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Hello! I saw the article for the Anthem of the Kazakh SSR, and it needs translation to russian OR english. Could someone do that? Thanks. -- vonu sovef ( wha?) 20:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Somebody had nominated this article as a WP:Good article and I put on hold tag on it. Can you please help us with it.-- Sa.vakilian( t- c) 03:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the proper name for citizens of Uzbekistan? Are they Uzbek or Uzbekistani? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProveIt ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
As Otebig said, the correct term when speaking about the citizens of Uzbekistan is Uzbekistani, the term Uzbek refers to an ethnic group and includes citizens of other countries where Uzbeks live. The distinction dates back to the Soviet period when citizenship and ethnicity where two clearly defined concepts, both of which were indicated in the passport. This remains true today in Central Asia, however the distinction is progressively being lost, in particular when people speak or write in English... Sebastian Stride 22:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
For some reason when an article is labeled "Category class" with our project template, Template:WikiProject Central Asia, it is automatically added to Category:Unassessed Central Asia-related articles. Is there template coder in the house who can make them assessable? Aelfthrytha 19:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi guys. Central Asian cuisine is currently a stub that just lists the cuisines of individual countries - I'm sure that it could be built up into a good overview of general trends in the eating habits across the region. It's the sort of thing that's quite hard for an outsider to do, but probably quite easy for a 'local' - anyone fancy it? FlagSteward 17:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
This is just to announce that over the next few months, students from Barcelona University and Washington University (Saint Louis) will be improving and adding articles, which concern the History of Central Asia. For practical purposes we will be opening a new project page: WikiProject History and Archaeology of Central Asia, which will then either continue or merge with the existing Project Central Asia. I hope this is OK with everyone. Sebastian Stride 22:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
That sounds fine. I will include it as a subproject (if I sucessfully learn how to use the wiki tools!) Sebastian Stride 23:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC) 23:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know what happened with this subproject? It looks like nothing has occurred with it? -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 21:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Would people be interested in some kind of collaboration/improvement drive? There are a lot of important articles out there which are currently just start or stub class. Some examples include: Islam in Central Asia, Music of Central Asia, Civil war in Tajikistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Central Asian studies, Ablai Khan, Greater Khorasan, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Beyond those, I'm sure each of us know a few articles that we'd love to see grow. Could we do a collaboration once a month (or once a week)? What do people think? Otebig ( talk) 13:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Seems we have a running problem standardizing adjectives for country nationals (Kazakh vs. Kazakhstani, etc.). This isn't good because: lack of clarity and conflicting / confusing category names. Is there any standard on wiki for this? Do people want to adopt a standard? If so, what procedure should we follow in doing that? Aelfthrytha ( talk) 04:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
A while ago, someone created several country specific work groups, which have mostly been dormant since then. Because there's a small but persistent number of editors interested in Mongolia, which tend to discuss general topics on each other's user talk pages, I've decided to try to bring the /Mongolia work group to an actual life. I'll invite the most obvious candidates individually, but any other interested parties are welcome to join us or at least put the page on their watchlist. -- Latebird ( talk) 05:54, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Was any of the actual participants here consulted before User:John Carter unilaterally turned all of the work groups into self contained WikiProjects? As far as I can tell, at least the editors interested in Mongolia have no intention of operating a full blown WikiProject. We were very happy that we didn't have to deal with all the administrative overhead. Am I the only one who feels rather disturbed by such an change being installed over everybodies heads? -- Latebird ( talk) 19:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Central Asia does form a valid category to do research upon. Read any of the Turfan texts and try to cling to vocabulary from one language family! The same is true of history and to some degree of contemporary politics. Thus it is highly suitable to have a coordination platform for these matters, a project Central Asia. And as for the workgroup Mongolia, we're not that much people as to suitably constitute a project. Therefore the recent changes don't look suitable to me. G Purevdorj 22:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Just poking my nose around more while learning about workgroups, from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals: "Creating a project: If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects. If you want to start a page before you have 5-10 active Wikipedians, consider setting up the page on a subpage of your user page until it is active, while leaving the posting here with a link to the user page. " Was also having thoughts regarding the mass-setup of WikiProjects or workgroups based upon modern country names. I'm not clear on the intent but it seems more like a categorization scheme overloading Mediawiki's current categorization features. Went looking for a WikiProject Hungary and found Wikipedia:Hungarian_Wikipedians'_notice_board instead. Also found Wikipedia:WikiProject_Europe/Hungary_task_force, which hasn't been used by the actual interested participants (from the notice board) in like 2 months. Noting this, I can figure that while it is true that the Mongolia workgroup folks run the risk of someone else creating a WikiProject Mongolia, people self-organize how they wish and the center of "all the action" depends upon the folks who participate. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 17:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
