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WikiProject Germany

Willkommen to WikiProject Germany! We are a group of editors dedicated to the expansion and refinement of Wikipedia’s coverage of the German republic, people, monuments and culture. If you wish to join us, simply sign your name on our roster.

Should you have any questions about our project, just drop us a line on our discussion page. If you’re lucky, you might even find some fellow project members in the Wikipedia IRC chat (#wikipedia-en). If you speak German, you may want to also try the German Wikipedia chatroom (#wikipedia-de).

Divisions Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Germany, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Germany in a fair and accurate manner.

As of 19 April 2025, there are 122,072 articles and other project resources within the scope of WikiProject Germany. For a more detailed overview see Germany article statistics.

A monthly top 1000 list of Germany-related popular articles is available at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Popular pages.

Goals
  1. Kill all backlogs.
  2. Get this project organized.
  3. To serve as a central point of discussion for collaboration related to Germany. Foster increased cooperation between editors in order to meet the other goals.
  4. To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of Germany in the English language.
  5. Build all Top Importance Germany Articles to Good Article status at a minimum. Current progress: 11 out of 136 meet this criteria.[a]

Project divisions Project divisions

  • Reference and navigation - the "keys to the country" (and of key importance)
  • Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
  • People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Germany, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Germany's predecessor states who have shaped Germany
  • Photo requests (talk) – adding and requesting images of Germany.

Task forces

Article alerts

Today's featured article requests

Did you know

Articles for deletion

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Proposed deletions

Categories for discussion

Redirects for discussion

Files for discussion

Featured article candidates

A-Class review

Good article nominees

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Featured article reviews

Requests for comments

Peer reviews

Requested moves

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Articles to be merged

Articles to be split

Articles for creation

(22 more...)

The main portal for this project is Portal:Germany. Other Germany-related portals are being deleted or moved to project space so they can continue to be useful for topic development:

Federal states

Regions and history

For more Germany-related portals (history, regions, etc.) see Category:Germany portal and "Portal" lists in Germany article statistics in the sidebar.

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Barnstars

German Barnstar of National Merit, as rendered by Antou

Our project, like the other national WikiProjects, possesses a barnstar that may be awarded to outstanding contributors to the project or members particularly deserving of recognition for some effort made for the cause of the project.

  • {{subst:The Germany Barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}
The Germany Barnstar
{{{1}}}

Resources Resources

Infoboxes Infoboxes

Stubs Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Germany-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Germany/Stub templates

Subpages

  • list of all subpages of this page

Templates Templates

What to type What it makes What it's for
{{WikiProject Germany}}
WikiProject iconGermany Unassessed
WikiProject iconThis article is within the scope of WikiProject Germany, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Germany on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.GermanyWikipedia:WikiProject GermanyTemplate:WikiProject GermanyGermany
???This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale.
???This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale.
 Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
{{User WikiProject Germany}}
WikiProject GermanyThis user is a participant in
WikiProject Germany.
 Userboxes for WikiProject members, add either to the your userpage
{{User WP Germany}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Germany.
{{Infobox German location}} Template allowing town info to be copied directly from de.wiki.
{{IPA}} German pronunciation: [...] Template for indicating German pronunciation. See Help:IPA/Standard German for transcription used.
{{translated|de}} Template to use when an article is a translation of an article on the German Wikipedia - to be placed on talk pages
{{subst:WelcomeGER}}~~~~ == Welcome to WikiProject Germany ==

Welcome, WikiProject Germany, to the WikiProject Germany! Please direct any questions about the project to its talk page. If you create new articles on Germany-related topics, please list them at our announcement page and tag their talk page with our project template {{WikiProject Germany}}. A few features that you might find helpful:

  • The project's Navigation box points to most of the pages in the project that might be of use to you.
  • Most of the important discussions related to the project take place on the project's main talk page; you may find it useful to watchlist it.
  • We've developed a number of guidelines for names, titles, and other things to standardize our articles and make interlinking easier that you may find useful.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Here are some tasks you can do. Please remove completed tasks from the list.

If you have any questions, please feel free to ask me or any of the more experienced members of the project, and we'll be very happy to help you. Again, welcome, and thank you for joining this project!

Welcome message for new project members
{{User German Road Guru}}
WikiProject Germany/TransportationThis user is a German Road Guru who can also claim themselves as a "German Road Warrior" WikiProject Germany Transportation Division Frei Fahren ist Frei Schreiben .
 This Template can be for anyone who has driven on German roads and wants to claim themselves as "German Road Warriors"

Conventions

External links Websites

For articles to be translated, see Category:Articles needing translation from German Wikipedia

Notes

  1. ^ Featured and Good Articles are added to form this number.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.