiProject to analyze, plan, develop, and revise history-related material. It is a hub from which to organize historical topics. It was built as a "reverse outline", a structural model of an existing work, which in addition to being a summary of the work, can reveal the gaps and other weaknesses for revision purposes.Please help improve it. It's our bird's eye view.Thank you. Scope[edit]Most articles within Category:History and its sub-categories are within our scope. There are already several other history projects with more specific scopes so the majority of our work is on articles that do not seem to fall into other projects' scopes. For further clarification:
As of 23 June 2025, there are 54,086 articles within the scope of WikiProject History, of which 379 are featured and 1,105 are good articles. This makes up 0.77% of the articles on Wikipedia, 3.32% of all featured articles and lists, and 2.63% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 208,520 pages in the project. The list of history topics lists of basic history topics are some articles that are in this project's scope. The latter list is not intended to be a comprehensive treatment of the subject, but rather an overview. The Lists of topics are intended to be comprehensive and to include links to every article related to the subject on Wikipedia. See List of mathematics topics and List of psychology topics as examples. A number of lists and meta-lists are maintained in Wikipedia:
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Peer review requests
[edit]This is from the page: User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews
- hui_pan-nationalism requesting review and feedback Linnea2853 (talk) 07:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)
Article alerts
[edit]Generated by bot as per Wikipedia:Article alerts.
To watch the page for Article alerts, please add this page to your watchlist: Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Article alerts
Today's featured articles
- 25 Jun 2025 – History of education in Wales (1701–1870) (talk · edit · hist) will be Today's Featured Article; see blurb
Did you know
- 15 Jun 2025 – Urien (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Epicgenius (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jun 2025 – James Edwin Thompson (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Sailing427alt (t · c); see discussion
- 07 Jun 2025 – Peace discourse in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
- 04 Jun 2025 – Isabel Gutiérrez del Arroyo (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Irene D. Paden (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Miraclepine (t · c); see discussion
Articles for deletion
- 23 Jun 2025 – Operation Return (2001) (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (0 participants)
- 22 Jun 2025 – Battle of Ikafa (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ixudi (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 21 Jun 2025 – Attacks near Dobrosin (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Griboski (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)
- 20 Jun 2025 – Shirley Willard (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)
- 20 Jun 2025 – Udo of Neustria (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Nixleovel (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 18 Jun 2025 – Battle of Jabllanica (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 18 Jun 2025 – Battles of Drenoc (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 18 Jun 2025 – Battles of Ješkovo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
- 18 Jun 2025 – Italian invasion of Kosovo (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (4 participants)
- 18 Jun 2025 – Operation Vukovar '95 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Amanuensis Balkanicus (t · c); see discussion (2 participants)
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Categories for discussion
- 22 Jun 2025 – Category:American Ku Klux Klan members convicted of crimes (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by PARAKANYAA (t · c); see discussion
- 21 Jun 2025 – Category:Former Meredith Corporation subsidiaries (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mvcg66b3r (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jun 2025 – Category:Former Rio Tinto (corporation) subsidiaries (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mvcg66b3r (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jun 2025 – Category:Former TelevisaUnivision subsidiaries (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Mvcg66b3r (t · c); see discussion
- 15 Jun 2025 – Category:History of Quran scholars (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Pogenplain (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jun 2025 – Category:Events in Sweden (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 09 Jun 2025 – Category:Events in Taiwan (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2025 – Category:German philosophers of history (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Psychastes (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Jun 2025 – Category:French philosophers of history (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Psychastes (t · c); see discussion
- 02 Jun 2025 – Category:Proslavery activists (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion
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Redirects for discussion
- 18 Jun 2025 – Soviet Onion (talk · edit · hist) →Soviet Union was RfDed by Balsam Cottonwood (t · c); see discussion
Featured article candidates
- 18 Jun 2025 – Urien (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by Tipcake (t · c); see discussion
- 26 May 2025 – William Arthur Ganfield (talk · edit · hist) was FA nominated by PCN02WPS (t · c); see discussion
Good article nominees
- 21 Jun 2025 – History of education in Brunei (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Pangalau (t · c); start discussion
- 24 Apr 2025 – Morris Alexander (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Curbon7 (t · c); start discussion
- 27 Mar 2025 – Java War (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Juxlos (t · c); start discussion
- 19 Jun 2025 – Udagbedo (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by Vanderwaalforces (t · c) was promoted by Jens Lallensack (t · c), see discussion
- 16 Jun 2025 – Princess Si of Anding (talk · edit · hist) GA nominated by AJMgirl (t · c) was not promoted by Reverosie (t · c), see discussion
Good article reassessments
- 11 Jun 2025 – History of the Soviet Union (1964–1982) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for GA reassessment by Z1720 (t · c); see discussion
Peer reviews
- 30 Apr 2025 – Lope Martín (talk · edit · hist) has been put up for PR by Kimikel (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 19 Jun 2025 – Territorial losses of Thailand (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved somewhere else by Paul 012 (t · c); see discussion
