The Maritime Trades and Ports Projects are Merging As of January 2011, WikiProject Maritime Trades and WikiProject Ports are merging to become the Maritime Transport task force of
WikiProject Transport. Do not be alarmed if you notice some anomalies during the transition.
WikiProject Ports is a
WikiProject dedicated to improving
Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to shipping
ports and harbors worldwide.
related articles on port equipment, logistics and economics.
However the project scope extends to any port or harbor which caters for international, national or regional shipping, including the major fishing ports. Former and historical ports also fall within the Project bounds.
The WikiProject Ports assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Ports-related articles.
Assessments are based on parameters in the {{WP Ports}} project banner which is posted on an article's talk page. The "class" assessment helps recognise outstanding articles and guide editors to articles in need of more work. The "importance" assessment helps identify an informal priority list for article work.
In addition to the table format listed on this page, articles can be searched for by class and importance in this
automatically generated worklist.
Outreach
The outreach department acts as the project's central point of coordination for recruiting new members and maintaining the interest of current participants.
Requested images
Many Ports articles lack free-use photos, images or maps outlining port operations or history. A number of unused photos of ports are available at the
Commons, and requests for new or additional images can also be amde at this WikiProject's
talk page. All image contribution are welcome, especially historical images and those of minor ports.
WikiProject Participants
Use this on your User: page to show you are part of this project:
Create new ports articles to fill the gaps. Where a port is outlined within a wider article on a port city, consider whether sufficient material exists for a standalone article.
Update the various ports lists in
Category:Lists of ports and particularly the overall
List of seaports with any new ports articles either created or discovered.
Monitor the daily
assessment log. The main things to look for:
Articles being removed. This is usually legitimate (due to merges or non-ports articles getting untagged), but is sometimes due to vandalism or broken template code.
Articles being moved to "GA-Class" and higher quality. These ratings need to correspond to the article's status in the GA and FA lists or the A-Class project review.
Given the quantity of publicly available technical data, do we want to design a standard format for portraying it in articles?
infobox: We are desperately in need of a ports infobox, ideally as a template for easy use. There is a non-template version on various pages (eg.
Port of Los Angeles) which may or may not be suitable as a start;
standard layout: having regard for the current layout used in the GA-class articles and major ports pages including Los Angeles and Singapore
Articles without images: free ports images are fairly easy to come by but many of our articles don't have them. Suggestions for where/how to expand our image use would be appreciated.
Pages needing attention
Most of the Chinese ports articles are one-line stubs, despite representing some of the largest and busiest ports in the world; see
Category:Ports and harbours of China.
The actual
Ports article needs a fair bit of expansion, including regional variations, an outline ofthe history and common features of ports and an expansion of spaceports and airports which also come under the heading.
Port of Hueneme - this existing link redirects to
Port Hueneme which is the name of the small city around the port. There is a bit of information on
that page and on the page for the
City of Oxnard. You might be able to get some help from folks interested in military history as this was a civilian port taken over by the military in wartime. Slowly the civilian uses have been able to expand but the military controls all traffic. Bananas and cars are the biggest imports. The Oxnard Harbor District, with an elected board that controls the port, has a
website and the military has a bit of information
here and
here.
Fettlemap (
talk) 00:49, 21 September 2013 (UTC) Article has been started and redirect eliminated
Fettlemap (
talk) 23:09, 5 April 2014 (UTC)reply