Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions
How do you read an article? Start to finish without skipping, or do you survey the article before delving in deeper? Captions, together with their images, help the reader survey the article and lead the reader into the article. This project aims to improve captions in Wikipedia articles with pictures, in accordance with Wikipedia:Captions.
Scope
This project aims to improve articles by writing good captions for images accompanying articles. Guidance can be found at Wikipedia:Captions.
Participants
Examples of good captions
- Tank
- Disney-MGM Studios
- Olympics
- History of computing hardware
- Bioinformatics
- DOOM
- Royal Assent
- Charles Graner
- Lee Harvey Oswald
Before and After
This project reviews and improves captions, below are some examples of improvements to pages through improved captions, following listing on this page.
- Bryce Canyon National Park (before), following review -> Bryce Canyon National Park
- Humpback Whale (before), following review -> Humpback Whale
Articles needing review
Various articles need their captions reviewed. Mention here doesn't mean the captions are bad, just that someone should look at them with an eye towards the guidance at Wikipedia:Captions.
Regular features
To keep Wikipedia looking its best, feel free to check on articles referenced from these pages, visible from the main page:
- Wikipedia:Tomorrow's featured article
- Template:Did you know
- Template:Feature
- Template:In the news
- Template:January_8_selected_anniversaries
The list
List articles here to have a participant review it and write/improve captions as needed.
After review please strikethrough the reviewed article, noting who reviewed it and when. In the edit summary plese include a link to the reviewed article. After a week, reviewed article entries should be moved to Wikipedia:WikiProject Writing Captions/Reviewed log.
This list began as all unreviewed featured articles with images. Since captions are relatively new on the featured article criteria, it seems reasonable to review feature articles early in the process. Featured article candidates should also be systematically added to this list.
1964 New York World's FairRichard Taylor Jul 29 2004Alexandra Kerry-- ke4roh 13:32, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)Assisi embroideryRichard Taylor Jul 29 2004- Baroque
- Battle of Aljubarrota
BelgiumDeepak 20:46, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)Behistun InscriptionRichard Taylor 10:15, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)Bob DylanDeepak 23:01, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)BreadRichard Taylor Jul 29 2004Bruno Kreisky-- 81.168.80.170 13:55, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)Bryce Canyon National Park-- 81.168.80.170 14:32, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)Buckinghamshire-- 195.167.169.36 13:50, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Buddhism
- Bullfighting
- Byzantine Empire
Carl Sagan *-- Deepak 20:18, 9 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Carlsbad Caverns National Park
- Chariot racing
- Charles Graner
- Charles Ives
- Che Guevara
Chess*- Chinese language
- Chinatown, Los Angeles
- Chinatown, Manhattan
- Chinatown, San Francisco
Clitoris-- ke4roh 13:09, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)- Congo Free State
Crime fictionRichard Taylor 14:47, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)EbolaRichard Taylor 18:39, 31 Jul 2004 (UTC)EconomicsRichard Taylor 11:15, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Edward R. Murrow
- Electronic amplifier
- Elvis Presley
Emacs-- ke4roh 13:10, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)- End times
English poetry-- 195.167.169.36 14:24, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Enigma machine
- Eureka Stockade
Euro-- 195.167.169.36 14:28, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)- European Union
Father DamienRichard Taylor 14:47, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Ferdinand Magellan
- Finland
- First Battle of the Stronghold
- Ford Mustang *
Foundation SeriesDeepak 23:49, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)Fractal··gracefool 05:56, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC) -- captioned ke4roh 11:47, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)- Francis P. Fleming
- Frankfurt School
- Free will
- Freemasonry
- Freyja
- Galileo probe
Garry KasparovDeepak 18:04, 10 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Geology of the Bryce Canyon area
- Geyser *
- Golden Gate Park
- Gough Whitlam
Graph coloring-- ke4roh 19:40, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)Great Mosque of Djenne-- ke4roh 03:20, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)- Greek art
- H. P. Lovecraft
- Heavy metal music
- Hebrew calendar
- Hinduism
- History of Germany
History of Scotland-- ALargeElk, Finlay McWalter, & ke4roh 18:18, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)- History of the Netherlands
- history of the Peerage
- Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson
- Hubble Space Telescope
Humpback Whale-- ke4roh 02:25, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC) Short snapy captions fit this page quite well I think -- Richard Taylor- Humphrey Bogart
- Hutton Inquiry
- Ian McKellen
- Igor Stravinsky
- Irish fiction
- Irish Houses of Parliament
- Irish poetry
- Irish theatre
- ISO 8859
- James Bulger murder case
- James Dole
- Japan general election, 2003
- Japanese funeral
- Japanese grammar
- Java programming language
- Jet engine
- Jim Thorpe
- Jimi Hendrix
- Joseph Stalin
- John_Carmack
- Julius Caesar
Kitsch-- ke4roh 03:20, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)- Korean name
- LEGO
- Light-emitting diode
- Lisbon
- LSD
- Labour economics
- Laika
Lawrence v. Texas-- ke4roh 16:57, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leopold and Loeb
- Lollapalooza
London Congestion Charge-- ke4roh 13:56, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)Louis Armstrong-- ke4roh 13:56, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)- Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Luis Munoz Marin
- MKULTRA
Mail *-- ke4roh 00:11, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)- Mains power plug
- Mandarin (linguistics)
- Margaret Thatcher
- Mark Antony
Markup languageDeepak 00:00, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Martha Stewart
- Medieval literature
- Menstrual cycle
- Middle-earth
- Miles Davis
MKULTRA-- ke4roh 18:10, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)- Monopoly (game)
- Montparnasse
- Montreal Canadiens
- Mordechai Vanunu
- Mount St. Helens
- Nella Larsen
- Newark, New Jersey
- Nicholas II of Russia
- Nikola Tesla
- Oceanic Whitetip Shark
- Operation Downfall
- orca *
Order of the GarterRichard Taylor 10:15, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Origins of the American Civil War
- Oxyrhynchus
- Parliament and the Peerage
- Parthenon
Paul Is DeadDeepak 17:08, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)- PaX (Linux)
- Peerage law
- Peloponnesian War
- People's Republic of China
- Phonograph cylinder
- Poetry of the United States
- Poker
- Pope John Paul II
- Portuguese language
- President of Ireland
- Prince-elector
- Propaganda
- Prostitution
- Provinces of Thailand
- Psychosis
Pufferfish-- ke4roh 00:31, Aug 6, 2004 (UTC)- Punk rock
- Quantum computer
Quantum mechanics-- ke4roh 18:40, Jul 30, 2004 (UTC)- ROC presidential election, 2004
Rainbow-- ke4roh 01:23, Aug 7, 2004 (UTC)- Ralph Yarborough
- Rembrandt
- Richard Nixon
- Ridge Route
- rights and privileges of peers
- Robert Mugabe
- Roy Orbison
- royalty and the Peerage
- Russian language
- San Jose State University
- Sarajevo
Search engineDeepak 17:26, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Severe acute respiratory syndrome
- Sex Pistols
- Shakers
- Sid McMath
- Single malt Scotch
- Sino-Soviet split
- Soap bubble
- Spacecraft propulsion
Speech synthesis-- Deepak 23:56, 11 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Sperm Whale
- Split infinitive
- Star Trek
- steel
- styles and titles of peers
- Submarine
- Superman
- Switzerland
- Synapse*
- Taiwanese (linguistics)
- Tea *
- The Game of the Century
- The Scream
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- Tokyo
- Traditional counties of England
Traffic light--ALargeElk | Talk 10:26, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Transit of Venus
- treaty of Devol
- Trench warfare
- Triangle
Tuberculosis-- ke4roh 20:19, Aug 8, 2004 (UTC)- Tynwald Day
- Typewriter
- U.S. Electoral College
- Vietnam War
- VW Type 2
- Vulgar Latin
- War elephant
- Warsaw
Warsaw_UprisingRichard Taylor 14:02, 2 Aug 2004 (UTC)- Western movie
Wikipedia-- ke4roh 19:07, Aug 11, 2004 (UTC)- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- World War I
- Yellowstone National Park
Yesterday (song)-- ke4roh 20:54, Jul 29, 2004 (UTC)- Zeppelin
- Zionism
- Zuiderzee Works
* This article is also listed at Template:Opentask as needing captions.