Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania

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

Goals

This project seeks to create, improve, and maintain content relating to the broad topic of Oceania, including its people, history, geography, and cultures, in a neutral, cooperative manner.

Portal

• Oceania portal

Scope

• Oceania consists of the island groups of the Pacific Ocean.
• Some of the island groups have their own projects - this project is an overview of the component projects.
• WP:ASIA is a sister project in that it covers a large area and is basically an amalgam of a range of sub-regions.
• The specific scope of this project is the articles contained in the Category:Oceania and its various subcategories.

Details

Oceania is a name used for varying groups of islands of the Pacific Ocean.

1.) In its narrow usage it refers to:

• Polynesia (including New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands),
• Melanesia (including New Guinea and the Solomon Islands),
• Micronesia
  

2.) In a wider usage it includes Australia.

Not used in this project:

3.) It may also include the Malay archipelago, however this is a redundant usage/meaning.
4.) In uncommon usage it includes islands such as: Japan and the Aleutian Islands, but these are not included in this project.

• Continent: Although the islands of Oceania do not form part of a true continent, Oceania is sometimes associated with the continent of Australia for the purposes of dividing the whole world into continental groupings. As such, it is the smallest "continent" in area and the second smallest, after Antarctica, in population.

Guidelines

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Participants

Active members

To join WikiProject Oceania, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

1. John Carter (talk · contribs) - will try to work on getting together a list of articles in other reference sources on the topic as a basis for our own content, particular personal interests probably include the history and religious history of the region, including the largely "historical" religions
2. SatuSuro (talk · contribs) - my enthusiasm is for project tags on talk pages - so that the articles and categories designated as being oceania actually are linked to the project and assessable
3. Jason Rees (talk · contribs) - i am currently working on pages for several tropical cyclones that affect this region.10:31, 4 September 2013 (UTC)
4. MargaretRDonald (talk · contribs) I am looking to improve the coverage of plants in Malesia (although at the same time looking to improve plant coverage in Australia)

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 15:18:57, 30 July 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Oceania should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Oceania participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Oceania participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Oceania}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Oceania.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Oceania}}	This user participates in WikiProject Oceania.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Oceania|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Oceania.	linked pages

For other Oceania user templates, see Category:Oceania user templates.

Articles

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Oceania-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Micronesians
• Decaisnina hollrungii
• Islam in American Samoa

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 27 Oct 2024 – Women's U21 Three Nations Cup 2024 (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Joeykai (t · c); see discussion (5 participants)

Articles to be merged

• 25 Feb 2024 – Spanish East Indies (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Captaincy General of the Philippines by Mr. Information1409 (t · c); see discussion

Review and assessment

Assessment

Assessment

Peer review

Peer review

Templates

• {{WikiProject Oceania}}

Resources

Related WikiProjects

Related WikiProjects, Child WikiProjects & Task forces

Child WikiProjects

• WikiProject Australia
• WikiProject Fiji
• WikiProject Melanesia
• WikiProject Micronesia
• WikiProject New Zealand
• WikiProject Polynesia
• WikiProject Indonesia (Wallacea)

Sister WikiProjects

• WikiProject Africa
• WikiProject Americas
• WikiProject Antarctica
• WikiProject Arctic
• WikiProject Asia
• WikiProject Europe
• WikiProject Oceans

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Geography

Task forces

• WikiProject Highways/Oceania task force

Popular pages

Wikipedia:WikiProject Oceania/Popular pages