Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire

Welcome to the British Empire WikiProject.
...on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.

An anachronous map of the British Empire

The British Empire WikiProject was formed in order to foster better articles within its scope with a spirit of cooperation. The participants are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to the British Empire. This WikiProject is modelled on Wikiproject Commonwealth realms and was started in June, 2008. It is our hope that this project will provide an amicable atmosphere in which the efforts of interested Wikipedians can be focussed. If you would like to help, please inquire on our talk page and visit our to do page.

• If there is a technical or design problem please contact Cameron.
• If there is a problem that requires an administrator's attention view the status section of the participants list.
• For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and the Guide to WikiProjects.

WikiProject British Empire

General information ()

• Front Page
• Talk Page
• Aims
• Participants

Things you can do

Here are some open tasks:

• Meta-tasks:
  • Place the {{WikiProject British Empire}} template on the talk page of articles within the scope of this project.
    

Resources

• Online resources
• Templates

Related WikiProjects

• WikiProject Commonwealth realms
• WikiProject British Government

Other

• To do page
• List of important articles

What is the British Empire?

The British Empire in 1897, marked in the traditional colour for imperial British dominions on maps

The British Empire was the largest empire in history and, for over a century, was the foremost global power. It was a product of the European Age of Discovery, which began with the maritime explorations of the 15th century, that sparked the era of the European colonial empires. By 1921, the British Empire held sway over a population of about 458 million people, approximately one-quarter of the world's population and about a quarter of Earth's total land area. As a result, its legacy is widespread, in legal and governmental systems, economic practice, militarily, educational systems, sports, and in the global spread of the English language. At the peak of its power, it was often said that "the sun never sets on the British Empire", a phrase that is still true even as of 2018, because its span across the globe ensured that the sun was always shining on at least one of its numerous colonies, protectorates, territories or subject nations.

During the five decades following World War II, most of the territories of the Empire became independent. Many went on to join the Commonwealth of Nations, a free association of independent states. See also Wikiproject British Overseas Territories.

Aims

• To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles that describe all aspects of the British Empire.
• To improve Wikipedia's coverage of the British Empire by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles.
• To serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to the British Empire on Wikipedia.
• To create a consistent look and style for each page within our scope.
• To fight vandalism on articles within our scope by patrolling recent changes.

Participants

Anyone can help with this WikiProject. All we ask is that users be registered, and are familiar with Wikipedia's various policies and guidelines.

Follow the steps below to add yourself to our list of participants!

Add yourself to our list of participants here.

Add your name---> the date and time---> and your special interests....and you are an official member!

User	Time and date	Relevant interests and specialist knowledge	Status
Cameron (Co-founder)	19:30, 19 June 2008 (UTC)	Lists of monarchs, British government, British monarchs.	User
MichiganCharms (Co-founder)	19:31, 19 June 2008 (UTC)	Dominions, colonial governments, economics, etc.	User
Rrius (Co-founder)	06:22, 20 June 2008 (UTC)	Early empire, colonial government and governance (especially US, Canada, and India)	User
Commander Zulu	11:16, 20 June 2008 (UTC)	Firearms & Military of the British Empire	User
The_one092001	23:58, 21 June 2008 (UTC)	Military history, WWII, Pacific Expansion, Grammatical clean-up	User
Gazzster	14:23, 22 June 2008 (UTC)	Politics, constitutional development, Australia, religion	User
Jim Sweeney	06:41, July 14 2008 (UTC)	Military History	User
Thesocialistesq	04:04 June 28 2008	Copyediting, titles and forms of address, politics and governance, the early 19th century.	User
Skookum1	14:08, 2 August 2008 (UTC)	Fur trade-era and colonial British Columbia/British North Pacific, conflicting imperial claims/disputes in that area etc., related native and Western US history	User
TharkunColl	21:38, 7 August 2008 (UTC)	General British Empire history	User
Phunting	02:50, 2 October 2008 (UTC)	Fiction, general British Empire history	User
Taifarious1	23:17, 8 October 2008	Specifically New Zealand, the topic of republicanism in both New Zealand and Australia, but the commonwealth in general and some work on Government Houses of New Zealand.	User
Darkshark0159	15:13, 20 October 2008	General British Empire history	User
Simon Harley	16:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)	Royal Navy late nineteenth/early twentieth centuries.	User
Goldblooded	3rd Novemeber 2011	Scramble for Africa in the 19th century, Aftermath of WW1/2, Suez Crisis and subsequent decolonisation	User
NotOnIsraPal	00:50, 28 May 2012	I did, and am continuing to do, the Mau Mau Uprising article; also the related Chuka massacre, and migrated archives. I'm interested in all aspects of the British Empire.	User
Knight of Gloucestershire	29th June 2012	British Monarchs, British Hong Kong	User
teb00007	21:20 27 July 2013	History of the empire, particularly Australia, Canada and New Zealand	User
Nford24	1536 AEST 3 January 2014	Empire history, Monarchs, Australia, New Zealand & the military of the Empire	User
adamblack93	01:13, 4 May 2014 (UTC)	History of the British empire, particularly the Royal Navy and the empire's military. Also the Falkland Islands and the colonies of the South Atlantic.	User
IseeEwe	04:36, 10 August 2014 (UTC)	WWII military	User
Grant	10 September 2014	History (especially historiography/theory, social, economic and military); Politics (e.g. ideologies, political economy, constitutional law, international relations); Philosophy	Administrator
Dowcet	05:10, 30 Dec 2014 (UTC)	Economic, social and environmental history of British Malaya; Tropical commodities and agriculture	User
Presidentman	14:23, 25 April 2016 (UTC)	Monarchy, politics, and military	User
Exemplo347	00:26, 04 June 2016 (UTC)	Victoria Cross Recipients of the 1857-1859 Indian Mutiny	User
Robert Brukner	00:26, 04 June 2016	Military history, archaeology, historiography, philosophy of science	User
A Guy Into Books	20:12, 17 August 2017 (GMT)	Law, legal and constitutional history	User
Failosopher	22:45, 27 September 2017	The East India Company & the Quit India Movement	User
Sullay	21:59, 23 July 2018	Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate, British West Africa	User
UnknownBrick22	23:35, 27 December 2019	Geographical and military history of the Commonwealth Realms & Dominions; the monarchy; British Imperial flags, arms and heraldry	User
Sm8900	05:25, 17 January 2020 (UTC)	Interested in political and military history of this era, as well as present-day Britain and British Commonwealth	Project Coordinator, WikiProject History
Nitesh Yadav	4:18, 17 April 2021 (IST)	British Empire in South Asia	User
Siegfied Nugent	6:33, 17 September 2021 (AEST)	General British Empire, though specialise in Africa, Asia and Oceania - particularly Australia and New South Wales. Current focus on Rhodesia. Governors, judges, administrators, colonial politicians.	User
C411978	16:01, 28 December 2023 (UTC)	British Malaya	User
Accurateinfoomg	11:34, 10th January2024	Scramble for Africa	User
Eensaam	02:44, 31th October 2024 (GMT)	Hong Kong	User

