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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.

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Events

In the area? You're invited to the Wiknic July 2025 Minnesota User Group Meeting 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! When: Saturday, July 19, 2025 Time: 10 to 1:30 pm Place: Minnesota State Capitol near the Minnesota Woman Suffrage Memorial 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!

• List of Meetups/Edit-a-thons/Workshops in Minnesota
• List of PAST Meetups/Edit-a-thons/Workshops in Minnesota
• Category:Wikipedia meetups in Minnesota

Discussions

Alerts

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 ensembles” Please chime in with your thoughts »

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Requests

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

• Review and rate unassessed Minnesota articles. As of January 22, 2025, there are approximately 62 articles remaining to be assessed.
• Add {{WikiProject Minnesota}} to Minnesota article talk pages.
• Add {{Minnesota-stub}} to short "stub" articles about Minnesota.
• Identify articles needing images with {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}}.
• Provide missing geocoordinate data.

• List of wanted pages by topic is a list of Minnesota-related suggested pages that do not exist. You can add to the list of ideas or create articles to turn the red links blue.
• Take photos for Minnesota pages that need images. List of MN places that need photographs.
• Attend an in-person Minnesota User Group meetup to share your ideas and meet other Wikipedians.

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

Assessments

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.

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.

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

{{WikiProject Minnesota
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|peer-review= 
|old-peer-review= 
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|portal1-link=
|portal2-name=
|portal2-link=
|portal3-name=
|portal3-link=
|portal4-name=
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}}

The following values may be used for the class parameter:

• FL - The article has reached Featured list status; adds articles to Category:FL-Class Minnesota articles
• FA - The article has reached Featured article status; adds articles to Category:FA-Class Minnesota articles
• A - Could be submitted as a Featured article candidatebut probably could use some small updates to make it Featured quality; adds articles to Category:A-Class Minnesota articles
• GA - The article has reached Good article status; adds articles to Category:GA-Class Minnesota articles
• B- Could be submitted as a Good article nominee; probably could use some updates or may lack some features from the Good article criteria, but it presents a good overview of the subject; adds articles to Category:B-Class Minnesota articles
• C - The article has an large amount of content, but lacks information and organization in areas; adds articles to Category:C-Class Minnesota articles
• Start - The article is more than a stub, but may lack some important aspects of the topic's discussion; adds articles to Category:Start-Class Minnesota articles
• Stub - The article is a stub; adds articles to Category:Stub-Class Minnesota articles)
• Needed - The article does not yet exist but has been identified as a subject that should be covered; adds articles to Category:Needed-Class Minnesota articles
• List - The page is a list; adds articles to Category:List-Class Minnesota articles
• Category - The page is a category; adds articles to Category:Category-Class Minnesota articles
• Disambig - The article is a disambiguation page; adds articles to Category:Disambig-Class Minnesota articles
• Portal - The page is a portal. adds articles to Category:Portal-Class Minnesota articles
• Redirect - The article is a redirect page; adds articles to Category:Redirect-Class Minnesota articles
• Template - The page is a template; adds articles to Category:Template-Class Minnesota articles
• Image - The page is an image.
• NA - For pages, such as templates, redirects, or disambiguation pages, where assessment is unnecessary; adds pages to Category:NA-Class Minnesota articles

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.

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.

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]

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.

• Louie Varland renamed to Louis Varland.

• 2024 Minnesota House of Representatives District 27B special election (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Black Visions Collective (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Jewish state legislators in Minnesota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Louis Varland (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Jewish American state legislators in Minnesota (talk) removed.

• Draft:Set of 16 nesting bowls by Yagi Akira (talk) removed.

• Head of the Lakes Conference (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• The Hang Ups (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Category:Former populated places in Otter Tail County, Minnesota (talk) removed.

• Alex Bump (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Unassessed-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Cows (band) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)
• Dryden McKay (talk) reassessed. Importance rating changed from Unknown-Class to Low-Class. (rev · t)
• James M. Goodhue (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from C-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
• John Roach (bishop) (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to GA-Class. (rev · t)
• Palisade Rail Bridge (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Redirect-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Ethan Coen (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Observer Drift (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Peter Wolf Crier (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Roma di Luna (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Tom Leadon (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Draft:Tuttle School (talk) assessed. Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Venia (hardcore band) (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• File:Flag of Minnesota.svg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• Lake Superior Conference (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Unassessed-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Unknown-Class. (rev · t)
• Category:Nurses from Minnesota (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Category-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)
• File:Rochester Minnesota Skyline 04.jpg (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as File-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as NA-Class. (rev · t)

• Big Stone County Museum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Rochester, Minnesota racial slur video (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)
• Wíčazo Ša Review (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Stub-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

• Draft:Tuttle School (talk) removed.

• Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t) Importance rating changed from Low-Class to Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Dawson Bank Museum (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Start-Class to C-Class. (rev · t)
• Riley Tufte (talk) reassessed. Quality rating changed from Stub-Class to Start-Class. (rev · t)

• Arv Hus Museum (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Blue Earth County History Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Bruentrup Heritage Farm (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Carlton County History and Heritage Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Giants of the Earth Heritage Center (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as Start-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Mid-Class. (rev · t)
• Hoċokata Ti (talk) assessed. Quality assessed as C-Class. (rev · t) Importance assessed as Low-Class. (rev · t)

Tools

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Shortcut:	WP:MINN [[WP:MINN]]
Portal:	{{Portal|Minnesota|left=yes|boxsize=128px}}
Project banner:	{{WikiProject Minnesota}}
Userbox:	This user is a participant in WikiProject Minnesota. {{User WikiProject Minnesota}}

• Minnesota subpage listings

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 — 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

• Recent changes — View recent changes in Minnesota articles. You may also view and edit the list of included articles.

1. Populate the list with ALL Minnesota articles.

• 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

• Transportation — Roads, trails, and rails in Minnesota

1. Improve Transportation in Minnesota

• Parks — State parks and forests, local parks, and other natural areas

• Nature and geography — Natural and physical features and Minnesota plants and animals

• 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

• Education — Education in Minnesota

• History — history of Minnesota during and prior to statehood

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Minnesota/MNopedia — Created & Maintained by the Minnesota Historical Society, MNOpedia is good way to track notable MN subjects.

Showcase

• Popular Minnesota pages

Related WikiProjects

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

• WikiProject Minnesota State Highways
• WikiProject Minnesota Twins
• WikiProject Minnesota Vikings
• WikiProject Minnesota Deletion sorting

• 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.

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.

Myotus

Macaw*

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.