Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Squatting

2025

It's 2025! Any suggestions for how to progress with WP:SQUAT? And greetings to the newest member, @LunaEclipse :) Mujinga (talk) 02:29, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

I'm not a member of the wikiproject but am probably going to be writing on a fair few topics as part of Housing and Tenant Rights that might overlap with Squatting. For example I've been working on housing insecurity on and off and thought there might be links to squatting I'm mising/not currently aware of. Particularly I'm currently drafting draft:Housing in Vienna, which I've learnt includes a some intresting history of squatting too (including some squats being formally legitimized and intergrated into the city which as far as I'm aware is a unique occurence).

While somewhat secondary to my broader intrest in housing rights and tenant rights, would it still be worthwhile to join the project and pop my head in asking for advice on adding and expanding information on squatting into a potentially relevent articles? Bejakyo (talk) 18:27, 19 January 2025 (UTC)

Hi Bejakyo, sure you'd be very welcome here. It's quite informal and a good place to discuss things. Your level of involvement sounds about the same as mine the other way round with Wikipedia:WikiProject Housing and Tenant Rights! Re housing insecurity, yes there's certainly crossover worldwide. An article on housing in Vienna sounds great - there are other examples of squats becoming legitimized in the 1980s in west European cities such as Berlin, Copenhagen, Hamburg, London, Rome etc and the Netherlands has probably the most cases, some documented via Squatting in the Netherlands. Cheers! Mujinga (talk) 09:40, 20 January 2025 (UTC)

New article

Hello! I just discovered this WikiProject and am so glad it exists. I'm reluctant to add myself as a participant because so far I've only worked on squatting-related articles when they intersect with my primary interests of feminist and queer history.

I recently completed an article about Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover. Again, I wasn't sure if it's appropriate to add it to your stats for the year, but I'd be happy to receive feedback from folks with more experience working on squatting articles.

Thanks! Hawksquill (talk) 21:07, 29 June 2026 (UTC)

@Hawksquill thanks for the notice about Fifth Street Women's Building Takeover, I hadn't heard about that before and it was an interesting read, especially since I just watched Born in Flames the other day. You'd be welcome to join the wikiproject and I hope you make more articles about feminist/queer history. I was going to mention Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red, seems like you have met them already :) Mujinga (talk) 06:45, 1 July 2026 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply and your kind words! I somehow hadn't heard of Born in Flames, exactly the sort of rich feminist text I love. I'll have to do a deep dive soon for sure :) Hawksquill (talk) 13:58, 31 July 2026 (UTC)

Move discussion on Squatting

FYI There is a discussion at Talk:Squatting#Requested_move_3_October_2026 - it has been proposed in this section that Squatting be renamed and moved to Squatting (crime). Mujinga (talk) 17:47, 3 October 2026 (UTC)