Wikipedia:WikiProject Asia
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| Shortcut | WP:ASIA |
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| Category | Asia |
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| Project banner template | {{WikiProject Asia}} |
| Userbox | {{User WikiProject Asia}} |
| Has goals? | Yes |
| Assessment | Assessment |
| CSB | Relevant for Countering systemic bias |
Welcome to WikiProject Asia. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Asia 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.
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Goals[edit]
The goals of this project are to:
- create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the countries of the Asia, their history, people, geography, and culture. Included are the independent nations of Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, China, East Timor, Georgia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Lebanon, Malaysia, Maldives, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkey, Turkmenistan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, and Yemen, the disputed states of Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, Indian Ocupied Kashmir, Northern Cyprus, Palestine, South Ossetia, and Taiwan, and the dependencies of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Hong Kong, and Macau, and the regions of Central Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, and Western Asia.
- assist with the Portal:Asia and the various other related portals.
Scope[edit]
- The scope of this project is the continent of Asia. Articles that fall within the Category:Asia and its subcategories are considered to fall within the scope of this project.
- This project recognizes and appreciates the involvement of more specifically focused WikiProjects and work groups, and will devote the majority of its attention to those articles which fall beyond the scope of any individual group.
However, for those groups and projects which do not have assessment banners, this project may place its banner on related talk pages for assessment purposes.
Related WikiProject and subprojects[edit]
There are a remarkable number of WikiProjects related to the continent of Asia. Please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Geographical/Asia for the full listing.
Open tasks[edit]
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Participants[edit]
Active members[edit]
To join WikiProject Asia, edit this section and add #{{subst:me}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username.
- SatuSuro (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on the general tagging of articles and categories in scope, and general housekeeping of a project with such a large field like this - SatuSuro 00:27, 9 October 2010 (UTC)
- John Carter (talk · contribs) Probably at least initially in article review and some finding of sources. Have a lot going on right now, unfortunately, so I don't think I can commit beyond that at least temporarily.
- Canon Law Junkie §§§ Talk 12:21, 11 October 2010 (UTC) General grammar, article writing w/ some research, history of Asia.
- Deepdaz (talk · contribs) I am interseted in working on various articles regarding India and Indian society.
- jihoonim20 (talk · contribs) I am interested and experienced in South Korean history and information.
- Captain armenia (talk · contribs) 19:50, 4 October 2011 (UTC)
- STSC (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on the whole of Asia in general. STSC (talk) 04:59, 10 November 2011 (UTC)
- AgGuy (talk) 03:17, 29 December 2011 (UTC) Fixing up the portal,
- Avo92 (talk · contribs) I am interested in creating an entry on Child Begging, primarily focusing on its occurrence in Asian countries. 21:56, 8 March 2012 (UTC)
- Mediran (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on in relation with the Philippines. 00:35, 11 November 2012 (UTC)
- Kirananils (talk · contribs)
- Pratyya Ghosh (talk · contribs) 04:39, 24 November 2012 (UTC)
- Evildoer187 (talk · contribs) I am interested in issues facing the Jewish diaspora, Hebrew culture, and Israel in general.
- Ggdlmnt (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on in relation with the Indonesia especially music and film.
- Dthomsen8 (talk · contribs) I have reduced the Category:Unknown-importance Asia articles to less than ten, and plan to keep it empty or almost empty
- PackersFan2015 (talk · contribs) Interested in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka articles.
- Wiki tamil 100 (talk · contribs)Interested in Indian articles.
- Namnguyenvn (talk · contribs)
- Vijayganesh.s1996 (talk · contribs)Interested in Asia related articles
- PratyushSinha101 (talk · contribs) interested in South Asian geography articles, mainly India related 16:17, 20 October 2016 (UTC)
- Vikram maingi (talk · contribs)
- Democratics (talk · contribs) Interested in history articles and actors, sometimes I also assess articles.
- RISHABHNAGPAL20 (talk · contribs) I am interested in working on articles related to India. 17:05, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
- TheodoreIndiana (talk · contribs) I usually edit articles related to India, Pakistan, USA and China. I write mostly about the Indian city of Indore. TheodoreIndiana (talk) 17:20, 2 November 2016 (UTC)
- CAPTAIN RAJU (talk · contribs) 21:44, 5 December 2016 (UTC)
- Supcmd (talk) 21:43, 19 June 2017 (UTC) Law, History
- Syed Zulfikar Ali
- matthew_hk (talk · contribs) Pan-asia interest. 22:32, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
- Metro man 27 (talk · contribs) Interested in Chinese articles, One Road One Belt Initiative
- Renzut (talk · contribs)
- Janud R. (talk · contribs)
- Codyorb (talk · contribs)
- Samurai0001 (talk · contribs)
- Path slopu (talk) 01:41, 22 February 2018 (UTC) Interest to improve Wikipedia.
