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Project
The WikiProject Olympics was called into existence on March 1, 2002. Since then, this project has assembled Wikipedians who share interest regarding topics related to the Olympic Games, and who are ready to create and expand content belonging to this area. The Olympics field area is as big as its history but, despite the huge amount of content that already exists on the English Wikipedia, there is always something missing or in need of development that you can work on! Suggestions presented here are things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

If you feel that you can have a positive contribution to the project, become a member by joining the list of members. If you don't know what to write or where to begin, or if you have doubts or ideas on how to improve an article, please address the project's discussion forum.

Goals
The project aims primarily to:
  • Create and improve articles whose content has connection with the Olympics.
  • Set up consistent structural and graphical layouts for displaying data on theme-specific articles.

Other goals include:

Parentage
The WikiProject Olympics was created and existed as a full-out branch of the WikiProject Sports until March 2007, when, amidst a restructuring, the project's high growth rate and importance were considered sufficient for it to take an independent course from its parent WikiProject. It used to stand in a similar situation to other daughter projects, like WikiProject Sports Listing or WikiProject Sports Results.
Tasks
If you are wondering where to start, take a look at these tasks:

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WikiProject Olympics

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Cauldron lighting

Beijing 2008 Olympic Games - Opening Ceremony
Former Chinese Olympic gymnastics champion Li Ning, the last carrier of the Olympic flame, lights the cauldron at the National Stadium, during the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics.
Quick links
Portal Olympics Portal
Shortcuts WP:OLYMPICS or WP:OLY (main page)
WT:OLYMPICS or WT:OLY (talk page)
Template → {{OlympicsWikiProject}}
Member userbox {{User WikiProject Olympics}}
Announcements → {{WikiProject Olympics announcements}}
Main sections

General discussion
New articles
Olympic conventions (idle)
Assessment
Templates
Summer articles
Winter articles

Style guide

Games summary pages
Nations
Sports
Events

Statistics
Olympics
articles
Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 3 2 2 7
Featured list FL 3 1 7 11
A 1 1
Good article GA 1 2 10 5 18
B 8 16 15 7 6 52
C 11 3 4 7 25
Start 130 404 538 125 1197
Stub 159 3444 849 746 5198
List 7 12 25 32 76
Assessed 10 331 3891 1437 916 6585
Unassessed 2 115 1189 1306
Total 10 333 3891 1552 2105 7891

