Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoga
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Welcome to WikiProject Yoga. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Yoga and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.
![Om, in Sanskrit](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Om_symbol.svg/220px-Om_symbol.svg.png)
Objectives and Scope
[edit]The mission of WikiProject Yoga is to ensure that Yoga-related articles on Wikipedia are written:-
- In an informative style
- In a neutral and non-sectarian manner
- Using verifiable and reliable sources
This project is about discussing issues which affect Yoga-related articles in general. Discussions about particular articles should be handled on the talk pages of those articles.
The scope of this WikiProject is to improve, (primarily) the quality and, (if at all) the quantity of information about Yoga available on Wikipedia.
Guidelines
[edit]If you are a newcomer, the most important and often over-looked point to remember while editing Wikipedia is: You cannot insert your own particular viewpoints into articles. Articles should typically reflect verifiable opinion, in neutral and balanced prose.
The important thing to remember is that all sources and articles must conform to Wiki policies such as WP:NOR, WP:V. and WP:NPOV.
Also remember to cite your sources correctly. If you feel a viewpoint merits mention, you can find some material which may constitute a reliable source by checking books, journals, articles, newspapers and other sources that are available online.
New articles must be on notable topics. Variations on existing asanas are in general not considered notable; they are handled within the project by adding a 'Variations' section to the main article, and documenting each variation briefly. All variations must be cited to a reliable source; significant variations may be described in a brief paragraph, and illustrated if there is space on the right of the Variations section.
Things to watch
[edit]All original documents and text must use the original language as the primary source. This usually means that transliterations will come from Sanskrit (which usually appears in Devanagari) and use International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST). Asana articles, however, should be titled and described without diacritic marks, which should appear only in the IAST version of the Sanskrit name, i.e. only once in any article.
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 24 Aug 2024 – Yogacharya Govindan Nair (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Mccapra (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
Articles to be split
- 11 Sep 2023 – Mind teachings of Tibet (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion
- 23 Sep 2021 – Tibetan tantric practice (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Skyerise (t · c); see discussion
Articles for creation
- 08 Aug 2024 – Draft:Ammaji, Yogacharini Meenakshi Devi Bhavanani (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by 223.187.126.12 (t · c)
- 13 Jun 2024 – Draft:Elaine MacInnes (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Socksoup (t · c)
- undated – Draft:Marylee Graffeo Fairbanks (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC
Housekeeping Instructions for the project
[edit]How to add articles to the project using the project template
[edit]to add a page/article to this project please place the following template at the top of the talk page.
{{WikiProject Yoga|class=|importance=}}
If there are multiple project they should be combined using the BannerShell Template
{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1= {{WikiProject Yoga|class=Start|importance=High}} {{WikiProject Hinduism|class=Start|importance=Low}} {{WikiProject Health and fitness|class=Start|importance=Mid}} }}
How to request a picture for a Yoga article
[edit]Many articles can use more or better images. If these are not available in Commons, request them below at Image requests, naming the article concerned and if necessary briefly describing the kind of image needed.
How to annotate Yoga stubs
[edit]When you start a new yoga article it is a good idea to immediately annotate it as a Yoga stub. This will place it in an appropriate category which can be used for coordinate work on such new articles. It will also invite assessment from other project members. To do this add the following template in the final section (External Links) after the Yoga or Asana templates and before any categories.
{{Template:Yoga-stub}}
Open tasks
[edit]Based on a number of feedback statements across the yoga project:
- Add and improve the quality of asana related articles
- List variations used in common practice under the main articles.
Required articles
[edit]The following yoga women are missing:
Major articles to take to Good Article status
[edit]Quality | Top importance | High importance |
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B | Bhakti yoga, Meditation, Pranayama, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Transcendental Meditation technique, Yoga (philosophy), Yoga Sutras of Patanjali | 33 articles, inc. Bhagavad Gita, Dhyāna in Hinduism, Samadhi |
C | Patanjali | 25 articles, inc. Ashtanga vinyasa yoga, Mantra, Matsyendra |
Start | - | Amaraugha Prabodha, Amritasiddhi, Bandha (yoga), Joga Pradīpikā, Lokenath Brahmachari, Muktananda, Vishnudevananda Saraswati |
It can be seen that among top-importance yoga articles, only 1 is currently rated as a C, Patanjali, so this is an obvious priority for improvement to GA or FA status. Of course, some may be wrongly rated.
Image guidelines
[edit]Guidelines for encyclopedic Asana images:
- Photographs
- High resolution
- Cropped to show the Asana occupying most of the image area
- Clothing that reveals the anatomical position
- Of an appropriate seriousness
- Correct alignment in the posture
- Without advertising
Image requests
[edit]Images meeting the guidelines are requested for:
- Bharadvajasana (sitting sideways on chair, hands to chair back)
- Marichyasana II and IV (on floor)
- Marichyasana (standing, one foot on chair, hands to ledge/wall)
Participants
[edit]Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.
Extended content
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2018 onwards
[edit]- Morganfitzp (talk · contribs) I am interested in standardizing asana articles, integrating mudras into articles about hand gestures, and and adding more perspective to articles about yoga philosophy. 23:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
- Chiswick Chap (talk · contribs) I intend to bring the top-level articles on yoga as exercise, including asana and Iyengar yoga, to GA. I'll do a bit of work on individual asana articles when this seems necessary. 11:46, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
- Nikiwiki242 (talk · contribs) (I am interested in adding relevant and missing content for asanas, Hot yoga, Hatha yoga and pranayama, also can provide high-quality pictures) 16:28, 10 Mars 2019
- Pradeepwb (talk · contribs) I care about accuracy and reliability in yoga articles. There's still plenty of bias and claims about particular teachers and their achievements. So that sourcing and verification is important and needs to be well documented. Also, I notice pro-Western tilt in commentaries about yoga history, where Indian commentators are underrepresented. All that I'm sure will be worked out in time. 11:58, 1 July 2019
- Oria 6 (talk · contribs) Would like to contribute information about the mystical concepts in Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Meditation, States of Consciousness, History of Yoga etc. Would also like to contribute around contemporary clinical research about yoga.
- Gardenkur (talk · contribs) Interesting to contribute to wiki as a global platform to share and improve efficacy of yoga related topics. The science of yoga is vast and eternal and will try my best to improve.
Articles
[edit]Featured content
[edit]Candidates
[edit]New articles
[edit]Please feel free to list your new Yoga-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
- Science of yoga
- Yoga in America
- Yoga for women
- Vajroli mudra
- Light on Yoga
- Hatha Yoga: The Report of A Personal Experience
Key lists:
- List of asanas
- List of Indian asana yoga gurus - hierarchically organised by lineage
- List of yoga schools
Review and assessment
[edit]Yoga articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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3 | 23 | 20 | 17 | 63 | ||
B | 1 | 43 | 42 | 24 | 2 | 112 | |
C | 24 | 42 | 100 | 166 | |||
Start | 2 | 37 | 174 | 5 | 218 | ||
Stub | 3 | 10 | 1 | 14 | |||
List | 2 | 1 | 7 | 10 | |||
Category | 1 | 1 | 24 | 69 | 95 | ||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
File | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 7 | 7 | |||||
Template | 14 | 14 | |||||
NA | 1 | 4 | 28 | 73 | 106 | ||
Other | 15 | 15 | |||||
Assessed | 5 | 95 | 150 | 385 | 181 | 8 | 824 |
Total | 5 | 95 | 150 | 385 | 181 | 8 | 824 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 2,300 | Ω = 4.01 |
Peer review
[edit]Statistics
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoga/Assessment – Our rating system
- Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
- V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.
The pageviews graph shows how many times people visit some of the project's major articles, and the effect of the International Day of Yoga on the number of visits: Pageviews for 90 days in the summer of 2020
The Popular pages list shows the top pages in the project.
Categories
[edit]Content categories:
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- Category:Backbend asanas — all these cats contain individual asana cats
- Category:Balancing asanas
- Category:Forward bend asanas
- Category:Inverted asanas
- Category:Kneeling asanas
- Category:Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas
- Category:Meditation asanas
- Category:Reclining asanas
- Category:Sitting asanas
- Category:Standing asanas
Administrative categories:
Templates
[edit]- See /Templates for navboxes, userboxes, barnstars, etc.
The yoga templates currently in use are attached below (set of blue Navbars).
Resources
[edit]Related WikiProjects
[edit]- Wikipedia:WikiProject Hinduism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Buddhism
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Alternative medicine
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Philosophy
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Health and fitness
Tools
[edit]- 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.