- Timmy78722 (talk · contribs)
- Mr.Mani Raj Paul (talk · contribs) I have a interest to edit Cricket related articles in Asia.
- Maxie1919 (talk · contribs) 06:50:54, 2 June 2018 (UTC) Interest in articles with cities and typhoons
- Emmad (talk · contribs) Interested in highlighting political dilemma of the South East Asian countries.
- SouthAsianGuy891 (talk · contribs) 17:26:30, 21 September 2018 (UTC)
- Dey subrata (talk · contribs) 18:24:40, 1 November 2018 (UTC) to improve culture, arts, sports related artiles.
Member userboxes[edit]
You may place either {{User WikiProject Asia}} or {{User WP Asia}} on your user page to display one of the following userboxes:
| This user is a member of WikiProject Asia. |
| This user is a member of WikiProject Asia. |
Either of these templates will add your user page to:
For other Asia user templates see:
Articles[edit]
| Asia articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 3 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 21 | |||
| B | 13 | 10 | 19 | 12 | 14 | 68 | |
| C | 16 | 21 | 16 | 60 | 24 | 137 | |
| Start | 8 | 15 | 75 | 691 | 1 | 39 | 829 |
| Stub | 2 | 2 | 16 | 579 | 2 | 34 | 635 |
| List | 1 | 5 | 17 | 116 | 2 | 36 | 177 |
| Book | 3 | 3 | |||||
| Category | 1 | 7,133 | 7,134 | ||||
| Disambig | 13 | 13 | |||||
| File | 17 | 17 | |||||
| Portal | 26 | 26 | |||||
| Project | 16 | 16 | |||||
| Redirect | 2 | 45 | 47 | ||||
| Template | 497 | 497 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
| Assessed | 45 | 54 | 150 | 1,476 | 7,756 | 148 | 9,629 |
| Unassessed | 777 | 777 | |||||
| Total | 45 | 54 | 150 | 1,476 | 7,756 | 925 | 10,406 |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 8,850 | Ω = 5.15 | |||||
Featured content[edit]
Featured articles[edit]
Former featured articles[edit]
Featured lists[edit]
Good articles[edit]
1940 Pacific typhoon season
1981 Pacific typhoon season
1982 Pacific typhoon season
1983 Pacific typhoon season
1984 Pacific typhoon season
1985 Pacific typhoon season
1986 Pacific typhoon season
1994 Pacific typhoon season
2003 Afro-Asian Games
2003 Pacific typhoon season
2010 Asian Games
Afrasia djijidae
Azerbaijan
China
Cotton production in Pakistan
Eurasian Economic Union
Forrest's pika
Malaysia
Palestine (region)
Joseph Stalin
Sunda Straits Crisis
Bengal slow loris
Former good articles[edit]
Featured portals[edit]
Did you know? articles[edit]
Yak racing (2007-07-22)
Choir, Mongolia (2007-07-27)
Christianity in Asia (2007-12-09)
1st Asian Film Awards (2008-01-23)
Diffuse panbronchiolitis (2008-05-14)
China–Mongolia relations (2008-06-22)
Ninja miner (2009-03-22)
Missing women (2009-05-19)
France–Asia relations (2009-10-14)
Jacques Legrand (Mongolist) (2009-12-13)
Conference of Youth and Students of Southeast Asia Fighting for Freedom and Independence (2010-07-19)
Mongol elements in Western medieval art (2010-12-20)
Bengal slow loris (2011-01-12)
Conservation of slow lorises (2011-02-28)
Slow loris (2011-03-30)
Axis power negotiations on the division of Asia (2011-04-15)
Afrasia djijidae (2012-06-19)
Aecidium mori (2012-07-05)
Mesoraphidiidae (2012-08-21)
Black shamanism (2012-08-25)
Dayan Deerh (2012-08-25)
Mongolian shamanism (2012-08-25)
Yellow shamanism (2012-08-25)
Apollo 11 lunar sample display (2012-11-17)
Apollo 17 lunar sample display (2012-11-17)
Lunar basalt 70017 (2012-11-17)
Kharkhorin Rock (2012-12-26)
Acanthogobius flavimanus (2013-05-28)
Desert wheatear (2013-09-15)
China (2014-01-03)
List of currencies in the Americas (2014-01-15)
Daramyn Tömör-Ochir (2014-04-30)
Information Technology Park, Nepal (2014-07-30)
Tectonics of the South China Sea (2015-01-24)
