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<big>'''Welcome to the development site for the SABR Baseball Encyclopedia project'''</big>
<big>'''Welcome to the development site for the SABR Baseball Encyclopedia project'''</big>
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Currently featuring articles about {{#ask: [[person-name-last::+]] | format=count}} people, {{#ask: [[league-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} league-seasons, {{#ask: [[team-key-sabr::+]] | format=count}} team-seasons, and {{#ask: [[park-name::+]] | format=count}} ballparks.
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* [[:Category:People|People]]
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Since the Encyclopedia is still in development, it is more of a '''project''' than a '''resource'''. If you are interested in doing research and helping build the Encyclopedia into a more valuable resource, you can get started with one of the projects listed on the right.
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*** [[:Category:Scouts|Scouts]]
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If you are here to use the Encyclopedia as a research resource, you will find that it offers approximately the same (or more) information on professional players as the old SABR Encyclopedia.  Currently, this includes:
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* Playing statistics for Major Leaguers from Pete Palmer's database
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* Playing statistics for minor leaguers from the [http://research.sabr.org/minors/historical-statistics/about-statistics SABR Minor League Statistics Project] (as available)
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*** [[:Category:League Executives|League Executives]]
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* Pictorial History records for Major Leaguers
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*** [[:Category:Hall of Famers|Hall of Famers]]; [[:Category:PCL Hall of Famers|PCL Hall of Famers]]
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* Links to other SABR research on players (in development)
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** In other sports: [[:Category:College athletes|College athletes]], [[:Category:Pro football players|Pro football players]], [[:Category:Pro basketball players|Pro basketball players]], [[:Category:Boxers|Boxers]], [[:Category:Olympians|Olympians]]
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** Other occupations in life: [[:Category:Actors|Actors]], [[:Category:Authors|Authors]], [[:Category:Veterans|Veterans]]
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To find information a player, just enter their name (full name or surname) into the search box at left and hit enter.
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** Necrology: [[Deaths in 2008]]; [[Deaths in 2009]]
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For a quick example of how most articles look now (unfinished), see [[Warren Spahn]]. For an example of a well-developed article, see [[Grady Sizemore]].
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* Years: [[2009]]{{cdot}} [[2008]]{{cdot}} [[2007]]{{cdot}} {{cdot}} {{cdot}}[[1900]] {{cdot}} {{cdot}} {{cdot}}[[1871]]
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Sabrpedia.org also features research from the '''Collegiate Baseball Committee'''. Much of the research has not been fully integrated into the Encyclopedia (this is a [[Help:Formatting collegiate baseball articles|project in progress]]), but the information is there and may be useful to you.
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** [[:Category:Professional League Seasons|Professional League Seasons]]
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** [[:Category:Summer Collegiate Leagues|Summer Collegiate Leagues]]
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You can browse college information using [[:Category:Colleges]] or enter the name of a college in the search box and hit enter.
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** [[:Category:Summer Collegiate League Seasons|Summer Collegiate League Seasons]]
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** [[:Category:Major League Ballparks|Major League Ballparks]]
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* [[:Category:Places|Places]] (see [[Bryan, Texas]] for a stub proposal for organizing information by city, and [[Cleveland, Ohio]] for how this might look for a large Major League city)
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* Colleges: [[:Category:Colleges in Ohio|Ohio]] An experiment with Rick Benner's college history files.
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* [[Triple play of 2000-05-31]] - Chuck Rosciam's Draft of a template for triple plays
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* [[Help:Contents|Help]]: Documentation on editing pages, editorial policy, and practices
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If you would like to get involved in building the Encyclopedia, there are three well-defined projects that you can start with immediately. Start by watching or reading the general guide to the editing process, then look at the projects below.
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Job Jar]]: Looking for ways to help move the project forward in your spare time, without a long-term commitment? The Job Jar lists helpful tasks which can be accomplished in seconds or minutes.
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* [[Help:Introduction to editing in the Encyclopedia|Introduction to editing]] &ndash; Information about the editing process and editorial review (text or screencast video).
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Projects]]: Larger projects in progress, or in need of someone to launch or take over.
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Design issues]]: Conceptual issues arising in designing and organizing the information on hundreds of thousands of pages.
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** [[Help:Writing about a person|Short bios]] &ndash; Brief narratives about players; a non-technical research project good for those who know some players well.
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* [[SABR Encyclopedia:Known issues]]: Technical and organizational problems in the Encyclopedia that are known to the design team.
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** [[Help:Adding pictures to articles|Pictures]] &ndash; Uploading pictures and connecting them with their subjects; a mildly technical project good for those who like pictorial research.
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** [[Help:Formatting collegiate baseball articles|Collegiate Baseball]] &ndash; Integrating existing research into the encyclopedia; a technical project of organization good for those comfortable with wikitext.
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* Other things to know:
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** [[Help:Contents|Help]] &ndash; Index of all help pages (this link is at the left of every page)
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** [[SABR Encyclopedia:Known issues|Known Issues]] &ndash; Technical and organizational problems in the Encyclopedia that are known to the design team.
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Revision as of 20:30, 30 November 2009

Welcome to the development site for the SABR Baseball Encyclopedia project

Currently featuring articles about 179781 people, 4976 league-seasons, 31871 team-seasons, and 681 ballparks.

Things to see

Since the Encyclopedia is still in development, it is more of a project than a resource. If you are interested in doing research and helping build the Encyclopedia into a more valuable resource, you can get started with one of the projects listed on the right.

If you are here to use the Encyclopedia as a research resource, you will find that it offers approximately the same (or more) information on professional players as the old SABR Encyclopedia. Currently, this includes:

  • Playing statistics for Major Leaguers from Pete Palmer's database
  • Playing statistics for minor leaguers from the SABR Minor League Statistics Project (as available)
  • Pictorial History records for Major Leaguers
  • Links to other SABR research on players (in development)

To find information a player, just enter their name (full name or surname) into the search box at left and hit enter.

For a quick example of how most articles look now (unfinished), see Warren Spahn. For an example of a well-developed article, see Grady Sizemore.


Sabrpedia.org also features research from the Collegiate Baseball Committee. Much of the research has not been fully integrated into the Encyclopedia (this is a project in progress), but the information is there and may be useful to you.

You can browse college information using Category:Colleges or enter the name of a college in the search box and hit enter.

Getting involved

If you would like to get involved in building the Encyclopedia, there are three well-defined projects that you can start with immediately. Start by watching or reading the general guide to the editing process, then look at the projects below.

  • Introduction to editing – Information about the editing process and editorial review (text or screencast video).
  • Projects:
    • Short bios – Brief narratives about players; a non-technical research project good for those who know some players well.
    • Pictures – Uploading pictures and connecting them with their subjects; a mildly technical project good for those who like pictorial research.
    • Collegiate Baseball – Integrating existing research into the encyclopedia; a technical project of organization good for those comfortable with wikitext.
  • Other things to know:
    • Help – Index of all help pages (this link is at the left of every page)
    • Known Issues – Technical and organizational problems in the Encyclopedia that are known to the design team.
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