AARoads:United States/Wisconsin

Wisconsin
A state resource page of the AARoads Wiki

Hello and welcome to the Wisconsin Highways task force. If you would like to help, please jump in and start adding or editing.

Scope

To create the balance of and to standardize the Wisconsin State Highway articles and generate featured articles

Goals

See AA:A for information and hints on Assessment

Resources

• commons:Category:Official road maps of Wisconsin, public domain copies of official state highway maps, can be cited using {{cite WisDOT map}} along with copies hosted on WisDOT's website
• Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT)
  • WisDOT highway maps, including historical maps from 1916–present
  • Map of Wisconsin's Corridors 2020 routes from WisDOT
  • Links to County maps - details every route and updated to 2007 from WisDOT, good for Junction Lists and Route Descriptions
  • archive of old maps source the original document, not the website.
  • Rustic Roads from WisDOT
  • GIS data
• County GIS sites
• Chris Bessert's "Wisconsin Highways" site (roadfan site)
• 1922 Official Wisconsin Motorists Association handbook, EXCELLENT section lists routes and mileages
• maps through 1939
• American Geographical Society Library Digital Map Collection in the UW-Milwaukee libraries, includes official Wisconsin highway maps from most years
• some old maps including a map of the 1918 system
• 1925? highway list
• /Early highway history
• /1926 renumbering
• /Laws
• Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (recent in Milwaukee library)
• Madison Capital Times (NewspaperArchive, Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)
• La Crosse Tribune (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1960s)
• Wausau Daily Herald (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s, some years missing)
• Green Bay Press-Gazette (Newspapers.com - Publishers Extra after 1920s)

• List page: List of Wisconsin numbered highways
• Redirect completion list: Completion list

Marker graphics

All of the state highway markers past and present have been created and reside on the Commons. All single, double and triple-letter County markers have been made and reside on the Commons. In addition the default markers for Rustic Roads and Kettle Moraine Scenic Drive also reside there - with the State highway shields.

State Highway shields on Commons	County Highway shields on Commons

Maps

Maps have been created or will be created for the state highway articles in conjunction with the Maps Task Force using Quantum GIS or similar product.

State Highway maps on Commons

GIS Data for the maps courtesy of:

• the U.S.Census Bureau for the state/county outlines, urban areas and water outlines
• the Federal Highway Administration for the roads themselves.

Structure

See also: AA:MURA

Article naming convention

The contents of each article in this project should reside at Wisconsin Highway XXX, with XXX being the route number (no leading zeros); also, Wisconsin State Highway XXX and WIS-XXX and Highway xxx (Wisconsin) should redirect to the article as well. (see AA:NC)

Tolls

Since Wisconsin does not have toll roads, this section is inappropriate for the articles.

Media

Media related to Wisconsin highways should be stored on Wikimedia Commons. Place the {{Commons category}} template near the end of the article using the form: {{Commons category|NAME}}, where NAME is the name of the category on Commons. For example, the application for Wisconsin Highway 52 is {{Commons category|Wisconsin Highway 52}}. All of the categories are children of the Commons category Category:Roads in Wisconsin.

Categories

Add the following to the bottom of the page include in the Category for the article: [[Category:State highways in Wisconsin|###]] for state trunk highways; the number should be three digits, padded with leading zeroes as needed. For Interstate, US, and former highways, there are Interstate Highways in Wisconsin‎, U.S. Highways in Wisconsin, and Former state highways in Wisconsin respectively.

Lists

• List of Wisconsin numbered highways

Wikipedia articles

• create articles for
  • Rustic Roads (Wisconsin),
  • List of Wisconsin bannered routes - Such as Spur and Business Routes. No individual articles are necessary.
  • County Trunk Highways (Wisconsin)
• Wisconsin State Highways

Templates

Browse Template

If an article does not have a browser in the infobox, use the following.

{{start srbox}}
{{wi browse|previous_type=WI|previous_route=XX|route=WI|next_type=WI|next_route=XX}}
{{end box}}

will create something like

Browse numbered routes
← WIS 21	WI	→ WIS 23

Replace previous and next type with "US" or "Interstate" if and only if the previous or next route is not a Wisconsin state highway. If the previous or next route is a U.S. Route, _type=US if it is an interstate, type=I On pages where a browse box already exists, you can omit the start and end templates, and just insert the wi browse, keeping the list in alphabetical order. For an example, see the browse box at U.S. Route 1 at the bottom of the article.

Junction list

Use {{WIint}} and the rest of the {{jctint}} family of templates.

Talk page banner

Add to the Talk page of the article.

User templates

{{AARW user|USA|WI}}

Produces a userbox for editors' user pages.

This editor is interested in Wisconsin roads and highways.