Palestine (region) (2015-03-23)
Protopone (2015-10-29)
Cotton production in Pakistan (2015-12-08)
Mining industry of Laos (2015-12-16)
Mining industry of Yemen (2016-01-01)
Pre-collisional Himalaya (2017-02-16)
Pangolin trade (2017-03-11)
Aphaenogaster dlusskyana (2017-04-30)
Aneuretellus (2017-08-15)
Forrest's pika (2017-10-07)
Main page featured articles[edit]
- China (2004-03-07)
- India (2004-12-03)
- Pakistan (2006-05-29)
- Bangladesh (2006-07-14)
- Nepal (2006-09-28)
- Japan (2007-05-15)
- Diffuse panbronchiolitis (2012-01-15)
- Conservation of slow lorises (2012-11-21)
- Slow loris (2014-12-10)
- 2002 Pacific typhoon season (2015-05-06)
- Masked shrike (2016-04-10)
In the News articles[edit]
- 2011 Indian anti-corruption movement (1969-12-31)
- 2008 Pacific typhoon season (2008-07-19)
- 2010 Asian Games (2010-11-12)
- Eurasian Economic Union (2011-11-19)
- Mongolian presidential election, 2013 (2013-06-27)
- Kakuryū Rikisaburō (2014-03-27)
- 2012 Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus outbreak (2014-06-06)
- Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (2015-12-28)
- Junko Tabei (2016-10-24)
- Paradise Papers (2017-11-06)
- Singapore (2018-06-12)
- China at the 2018 Asian Games (2018-09-04)
- 2018 Asia Cup Final (2018-09-29)
Candidates[edit]
New articles[edit]
Please feel free to list your new Asia-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.
- Painda Khel
- Correios De Timor-Leste
- Brunei Postal Services Department
- Afghan Post
- Asian-Pacific Postal Union
- Animal Production and Health Commission for Asia and the Pacific
- Food and Fertilizer Technology Center
- Swarup Singh of Gingee
- Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement
- Identity documents of India
Review and assessment[edit]
Assessment[edit]
Peer review[edit]
Statistics[edit]
Categories[edit]
Underpopulated Asia categories[edit]
The project's underpopulated categories are listed at: Category:Underpopulated Asia categories
Templates[edit]
Userbox[edit]
Talkpage Banner[edit]
Resources[edit]
Periodicals[edit]
Material from the following periodicals is available from subscription databases for the timeperiods indicated. The material is indexed, and may be available, depending on circumstances, in citation, abstract, or full text format. If you wish any such information, please leave me an e-mail and indicate the specific type of information you request, and I will forward the information I find to you. John Carter (talk) 17:52, 6 March 2011 (UTC)
- Arrows for Change (2001-on)
- Asia Africa Intelligence Wire (2000-2005)
- Asia Business News (2008-on)
- Asia Health Guide (2008-on)
- Asia Law (2006-on)
- Asia Monthly Commentary (2005-2006)
- Asia Pulse News (1991-on)
- Asia Today International (2000-on)
- Asia Week (2000-2001)
- Asia Weekly Financial Alert (2001-2002)
- Asian Affairs (1989-on)
- Asian Affairs: An American Review (1997-on)
- Asian Business (Hong Kong) (1993-2000)
- Asian Computer Monthly (1980-1985)
- Asian Corporate News Network (2005-2006)
- Asian Ethnology (2008-on)
- Asian Folklore Studies (1989-2007)
- Asian Oil and Gas (Melbourne) (2007-on)
- Asian Perspectives: The Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific (1996-on)
- Asian Philosophy (1996-on)
- Asian Review of Business and Technology (1996-1999)
- Asian Survey (1987-on)
- Asian Theatre Journal (2000-on)
- The Asian Wall Street Journal (1991-1992)
- The Asian Wall Street Journal Weekly (1991-2002)
- ATI Online Magazine (2007-on)
- Digital Media Asia (2006-2007)
Sisterlinks[edit]
Related WikiProjects[edit]
WikiProject Asia is one of the Asian WikiProjects: