- 1.4% List-Class
- 31.8% Stub-Class
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COVERAGE AREA
★ Downtown Louisville
Louisville Metro (Jefferson County)
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY–IN MSA
(inclusive of Louisville Metro) Trimble County, KY
(traditional part of Louisville MSA) Elizabethtown, KY MSA
Fort Knox
🏛️ Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
PAST WEEK'S HOT EDITS See also 100 most edited articles in past 30 days
Updated June 29, 2026
PROJECT STATISTICS
📰 PROJECT NEWS Updated June 25, 2026 🗞️ June 13, 2026
Thomas Massie is our most popular article for May. Massie serves as U.S. representative from Kentucky's 4th congressional district, which includes portions of the Louisville metropolitan area. Tom Cruise was #2, and Abraham Lincoln was #3. Lincoln's article, plus some related articles, were recently added to our project so as to better cover topics from around the Louisville combined statistical area. Lincoln was born in the southern reaches of this area (LaRue County). 🗞️ May 13, 2026
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April. Muhammad Ali was #2, and Jennifer Lawrence was #3. 🗞️ April 12, 2026
Rick Pitino is our most popular article for March. The former head basketball coach at the University of Louisville for 16 years, Pitino today holds this position for St. John's University. Tom Cruise was #2, and Jennifer Lawrence was #3. 🗞️ March 12, 2026
Rondale Moore is our most popular article for February. Hailing from New Albany, Moore was a wide receiver in the National Football League, after playing for the Purdue Boilermakers, where he was named a consensus All-American as a freshman. Area congressman Thomas Massie was #2, and Tom Cruise was #3. 🗞️ February 12, 2026
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for January. Tom Cruise was #2, and Muhammad Ali was #3. 🗞️ January 13, 2026
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the 18th time in the past 25 months. Jennifer Lawrence was #2, and Muhammad Ali was #3. 🗞️ January 12, 2026
There's now over 24,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 22, 2025
UPS Airlines Flight 2976 is, as predicted, our most popular article for November, with over 1.3 million views! Jennifer Lawrence was #2 with over 600K views, and Tom Cruise was #3 with nearly 500K views. 🗞️ November 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the 17th time in the past 23 months. Also interesting is we likely already know November's most popular article. UPS Airlines Flight 2976 has already received twice as many views so far in November than the article for Cruise received in all of October. This has been a very intense and horrifying period in Louisville's history, and the deadliest local aviation accident since 1953, leaving 15 people dead and many injured. 🗞️ October 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the 16th time in the past 22 months. 🗞️ September 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the 15th time in the past 21 months. Interestingly, Lee Corso is a close second. Corso, head coach for Louisville Cardinals football from 1969 to 1972, recently retired from his longtime TV gig as an analyst on ESPN's College GameDay. 🗞️ August 12, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for July, the 14th time in the past 20 months. 🗞️ July 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the 13th time in the past 19 months. 🗞️ June 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the twelfth time in the past eighteen months. 🗞️ June 6, 2025
There's now over 23,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ March 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the eleventh time in the past fifteen months. 🗞️ January 9, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the tenth time in the past thirteen months. 🗞️ November 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the ninth time in the past eleven months. 🗞️ October 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for September, the eighth time in the past ten months. 🗞️ September 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for August, the seventh time in the past nine months. 🗞️ August 10, 2024
Andy Beshear is our most popular article for July. Beshear, recently a contender for the nomination of Vice President of the United States in the Democratic Party, is the 63rd Governor of Kentucky, currently serving in his second term. He and Lieutenant Governor Jacqueline Coleman are the only Democratic statewide elected officials in Kentucky. 🗞️ July 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months. 🗞️ June 23, 2024
