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Does anyone have a picture of Lido (esepcially around christmas time)? That would definately be a good picture to include. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 16:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
"During these many centuries [...] the Baltic Germans in Riga [...] remained steadfast in their positions, and in 1900 Riga's population of 282,943 was composed approximately of 50% Baltic Germans, 25% Latvians, and 25% Russians." Source? According to Straubergs' history (Rīgas vēsture) and other reference works, the Germans made up 42,9% of the population of the city in 1867, 39,4% in 1881, 23,8% in 1897... and only 13,3% in 1913. I cannot find figures for 1900, but "approximately 50%" is most definitely wrong. The percentages from the 1897 census were 45% Latvian, 23,8% German, 16,1% Russian, 6% Jewish, 4,8% Polish, 2,3% Lithuanian, 1,3% Estonian, 0,7% other -- total population 282 230. -- Pēteris Cedriņš 23:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Soviet military presence cannot be called an "occupation" in terms of international law as there has not been war between the USSR and Latvia. DamianOFF 11:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Prior version made it appear Latvia threw Germans out when it was Hitler who issued the call home (knowing that with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact it was only a matter of time until Latvia fell to the Soviet "sphere." — Pēters J. Vecrumba 20:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I see "non-encyclopedic" links were removed. Why? Certainly if someone is looking for information on Riga, Riga Municipality portal would be more than appropriate to list. If "encyclopedic" were applied across the board, 90% of the links in Wikipedia would disappear. Any good reason (before I revert)? — Pēters J. Vecrumba 01:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
How to call them ? In Russian language it is рижане, in Latvian Ridzenieki, in German - Rigaer. But how to say in english correctly? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.148.88.2 ( talk) 07:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC).
It's Rigan as far as I know but I could be wrong. Valenciano 21:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The article doesn't state how many people live in Riga. Any idea? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.134.30.228 ( talk • contribs) 10:17, December 16, 2005 (UTC)
Following quote is not neutral in perspective: "...any non-Latvians whose families arrived after the 1940 annexation were stripped of their citizenship.".
How can "non-Latvians" be stripped of a citizenship they never held?
All citizens of the Latvian SSR had citizenship of the Soviet Union until the new Latvian independence. All (even "non-Latvians") who lived in Latvia until the 1940 Soviet annexation and their descendants automatically became Latvian citizens after the new Latvian independence. All (even emigree Latvians) who did not live in Latvia until the 1940 Soviet annexation and their descendants kept their old citizenship - which, for the majority was citizenship of the Soviet Union, which at the time of the new Latvian citizenship legislation (1992) was a non-existing state. The use of "non-Latvians" is vague and really quite undefined. Another aspect to this is the fact, that ethnic Latvians who lived outside Latvia but within the former Soviet Union at the time of new Latvian independence were not given citizenship automatically (about 40.000 people).
Philaweb 11:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know the background, nor the precise demographics of Latvia...but why is the Estonian name of the city listed in the opening paragraph? Isn't Latvian and (de facto) Russian the two languages of the country? MoRsE 23:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
In Finnish it is Riika. r.Soms
It would be nice if we could do some evaluation of the external links. Some of them belong in other articles, some of them are links to personal photo galleries from some trip to Riga. It would be nice to find some criterias for what sort of links that would fit to this section, preventing linkfarming. Philaweb T- C 10:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I wish to rid the article of this section: there is no criteria for inclusion - some of these people have just been born in Riga, but have lived most of their lives elsewhere, others are only mariginaly notable (some even don't have articles and we can't include half of Latvian national ice hockey team). So if no one minds I will just remove this section (NB: I probably will have time to deal with this article during the lenghtly holidays /1-5 May or so/) ~~ Xil * 18:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I would like to ask for some refference prooveing this: in 1581, Riga came under the influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Attempts to reinstitute Roman Catholicism in Riga and southern Livonia failed as in 1621.
25 september 1621 Riga was actually captured by
Gustav Adolf and Sweden at that time for sure wasn`t catholic,
Duchy of Livonia was actually Pl-Lt
Condominium, it had its own
Marszałek,
Hetman and had some sort of autonomy. However
Sigismund III Vasa was verry conservative, it was just impossible for him to force anyone without
Sejm, plenty of highest offices were held by protestants or orthodoxes, in
Lithuania almost all. Not to mention
Warsaw Confederation of religious peace 1573.
