Wiki How:WikiProject California/San Francisco Bay Area task force

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This task force exists to help organize and contribute to the extensive collection of articles about the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

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This task force is part of WikiProject California, and has several sibling task forces:

Southern California task force
Inland Empire task force
Los Angeles task force
WikiProject San Diego
Santa Barbara County task force (inactive)
California State University task force (inactive)

Other WikiProjects whose scope is encompassed by, or overlaps significantly with, the SFBA task force:

WikiProject California State Highways (w/ WikiProject U.S. Roads)
WikiProject Indigenous languages of California
WikiProject Stanford University (w/ WikiProject Universities)
WikiProject University of California (inactive) (w/ WikiProject Universities)
Pixar work group (w/ Wikipedia:WikiProject Animation)

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  • Geography
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  • Rail stations
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  • National Register of Historic Places
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Here is a list of San Francisco Bay Area task force members, together with some of their interests. To join the group simply add yourself to the list of participants, being sure to maintain alphabetical order.

User nameTalk pageComments or Special InterestsJoined


AdamT777talkGrew up in the Bay Area and live in Cupertino. Not sure how I can help though.4 July 2020
AncophoseptalkGrew up in the Bay Area. Interested in local history, geography, politics, and nature.19 April 2020
Audreyw5678talkSan Francisco native, excited to help out.17 May 2020
BDS2006talkResident of the Bay Area from 2000-2007 and 2011-present. Interested in geography and issues related to socio-economics. Initiated the Montezuma Hills article. I can go out and get images of anything that is requested for Bay Area articles. See San Francisco#Cityscape for an example of my work.1 November 2011
BinksternettalkOakland resident, fan of Spanish and Mexican history of California, early San Francisco Bay Area history, California architecture, California art movements, Bohemian Club history23 August 2009
Brandon5485talkEast Bay student; I am working on adding coordinates, reverting vandalism, adding details, etc. Also can help with revising templates.6 April 2010
BriefEditstalkSan Francisco history/districts/governmentMay 2020
Bruin2talkEast Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. I have previously contributed to some existing articles.4 July 2013
Chouchin11talkResident of Livermore for over 30 years. Have done a bit of Wiki programming and would like to focus on historical aspects of the Tri-Valley, and on the regional parks and trails of the area. Also interested in the upcoming San Francisco America's Cup.6 January 2012
ChrishomingtangtalkLive in SF, hope I can help.7 June 2007
Cork12talkI live in Sunnyvale, and I want to improve articles about cities in the Bay Area. I also like Caltrain so I'm interested in expanding and updating articles about that too. Hope I can help!26 March 2023
Cs californiatalkJust organizing stuff and adding political stuff with NPOV and all points of view. Please add more info instead of erase sourced info.16 March 2007
Cyberdog958talkPublic transportation in the San Francisco Area.1 July 2010
DENAMAXtalk2 July 2021
DynaflowtalkCame of age in CoCo County, went to school in Santa Cruz, and live in the City. Interested in educational institutions (UCs particularly), the freeway system, and urban planning-related ... things.13 April 2007
EccekevintalkEducational insitutions, history of the city, science and archietcure of SF. New top the city26 July 2017
FreakingSmonkedtalkInterested in local sports, regional history, and hyphy music. Martinez, California.25 May 2022
HjaltalkBorn in Marin County, grew up in Stinson Beach, work for the City of San Jose, live in Fremont; interested in local history, environmentalism, recycling & waste management, schools, and the 60s.25 February 2007
HowardMorlandtalkI was stationed at Travis AFB in 1967-8, and lived in Berkeley in 1972. I now live on the east coast, but have been coming to Berkeley/Davis to visit family and windsurf the Bay/Delta since 1992. My interest is tidewater. See Suisun Marsh article.9 November 2007
Iconoclast209talkLivermore Resident, Interest in Local Government, Game Design, and Game Studios23 December 2017
ImperfectlyInformedtalkResident of the Bay Area from 2015-present.7 August 2019
IndefensibletalkHello all. Reside and work in Silicon Valley, hope to contribute on related topics and Wikipedia in general.21 December 2019
