Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals

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Welcome to WikiProject Hospitals. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Hospitals and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its tabs and subpages contain suggestions, guidelines, and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page, and see the alerts and metrics below.

Hospital articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA		2	8	9		1	20
B	4	33	49	99		85	270
C	10	94	329	445		161	1,039
Start	6	119	1,137	2,406		400	4,068
Stub		40	496	2,138		545	3,219
List	105	63	37	96	4	5	310
Category					2,492		2,492
Disambig					109		109
File					353		353
Project					8		8
Redirect	89	4	33	101	347		574
Template					284		284
Other		2			35		37
Assessed	214	357	2,089	5,294	3,632	1,197	12,783
Unassessed				1		34	35
Total	214	357	2,089	5,295	3,632	1,231	12,818
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 44,660			Ω = 5.18

Goals

Improve all hospital articles within a common framework

• Add a completed {{WikiProject Hospitals}} template to the talk page (not the article page) of any hospital article. Include assessment class and importance parameters in the template.
• Increase the number of Featured Articles and Good Articles about hospitals
• Improve the completeness of lists of hospitals for countries and administrative divisions (states) of countries
  • All continents and countries in the world now have a "List of hospitals in ....." list. Some country summaries in the lists could still be improved.  Task complete.
• Improve the quality of the most popular hospital articles. (The most popular WikiProject Hospitals articles are listed on Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Popular pages and is updated monthly.)

Geographic coverage

Lists of hospitals in Africa

Lists of hospitals in Asia

Lists of hospitals in Europe

Lists of hospitals in North America

Lists of hospitals in Oceania

Lists of hospitals in South America

Scope

In scope: Hospital articles should be about the following:

• Physical sites where medical care is delivered as the main activity: Hospitals, infirmaries, clinics, medical centres, institutes, asylums
• Military hospitals, field hospitals, hospital ships
• Management organisations of hospitals - whether government agencies or private companies
• Medical training establishments (not to be placed under WikiProject Medicine). However, they may be simultaneously grouped under WikiProject Universities.

Out of scope: The following articles are not within the scope of this project.

• Hospital equipment (see WikiProject Medicine)
• Any medical topic (see WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Anatomy)
• Nursing (see WikiProject Nursing)
• People, unless notable in the context of an in-scope article (see WikiProject Biography).

Notability

• Guideline on notability for buildings
• Guideline on notability for corporations and organizations
• Essay on notability for hospitals

Ways to maintain and improve articles

There are over 17,000 hospitals in the world and approximately 4,000 hospital articles on Wikipedia. Hospital articles in Wikipedia can be maintained and improved by the following.

Metrics

Metrics are used within this project to measure progress towards meeting project goals. See Wikipedia:WikiProject Hospitals/Metrics for detailed metrics.

Alerts

See also recent changes in WP:HOS articles

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Templates

Project templates

• {{Infobox hospital}} - Should be placed on every hospital page
• {{WikiProject Hospitals}} - Should be placed on every hospital talk page
• {{User WPHospitals}} - Userbox template

  This user participates in WikiProject Hospitals.

• {{Hospitals_Invite}} - Use to invite new members to the project

Full syntax for WikiProject Hospitals template:

{{WikiProject Hospitals 
|class= 
|importance= 
|attention= 
|needs-infobox=  
|needs-image= 
|needs-coord= 
}}

Awards

The following general barnstars are commonly used within the project:

• For contributing to the project: {{subst:The WikiProject Barnstar|message ~~~~}}
• For outstanding team efforts: {{subst:The Teamwork Barnstar|message ~~~~}}
• For reviewing articles: {{subst:Content Review Medal|message ~~~~}}

Resources

Archives

Old content in Project Archive