A Wikipedia:WikiProject is a group of people. The point of this tag is to help people figure out whether this set of pages is currently being used by a group of people. The pages associated with currently inactive and defunct groups are not normally deleted, and whether there is an active group of people for a given set of pages is not a comment on whether the subject is objectively important to the world. Marking groups' activity levels has a purely practical goal: It helps other editors know where they'll likely find the help they need.
Pages with this template are placed into the appropriate category depending on the status selected as shown below:
A project is generally considered semi-active when:
there have been some, but relatively few, significant changes to the main project page for several months or
there have been some, but relatively few, discussions on its talk page for several months.
Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently semi-active WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.
Although there may be fewer editors here than in the past, anyone is welcome to participate in the group or to leave a message for us.
Remove the |Semi-active parameter from this template if activity resumes or if this tag was changed in error. If almost no activity occurs in this WikiProject, consider replacing this tag with {{WikiProject status|Inactive}}.
It is obviously still being worked on to provide basic functionality; and
there have been few or no discussions on its talk page for several months (a project could actually be active despite being in an incomplete state).
Neither work to reconfigure aspects of a project or add new features, nor some features becoming moribund, constitute a project lapsing into draft state.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently incomplete WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is in fact active.
Example:
This WikiProject is believed to be in a draft, or proposal state.
there have been no significant changes to the main project page for four months or
there have been no discussions on its talk page for four months.
Minor fiddling with formatting, automatic archiving, and unanswered messages to the WikiProject from outsiders ("Could someone with this project please help me with...") or from bots do not count as signs of project activity.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently inactive WikiProject. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active.
process the list of project members, placing indefinitely blocked editors and editors inactive on Wikipedia for more than a year in separate subheadings. Check the project's userbox category/ies for unlisted members. If one or more active editors remain but it is still reasonable to think the project may be defunct, check with those editors individually if they agree.
consider the likelihood the project may be revived in future. A few projects have a purpose which is so specific that the project may simply be complete (or obsolete). In general, the narrower the scope, or the more it overlaps with other projects, the more reasonable to consider the project defunct. The less the project achieved (some hardly get beyond the proposal stage), the less likely it will be revived. Consider marking or leaving the project marked as merely "inactive".
consider whether the project may be relevant for Countering Systemic Bias. Discuss at WP:CSB if necessary. If it is, remind relevant related projects of the project's existence, and suggest possible merger.
Any editor may add this template and parameter to the top of any apparently defunct WikiProject, after following the steps above. Any member of the project may remove it if it is placed in error. Upon removal, please consider placing a message on the WikiProject's talk page to indicate that the group is still active or at least revivable.
If you feel this group may be worth reviving, please discuss with related groups first. Feel free to change this tag if the parameters were changed in error.
Name of parent WikiProject, e.g., for Wikipedia:WikiProject South America use |parent=South America. Providing this adds "and/or the parent project" to the "why not join" message. Only works if status is inactive or defunct.
sister
sister=
Name of a related WikiProject at the same level (i.e., not a parent). For example, for 'Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Rome' one might add |sister=Ancient Greece. This param adds "and its related WikiProject" to the "why not join" message. Only works if status is inactive or defunct.
type
type=
Choose from: anime and manga, band, edu, game, geo, sports, or TV show; presently this feature is only used for subcategorization of WikiProjects in media, fandom, and youth subculture subject areas, as well as geographic subject areas. This is because those subject areas attract the creation of numerous narrowly topical projects.
mergedto
mergedto=
Indicates the target of a merge, merged to WikiProject Foo. This parameter's value is the name of the wikiproject without the "Wikipedia:WikiProject" part.
date
date=
Use to include the date when marking semi-active, inactive, and defunct projects (takes any format)
note
note= or reason=
Set a note that will appear in the banner.
portal
portal=
Adds a link to the associate portal page, e.g., for Portal:South America use |portal=South America
Shortcut paramenters
sc1=WP:SHORTCUT1
sc2=WP:SHORTCUT2
sc3=WP:SHORTCUT3
sc4=WP:SHORTCUT4
sc5=WP:SHORTCUT5
nocat
nocat=
If set to true, the category will be suppressed.
Task forces
Set these when using on the page of task force (a.k.a. work group), i.e. a sub-project.
project-type=
Set to either topic or process, then complete in the matching parameter
topic=
Use this for task forces working on a particular topic within a WikiProject
process=
Use this for task forces working on improvement of a particular process within a WikiProject
hide
|hide=yes
This will hide the banner, but keep the categorizations
