Wikipedia:WikiProject Food and drink/About

WikiProject Food and Drink is one of the oldest WikiProjects on Wikipedia, beginning its life as the Gastronomy WikiProject in April 2003. Since that time, it has evolved into a comprehensive project covering numerous subjects and concentrations. However, it remains as an association of Wikipedians who share an interest in food and drink related matters who have come together to co-ordinate the development of these articles on Wikipedia.

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We cover a very broad array of subjects, from national cuisines to various food dishes and beverages. The amount of topics that fall under our umbrella is huge, with over 25,000 articles and counting that are grouped into numerous categories.

These are some of the topics that fall under our purview:

• National cuisines
• Chefs and food personalities
• Commercial food manufacturers, vendors and restaurants
• Dishes, beverages and other foodstuffs.

There is, of course, a great deal more that these few areas listed here.

We have organized activities within the project in several departments:

• The assessment department and corresponding Assessment Task Force focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Food and drink related articles.
• The Welcome Squad is a group of WikiFoodies that has a two-fold purpose, to welcome new members of our project and to invite newly registered users to Wikipedia to join our project. They will use the templates designed for these purposes, {{FD Welcome}} and {{FD invitation}}.

The project's goals are to build the foremost free-content encyclopedia of food and drink content in the English language by:

1. Engaging in the creation, expansion, collaboration, maintenance of articles relating to the categories of food- and drink-related articles
2. Providing developmental and structural guidelines and recommendations for editors of food- and drink-related articles
3. Serving as the central point of discussion for all issues related to Food and Drink on Wikipedia
4. Helping to maintain the various WP:Portals associated with this project and its sister projects.