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Aviation WikiProject
General information
Main project page (talk) Announcements and open tasks (talk) → AfD record (talk) → Article alerts → Maintenance (talk) → New articles (talk) → Resources (talk) Notability and Style guide (talk) Showcase and Popular pages
Departments Assessment (Log) (talk) → B-Class / A-Class → Instructions Collaboration (NB: Inactive) (talk) Outreach department (talk) → Current newsletter → Contest (talk) Peer review (talk) The WikiEagle (talk) → Current issue
Project organization Coordinators (talk) Members (talk) Portals Project banner (talk) Project category (talk)
Templates Infobox templates → Aircraft begin infobox (talk) → Aircraft occurrence infobox (talk) → Airline infobox (talk) → Airport infobox (talk) → Aviator infobox (talk) → Company infobox (talk) Navigation boxes (talk)
Sub-projects Aircraft project (talk) → Engines task force (talk) → Rotorcraft task force (talk) Airlines project (talk) → Defunct Airlines task force (talk) Airports project (talk) Gliding project (talk) Aerospace biography task force (talk) Air sports task force (talk) Aviation accident task force (talk) Military aviation task force (talk) Soviet aviation task force (talk)
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Welcome to the Aviation WikiProject, a collaboration area and group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Aviation. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of project members!

Currently, there are 42,513 aviation-related Wikipedia articles, 150 are good articles (about 1 in 283), and 52 are featured articles (about 1 in 810).

Goals

• To create the foremost reliable and accurate free-content encyclopedia of aviation in the English language.
• Improve Wikipedia's coverage by constantly creating, expanding, and maintaining articles.
• Create guidelines and recommendations for articles about aviation, and provide a central discussion area.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to aviation to be within its scope. Our primary work is concentrated in a number of broad areas:

1. Aviation concepts (e.g., stall, mach)
2. Aviation technologies not part of an airplane (e.g., airport surveillance radar)
3. Articles about aircraft types (e.g., airliner, interceptor aircraft, helicopter)
4. Companies and government agencies (e.g., Cessna, NASA)
5. Aviation history

Structure

Internally, the project has developed several structural features to help in managing our extensive work:

Assessment

The assessment department focuses on determining and tracking the quality of Wikipedia's aviation articles; the resulting statistics are used to aid in recognizing excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

Collaboration

The collaboration department seeks to identify articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort; every fortnight, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it. The current collaboration article is Frédéric Gagey.

Outreach

The outreach department acts as a central location for various member outreach work, including project newsletters, recruitment and welcoming banners, and other related initiatives.

Peer review

The review department conducts both informal peer reviews of articles, as well as formal reviews for A-Class status; it also provides a centralized forum for viewing external reviews (such as featured article candidacies) within the project's scope.

The project includes 5 Child projects and 6 task forces for collaboration on specific topics within aviation, such as aircraft, defunct airlines, and gliding.

• 4.2% List-Class
• 31.3% Stub-Class
• 36.4% Start-Class
• 17.5% C-Class
• 8.5% B-Class
• 1.1% GA-Class
• 0.1% A-Class
• 0.3% FA-Class
• 0.7% remaining