P.S. Picture of Rigas skyline covers some part of text.
Mikołajski (
talk) 17:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, i hope it`s right according to history, that i don`t know if it did happend, doesn`t mean that it didn`t. Sorry for bothering you with this history section, but what exactly Riga have in common with Thirty years war? Mikołajski ( talk) 15:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, but i don`t want to mess in your city/country related articles without a word of explanation. This or other way in both stands this sentence, rather related to Swedish history than Rigas. Maybe it`s only my POV, but i supose that it was added for some religious purpose, that`s why it was makeing some sense with suposed counter-reformative PLC attempts, but the same now as before it`s just off-topic. It`s not that i need some explanation, but this sentence needs, otherwise it`s like i said, off-top. Mikołajski ( talk) 20:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Riga is famous for its amber but its not mentioned in the article. What gives? -- Ragemanchoo ( talk) 08:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Looking at it, the list was getting a bit long. A split might offer an opportunity to add more than cursory detail. — PētersV ( talk) 13:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I cannot even see the new name of the article (Rīga) on my PC with the fonts installed with MS Windows. This is the English language Wikipedia. How far can we go in the these demands for ethnic spelling?
Moving the article back to Riga -- Petri Krohn 22:54, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
No list of famous Rigans, Rigaites, Rigaers? Sca ( talk) 17:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Stone Bridge (Riga) could be included in this article, and make that article less of an orphan. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:52, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
This is similar to a proposal I recently floated at
Kiev. I searched through quite a number of articles and identified
Johannesburg as an FA model to organize content and efforts going forward. Where we are and where we need to get to, adding
London as a GA example:
Outline of Riga
|
Outline of London, GA
|
Outline of Johannesburg, FA
|
There is a LOT of content to be created and added. As we pick an area of interest to expand, if we can stick to Johannesburg as an outline we can come up with a truly superb article. My two santīmi. VЄСRUМВА ☎ 18:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
According to the language interwiki links, there are 3 FA Riga articles in other languages. The da.wiki article is an almost copied version of the no.wiki article, the Latvian article is heavy on history, but has lots of red links. Perhaps those articles could be of inspiration? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 20:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Was wondering what is best practice when it comes to Latvian street names. As English use is preferred a street name like " Freedom Street" is obvious (since the memorial is entitled Freedom Monument, not Brīvības Monument). There are other less obvious scenarious, perhaps we could establish a best practice for Latvian street names in general? Category:Streets by city is a good place to browse and it seems like street names are usually entitled according to the local language, like Brīvības iela, except when they are transliterated from a different alphabet. I really could need some input before I chop ahead with an article. Personally, I prefer the local name approach, which makes it much easier for WP readers to actually use the information to navigate in Riga Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 09:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I copied the entire LV WP article, but for now I'm just going to work on the history section. It lays out city history by each century, which is as good an organization as any—simple chronology is better than all the various eras under all the various invaders. I'll transplant pieces as I finish them up. (Might still need a ref or two once copied over.) To the question above, I've been translating streets ("Alberta iela" is "Albert street") but using other terms in Latvian where they translate awkwardly, e.g., Senais kalns (Ancient hill), then using Senais kalns later. It would definitely make sense for us to come up with some sort of consistent style guide. VЄСRUМВА ☎ 20:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Over the next couple of weeks I am going to work on the geography, demograhics, infrastructure and culture sections of this article. Needs a lot of work if the sections should not have abundance of red linked articles. At the same time I will gather references to dig deeper and create uncondensed articles as Geography of Riga and Culture in Riga (or similar titles). Anyone interested in working on the economy, education sections and the sports subsection? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 22:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I am researching my husband's family who came from Latvia. He was born in China, as was his father, but his grandparents came from Latvia in the early 1900's, his grandmother being born in Riga. I was wondering whether Birth, Death and Marriage and other records are kept in Latvia and whether they are accessible. I would be very interested in finding out more if anyone would be able to suggest where i would be able to contact about this, I would really appreciate it.Thanks Annafritz ( talk) 07:26, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
