COVERAGE AREA
Louisville Metro / Jefferson County
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro)
(inclusive of Louisville Metro)
Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA)
(traditional part of Louisville MSA)
Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY MSA
Bardstown, KY µSA
Scottsburg, IN µSA
PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS
Updated September 25, 2024
Updated September 25, 2024
| Edits | Article | Rating |
|---|---|---|
| 31 | Tim Krekel | Start |
| 20 | Pedro Guerrero (first baseman/outfielder) | Start |
| 18 | Joseph Brown Smith | Start |
| 14 | 2024 Louisville Cardinals football team | Start |
| 12 | David Bell (baseball) | Start |
| 11 | Deion Sanders | B |
| 9 | Tom Cruise | B |
| 9 | Montrezl Harrell | Start |
| 8 | Joseph Carl Shaw | C |
| 7 | Andy Beshear | B |
PROJECT STATISTICS
- 7,078 articles (0.1% of Wikipedia)
- 17 featured articles (0.15% of all featured)
- 70 good articles (0.17% of all good)
- 2,367 stubs (0.1% of all stubs)
- 22,868 total pages (incl. talk & all page types)
📰 PROJECT NEWS
Updated September 10, 2024
Updated September 10, 2024
🗞️ September 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months.
🗞️ August 10, 2024
Andy Beshear is our most popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination of Vice President of the United States in the Democratic Party, is the 63rd Governor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky.
🗞️ July 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.
🗞️ 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.