Importance Scale

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 Minnesota.

New article patrol

The "Alex New Article Bot" logs all new articles with "Minnesota" and other related words to a page. This is the workflow for dealing with them

1. The bot logs new articles to User:AlexNewArtBot/MinnesotaSearchResult, with the newest articles at the top
2. Review the pages checking for notability, copyvios, wikify etc.
3. If the article falls under WP:MN and is relevant then add WikiProject Minnesota template as {{WikiProject Minnesota}}.
4. Strike the article through showing it has been reviewed

General Minnesota resources

• 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.

Minnesota physical assets

• 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

Minnesota life

• 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

Active members

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.

1. Littlearmchairhistorian (talk · contribs) 17:59:19, 4 May 2023 (UTC)  - Interest in Minnesota politics. New to Wikipedia!
2. Packerfan386 (talk · contribs) 08:32:53, 29 January 2024 (UTC)  – The Cities and transportation stuff mostly.

Former members

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

1. Drew Geraets - will work on adding photos to MN pages
2. DrGregMN - Ghost towns
3. Dskluz - resident, works on general stuff related to Minnesota
4. FabianWilcox (talk) New user - would like to help with historical and geographic topics

Member identification

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

For other Minnesota user templates see Category:Minnesota user templates.

U.S. city infobox

• {{Infobox City}} - Standard infobox template for cities.

U.S. county infobox

• {{Infobox U.S. County}} - the US County Infobox needs to be added to almost all MN counties.

Minnesota template

• {{Minnesota}} - Template for Minnesota regions, counties and cities; placed at the bottom of article pages

Userboxes

This user is a participant in WikiProject Minnesota.	{{User WikiProject Minnesota}}
This user lives in or hails from the U.S. State of Minnesota.	{{User Minnesota}}
This user is interested in the U.S. State of Minnesota.	{{User interest Minnesota}}

Barnstar

{{subst:The Minnesota barnstar|1=Put your message here. ~~~~}}

WikiProject Minnesota

{{WikiProject Minnesota
 |class= (choose one: FA, A, GA, B, Start, Stub, Dab, Template, Cat, NA)
 |importance= (choose one: Top, High, Mid, Low, NA)
 |needs-infobox= (choose one: Yes No)
 |attention= (choose one: Yes No)
}}

Template stating this article is a part of this wikiproject. It is also used to rank and rate pages for wikipedia 1.0. Placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages. When pages are rated they are automatically placed into subcategories of Category:Minnesota articles by importance or Category:Minnesota articles by quality. In those categories automatic summary and statistics pages are created by User:Mathbot.Those categories also have criteria for how ranking is performed.

Cleanup listing

• Cleanup listing for the project (old cleanup listing)

Stub notices

Please place stub notices at the bottom of article pages.

• {{Minnesota-stub}} - General Minnesota articles
• {{Minnesota-geo-stub}} - Minnesota locations or geographical features
• {{Minnesota-politician-stub}} - Minnesota politicians
• {{Minnesota-school-stub}} - Minnesota schools

Requested photos

For Minnesota-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Minnesota}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Minnesota. You can help Wikipedia by uploading freely licensed photographs for these articles to Wikimedia Commons.

The Free Image Search Tool may be able to locate suitable images on other web sites.

The Image Existence Checker shows articles in this list that have images.