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This WikiProject is a collaboration of project participants to create, develop, expand and organise articles relating to the City of Greater Bendigo. The project focuses on improving content related to the city's history, geography, suburbs and notable figures. WikiProject Bendigo was founded in November 2021.
Goals
- Improve the quality of pages related to Bendigo (most of them are stub articles, so this is a must!)
- Create pages related to Bendigo
- Find and take photos for articles within the scope of the project
To do
- Promote the Bendigo page to good article status
- Expand the suburb of Bendigo article – it's the city's centre, yet it's still only a stub article!
- Add more images/photos to pages related to Bendigo
- Have a complete gallery page for every suburb and locality
- Expand pages related to Suburbs and Localities of Bendigo
- History
- Flora/Vegetation
- Geology
- Climate
- Demographics
- Create and expand pages about geographical features such as:
- Mountains
- Mines
- Tag all Bendigo-related pages with the talk page banner, found at Template:WikiProject Bendigo
- Create a page for each Mayor of Bendigo of the City of Greater Bendigo 10 / 19 (53%)
- Create pages for notable or interesting mayors of the City of Bendigo
Created pages
Please add the pages that you have created to the list below, along with the date of their creation.
- Ulumbarra Theatre (29 April 2021)
- Mandurang South (6 May 2021)
- Harcourt North (9 May 2021)
- Huntly North (8 November 2021)
- Lockwood, Victoria (8 November 2021)
- Bagshot, Victoria (9 November 2021)
- Argyle, Victoria (9 November 2021)
- Avonmore, Victoria (9 November 2021)
- Bagshot North (9 November 2021)
- Derrinal (10 November 2021)
- Eppalock (25 November 2021)
- Fosterville, Victoria (26 November 2021)
- Hunter, Victoria (1 December 2021)
- Lockwood South (26 February 2022)
- Kamarooka (27 January 2022)
- Kimbolton, Victoria (28 January 2022)
- Ladys Pass (29 January 2022)
- Leichardt, Victoria (30 January 2022)
- Mount Camel (1 March 2022)
- Myrtle Creek, Victoria (3 March 2022)
- Myers Flat, Victoria (9 March 2022)
- Redcastle, Victoria (12 March 2022)
- Wilsons Hill (13 March 2022)
- Whipstick (13 March 2022)
- Wellsford, Victoria (13 March 2022)
- St Just Point (26 February 2024)
- Rod Fyffe (12 July 2024)
- Andrea Metcalf (12 October 2024)
- Bendigo Symphony Orchestra (28 October 2024)
- Barry Ackerman (25 November 2024)
- Margaret O'Rourke (28 November 2024)
- Jennifer Alden (28 November 2024)
- Peter Cox (29 November 2024)
- Barry Lyons (14 January 2025)
- Lisa Ruffell (16 January 2025)
- Alec Sandner (24 January 2025)
Location of the Fortnight
Our collaboration of the fortnight project can be found here.
Participants
Please feel free to add your name to the bottom of this list if you would like to participate in this project.
- Viatori (talk · contribs)
- An aggressive and ambiguous amphibian's absurd and adaptable anagram alarmed all ants (talk · contribs)
- CatbethePage (talk · contribs)
- Seat456 (talk · contribs)
- Mr Sitcom (talk · contribs)
- GraziePrego (talk · contribs)
- Frey Lockyer (talk · contribs)
- Rohanmcmaster (talk · contribs)
- Kerrieburn (talk · contribs)
- Rtbk (talk · contribs)
Article statistics
| Bendigo articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
| B | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||
| C | 1 | 7 | 8 | ||||
| Start | 3 | 15 | 79 | 97 | |||
| Stub | 21 | 114 | 135 | ||||
| List | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Disambig | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| NA | 23 | 23 | |||||
| Assessed | 1 | 4 | 37 | 207 | 30 | 279 | |
| Total | 1 | 4 | 37 | 207 | 30 | 279 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 1,342 | Ω = 5.48 | |||||
Templates
| Userbox | Example | Usage | ||
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| {{Template:WPBendigo}} |
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This can be placed on your user page to show that you are a part of this WikiProject. | ||
| {{Template:User Bendigo, Victoria}} |
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This can be placed on your user page if you wish to identify as living in Bendigo. | ||
| {{Template:WikiProject Bendigo}} | The project notice, designed to be placed in the talk page of any article that falls under the project scope. | |||
| Category:WikiProject Bendigo participants | This category can be added to your user page to show that you are a participant of this WikiProject. |
Categories
Resources
If anyone knows of any other quality resources for the city, please add them here.
Books
- Bendigo: A History (1973) by Frank Cusack
- Annals of Bendigo by Frank Cusack
Websites
- Victorian Places Features separate entries related to Bendigo and its suburbs
- Bendigo Historical Society
- Bendigo Regional Archives Centre
Other
- The Goldfields Libraries offer valuable historical resources related to the city of Bendigo