this isn't really the place for this but here you go: http://www.arhivi.lv/index.php?&110 good luck! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unlikelylads ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I see that the population of Riga dropped dramatically during/after WWI. But there is no explanation of why in the article. Could you add that? David s graff ( talk) 17:22, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Here's a list [1] in Latvian of important milestones, this can be used to structure and mention major events.— HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 21:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I quickly went over the article and noted few issues on which I would like to hear some comments - I observe history section at large is based on rather old sources, which is a problem because they may be based on guesswork of the author rather than realistic data. It also gives undue emphasis to events in 13th century - having section Hanseatic League, Holy Roman Empire, Lithuania, the Swedish and Russian Empires, the Soviet Union and Latvia is ridiculous, it should be just history, most information from subsections could be moved to other, more relevant articles (articles on Livonian crusade and Bishop Albert). Etymology could be explained in separate section. And I thin parts of the history section are more relevant to Latvia or Livonia in general, not to Riga. I dislike the sections on cityscape, buildings and theatres - Wikipedia shouldn't serve as sightseeing guide, besides list of things to see could get quite long and selecting most notable sights is slightly POV, a description of architectural styles and more general culture section might be a better idea. As for neighbourhoods the list is uneven - it lists larger regions, such as Pārdaugava together with their parts and doesn't mention others. Riga city development planers have made more structured division, which could be used, however it has become a controversy on Latvian Wikipedia. Economy section could give less emphasis to particular objects and projects. Infrastructure, at its current state, seems well written, however perhaps should be titled transportation. The crime section contains one sentence which seems exaggerated to me should perhaps be removed. The sports section should be expanded to list more types of sports and unnotable facts - nobody cares what TTT Riga (does it even still exist ?) did thirty years ago and even more, Riga being home to most sports federations in Latvia, each of them shouldn't be mentioned here, especially if it is of such obscure sport as bandy. Universities section should be expanded into more general education or science & research section. Plus I am uncertain how significant issue tow twining is - last time I checked this list I couldn't found references on all cities listed indeed being sister cities to Riga ~~
Xil (
talk) 10:32, 28 June 2010 (UTC)
Perhaps listing only administrative regions is better idea than neighbourhoods ~~
Xil (
talk) 02:20, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
Wow, no mention of the supposedly famous cat house? Type "cat riga" into Google or google images. I was only recently told about it, so I'm not adding it to the article. 188.204.147.121 ( talk) 07:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
A recent edit by User:174.112.138.72 added Vaughan, Canada, as a sister city of Riga. However, neither of the Twin cities of Riga or the City of Vaughan International Partnerships official sites currently lists the other city as a twin.
The WP article on Vaughan did show a sister city relationship, with a date of 1968. It is possible that such a relationship may have existed in the past - but an establishment date of 1968 seems extremely unlikely. I have therefore removed the reference from both articles. Bahudhara ( talk) 06:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't see this is necessary at all. hardly any of them are notable, and this is not Dubai or Shanghai where people compete to build the tallest. LibStar ( talk) 03:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Could some one tell me about the transports in Riga...is there a metro, is it easy to use the transports, prices, etc. Does anyone know how far is Riga from Ventspils? Tnx
Nope, there is no metro currently in Riga, but there is a wide network of city trams, buses and other public transportations. Tickets in most public transports cost 0.30Ls (30 santims, $0.20-0.23). Well, I guess, that useage of transports isn't much more complicated than in other countires/cities :) And the distance between Riga and Ventspils is 159km, but the highway between them is ~200km long.
