AARoads:Australia

Australia
Dedicated to the highways and roadways of Australia

Welcome to WikiProject Australian Roads (WP:AURD)

Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of roads in Australia, and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

What can you do?

First and foremost, just start editing – help us improve our articles! Here are some specific tasks you can do:

• Add an infobox – 0 article(s) • Random article (documentation • usage guidelines • blank code)
• Expand a stub – 0 article(s) • Random article (assessment criteria • sources • don't use roadgeek websites!)
• Add a road junction list – 0 article(s) • Random article talk page (RJL templates • WP:AURD guidelines • MOS guidelines)
  • Or convert a non-standard road junction list – 0 article(s) • Random article talk page
• Make a map – 0 article(s) • Random article talk page (map colours and standards)
• Check recent edits – Articles (only those with an infobox) • Talk pages (articles) • Talk pages (all namespaces)

Need help?

• Questions – don't be afraid to ask!
  • Ask general Wikipedia questions at the Teahouse (a friendly place for new editors) or Help desk (questions about how to use or edit Wikipedia)
  • For questions related to Australian road articles (or other pages), or at the specific article's talk page
• Advice – see project conventions, standards, and guidelines regarding:
  • Article titles and disambiguation
  • Content and structure
  • Assessment criteria
  • Infobox guidelines
  • Map standards
  • Road junction list content, style, and examples
• Resources – see our resources page for useful templates, maps, images, and sources.

Scope

WikiProject Australian Roads maintains and improves articles related to roads and road transportation in Australia, excluding topics related to vehicles. This scope covers all road-related articles within the Roads in Australia category structure, but only some of the articles within the wider Road transport in Australia category.

• Some examples of road transportation articles inside the project scope are Australian Road Rules, Black Spot Program, and Speed limits in Australia.
• Articles in various subcategories of Road transport in Australia such as Category:Motorcycles of Australia‎, Category:Bus transport in Australia‎, and Category:Cars of Australia‎ are outside the project scope.
• Articles on fictitious roads are outside the project scope.
• Articles on temporary uses of roads, such as street circuits, parades, protests, and fun-runs, are outside the project scope.

Article categories

Project categories

Mission

“ To continually improve the coverage of Australian roads on Wikipedia, through collaboration ”

The key points in the mission are explained below:

• continually improve – There is no endpoint for the project, as roads are continually being built, upgraded and extended.
• coverage – Here coverage refers to both quality of coverage and breadth of coverage.
• Australian roads – The project mission is directly related to its scope. Articles outside of the project scope should collaborated on at a more appropriate venue.
• on Wikipedia – Improving Wikipedia is the core reason for editing Wikipedia. All of the projects articles and edits should be consistent with Wikipedia's principles, policies and guidelines.
• through collaboration – This refers to both inter-editor collaboration within this project (through discussion and shared resources), and inter-project colloboration (working with the other projects / task forces within WikiProject Highways and WikiProject Australia).

Goals

Long term goals are:

• Improve articles and lists to featured status
• Complete coverage of national and state highways and major roads (no important redlinks)

Medium term goals are:

• Develop standards and guidelines for Australian road articles (to complement existing Wikipedia-wide guidelines)
• Get at least one article to GA status for each state and mainland territory

Short term goals are:

• Identify editors who may be interested and ask them to join
• Tag and assess all articles within the project scope (see the projects Assessment page)
• Develop project resources, to be listed and explained on the Resources page

To do

Here are some important tasks you can do to help WikiProject Australian Roads:

Assessment

Live Assessment Table

State	A	B	C	D	E	Total	ω	Ω
Australian Capital Territory	0	1	4	4	21	30	105	3.500
New South Wales	0	2	23	120	15	160	468	2.925
Northern Territory	0	0	2	12	18	32	112	3.500
Queensland	0	0	45	140	14	199	566	2.844
South Australia	0	1	6	31	50	88	306	3.477
Tasmania	0	0	6	19	18	43	141	3.279
Victoria	0	0	16	68	38	122	388	3.180
Western Australia	6	3	34	68	32	143	403	2.818
Australia	6	7	140	468	204	825	2,507	3.038

Australia article statistics

Class	Population	ω	Ω
A	6	0
B	7	7
C	140	280
D	468	1,404
E	204	816
Total	825	2,507	3.039

Australia list statistics

Class	Population	ω	Ω
AL	0	0
BL	0	0
CL	0	0
DL	0	0
EL	0	0
List	41	164
Total	41	164	4

Resources

• The Resources page lists many useful resources for improving articles, including templates, maps, images, references, important external links, and more.
• See also the Article Standards page for advice on titles, content, infoboxes, maps, and road junction lists.
• The Popular pages report list articles (with their assessed class/importance) by number of page views, showing which pages readers are most interested in.