Wikipedia:List of inactive WikiProjects

This list works in close relationship with Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects in that a listing can switch back and forth between the two lists any number of times during its lifetime. "Inactivity" is a subjective assessment and is indicated on each WikiProject main page by placement of the template {{Inactive}} at it's top. Some but very few WikiProjects have been nominated for deletion; this is indicated below in each instance. The organization of this page should be identical but a subset of that used on the main List of active WikiProjects.

Arts

Entertainment

• Television Schedules July 2004: "...to guide the structure of articles related to television schedules for each fall-to-spring term from the 1950s to the present day"

Literature

• Literature June 2004: "in part ...subsuming all Lists of Writers, Philosophers, etc under a giant index of major writers"
  • Books
    • Fictional Series (example article) November 2003: "...to agree on a way of describing fictional (i.e. novels, television or movie) series in a way that provides the best WikiExperience for all."
    • Sherlock Holmes December 2004: "...(to) improve and organise articles relating to Sherlock Holmes."
  • Irish literature July 2004: "...to make Wikipedia an essential guide for students of Irish literature.
  • Comics
    • Comic strips December 2003: "...to normalize the standards for all the Comic strip articles in Wikipedia - in particular, newspaper strips."

Music

Music

• Genres
  • Computer music February 2004: "...to solidify and expand the wikipedia knowledgebase on electronic and computer music."
• World music
  • Ragas July 2004: Proposed structure for articles on ragas.
• Songs
  • National anthems October 2002; has been nominated for deletion: List of items to be considered for inclusion in articles on individual national anthems.
  • Theme songs June 2003: "...to unify the description of theme songs for a whole array of movies, television series and other animation pieces."

Performing arts

• Dance August 2004: "... to categorize and organize the various Dance related artices."

Visual arts

• Architecture April 2004: "...aims primarily to work toward conventions for architecture articles, including naming them and dating."

Economics and business

Currency

• Numismatics February 2004: an infobox standard development project for coinage
• Philately December 2003 "...to organize large numbers of articles relating to philately, postage stamps, and postal history."

Hobbies and recreation

• Food and drink July 2003; has been nominated for deletion Focusing on recipes, cookbooks, and cuisines.
  • Cheeses March 2003 "...an attempt to build the web's most complete encyclopedia of cheeses."
  • Herbs and spices October 2003 "...to provide a consistent article structure for herbs and spices articles so that Wikipedia can become the true online spice bible...."
• Genealogy December 2002 Creation of a genealogical ancestor table standard for Wikipedia. note there is now a new WikiMedia project at http://wikitree.org aimed at genealogy
• Knots January 2004 "... to develop a standard template for how knots are documented."

Games

• Computer and video games
  • Pokédex March 2004 "...to create articles on all the 391 species of Pokémon, from the video games, and include standardized data in the articles."

Recreation

• Playground February 2004 "...to develop articles and find photographs for playground equipment."

Sports

• Baseball December 2004 "...aims to create standards for the different sets of baseball-related articles, from statistics to histories to players, venues, and strategies."

Humanities

Biography

• Family and relationships October 2004 "...to develop the articles relating to families, the relationships between people and issues that have an impact upon them."
• Historical figures October 2004

Culture

• Clothing
  • Hats and headgear February 2004 "...(to) organize data in articles about kinds of hats and other headgear (caps, bonnets, hoods, veils, etc)."

Education

• School Years October 2004 Aims to provide a standard structure and minimum content guideline for "school year" articles, such as Fifth grade.

History

• Geologic timescale July 2003 "...to create a pattern that allows easy navigation of the Geologic timescale from the individual timeperiods within."
• Leaders by year April 2004 "...to compile lists of leaders in various years throughout history. So far, we have been focusing on the 18th through 21st centuries."
• United Nations February 2004 "...to provide information in consistent format for articles about the United Nations, its various comittees and the resolutions it passes."
• Wars January 2004 "...to create a template suggestion for war articles, so that there is a uniform standard (or at least uniform base)."

Technology

Communications

• Fountain pens September 2004 ...to catalogue and explain fountain pens as writing instruments

Transportation

• Automobiles
  • Automobile construction March 2004: "...aims to gather all articles related to the physical construction of automobiles under one hood, so to speak."
• Localised
  • Transportation in China August 2004: "All airports, seaports, expressways, roads of all grades, and railways, should be in the scope of this project. Geographically, this is limited to mainland China. The Hong Kong and Macao SARs and Taiwan do not form part of this project."

Warfare

• Weaponry
  • Royal Air Force Squadrons August 2004: "...to add to the articles already created about Squadrons of the british Royal Air Force."