There's now over 7,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ June 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for May, the fifth time in the past six months. Also of note are the rankings of articles related to local annual or special events, with Kentucky Derby at #4, Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing (United States) at #6, Valhalla Golf Club at #9, 2024 Kentucky Derby at #16, Mint julep at #21, 2023 Kentucky Derby at #23, and 2024 PGA Championship at #36. 🗞️ May 24, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for April, the fourth time in the past five months. 🗞️ May 22, 2024
There's now over 22,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ April 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months. 🗞️ March 30, 2024
Walter A. Groves becomes a good article. (Category: Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary faculty) 🗞️ March 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the second time in the past three months. 🗞️ February 29, 2024
There's now over 21,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ February 9, 2024
Lamar Jackson is our most popular article for January. Jackson, American football player and Heisman Trophy winner who played for the Louisville Cardinals for three seasons before entering the NFL draft, is currently playing for the Baltimore Ravens. With the Ravens, he became the second unanimous Most Valuable Player (MVP) and the fourth African-American quarterback to win the award. 🗞️ January 13, 2024
WikiProject Louisville finally now has a barnstar, The Louisville Barnstar! Use this award to show other Wikipedians your appreciation for work they have done on Louisville area-related articles and other pages. Just place the barnstar (per usage instructions) in a new discussion on their talk page and you're good to go. 🗞️ January 8, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, barely edging out the 2nd-place Jennifer Lawrence. Although not covered explicitly in his article, the popular, box-office-busting movie actor and three-time Golden Globe winner Cruise attended St. X High School in Louisville for a couple years, and his parents are from the city. 🗞️ December 28, 2023
There's now over 20,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 12, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 19,000 individual pages, including talk pages, included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ December 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for November. This is the second month in a row. Also note Louisville-born/raised rapper Jack Harlow appearing anew in our upper tier at #3 – his article was inexplicably not included in our project until November 9. 🗞️ December 3, 2023
Check out WikiProject Louisville's new Participation and outreach department, developed per Wikipedia's recently determined consensus for moving away from the membership (club) model and toward a participation (action center) model for wikiprojects. Membership was never required to help with our project's tasks, but this change underscores it. All project pages (including templates) have been revised for this purpose. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page. 🗞️ November 8, 2023
Jennifer Lawrence is our most popular article for October. Lawrence, an Academy Award winner and the world's highest paid actress for two straight years, was born and raised in what is today Louisville Metro. 🗞️ October 24, 2023
For the second time in our project's history, there's now over 6,000 articles included in WikiProject Louisville. 🗞️ October 21, 2023
WikiProject Louisville now uses a full interactive map to show its coverage area. Also, be sure to look around the rest of our project pages to see everything that's updated and new. 🗞️ October 10, 2023
WikiProject Louisville's Assessment department has been revamped from top to bottom. Hopefully no more outdated info. Please direct any questions/concerns to our talk page. 🗞️ October 8, 2023
Deion Sanders is our most popular article for September. Sanders, a former NFL and MLB player and currently the head coach of Colorado Buffaloes football, played for the Louisville RiverBats (today known as the Bats) for two seasons (2000–01). 🗞️ October 3, 2023
WikiProject Louisville is reactivated, with a new coat of paint and updated action items! Also please feel free to show our news updates by adding the {{WPLouNews}} template to your user pages or other appropriate Wikipedia pages. Archive of news items over 5 years old 🗞️ June 7, 2006 WikiProject Louisville begins. 🗨️ PROJECT BUZZ
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WikiProject Louisville is a WikiProject formed on June 7, 2006, to coordinate and develop appropriate, comprehensive and well-connected content related to the Louisville metropolitan area, a multi-county region in north-central Kentucky and Southern Indiana, in the Wikipedia.
