This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts. We interviewed 3family6 and Peter Rehse (PRehse).
What motivated you to join WikiProject Martial Arts? Do you specialize in a specific disciplines or styles of martial arts?
Are the martial arts of some countries or regions better covered than others? Are there any noticeable gaps in Wikipedia's coverage of martial arts?
How often does notability become an issue for martial artists techniques, competitions, and biographies? What are some easy steps to avoid these conflicts or to resolve them quickly?
How does the project handle foreign terms and
"loanwords" used in articles?
Has the project tried collaborating with projects from foreign language versions of Wikipedia? Is there material that could easily be translated or shared between Wikipedia's various languages?
Have you contributed to the project's portal or any of the project's Featured Articles and Good Articles? How difficult is it to improve martial arts articles to FA or GA status?
What are the project's most pressing needs? How can a new contributor help today?
This concludes the Summer Sports Series. Next week's article will look at a project that helps resolve disputes and claims that
there is no cabal. If you missed one of the seven sports projects we interviewed over the past two months, be sure to check them out in the
archive.
This week, we spent some time with WikiProject Martial Arts. Since April 2004, the project has been the hub for discussion and improvement of martial arts articles, including all disciplines and national origins. The project maintains a variety of conventions for handling the names and descriptions of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Indian, Sikh, Filipino, Okinawan, and hybrid martial arts. WikiProject Martial Arts has spawned or absorbed several subprojects focusing on boxing, kickboxing, sumo, and mixed martial arts. We interviewed 3family6 and Peter Rehse (PRehse).
What motivated you to join WikiProject Martial Arts? Do you specialize in a specific disciplines or styles of martial arts?
Are the martial arts of some countries or regions better covered than others? Are there any noticeable gaps in Wikipedia's coverage of martial arts?
How often does notability become an issue for martial artists techniques, competitions, and biographies? What are some easy steps to avoid these conflicts or to resolve them quickly?
How does the project handle foreign terms and
"loanwords" used in articles?
Has the project tried collaborating with projects from foreign language versions of Wikipedia? Is there material that could easily be translated or shared between Wikipedia's various languages?
Have you contributed to the project's portal or any of the project's Featured Articles and Good Articles? How difficult is it to improve martial arts articles to FA or GA status?
What are the project's most pressing needs? How can a new contributor help today?
This concludes the Summer Sports Series. Next week's article will look at a project that helps resolve disputes and claims that
there is no cabal. If you missed one of the seven sports projects we interviewed over the past two months, be sure to check them out in the
archive.
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I started out on Wikipedia working in martial arts articles. One problem, I think, is the lack of reliable, non-self-published sources. Martial arts organizations don't seem to get much coverage in the media. Cla68 ( talk) 00:44, 8 August 2012 (UTC) reply