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The British Empire WikiProject was formed in order to foster better articles within its scope with a spirit of cooperation. The participants are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the British Empire. This WikiProject is modelled on Wikiproject Commonwealth realms and was started in June, 2008. It is our hope that this project will provide an amicable atmosphere in which the efforts of interested Wikipedians can be focussed. If you would like to help, please inquire on our talk page and visit our to do page.
The British Empire was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European age of discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires. By 1921, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population and about a quarter of Earth's total land area. As a result, its legacy is widespread, in legal and governmental systems, economic practice, militarily, educational systems, sports, and in the global spread of the English language. At the peak of its power, it was often said that " the sun never sets on the British Empire", a phrase that is still true even as of 2018, because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous colonies, protectorates, territories or subject nations.
During the five decades following World War II, most of the territories of the Empire became independent. Many went on to join the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. See also Wikiproject British Overseas Territories.
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User | Time and date | Relevant interests and specialist knowledge | Status |
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Cameron (Co-founder) | 19:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC) | Lists of monarchs, British government, British monarchs. | User |
MichiganCharms (Co-founder) | 19:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC) | Dominions, colonial governments, economics, etc. | User |
Rrius (Co-founder) | 06:22, 20 June 2008 (UTC) | Early empire, colonial government and governance (especially US, Canada, and India) | User |
Commander Zulu | 11:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC) | Firearms & Military of the British Empire | User |
The_one092001 | 23:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC) | Military history, WWII, Pacific Expansion, Grammatical clean-up | User |
Gazzster | 14:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC) | Politics, constitutional development, Australia, religion | User |
Jim Sweeney | 06:41, July 14 2008 (UTC) | Military History | User |
Thesocialistesq | 04:04 June 28 2008 | Copyediting, titles and forms of address, politics and governance, the early 19th century. | User |
Skookum1 | 14:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC) | Fur trade-era and colonial British Columbia/British North Pacific, conflicting imperial claims/disputes in that area etc., related native and Western US history | User |
TharkunColl | 21:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC) | General British Empire history | User |
Phunting | 02:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC) | Fiction, general British Empire history | User |
Taifarious1 | 23:17, 8 October 2008 | Specifically New Zealand, the topic of republicanism in both New Zealand and Australia, but the commonwealth in general and some work on Government Houses of New Zealand. | User |
Darkshark0159 | 15:13, 20 October 2008 | General British Empire history | User |
Simon Harley | 16:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC) | Royal Navy late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries. | User |
Goldblooded | 3rd Novemeber 2011 | Scramble for Africa in the 19th century, Aftermath of WW1/2, Suez Crisis and subsequent decolonisation | User |
NotOnIsraPal | 00:50, 28 May 2012 | I did, and am continuing to do, the Mau Mau Uprising article; also the related Chuka massacre, and migrated archives. I'm interested in all aspects of the British Empire. | User |
Knight of Gloucestershire | 29th June 2012 | British Monarchs, British Hong Kong | User |
teb00007 | 21:20 27 July 2013 | History of the empire, particularly Australia, Canada and New Zealand | User |
Nford24 | 1536 AEST 3 January 2014 | Empire history, Monarchs, Australia, New Zealand & the military of the Empire | User |
adamblack93 | 01:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC) | History of the British empire, particularly the Royal Navy and the empire's military. Also the Falkland Islands and the colonies of the South Atlantic. | User |
IseeEwe | 04:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC) | WWII military | User |
Grant | 10 September 2014 | History (especially historiography/theory, social, economic and military); Politics (e.g. ideologies, political economy, constitutional law, international relations); Philosophy | Administrator |
Dowcet | 05:10, 30 Dec 2014 (UTC) | Economic, social and environmental history of British Malaya; Tropical commodities and agriculture | User |
Presidentman | 14:23, 25 April 2016 (UTC) | Monarchy, politics, and military | User |
Exemplo347 | 00:26, 04 June 2016 (UTC) | Victoria Cross Recipients of the 1857-1859 Indian Mutiny | User |
Robert Brukner | 00:26, 04 June 2016 | Military history, archaeology, historiography, philosophy of science | User |
A Guy Into Books | 20:12, 17 August 2017 (GMT) | Law, legal and constitutional history | User |
Failosopher | 22:45, 27 September 2017 | The East India Company & the Quit India Movement | User |
Sullay | 21:59, 23 July 2018 | Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, British West Africa | User |
UnknownBrick22 | 23:35, 27 December 2019 | Geographical and military history of the Commonwealth Realms & Dominions; the monarchy; British Imperial flags, arms and heraldry | User |
Sm8900 | 05:25, 17 January 2020 (UTC) | Interested in political and military history of this era, as well as present-day Britain and British Commonwealth | Project Coordinator, WikiProject History |
Nitesh Yadav | 4:18, 17 April 2021 (IST) | British Empire in South Asia | User |
Siegfied Nugent | 6:33, 17 September 2021 (AEST) | General British Empire, though specialise in Africa, Asia and Oceania - particularly Australia and New South Wales. Current focus on Rhodesia. Governors, judges, administrators, colonial politicians. | User |
DDMS123 | 06:35, 27 April 2023 (UTC) | General British Empire history and monarchy | User |
C411978 | 16:01, 28 December 2023 (UTC) | British Malaya | User |
Accurateinfoomg | 11:34, 10th January2024 | Scramble for Africa | User |
For a list of the articles deemed most important to this project see Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire/Important.
The project generally considers any article related to the British Empire to be a valid topic. A simple (but accurate) way of checking which pages are within our scope is to follow click "What links here" in the "toolbox" section of this page. The scope template is added to pages within our WikiProject. Anyone may add an article to the scope, provided they are sure that it is relevant to the project. An article may be in the scope of multiple WikiProjects. Where this is true one should be sure to contact the other WikiProjects too so as to avoid conflicts. If you are not sure whether to add the template, propose it at the talk page first.
For templates relevant to the British Empire see this page.
Please also view our talk page for up to date discussions!
This Wikiproject needs people who are interested in the British Empire, and are willing to improve Brtish Empire related articles. We also need spellcheckers, reference consolidators, copyeditors and admins.
Feel free to add an article to the list or discuss on the project talk page.
Below is a bot generated table stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering British Empire into the box here.
British Empire articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 2 | 5 | 10 | 1 | 18 | ||
FL | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
A | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
GA | 8 | 13 | 40 | 42 | 103 | ||
B | 13 | 36 | 56 | 171 | 172 | 448 | |
C | 4 | 44 | 63 | 463 | 512 | 1,086 | |
Start | 4 | 21 | 73 | 1,201 | 1,339 | 2,638 | |
Stub | 2 | 24 | 559 | 809 | 1,394 | ||
List | 1 | 8 | 150 | 1 | 73 | 233 | |
Category | 6,025 | 6,025 | |||||
NA | 3 | 14 | 200 | 2 | 219 | ||
Assessed | 21 | 114 | 247 | 2,611 | 6,226 | 2,951 | 12,170 |
Unassessed | 1 | 21 | 22 | ||||
Total | 21 | 114 | 247 | 2,612 | 6,226 | 2,972 | 12,192 |
WikiWork factors ( ?) | ω = 27,455 | Ω = 4.82 |
This log shows new and changed assessments, and is updated by a bot every few days.