Wikipedia:WikiProject London

Welcome to the London WikiProject. We are a user group dedicated to improving and expanding Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to the Greater London area. If you are wondering what you can do to help, visit Call for Editors for a list of articles that are in need of assistance.

Aims

Our aims in the short term are to achieve the following: Obtain FA status for the Vital-classified article, London Obtain GA status for City of London, City of Westminster and Greater London Restore former featured articles to GA/FA: London Underground, Moorgate, Palace of Westminster Maintain Portal:London Obtain GA status for 22 districts (11 largest, 11 most viewed): Wikipedia:WikiProject London/London districts task force Obtain FL status for List of people from London daughter articles Our aims in the mid-term are to achieve the following: Obtain GA status for all other London borough articles Identify articles in all London-related categories for priority Obtain FA status for City of London, City of Westminster, Greater London and 22 districts Expand districts task force to a further tier of districts Our long term aims for the project are: Obtain FA status for all London borough articles Expand districts task force to all districts

Requested articles

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Call for Editors § Requested articles

Resources

Project pages

Article alerts	Automated alerts for status changes to London-related articles.
Recognised Content	/ An automated list of our featured and good articles.
Assessment	Automated statistics about London-related tagged articles. Also explains our article rating system.
Call for Editors	Articles in need of attention.
Categories	Explanation of the categorisation of London-related articles.
Cleanup listing	Automated listing of articles tagged for cleanup or other problems
Naming conventions	How we decide the names of articles.
Participants	Who is involved in the project.
Popular pages list	Automated list of popular pages
Templates	Templates for use on articles relating to the project.

Article assessment

Further information: Wikipedia:WikiProject London/Assessment

London-related articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	3	15	52	139			209
FL		2	4	28			34
A			1				1
GA	5	35	104	470			614
B	20	79	210	930		29	1,268
C	15	91	417	3,205		80	3,808
Start	4	68	593	12,775		204	13,644
Stub			78	8,680	39	119	8,916
List	3	21	93	551		14	682
Category					4,881		4,881
Disambig					57		57
File					517		517
Portal					25		25
Project					63		63
Redirect			22	421	702		1,145
Template					402		402
NA				5	5		10
Other					62		62
Assessed	50	311	1,574	27,204	6,753	446	36,338
Unassessed		1		104		479	584
Total	50	312	1,574	27,308	6,753	925	36,922
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 141,747			Ω = 4.99

Associated projects

Parent	Neighbouring areas	Overlapping	Similar	Daughter
WikiProject Cities WikiProject UK geography WikiProject England	WikiProject Berkshire WikiProject Buckinghamshire WikiProject Hertfordshire WikiProject Kent WikiProject Surrey	WikiProject UK Railways WikiProject UK Roads WikiProject UK Waterways WikiProject UK Trams	WikiProject New York City WikiProject Greater Manchester	WikiProject London Transport WikiProject Olympics

Relevant policies and guidance

• Wikipedia:WikiProject UK geography/How to write about settlements

External sources

• Familia: find information about places in the UK
• City of London Churches site
• Clive's UndergrounD Line Guides
• DMOZ category for the Underground
• Dickens's Dictionary of London (1879) – public copy of Dickens's Dictionary of London by Charles Dickens, Jr
• London neighbourhood statistics (unfortunately, these are m:Crown Copyright, so we can't just copy them)
• Transport Statistics for London: 1999 (Crown Copyright, too – and apparently not online any longer at DfT or TfL).
• London Travel Report 2007 (largely Crown Copyright)
• London Health Observatory statistics for each area in London (Crown Copyright again).
• London Mortality Data: 1850 to 1900
• London Population Data: 1850 to 1900
• London population statistics by ethnic group from the GLA
• Victoria County History: Middlesex (British History online) Collected primary sources on London History
• A collection of British Historical Population Reports (1801–1937) Essex Uni
• ward profiles (demographic data etc. from the 2001 census) are available from the website of every London Borough. You may have to search to find them but they will exist.
• London Councilsprovide London Facts including: Key facts about London and London Statistics