Front-burner project actions
| Rank | Priority with Most Issues (Improve) | Non-Priority with Most Issues (Improve) | Popular with Old Issues (Improve) | Popular Stubs (Expand) | Missing (Create) |
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| 1 | Louisville Metro Police Department | Quito (sister city) | Deion Sanders | Rebecca Broussard | Civil rights movement in Louisville, Kentucky comprehensive subarticle for History of Louisville, Kentucky
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| 2 | University of Louisville | Sovereign Grace Churches | Lewis and Clark Expedition | Malachi Lawrence | SoBro, Louisville neighborhood nestled between Old Louisville and downtown Louisville; contains Louisville Main Library, The 800 Apartments and Spalding University (incl. Columbia Gym)
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| 3 | Presbyterian Church (USA) | Carl Brashear | Louisville, Kentucky | The Revisionist | Columbia Auditorium / Columbia Gym current Spalding University building w/ Muhammad Ali connections; part of NRHP's "North Old Louisville Multiple Resources area"
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| 4 | Humana | La Plata (sister city) | Ned Beatty | 2026 Louisville mayoral election | Pegasus Parade longstanding key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
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| 5 | Hunter S. Thompson | Arrested Youth (musician) | Bourbon whiskey | Brian McMahan | Ehrler's Dairy established 1867; local favorite ice cream parlor
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| 6 | Louisville Cardinals men's basketball | C. J. Mahaney | Chris Hardwick | Aaron Reed | Derby Festival miniMarathon & Marathon also a longstanding, key event within the Kentucky Derby Festival (convert from redirect)
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| 7 | Louisville, Kentucky | Hillbilly Outfield: Kentucky Derby party | Joe Torre | 1875 Kentucky Derby | Traditions at the University of Louisville similar to Traditions at the University of Kentucky
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| 8 | Belle of Louisville | Interstate 64 in Indiana | Josh Hamilton | 2008 Kentucky Derby | St. Joseph's College (Kentucky) former Bardstown college w/ notable alumni (convert from redirect)
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| 9 | Jefferson County Public Schools (Kentucky) | U.S. Route 31 in Indiana | Fort Knox | Jonathan Wolff (musician) | Ballard & Ballard Mills 1880–1951; introduced refrigerated biscuits
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| 10 | Lewis and Clark Expedition | WKMJ-TV | Quito (sister city) | Erin Wilhelmi | Resthaven Memorial Park, Louisville cemetery with multiple notable people buried there, including Pee Wee Reese |
WikiProject Louisville Alerts have been posted:
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WikiProject Kentucky Alerts have been posted:
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Current project backlogs
| Concern | Total | % of Articles Affected | Data Freshness |
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| Tagged cleanup issues (updated weekly on Tuesday) | 3,658 in 2,325 articles | 31.1 | June 24, 2026 |
| Articles possibly under-covered by WikiProjects | 2,704 | 36.2 | June 28, 2026 |
| Stubs needing expansion or reassessment (see our 500 largest stubs for reassessment purposes) | 2,378 | 31.8 | Last cache* |
| Articles possibly undercategorized | 1,073 | 14.4 | June 28, 2026 |
| Articles possibly too isolated from mainspace | 1,032 | 13.8 | June 29, 2026 |
| Forgotten articles | 1,025 | 13.7 | June 28, 2026 |
| Articles with citation maintenance messages (includes those with deprecated archival services) | 865 | 11.6 | June 29, 2026 |
| Articles with old cleanup issues (mostly a subset of "Tagged cleanup issues") | 574 | 7.7 | June 28, 2026 |
| Photo/image requests (Breakdown) | 347 | 4.6 | Last cache* |
| Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags | 340 | 4.5 | June 28, 2026 |
| Articles with citation errors (subset of "Tagged cleanup issues") | 163 | 2.2 | June 28, 2026 |
| Articles with Archive.today links | 142 | 1.9 | June 28, 2026 |
* You may need to purge the cache to see the most up-to-date total.
Goal and scope
The goal of our WikiProject is to encourage and provide comprehensive, reliably sourced coverage of notable subjects pertaining to the Louisville metropolitan area by creating, improving, connecting, assessing and monitoring articles, lists, templates and all other pages about the area and any subject/person well connected to it (usually identified from Louisville area-related categorization).