JoséthewikiertalkI'm often rotating around different cities in the South Bay & Peninsula; I live in 94301.8 March 2024
JuliusCesartalkNewark resident, junior at Newark Memorial High School and interested in transportation as well as high school athletics.30 March 2019
JustGarotalkSouth Bay, Parks and Outdoors25 December 2023
KurykhtalkAs a native of San Francisco, why not?11 February 2007
Leonard G.talkEast bay and central Contra Costa County, earthquake faults and earthquake defense and response, Bay Area Bridges, images from within the Bay Area and elswhere (when on tour).15 February 2007
Mark MillertalkSan Francisco bay area interest. Images, history, structures, biographies, etc.23 August 2009
MarlithtalkLive in SF and should know enough about this place with many pics to contribue.10 July 2008
MCBtalkAlameda and San Mateo County cities and locations; SF neighborhoods; SFO, OAK, SJC, and other airports.17 February 2007
Marleeashtontalkgeography, climate change, infrastructure, south bay, local politics, & census data. 5th gen bay area resident with too much general knowledge about this area.28 October 2022
MelanieNtalkGrew up in Oakland, went to Stanford, still have multiple family in area; article interests include National Register properties and historical information6 April 2013
MercurywoodrosetalkHayward, uploading images, creating categories for the Bay Area, creating new Bay Area articles. I have updated some of the task force page info, and assessed/rated articles, eliminating the backlog of such. I am now the unofficial sole editor of the Portal:San Francisco Bay Area as of sept 2012, after it had lain moribund for years. please join me.24 September 2011
MikechentalkSouth bay, esp. 14th district.12 August 2010
Mike LinksvayertalkGolden Gate, Oakland, California and nearby.12 July 2012
MxntalkResident of San Jose, California, focusing on articles about South Bay institutions, history, and transportation. Often takes photos for Wikimedia Commons during field surveys for OpenStreetMap and OpenHistoricalMap.{{subst:CURRENTISODATE}}
PacificDepthstalkPolitics, San Francisco, Transportation19 September 2022
PegshiptalkCan help with photos occasionally as well.11 February 2007
Peter G WernertalkVery interested in Bay Area-related topics and have contributed to quite a few such articles already. Some particular interests: Bay Area natural history, Bay Area artists and art history, Bay Area punk/"avant-garde" culture, cities and neighborhoods of the Bay Area. I live in Marin County, so Marin-related topics are a particular interest.21 January 2007
QueenqpawntalkBorn in the East Bay and lives in San Jose, main interests are Sports, Geography, and Tech19 February 2022
Russbus64talkResident of the Richmond District, San Francisco. Interested in my neighborhood and Bay Area sports teams (i.e Giants, A's, Warriors, Earthquakes.13 September 2010
Ryoji.kuntalkLifelong resident of San José, though now am studying in San Diego. Interested in ever-vandalized school articles.27 August 2009
Scalhotrodtalk5th generation resident of Santa Clara, 3rd generation native of Campbell. Interested in most things South Bay related, but have ties all around the greater Bay Area.29 August 2014
SFFrogtalkBorn in San Francisco and a 4th generation San Franciscan (1944-46, 1965-68, 1985-86; worked there 1965-81, 1985-2001), have also lived in San Mateo, and South San Francisco; living in Belmont since 1986; avid student of San Francisco and Peninsula history (major fan of stories from older generation family members who lived in the City before I was born) and Bay Area Music 1967-1985; active in the early S.F. music scene as a band manager, sound system designer, live sound engineer 1967-855 February 2008
Sfmammamiatalk20-year resident of San Francisco and proud of it.26 April 2007
SpintendotalkSoMa, Outer Sunset, Twin Peaks, Embarcadero, Castro5 February 2007
Stepheng3talkI live in Sonoma County, California.6 December 2007
Steven WallingtalkSan Francisco, mostly, but also Berkeley and Oakland13 October 2012
TurfToe11talkI Frequent San Francisco and spend most my time in the neighborhood South of Market. I also frequent AT&T Park and O.co Coliseum. I would like to help on articles by adding pictures and info about the places I visit.30 July 2013
WikiLeontalkNorth bay topics.15 February 2007
wishfulanthonytalkBorn in Manila, Philippines, now living in Novato, California in Marin County for nearly four years now. Very interested with transportation systems, especially in San Francisco, San Mateo, the North Bay and Marin County.8 December 2007
WjhonsontalkSanta Cruz25 September 2009
Wyvern_ttalkSan Francisco and Bay Area utility infrastructure. Hetch-Hetchy water system, waste-water treatment, power grid and associated technologies.13 January 2012
ZappaOMatitalkBorn and raised in San Jose. Primarily interested in the Bay's culture.22 February 2012