--The thruth is in here 16:26, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
Now the transportation cost is higher, since introduction of
e-talon. The cost of all trams, buses, trolleys without e-talons is 0.70 LVL, with e-talons it costs 0.50 LVL for everyone and 0.25 LVL for students. — Preceding
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I've removed this section: "Between 1996 and 2002, Riga had the second highest murder rate of any capital city in Europe (behind Moscow), and in 2008 it was named "Europe crime capital" by Forbes. [2]" The part about Moscow is completely unsourced and the Baltic Times article refers to Latvia, not Riga. In any event, the opinion of Forbes magazine is that of one source and shouldn't be given undue weight per WP:UNDUE. The Council of Europe's own figures in the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics 4th edition 2010 here show Latvia's recorded crime rate to be the fifth lowest of EU countries ahead of Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus. Of course this most likely relates to a variety of factors including crime reporting, crime detection, competence of the police etc however this information would need to be presented in a more balanced way than presenting the word of Forbes as the Gospel truth. Valenciano ( talk) 19:30, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
By the way, last year Riga has the highest murder rate in all Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.84.1.247 ( talk) 12:54, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
In the run-up to the World Choir Games next year, it would be nice to see some more info added about the event. This is by far the largest event of its kind in the world and would bring a lot of exposure to Riga within the culturally inclined population of the world. I have been to three past World Choir Games and could add a lot of info on the event itself, but I'm quite unfamiliar with Riga/Latvia, so won't necessarily be able to add relevant info. Maybe in conjunction with someone from Riga, we could build a proper section on the event. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in doing so. Janneman27 ( talk) 09:34, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
The Riga Planning Region is definitely NOT Riga metro area. Its not even remotely close. The Riga Planning Region includes large towns that are a 1.5 hour drive away from Riga (like Limbaži). Nobody from Limbaži commutes to work in Riga.
AFAIK, there are no official statistics of a metro area. The concept hasn't actually caught on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.92.61.11 ( talk) 19:44, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
The article currently states that "By the end of the war the Baltic Germans were forcibly repatriated to Germany.". As "repatriate" means to send back to one's own country, the term would appear at best contentious here, if not plain wrong, as, as far as I am aware, the vast majority of those sent to Germany would never have been there, let alone born or having lived there. The Baltic Germans article uses the term "resettlement" (no use of "repatriate"), which may be more neutral and preferable to the term I used in an edit to amend the sentence, "expelled". My edit was reverted with the summary "this implies that one party expelled them, when actually it was result of bilateral agreement and was officially called repatriation". Details of this agreement would be useful, in regard to when it was made and thus which German regime was involved and what the official term in the respective languages was, as English would not have been the language of either of them so "repatriate", per se, would not have been the word. If the only reasonable translation of the term in the agreement is "repatriate" we are not obliged to use it if a loaded term, or use it without commentary at least. If this was 1944, by which all but a tiny number had fled according to the Baltic Germans article, the two parties were at war so presumably not in a position to make agreements. If it was post-war, that this regarded very small numbers would be worth noting. That said, the sentence in the article does seems rather ambiguously phrased - is "had been" rather than "were" intended, in which case agreements don't come into play, or is "at" rather than "by" intended? Mutt Lunker ( talk) 14:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Something is wrong with ethnic composition now. Actually in 2019 Latvians made up 44,42% of population, Russians 37,03%, Ukrainians 3,65% , Belarussians 3,62% etc. Velirand ( talk) 11:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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User:Žemėpatis reverts this change with the rationale, “Primate city is not about size, but about rank/population ratio compared to other cities of the country.” The rationale is a misunderstanding of why the text was structured as it was. The text before Žemėpatis’s reversion read, Being home to 632,614 inhabitants (2019), which is a third of Latvia's population, it is large enough to be the country's primate city. This text does not mean “Riga is Latvia’s primate city because the definition of ‘primate city’ is to have 632,614 inhabits and achieve a third of the country’s population”. The text means that, in Latvia’s circumstances (which includes comparisons against its other cities), Riga’s population suffices to make it the primate city. Meanwhile Žemėpatis’s edit restores the editorially offensive redundancy of Riga is the capital, the largest and primate city. It has other editorially poor elements. I have reverted. Strebe ( talk) 16:58, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Please read and understand the definition of the term "Primate city". Riga is primate city not because it is "large enough", but because it is significantly larger than other cities of Latvia. Not every city, which is "large enough" is a primal city of a country. Primate city is not about being large enough, but about comparisons to other cities in the country. Your edit was a complete misunderstanding of the term. Žemėpatis ( talk) 17:17, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
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Does anyone have a picture of Lido (esepcially around christmas time)? That would definately be a good picture to include. — Ilγαηερ (Tαlκ) 16:39, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
"During these many centuries [...] the Baltic Germans in Riga [...] remained steadfast in their positions, and in 1900 Riga's population of 282,943 was composed approximately of 50% Baltic Germans, 25% Latvians, and 25% Russians." Source? According to Straubergs' history (Rīgas vēsture) and other reference works, the Germans made up 42,9% of the population of the city in 1867, 39,4% in 1881, 23,8% in 1897... and only 13,3% in 1913. I cannot find figures for 1900, but "approximately 50%" is most definitely wrong. The percentages from the 1897 census were 45% Latvian, 23,8% German, 16,1% Russian, 6% Jewish, 4,8% Polish, 2,3% Lithuanian, 1,3% Estonian, 0,7% other -- total population 282 230. -- Pēteris Cedriņš 23:38, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
Soviet military presence cannot be called an "occupation" in terms of international law as there has not been war between the USSR and Latvia. DamianOFF 11:43, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
Prior version made it appear Latvia threw Germans out when it was Hitler who issued the call home (knowing that with the signing of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact it was only a matter of time until Latvia fell to the Soviet "sphere." — Pēters J. Vecrumba 20:07, 29 September 2006 (UTC)
I see "non-encyclopedic" links were removed. Why? Certainly if someone is looking for information on Riga, Riga Municipality portal would be more than appropriate to list. If "encyclopedic" were applied across the board, 90% of the links in Wikipedia would disappear. Any good reason (before I revert)? — Pēters J. Vecrumba 01:05, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
How to call them ? In Russian language it is рижане, in Latvian Ridzenieki, in German - Rigaer. But how to say in english correctly? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 159.148.88.2 ( talk) 07:48, 5 January 2007 (UTC).
It's Rigan as far as I know but I could be wrong. Valenciano 21:09, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
The article doesn't state how many people live in Riga. Any idea? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.134.30.228 ( talk • contribs) 10:17, December 16, 2005 (UTC)
Following quote is not neutral in perspective: "...any non-Latvians whose families arrived after the 1940 annexation were stripped of their citizenship.".
How can "non-Latvians" be stripped of a citizenship they never held?
All citizens of the Latvian SSR had citizenship of the Soviet Union until the new Latvian independence. All (even "non-Latvians") who lived in Latvia until the 1940 Soviet annexation and their descendants automatically became Latvian citizens after the new Latvian independence. All (even emigree Latvians) who did not live in Latvia until the 1940 Soviet annexation and their descendants kept their old citizenship - which, for the majority was citizenship of the Soviet Union, which at the time of the new Latvian citizenship legislation (1992) was a non-existing state. The use of "non-Latvians" is vague and really quite undefined. Another aspect to this is the fact, that ethnic Latvians who lived outside Latvia but within the former Soviet Union at the time of new Latvian independence were not given citizenship automatically (about 40.000 people).
Philaweb 11:51, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
I don't know the background, nor the precise demographics of Latvia...but why is the Estonian name of the city listed in the opening paragraph? Isn't Latvian and (de facto) Russian the two languages of the country? MoRsE 23:01, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
In Finnish it is Riika. r.Soms
It would be nice if we could do some evaluation of the external links. Some of them belong in other articles, some of them are links to personal photo galleries from some trip to Riga. It would be nice to find some criterias for what sort of links that would fit to this section, preventing linkfarming. Philaweb T- C 10:52, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
I wish to rid the article of this section: there is no criteria for inclusion - some of these people have just been born in Riga, but have lived most of their lives elsewhere, others are only mariginaly notable (some even don't have articles and we can't include half of Latvian national ice hockey team). So if no one minds I will just remove this section (NB: I probably will have time to deal with this article during the lenghtly holidays /1-5 May or so/) ~~ Xil * 18:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
I would like to ask for some refference prooveing this: in 1581, Riga came under the influence of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Attempts to reinstitute Roman Catholicism in Riga and southern Livonia failed as in 1621.
25 september 1621 Riga was actually captured by
Gustav Adolf and Sweden at that time for sure wasn`t catholic,
Duchy of Livonia was actually Pl-Lt
Condominium, it had its own
Marszałek,
Hetman and had some sort of autonomy. However
Sigismund III Vasa was verry conservative, it was just impossible for him to force anyone without
Sejm, plenty of highest offices were held by protestants or orthodoxes, in
Lithuania almost all. Not to mention
Warsaw Confederation of religious peace 1573.
P.S. Picture of Rigas skyline covers some part of text.
Mikołajski (
talk) 17:04, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
Thanks, i hope it`s right according to history, that i don`t know if it did happend, doesn`t mean that it didn`t. Sorry for bothering you with this history section, but what exactly Riga have in common with Thirty years war? Mikołajski ( talk) 15:12, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
Sorry, but i don`t want to mess in your city/country related articles without a word of explanation. This or other way in both stands this sentence, rather related to Swedish history than Rigas. Maybe it`s only my POV, but i supose that it was added for some religious purpose, that`s why it was makeing some sense with suposed counter-reformative PLC attempts, but the same now as before it`s just off-topic. It`s not that i need some explanation, but this sentence needs, otherwise it`s like i said, off-top. Mikołajski ( talk) 20:54, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
Riga is famous for its amber but its not mentioned in the article. What gives? -- Ragemanchoo ( talk) 08:00, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Looking at it, the list was getting a bit long. A split might offer an opportunity to add more than cursory detail. — PētersV ( talk) 13:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
I cannot even see the new name of the article (Rīga) on my PC with the fonts installed with MS Windows. This is the English language Wikipedia. How far can we go in the these demands for ethnic spelling?
Moving the article back to Riga -- Petri Krohn 22:54, 12 October 2005 (UTC)
No list of famous Rigans, Rigaites, Rigaers? Sca ( talk) 17:49, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
Stone Bridge (Riga) could be included in this article, and make that article less of an orphan. -- DThomsen8 ( talk) 13:52, 16 April 2009 (UTC)
This is similar to a proposal I recently floated at
Kiev. I searched through quite a number of articles and identified
Johannesburg as an FA model to organize content and efforts going forward. Where we are and where we need to get to, adding
London as a GA example:
Outline of Riga
|
Outline of London, GA
|
Outline of Johannesburg, FA
|
There is a LOT of content to be created and added. As we pick an area of interest to expand, if we can stick to Johannesburg as an outline we can come up with a truly superb article. My two santīmi. VЄСRUМВА ☎ 18:14, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
According to the language interwiki links, there are 3 FA Riga articles in other languages. The da.wiki article is an almost copied version of the no.wiki article, the Latvian article is heavy on history, but has lots of red links. Perhaps those articles could be of inspiration? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 20:36, 18 July 2009 (UTC)
Was wondering what is best practice when it comes to Latvian street names. As English use is preferred a street name like " Freedom Street" is obvious (since the memorial is entitled Freedom Monument, not Brīvības Monument). There are other less obvious scenarious, perhaps we could establish a best practice for Latvian street names in general? Category:Streets by city is a good place to browse and it seems like street names are usually entitled according to the local language, like Brīvības iela, except when they are transliterated from a different alphabet. I really could need some input before I chop ahead with an article. Personally, I prefer the local name approach, which makes it much easier for WP readers to actually use the information to navigate in Riga Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 09:10, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
I copied the entire LV WP article, but for now I'm just going to work on the history section. It lays out city history by each century, which is as good an organization as any—simple chronology is better than all the various eras under all the various invaders. I'll transplant pieces as I finish them up. (Might still need a ref or two once copied over.) To the question above, I've been translating streets ("Alberta iela" is "Albert street") but using other terms in Latvian where they translate awkwardly, e.g., Senais kalns (Ancient hill), then using Senais kalns later. It would definitely make sense for us to come up with some sort of consistent style guide. VЄСRUМВА ☎ 20:56, 23 July 2009 (UTC)
Over the next couple of weeks I am going to work on the geography, demograhics, infrastructure and culture sections of this article. Needs a lot of work if the sections should not have abundance of red linked articles. At the same time I will gather references to dig deeper and create uncondensed articles as Geography of Riga and Culture in Riga (or similar titles). Anyone interested in working on the economy, education sections and the sports subsection? Talk/ ♥фĩłдωəß♥\ Work 22:52, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
