Wikipedia:WikiProject Swiss municipalities

Title

WikiProject Swiss municipalities

Scope

This WikiProject aims to automatically create stub articles for all 2866 Swiss municipalities.

Parentage

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Country subdivisions
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Switzerland

Descendant WikiProjects

This project has no descendants.

Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject French communes
• Dutch municipalities task force (under WikiProject Netherlands)

Participants

1. BillC (talk · contribs)
2. Blofeld of SPECTRE (talk · contribs) 23 March 2008 (UTC) -I'll add a few images from time to time where possible
3. Gerritholl (talk · contribs)
4. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs)
5. Punkmorten (talk · contribs) 1 January 2008 (UTC)
6. Schwiiz (talk) 14:31, 6 March 2017 (UTC) -I'll do my best to help

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Article titles

• /Article title conventions
• /List of title variations

Categories

The parent category is Category:Municipalities of Switzerland. Cantonal subcategories exist.

Cities should also go to Category:Cities in Switzerland, articles on villages that are not independent municipalities should either be merged with the article on their municipality, or put into Category:Villages in Switzerland.

Sources

WikiMedia

• de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt_Schweiz#Gemeinden_der_Schweiz
  • de:Wikipedia:Formatvorlage_Ort_Schweiz
• fr:Wikipédia:Projet, Communes suisses
• Commons:Category:Cities_and_villages_in_Switzerland
  • Commons:Category:Flags_of_swiss_municipalities
  • Commons:Category:Coat_of_arms_of_swiss_municipalities

Other

• http://www.swissgeo.ch postal_code
• http://www.communal.ch population, district (Bezirk or Kreis?) and surface area, for all of Switzerland. With clickable maps (copyright unknown). More information for some municipalities, like altitude, economic classification, and website.
• All existing communal homepages
• http://www.lexhist.ch/externe/protect/deutsch.html Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz (German, French or Italian)

Aargau

Appenzell Innerrhoden

Appenzell Ausserrhoden

Basel Stadt

Basel Landschaft

http://www.baselland.ch/docs/gemeinden/info/main-gem_info.htm Contains written text, altitude, ground usage, foreign population, ground prices, jobs, work force, number of houses, taxes, etc.

Bern

Fribourg/Freiburg

Geneve

http://www.geneve.ch/statistique/statistiques/communes/welcome.html man, woman, age, ground usage, tourism, unemployment, economy, more.

Graubünden/Grigun

http://www.graubuenden-online.ch/kanton/kanton.html Contains surface area, Bezirk, Kreis, population, height, surface area, jobs, work force, tourism, taxes and economic category.

Glarus

http://www.glarusnet.ch/gemeinde/index.htm

Jura

http://www.juranet.ch/cities/list.asp district, surface area, altitude, related web sites

Luzern

Neuchatel

Nidwalden

Obwalden

Schaffhausen

Schwyz

Solothurn

St. Gallen

Thurgau

Ticino

Uri

Valais/Wallis

Vaud

Zug

Zürich

detailed map

Information

Stub articles should contain as much information as possible.

Infoboxes

Aarau
Municipality
Aarau old town
Flag Coat of arms
Aarau Aarau
Coordinates: 47°24′N 8°03′E
Country	Switzerland
Canton	Aargau
District	Aarau
Government
• Executive	Stadtrat with 7 members
• Mayor	Stadtpräsident (list) Dr. Hanspeter Hilfiker FDP/PRD (as of February 2018)
• Parliament	Einwohnerrat with 50 members
Area
• Total	12.34 km2 (4.76 sq mi)
Elevation	381 m (1,250 ft)
Highest elevation (Hungerberg)	471 m (1,545 ft)
Lowest elevation (Aar)	365 m (1,198 ft)
Population  (December 2020)
• Total	21,726
• Density	1,800/km2 (4,600/sq mi)
Demonym	German: Aarauer(in)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (Central European Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (Central European Summer Time)
Postal code(s)	5000, 5004 Aarau, 5032 Aarau Rohr
SFOS number	4001
ISO 3166 code	CH-AG
Localities	Aarau
Surrounded by	Buchs, Suhr, Unterentfelden, Eppenberg-Wöschnau, Erlinsbach
Twin towns	Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Delft (Netherlands), Reutlingen (Germany)
Website	www.aarau.ch SFSO statistics

See Template talk:Infobox Switzerland municipality for details.

On the right, see Template:Infobox_Switzerland_municipality for Aarau.

Empty infobox template:

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• Navigation bars for all Swiss districts are available with {{Municipalities of the district of xxxx}}. See Category:Swiss district templates,

Completed

All municipality stubs appear to have now been created, thanks to all those who participated. The next step would appear to be to finish the district articles.

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.