Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to '''The Bible'''. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and/or sign up on the list of participants below. {{Shortcut|WP:BIBLE}} ==Scope== This WikiProject aims primarily to organize information concerning the Bible, particularly sorting out the various canons of Scripture, formatting, etc. ==Similar WikiProjects== *Bible (Wikisource WikiProject) *Biblical Criticism *Christianity *Judaism *Religion *Saints ==Participants== # Mpolo # Jewbacca 18:16, Sep 14, 2004 (UTC) # Phil179 03:41, Dec 4, 2004 (UTC) # E=MC^2 21:00, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC) In retrospect, I don't know enough of the Christian POV. #:Why is that a problem? You would make an excellent reviewer. - Ta bu shi da yu 03:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) # ChanochGruenman 23:50, 11 Apr 2005 (UTC) # Ta bu shi da yu 03:37, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) - very happy to be involved in this! # Nathan Larson 05:03, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC) # brenneman^(t)(c) 00:15, 13 July 2005 (UTC) # Davilla 20:59, 19 July 2005 (UTC) 10% inspiration, 0% persperation # Doc (?) 11:05, 30 July 2005 (UTC) happy to help out - if anything is actually happening here # Peter Kirby I would like to continue working on biblical studies-type articles, and this seems like a good project. # KHM03 18:48, 29 October 2005 (UTC) # Virtualalphamale I'm a freshman religion and biology major. This seems like a project I would like to be involved in. 14:31, 14 December 2005 # Clinkophonist I'm a waiter but I read about the Bible a lot. 17:26, 20 March 2006 (UTC) # Steve Caruso 15:45, 31 March 2006 (UTC) - My focus is 1st Century (and earlier) dialects of Aramaic, and I am a Religion and Informatics doublemajor at Rutgers_University. # jrcagle 02:23, 26 April 2006 (UTC) - About to graduate from Reformed Theological Seminary. Areas of interest: Pauline epistles, translation, literary criticism. Happy to help; not a lot of free time. # Ephilei 19:19, 22 May 2006 (UTC) Undergrad general religion major at Greenville_College. Have a unhealthy obsession with organization and detail. # Pianoman24 - 10:02, 22 May 2006 (UTC) - love to help with a youthful catholic view # J. J. 20:56, 24 May 2006 (UTC) - Interested in standardizing project practices and consolidating/collaborating information from other sources. # Ariedartin 08:11, 2 June 2006 (UTC) # ReverendG 01:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC) # Elatanatari 21:30, 12 August 2006 (UTC) ==Structure== [Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.] ==Goals== # Unify the presentations of the Biblical_canon (cf. Apocrypha, Books_of_the_Bible, Septuagint, Old_Testament, New_Testament). # Unify presentation of the individual books of the Bible. # Keep Bible_translations pages in order. As with any Wikipedia project, be aware of other sources and consolidate information in the appropriate places. Collaborate with related projects, wikis, and websites and be respectful of people's differing opinions. See particularly WikiProjects Judaism and Countering systemic bias in religion. Please discuss any goal changes in the talk page. For reference, there is also an archive of this topic. ==Tasks== #Reorganize by learning from some of the popular projects (e.g. Military history). ##Make better use of transclusion and templates. ##Fill out Structure section with examples/templates of good pages. #Use Commons:Category:Bible for majority of uploaded media. ==Infoboxes== There is now an infobox called Template:Bible_translation_infobox which is eagerly waiting your comments/discussion/changes. Brusselsshrek 23:19, 24 January 2006 (UTC) ==Templates== Use the bibleverse template for linking to verses in footnoted references. For example: "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him." (John 3:17, NIV {{fn|(1)}}) and in the references section: {{fnb|(1)}} {{bibleverse||John|3:17|NIV}} There exist Ketuvim, Torah, and Nevi'im templates in use.
I made some templated to organize some: *{{sons of Abraham}} *{{sons of Ishmael}} *{{Adam to David}} see for example Ishmael and Isaac Blubberbrein2 22:25, 18 March 2006 (UTC) It's a bit bright and garish, is there any way to tone the colours down a bit? I get the feeling that some (but not all) of the templates would be controversial - Islam says that the sons of Abraham happened in a different order to Judaism, for example. Clinkophonist 17:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC) ---- Bible Bible