Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of roads in Australia, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the
talk page and see the to-do list below.
What can you do?
First and foremost,
just start editing – help us improve our articles! Here are some specific tasks you can do:
Resources – see our
resources page for useful templates, maps, images, and sources.
Scope
WikiProject Australian Roads maintains and improves articles related to roads and road transportation in Australia, excluding topics related to vehicles. This scope covers all road-related articles within the
Roads in Australia category structure, but only some of the articles within the wider
Road transport in Australia category.
To continually improve the coverage of Australian roads on Wikipedia, through collaboration
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The key points in the mission are explained below:
continually improve – There is no endpoint for the project, as roads are continually being built, upgraded and extended.
coverage – Here coverage refers to both quality of coverage and breadth of coverage.
Australian roads – The project mission is directly related to its scope. Articles outside of the project scope should collaborated on at a more appropriate venue.
on Wikipedia – Improving Wikipedia is the core reason for editing Wikipedia. All of the projects articles and edits should be consistent with Wikipedia's
principles,
policies and guidelines.
through collaboration – This refers to both inter-editor collaboration within this project (through discussion and shared resources), and inter-project colloboration (working with the other projects / task forces within
WikiProject Highways and
WikiProject Australia).
Goals
Long term goals are:
Improve articles and lists to featured status
Complete coverage of national and state highways and major roads (no important redlinks)
Medium term goals are:
Develop standards and guidelines for Australian road articles (to complement existing Wikipedia-wide guidelines)
Get at least one article to
GA status for each state and mainland territory
Short term goals are:
Identify editors who may be interested and ask them to join
Tag and assess all articles within the project scope (see the projects
Assessment page)
Develop project resources, to be listed and explained on the
Resources page
To do
Here are some important tasks you can do to help WikiProject Australian Roads:
Short articles (such as
Start and
Stub-class articles) – Include information such as history, future works, and route description; as well as an intersection list, an infobox, and navboxes
Cleanup:
See
Cleanup listing for articles needing cleanup. As of 5 September 2013, the largest cleanup categories are: Articles lacking sources (137); Articles needing additional references (76); and Articles with unsourced statements (74)
Copyedit:
All articles, but particularly articles nominated (or those about to be nominated) at
WP:GAN,
WP:HWY/ACR,
WP:FAC
Advanstra (
talk·contribs) – Queensland particularly South East Qld, Pacific Hwy and other parts of NSW
Aunty Stick (
talk·contribs) − Main interest is in freeway and dual carriageway development. A librarian at the University of Melbourne, so currently making the most of access to primary resources available from the library to provide accurate historical data.
Rangasyd (
talk·contribs) – Primary focus is on roads in NSW/ACT, especially south of the Hunter region. Bridges, railway and river crossings are also of interest.
Melbourne Roads Editor (
talk·contribs) - Primary focus is on metropolitan roads and routes throughout all of Melbourne (primarily on eastern and south eastern suburbs).
BetterByBike (
talk·contribs) – Primary focus is on greater Melbourne's inner city streets and in particular bicycle infrastructure.
MadamePhoenica (
talk·contribs) - Primary focus is Perth and surrounding suburbs within City of Perth council boundaries.
AUroadgeek7 (
talk·contribs) - Interested in all major roads and route numbers, particularly the old numeric route numbering system and tourist drives in Victoria (and to a lesser extent NSW and other states and territories).
This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by
JL-Bot (
talk·contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is
tagged or
categorized (e.g.
Category:WikiProject Australian Roads articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See
WP:RECOG for configuration options.
The
Resources page lists many useful resources for improving articles, including templates, maps, images, references, important external links, and more.
See also the
Article Standards page for advice on titles, content, infoboxes, maps, and road junction lists.
The
Popular pages report list articles (with their assessed class/importance) by number of page views, showing which pages readers are most interested in.