Usage

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A Wikipedia:WikiProject is a group of people. The point of this tag is to help people figure out whether this set of pages is currently being used by a group of people. The pages associated with currently inactive and defunct groups are not normally deleted, and whether there is an active group of people for a given set of pages is not a comment on whether the subject is objectively important to the world. Marking groups' activity levels has a purely practical goal: It helps other editors know where they'll likely find the help they need.

Pages with this template are placed into the appropriate category depending on the status selected as shown below:

Example:
With no parameters or with the |active parameter:

Usage: Semi-active projects

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Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be barely active:

{{WikiProject status|Semi-active}}

A project is generally considered semi-active when:

  • there have been some, but relatively few, significant changes to the main project page for several months or
  • there have been some, but relatively few, discussions on its talk page for several months.

Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently semi-active WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.

Example:

Usage: Draft or in-progress projects

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Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be a proposal or still under construction to an extent that it is not yet usable:

{{WikiProject status|Draft}}

A project is generally considered draft when:

  • it is a proposal at WP:WikiProject Council/Proposals or
  • It is obviously still being worked on to provide basic functionality; and
  • there have been few or no discussions on its talk page for several months (a project could actually be active despite being in an incomplete state).

Neither work to reconfigure aspects of a project or add new features, nor some features becoming moribund, constitute a project lapsing into draft state.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently incomplete WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is in fact active.

Example:

Usage: Inactive projects

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Place this template at the top of any WikiProject:

{{WikiProject status|Inactive}}

A project is generally considered inactive when:

  • there are no editors listed as members or
  • there have been no significant changes to the main project page for four months or
  • there have been no discussions on its talk page for four months.

Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently inactive WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.

Example:

Usage: Defunct projects

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Place this template at the top of any WikiProject that appears to be defunct:

{{WikiProject status|Defunct}}

Replace the {{inactive}} tag if it is present, or remove the inactive=yes parameter from {{Infobox Wikipedia WikiProject}}, if present.

Before applying the tag:

  1. process the list of project members, placing indefinitely blocked editors and editors inactive on Wikipedia for more than a year in separate subheadings. Check the project's userbox category/ies for unlisted members. If one or more active editors remain but it is still reasonable to think the project may be defunct, check with those editors individually if they agree.
  2. if the project has a working assessment system (typically a WP:1.0 banner/category structure), consider whether this information exists elsewhere. Even without activity, it may be useful. Consider proposing a merger with a related project if appropriate. You can ask for advice about this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council.
  3. consider the likelihood the project may be revived in future. A few projects have a purpose which is so specific that the project may simply be complete (or obsolete). In general, the narrower the scope, or the more it overlaps with other projects, the more reasonable to consider the project defunct. The less the project achieved (some hardly get beyond the proposal stage), the less likely it will be revived. Consider marking or leaving the project marked as merely "inactive".
  4. consider whether the project may be relevant for Countering Systemic Bias. Discuss at WP:CSB if necessary. If it is, remind relevant related projects of the project's existence, and suggest possible merger.

Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently defunct WikiProject, after following the steps above. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active or at least revivable.

Example:

Optional parameters

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Full code

{{WikiProject status
| margin       =
| hide         =
| style        =
| image        =
| project-type =
| topic        =
| topiclc      =
| taskforce    =
| process      =
| en-gb        =
| wp           =
| type         =
| parent       =
| mergedto     =
| date         =
| note         =
| portal       =
| sc1          =
| sc2          =
| sc3          =
| sc4          =
| sc5          =
| nocat        =
}}

margin

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margin=0px

en-gb

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en-gb=yes
If using British/Commonwealth English (switches to -ise spellings)

parent

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parent=
Name of parent WikiProject, e.g., for Wikipedia:WikiProject South America use |parent=South America. Providing this adds "and/or the parent project" to the "why not join" message. Only works if status is inactive or defunct.

type

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type=
Choose from: anime and manga, band, edu, game, geo, sports, or TV show; presently this feature is only used for subcategorization of WikiProjects in media, fandom, and youth subculture subject areas, as well as geographic subject areas. This is because those subject areas attract the creation of numerous narrowly topical projects.

mergedto

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mergedto=
Indicates the target of a merge, merged to WikiProject Foo. This parameter's value is the name of the wikiproject without the "Wikipedia:WikiProject" part.

date

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date=
Use to include the date when marking semi-active, inactive, and defunct projects (takes any format)

note

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note= or reason=
Set a note that will appear in the banner.

portal

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portal=
Adds a link to the associate portal page, e.g., for Portal:South America use |portal=South America

Shortcut paramenters

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sc1=WP:SHORTCUT1

sc2=WP:SHORTCUT2

sc3=WP:SHORTCUT3

sc4=WP:SHORTCUT4

sc5=WP:SHORTCUT5

nocat

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nocat=
If set to true, the category will be suppressed.

Task forces

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Set these when using on the page of task force (a.k.a. work group), i.e. a sub-project.

project-type=
Set to either topic or process, then complete in the matching parameter
topic=
Use this for task forces working on a particular topic within a WikiProject
process=
Use this for task forces working on improvement of a particular process within a WikiProject

hide

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|hide=yes
This will hide the banner, but keep the categorizations

TemplateData

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This is the TemplateData for this template used by TemplateWizard, VisualEditor and other tools. See a monthly parameter usage report for Template:WikiProject status in articles based on its TemplateData.

TemplateData for WikiProject status

No description.

Template parameters

ParameterDescriptionTypeStatus
Activity status1

no description

Suggested values
active semi-active draft inactive defunct
Default
active
Unknownsuggested
marginmargin

no description

Unknownoptional
hidehide

no description

Unknownoptional
stylestyle

no description

Unknownoptional
imageimage

no description

Unknownoptional
project-typeproject-type

no description

Unknownoptional
topictopic

no description

Unknownoptional
taskforcetaskforce

no description

Unknownoptional
topiclctopiclc

no description

Unknownoptional
processprocess

no description

Unknownoptional
en-gben-gb

no description

Unknownoptional
wpwp

no description

Unknownoptional
typetype

no description

Unknownoptional
parentparent

no description

Unknownoptional
mergedtomergedto

no description

Unknownoptional
datedate

no description

Unknownoptional
notenote

no description

Unknownoptional
portalportal

no description

Unknownoptional
sc1sc1 sc

no description

Unknownoptional
sc2sc2

no description

Unknownoptional
sc3sc3

no description

Unknownoptional
sc4sc4

no description

Unknownoptional
sc5sc5

no description

Unknownoptional
nocatnocat

no description

Unknownoptional
sistersister

no description

Unknownoptional
supercededsuperceded

no description

Unknownoptional
reasonreason

no description

Unknownoptional

See also

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