There is now a proposed variant form of the project banner. It can be seen at User:John Carter/Sandbox2. The results of its use can be seen on that page's talk page. As can be seen, the categories for it's use have already been set up. If the members of this project wish to use the new changed banner, all that would be required would be either cutting and pasting it in place of the extant banner or moving the page. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 21:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The project banner got reverted back to the original one (not by me). I added usage notes to the page because they appeared to be missing and I think the majority of people here may not know what options there are. Now, what is wanted in the project banner? The one User:John Carter had made included a bunch of new assessment classes and portal options. Do the assessment guys here want to use those new classes or keep the ones currently in use? (Like FL, Cat, Dab, Template, etc.) Do we want portal options? There also seems to be some semi-useless options like needs-infobox or merge. Can we remove those? I think some of these things can be done without. The proposed banner from User:John Carter added in options for the related wikiprojects. Do we want those? My interest is in adding some project banner tagging for the Tuva task force to include a category or ratings specific to the task force. Do the Mongolia work group guys want something too? Check out the categories the current pb also adds articles to and discuss if they are appropriate. For example, the attention option adds articles to a non-existent category, but there is a single article already a member of that category. Please, everyone take a look at the usage notes I added and provide some input on what we think we need or not. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 01:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I've submitted a deletion request covering the following pages, because they are not actually used by anyone:
-- Latebird ( talk) 00:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There is an extant policy of WP:OWN. The members of this project seem to have a view that they can violate that policy. As such, I believe that there is more than sufficient basis for proposing this project for deletion. Can anyone give me any good reason why it shouldn't be? John Carter ( talk) 15:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
If asking someone to cooperate with other people instead of acting unilaterally amounts to "ownership" of a complete project, then I'll plead guilty as charged without hesitation. If accusations of violating policy bear weight even when no specific infractions are demonstrated, then I'm happy to be a violator. If unused WikiProjects, or WikiProjects only used by one person and a bot, make sense, then I'm glad to be senseless. And if disagreeing with someone makes me clueless and inexperienced, well, learning new stuff and making new experiences has always been one of my favourite passtimes.
As to the other misrepresentations of my statements and intentions, most of those are just too ridiculous to refute them all individually. Unfortunately some people, especially in the failed MfD, actually seem to have bought into one or the other, pity for them. But to those who approached the raised questions with even the smallest amount of common sense, whether they agreed with me or not, thanks for trying to keep Wikipedia sane. -- Latebird ( talk) 12:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to see if there is interest here in creating a new workgroup for Tuva-related articles. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:59, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I'll get the ball rolling more on this later... on maternity leave now... -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
User talk:Latebird has engaged in several unilateral decisions involving #REDIRECTS, setting up disambig pages that do not follow Wikipedia:Disambiguation on issues that he does not fully understand, from my point of view. In my opinion, he fails to understand that Uvs Nuur Basin is the larger area than Uvs Nuur (lake). He feels the watershed (the basin) is a subset of the lake. In reality, the basin is a well known endorheic basin. Further Ubsunur Hollow, not the same as the basin, is an area of important archaeological sites, and is not the same as the lake or the basin, although they are all in the same area. He continues to combine all articles into one. This would be fine if he allowed the original articles to remain for further growth, and set up a main pages with sub pages, if that is his desire. However, I am against the wiping out of the original articles, as well as the mixing up of information that is distinct into one article at his discretion only. This results in reducing of importance of such subjects as archaeological findings and geologically interesting information to one or two sentence items. Mattisse 02:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I was looking over the talk page for History of Central Asia and noticed a few comments about the map. Hux said that, "the main problem with the map is that it's very misleading as-is: it implies that the Soviet definition comprised Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and that the "common modern definition" comprises only Kazakhstan (and also that the UNESCO definition doesn't comprise any of those states)."
