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WikiProject Minnesota

WikiProject Minnesota is a collaborative group within Wikipedia dedicated to improving, expanding, and maintaining articles related to the U.S. state of Minnesota. The project covers a wide range of topics, including Minnesota’s geography, history, government, culture, and notable people, and is part of the broader WikiProject United States. Members of WikiProject Minnesota come from diverse backgrounds and share a passion for the state, contributing by writing and editing articles, assessing their quality, providing photographs, and organizing related content.

The project also has ties to the Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group, which hosts local events and supports Wikimedia activities in the state. Whether you’re new to Wikipedia or an experienced editor, WikiProject Minnesota welcomes your skills and interests. By participating, you help shape Minnesota’s digital presence, ensuring that its diverse stories and communities are well represented.
In the area? You're invited to the Wiknic July 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting
Happy AI generated Wikipedia editors wiknicking on the MN State Capitol front lawn

The organizer of this event is Joe Hoover aka Myotus feel free to drop him a message.

Saturday July 19, 2025 the Minnesota User Group is having a Wiknic at the Minnesota State Capitol! We will be picnicing in the shade near the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial, so bring a picnic blanket, lawn chairs and a hot dish for the picnic if you like! We'll also be providing sandwiches for everyone but we encourage you to bring your own favorite dishes to share. All Minnesota Wikipedia editors and wanna-be editors are welcome!

Also...
The new "Wikimedians of Minnesota User Group" (DBA: Minnesota User Group) is up and running!
If you are a legacy member and already have joined, please reregister using the code in the Participants section of the page. If you have not yet joined please consider joining and helping out in Minnesota based Wikipedia projects!


Please RVSP on the event page.

Transit

  • Metro Green Line | LRT Stations: Capitol/Rice St. & Robert St.
  • Buses: 3,62,67,21,68
Look forward to seeing folks!

The debate continues with the "MN" shortcut

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The issue has been relisted at "Redirects for discussion" and is open for discussion. For those who do not know what the issue is or have forgotten. The discussion is for changing the WP:MN redirect to go to this page (Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota) instead of the sub-section “Criteria for musicians and ensemblesPlease chime in with your thoughts »

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Anyone can help improve information about Minnesota on Wikipedia. Here are some ways to help.

Repetitive tasks

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Involved tasks

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Requested Media

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Possible Future Wikipedia projects

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(Remember good ideas are welcome but good plans are golden)

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WikiProject Minnesota articles by quality      Refresh

Welcome to the assessment department of the Minnesota WikiProject! This department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia articles related to Minnesota, including its government, people, geography, and history. Much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, but the article ratings are also used within the project to recognize excellent contributions and identify topics that need further attention.

Ratings are conducted in a distributed manner using parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner. This process categorizes articles into the appropriate subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by quality and Category:Minnesota articles by importance. These categories serve as the foundation for an automatically generated worklist.

Frequently asked questions

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How can I get my article rated?
Please list it in the section for assessment requests below.
Who can assess articles?
Any member of the Minnesota WikiProject is free to add—or change—the rating of an article.
What if I don't agree with a rating?
You can list it in the section for assessment requests below, and someone will take a look at it. Alternately, you can ask any member of the project to rate the article again.
Aren't the ratings subjective?
Yes, they are, but it's the best system we've been able to devise; if you have a better idea, please don't hesitate to let us know!

If you have any other questions not listed here, please feel free to ask them on the discussion page for this department.

Instructions

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An article's assessment is generated from the class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Minnesota}} project banner on its talk page:

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The following values may be used for the class parameter:

Articles for which a valid class is not provided are listed in Category:Unassessed Minnesota articles. The class should be assigned according to the quality scale below.

Quality scale

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Importance scale

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The criteria used for rating article importance are not meant to be an absolute or canonical view of how significant the topic is. Rather, they attempt to gauge the probability of the average reader of Wikipedia needing to look up the topic (and thus the immediate need to have a suitably well-written article on it). Thus, subjects with greater popular notability may be rated higher than topics which are arguably more "important" but which are of interest primarily to students of the Minnesota.

Note that general notability need not be from the perspective of editor demographics; generally notable topics should be rated similarly regardless of the country or region in which they hold said notability. Thus, topics which may seem obscure to a Western audience—but which are of high notability in other places—should still be highly rated.

Article importance grading scheme
Label Criteria Examples
Places Things People
Top Subject is a "core" or "key" topic for Minnesota, or is generally notable to people other than students of Minnesota. They define and determine the subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Minnesota University of Minnesota Prince (musician)
High Subject is notable in a significant and important way within the field of Minnesota, but not necessarily outside it. Bloomington, Minnesota I-35W Mississippi River bridge Sunisa Lee
Mid Subject contributes to the total subject of the Minnesota WikiProject. Subject may not necessarily be famous. Apple Valley, Minnesota Breck School Bob Dylan
Low Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within the field of Minnesota, and may have been included primarily to achieve comprehensive coverage of another topic. Climax, Minnesota Charlemagne Tower Judy Garland

Requesting an assessment

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If you have made significant changes to an article and would like an outside opinion on a new rating for it, please feel free to list it below.

