Wikipedia:WikiProject Ageing and culture

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Welcome to the Ageing and culture WikiProject! Feel free to join in by listing yourself in the Participants section below and working on articles relevant to the project. Please use the talk page for questions, suggestions, and general discussion.

Goals and Scope[edit]

The scope of the WikiProject Ageing and culture includes articles about discourses on ageing, media representations, digital technologies, notable organizations, activists, and scholars working in the field of ageing studies. We are also interested in the ways that age and ageing intersect with other ways of experiencing identity, including race, gender, sexuality, class, language, and dis/ability. Our goal is to expand the presence of these topics on Wikipedia. If you have knowledge of or simply want to help improve articles pertaining to ageing and culture, you are welcome to join.

This WikiProject will serve to encourage editors, especially people with knowledge in the field of ageing studies, to collaborate on a collection of pages around the specific topic of ageing. It is meant to be a resource to help coordinate and discuss writing about ageing.

Participants[edit]

To become a participant, add your name to the list below. Copy and paste the code and then replace the name (e.g. MaudeG3) with your own username.

  1. MaudeG3 (talk · contribs)
  2. KimberlySawchuk (talk · contribs)
  3. Miami19 (talk · contribs)
  4. SakuKuri (talk · contribs)
  5. MyriamACT (talk · contribs)
  6. timeflieslike (talk · contribs)
  7. DrHebblethwaite (talk · contribs)
  8. Mjkwok (talk · contribs)
  9. krieberu (talk · contribs)
  10. Barbara (WVS) (talk · contribs)
  11. JarrahTree (talk · contribs)
  12. Beanislife (talk · contribs)

Resources and advice[edit]

This section is made to inform contributors who are not necessarily regular editors of Wikipedia.

  • How to create an account: Click on "create an account" at the top right corner and follow the instructions. An account means you will have a user profile, it will be easier to track your contributions, and for you to talk with others.
  • How to create a new article: Start by searching for what you want to write about in the search box to see if an article already exists on the same topic or on a very similar one. A useful trick: you can copy and paste the code from another article: Pretend you want to edit that article, copy its code, paste it in your own article space, and replace the text with your own while keeping the code. Cancel (bottom left) the editing of the other article. Show preview (bottom left) and then Save your article.
  • How to edit an existing article: Top right corner of an article: read (default mode), edit (click on edit to edit) and view history (to see all the previous changes that were made to this article).
  • The importance of sources: Everything you write should be verifiable. You can quote academic references, newspapers, websites, etc. Make sure to have at least a few third-party references that offer deep coverage of the topic.
  • Talk pages: Top left corner of an article. Used for discussion and to add templates.
  • Video (tutorial):

Wikipedia policies, guidelines and projects[edit]

Open tasks[edit]

Articles to expand or revise[edit]

These articles are part of the field of ageing.

Requested articles[edit]

List all articles that you would like to be created (including biographies of scholars).

  • Centre for Women, Ageing and Media (previously deleted, wait until we have enough "notable" sources)
  • Seniors Action Quebec
  • Ageing Communication Technology (ACT)
  • North American Network in Aging Studies
  • Stephen Katz (scholar)
  • Barbara Marshall
  • Julia Twigg
  • Ros Jennings
  • Patrik Marier
  • Paul Higgs
  • Andrew Blaikie
  • Mike Featherstone
  • Nick Couldry
  • Knut Lundby
  • Catherine Middleton (scholar)
  • Roxana Barrantes
  • Josephine Dolan
  • Roberta Maierhofer
  • Helmi Järviluoma-Mäkelä

Assessment[edit]

WikiProject Ageing and culture follows Wikipedia guidelines of assessment. Any individual editors may rate stub, start or B-class for quality of an article. Please read the guidelines and instructions on how to rate an article.

Quality work[edit]

We also need contributors willing to do anything beyond the actual writing.

  • Wikify: Help:Wiki markup
  • Revise English
  • Add references
  • Add images (through Wikimedia Commons)


Templates[edit]

Assigning an article to the Ageing and culture project[edit]

If an article fits the scope of our project, you can add the template

{{WikiProject Ageing and culture}} to its talk page. The result will be:

WikiProject iconAgeing and culture NA‑class (inactive)
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Ageing and culture, a project which is currently considered to be inactive.
NAThis article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.

User talk page templates[edit]

An invitation to post on other users' talk pages about the WikiProject.


Use this code:

{{subst:Wikipedia:WikiProject Ageing and culture/invitation}}

Assessment[edit]

Subscriptions and bots and project monitoring below this line[edit]

Categories for discussion

Articles for creation

Related WikiProjects[edit]