Scope

For a list of the articles deemed most important to this project see Wikipedia:WikiProject British Empire/Important.

The project generally considers any article related to the British Empire to be a valid topic. A simple (but accurate) way of checking which pages are within our scope is to follow click "What links here" in the "toolbox" section of this page. The scope template is added to pages within our WikiProject. Anyone may add an article to the scope, provided they are sure that it is relevant to the project. An article may be in the scope of multiple WikiProjects. Where this is true one should be sure to contact the other WikiProjects too so as to avoid conflicts. If you are not sure whether to add the template, propose it at the talk page first.

Templates

For templates relevant to the British Empire see this page.

• The scope template: This template is used to add articles to our project's scope. The scope template can be found here.

• The Userbox: The userbox may be used by anyone who is a member of our project. Using the userbox helps people to identify Wikipedians as members of this project. The userbox template can be found here.

Things to do

1. Attract more members!
2. Discuss what should be included, what not, or how to organise the information.
3. Discuss how to section large articles.

Please also view our talk page for up to date discussions!

Members we need

This Wikiproject needs people who are interested in the British Empire, and are willing to improve Brtish Empire related articles. We also need spellcheckers, reference consolidators, copyeditors and admins.

Articles to create

• Need more articles concerning British Colonisation of the South Pacific lands.

Articles that need attention

• British colonization of Tasmania (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Flags of the British Empire (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views).

Feel free to add an article to the list or discuss on the project talk page.

Sandbox

• You can experiment with edits and put up links on the discussion prior to them going "live" here.

Important

• A list of the articles most important to the project can be found here.

Resources

• A list of helpful websites and other resources can be found here.

Related projects

• Sister project: Wikipedia:WikiProject Commonwealth realms
• United Kingdom: Wikipedia:WikiProject British Government
• Canada, Wikipedia:WikiProject Canada

Assessment

Current status

Below is a bot generated table stats are generated automatically every 2-3 days, but they can be updated manually by entering British Empire into the box here.

British Empire articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		2	6	10		1	19
FL				2		1	3
A			2	1			3
GA		7	14	39		42	102
B	12	50	61	190		175	488
C	6	47	70	502		516	1,141
Start	4	18	77	1,240		1,360	2,699
Stub		2	22	571		777	1,372
List		1	8	245	1	77	332
Category					6,174		6,174
NA			3	16	295		314
Assessed	22	127	263	2,816	6,470	2,949	12,647
Unassessed		1				4	5
Total	22	128	263	2,816	6,470	2,953	12,652
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 27,962			Ω = 4.80

This log shows new and changed assessments, and is updated by a bot every few days.

• Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/British Empire articles by quality log

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.