- 19 Jun 2025 – Belarusian history in the Russian Empire (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Belarus in the Russian Empire by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 12 Jun 2025 – Fall of Maximilien Robespierre (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Coup of 9-10 Thermidor by Marissa TRS (t · c); see discussion
- 12 May 2025 – Decolonization of the Americas (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to European withdrawal from the Americas by Evaporation123 (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2025 – 20 July plot (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Hitler assassination plot of 20 July 1944 by Gwillhickers (t · c); see discussion
- 01 May 2025 – History of Palestine (talk · edit · hist) move request by Easternsahara (t · c) was moved by SilverLocust (t · c) on 17 Jun 2025; see discussion
Articles to be merged
- 21 Jun 2025 – Siamese occupation of Germany (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Siam in World War I by 1.46.132.212 (t · c); see discussion
- 08 Jun 2025 – Ashdod-Yam (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Minat al-Qal'a by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion
- 17 Mar 2025 – House of Rheged (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Coeling by Tipcake (t · c); see discussion
- 26 Feb 2025 – Gajapati dynasty (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Gajapati (title) by AlvaKedak (t · c); see discussion
- 31 Dec 2024 – Comparison of CRT, LCD, plasma, and OLED displays (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Comparison of display technology by Emir of Wikipedia (t · c); see discussion
- 03 Dec 2024 – Pasuhalta (region) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Assuwa by Chaotic Enby (t · c); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 10 Jun 2025 – Popular front (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Braganza (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Apr 2025 – Suez Crisis (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Srnec (t · c); see discussion
- 30 Dec 2024 – Economic history of the United States (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Lfstevens (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Oct 2024 – List of killings by law enforcement officers in the United States in the 20th century (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Engrigg22 (t · c); see discussion
- 07 May 2024 – Contemporary history of Spain (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Malvoliox (t · c); see discussion
- 25 Jan 2024 – History of Samoa (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by JJUPLOADS22 (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Dec 2022 – Common Romanian (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Super Dromaeosaurus (t · c); see discussion
- 10 Apr 2022 – History of the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Knowledgekid87 (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 22 Jun 2025 – Draft:Invasion of Anuradhapura by Rastrakuta empire (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by TeenX808 (t · c)
- 22 Jun 2025 – Draft:Durrani Conquest of Kashmir (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Maturidiyya (t · c)
- 21 Jun 2025 – Draft:Battle of Ajmer (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Shaban-ul-barb (t · c)
- 21 Jun 2025 – Draft:Keigo Mamba (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Urban, Tom (t · c)
- 20 Jun 2025 – Draft:Karpov (Russian family) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SlavaFire (t · c)
- 20 Jun 2025 – Draft:Battle of Indus River (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Shaban-ul-barb (t · c)
- 20 Jun 2025 – Draft:Aung Kyaw Zaw (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KhantWiki (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2025 – Draft:Zaw Myat Lynn (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by KhantWiki (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2025 – Draft:Sibley Trail (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 108.59.60.232 (t · c)
- 19 Jun 2025 – Draft:William W. McCarty (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Denbow (t · c)
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Project staff and working groups
[edit]The goal of this project is to serve as an active resource, where other editors can seek help or get questions answered, or get help with any topical efforts they may be working on. and also, at some point, we will try to resume various basic wikiproject tasks such as article assessment, working on group projects. to that end, we may create some sort of list here of active volunteers, or editors, or just anyone who can occasionally take a little time to answer questions, help with various tasks and efforts.
Project Coordinators
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WikiProject personnel |
For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions.
Please feel free to contact them directly if you have questions regarding this project which either haven't been responded to here or regarding any other matters you believe are relevant to this project. |
Coordinators. The coordinators are generally responsible for maintaining all of the procedural and administrative aspects of the project, and serve as the designated points-of-contact for procedural issues. They are not, however, endowed with any special executive powers.
- Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
- Coordinators::
- Key Editors:
- Former project leaders, with thanks:
- Vami_IV, joined June 22, 2022.
Responsibilities
[edit]- Coordinators. The primary responsibility of the regular coordinators for the WikiProject, as well as the page coordinators, are the maintenance and housekeeping work involved in keeping the project and its internal processes running smoothly; this includes a variety of tasks, such as keeping the announcement and open task lists updated, overseeing the assessment and review processes, managing the proposal and creation of task forces, and so forth.
- There is fairly little involved that couldn't theoretically be done by any other editor, of course, in only a few places have the coordinators been explicitly written into a process, but since experience suggests that people tend to assume that someone else is doing whatever needs to be done, it has proven beneficial to formally delegate responsibility for this administrative work to a specified group.
- The coordinators also have several additional roles. They serve as the project's designated points of contact, and are explicitly listed as people to whom questions can be directed in a variety of places around the project. In addition, they have (highly informal) roles in leading the drafting of project guidelines, overseeing the implementation of project decisions on issues like category schemes and template use, and helping to resolve disputes and keep discussions from becoming heated and unproductive.
