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COVERAGE AREA
Louisville Metro / Jefferson County
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro) Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA) Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY MSA
Bardstown, KY µSA
Scottsburg, IN µSA
PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS Updated July 2, 2024
PROJECT STATISTICS
📰 PROJECT NEWS Updated June 23, 2024 🗞️ June 23, 2024
There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ June 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, with
Kentucky Derby at #4,
Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6,
Valhalla Golf Club at #9,
2024 Kentucky Derby at #16,
Mint julep at #21,
2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and
2024 PGA Championship at #36. 🗞️ May 24, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months. 🗞️ May 22, 2024
There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ April 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months. 🗞️ March 30, 2024
Walter A. Groves becomes a
good article. (Category:
Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty) 🗞️ March 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months. 🗞️ February 29, 2024
There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ February 9, 2024
Lamar Jackson is our
most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and
Heisman Trophy winner who played for the
Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the
Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous
Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award. 🗞️ January 13, 2024
WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar,
The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per
usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go. 🗞️ January 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our
most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place
Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time
Golden Globe winner Cruise attended
St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city. 🗞️ December 28, 2023
There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 12, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our
most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper
Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9. 🗞️ December 3, 2023
Check out WikiProject Louisville's new
Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page. 🗞️ November 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our
most popular article for October. Lawrence, an
Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro. 🗞️ October 24, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ October 21, 2023
WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new. 🗞️ October 10, 2023
WikiProject Louisville's
Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our
talk page. 🗞️ October 8, 2023
Deion Sanders is our
most popular article for September. Sanders, a former
NFL and
MLB player and currently the head coach of
Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the
Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01). 🗞️ October 3, 2023
WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated
action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{
WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages. Archive of news items over 5 years old 🗞️ June 7, 2006 WikiProject Louisville begins. 🗨️ PROJECT BUZZ
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WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky (a multi-county region in north-central Kentucky and Southern Indiana) and related subjects in the Wikipedia.
Everyone is welcome to participate!
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Priority with Most Issues (Improve) |
Non-Priority with Most Issues (Improve) |
Popular Stubs (Expand) |
Popular with Old Issues (Improve) |
Missing Here (Create) |
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1 | Louisville Cardinals football | WKMJ-TV | Rebecca Broussard | Deion Sanders |
Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky |
2 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Dian Fossey | Sean O'Bryan | Maurice Lucas |
Columbia Auditorium /
Columbia Gym current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area" |
3 | University of Louisville | Ford Explorer | Brian McMahan | Josh Hamilton |
SoBro, Louisville neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym) |
4 | Belle of Louisville | Walden School (Louisville) | 1974 Kentucky Derby | Fort Knox |
Pegasus Parade longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect) |
5 | Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) | AssuredPartners NL | Ethan Buckler | Diane Sawyer |
Waterfront Botanical Gardens hot new attraction near Louisville Waterfront Park |
6 | Louisville Cardinals men's basketball | Deion Sanders | 1996 Kentucky Derby | Aroldis Chapman |
Ehrler's Dairy established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor |
7 | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Elizabeth Tori | Erin Wilhelmi | Secretariat (film) |
Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon also a longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect) |
WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted:
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WikiProject Kentucky Alerts have been posted:
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WikiProject Indiana Alerts have been posted:
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The goal of our WikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area by creating, improving, connecting, assessing and monitoring articles, lists, infobox/navbox templates and all other pages about the area and any subject/person well connected to it (usually identified from Louisville area-related categorization).
Our scope is Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, specifically the combined statistical area, consisting of multiple counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, as follows:
*Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA
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WikiProject Louisville shares coverage with and sometimes supersedes coverage for the following projects: