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Welcome to the '''[[History]] [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|WikiProject]]''' on the English Wikipedia!


We are a [[Wikipedia:WikiProject|group]] dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to [[History|history]]. If you would like to join us, please feel free to add your name to the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach/Members|list of project members]].

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==Articles==
===Popular pages===
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You can view a list of our popular pages, at: [[Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Popular_pages]]
===Lists and outlines===
{{Sisterlinks|History}}
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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===
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]]
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== Wikiproject structure and scope==
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Hi everyone. I am writing to ask for any volunteers who might like to help out, or to get more involved here at [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History|WikiProject History]]. Right now, we would like to get WikiProject History up and running again. A number of people have signed up in the past, and indicated their willingness to be involved. If you're still here, we need you!!

You can reply here in this section, or else on on the [[Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_History#WikiProject_History_needs_you|project's talk page]], even if it's just to say hello. If you want, you can reply simply let me know what you are personally working on right now. or also, if you want, you can let me know what your interests are, what topics you find interesting, what you'd like to do, or how you'd like to be involved. whatever it may be, we'd like to hear from you. we appreciate it. thanks!! --[[User:Sm8900|Sm8900]] ([[User talk:Sm8900|talk]]) 14:55, 10 January 2020 (UTC)
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===Founding and development===
Significant milestones for this WikiProject:

* Founded on [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_History&oldid=296726 October 22, 2001], by [[User:Sjc]] and [[User:MichaelTinkler]].
* It was first formatted and explicitly labeled as a WikiProject after a series of edits by [[User:Reddi]], which started on May 31, 2007 and ended around [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_History&oldid=136171255 June 5, 2007].
* as of July 2008, the four users below were the coordinators for this WikiProject, as per [https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_History/Coordinators&oldid=228321242 this version] of the page for Coordinators:
** {{User|John Carter}}
** {{User|Phoenix-wiki}}
** {{User|Wandalstouring}}
** {{User|Reddi}}

===WikiProject structure===
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WikiProject History has developed several structural features to help manage our work:
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Coordination|Coordinators]] are responsible for maintaining the administrative aspects of the project
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Working groups|Working groups]] host work on several specialized tasks, including article quality assessment, detailed article and content review, and offline publication.
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Task forces|Task forces]] are more informal groups for collaboration on specific topics within history.
*WikiProject history recently [[Wikibooks:Wikibooks:WikiProject History|expanded into Wikibooks]].
* See below for more information, including various additional roles and group information, in the section [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History#Project staff and working groups|project staff and working groups]].

===Goals===
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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 [[Portal:History|history portal]] and its [[:Category:History portals|sub-portals]], e) to answer queries about history on the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk|reference desk]], especially the [[Wikipedia:Reference desk/Humanities|humanities reference desk]].

===Outline of history articles===

The entire subject and Wikipedia's coverage of it is intended to be summarized in the '''[[Outline of history]]''' and its '''[[Wikipedia:Contents#History and events|branch outlines]]'''.  These are in turn is part of [[Wikipedia:Contents/Outlines|Wikipedia's outline system]] which is one of [[Wikipedia:Contents|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):

*What's missing? Is the structure of the outline (sections and indents) representative of the subject? Does the outline help understand the relationships between the topics presented in the best way possible?

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 "[http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/689/1/ reverse outline]", a [[tree structure|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===
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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:
*Articles with a "History" section, however long, ''are not'' in our scope
*"History of..." articles ''are'' within our scope

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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:
* Battles or wars should be listed in [[List of battles]] or [[War]].
* Saints should go into [[List of saints]].
* Lists of incumbents are becoming increasingly popular (see [[List of French monarchs]]; [[List of German Kings and Emperors]]); list those lists in [[Lists of incumbents]]
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==Peer review requests==
This is from the page: [[User:AnomieBOT/C/History peer reviews]]
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*[[hui_pan-nationalism]] requesting review and feedback [[User:Linnea2853|Linnea2853]] ([[User talk:Linnea2853|talk]]) 07:08, 25 May 2021 (UTC)

==Article alerts==
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]]

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==Project staff and working groups ==
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.
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===Project Coordinators===
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For purposes of helping coordinate project activities, the users listed below have indicated a willingness to perform such functions. <br />
* Chairman, and Lead Coordinator:
**{{u|sm8900}}<br />
* Coordinators:
** {{u|Iazyges}}
*Key Editors:
**{{u|Gog the Mild}}

*Former project leaders, with thanks: 
**{{u|Vami_IV}}, joined June 22, 2022.

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Coordinators. The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Coordinators|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:
**{{u|sm8900}}<br />
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**{{u|Gog the Mild}}
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**{{u|Vami_IV}}, joined June 22, 2022.


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===Responsibilities===

* ''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.
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* ''Page Coordinators.'' Page coordinators can do the roles above as well, but they do so mainly as facilitators to keep the page itself formatted and up to date, to facilitate discussion here on this page to proceed smoothly, and to encourage a full and free exchange of useful and helpful information to occur on the pages of this WikIProject.
*''Key editors.'' these are highly skilled and experienced editors, who play a key role in editing or improving important topical areas related to history. they are available to answer any questions. they have concurred with the overall structure and direction of this WikiProject.

* ''Working Group Coordinators.'' These coordinate any of one or more of the four core working groups for this WikiProject. "Working Groups" are defined as groups that correlate with the widely-accepted core functions of all WikiProjects, throughout Wikipedia; the existence of these Working Groups is on a semi-permanent basis, regardless of whether they have any members or not.

* ''Task Force Coordinators.'' These coordinate any of one or more of the Task Forces for this WikiProject. Task Forces are centered around a specific task that pertains either to the core subject area, or some specific task or project, that is specific to the WikiProject itself. they can change, be created, or dissolved, based on the changing needs and activities of the WikiProject. therefore, for WikiProject History, there are some task forces that are centered upon historical topics, others upon historical eras, and various others for sundry types of areas. these are subject to continual change and development, as the project itself may dictate.
* ''Assistant Coordinators.'' Editors who fulfill specific roles to assist coordinators in specific project areas and tasks.

===Supplemental roles===
* ''WikiProject Members.'' Editors who are active members of this WIkiProject.
* ''WikiProject Volunteers.'' Editors who volunteer to help with specific efforts or activities at this WikiProject.
* ''WikiProject Liaisons.'' Editors or coordinators from other Wikiprojects.
* ''Admin Partners.'' Admins who serve in a supporting role to regularly communicate to provide assistance as needed.
* ''Project Consultants.'' These are any editors who seek to provide input or assistance to the project on a periodic basis, but do not seek to take on any administrative duties here. so these could include coordinators or editors from other WikiProjects who wish to help out, any experienced editors, any admins who wish to help out or, or absolutely any other interested editors at all, regardless of their experience, who simply wish to provide their input or assistance, at any time, and wish to volunteer for some support role here to do so.
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==Working Groups==
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===Assessment===
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The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Assessment|Assessment Working Group]]  finds historical articles for the first time and rates them on [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Quality|quality]] and [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Importance|importance]] scales.<br />
Current active members:
* {{u|Iazyges}}
* {{u|Gog the Mild}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

=== Collaboration===
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The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Collaboration|Collaboration working group]] serves to improve articles that have been assessed by the [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Assessment|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. <br />

Current active members:

* [[User:Vami_IV|Vami_IV]]

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

===Review===
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The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review|Review working group]] carries out [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review#Peer review|peer reviews]] on historical articles and nominates articles for [[Wikipedia:Good articles|good]] and [[Wikipedia:Featured articles|featured]] status. It also carries out [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Review#A-Class review|A-Class]] reviews on articles within our scope.
Current active members:
* {{u|Iazyges}}
* {{u|Gog the Mild}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

===Outreach===
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The [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Outreach|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:
* {{user|Sm8900}}

(Please feel free to add your name to join!!)

===Informal subgroups===

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<br />Informal subgroups are any individual subgroup that any editor wishes to set up, on an informal or formal basis, for the purpose of gathering any group of editors together. This will be to enable editors to form their own subgroups for working with and communicating with other editors, but <u>without</u> taking on the formal roles and responsibilities of an official task force.

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!!
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==Task forces==

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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:
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces]]


===TF Modern and Contemporary History===

Official banner:
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* [[Wikipedia:WikiProject History/Task forces/Contemporary history task force|Task Force page]]
*Members:
**{{user|sm8900}}
**{{user|keepcalmandchill}}
*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===
*Members:
**{{user|JayTee32}} (Coordinater)
*Covers [[Ancient history]]; usually defined as history from the earliest [[civilization]]s up to the [[fall of the Roman Empire]].
*Goals (will be updated):

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;TF Medieval History:
* Members:
** ''None''
* Covers [[Medieval history]];, usually defined as history from the the fall of the Roman Empire until the [[Renaissance]].

;TF Renaissiance:
* Members
**''None.''
* Covers the [[Renaissance]] era

;TF Early modern history:
* Members:
**''None.''
* Covers [[Early modern history]], usually defined as approximately 1500 until 1800.

;TF Late modern history:
* Members:
**''None.''
* Covers [[Late modern history]], usually defined as the 1800 until the present day.

===Task forces by subject area===
*Industrial history
**Members:
***''None.''
**Covers [[History of industry]]
*Cultural history
**Members:
***''None.''
**Covers History of [[Culture]]
*Economic history
**Members:
***''None.''
**Covers [[History of economics]]
*Technological history
**Members:
***''None.''
**Covers [[History of technology]], , [[Communications|History of communications]], [[History of writing]], [[History of printing]], [[History of transport]], and the broad range of [[Inventions|human inventions]], [[technological development]], and [[civilization]] throughout [[human history]]; as well as specific key areas such as the rise of [[History of telecommunication]], the [[Industrial Revolution]], modern forms of transport, and the [[History of computing|development of computers]] and [[artificial intelligence]] which characterize the [[Modern Age]].
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==Outreach, members, templates==

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'''Project banner'''

The banner {{tl|WikiProject History}} should be added to the '''''talk''''' pages of all relevant articles.

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'''Infobox Historical Event'''

The Infobox {{tl|Infobox historical event}} should be added to the pages of notable events.

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'''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]].
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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.

*List of {{subpages}}
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Organization of [[:Category:History]]. [[:Category:History]] contains only the most general articles, such as [[History]] and [[Human history]]. Other historical articles appear in one or more sub-categories.
Category names. The category for the history of the modern nation X should be called "History of X" or "History of the X" and included.

'''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.
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*[[:Category:History by period]] contains histories organized by chronology, for example [[:Category:Ancient history]].
*[[:Category:History by topic]] contains histories not organized by geography or chronology, for example [[:Category:History of science]].
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The history of subject Y should be categorized under "History of Y". But the alternate name "Xish history" is acceptable. When a country no longer exists, there's no need to have a separate "History of" category for it. For example, since we have [[:Category:Ancient Rome]], there's no need for a category "History of Ancient Rome".

When "History of X" becomes large (more than fifty articles, say), create sub-categories and move articles to them. Standard sub-categories include:
*"Political history of X"
*"Economic history of X"
*"Religious history of X"
*"Legal history of X"
*"Cultural history of X"
*"Military history of X"
*"Presidents/Prime ministers/Monarchs/Heads of State/Rulers of X" (delete as appropriate)

Don't create sub-categories until you have enough articles to populate them. As a rough guide, it's not worth creating a sub-category unless you have five articles to put in it.

"Y history of X" should be a sub-category of both "History of X" and of "History of Y". For example, [[:Category:Military history of the United Kingdom]] is a sub-category of both [[:Category:Military history]] and of [[:Category:History of the United Kingdom]].
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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.

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Using the United Kingdom as an example:
*Have separate history categories for each major geographical part and historical predecessor of that nation: [[:Category:History of Wales]], [[:Category:History of England]], [[:Category:History of Scotland]], [[:Category:History of Great Britain]], [[:Category:History of Northern Ireland]], etc.
*Use the common names where possible even if this creates ambiguity. For example, England is both a historical nation and a geographical region: logically speaking we might prefer a category named like "History of England (1066–1707)", but unfortunately no-one is likely to use such a category name unless they are familiar with the categorization scheme. So [[:Category:History of England]] must do for both.
*A geographical subdivision includes the categories for its parts; a historical subdivision includes the categories for its predecessors. This might create loops in the categories, for example [[:Category:History of Ireland]] is in [[:Category:History of the Republic of Ireland]] by the historical rule, and the latter is in the former by the geographical rule. This does no harm.
*The category "History of X" always belongs to the category for "X", if it exists. So [[:Category:History of England]] belongs to [[:Category:England]].
*Put events in the most specific categor(ies) to which they apply. So the [[Wars of Scottish Independence]] go in both [[:Category:History of England]] and [[:Category:History of Scotland]], but [[:Category:Seven Years' War]] goes in [[:Category:History of Great Britain]].
Here's an incomplete diagram showing these historical categories and how they relate in the category system:
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(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.)
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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Iran|WikiProject Iran]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject United States History|WikiProject United States History]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject European history|WikiProject European history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome|WikiProject Classical Greece and Rome]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Dacia|WikiProject Dacia]]
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*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Science|WikiProject History of Science]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Mesoamerica|Wikiproject Mesoamerica]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Jewish history|WikiProject Jewish history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Former countries|WikiProject Former countries]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian maritime history|WikiProject Australian maritime history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Chinese history|WikiProject Chinese history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Three Kingdoms|WikiProject Three Kingdoms]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Indian history|WikiProject Indian history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Pakistan|WikiProject History of Pakistan]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East|WikiProject Ancient Near East]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Egypt|WikiProject Ancient Egypt]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of Poland|WikiProject History of Poland]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Russian History|WikiProject Russian history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Norse history and culture|WikiProject Norse history and culture]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Medieval Scotland|WikiProject Medieval Scotland]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Hanseatic League|WikiProject Hanseatic League]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Aztec|WikiProject Aztec]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Leaders by year|WikiProject Leaders by year]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian history|WikiProject Australian history]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Cold War|WikiProject Cold War]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject History of photography|WikiProject History of photography]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Middle Ages|WikiProject Middle Ages]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms|WikiProject Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms]]
*[[Wikipedia:WikiProject Piracy|WikiProject Piracy]]
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