Working Groups
[edit]Working Groups at WikiProject History:
Assessment · Collaboration · Review · Outreach · Task forces
click on "show" to see our working groups!!!
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Assessment[edit]![]() The Assessment Working Group finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on quality and importance scales. (Please feel free to add your name to join!!) Collaboration[edit]![]() The Collaboration working group serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the assessment department by assigning large groups of editors to improve those articles. Help can be requested for an article you are working on or you have found abandoned. A list of open tasks can also be found in a section above. Current active members: (Please feel free to add your name to join!!) Review[edit]![]() The Review working group carries out peer reviews on historical articles and nominates articles for good and featured status. It also carries out A-Class reviews on articles within our scope. Current active members: (Please feel free to add your name to join!!) Outreach[edit]![]()
The Outreach working group acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives. Current active members: (Please feel free to add your name to join!!) Informal subgroups[edit]![]()
These subgroups could be formed based on any criteria at all. so any editor could form a subgroup for communicating with editors who are new to this topical area. or it could be an informal group for brainstorming ideas for a particular topic, or a particular editing drive, or group effort, or for a specific effort to delve into a particular topic, or to set up a single new article or set of articles, or for any other reason. Our reason for setting up this new type of subgrouping is simple; history is a very broad and varied field. We would like to encourage all editors to take an active role here, as much as they might wish. so if you wish to set up any such subgroup, please feel free to post a notice on the talk page. We will be glad to help to promote any such efforts here. thanks!! |
Task forces
[edit]We can have Task Forces for specific historical eras, or alternatively for specific topical areas. Please choose a Task Force below that matches the area that you most wish to work on. If you don't see an area listed that you want to work on, then please feel free to simply add it. thanks!!!!
Sub-page for Task Force information:
TF Modern and Contemporary History
[edit]Official banner:
{{WikiProject History|importance=Mid|attention=|auto=|needs-infobox=|Contemporary History=yes|Contemporary history-importance=Top}}
- Task Force page
- Members:
- Writes and updates articles on contemporary history, including the items below.
- Timelines for current year,
- articles on current time periods;
- historical articles in need of updates for current events.
TF Ancient History
[edit]- Members:
- Covers Ancient history; usually defined as history from the earliest civilizations up to the fall of the Roman Empire.
- Goals (will be updated):
Possible task forces
[edit]Possible Task Forces
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Task forces by subject area[edit]
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Outreach, members, templates
[edit]If you want to post the photo from the logo for WikiProject History, you can do so using this text: [[File:MontreGousset001.jpg|x45px]]. this image will appear in line, as it does here.
Membership
[edit]If you would like to be a member of the project, then please add your name at the bottom of the list below, with this text: # {{user|your username}}.
Members can also feel free to add {{User WikiProject History}} to their user pages.
Members
[edit]Below is a list of members. Feel free to add yourself by adding your signature.
List of members of WikiProject History
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Userboxes[edit]WikiProject History maintains a number of userboxes:
Project templates[edit]Project banner The banner {{WikiProject History}} should be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
Infobox Historical Event The Infobox {{Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events. {{Infobox historical event}}Country/Region history A navbox from Category:History by region navigational boxes should be added to History of a 'x' country pages. Other useful info boxes and templates can be found in the category: Category:History and events templates. Articles Showcase[edit]
Categories[edit]Every article on a historical topic should be assigned to as specific a sub-category under the Category:History as possible, as well as to any non-history categories to which it belongs. Since Wikipedia has tens of thousands of articles on historical subjects, they shouldn't all be placed directly in Category:History; there is an elaborate hierarchy of historical categories, described here, and only the lowest-level category need be assigned.
Category tree:
Don't over-categorize Having added an article to, say, Category:Military history of the United Kingdom, there's no need to also add that article to Category:Military history, Category:History of the United Kingdom, Category:United Kingdom or Category:History. The category hierarchy expresses the fact that every article about the military history of the UK is an article about military history and an article about the UK.
Organization of national histories. Few nations have neat histories: most have changed name, constitution and boundaries over their history. This section gives advice on creating sub-categories to reflect these changes. Using the United Kingdom as an example:
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system: History |
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History by nation History by period |
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United Kingdom Republic of Ireland | Ancient history |
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| | | | | .----+-----. | Great Britain | | `-------. Ireland <-------' | | | | `------. | | | |
+----------+-------+---. | `----+--' | Ancient Rome |
| | | | | | England Scotland | Northern Ireland | | | | | |
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Wales Ancient Britain Roman Britain (This diagram is far from complete: there is a Category:British Empire, not shown. Category:History of the United Kingdom is in Category:United Kingdom and so on. And there are many sub-categories. But it illustrates the principles.) Related WikiProjects[edit]
Resources[edit]External sister projects See also[edit]Technical items and resources[edit]Guidelines and resources[edit]
Wikisource[edit]
Useful essays[edit] |