For the "common modern definition", I had the same thought as well. I've made this version of the map, which might not be quite so confusing. Would people be okay with changing this map for the current one? Or, could someone else make a better map? Otebig ( talk) 04:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the maps on the pages that have one. Again, if anyone else can improve upon it, please do. Otebig ( talk) 03:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I wrote an article on the current energy crisis in Central Asia, 2008 Central Asia energy crisis, which seems to be increasing in international media. Please contribute if you can. Rigadoun (talk) 21:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to get help with this? Or is it true that a non Russian speaking person cannot work on these articles, as fluently in Russian is required? If that is true, please let me know and I will stop trying to work on these articles. Regards, Mattisse 20:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking into this after reading the conversations above and since we're talking about a number of articles I think it would make sense to reach consensus here, rather than deal with five conversations on five different talk pages. So basically, as far as I can tell, the following articles are relevant to this discussion (descriptions reflect the articles as they currently stand and are not meant to imply what they should be about):
- Uvs Nuur (disambiguation): Disambig page, obviously.
- Uvs Nuur: Article about the lake called "Uvs Nuur", its geography, ecology, etc. Also has sections about the larger Uvs Nur Basin and the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the area.
- Uvs Nuur Basin: Article about the larger geographical area of the lake's basin. Currently only a two sentence stub.
- Ubsunur Hollow: Article about the geographical hollow that is essentially coterminous with Uvs Nuur Basin, but is part of a larger area of mountainous depressions. Discusses the geography, ecology, and archeology of the area, as well as mentioning its human habitation.
- Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve: Ostensibly about a specific ecological reserve, but is almost identical to the Ubusnur Hollow article.
Now, while geographically there is a clear difference between a lake, a basin, and a hollow, that in itself does not mean that we must have three distinct articles. Article size is relevant here: there's no need to have a separate article for [topic A] if there is almost no information for it and it already fits within the scope of [related topic B]. (With geographical articles this is even more relevant when multiple topics are largely coterminous.) Should [topic A] expand too much within the article for [related topic B] then at that point it should be spun off to a new article. This is a normal part of the Wikipedia process, as I'm sure we can all agree.
So, based on the above, and what's currently in the existing articles, here's what I propose:
- Uvs Nuur (disambiguation): Remove links that point to non-existing articles (they can be added if/when the articles are created), otherwise leave unchanged.
- Uvs Nuur: Keep in a similar state to current article, i.e. discuss the lake and the flora, fauna, geography, etc., specific to it. Briefly discuss the larger area of the basin and link to that article.
- Uvs Nuur Basin: Keep. Expand to include more info about the basin and add info about the hollow, the biosphere reserve, the UNESCO sites, etc. Briefly mention the lake and link to that article.
- Ubsunur Hollow: Delete and merge relevant info into the Uvs Nuur Basin article since much of the info currently in this article is also relevant to that one. Also, there is already a precedent for having a basin article talk about such geographical features within it (e.g. Amazon Basin).
- Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve: Delete and merge relevant info into the Uvs Nuur Basin article for the same reason.
Basically, my rationale is that the Uvs Nuur Basin article should function as the "parent" article for topics related to the lake and the geographical region in general. There is enough information about the lake itself, as distinct from the basin, to justify having its own article, but at this point there is not enough to justify having separate articles for the hollow and the biosphere reserve, especially when much of the information in the Ubusnur Hollow article applies to the basin as well. At some point in the future, however, things might change (e.g. we might have a lot more info about the UNESCO sites in the area) and at that point we should spin topics off to new articles and reduce the corresponding content in Uvs Nuur Basin.