  1. First Avenue (nightclub) Request for B class in advance of seeking peer review. -SusanLesch (talk) 18:14, 10 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment log

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Please help with the category of Unassessed Minnesota articles.

The logs in this section are generated automatically (on a daily basis); please don't add entries to them by hand.

Unexpected changes, such as downgrading an article, or raising it more than two assessment classes at once, are shown in bold.

May 13, 2025

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May 11, 2025

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May 9, 2025

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May 8, 2025

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May 7, 2025

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Shortcut: WP:MINN
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Portal: {{Portal|Minnesota|left=yes|boxsize=128px}}

Project banner:
{{WikiProject Minnesota}}

Userbox:

{{User WikiProject Minnesota}}

Use these pages to gather information and resources for use in developing Minnesota-related articles. Tasks should be listed as subpoints under the relevant item.

General Minnesota resources

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  • General — General information on Minnesota
  1. Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article Talk pages ... someone using AWB could probably do this most easily
  2. Add {{Minnesota-stub}} or other appropriate stub notices (see below) to stub articles.
  3. Identify articles needing images
  1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

Minnesota physical assets

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  • Government — Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Minnesota
  • Places — Cities, towns, counties, landmarks, and important structures
  1. Add City Infobox and photo to biggest cities (see Minneapolis, Minnesota for example)
  2. Improve Minnesota#Important cities and towns
  3. Photographs needed: List of MN places that need photographs
  4. Provide missing geocoordinate data
  1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota
  • Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

Minnesota life

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  • People — Minnesota natives and those residents who have shaped Minnesota
  1. Clean up List of people from Minnesota.
  2. Make sure people in Category:People from Minnesota are included in List of people from Minnesota.
  • Culture — Music, art, sports, media, etc.
  • Commerce — Companies and general commerce in Minnesota
  • History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood



Child projects

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This WikiProject is an offshoot of WikiProject United States, and has several descendant projects:

Task forces

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  • Minnesota Legislature — This task force is a sub-project of WikiProject Minnesota. The scope includes the sessions and elections of both houses of the Minnesota Legislature.

Participants

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Active Participants

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WikiProject Minnesota participants inactive for 3+ years

To join WikiProject Minnesota, edit the /Participants page and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members are encourged to also place Participant identification on their user page.

Members

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Active members

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WikiProject Minnesota members inactive for 3+ years