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AezramtalkEast Bay topics, esp. Oakland and Berkeley. February 15, 2007.15 February 2007
Alexh1013talkBorn and currently lives in Hayward, California and likes learning about the Bay Area.4 August 2007
AlvincuratalkMountain View, Peninsula, Santa Clara County, California Missions, Roman Catholic Churches and Dioceses, Eastern Catholic Churches and DiocesesWP:CAL6 May 2010
AnlacetalkSlight knowledge of Bay Area. Working in other world regions of Wikipedia (Africa, Central America, Europe)22 February 2007
Aspen04talkBorn and lived in the Salt Lake City area until age 17. Frequently visited the Bay Area while living in Salt Lake. Now a full-time Bay Area resident living in Walnut Creek. Loves all parts of the bay, but more knowledgeable about down town San Francisco, Oakland, and central Contra Costa County.3 August 2007
Bagel7talkI live in the East Bay, so I decided to join.12 December 2007
Blow of LighttalkI live in San Francisco, so, well, why not?18 December 2007
BobHiggstalkBorn in Fairfield, raised in Rio Vista... I hail from the North Bay19 November 2007
Brian1078talkFrom Pinole, but now in socal. Interested in cleaning up and providing additional information for the Pinole, Hercules, Richmond, etc. articles.19 March 2007
brianvdbtalkWas born and grew up in Alameda County, now live, work, and go to school in Santa Clara County.19 April 2007
Caliwiki123talkLive in the Bay Area. Love it. How can you not? Am a fan of local history and lore.10 April 2007
ChardingLLNLtalksince 1963 on and off resident of Livermore, California current stint going on 17 years. Have already contributed to article on the city and on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where I work in Computer Operations, with the current worlds second fastest supercomputer, BlueGene/L.7 May 2007
Chickyfuzz14talkI'll bring some North Bay into here. I live in Santa Rosa, California, and would be happy to give some more information about the North Bay.11 March 2007
Coastergeekperson04talkI was born and live in Santa Cruz, CA, I think that's close enough.30 October 2007
coastsidetalkI live in Moss Beach.22 April 2007
Critical ChristalkI live in Oakland and enjoy editing articles on Oakland's neighborhoods. I've formally submitted the article on Oakland's Lakeside Apartments District for peer review. Also, I believe the original assessment of this article underestimated the neighborhoods significance...at the present Oakland's Planning Commission is revising height and zoning regulations around the entire Central Business District, to include next to areas of primary historic importance.7 February 2008
Daniel OlsentalkOaklander, somewhat busy IRL right now, but able to take pictures of various East Bay locations, just drop me a message on my talk page.15 February 2007
DaveOinSFtalkFounder (interested in all, but particularly SF and Silicon Valley)17 January 2007
DfruzzettitalkDan Fruzzetti. Castro Valley native, currently teaching at Tennyson High School in Hayward. Lots of first-hand knowledge and happy to help with anything or add tidbits with relevance. Please feel free to contact and ask me.26 July 2008
DiablobeartalkInterested in the entire SF Bay Area, with specific interest in the East Bay, especially Contra Costa County. Major focuses on environmental, land use, park and open space issues.1 June 2007
DuhhitsminervatalkI Live in Burlingame, cleaning up articles for spelling is my specialty; especially airport articles.12 March 2008
DynaflowtalkCame of age in CoCo County, went to school in Santa Cruz, and live in the City. Interested in educational institutions (UCs particularly), the freeway system, and urban planning-related ... things.13 April 2007
EmiellaiendiaytalkInterested primarily in the East Bay2 February 2007
ExhartlandtalkAlready a member of Wikiproject: California, but can contribute Bay Area-oriented articles.17 February 2007
FaithlessthewonderboytalkBorn in Redwood City, also lived in Novato. Currently living on the other coast, but I left my heart in San Francisco. I plan to work on sports, education and well known people from the Bay Area.19 July 2007
FCYTravistalkBorn and raised in West (Contra Costa) County, currently a Richmond resident.24 February 2007
fizbintalkLived in west of hills East Bay cities most of my life.30 March 2007
GoldenrowleytalkWorking on Native American and some history-related articles around the Bay area.28 March 2007
Hank ChapottalkJust lucky I guess, I once worked as a historical research assistant22 April 2007
Hydrogen IodidetalkLived in Bay Area for 15 years, currently living in Davis, can help with just about anything.16 February 2007
