This is the central discussion area for WikiProject Cooperatives. Feel free to discuss any topics relating to cooperatives here. It is recommended that members watchlist this page.
Although activity is slower than it once was, anyone is welcome to participate in the project.
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Hello everyone, I'm new to Wikipedia and am very interested in improving the coverage of cooperatives; my first article contribution has been creating History of the cooperative movement in China. This Wikiproject has been marked as inactive for the past two years. I'd like to see it come back to life. I've gone through this Wikiproject's participant list and moved everyone who has not contributed to Wikipedia at all in the past 5 years to "inactive", and I'll be leaving a note on everyone else's talk page to see if they are still interested in this Wikiproject. If not, please mark yourself as inactive. If you do still want to be a part of this project, then what are some of your ideas for how we can improve Wikipedia's treatment of cooperatives? IohannesChicaginiensis (talk) 17:59, 21 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Great, so already @LittleDwangs, @MaynardClark, @Zblace, @Jfricker, and myself have expressed that they're still interested in this project. I've gone ahead and removed the "inactive" status from the Wikiproject templates. Since this project was marked inactive, many related subpages were autodeleted, and I've tried to strip away the red links to make the Wikiprojects page a bit more accessible to a newcomer. So much of the stuff relating to article assessment has rotted away though, I'd prefer it if someone who has more experience with those things take a look and help me figure out how to repair all that. I think getting article assessments back up and running would be one way to provide an ongoing rhythm to this project.
We don't need the assessment mechanics running though to start working on a few things. One of the standout things to me is that the main Cooperative article is... not that great. It's rated "C" quality in all its projects, and I see why. The sections are rather lopsided and don't have any narrative flow between them. The Origins and history section seems full of random facts that various one-off editors felt like throwing in. It would be great if a group of editors could go through the main article and fashion it into something coherent. Anyone up for the challenge?
I'm having trouble logging in to the link you've provided; are we supposed to use our Wikipedia credentials or create a new account? Although, to be honest, I for one would prefer if we kept our discussions on this chat page for now. There aren't that many people interested in this project, and if we keep our discussions here then what we say will all be in once place for anyone in the future to look over and get up to speed. IohannesChicaginiensis (talk) 19:04, 24 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Hello, I'm new to Wikipedia but would be happy to help with this. Currently interested in improving pages and coverage relating to housing cooperatives. Yoctera (talk) 12:09, 23 October 2022 (UTC)[reply]
'Tredegar Medical Aid Society' has the category 'Cooperatives'. However, the Society was never a cooperative but instead was a Friendly Society, which it was required to register as such under the provisions of the 1911 National Insurance Bill and which it remained as such until it was dissolved in 1995. Consequently, does anyone have any objection to my deleting the entry for the category in the article? John Desmond (talk) 16:00, 11 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hi John Desmond. I believe you are referring to the WikiProject on the talk page and not categories. Friendly societies and credit unions are within the scope of this project, so we'd rather leave WikiProject banner there. Thank you for asking. gobonobo+c00:28, 12 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Hello! I've set up a new WikiProject, Housing and Tenant Rights :)
I'm adding a message here since it could be of interest to your group, I expect there would be a joint interest between our two groups when it comes to housing cooperatives like the United Workers Cooperatives for example.
If you are please feel free to add your name to the page, we already have a couple who have joined. The main focus will be covering tenant strikes, tenants unions, tenants rights, and more. Documenting the history of land ownership and tenant advocacy. Thanks! - LoomCreek (talk) 02:36, 15 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]