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Featured content
Articles
 Jim Thorpe  May 12, 2004
 1896 Summer Olympics  March 10, 2005
 Australia at the Winter Olympics  April 6, 2006
 Ian Thorpe  December 3, 2006
 2012 Summer Olympics bids  April 28, 2007
 Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics - Men's road race  September 5, 2008
 Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games  September 6, 2008
Lists
 Australian Olympic medalists in Swimming  November 27, 2006
 Participating nations at the Summer Olympic Games  March 15, 2008
 Participating nations at the Winter Olympic Games  April 1, 2008
 1976 Summer Olympics medal count  April 29, 2008
 1896 Summer Olympics medal count  May 26, 2008
 2006 Winter Olympics medal count  May 30, 2008
 2004 Summer Olympics medal count  June 1, 2008
 2002 Winter Olympics medal table  June 26, 2008
 2000 Summer Olympics medal count  July 29, 2008
 List of Olympic records in athletics  September 14, 2008
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Good articles
 Rugby union at the Summer Olympics  June 14, 2006
 Biathlon at the 2006 Winter Olympics  March 19, 2007
 London 2012 Olympic bid  March 19, 2007
 Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy  December 29, 2007
 Mutiny of the Matoika  July 24, 2008
 Olympic sports  August 2, 2008
 Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics  August 8, 2008
 Tao Li  August 14, 2008
 Feng Tianwei  August 23, 2008
 Alicia Sacramone  August 25, 2008
 Li Jiawei  August 25, 2008
 Nastia Liukin  August 25, 2008
 Usain Bolt  September 8, 2008
 Men's 100 metre butterfly (2008 Summer Olympics)  September 22, 2008
 Belarus at the Olympics  September 22, 2008
 Great Britain at the 2008 Summer Olympics  September 29, 2008
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Members
This is a list of Wikipedians who are committed to this WikiProject. If you're interested in helping, feel free to join by editing the table below and placing your username, in alphabetical order, using the {{user}} template (e.g. {{user|USERNAME}}). If you wish, leave a comment about your special interests on this project.
User Comments
3bulletproof16 (talk · contribs) Adding info on Olympic Stadiums.
Aeron Valderrama (talk · contribs)
Allied45 (talk · contribs) Mainly filling in Olympic results, especially in swimming
AllynJ (talk · contribs)
Andrwsc (talk · contribs) filling in holes where I see them and working to achieve a consistent look and feel with all pages
Andyroo161 (talk · contribs) helping to fill in results for numerous events
A Prodigy (talk · contribs) I like to improve grammar, fix typos, spelling mistakes, make sure information about a particular event is consistently displayed on the pages of the athletes involved and etc.
Aridd (talk · contribs) Creating articles on Olympic and Paralympic athletes; creating articles on nations at the 2008 Paralympics. (I also worked on the 2008 torch relay article, created a number of articles on nations at 2008 Olympics, and added bits and pieces elsewhere...)
AxG (talk · contribs)
Baseballa449 (talk · contribs) athletes and nations
Basement12 (talk · contribs) whatever I spot that I can add to, particularly relating to Team GB and standardising the Nations at the 2008 Summer Olympics articles.
Basketball110 (talk · contribs) Stadiums and bidding
Bernstein2291 (talk · contribs) Mainly Everything
Bluap (talk · contribs) I'm mainly interested in keeping the 2008 Summer Olympics page in good shape for the games
Candlewicke (talk · contribs) Have made regular contributions to Michael Phelps (including adding world record images) and the 2008 women's marathon. May get more involved at a later date.
Canuck85 (talk · contribs)
Carom (talk · contribs) 1948 Summer Olympics, possibly working on the portal
Cbradshaw (talk · contribs) I especially enjoy tracking the bid process for future games as well as the Youth Olympics and other similar events.
chicgeek (talk · contribs) Clean-up and maintenance of existing non-controversial articles.
Chrishomingtang (talk · contribs) Mostly contribute to lists, also work on stuffs related to the 2008 Summer Olympics
Chrisso89 (talk · contribs)) I am interested in contributing to the 2008 Summer Olympics and in paticular the Irish Olympic team.
Cmapm (talk · contribs) Mostly contribute to biographies of Olympic medalists.
ComputerGuy890100 (talk · contribs) Working on improving Youth Olympic Games articles.
CzechOut (talk · contribs) General copyediting, filling in tables, adding historical context to articles. Probably have preference for Czech and American teams, non-marquee events, and earliest Olympiads
Dajes13 (talk · contribs) Adding pictures to the 2008 summer Olympic venues' own articles.
DanteAgusta (talk · contribs)
Darwinek (talk · contribs) Whatever I spot
David Biddulph (talk · contribs) Rowing.
Dazaifukid (talk · contribs) Results and Standings
decafdyke (talk · contribs) Fan of Olympic political history, athletics, and all women's sports. plan to start by copy-editing and eventually add some material for Beijing and Vancouver.
Deletion Quality (talk · contribs)
DerbyCountyinNZ (talk · contribs) New Zealand at the Olympics (particularly earlier Games). Fixing links and formatting. Also Athletics/Track and Field at the Olympics (again earlier Games). Establishing the Oldest living Olympians by sport/country.
DitzyNizzy (talk · contribs) Odd bits here and there.
dw0505 (talk · contribs) Loves the Olympic games. contribute mostly to "the United States at the 2008 Summer Olympics", adding information on individual athletes as they become available
dwperrin (talk · contribs) Starting small looking at up dating some of the national pages for 2008 games
Edged (talk · contribs) Fixing up national pages 'NOC at the Y Olympics' for Athens 2004 with results and participants from the Official Report
Ekaterina tony (talk · contribs) editing various Olympic stuff (currently working on 1932 Summer Olympics)
El_Greco (talk · contribs) I've researched a few Olympic related information, especially for the Athens and Zappeion page.
EvertoExcel (talk · contribs)
Fox334 (talk · contribs) Adding events results, qualification results and doing some general stuff.
General Eisenhower (talk · contribs) I have added an announcement template for this project.
