Wikipedia:WikiProject Greenland

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This WikiProject was formed to collaboratively foster better articles relating to the Arctic island of Greenland and Greenlandic topics.

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the island of Greenland, its government, regions, settlements, outposts and research facilities, geography and geology, history, geologic history, transportation, nature and people. This shall be done through the spirit of cooperation with the end goal of such editing being the production of articles of at least Good Article, if not Featured Article quality.

1. Add more about the nature of Greenland to the main article. It is conspicuously absent. There's nothing about animal or plant life! -- Fyslee/talk 22:59, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Create an article about seal hunting. -- Fyslee/talk 06:38, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. Improve the article about Kim Kielsen

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Active members

To join WikiProject Greenland, 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. Fyslee 22:46, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Valentinian ^{T / C} 10:11, 13 April 2007 (UTC) (my editing time will be reduced for the next few months)[reply]
3. Badbilltucker
4. Maunus
5. Keesiewonder
6. D. BULL
7. KHarber
8. User:Jensbn
9. Nidator
10. Leitz
11. Hamiltonstone
12. Allstrak (Most graphics and infoboxes)
13. Uyvsdi - I teach Native American art history and hope, within the coming weeks, to be able to contribute articles about Kalaallit arts
14. Kuba.greenland
15. Wabba The I (talk) 17:01, 10 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]
16. Loopygrumpkins
17. Spongie555
18. Angelikfire (talk) 17:38, 27 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]
19. Ahalenia (talk), 2012
20. Tito Dutta (contact) 20:27, 15 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
21. Jakeybean (talk) 01:10, 18 August 2014 (UTC) - mainly language related[reply]
22. Exoplanetaryscience (talk) 12:53, 3 September 2014 (PST) - I've always been interested in the Arctic regions, particularly Greenland.
23. Replaceinkcartridges (talk) 23:55, 12 January 2015 (UTC) - I think Greenland is by far the most underrated country, therefore, I think this Wikiproject has noble intentions.[reply]
24. pmt
25.  Buaidh  18:24, 26 March 2016 (UTC) geography, geology, mountains[reply]
26. User:Xufanc, fjords, glaciers, islands, mountains
27. AusLondonder (talk) 19:09, 7 February 2017 (UTC)[reply]
28. PolarFlyer (talk) 13:23, 23 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]
29. Fmrauch (talk) 12:19, 26 April 2019 (UTC), see Greenland ice sheet[reply]
30. LloydGrasm3 (talk) 15:03, 13 April 2020 (UTC)[reply]
31. Thanoscar21 (talk · contribs) 00:10:39, 14 January 2021 (UTC) [reply]
32. Hdiddan (talk · contribs) 13:23:00, 31 January 2021 (UTC) [reply]
33. Chongkian (talk) 07:13, 18 June 2021 (UTC) - museums[reply]
34. Kaffe42 (talk · contribs)
35. User:AdoroCibo

Former members

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

Member identification

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

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

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

Greenland articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			3				3
GA		3	4	1			8
B	4	10	11	8		2	35
C	11	16	28	55		7	117
Start	9	40	110	352		38	549
Stub	2	25	37	502		164	730
List	1	10	21	49	1	7	89
Category					951		951
Disambig				1	15		16
File					3		3
Portal					1		1
Project					12		12
Template					77		77
NA				8	70		78
Other					3		3
Assessed	27	104	214	976	1,133	218	2,672
Unassessed				1		249	250
Total	27	104	214	977	1,133	467	2,922
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,714			Ω = 5.35

• Assessment – Our rating system
• Project statistics – Statistices for our rating system
• V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.

Articles on Greenland-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

An entry from Grœnlendinga saga appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 29 December, 2005.

An entry from Inuktun appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 3 March, 2007.

An entry from Reindeer hunting in Greenland appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 1 May, 2007.

An entry from Greenlandic Norse appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 16 January, 2008.

A fact from Comer's Midden appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 9 May 2008.

An entry from Karla Jessen Williamson appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 2 November, 2008.

An entry from Ihlen Declaration appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 8 November, 2008.

An entry from MS Hans Hedtoft appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 14 December, 2008.

A fact from Angakkuq appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 8 November 2009.

A fact from Henrik Lund appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 17 November 2009.

A fact from Greenlandic cuisine appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 8 November 2010.

• Category:Greenland-related lists

Articles by quality

Featured articles

• 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash

Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Articles on Greenland-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission.

Good articles (GA)

Articles on Greenland-related subjects in Peer Review prior to Featured Article submission

• Air Greenland
• Greenlandic language
• Sisimiut

B-Class Greenland articles

Key articles by importance

• Nuuk (formerly Godthåb)- Greenland's capital and largest city
• Air Greenland - Greenland's national airline
• Saqqaq culture - Greenland's second oldest civilization
• Nunarput utoqqarsuanngoravit - Greenland's national anthem
• Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa - Greenland's national broadcasting company
• Greenland ice sheet - The world's second largest ice sheet, and one covering 80% of the Greenland land mass
• Flag of Greenland - Greenland's national flag
• Coat of arms of Greenland - Greenland's national insignia
• Angakkuq - The Inuk peoples' (former Eskimos') intellectual and spiritual leader
• Hans Egede - Lutheran apostle to Greenland, founded the colony, Godthåb, around 1721
• Kalaallit - Term referring to that section of the Arctic Inuit people living in Greenland
• Paramount chieftain -
• B-52 crash at Thule Air Base

If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

• Stub articles about Greenland in general
• Stub articles about Greenlandic geography

• Missing articles from List of football clubs in Greenland
• Qaqortoq Stadium
• Búsime nâpinek - Greenland's novel from 1981 by Mâliâraq Vebæk.
• Ukiut 300-ngornerat - the second novel which was published in Greenland from 1931 to Augo Lynge
• SingnagtugaKer - the first Greenland's novel from 1914
• Greenlandic art
• Tuujuk - located in Nuuk

• {{WikiProject Greenland}}
• {{Greenland-stub}} - To be placed at the bottom of all stub article pages
• {{Greenland-geo-stub}} - To be placed at the bottom of all stub article pages
• {{User WikiProject Greenland}} - To be placed on member's userpages.

Wikipedia:Danish Wikipedians' notice board

• Greenland nature galleries

Infoboxes

For Greenland-related articles needing a photograph, use {{Image requested|in=Greenland}} in the talk page, which adds the article needing a photo to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Greenland. 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.

Websites

• Official government site
• Official Greenland tourism information
• CIA World Factbook
• Statistics Greenland
• Greenland Map
• Greenland Language Secretariat
• Greenland Dumps Ice into Sea at Faster Pace
• BBC: Country profile
• BBC: Timeline

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.