Thoughts? - Hux ( talk) 02:47, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Bogomolov.PL ( talk) 09:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Very cool relief map! Some suggestions: For the purposes of Wikipedia, you are the author of this map, not the NASA. This also means that you can decide on your own license (or PD) and PD-USGov doesn't apply (that applies only to the underlying data, but not to what you create from them). The "no commercial use" should also go, as it conflicts both with WP policy and PD-USGov. From a visual point of view, I'd try to shift the color scale a little, so that the bottom of the basin gets a slightly greener tint. That would make the lakes stand out more clearly. -- Latebird ( talk) 06:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Some sweeping changes have been suggested to the content of the History of Xinjiang. Please see Talk:History_of_Xinjiang#Sweeping_changes. An editor has proposed replacing it with the History of Xinjiang/Sandbox. You feedback would be appreciated. Mkdw talk 10:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering about WikiProject Tajikistan. When this project was first proposed in November 2006, several editors responded that they felt there wasn't enough interest or it should be a workgroup of this project, and the conversation seemed to stop there. Then in June 2007 it was created by Ibrahimjon, an editor from Tajikistan. As of now it has three members, basically no discussion, and little to no activity as far as I can tell. In the meantime, banners for the project sit cluttering up discussion pages (most of which also have a WikiProject Central Asia banner on them as well). I think it should be merged into this project (like the Uyghurs of Western China project was). I just discussed this with Chris, who is probably the most (if not only) active editor with WikiProject Tajikistan, and he said he'd support a merge.
Considering the intense discussion over the workgroups/projects last month, I want to tread lightly and discuss this before anything is done. How would others feel about such a merge? Otebig ( talk) 06:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
FYI: All the Tuva-related articles I could find are grouped now under Category:Tuva task force. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Folks, an extremely uncooperative editor (see his talk page) automatically reverts any changes he sees to about a dozen Kazakhstan articles he believes are his property, and his English is horrid. If any of you are admins, (or if you can explain to him in Kazakh why his actions are unWikilike), can something be done? I notice on his talkpage that several have had the same problems I am having now at Coat of arms of Kazakhstan. Would you folks please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BernardTom before it becomes a horrid mess? All are welcome to edit Wikipedia, sure, but he doesn't see what he is doing to these articles. Please help. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) ( talk) 04:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm new to this group, but I was interested in jumping right in and working on Turkmenistan-related articles, particularly on Turkmen culture, as I wrote a fairly extensive training manual on this subject while in the Peace Corps. However, it seems that the Project: Turkmenistan page is completely dead, and was nominated for deletion. I know that even with the new Internet cafes, Internet access is almost impossible from within Turkmenistan -- are there any expats from Turkmenistan, or others familiar with the country, who are active on this group? I don't really feel comfortable making major additions, let alone initiating articles, without the help of someone from the area. Also, finding appropriate sources could be exceedingly difficult. There is almost no published information on contemporary Turkmen culture (or contemporary Turkmen ANYTHING) other than that put out by the Turkmen government, and frankly I would not feel right citing the Ruhnama as the basis of a factual article for Wikipedia. On the other hand, the few articles in the Western press often contain blatantly wrong information. What exactly are the citation/sourcing standards for cultural information, and what is the cutoff between common sense/self-evident information and O.R. in this case? I can envision two extremes here. If I say palow is Turkmenistan's national dish and is extremely popular there, there are plenty of external sources I can find documenting this, in addition to my own experience of being fed palow at every Turkmen home I ever visited. I can also say with 100% certainty that running water is available for fewer than 24 hours a week in Turkmenbashy city, but this would be O.R. as I doubt you could find this published anywhere (other than perhaps the blogs of Peace Corps volunteers). But what kind of support would I need to write, say, about Turkmen koyneks (traditional women's dresses, worn by most women outside of cities and required for official/government functions)? If someone could point me to some guidance on this issue, I may try my hand at a few gentle expansions/edits. I will also check out the Turkmen wikipedia to see what kinds of sources they have going over there -- though my written Turkmen has never been more than rudimentary (especially the faux-"literary" language used in newspapers). Anyone interested in working with me on this? Also, incidentally, I'm moving back to Central Asia (to Kyrgyzstan) next week. Most of my friends there are Turkmen students at AUCA, so if anyone needs help with photos, source materials, or whatever, let me know. I'd love to see Wikipedia's coverage of post-Soviet Central Asia dramatically improved, and I'm happy to help with historical subjects too if for whatever something you need is only available in Bishkek. Stuffisthings ( talk) 04:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hello everyone! Currently a bot is being prepared to go on to create nearly 2 million articles of villages/cities/towns from all around the world. Afghanistan, being the first country on the list is the first to get that honour and after some tweaking it will go right ahead. A number of other Asian countries will then follow, which will then move on to African countries. However there currently is a dicussion going on at [5] and there are many opinions being held by a number of people. As you guys are going to be one of the first affected, it makes sense that anyone who has an oppinion about the creation of these articles to give an oppinion there. There has been 100 articles created as a trial run for places in Afghanistan and if you are interested to look at those they can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/afghanistan/page1. Further information can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places, User talk:Fritzpoll and of course the village pump link I gave initially. Thanks for your attention. Kind regards! Calaka ( talk) 01:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
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I am currently in Kyrgyzstan. I have a camera, and I am very willing to take pictures of anything and everything that is missing from wiki. However, the is very underpopulated compared to the amount of . Could someone please tag the talkpages of stub articles of places that need pictures with {{ reqphotoin}}? I'd do it myself but the internet and computers here aren't going to help that happen. Aelfthrytha ( talk) 10:07, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
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I've made an SVG map of Central Asia. Please let me know if you have any comments or requests for changes. Thanks. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 17:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
This map problems listed are mostly coming from the source CIA map (outdated: Garabogazköl is dry, Aral Sea is large) and its projection. Usually in Wiki we are creating maps in Mercator projection, so no need show North arrow. A good idea can be using of the Google Map screenshot (or Yahoo Map where at the satellite image Caspian and Aral seas have more actual shape) for boundaries and lakes vectorising, but Aral Sea shape and Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan boundary we need redraw from the respective Wiki articles. Bogomolov.PL ( talk) 17:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh! Sorry, I'm not sure how I did that. Thanks everyone for pointing it out. It should be fixed now. I've also removed the border line along the south coast of the Aral Sea. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 16:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Using Yahoo Maps and/or GoogleMaps is questionable, since they aren't free content. This has been discussed at Wikiproject maps, and even tracing copyright maps isn't really acceptable. Large vs small body of water is relative, isn't it? Compared to the Caspian Sea, the Garabogazkol is small. At any rate, it's now included, I can make it bigger if it has grown, and trace from this free NASA satellite image, but it won't be easy, and may take some time. Same for the Aral Sea. It's hard to match an image to a map, especially when the most noticeable landmarks (lakes/seas) have changed. I'll do my best. Thanks, TheMightyQuill ( talk) 00:46, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Two major things still need to be done on your map: (a) draw in Garabogazkol; (b) update the shape of the Aral Sea. You have done a great job correcting the Taj-Uzb-Kyr borders in the Fergana Valley, so why not use the same rough-and-ready approach to fix the two remaining items? Your map is anyhow not more than a rough sketch, so I would not strive for cartographic precision -- or you will never finish what you have set out to do. For the Aral Sea you have a great recent photograph (here on the talk page and in the Aral Sea article); use it to update (roughly) the shape of the sea. For Garabogazkol take any old map of the Caspian Sea (from before the dam was built) or any recent satellite photograph and draw it in (again roughly). The result will not be cartographically perfect, but it will probably be better than what you have now. Try it. Show us the next draft of your map. Good luck. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Lake Charvak is an artificial lake in Tashkent Oblast, Uzbekistan. It is covered by the article Lake Tcharvak, which uses the French transliteration Tcharvak instead of the conventional and more common English transliteration Charvak. The reason is historical: the article was created in April 2008 around a great photo of the lake, which came from a French source and accordingly referred to the lake as Tcharvak (Lac Tcharvak.jpg). Of course Lake Charvak redirects to Lake Tcharvak, but I still find the principal name awkward and possibly against Wikipedia naming conventions. My suggestion: move the content of Lake Tcharvak in its entirety to Lake Charvak and create a redirect from Lake Tcharvak to Lake Charvak. Is this acceptable? Please discuss below. -- Zlerman ( talk) 03:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Iradan? It claims that the population of the village is 5 million (roughly the population of the country) and that the area is ludicrously large. Cites a website that doesn't have info. Needs fixing, but I don't want to do it unilaterally. Aelfthrytha ( talk) 07:41, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Lots of stubs for Kyrgyz locations (cities, towns, villages) have been created recently. Unfortunately, basically none of them have Russian or Kyrgyz script versions of their names. Could someone or several someones (not me because I would muck it up) start chipping away at them? Aelfthrytha ( talk) 19:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
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Hello! I saw the article for the Anthem of the Kazakh SSR, and it needs translation to russian OR english. Could someone do that? Thanks. -- vonu sovef ( wha?) 20:16, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
Somebody had nominated this article as a WP:Good article and I put on hold tag on it. Can you please help us with it.-- Sa.vakilian( t- c) 03:40, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
What is the proper name for citizens of Uzbekistan? Are they Uzbek or Uzbekistani? —Preceding unsigned comment added by ProveIt ( talk • contribs) 16:36, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
As Otebig said, the correct term when speaking about the citizens of Uzbekistan is Uzbekistani, the term Uzbek refers to an ethnic group and includes citizens of other countries where Uzbeks live. The distinction dates back to the Soviet period when citizenship and ethnicity where two clearly defined concepts, both of which were indicated in the passport. This remains true today in Central Asia, however the distinction is progressively being lost, in particular when people speak or write in English... Sebastian Stride 22:47, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
For some reason when an article is labeled "Category class" with our project template, Template:WikiProject Central Asia, it is automatically added to Category:Unassessed Central Asia-related articles. Is there template coder in the house who can make them assessable? Aelfthrytha 19:07, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
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Hi guys. Central Asian cuisine is currently a stub that just lists the cuisines of individual countries - I'm sure that it could be built up into a good overview of general trends in the eating habits across the region. It's the sort of thing that's quite hard for an outsider to do, but probably quite easy for a 'local' - anyone fancy it? FlagSteward 17:44, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
This is just to announce that over the next few months, students from Barcelona University and Washington University (Saint Louis) will be improving and adding articles, which concern the History of Central Asia. For practical purposes we will be opening a new project page: WikiProject History and Archaeology of Central Asia, which will then either continue or merge with the existing Project Central Asia. I hope this is OK with everyone. Sebastian Stride 22:59, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
That sounds fine. I will include it as a subproject (if I sucessfully learn how to use the wiki tools!) Sebastian Stride 23:13, 8 October 2007 (UTC) 23:11, 8 October 2007 (UTC)
Anyone know what happened with this subproject? It looks like nothing has occurred with it? -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 21:04, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Would people be interested in some kind of collaboration/improvement drive? There are a lot of important articles out there which are currently just start or stub class. Some examples include: Islam in Central Asia, Music of Central Asia, Civil war in Tajikistan, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, Central Asian studies, Ablai Khan, Greater Khorasan, and Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Beyond those, I'm sure each of us know a few articles that we'd love to see grow. Could we do a collaboration once a month (or once a week)? What do people think? Otebig ( talk) 13:42, 25 November 2007 (UTC)
Seems we have a running problem standardizing adjectives for country nationals (Kazakh vs. Kazakhstani, etc.). This isn't good because: lack of clarity and conflicting / confusing category names. Is there any standard on wiki for this? Do people want to adopt a standard? If so, what procedure should we follow in doing that? Aelfthrytha ( talk) 04:56, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
A while ago, someone created several country specific work groups, which have mostly been dormant since then. Because there's a small but persistent number of editors interested in Mongolia, which tend to discuss general topics on each other's user talk pages, I've decided to try to bring the /Mongolia work group to an actual life. I'll invite the most obvious candidates individually, but any other interested parties are welcome to join us or at least put the page on their watchlist. -- Latebird ( talk) 05:54, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
Was any of the actual participants here consulted before User:John Carter unilaterally turned all of the work groups into self contained WikiProjects? As far as I can tell, at least the editors interested in Mongolia have no intention of operating a full blown WikiProject. We were very happy that we didn't have to deal with all the administrative overhead. Am I the only one who feels rather disturbed by such an change being installed over everybodies heads? -- Latebird ( talk) 19:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Central Asia does form a valid category to do research upon. Read any of the Turfan texts and try to cling to vocabulary from one language family! The same is true of history and to some degree of contemporary politics. Thus it is highly suitable to have a coordination platform for these matters, a project Central Asia. And as for the workgroup Mongolia, we're not that much people as to suitably constitute a project. Therefore the recent changes don't look suitable to me. G Purevdorj 22:02, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
Just poking my nose around more while learning about workgroups, from Wikipedia:WikiProject_Council/Proposals: "Creating a project: If your project gains support from 5-10 active Wikipedians, it could probably benefit from the organisation boost of having a proper page. Remove it from this list and follow the instructions for creating new projects. If you want to start a page before you have 5-10 active Wikipedians, consider setting up the page on a subpage of your user page until it is active, while leaving the posting here with a link to the user page. " Was also having thoughts regarding the mass-setup of WikiProjects or workgroups based upon modern country names. I'm not clear on the intent but it seems more like a categorization scheme overloading Mediawiki's current categorization features. Went looking for a WikiProject Hungary and found Wikipedia:Hungarian_Wikipedians'_notice_board instead. Also found Wikipedia:WikiProject_Europe/Hungary_task_force, which hasn't been used by the actual interested participants (from the notice board) in like 2 months. Noting this, I can figure that while it is true that the Mongolia workgroup folks run the risk of someone else creating a WikiProject Mongolia, people self-organize how they wish and the center of "all the action" depends upon the folks who participate. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 17:13, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
There is now a proposed variant form of the project banner. It can be seen at User:John Carter/Sandbox2. The results of its use can be seen on that page's talk page. As can be seen, the categories for it's use have already been set up. If the members of this project wish to use the new changed banner, all that would be required would be either cutting and pasting it in place of the extant banner or moving the page. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 21:38, 2 February 2008 (UTC)
The project banner got reverted back to the original one (not by me). I added usage notes to the page because they appeared to be missing and I think the majority of people here may not know what options there are. Now, what is wanted in the project banner? The one User:John Carter had made included a bunch of new assessment classes and portal options. Do the assessment guys here want to use those new classes or keep the ones currently in use? (Like FL, Cat, Dab, Template, etc.) Do we want portal options? There also seems to be some semi-useless options like needs-infobox or merge. Can we remove those? I think some of these things can be done without. The proposed banner from User:John Carter added in options for the related wikiprojects. Do we want those? My interest is in adding some project banner tagging for the Tuva task force to include a category or ratings specific to the task force. Do the Mongolia work group guys want something too? Check out the categories the current pb also adds articles to and discuss if they are appropriate. For example, the attention option adds articles to a non-existent category, but there is a single article already a member of that category. Please, everyone take a look at the usage notes I added and provide some input on what we think we need or not. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 01:09, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I've submitted a deletion request covering the following pages, because they are not actually used by anyone:
-- Latebird ( talk) 00:17, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
There is an extant policy of WP:OWN. The members of this project seem to have a view that they can violate that policy. As such, I believe that there is more than sufficient basis for proposing this project for deletion. Can anyone give me any good reason why it shouldn't be? John Carter ( talk) 15:09, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
If asking someone to cooperate with other people instead of acting unilaterally amounts to "ownership" of a complete project, then I'll plead guilty as charged without hesitation. If accusations of violating policy bear weight even when no specific infractions are demonstrated, then I'm happy to be a violator. If unused WikiProjects, or WikiProjects only used by one person and a bot, make sense, then I'm glad to be senseless. And if disagreeing with someone makes me clueless and inexperienced, well, learning new stuff and making new experiences has always been one of my favourite passtimes.
As to the other misrepresentations of my statements and intentions, most of those are just too ridiculous to refute them all individually. Unfortunately some people, especially in the failed MfD, actually seem to have bought into one or the other, pity for them. But to those who approached the raised questions with even the smallest amount of common sense, whether they agreed with me or not, thanks for trying to keep Wikipedia sane. -- Latebird ( talk) 12:36, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to see if there is interest here in creating a new workgroup for Tuva-related articles. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:59, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
I'll get the ball rolling more on this later... on maternity leave now... -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:48, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
User talk:Latebird has engaged in several unilateral decisions involving #REDIRECTS, setting up disambig pages that do not follow Wikipedia:Disambiguation on issues that he does not fully understand, from my point of view. In my opinion, he fails to understand that Uvs Nuur Basin is the larger area than Uvs Nuur (lake). He feels the watershed (the basin) is a subset of the lake. In reality, the basin is a well known endorheic basin. Further Ubsunur Hollow, not the same as the basin, is an area of important archaeological sites, and is not the same as the lake or the basin, although they are all in the same area. He continues to combine all articles into one. This would be fine if he allowed the original articles to remain for further growth, and set up a main pages with sub pages, if that is his desire. However, I am against the wiping out of the original articles, as well as the mixing up of information that is distinct into one article at his discretion only. This results in reducing of importance of such subjects as archaeological findings and geologically interesting information to one or two sentence items. Mattisse 02:42, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
I was looking over the talk page for History of Central Asia and noticed a few comments about the map. Hux said that, "the main problem with the map is that it's very misleading as-is: it implies that the Soviet definition comprised Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan and that the "common modern definition" comprises only Kazakhstan (and also that the UNESCO definition doesn't comprise any of those states)."
For the "common modern definition", I had the same thought as well. I've made this version of the map, which might not be quite so confusing. Would people be okay with changing this map for the current one? Or, could someone else make a better map? Otebig ( talk) 04:53, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
I've changed the maps on the pages that have one. Again, if anyone else can improve upon it, please do. Otebig ( talk) 03:46, 10 February 2008 (UTC)
I wrote an article on the current energy crisis in Central Asia, 2008 Central Asia energy crisis, which seems to be increasing in international media. Please contribute if you can. Rigadoun (talk) 21:10, 9 February 2008 (UTC)
Is there any way to get help with this? Or is it true that a non Russian speaking person cannot work on these articles, as fluently in Russian is required? If that is true, please let me know and I will stop trying to work on these articles. Regards, Mattisse 20:37, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
I've been looking into this after reading the conversations above and since we're talking about a number of articles I think it would make sense to reach consensus here, rather than deal with five conversations on five different talk pages. So basically, as far as I can tell, the following articles are relevant to this discussion (descriptions reflect the articles as they currently stand and are not meant to imply what they should be about):
- Uvs Nuur (disambiguation): Disambig page, obviously.
- Uvs Nuur: Article about the lake called "Uvs Nuur", its geography, ecology, etc. Also has sections about the larger Uvs Nur Basin and the UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the area.
- Uvs Nuur Basin: Article about the larger geographical area of the lake's basin. Currently only a two sentence stub.
- Ubsunur Hollow: Article about the geographical hollow that is essentially coterminous with Uvs Nuur Basin, but is part of a larger area of mountainous depressions. Discusses the geography, ecology, and archeology of the area, as well as mentioning its human habitation.
- Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve: Ostensibly about a specific ecological reserve, but is almost identical to the Ubusnur Hollow article.
Now, while geographically there is a clear difference between a lake, a basin, and a hollow, that in itself does not mean that we must have three distinct articles. Article size is relevant here: there's no need to have a separate article for [topic A] if there is almost no information for it and it already fits within the scope of [related topic B]. (With geographical articles this is even more relevant when multiple topics are largely coterminous.) Should [topic A] expand too much within the article for [related topic B] then at that point it should be spun off to a new article. This is a normal part of the Wikipedia process, as I'm sure we can all agree.
So, based on the above, and what's currently in the existing articles, here's what I propose:
- Uvs Nuur (disambiguation): Remove links that point to non-existing articles (they can be added if/when the articles are created), otherwise leave unchanged.
- Uvs Nuur: Keep in a similar state to current article, i.e. discuss the lake and the flora, fauna, geography, etc., specific to it. Briefly discuss the larger area of the basin and link to that article.
- Uvs Nuur Basin: Keep. Expand to include more info about the basin and add info about the hollow, the biosphere reserve, the UNESCO sites, etc. Briefly mention the lake and link to that article.
- Ubsunur Hollow: Delete and merge relevant info into the Uvs Nuur Basin article since much of the info currently in this article is also relevant to that one. Also, there is already a precedent for having a basin article talk about such geographical features within it (e.g. Amazon Basin).
- Ubsunur Hollow Biosphere Reserve: Delete and merge relevant info into the Uvs Nuur Basin article for the same reason.
Basically, my rationale is that the Uvs Nuur Basin article should function as the "parent" article for topics related to the lake and the geographical region in general. There is enough information about the lake itself, as distinct from the basin, to justify having its own article, but at this point there is not enough to justify having separate articles for the hollow and the biosphere reserve, especially when much of the information in the Ubusnur Hollow article applies to the basin as well. At some point in the future, however, things might change (e.g. we might have a lot more info about the UNESCO sites in the area) and at that point we should spin topics off to new articles and reduce the corresponding content in Uvs Nuur Basin.
Thoughts? - Hux ( talk) 02:47, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
Bogomolov.PL ( talk) 09:09, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
Very cool relief map! