This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the
U.S. State of
Minnesota, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history, and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Minnesota in a NPOV and accurate manner.
This
WikiProject was formed to coordinate the development of better articles on the
U.S. state of Minnesota. This page and its subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.
The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of Minnesota.
Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Minnesota, or is generally notable to people other than residents of Minnesota. They define and determine the subject of the Minnesota WikiProject.
Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Minnesota, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic.
Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.
New article patrol
The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page.
This is the workflow for dealing with them
History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood
Members
Active members
To join WikiProject Minnesota, edit this section and insert the
Wikitext#{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place
member identification on their user page.
Adanielch - University of Minnesota, William Mitchell College of Law, politics in Minnesota
Bobamnertiopsis - Minneapolis stuff, especially history in south Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Public Library branches.
Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
Boon0044 - Saint Peter/Mankato/New Ulm area, state and local media, southern suburbs
Calebrw (
talk) - South Minneapolis. Rice County. Northfield and the surrounding area. I can take requests on my talk page for pictures in those areas.
Daveswagon - working on Central Minnesota locations and topics
Davumaya - Focus is on article recording and minneapolis & south burbs
Dynamic Doyle (
talk)- Wikipedia user since September 2013. Avid bicyclist and manufacturing engineering technology student in
Minneapolis and
Mankato. Works at
Star_Tribune Fleet Garage. Also loves finance/accounting, R&D, design, art, fluids (gas/liquids), classical music, and advocating for education.
Gopherbone - University of Minnesota, Golden Gopher athletics
Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring
Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
greyduk - Minnesota lakes and other random information.
Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated -
List of Minnesota Synagogues
Gtadoc - Medicine and medical education, and taking some pics of Rochester
Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
Mr. Guye - I live in
Robbinsdale. I will likely focus on Minnesota politics and government. How am I not already a member of this WikiProject? I care about my state's articles!
matt91486 - Intending to work on state Reps and Senators in addition to the random sports figures.
MatthewUND - I live in
Grand Forks, ND, but I will help with northwest MN...particularly the Red River Valley. I can also serve as a liason between WPMN and WPND.
Mattwj2002 - I live in the Twin Cities. If I can be of any assistance, please let me know, I like to take pictures!
Mazzmn - SE Minn articles & images, and random tangents.
Myotus - Museums and local history organizations, Minnesota history especially local histories, historical sites.
Natalie Erin I can help with most general stuff and can provide requested free-content photos in the metro area.
Natemann133 A former intern in the Minnesota State Senate and Minnesota House of Representatives. Also a die-hard Minnesota sports fan and U of M graduate. I frequently edit/create member pages for members of the Minnesota House and Senate.
Russian F - Culture and history of Minnesota, Northern Minnesota
Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
Ryan Vesey Currently working on some southwest Minnesota articles, trying to create articles for all of the Senators and Representatives from the region
sabeen557 - Some on history and parks, cities that are near me, and write and supply pictures for the
Minnesota State Fair (In the summer, it looks bad now)
SoAnactoria (
talk·contribs) 05:54:16, 12 December 2022 (UTC) - Wide interest range, but primarily urban planning, West Central Minnesota (particularly the Red River Valley), art in MN, Indigenous history and culture.reply
UBeR - Created
glacial history of Minnesota. Can help on weather or hydrology related articles pertaining to Minnesota. Also have general knowledge on many Minnesota related topics.
Voot 42 - Infrastructure, politics and random articles.
WeijiBaikeBianji (
talk) - University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Law School, fifth-generation Minnesotan. Will look around for miscellaneous tasks mentioned on the project page.
At least one
Minnesota user meetup was held every year from 2005 to 2018. Users have suggested a meetup for 2024. See the
meetup talk page to see planned meetups and discuss future events.
Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of
Category:Minnesota articles by importance or
Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by
User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.