Encyclopedia:WikiProject Cities

Welcome to WikiProject Cities

Scope

Template:Shortcut This WikiProject aims primarily to provide information and a consistent format for cities of the world. "Cities" include municipalities and other civil divisions, including cities, towns, villages, hamlets, townships, unincorporated communities, sections of municipalities, and neighborhoods. For specific details on U.S. municipalities, see U.S. municipality notes.

Goals

1. Define departments.
2. Visit the Capital City article of every Nation to rate it for priority and class with Template:Tl. (Note: This has largely been done for capital cities in North/South America, Europe, Africa, and part of the Mid-East. Still needs to be done for Asia & Oceania, and possibly the Caribbean. Dr. Cash 06:20, 27 August 2007 (UTC))
3. Then proceed toward most popular cities and regional centers, as well as capitals and important cities of sub-national administrative area.

Article Assessment

Portal

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Article alerts

Articles that need...

• attention (1)
• infoboxes (0)

Templates

Templates are used within articles to provide a consistent look to the messages placed into them.

Project banner

• Template:Tl – Talk page project banner

Infoboxes

Infoboxes are not required.

• Template:Tl – Standard infobox template for most types of settlements like cities, towns, villages, etc. To use it, copy the format located at Template:Infobox settlement and substitute the settlement's information in the parameters section as directed on the Infobox template page. See San Jose, California for an example.
  • Template:Tl – Australian variation of the standard infobox.
  • Template:Tl – for cities in Russia.
• Template:Tl – for presenting temperature and precipitation information in a standard format
• Template:Tl – Links to the surrounding areas

Userbox

• Template:Tl

Template:User WPCities

Participants

A list of members of WikiProject Cities, together with some of their interests, is at Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/participants. To join the group simply add yourself to the list, in alphabetical order.

Progress

• List of Template:Subpages
• Our core list of 50 cities
• City articles sorted by page views
• Article status for the 100 largest cities in the U.S.
• Goal to have a city guide navigation for every world capital city

Article guidelines and conventions

• General guidelines
• Naming conventions (geographic names)
• Canadian communities
• Indian cities
• Japanese municipalities
• UK settlements
• US cities

Taskforces

• National capital taskforce
• Regional capital taskforce

Related WikiProjects

The parent of this project is WikiProject Countries.

Climate

For proposed infoboxes/city climate graphs, see: WikiProject Climate

Descendant projects

Descendant WikiProject Cities include: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Cities/List of city WikiProjects}}

Related WikiProject Cities pages:

• WikiProject Cities/German names
• WikiProject Cities/Names issues
• WikiProject Indian cities
• WikiProject Pakistani cities
• WikiProject Germany/Cities

Other related projects include:

• WikiProject Architecture
• WikiProject Geography of Poland
• WikiProject Ghost Towns
• WikiProject Japan/Districts and municipalities task force
• WikiProject UK geography
• WikiProject Urban studies and planning
• WikiProject U.S. counties
• WikiProject Villages

Resources

Template:Commons cat The following list of links might be useful to editors when editing or maintaining city articles. Please feel free to share any useful links that you think others might find useful.

• International census resources – An index of census sites for different world geographies
  • Eurostat – Census & demographic data from the European commission
  • U.S. Census Bureau – Census & demographic data (the FactFinder is also useful here).
  • U.K. Office for National Statistics – Census & demographic data
• The Green Papers: United States (of America) Federal, State, and Local Government – General information on US data; also includes more specific information on incorporated municipalities. You can get specific information on towns in a given state by going to http://www.thegreenpapers.com/slg/localities.phtml?state= (and putting the state's two-letter postal abbreviation at the end of the URL).
• Sister Cities International, Inc. – Information on sister cities programs and relationships among cities.
• Any postcard first published in the U.S. before 1978 without an explicit copyright notice is PD.