Goldfinger820 (talk · contribs) Improving and updating summer Olympic articles especially Field hockey at the Summer Olympics and related sub pages.
Guntherman (talk · contribs) Adding results, and filling in holes.
H1nkles (talk · contribs) I love the Olympics and am willing to help w/ editing.
Hektor (talk · contribs) Creating a few demonstration sports pages.
Highfields (talk · contribs) I've always been fascinated by the Olympics
Huaiwei (talk · contribs) Being ethnically Chinese, it is perhaps an auspicious time to "officially" start helping to fill up the gaps concerning a sporting event which has always captivated me!
igordebraga (talk · contribs)
JamesAM (talk · contribs) I'm trying to add stuff about the 2008 Olympics and create stub articles for various 2008 Olympians who don't have articles yet.
Jao (talk · contribs) Mostly working on the Olympic shooting articles.
Jared (talk · contribs) I am trying to bring consistency to all of the pages. In addition, I am really working to get the 2008 Summer Olympics page and most of its subpages up and ready for the games.
João Felipe C.S (talk · contribs)
Jonel (talk · contribs)
Juthani1 (talk · contribs)
Kevinalewis (talk · contribs) Winter Olympics, Filled out the Wikipedia:WikiProject_Sports_Olympics/Templates list with the Winter Olympic templates.
Kolindigo (talk · contribs)
Ktr101 (talk · contribs) Medal count for now, other things after the games end
Lemonflash (talk · contribs)
Lihaas (talk · contribs) mostly political aspect, but some other too
Lukens (talk · contribs)
Maddiekate (talk · contribs)
MallonBill (talk · contribs) Happy to help on any questions you guys have - written 23 books on the Olympics and Past-President of the ISOH
Mannschaftskapitän (talk · contribs) Working on every single Beijing 2008 event article. Mainly, I focus on standarisation of medalists tables and style checking.
M.C. (talk · contribs) Occasional editing, plugging of holes, standardisation, etc.
Miller17CU94 (talk · contribs) Starting work now on flatwater canoeing, moving into slalom canoeing as well.
Mipchunk (talk · contribs) Extensive knowledge about professional athletics, including specific athletes, statistics, and records.
Mohsen1248 (talk · contribs) All about Olympics, especially Beijing 2008.
Mr.crabby (talk · contribs) Planning to work on 2008 Summer Olympics national flag bearers once all information is available
MrYIndeed (talk · contribs) Competition results and participating athletes.
Mtmelendez (talk · contribs) Contributing to the Portal.
Navie05 (talk · contribs) Mostly just filling in results as well as updating rosters for various sports.
Neville Longbottom (talk · contribs)
Nick C (talk · contribs)
Nipsonanomhmata (talk · contribs) Specialising in the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times. Huge fan of David C. Young and "The Modern Olympics - A Struggle for Revival". Read the book. It's the best I've read on the history of the revival of the Olympic Games in modern times. If you know of anything better I'd like to hear about it.
Nirvana888 (talk · contribs) Standardization and Olympic pages
Olympian77 (talk · contribs) Started by working on Olympic/Paralympic nation pages across the board. Can help with German-language sources.
Oncamera (talk · contribs) Work on Winter sport pages and Olympians.
Parslad (talk · contribs) Summer Games, particularly country lists.
Parutakupiu (talk · contribs) I'm open to edit/improve any page. I'm quite good at templates, too.
Paulbrock (talk · contribs) Main interest/knowledge in London 2012, but interested in helping wherever!
Pedrovitorh2 (talk · contribs) Olympic results
Peter Konnecke (talk · contribs) Sydney 2000 from a volunteers perspective
Phileasson (talk · contribs) At the moment working on pages of participating NOCs for Beijing 2008.
Politics rule (talk · contribs)
Preschooler.at.heart (talk · contribs) Gold Medallists, Highlights, Americans, Results, Templates
Prince of Canada t | c Mostly copyediting.
PrestoK (talk · contribs) Mostly handball-related stuff
Punkmorten (talk · contribs) I've done tons and tons of work so why not sign up.
Racepacket (talk · contribs) track and field
Rebskii (talk · contribs) I would like to help on the improvement of Asian-related articles.
Reywas92 (talk · contribs) I'm not much for prose, but I love the Olympics and I'll help out where I can.
Rudolph89 (talk · contribs) NZ competitior bios at the moment
Saulopro (talk · contribs) Results and articles related to Brazil
Scorpion0422 (talk · contribs) Random stuff, mostly related to Canada.
Solar-Poseidon (talk · contribs) All Olympics related articles specially those related to Iran.
subman758 (talk · contribs) All Olympics related articles I am an Olympic Nut I have a Video of every Opening Ceremony in their entirety saved on my Hard Drive beginning with Lake Placid in 1980.
Sue Anne (talk · contribs) My primary focus tends to be Country at xxxx Olympics pages. I also work on athlete pages and several others.
ThaddeusB (talk · contribs) Adding info (esp. statistics) to stubs & fixing up grammar/poor language mistakes when spotted.
thesimpsonsguru (talk · contribs) I'm really interested in Canadian athletes and past Olympics, so contact me on my discussion board if you need help.
Tone (talk · contribs) adding current stuff and things about Slovenia
Topcardi (talk · contribs) obscure stuff about early Olympics, British Olympians and, obviously, Pigeon racing at the 1900 Olympics
Tovak (talk · contribs) I will focus on the London 1948 Olympics, mainly in the area of creating pages for the participating athletes
Ultratomio (talk · contribs)
Ukexpat (talk · contribs) GB stuff, particularly rowing and athletics. Formatting, grammar, spelling, syntax and general copyediting.
Valrith (talk · contribs)
Xeltran (talk · contribs) Adding Olympic news stuff, standardizing pages, and reviewing medal tables. Also working on potential city bids for future Olympic games.
Zé da Silva (talk · contribs) Filling blanks, standardising tables/pages and creating the odd article
Znamkar (talk · contribs) Mostly adding the results, draw opponents, medal winners and editing countries information for future Olympic games
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