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📰 WikiProject Louisville News
  The latest updates from WikiProject Louisville:
🗞️ 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 27, 2026
🗞️ April 13, 2026
🗞️ 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 21, 2026
🗞️ 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 14, 2025
Battle of Corydon was demoted from being a featured article.
🗞️ 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.
🗞️ May 11, 2025
🗞️ April 11, 2025
🗞️ March 11, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for February, the eleventh time in the past fifteen months.
🗞️ February 10, 2025
🗞️ January 9, 2025
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for December, the tenth time in the past thirteen months.
🗞️ December 9, 2024
Muhammad Ali is our most popular article for November.
🗞️ November 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for October, the ninth time in the past eleven months.
🗞️ November 1, 2024
Big Four Bridge was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ 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 26, 2024
Aaron Hertzman becomes a good article. This brings us again to 70 in total!
🗞️ August 12, 2024
Basil W. Duke was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ 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 17, 2024
Breonna Taylor becomes a good article. This brings us to 70 in total!
🗞️ July 10, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for June, the sixth time in the past seven months.
🗞️ July 9, 2024
WDRB becomes a good article.
🗞️ 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.
🗞️ May 7, 2024
🗞️ April 9, 2024
Tom Cruise is our most popular article for March, the third time in the past four months.
🗞️ 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.
🗞️ July 29, 2023
Sherman Minton was demoted from being a featured article.
🗞️ June 22, 2023
🗞️ May 13, 2023
Phil Simms was delisted as a good article.
🗞️ March 22, 2023
🗞️ November 23, 2022
🗞️ May 9, 2022
🗞️ March 13, 2022
🗞️ January 4, 2022
🗞️ December 28, 2021

Archive of news items over 5 years old

🗞️ June 7, 2006
WikiProject Louisville begins.

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #251 is out: The illustrated encyclopaedia

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we introduce our first function to import images on Abstract Wikipedia, we present our Functions of the Week, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that if you have questions or ideas to discuss, the next Volunteers’ Corner will be held on June 8, at 17:30 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! — User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 14:14, 5 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tom Owen deletion

Just letting you know that Tom Owen (politician) has been nominated for deletion, which I believe is within your bailiwick. Mad Mismagius (talk) 03:42, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for letting me know. the Stefen 𝕋ower 03:50, 7 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week’s article for improvement (week 24, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:

Drinking water

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Articulated bus • Partnership for Peace


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 8 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • [reply]

Thomas Massie

Hello. I’ve noticed that you’ve undid my edit saying that Thomas Massie has filed paperwork for his seat in 2028 because the paragraph already seems to say that. What makes you think that and where does it say that? ~2026-26570-46 (talk) 15:59, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Read the beginning of the same paragraph. the Stefen 𝕋ower 18:37, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Tech News: 2026-24

MediaWiki message delivery 21:28, 8 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikimedia Foundation Bulletin 2026 Issue 10


MediaWiki message delivery 22:31, 9 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Wikifunctions & Abstract Wikipedia Newsletter #252 is out: Improved loading and display of Test results

There is a new update for Abstract Wikipedia and Wikifunctions. Please, come and read it!

In this issue, we present you an improvement in loading and display of Test results, we talk about our next events, and we take a look at the latest software developments.

Want to catch up with the previous updates? Check our archive!

Also, we remind you that Denny will lead a discussion on the new NLG types in the next Natural Language Generation Special Interest Group meeting, that will be held on June 16, at 16:00 UTC (link to the meeting).

Enjoy the reading! — User:Sannita (WMF) (talk) 15:29, 12 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

Category:Burials in Louisville, Kentucky, by place has been nominated for merging. A discussion is taking place to decide whether it complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category’s entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. User:Namiba 20:58, 13 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]

This week’s article for improvement (week 25, 2026)

Hello, StefenTower. The article for improvement of the week is:

Khoekhoe

Please be bold and help improve it!


Previous selections: Drinking water • Articulated bus


Get involved with the AFI project: Nominate an article • Review nominations


Posted by: MusikBot talk 00:05, 15 June 2026 (UTC) using MediaWiki message delivery (talk) on behalf of WikiProject AFI • [reply]

Tech News: 2026-25

MediaWiki message delivery 16:47, 15 June 2026 (UTC)[reply]