Judgepedia:WikiProject Calendar

	This page is part of Judgepedia's calendar project, a Judgepedia project dedicated to articles about annual calendars of significant events in state and federal courts. This user is a member of the Calendar Project. To participate: grab a badge to place on your user page, then choose a task from the project page.

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About the project

This project is about building calendar-based information on Judgepedia.

More specifically, the point of this project is to:

• Create one article like Judgepedia:Calendar 2009 for every year going back to Judgepedia:Calendar 1789 (the first year that a judge was put on the federal judiciary).

• Familiarize other contributors with this feature, including the shortcut feature.

• Encourage other contributors to wiki-link any dates in their articles to the appropriate calendar year.

Questions, comments and ideas for this project can be placed on the talk page.

Current to-do list

Wiki-linking dates

Dates that ought to be wiki-linked to a calender page are:

• The date a federal judge received their commission to serve.
• The date a federal judge assumed senior status.
• The date a federal judge left service.
• The date a state judge was elected, nominated or appointed to office.
• The date a state judge assumed office.
• The date(s) that a state judge retained their seat, either via re-election, re-appointment, retention election, or other means.
• The date a state judge left service.
• Other dates of interest.

Building calender pages

• Continue to add years to the Template:Calendar years. (done through 1780)
• Continue to build up the basic calendar articles like Judgepedia:Calendar 2006. (done through 1780)
• Template:WikiProject Calendar. This template is placed on the discussion/talk page of any annual calendar. (done through 1780)
• Create shortcuts (re-directs) for each of the calendar pages. The shortcuts should always be in the form [[C2008]]. C2008 will be a re-direct to Judgepedia:Calendar 2008. (done through 1780)

Creating calendar pages

These are simple to create.

• To create one for a year that doesn't yet have one, the name of the article is always in the form [[Judgepedia:Calendar YEAR]].
• Type {{calendar}} at the top of the page.
• Install 12 sections, one for each of the months.
• Install the {{Calendar years}} template at the end of the article.
• Put the article in Category:Calendar.

Ideally at the same time you create your article, you will also:

• Add the newly created article to Template:Calendar years.
• Create a shortcut for the new article. The shortcut is a redirect in the form of [[CYEAR]], re-directing to the article you just created.

Wiki-linking to calendar pages

Whenever you come across a date in a JP article, ideally you will take the time to create a wiki-link at the date to the appropriate calendar page.

Here are some tips for how to do that:

• For each calendar page, there is a re-direct/shortcut. The shortcut is in the form [[CYEAR]].
• Here are some examples: C2007 and C2006.
• The reason for the shortcut is so you don't have to type as many characters in order to create the wiki-link.
• Whenever possible, please insert a section link in your wiki-link as well, to the appropriate month of the year.

• An example of that is in this sentence:
• [[Morgan Christen]] was appointed to the [[Alaska Supreme Court]] on [[C2009#March|March 4, 2009]].
• That sentence looks like: Morgan Christen was appointed to the Alaska Supreme Court on March 4, 2009.

Templates

These basic templates are available to be used in this project:

• Template:Calendar. This template is installed at the top of annual calendar pages.
• Template:Calendar years. This navigational template is installed near the end of annual calendar pages (right above category designations).
• Template:WikiProject Calendar. This template is placed on the discussion/talk page of any annual calendar.
• Template:Calendar project. This template can be placed on user pages by those contributors who are participating in this project.

User badge

This user is a member of the Calendar Project.

If you're working on this project, try adding the {{Calendar project}} template to your user page. This will enable you to quickly access this project page right from your user page whenever you're signed in so you can see what is going on with the project. It will also enable other contributors to see that you're part of this project in case they're looking for someone to help them with the project.