To join WikiProject Minnesota, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Annwfwn - Twin Cities area, history and anthropology
  2. AsimovtheCat – Interested in Transport and fairly knowledgeable about Northfield and St. Olaf College in particular
  3. Aunva6 (talk) 23:35, 23 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Axiom71 (talk) - Born in St. Paul, MN. Reside in Red Wing. Reading local history and interested in history of region and state.
  5. BenFranske
  6. Bobak - urban planning, stadiums, misc. (I live in downtown Minneapolis and can get pictures in a jiff if people need them; I am also an administrator.)
  7. Bobamnertiopsis - Minneapolis stuff, especially history in south Minneapolis and the Minneapolis Public Library branches.
  8. Botpo - Ecology
  9. Bradinator33 - History, Geography, and Mapping
  10. Calebrw (talk) - South Minneapolis. Rice County. Northfield and the surrounding area. I can take requests on my talk page for pictures in those areas.
  11. CamrynBell - 20th century history, biographies
  12. Cedar Tree - Western and rural Minnesota
  13. ClarityKTMpls - Midwesterner through and through. Happy to help with all that makes our state awesome.
  14. Comm260_ncu — Long-distance running in Minnesota; marathons, half-marathons, cross country, DIII sports
  15. CptFulton - Interest in adding photographs of small towns in the Twin Cities area
  16. Czycha (talk)
  17. Dane
  18. Darth Stabro (talk · contribs) 14:45:54, 30 November 2024 (UTC)  – history of Catholicism in Minnesota in particular[reply]
  19. Dflovett
  20. Dynamic Doyle (talk)- Wikipedia user since September 2013. Avid bicyclist and manufacturing engineering technology student in Minneapolis and Mankato. Works at Star_Tribune Fleet Garage. Also loves finance/accounting, R&D, design, art, fluids (gas/liquids), classical music, and advocating for education.
  21. Eamesheard (talk)
  22. ebbillings (talk) 22:26, 9 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  23. Editingwithcoffee (talk · contribs) 22:25:43, 2 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  24. Elkman - also helping out with history, lakes and bridges
  25. ErikTheBikeMan (talk) I can help out with requests for pictures in the metro area.
  26. Erutuon — interested in Minnesota native plants and nature in general
  27. GM - Interest in Dakota County history, List of longest streams of Minnesota, List of rivers of Minnesota
  28. gobonobo + c - countering systemic bias, rabbit holes
  29. Grandmasterka - Topics relating to inner-city Minneapolis. I would also like to bring Minnesota State Fair up to Featured Article status. (I am also an administrator.)
  30. GreatLakesShips - Great Lakes shipwrecks.
  31. Grika - I've begun a project to create pages for all Minnesota Synagogues, any help would be appreciated - List of Minnesota Synagogues
  32. Gutworth - I'd be glad to do research for any article
  33. Mr. Guye - I live in Robbinsdale. I will likely focus on Minnesota politics and government. How am I not already a member of this WikiProject? I care about my state's articles!
  34. GWST11 - Athletes in Minnesota
  35. innotata
  36. Iulus Ascanius - I like to clean, organize, and add basic info to articles on small cities and towns
  37. JayJay - Assesing and re-assesing articles
  38. Jonathunder - can help with tasks which require admin tools, and happy to take requests for photographs in southeast Minnesota
  39. Jordano53 - NRHP listings in Minnesota, as well as topics related to Morrison County
  40. Joseph507357 (talk Live in Minnesota.
  41. Jrt989
  42. KDTW Flyer - Wisconsin Native, working on airports
  43. Keeper 76. Born and raised. "over 30 years experience". NorthWoods or Northburbs, let me know where to help.
  44. kewlgrapes - I live in Rochester and frequently drive I-90 to Worthington. Happy to take pictures upon request.
  45. Kr0ndstat - Interested in Minneapolis, Hennepin County, the University of Minnesota, technological advancements in Minnesota, and copy editing. Creator of List of Minnesota State Fair grandstand shows
  46. Laflaneuse - Twin Cities, art, Lynx basketball, urban planning, transportation
  47. Legolover26- I live in Minnesota and am from Minnesota and will look for ways to be of help.
  48. Littlearmchairhistorian - Interest in Minnesota politics. New to Wikipedia!
  49. Malepheasant - mostly in overlap with WikiProject Rivers
  50. Malvoliox - Anything Minneapolis, twin cities, or statewide; government, neighborhoods...have been working on flag/seal stuff most recently.
  51. Marauder09 - I'll help out, I live in Minnesota.
  52. McGhiever - working mostly on parks
  53. MidwestMoss - Nature, museums, history, biography.
  54. Minnemeeples (talk) - Anything Minnesota but with a focus on Minneapolis history, geography, and current events.
  55. Moncoposig (talk) - Really anything related to Minnesota, but especially interested in Minnesotan ekistics and vexillology.
  56. Moncrief - open to general editing tasks
  57. Mrfeek - Politics, history
  58. Myotus - Museums and local history organizations, Minnesota history especially local histories, historical sites.
  59. Nathanm_mn
  60. Nsteffel - History, politics, beer.
  61. Nthyden - Minnesota Lynx, UMN School of Public Health
  62. Okabena EnAvant New user; interested in southwest Minnesota cities/history/geography, metro area, transportation history, natural history.
  63. Our Bold Hero
  64. Packerfan386 – The Cities and transportation stuff mostly.
  65. Palmejo (talk) - Born and raised in SW/WC MN, can focus there but assist wherever needed
  66. paul2520 (talk) - I live in Minneapolis; myriad of interests including local history/organizations, books, LGBTQ+ topics, general tasks, & helping new users
  67. Peter Beard (talk) - Mostly stuff in the metro area; history, photos - whatever's missing, really.
  68. Pingnova (talk · contribs) 03:04:48, 22 October 2024 (UTC)  – Hmong Americans in the Twin Cities, Dakota in Minnesota[reply]
  69. RachelWex
  70. Rehcsif - Western 'burbs, parks, general misc.
  71. Rx StrangeLove I'm taking requests for photography in and around the Twin Cities, as well as some outstate areas when I travel.
  72. Ryan Vesey Currently working on some southwest Minnesota articles, trying to create articles for all of the Senators and Representatives from the region
  73. Sabiona
  74. Sable232 Highways, anything else that comes to mind.
  75. SageSolomon Minnesota native, born and raised, living in the west-metro. Interested in the Cities and Towns, Geography, History and Politics.
  76. SeanNovack (talk) History, Politics, and sports
  77. Shaded0 (talk) 03:08, 19 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  78. Skyler13 (talk)
  79. SoAnactoria - Wide interest range, but primarily urban planning, West Central Minnesota (particularly the Red River Valley), art in MN, Indigenous history and culture.
  80. SunTunnels (talk) - Southeast and NRHP.
  81. SusanLesch (talk)
  82. SWMNPoliSciProject (talk) Preparation, modification and expansion of articles primarily relevant to government, politics and world affairs.
  83. Thesavagenorwegian - Elections mostly
  84. TickleMeTrotsky - Duluth area, geology, miscellany
  85. Tommie91 - I'm a very knowledgeable sports fan, especially Minnesota teams. Also a Minnesota history fan.
  86. Trish Lewis - St. Vincent, Minnesota History
  87. WeijiBaikeBianji (talk) - University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota Law School, fifth-generation Minnesotan. Will look around for miscellaneous tasks mentioned on the project page.
  88. William E Ostrem - Wide interests, literature, sports, Twin Cities
  89. WTGDMan1986
  90. WxGopher - Almost exclusively editing weather articles, though occasionally Minnesota sports articles too.
  91. ZJH


  1. ^ Prose at the Good Article level is not expected to be at a professional level like it is for Featured Articles. Minor grammatical or style issues that do not impact clarity are not prohibitive of GA status.