[edit] Founded
2006.04.21 by Ham.
The scope of this project covers all articles relating to the fine arts and performing arts.
- Fostering an active and interdisciplinary arts community on Wikipedia. Currently WikiProjects related to the arts suffer from long periods of inactivity, so what is needed is a single Wikiproject bringing together users of differing specialities, in the mould of the successful Science WikiProject. Contributors interested in the arts are vastly outnumbered by pop or geek culture experts as it is, so it is better to co-ordinate the efforts of the former group as much as possible than to segregate them into insular and unsuccessful WikiProjects on their particular topic of interest.
- Maintaining the Arts Wikiportal, one of the most prominent links on the Main Page, and its subportals.
- Starting an arts collaboration of the week. This will only go ahead when a sufficient number of participants have expressed their support for a weekly collaboration to be effective.
- Arts categorization. This project aims to reorganize categories relating to the arts and promote consistancy between arts-related categories. This project is being developed at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Arts/Categorization.
[edit] Descendant WikiProjects
The descendants of this WikiProject include:
See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Directory/Culture#Arts for an up-to-date list.
[edit] Portals
Help with the upkeep of these Portals would be much appreciated:
"Art means to dare — and to have been right."
Ned Rorem
[edit] Similar Wikiprojects
[edit] Action Items
Wikipedia:Requested pictures/Arts
[edit] Participation
To join, add your name to the list of participants.
[edit] Wikipedia Resources
[edit] Articles categories
[edit] WikiProject categories
[edit] Arts tree
Arts
Arts by country | Genres by country | Wikipedia Books
Literature (by language | by nationality | Wikipedia Books)
Poetry | Drama | Novels | Essays | Comics
Visual arts (by region | by nationality | Artist groups and collectives)
Aesthetics | Architecture | Ceramics | Comics | Drawing | Film | Graphic design | Industrial design | Landscape architecture | Painting | Photography | Printmaking | Sculpture | Textile arts | Typography
Music (by continent | by nationality | Wikipedia Books)
Classical | Popular | Folk | Jazz | Reggae | Rock
Performing arts (by country)
Theatre | Opera | Dance | Variety entertainment | Chinese opera
- Notes
- This scheme does not use sub-categories such as: Fine arts, Applied arts, Spatial arts, Plastic arts etc etc, which may be difficult to define.
- The list of items in each of the four main sections is open-ended.
[edit] Project templates
WikiProject Arts
Announcing the creation of WikiProject Arts, an effort to create a collaboration between all arts projects and artistically-minded Wikipedians in order to improve arts coverage.