Our scope is Louisville, Kentucky and the surrounding metropolitan area, specifically the combined statistical area, consisting of multiple counties in Kentucky and Southern Indiana, as follows:
Kentucky
* These counties include portions of Fort Knox
** Includes Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park
*** Traditionally part of the Louisville MSA
Indiana
As of 29 June 2026, there are 7,473 articles within the scope of WikiProject Louisville, of which 18 are featured and 73 are good articles. This makes up 0.1% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0.15% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.16% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etc., there are 24,492 pages in the project.
Articles and other pages are included in this project by adding {{WikiProject United States|Louisville=yes|Louisville-importance=}} to their talk pages.
Milestones
| 1% of articles and lists FA-Class: 24.1% complete | ||
(18/75)
| 2% of articles and lists GA-Class or better: 60.9% complete | ||
(91/149)
| 10% of articles B-Class or better: 63.7% complete | ||
(476/747)
| 20% of articles C-Class or better: 99% complete | ||
(1479/1495)
| 80% of articles Start-Class or better: 83.5% complete | ||
(4992/5978)
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Parent WikiProjects
WikiProject Louisville shares coverage with and sometimes supersedes coverage for the following projects:
- Formatting/Structure (city articles only): Cities
- State-level: Kentucky and Indiana
- Articles for subjects that are clearly Kentucky-connected and in the Kentucky portions of the Louisville metropolitan area should be included in both WikiProjects Louisville and Kentucky. This also goes for Indiana, respectively.
- Country-level (project infrastructure): United States
Sibling WikiProjects
- Chicago (both Louisville and Chicago's metro areas include portions of Indiana)
- Cincinnati (both Louisville and Cincinnati's metro areas include portions of Kentucky)
- Indianapolis (department of WP Indiana; capital and most populous city of Indiana)
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Insights
Following are insights, that is, project-oriented lists, logs and query results you may find useful in your project work. They are automatically generated by bots or your clicks.
| Concern | List/Log/Results (Linked) | Update Frequency | Description/Usage |
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| Assessment | Activity log | ~Daily | This shows the latest project-included pages, page assessments/re-assessments, page renames and page removals/deletes. |
| 500 largest stubs | When clicked | See if the largest aren't really stubs and deserve to be reassessed to Start or higher. | |
| 500 largest starts | When clicked | See if the largest deserve to be reassessed to C or B. | |
| Change Patrol | 500 last articles changed | When clicked | This includes all regular and list articles included in the project, but not all mainspace pages (i.e. redirects and disambiguation pages are excluded). Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. |
| 10 most edited articles over past 7 days | Last time query was run | This mimics the "Past Week's Hot Edits" list on our front page except that it also shows the maximum and minimum page sizes during this period as well as the article's importance. Click "Fork" and then "Submit Query" to get the most up-to-date results. | |
| 100 most edited articles over past 30 days | Daily | This is a more expansive view of "Hot Edits", going back roughly a month. This list can be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place over many edits. | |
| 100 most volatile articles (by size) over past 30 days | Daily | This list can also be used as another approach for Change Patrol, to monitor major changes taking place size-wise. | |
| 500 last pages changed | When clicked | This includes subject (non-talk) pages of any type except File included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| 500 last talk pages changed | When clicked | This includes all talk pages of any type included in the project. Use this as an alternative for our regular Change Patrol. | |
| Cleanup | All issues, categorized | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, separated into cleanup categories. |
| All Issues, alphabetic by article name | Weekly (Tues.) | Articles in project with at least one cleanup tag/category, initially sorted alphabetically by article name. The list is resortable by quality, project importance and problem count. | |
| Old issues, grouped by year | Daily | Articles in project with a cleanup tag/category dating over 10 years | |
| Articles with old issues, alphabetic by article name | Daily | (same) | |
| Articles with citation errors | Daily | Articles in project with at least one citation error. These denote issues that definitely necessitate editing citations to fix. | |
