Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS

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elcome to the Wikipedia Occupy Project. This project is a collaboration on the organization of all Occupy Wall Street related articles and related images and media. This is an attempt to improve all articles by listing and rating within the guidelines and policy of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia Foundation towards the eventual goal of GA or better. This project will work together with other projects and editors to better research, write, attribute and reference the existing articles, bring other articles under the project scope and merge and/or split existing articles with an "OWS" subject or within the project scope. Other articles also under the projects scope include Charging Bull, Zucotti Park and Wall Street.

Project Scope

WikiProject OWS encompasses all articles with subjects in relation to the Occupy Wall Street occupations, protests and demonstrations. This includes all personalities with articles or notable enough to create an article for, as well as subjects with strong or reasonably notable context to OWS such as the Guy Fawkes masks and Income inequality.

Collaboration

Native Hawaiian practitioner, Lanakila Mangauil speaking with protesters against the building of more telescopes on Mauna Kea on October 7, 2014

Please help with our current collaboration: Thirty Meter Telescope protests

The Thirty Meter Telescope protests are a series of protests and demonstration that began on the Island of Hawaii in the United States with the choosing of Mauna Kea as the site location for the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) on the most sacred mountain of the Native Hawaiian people. Protests began locally within the state of Hawaii but went global within weeks after the arrest of nearly two dozen Indigenous peoples, aging between 27 to 75 years of age, who had blockaded the roadway to keep construction crews off the summit.

The TMT, a ground-based, large segmented mirror reflecting telescope is a response from scientists, answering a recommendation that a thirty meter telescope be the priority of scientists, suggesting it be built within the decade. Opposition to the project had begun shortly after the announcement of Mauna Kea as the site chosen out of a total of 5 proposals. Opposition against the observatories on Mauna kea have been ongoing since the first telescope was proposed in 1968 however, this protest may be the most vocal.

If you would like to change the collaboration, make sure the current collaboration has stood for one month and click here!.

Collaboration notes

References need to be double checked. Consistent application of the MOS Hawaii for general information and orthography. Expand the article to include section on social media aspect. More detail on blockade and current camp of protesters on Mauna Kea.--Mark Miller (talk) 06:51, 22 April 2015 (UTC)

Article assessment

The project's article assessment guidelines are located here: WikiProject OWS – Assessment. The project welcomes all editors to be bold and assess articles themselves if they so wish however, any editor can request members here to review an article they created or contributed to greatly, if they wish outside, or project level rating.

Guidelines

WikiProject OWS follows all Wikipedia policies and guidelines. Please remember the five pillars of the Wikipedia community. Always remain civil and never edit war.

Wikipedia is an open and freely edited encyclopedia. Many of its editors have expertise in many different areas. For this reason many editors are close to subjects they edit. This is to be expected. Any editor may edit, even articles that are about themselves; they simply must not do anything unduly self-serving or that removes correctly attributed and well written information. Many editors will be supporters of the "Occupy Movement" and even some may be very close to events or the subject. The project itself is not partisan and welcomes both supporters and critics as well as those with any passing interest in the overall subject.

When editing an "OWS" related article:

• Remember to be as impartial as possible even if you support the movement or dislike it very much.

• All related articles should have the project banner on the talk page with a rating (when applicable). All articles without a rating are NA. You may choose to list an article with the project but feel it is not appropriate for a class or importance rating. When this occurs, rate as NA for both. If it is a project talk page this will be auto generated for class, but not importance. You may rate a project talk page no higher than mid importance.

Project Manual of style

In order to maintain consistency within all "Occupy" articles, this project's manual of style establishes basic guidance as a resource for new and experienced editors to follow when applicable.

Project Infobox for articles

Fill in all the information available using the document at the template page to understand the parameters needed and how they are copy pasted into the article and what each pertains to.

• Articles named with the "Occupy" adage with a location or specific protest or demonstration are defined as "conflict articles" for this project and use the "Occupy" infobox designed for this.

This infobox (while specific for OWS) is designed to represent two sides of a conflict. Another infobox for "Occupy subject" will be created and can be used for all articles that directly relate to OWS but are not a protest with two sides. Generally speaking, the one side is the OWS occupation and the other side is whatever authority is being questioned directly or the ones that respond. Only directly responding parties are listed such as City of, Mayor, Police department, Chief etc.. The Occupation side is listed as their specific named organizations, such as Occupy "Fill in the blank" and their General Assemblies, but specific locations may differ or be listed with their advertised name, which may contain an url address or dot.com or dot.org or similar added.

To-do list

Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Assess : Create the assessment page and update the Project Banner to reflect assessment ability and create all related and required pages correctly. Categorization :  • Update categories section with new categories recently created.  • Add [[Category:Occupy movement]] to all "Occupy" related articles.  • Check all articles within the scope to be sure the proper categories are in place on the talk page. Cleanup : Occupy Comics, Occupy protests in New Zealand Expand : Occupy Money Cooperative, Occupy Berlin, Occupy Charlotte, Occupy Pittsburgh, Occupy Reykjavik, Occupy Rochester NY, Occupy Sacramento, Occupy Salem, Occupy San Diego, Occupy San Jose, Occupy Sydney, Continental Congress 2.0 Featured article candidates : . Featured article review : . Good article nominations : . Good article reassessment : . Infobox : (category) Maintain : Timeline of Occupy Wall Street, Kshama Sawant Merge : Current merge requests: Occupy Providence, Occupy Rochester NY, Occupy Salem, Occupy Texas State NPOV : Anarchism and the Occupy movement, Law enforcement and the Occupy movement in the United States Photo : (category) Split : List all articles with split requests here Stubs : (category) Occupy Money Cooperative, Occupy Bahrain, Occupy Berkeley, Occupy Oslo, Occupy Thanet Verify : Occupy Edinburgh, Occupy Glasgow, Occupy Melbourne, Occupy Ottawa, Occupy Rose Parade Other : OWS articles needing attention

 – When a task is completed, please remove it from the list.

Participants

Participants

Please click edit and add your name to join the project.

1. Amadscientist (talk) 20:33, 24 February 2012 (UTC)
2. B^e——C_ritical 17:31, 25 February 2012 (UTC)
3. Ne0 (talk) 13:44, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
4. Gobōnobo ^{+ c}
5. John Carter (talk) 23:34, 11 April 2012 (UTC)
6. Groupuscule (talk) 08:34, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
7. Tito Dutta (Send me a message) 12:12, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
8. benzband (talk)
9. ~ 🦝 Shushugah (he/him • talk) 00:08, 15 September 2021 (UTC) interested in preserving long term institutional memory of OWS...Happy almost 10 year anniversary!

Templates

Infobox

Occupy Wikipedia
Part of the Occupy movement (this is an example box, the infobox appears differently on article pages)
Location	Wikipedia
Caused by	Economic inequality
Goals	Banks to be accountable for their crimes, economic fairness for the poor and middle class, the rich to pay their fair share
Methods	Civil occupation, editing within guidelines and collaborative effort to improve articles.

Place the infobox {{Infobox civil conflict}} to produce the box you see to the right.

Follow instructions to set up with full copy paste of template and fill in as needed for new articles from here or just add "Infobox Civil Conflict" in older articles and all information transfers with specific "Occupy" headings.

This infobox is designed to "wrap around" the current "civil conflict" infobox which is based on the military conflict infobox.

Userboxes

After joining the project, feel free to choose from a box below and copy and paste the code above the box onto your user page:

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS/Userbox}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Occupy.

{{Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS/Userbox2}}

This user is a member of WikiProject Occupy.

Talk page template

Place {{WikiProject OWS}} on the talk page of the articles to produce:

Barnstar

You may give {{WP OWS barnstar}} to any editor you feel has done work towards improvement of any OWS related article, the project or related subject.

		The WikiProject Occupy Wall Street Barnstar
		{{{1}}}

Navigation bar

You may place {{Occupy movement}} on the bottom of each "Occupy" article, which creates:

Occupy articles

Categories

WikiPeople's library

Project OWS Resources

The WikiPeople's library is a sub page of Wikipedia:WikiProject OWS. Its intent is to give Wikipedians a resource of all information on Wikipedia in relation to the Occupy movement articles grouped and listed by project members and project supporters. We will group by "Occupation", "Part of the occupy movement", "Occupy related", etc.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

Category:WikiProject OWS