Wikipedia:WikiProject Louisville
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| Category | WikiProject Louisville | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikimedia Commons |  Louisville metropolitan area | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent project(s) | Cities, Kentucky, Indiana, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Project banner template | See Assessment department for details | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Userboxes | {{WPLouisville-Participant}} {{User WPLouisville}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
COVERAGE AREA
Louisville Metro / Jefferson County
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro) Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA) Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY MSA
Bardstown, KY µSA
Scottsburg, IN µSA
PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS
Updated November 14, 2024
PROJECT STATISTICS
📰 PROJECT NEWS 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. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky (a multi-county region in north-central Kentucky and Southern Indiana) and related subjects in the Wikipedia.
Everyone is welcome to participate!
❤️ Louisville? → ❤️ writing/editing? →  You're in the right place!
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Front-burner project actions
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R a n k |
Priority with Most Issues (Improve) |
Non-Priority with Most Issues (Improve) |
Popular with Old Issues (Improve) |
Popular Stubs (Expand) |
Missing Here (Create) |
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| 1 | Louisville Cardinals football | Quito (sister city) | Deion Sanders | Rebecca Broussard | Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky |
| 2 | Louisville Metro Police Department | La Plata (sister city) | Diane Sawyer | Brian McMahan | Columbia Auditorium / Columbia Gym current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area" |
| 3 | Presbyterian Church (USA) | WKMJ-TV | Fort Knox | Bobby Rascoe | SoBro, Louisville neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym) |
| 4 | University of Louisville | Louisville Male High School | Josh Hamilton | Brent Booker | Pegasus Parade longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect) |
| 5 | Belle of Louisville | Spelling bee | Joe Torre | Erin Wilhelmi | Waterfront Botanical Gardens hot new attraction near Louisville Waterfront Park |
| 6 | Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) | Walden School (Louisville) | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Very Old Barton | Ehrler's Dairy established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor |
| 7 | Louisville Cardinals | AssuredPartners NL | Louis Brandeis | Ethan Buckler | Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon also a longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect) |
WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted:
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WikiProject Kentucky Alerts have been posted:
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WikiProject Indiana Alerts have been posted:
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Current major backlogs
[edit]| Concern | Total | Data Freshness |
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| Cleanup issues | 3,415 in 2,156 articles | November 12, 2024 |
| Stubs needing expansion or reassessment | 2,358 | Last cache* |
| Possibly undercategorized articles | 1,016 | November 14, 2024 |
| Articles with old cleanup issues | 422 | November 12, 2024 |
| Photo/image requests (Breakdown) | 339 | Last cache* |
* You may need to purge the cache to see the most up-to-date total.
Goal and scope
[edit]The goal of our WikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area by creating, improving, connecting, assessing and monitoring articles, lists, infobox/navbox templates and all other pages about the area and any subject/person well connected to it (usually identified from Louisville area-related categorization).
Our scope is Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, specifically the combined statistical area, consisting of multiple counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, as follows:
Kentucky
*Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA
Indiana
Articles are cataloged for this project by adding {{WikiProject United States|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=}} to their talk pages.
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Parent WikiProjects
[edit]WikiProject Louisville shares coverage with and sometimes supersedes coverage for the following projects:
- Formatting/Structure (city articles only): Cities
- State-level: Kentucky and Indiana
- Oftentimes, WikiProject Louisville will supersede coverage by WikiProject Kentucky. The usual exceptions are subjects that are connected only to metropolitan counties outside Jefferson, or local subjects connected to a statewide purpose, such as state representatives/senators from Louisville Metro.
- Country-level (project infrastructure): United States
Sibling WikiProjects
[edit]- Chicago (both Louisville and Chicago's metro areas include portions of Indiana)
- Cincinnati (both Louisville and Cincinnati's metro areas include portions of Kentucky)
- Indianapolis (department of WP Indiana; major city in Indiana)
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