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WikiProject Backpacking
Kit for carrying home and hearth
Shortcuts	WP:BPCK, WP:PACK
Categories	Backpacking, WikiProject Backpacking articles
Wikimedia Commons	Error creating thumbnail: File missing Category:Backpacking
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Backpacking}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Backpacking}}
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	MyWiki:WikiProject Backpacking/Assessment
Popular pages	MyWiki:WikiProject Backpacking/Popular pages
Improving the encyclopedia when we are not walking in the wild and sleeping under the sky

Welcome to WikiProject Backpacking. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Hiking and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, inquire on the talk page, watch this page, and see the to-do list, below.

Scope

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Hiking, hiking trails, hiking equipment, hiking techniques, organizations that support hikers and hiking trail, the hiking community, authors, and their books. To cover hiking and backpacking by its many names; e.g. trekking, hill walking, tramping, rambling, snowshoeing, and more.

Goals

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To improve hiking, backpacking, and trail related articles to Good Article Status
To organize and categorize articles related to hiking, backpacking, and trail articles
To provide a consistent layout for hiking, backpacking, and trail articles where applicable
auditing articles (tagging, classifying, and setting importance level) in categories hiking, hiking trails, backpacking, and camping
identifying and categorizing articles about organizations that support hikers, trails, backpackers and related activities

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Open tasks

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To-do list for MyWiki:WikiProject Backpacking: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2020-04-18

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests :
Assess :
- Category:Unassessed Backpacking articles (0)
- Category:Unknown-importance Backpacking articles (0)
Categorization : tag backpacking related articles that are not trails with Category:Backpacking (32)
Citing sources :
- Category:Unreferenced Backpacking articles (0)
- citation list by CleanupWorklistBot
Cleanup : see full list by CleanupWorklistBot
Collaborate : Learn how to leverage the category system including those from other WikiProjects and those with no project
Copyedit :
- clarity list by CleanupWorklistBot
- content list by CleanupWorklistBot
Deletion sorting : watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Article alerts
Expand :
- Backpacking (hiking), perhaps the most important article for this project, is short and cursory (C-class)
- list by CleanupWorklistBot
Geographical coordinates : identify articles to improve with a coordinates
Infobox :
- Tag our articles needing infoboxes, perhaps via project banner
- Category:Backpacking articles needing infoboxes (0)
Map : identify articles to improve with a map
Merge : watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Article alerts
NPOV : list by CleanupWorklistBot
Orphans : list by CleanupWorklistBot
Photo : identify articles to improve with a photo
Split : watch Wikipedia:WikiProject Backpacking/Article alerts
Stubs : Category:Backpacking stubs (17)
Unreferenced : list by CleanupWorklistBot
General :

recruit editors to collaborate by sending invites to these users using the {{WPBInvite}} template
- completed through Skraelinger from top
- completed through Shadowquick from bottom
Announce the revival of this project at Wikipedia:Community bulletin board
Review recommendation from the Talk page

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
WikiProject Backpacking (1 C, 1 P) WikiProject Backpacking templates (12 P)

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Hiking (14 C, 63 P) Hiking by country (10 C, 2 P) Backpacking (1 C, 31 P) Hiking books (15 P) Cairns (stone mounds) (1 C, 23 P) Hiking equipment (2 C, 40 P) Films about hiking (11 P) Freedom to roam (1 C, 13 P) Hikers (4 C, 66 P) Mountain huts (17 C, 14 P) Hiking organizations (7 C, 18 P) Orienteering (13 C, 37 P) Peak bagging (5 C, 3 P) Hiking trails (6 C, 11 P) Via ferrata (9 P)

To display all subcategories click on the "►":
Camping (11 C, 27 P) Camping by country (12 C) Backpacking (1 C, 31 P) Camping equipment (2 C, 82 P) Campsites (4 C, 6 P) Caravans and travel trailers (2 C, 12 P) Fiction about camping (2 C, 2 P) Picnic (2 C, 8 P) Recreational vehicles (2 C, 38 P) Summer camps (12 C, 21 P) Works about camping (2 C, 3 P) Camping stubs (52 P)

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