Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Things you can do

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Portal-specific to-do list (transcluded above --^)

Please take up the task by changing it from to  Doing... with your initials, and then  Done if it was a one-time job.
(Items in bold are higher priority, items in italic are scheduled for moving to the Done things subpage)

At launch (January 31, 2010):

• 1. Short announcement of project/portal launch on: WikiProject_Industrial design/Announcement and Portal:Design  Done. AR
• 2. Reference project on: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory  Done. AR
• 3. Remove [[Category:Portals under construction]] on Design Portal  Done. AR
• 4. Move portal to permanent location  Done. AR
• 5. Tag article Industrial design with {{Portal|Design}}  Done. AR
• 6. Tag category Industrial design with {{Portal|Design}}  Done. AR
• 7. Create Portal talk archives subpage  Done. AR
• 8. Enable {{auto archiving notice|bot=MiszaBot II|age=31}} on project talk and Portal talk pages  Done. AR
• 9. Reference Portal on Portal:Contents/Portals, Wikipedia:Portal/Directory and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Portals/Status  Done. AR
• 10. Ask for reciprocal links on projects Visual arts, Technology, etc.  Done. AR
• 11. Announcement of project/portal on: Template:Announcements/Community bulletin board  Done. AR

After launch:

• Revise the Design portal texts for English correctness  Done. Intelligentsium
• Ask for collaboration on Portal by Graphic design WikiProject  Done. AR
• Ask for reciprocal links on portal Visual arts, Technology, Typography, etc.  Done. AR
• Ask for collaboration on Portal by Architecture WikiProject (but they already have their Arch. portal so...) ?  Doing... AR
• Organize Design content on Wikibooks
  • Create a category like 'Design' under Category:Visual_arts  Done. AR
  • A broad search for possible untagged Design related books is here (does not work)
• Organize Design content on Wikiquote
  • Create a page like 'Design'  Done.
  • A broad search for possible untagged Design related quotes is here
• Organize Design content on Wiktionary (good luck these people are like dogs)
  • Create a category like 'Design' under Category:Technology
  • Alternate solution is this, but needs a lot more work...
  • A broad search for possible untagged Design related definitions is here
• Organize Design content on Wikisource
  • Create a category like 'Design' under Category:Technology  Done. AR
    
    

Note: We tried to automate this through AWB and that was a failure so far, so I guess we now move in the manual edit mode phase of the project as of... TODAY. --AlainR345^{Techno-Wiki-Geek} 21:27, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

PUT THIS IN ARTICLE PAGES
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<!--beginning of article...-->

<!--add WHEN applicable (if the article is specifically about a designer)-->
{{Infobox architect}}

<!--rest of article...-->

==See also==

<!--ADD always-->
{{Portal|Design}}

<!--add WHEN applicable (if the article is not already quality-rated)-->
{{Design-stub}}

<!--add IF not present-->
[[Category:Industrial design]] or a subcategory...

PUT THIS IN TALK PAGE OF ARTICLES
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<!--Industrial design class and importance parameters are to vary according to judgment...-->

{{wpbs||1=

{{WikiProject_Industrial_design|class=Start|importance=Mid}}  Done. AR

}}

<!--add WHEN applicable (if specific tasks are to be done on article)-->
{{to_do}}

(see the Design Cafe to contribute ideas.)

(see Project Goals for the broad picture)

• Tag:
  • Articles already with Category:Industrial design (or a subcategory, but no Consumer goods except Furniture, no Auto/Moto, and no CAD file format/software) have been tagged with {{WikiProject Industrial design}} by a bot (AWB) from February 27 to March 10, 2010  Done ZooFari,Arbitrarily0,AR
  • Redirect pages  Done. AR
  • Disambiguation pages  Done. AR
  • Image files  Done. AR,Koman90
  • Categories  Done. Magioladitis,AR
  • Screen Category:Consumer electronics and Category:Sports equipment for possible Industrial design articles
  • See also Industrial design BIGTOP above
• Assess:
  • Articles already with {{WikiProject Industrial design}} have been auto-assessed on their talk page by a bot (Xenobot) on March 14, 2010  Done. AR
  • Increase article quality towards Start, C, B, A, GA or FA status according to their importance level.
• Write:
  • There are mainly 5 sources of Industrial design articles from which to choose to work your pen in this project:
    • Existing Industrial design categorized articles
    • New Industrial design categorized articles  Doing... CC
    • Existing, possibly Industrial design related, but uncategorized, articles (same as List below)  Done. Schluum,AR
    • Industrial design related topics non-existing as articles in Wikipedia
    • Existing Industrial design categorized articles with some bot-identified issues  Doing... Dezignr
• Maintain:
  • Follow this page for the WikiProject and see here for the Portal
    • Recent changes in articles related to Industrial design
    • Article alerts (bot filing Proposed deletion, Afds, FA reviews, GA nominations, GA reassessment, Peer review, Requested moves, News)
    • Unreferenced BLPs (biography of living persons without references)
• List:
  • A search for possible Industrial design related untagged Wikipedia articles is here  Done. Schluum,AR

^-- Based on that last search, we did a list; please put Good, Bad or Unclear on each candidate (for inclusion in Industrial design related categories) below: