MyWiki:WikiProject Biography
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The Biography WikiProject concerns the creation, development, and organization of Wikipedia's articles about people (including but not limited to biographies). It includes only articles about individual people, not about an organization or group or association, unless a substantial section of the article is a biography of a person related to that organization or group. It includes biographies of only real humans; thus, the project does not cover other animals or fictitious people (such as pseudonyms) or fictional characters. As of 23 April 2026, there are 2,123,981 articles and 9,900 lists within the scope of WikiProject Biography, of which 1,964 are featured and 8,972 are good articles. As of 8 January 2024, according to WHGI and based on wikidata, only 390,582 of Wikipedia's 1,980,258 biographies are about women, amounting to 19.72%.
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Templates
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| {{WikiProject Biography}} Talk |
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The project notice designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that has been or should be edited as part of this Wikiproject. Please see the assessment page for parameters to use in rating articles. | |||||||
{{Portal|Biography}}Talk |
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| {{User WPBiography}} Talk |
This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this Wikiproject. | ||||||||
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Article creation templates
[edit source]Project organization
[edit source]Members
[edit source]Generally see Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members
Admin members
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Biography/Members/Admin members}}
Departments
[edit source]The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's biography articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.
The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPBiography}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.
The peer review department conducts peer reviews of articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.
Unreferenced BLPs
[edit source]{{Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/randomunreferencedmultiple}}
Inactive departments
[edit source]A-class review: A-class review examined articles to ensure they met the A-class standards. Currently, there is a freeze on promotions to A-class.
Collaboration: The collaboration department sought to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. A single article was selected as the focus, and the project attempted to improve it, potentially to featured article standard.
Outreach: The outreach department acted as the project's central point of coordination for the recruitment of new members and the production of newsletters.
Work groups
[edit source]- Please discuss any proposals for new work groups with the project as a whole before creating them.
Workgroups are informal groups of editors gathered for collaborative work on a particular topic within the field of biography; all project members are encouraged to participate in any that interest them. Also included below are other WikiProjects that fall within our scope.
- Work groups
Comprehensive lists of Women who require Wikipedia biographies are available from the Women in Red WikiProject.
Related WikiProjects
[edit source]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Anthroponymy – about human names and naming conventions in various cultures
- WikiProject Succession Boxes
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red – concerned with identifying women for whom biographies are required
- Wikipedia:Women's Classical Committee – concerned with improving and creating biographies for notable classicists who are women
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