I am researching my husband's family who came from Latvia. He was born in China, as was his father, but his grandparents came from Latvia in the early 1900's, his grandmother being born in Riga. I was wondering whether Birth, Death and Marriage and other records are kept in Latvia and whether they are accessible. I would be very interested in finding out more if anyone would be able to suggest where i would be able to contact about this, I would really appreciate it.Thanks Annafritz ( talk) 07:26, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
this isn't really the place for this but here you go: http://www.arhivi.lv/index.php?&110 good luck! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Unlikelylads ( talk • contribs) 08:20, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
I see that the population of Riga dropped dramatically during/after WWI. But there is no explanation of why in the article. Could you add that? David s graff ( talk) 17:22, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
Here's a list [1] in Latvian of important milestones, this can be used to structure and mention major events.— HELLKNOWZ ▎ TALK 21:24, 26 June 2010 (UTC)
I quickly went over the article and noted few issues on which I would like to hear some comments - I observe history section at large is based on rather old sources, which is a problem because they may be based on guesswork of the author rather than realistic data. It also gives undue emphasis to events in 13th century - having section Hanseatic League, Holy Roman Empire, Lithuania, the Swedish and Russian Empires, the Soviet Union and Latvia is ridiculous, it should be just history, most information from subsections could be moved to other, more relevant articles (articles on Livonian crusade and Bishop Albert). Etymology could be explained in separate section. And I thin parts of the history section are more relevant to Latvia or Livonia in general, not to Riga. I dislike the sections on cityscape, buildings and theatres - Wikipedia shouldn't serve as sightseeing guide, besides list of things to see could get quite long and selecting most notable sights is slightly POV, a description of architectural styles and more general culture section might be a better idea. As for neighbourhoods the list is uneven - it lists larger regions, such as Pārdaugava together with their parts and doesn't mention others. Riga city development planers have made more structured division, which could be used, however it has become a controversy on Latvian Wikipedia. Economy section could give less emphasis to particular objects and projects. Infrastructure, at its current state, seems well written, however perhaps should be titled transportation. The crime section contains one sentence which seems exaggerated to me should perhaps be removed. The sports section should be expanded to list more types of sports and unnotable facts - nobody cares what TTT Riga (does it even still exist ?) did thirty years ago and even more, Riga being home to most sports federations in Latvia, each of them shouldn't be mentioned here, especially if it is of such obscure sport as bandy. Universities section should be expanded into more general education or science & research section. Plus I am uncertain how significant issue tow twining is - last time I checked this list I couldn't found references on all cities listed indeed being sister cities to Riga ~~
Xil (
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Perhaps listing only administrative regions is better idea than neighbourhoods ~~
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Wow, no mention of the supposedly famous cat house? Type "cat riga" into Google or google images. I was only recently told about it, so I'm not adding it to the article. 188.204.147.121 ( talk) 07:11, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
A recent edit by User:174.112.138.72 added Vaughan, Canada, as a sister city of Riga. However, neither of the Twin cities of Riga or the City of Vaughan International Partnerships official sites currently lists the other city as a twin.
The WP article on Vaughan did show a sister city relationship, with a date of 1968. It is possible that such a relationship may have existed in the past - but an establishment date of 1968 seems extremely unlikely. I have therefore removed the reference from both articles. Bahudhara ( talk) 06:12, 18 November 2010 (UTC)
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I don't see this is necessary at all. hardly any of them are notable, and this is not Dubai or Shanghai where people compete to build the tallest. LibStar ( talk) 03:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Could some one tell me about the transports in Riga...is there a metro, is it easy to use the transports, prices, etc. Does anyone know how far is Riga from Ventspils? Tnx
Nope, there is no metro currently in Riga, but there is a wide network of city trams, buses and other public transportations. Tickets in most public transports cost 0.30Ls (30 santims, $0.20-0.23). Well, I guess, that useage of transports isn't much more complicated than in other countires/cities :) And the distance between Riga and Ventspils is 159km, but the highway between them is ~200km long.
