WikiProject

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Etymology

Compound of wiki +‎ project. Coined before 26 September 2001 (see quotations) by Wikipedian Manning Bartlett, creator of the concept earlier that month.

Noun

WikiProject (plural WikiProjects)

  1. (Wikimedia jargon) A group of editors who work together on improving the coverage of a particular topic on a wiki, especially on Wikipedia.
    • 2001 September 26, Manning Bartlett, “basic framework - lots more work needed”, in Wikipedia‎:
      This is the WikiProject page for SPORTS
    • 2013 October 1, Julie Beck, “Should I Be Getting Health Information From Wikipedia?”, in The Atlantic‎, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-10:
      Through Wikiproject Medicine, some medical professionals (and other health-savvy Wikipedia editors) have taken it upon themselves to improve the quality of medical information available on the site.
    • 2018 July 25, “The ’Guerrilla’ Wikipedia Editors Who Combat Conspiracy Theories”, in Wired‎, San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-29:
      Wikipedia is made up of thousands of WikiProjects—groups of editors who work together to tackle articles on similar topics—but not all of them offer the same level of training that [Susan] Gerbic does.
    • 2020 August 7, Travis M. Andrews, “Covid-19 is one of Wikipedia’s biggest challenges ever. Here’s how the site is handling it.”, in The Washington Post‎, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-17:
      A WikiProject, among other things, includes a page of reliable sources for editors to pull from.
    • 2020 October 22, Donald G[erard] McNeil Jr., “Wikipedia and W.H.O. Join to Combat Covid-19 Misinformation”, in The New York Times‎, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-10-11:
      Some pages can be "locked" and cannot be changed until one of more than 200 volunteer editors on WikiProject Covid-19, many of whom are doctors or academics, review it.

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