Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design

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WikiProject Industrial design is a Wikipedian community that aims to better organize information in articles related to Industrial design and its various components. This page and its subpages contain a lot of suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help on occasions, see the to-do list there. On 1 November 2014 Mareklug ^talk was elected for one year to coordinate it.

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WikiProject Industrial design

If you would like to participate more in this project, then you can add your name to the list of participants, keep in touch with project developments by watchlisting Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design, and join discussions on the talk page (if you are not a member) or Design Cafe (if you are).

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Background, scope and goals

WikiProject Industrial design should be a descendent project of both WikiProject Visual arts (as is WikiProject WikiProject Graphic design among others) and, of WikiProject Technology (as is WikiProject Electronics among others). It will then have the value of uncluttering those other projects... It was born around Christmas 2009 (through Alainr345).

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to provide readers of Wikipedia a clear and consistent reference for Industrial design and its various components. Topics covered by this WikiProject include some, but not all, subcategories of the Category:Industrial design articles (in addition to all articles of that main category):

Category:Industrial design awards (all articles);
Category:Industrial design firms (all articles);
Category:Product design (all articles);
Category:Computer-aided design (all articles but no subcategories);
Category:Industrial designers (all articles and all subcategories, except below);
- Category:Cycle designers (selected articles);
- Category:Textile designers (selected articles);
- not Category:Automobile designers (nor its subcategories);
- not Category:Motorcycle designers (nor its subcategories);
not Category:Consumer goods (nor its subcategories, except below);
- Category:Furniture (selected articles);
- Category:Consumer electronics (to be evaluated);
- Category:Sports equipment (to be evaluated).

The ultimate goal of this project is to provide a comprehensive guide to Industrial design-related articles on Wikipedia.

Current goals

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"List/Tag/Assess/Write/Maintain", that's our motto here!...

List:
- Identify all existing Wikipedia Industrial design-related articles (with Category:Industrial design or a subcategory). Y
- List Industrial design topics not already covered in Wikipedia articles. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/List_of_article_requests)
- Expand and format the list of articles accordingly. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/List_of_articles) Y
Tag:
- Put the project banner {{WikiProject Industrial design}} on Industrial design related articles' talk page to make editors aware of the existence of this project. Y
- Tag the relevant articles with the {{Portal|Industrial design|Design_portal_logo.jpg}} template. *
Assess:
- Assess (or reassess) unassessed articles. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/Assessment) Y
- Increase article quality towards Start, C, B, A, GA or FA status according to their importance level. *
Write:
- Write the listed redlink articles. (See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial design/List_of_article_requests)
- Put an Infobox like {{Designer Infobox}} in articles where applicable.
- Monitor articles
  - Recent changes in articles related to Industrial design

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Structure and participants

With the current limited number of participants, we do not seem to need a structure yet - everybody is equal here.

To add yourself to this WikiProject, put the Industrial design userbox that will look something like this in your userpage by typing: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject_Industrial_design/Userbox}}

This user is member of WikiProject Industrial design

...or the colorful updated version for 2014:

{{User WikiProject Industrial design version 2014}}

This user is member of WikiProject Industrial design

List of participants

Alainr345 (2009-12-20) AR *
Kuwar (2009-12-25) VK *
Schluum (2010-01-02) ?? *
Ed Mercer (2010-01-02) EM
Tothwolf (2010-01-02)
Ghost650 (2010-02-12) TP
Chimin 07 (2010-02-13) CC *
Donnie Park (2010-02-14) ??
Dezignr (2010-04-10)
JulietteK (2014-02-02) JK
Mareklug (2014-09-14) MWL became WikiProject Coordinator in the October 2014 election
User:Josve05a (2014-09-18) JSG/J05a
Gmcbjames (2015-03-16)
Wheelygay (2022-08-15) AW

* Charter members
** Coordinator Mareklug ^talk 06:50, 30 November 2014 (UTC) (elected to serve from 1 November 2014 to 1 November 2015)[reply]

Awards

The current award for the project is The Zen Award.

		Zen Garden Award for Infinite Patience
		a WikiProject Industrial design participant

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Statistics

Number of articles classified DIRECTLY under Category:Industrial design (plus total number of subcategories): around 110 (See Category)

We are working towards the following milestones:

Article count Importance by Quality matrix for WikiProject Industrial design from WP1.0:

Industrial design articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA			1					1
GA		1	4	2				7
B		17	29	42			4	92
C	4	22	71	143			35	275
Start		25	98	441	1		109	674
Stub		3	20	337			36	396
List		1	5	8				14
Category					539	2		541
Disambig					5			5
File					876			876
Project					25			25
Redirect		1	1	13	19			34
Template					17			17
NA				1				1
Other					11			11
Assessed	4	70	229	987	1,493	2	184	2,969
Unassessed							1	1
Total	4	70	229	987	1,493	2	185	2,970
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,136			Ω = 4.94

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Things to keep in mind

There are a few things that you should try to keep in mind while editing Industrial design articles.

Audience

One of the primary goals of this project is to make Industrial design articles accessible, so you should make an effort to explain any jargon.

Conventions

Wikipedia:WikiProject Computer science/Manual of style (computer science) is a draft manual of style that can be used for Industrial design articles.
Wikipedia:Algorithms on Wikipedia contains hints on providing good sample implementations of algorithms
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (mathematics)#Typesetting of mathematical formulas describes how to typeset mathematical expressions
Wikipedia:Manual of Style (command-line examples) describes how sample shell commands should be formatted

References

Try to ensure that every Industrial design article includes at least a few relevant references, and direct citations for anything that could be considered controversial. Wikipedia articles cannot be a substitute for a textbook (that is what Wikibooks is for), and references can give readers some idea of where they should go if they need more information than the article can provide. Just as important, providing further reading enables other editors to verify and to extend the given information, as well as to discuss the quality of a particular source.

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Assessment

See Assessment page.
See Peer review page.

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Templates

{{WikiProject Industrial design}}
- Usage: {{WikiProject Industrial design|class=start|importance=mid}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Header}}
- Usage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Header}}
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Userbox}}
- Usage: {{Wikipedia:WikiProject Industrial design/Userbox}}
{{WikiProject Industrial design/Welcome}}
- Usage: {{subst: Template:WikiProject Industrial design/Welcome|~~~~}}
{{Infobox furniture}}
- Usage: {{Infobox furniture|see documentation}}

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Variables

Portals

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Bots/Tools used

Erwin85Bot (to get Industrial design category page count, automatically daily)
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AlexNewArtBot (to get notice of new articles related to Industrial design, automatically each day)
DASHBot (to get list of living person biographies without references, automatically daily)
WP 1.0 bot (to get Quality/Importance matrix, automatically each 3 days) MOVED HERE
WolterBot (to get Cleanup listing of project articles, automatically each month)
MiszaBot_II (to get project/portal talk pages archived, automatically each month)
Popular pages queue (to get traffic stats on Industrial design-related articles, automatically each month)
AWB (to get project tag on articles according to category, ONCE)
Importer (to get WikiNews, ONCE)
Xenobot (to get auto-assessment, on demand)
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WikiProject Industrial design

Background, scope and goals

Scope

Current goals

Structure and participants

List of participants

Awards

Statistics

Things to keep in mind

Audience

Conventions

References

Assessment

Templates

Resources

Logos

Lists

Shortcuts

Categories

Boxes

Variables

Portals

Internal pages

Bots/Tools used

See also