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Now the transportation cost is higher, since introduction of
e-talon. The cost of all trams, buses, trolleys without e-talons is 0.70 LVL, with e-talons it costs 0.50 LVL for everyone and 0.25 LVL for students. — Preceding
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I've removed this section: "Between 1996 and 2002, Riga had the second highest murder rate of any capital city in Europe (behind Moscow), and in 2008 it was named "Europe crime capital" by Forbes. [2]" The part about Moscow is completely unsourced and the Baltic Times article refers to Latvia, not Riga. In any event, the opinion of Forbes magazine is that of one source and shouldn't be given undue weight per WP:UNDUE. The Council of Europe's own figures in the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics 4th edition 2010 here show Latvia's recorded crime rate to be the fifth lowest of EU countries ahead of Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Cyprus. Of course this most likely relates to a variety of factors including crime reporting, crime detection, competence of the police etc however this information would need to be presented in a more balanced way than presenting the word of Forbes as the Gospel truth. Valenciano ( talk) 19:30, 26 October 2010 (UTC)
By the way, last year Riga has the highest murder rate in all Europe. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.84.1.247 ( talk) 12:54, 6 February 2013 (UTC)
In the run-up to the World Choir Games next year, it would be nice to see some more info added about the event. This is by far the largest event of its kind in the world and would bring a lot of exposure to Riga within the culturally inclined population of the world. I have been to three past World Choir Games and could add a lot of info on the event itself, but I'm quite unfamiliar with Riga/Latvia, so won't necessarily be able to add relevant info. Maybe in conjunction with someone from Riga, we could build a proper section on the event. Please feel free to contact me if you are interested in doing so. Janneman27 ( talk) 09:34, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
The Riga Planning Region is definitely NOT Riga metro area. Its not even remotely close. The Riga Planning Region includes large towns that are a 1.5 hour drive away from Riga (like Limbaži). Nobody from Limbaži commutes to work in Riga.
AFAIK, there are no official statistics of a metro area. The concept hasn't actually caught on. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.92.61.11 ( talk) 19:44, 4 May 2014 (UTC)
The article currently states that "By the end of the war the Baltic Germans were forcibly repatriated to Germany.". As "repatriate" means to send back to one's own country, the term would appear at best contentious here, if not plain wrong, as, as far as I am aware, the vast majority of those sent to Germany would never have been there, let alone born or having lived there. The Baltic Germans article uses the term "resettlement" (no use of "repatriate"), which may be more neutral and preferable to the term I used in an edit to amend the sentence, "expelled". My edit was reverted with the summary "this implies that one party expelled them, when actually it was result of bilateral agreement and was officially called repatriation". Details of this agreement would be useful, in regard to when it was made and thus which German regime was involved and what the official term in the respective languages was, as English would not have been the language of either of them so "repatriate", per se, would not have been the word. If the only reasonable translation of the term in the agreement is "repatriate" we are not obliged to use it if a loaded term, or use it without commentary at least. If this was 1944, by which all but a tiny number had fled according to the Baltic Germans article, the two parties were at war so presumably not in a position to make agreements. If it was post-war, that this regarded very small numbers would be worth noting. That said, the sentence in the article does seems rather ambiguously phrased - is "had been" rather than "were" intended, in which case agreements don't come into play, or is "at" rather than "by" intended? Mutt Lunker ( talk) 14:53, 6 April 2015 (UTC)
Something is wrong with ethnic composition now. Actually in 2019 Latvians made up 44,42% of population, Russians 37,03%, Ukrainians 3,65% , Belarussians 3,62% etc. Velirand ( talk) 11:09, 5 June 2019 (UTC)
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User:Žemėpatis reverts this change with the rationale, “Primate city is not about size, but about rank/population ratio compared to other cities of the country.” The rationale is a misunderstanding of why the text was structured as it was. The text before Žemėpatis’s reversion read, Being home to 632,614 inhabitants (2019), which is a third of Latvia's population, it is large enough to be the country's primate city. This text does not mean “Riga is Latvia’s primate city because the definition of ‘primate city’ is to have 632,614 inhabits and achieve a third of the country’s population”. The text means that, in Latvia’s circumstances (which includes comparisons against its other cities), Riga’s population suffices to make it the primate city. Meanwhile Žemėpatis’s edit restores the editorially offensive redundancy of Riga is the capital, the largest and primate city. It has other editorially poor elements. I have reverted. Strebe ( talk) 16:58, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
Please read and understand the definition of the term "Primate city". Riga is primate city not because it is "large enough", but because it is significantly larger than other cities of Latvia. Not every city, which is "large enough" is a primal city of a country. Primate city is not about being large enough, but about comparisons to other cities in the country. Your edit was a complete misunderstanding of the term. Žemėpatis ( talk) 17:17, 18 August 2019 (UTC)
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