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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage on Pakistan-related topics, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to suggest how Pakistan-related articles can be put in to Wikipedia in an extensible and coherent manner. It also wishes to encourage participation in creating and expanding articles related to Pakistan on Wikipedia. This project also aims to standardize the structure and display of information in these articles. It is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians.

The scope of the project includes (but is not limited to):

  • History of Pakistan
  • Sports of Pakistan
  • Culture of Pakistan
  • Geology of Pakistan

and anything else related to Pakistan.

Newly contributed articles can be found listed at the Pakistan-related new articles page. Older contributions are archived here.

[edit] Participation

To participate you would need to follow these three steps.

  1. If you would like to participate, add your names to the project members page.
  2. Once you have included yourself in the member list, find a suitable department to work with. This project encompasses various departments that may be available in the navigation on the right-hand-side of this page.
  3. You can start helping out by editing a Pakistan-related article, helping to complete a task on our to-do list, or contributing to the discussion on one of our related talk pages. If you would like some suggestions, just ask on the talk page.

Project bulletin board

Post your Pakistan-related article talk, news and announcements here!
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This bulletin summarises the talks related to Pakistani articles. If you want to have your say, please leave comments and read through the talk page of this project and your announcements will be presented on this bulletin.

Bulletins for 2008-05-09

  • Voting on the issues of sectarianism in Pakistan biographical articles has begun. Please participate.

Bulletins for 2008-05-05

Bulletins for 2008-05-03

  • The departments were reconfigured. Have your say here.

Bulletins for 2008-05-02

  • All B-Class articles now require their criteria to be fulfilled. Please check talk page banners for updation.
  • WP Pakistan is reconsidering awarding schemes. Have your say and suggest an award.

Bulletins for 2008-05-01

  • A B-Class criterion list for talk-pages was requested for the WP:PAK talk page banner. Read the discussion here.
  • The tabs on top of the project pages were changed. If they don't appear properly on your browser, consider commenting here quoting your browser and problems.
  • A new programme was requested called the Adopt-a-Article accessed via the navigation on the right. Please be sure to check it out.

Content and Community

Our project is based on community effort and requires you act your part.
Choose a department you find comfortable working with. There's a lot you can do to help

[edit] Content

To help editors achieve their goals, WP Pakistan has various assessment criteria. You can help the editors by tagging talk pages of the articles you are working on with the project talk page banner. Here is how you can help.

  1. Tagging an article with the {{WP Pakistan}} helps editors keep track of the Pakistan-related articles. Make an effort to tag the articles.
  2. Try adopting an article. By adopting an article, you keep track of the changes being made on the articles and monitor its content for the sake of progress.

Recognised content

For a list of all featured and good content, use this list.

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Becoming a member

To become a member of the WikiProject Pakistan community, just add {{User WikiProject Pakistan}} to your Babel box. This would generate the following:

Flag of Pakistan.svg This user is an active member of the Pakistan WikiProject.

However, if you are not very keen on user boxes, simply place [[Category:WikiProject Pakistan Members|{{PAGENAME}}]] at the bottom of your user page to identify yourself as a member.

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[edit] Awards

To be decided later.


[edit] Language requests

Please add Urdu text to the articles below

[edit] Importance Scale

WikiProject article importance scheme
Importance Criteria Example
 Top  Subject is extremely important, even crucial, to its specific field. Reserved for subjects that have achieved international notability within their field. Australia
 High  Subject is extremely notable, but has not achieved international notability, or is only notable within a particular continent. Manchester United F.C.
 Mid  Subject is only notable within its particular field or subject and has achieved notability in a particular place or area. 0.999...
 Low  Subject is not particularly notable or significant even within its field of study. It may only be included to cover a specific part of a notable article. Defense of the Ancients

[edit] Interesting landmarks

Cleanup listing for this project is available. See also the list by category, the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

[edit] Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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