| Articles with citation maintenance messages | Daily | Articles in project with at least one citation maintenance message. These messages may or may not denote an issue that necessitates editing the citation. | |
| Connecting (Links and Categories) | Top 500 articles with the lowest link density | Daily | Add useful links to listed articles per WP:LINK or see if an listed article has a peculiar issue that manifests itself with a low link density. |
| Articles possibly too isolated (least linked to) from mainspace | Daily | This concerns incoming links from other articles or mainspace pages in general. Use this to add links in articles or lists that go to the listed articles, preferably within prose but also from See also (don't go overboard on the latter). See WP:LINK. Also create useful redirects to these articles to enhance readers' ability to find them. Where plausible, add links from disambiguation pages or disambiguating article hatnotes. | |
| Possibly undercategorized articles | Daily | Add pertinent categories to listed articles per WP:CAT. Caveats: 1) Make sure not to add parent categories for ones already there; 2) If you find a child category that more closely describes the article's subject, then use it to replace the existing more general one (WP:HOTCAT helps here). | |
| Neglected articles | Forgotten articles | Daily | Articles in project which haven't been edited by a human being in over a year. The report lists various tasks you can complete to freshen up neglected articles or make sure editors who may want to work on them are maximally aware of their existence. |
| 500 oldest stubs | When clicked | Find stub articles that have needed further development for a long time, and see if they can be expanded or possibly merged into another article. Also treat them as you would forgotten articles in general. | |
| Participation and Collaboration | Leaderboard | Daily | This is a list of the top 100 editors of WP Louisville's included pages (articles + all other subject pages) in the past 30 days, excluding bots. Use this to discover other editors working on Louisville area-related subjects for the sake of collaboration, inviting to join our project as a listed participant, or just showing some WP:LOVE (including awarding our project's barnstar). |
| Articles possibly under-covered by WikiProjects | Daily | Tag listed articles for additional WikiProjects per WP:PROJTAG and WP:PROJSCOPE, so we can have editors involved with other projects become aware of our articles and help improve them. | |
| Potential Article Bloat or Undue Weight | 500 largest articles | When clicked | Find articles that are overly verbose or cover aspects in an out-of-balance manner (noting that an article can be large without these issues) which can be reduced appropriately. Also, find articles which can be split or spun off into subarticles. |
| Producing Articles of Highest Quality | Latest determined priority articles | Weekly | These are the project's most important articles closest to being ready to take to the Good or Featured stage, that is, high or top-importance articles with a GA-class (good), B-class or C-class quality, or classed as a List. |
| 50 largest 'B' articles | When clicked | B-class articles that may be ready to be developed toward and achieve a Good rating. | |
| 50 largest 'C' articles | When clicked | C-class articles that may be ready to be re-assessed as B, or close enough to be improved to deserve a B rating. | |
| Project Inclusion Determination and Early Article Improvement | New articles/pages identified by project keywords | ~Daily | New articles/pages that are likely Kentucky-related (sometimes including Louisville-related ones). Use this to find articles to include in either WP Kentucky or WP Louisville. Also see if these articles need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization (esp. with respect to Kentucky or Louisville). |
| 500 newest articles | When clicked | See if project-included articles newest to Wikipedia* need cleanup, tagging or improved categorization. (*but not necessarily newest to our project, as some articles are discovered for inclusion much later than they are created.) | |
| 100 newest articles | Daily | WikiProject Louisville's "Nursery". Shorter list that follows the same idea as "500 newest articles", but shows additional info, including the creator, rating and project importance. | |
| Stubs / Building Up Small Articles | 500 largest stubs | When clicked | Find articles that can be easily improved to become a Start or higher. |
| 500 oldest stubs | When clicked | Find stub articles that have needed further development for a long time, and see if they can be expanded or possibly merged into another article. | |
| 500 smallest articles | When clicked | Find articles to expand, articles which could use a stub tag, or articles which have been incorrectly assessed as Start or higher. | |
| Stub-assessed articles without any stub tags | Daily | Find articles our project assessed as Stub but don't have any stub tags at the bottom of the article. |
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