IbadibamtalkBorn/raised in the North Bay.19 November 2007
James C. MarchtalkLived in Palo Alto 1971-1973, Oakland 1976-1987, Sonoma County 1987-present. Interested in Sonoma County present and past.19 March 2007
JamesontaitalkI lived in San Francisco for 13 years before moving away to Florida. Interested in keeping SFBA current events and major article-worthy subjects in Wikipedia. Particularly interested in San Francisco, SFUSD and its schools, and other technical-related articles.31 October 2007
JavaTenortalkLived in San Francisco since college, work in Silicon Valley11 April 2007
JDoorjamtalkEspecially Marin and SF.15 February 2007
Macaroni0811talkLive here, so why not?28 May 2007
MactographertalkHappy to add some photos as I have the time. I'm more often on the East Bay side of things, but I wander over to SF from time to time.16 February 2007
MissMJtalkLive here, hopefully can contribute something.14 June 2007
M1ss1ontomars2k4talk11 February 2007
MKLPTRtalkI live in Antioch thus representing the Eastern Fringe of the bay area. I also work in Oakland at the airport. So East Bay REPRESENT!!!15 December 2007
Myheartinchiletalk18 August 2008
OlivettillytalkArt student and writer from CaliforniaJube 25, 2015
Ombudsmantalk16 September 2007
Patricknoddytalk16 February 2007
Paul ItalianotalkBorn in San Francisco and live in the East Bay, willing to help.19 January 2008
Paul HaymontalkNative of California, particularly interested in Oakland and UC Berkeley.23 February 2007
PlanningProftalkLifelong resident of the Bay Area with interests in higher education, financial planning, and history.4 January 2013
PoetesstalkHomegrown and still here. I grew up in Berkeley, Bolinas and Mill Valley. Currently, I live in the Montclair District of Oakland (& have for over 14 years). I actually was a child during the 1960s. Took three degrees in Rhetoric from University of California, Berkeley. Former professor at UCB. A professional writer with 20 years' experience. Want to help.20 July 2007
Quarltalk24 February 2007
QwerpQwertustalkI live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have written a few articles about things in it, so why not?17 August 2010
RavenforadaytalkLived in San Francisco for many years, active in many and led some civic and local organizations, particularly interested in urban policy and planning, and internet policy.9 February 2013
rickyrazztalkBorn and raised in Silicon Valley, lived the good life and willing to chronicle companies and technologies.27 December 2007
RK-SFOtalkAirports and cities on the Peninsula.15 February 2007
Ronbo76talk11 March 2007
sallyrobtalkborn in San Francisco in 1947, lived there until 1950, then Daly City (1950-1954), San Bruno (1954-1985), and Montara (1985-1989); return regularly for visits; interested in history, culture, and climate of the Bay Area, especially San Francisco and San Mateo Counties16 February 2007
SarahStierchtalkBiographies and places25 June 2024
Scott BurleytalkSouth Bay, here.16 February 2007
SeanMcGtalkEast Bay (esp. Berkeley) and San Francisco14 February 2007
Schmiteyetalkborn in San Francisco and have lived in San Mateo for 50-plus years. San Mateo County is my main interest.15 February 2007
SFOetthekidtalkBorn in San Francisco, and currently live in Daly City. I am interested in the Bay Area airports (SFO, OAK, SJC), and transportation articles (MUNI, BART, etc...) I can help out with that, and all other articles in general as well.24 October 2007
SharkxFanSJtalkSports topics, transportation3 May 2009
Sir ryleetalkBorn in Berkeley, lived in Richmond, and currently living in Santa Rosa.19 February 2007
Tarastar42talkI live in the East Bay and am interested in improving and adding local articles.17 June 2010
Tinned ElktalkI live in Concord, previously lived in SF. I have also already edited several articles, and just went on a spree (hopefully correctly) of adding the SFBA template to some article talk pages, so I might as well join!14 August 2007
TmangraytalkAlso interested, primarily in East Bay.11 February 2007
tuyvantalkI work in the Bay Area, but live in Central Valley. Transportation, Tri-Valley, Local History21 April 2007
UtilizertalkI was born in San Francisco and lived in the bay area for over 40 years. Mostly interested in film, music and art.6 December 2008
Wikimania1011talkBorn in Mountain View, raised in San Jose, now live in San Jose, will work on the aging school pages.16 March 2007
Zzyzx11talkWill occasionally help with it.11 February 2007
マイキtalkAdding photos and geo info to existing articles, and exploring areas to find new places to add!12 July 2012


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