Wikipedia:WikiProject Australian Roads

WikiProject Australian Roads
A WikiProject at the intersection of WikiProject Highways and WikiProject Australia

WikiProject Australian Roads
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Welcome to WikiProject Australian Roads (WP:AURD)

Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of roads in Australia, 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, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

What can you do?

First and foremost, just start editing – help us improve our articles! Here are some specific tasks you can do:

• Add an infobox – 13 article(s) • Random article (documentation • usage guidelines • blank code)
• Expand a stub – 145 article(s) • Random article (assessment criteria • sources • don't use roadgeek websites!)
• Add a road junction list – 334 article(s) • Random article talk page (RJL templates • WP:AURD guidelines • MOS guidelines)
  • Or convert a non-standard road junction list – 0 article(s) • Random article talk page
• Create a KML file – 1695 article(s) • Random article talk pages by state: ACT • NSW • NT • QLD • SA • TAS • VIC • WA (template/instructions)
• Make a map – 166 article(s) • Random article talk page (map colours and standards)
• Check recent edits – Articles (only those with an infobox) • Talk pages (articles) • Talk pages (all namespaces)

Need help?

• Questions – don't be afraid to ask!
  • Ask general Wikipedia questions at the Teahouse (a friendly place for new editors) or Help desk (questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia)
  • For questions related to Australian road articles (or other pages), or at the specific article's talk page
• Advice – see project conventions, standards, and guidelines regarding:
  • Article titles and disambiguation
  • Content and structure
  • Assessment criteria
  • Infobox guidelines
  • Map standards
  • Road junction list content, style, and examples
• Resources – see our resources page for useful templates, maps, images, and sources.

Scope

WikiProject Australian Roads maintains and improves articles related to roads and road transportation in Australia, excluding topics related to vehicles. This scope covers all road-related articles within the Roads in Australia category structure, but only some of the articles within the wider Road transport in Australia category.

• Some examples of road transportation articles inside the project scope are Australian Road Rules, Black Spot Program, and Speed limits in Australia.
• Articles in various subcategories of Road transport in Australia such as Category:Motorcycles of Australia‎, Category:Bus transport in Australia‎, and Category:Cars of Australia‎ are outside the project scope.
• Articles on fictitious roads are outside the project scope.
• Articles on temporary uses of roads, such as street circuits, parades, protests, and fun-runs, are outside the project scope.

Article categories

Project categories

Mission

“ To continually improve the coverage of Australian roads on Wikipedia, through collaboration ”

The key points in the mission are explained below:

• continually improve – There is no endpoint for the project, as roads are continually being built, upgraded and extended.
• coverage – Here coverage refers to both quality of coverage and breadth of coverage.
• Australian roads – The project mission is directly related to its scope. Articles outside of the project scope should collaborated on at a more appropriate venue.
• on Wikipedia – Improving Wikipedia is the core reason for editing Wikipedia. All of the projects articles and edits should be consistent with Wikipedia's principles, policies and guidelines.
• through collaboration – This refers to both inter-editor collaboration within this project (through discussion and shared resources), and inter-project colloboration (working with the other projects / task forces within WikiProject Highways and WikiProject Australia).

Goals

Long term goals are:

• Improve articles and lists to featured status
• Complete coverage of national and state highways and major roads (no important redlinks)

Medium term goals are:

• Develop standards and guidelines for Australian road articles (to complement existing Wikipedia-wide guidelines)
• Get at least one article to GA status for each state and mainland territory

Short term goals are:

• Identify editors who may be interested and ask them to join
• Tag and assess all articles within the project scope (see the projects Assessment page)
• Develop project resources, to be listed and explained on the Resources page

To do

Here are some important tasks you can do to help WikiProject Australian Roads:

Participants

To join the project, add your username below, and a comment specifying your main areas of interest:

1. R23130030 (talk · contribs) – Public transportation networks in New South Wales
2. KoalaLou9 (talk · contribs) - Tramways in Victoria
3. InformZion (talk · contribs) - National public transport
4. Advanstra (talk · contribs) – Queensland particularly South East Qld, Pacific Hwy and other parts of NSW
5. Aunty Stick (talk · contribs) − Main interest is in freeway and dual carriageway development. A librarian at the University of Melbourne, so currently making the most of access to primary resources available from the library to provide accurate historical data.
6. AussieLegend (talk · contribs) – NSW, especially the Hunter Region
7. Dave Rave (talk · contribs) − NSW wherever I've been
8. dfadden (talk · contribs) - ACT/NSW and NT
9. Evad37 (talk · contribs) − Project founder; Main focus is Perth and Western Australia
10. Gnangarra (talk · contribs) – photography; main focus is WA, latest work File:Graham farmer freeway tunnel east gnangarra.webm
11. HiLo48 (talk · contribs) - Primarily but not exclusively Vic
12. linkqer (talk · contribs) - Main Focus: Adelaide Roads, lesser extend SA.
13. marcnut1996 (talk · contribs) - main focus is Sydney roads and a smaller extent to NSW roads as a whole. Contributed in wiki about Syd roads
14. nbound (talk · contribs) − Main Focus: ACT/Sthn NSW, and to a lesser extent NSW as a whole.
15. NMFCFan113 (talk · contribs)- Interested in Smaller country roads, ones usually labelled "B###" or "C###" by the route numbering system.
16. Orderinchaos (talk · contribs) - Primarily but not exclusively WA
17. Rangasyd (talk · contribs) – Primary focus is on roads in NSW/ACT, especially south of the Hunter region. Bridges, railway and river crossings are also of interest.
18. JarrahTree (talk · contribs) – various
19. ScottDavis (talk · contribs) – interested in extending the coverage of transport networks in SA (and to a lesser extent western Victoria and NSW)
20. Wiki ian (talk · contribs) - All Australian roads with a strong focus on Tasmania - particularly Hobart.
21. YuMaNuMa (talk · contribs) – Primary focus is on Sydney Metro roads
22. Steelkamp (talk · contribs) – Focus is on roads in Perth and Western Australia
23. Melbourne Roads Editor (talk · contribs) - Primary focus is on metropolitan roads and routes throughout all of Melbourne (primarily on eastern and south eastern suburbs).
24. BetterByBike (talk · contribs) – Primary focus is on greater Melbourne's inner city streets and in particular bicycle infrastructure.
25. MadamePhoenica (talk · contribs) - Primary focus is Perth and surrounding suburbs within City of Perth council boundaries.
26. Stewartluke21 (talk · contribs) - NSW, particularly Sydney
27. Lordstorm (talk · contribs) - Australian road routes, roads across VIC/SA/NSW/ACT with a focus on Melbourne
28. Incentv Osiar (talk · contribs) - Victorian Road Routes, especially in the western suburbs
29. Tram1203 (talk · contribs) - primary focus is the roadside wildlife
30. Sickminecraft45 (talk · contribs) - Mainly focusing on roads in Central West, Blue Mountains, and Sydney, New South Wales.
31. EchidnaLives (talk · contribs) - Mostly VIC
32. AUroadgeek7 (talk · contribs) - Interested in all major roads and route numbers, particularly the old numeric route numbering system and tourist drives in Victoria (and to a lesser extent NSW and other states and territories).
33. Andyman14 (talk · contribs) - Mostly WA.

Project userboxes are available – see the Userbox page for details. You can also sign up to receive newsletter notifications.

Assessment

Main page: WikiProject Australian Roads/Assessment

Of the 1,851 pages overseen by WikiProject Australian Roads:

100% have been assessed for quality
See Category:Unassessed Australia road transport articles for the 0 remaining articles

   

99.9% have known importance
See Category:Unknown-importance Australia road transport articles for the 1 remaining articles

   

72.5% of prose articles are not stubs
See Category:Stub-Class Australia road transport articles for the 304 remaining articles

   

Recognized content

Featured articles

• Clackline Bridge
• Forrest Highway
• Great Eastern Highway
• Kwinana Freeway

A-Class articles

• Great Northern Highway
• Mitchell Freeway
• Tonkin Highway

Good articles

• Abbotsford Bridge
• Albany Highway
• Collier Road
• Eyre Highway
• Great Northern Highway
• Majura Parkway
• Mitchell Freeway
• Monaro Highway
• Narrows Bridge (Perth)
• North West Coastal Highway
• Snowy Mountains Highway
• The Causeway
• Tonkin Highway

Did you know? articles

• Narrows Bridge (Perth) (2008-12-02)
• The Causeway (2009-02-24)
• Anzac Avenue (2011-06-06)
• Queen Victoria Street, Fremantle (2012-11-13)
• High Street, Fremantle (2012-12-04)
• Old Windsor Road (2013-07-25)
• Abbotsford Bridge (2013-09-11)
• Clackline Bridge (2013-12-09)
• Guildford Road (2013-12-21)
• Nerang–Broadbeach Road (2014-04-13)
• Great Northern Highway (2014-09-06)
• Garratt Road Bridge (2014-12-30)
• Lansdowne Bridge (2015-11-20)

Main page featured articles

• Kwinana Freeway (2013-09-22)
• Great Eastern Highway (2014-06-16)
• Clackline Bridge (2014-08-30)
• Forrest Highway (2015-09-20)

Resources

• The Resources page lists many useful resources for improving articles, including templates, maps, images, references, important external links, and more.
• See also the Article Standards page for advice on titles, content, infoboxes, maps, and road junction lists.
• The Popular pages report list articles (with their assessed class/importance) by number of page views, showing which pages readers are most interested in.

Related projects

Parents:

• WikiProject Highways, specifically its Oceania Highways task force
• WikiProject Australia

Road projects in other countries:

• Canada Roads WikiProject
• UK Roads WikiProject
• U.S. Roads WikiProject
• WikiProject Hong Kong Roads
• WikiProject Indian roads

Other Australian projects:

• See Category:Australia-related WikiProjects

Embassy

Find Australian Roads projects on other Wikimedia Foundation sites!

• Wikidata: d:WD:AURD