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Category | WikiProject Louisville | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Wikimedia Commons | Louisville metropolitan area | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Parent project(s) | Cities, Kentucky, Indiana, United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Project banner template | See Assessment department for details | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Userboxes | {{WPLouisville-Participant}} {{User WPLouisville}} | |||||||||||||||||||||||
COVERAGE AREA
Louisville Metro (Jefferson County)
Louisville-Jefferson County, KY-IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro) Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA) Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY MSA
Bardstown, KY µSA
Scottsburg, IN µSA
PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS Updated March 28, 2024
PROJECT STATISTICS
📰 PROJECT NEWS Updated March 9, 2024 🗞️ March 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months. 🗞️ February 29, 2024
There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ February 9, 2024
Lamar Jackson is our most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner who played for the Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award. 🗞️ January 13, 2024
WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar, The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go. 🗞️ January 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time Golden Globe winner Cruise attended St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city. 🗞️ December 28, 2023
There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 12, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9. 🗞️ December 3, 2023
Check out WikiProject Louisville's new Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page. 🗞️ November 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for October. Lawrence, an Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro. 🗞️ October 24, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ October 21, 2023
WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new. 🗞️ October 10, 2023
WikiProject Louisville's Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page. 🗞️ October 8, 2023
Deion Sanders is our most popular article for September. Sanders, a former NFL and MLB player and currently the head coach of Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01). 🗞️ October 3, 2023
WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages. Archive of news items over 5 years old 🗞️ June 7, 2006 WikiProject Louisville begins. 🗨️ PROJECT BUZZ
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WikiProject Louisville is an open collaborative effort started on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content covering metropolitan Louisville, Kentucky (a multi-county region in north-central Kentucky and Southern Indiana) and related subjects in the Wikipedia.
Everyone is welcome to participate!
❤️ Louisville? → ❤️ writing/editing? → You're in the right place!
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Rank | High Priority w/ Most Issues (Improve These) |
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Popular Stubs (Expand These) |
Missing in Wiki (Create These) |
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1 | Louisville Cardinals football | Ford Explorer | Red Right Hand (film) | Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky |
2 | Louisville, Kentucky | WKMJ-TV | Rebecca Broussard | Columbia Auditorium / Columbia Gym current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area" |
3 | University of Louisville | Deion Sanders | Muzzle (film) | SoBro, Louisville neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym) |
4 | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Dian Fossey | Chris Coy | Ehrler's Dairy established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor |
5 | 1974 Super Outbreak | Kennedy Interchange | James Gaylyn | St. Joseph's College (Kentucky) former Bardstown college w/ notable alumni (convert from redirect) |
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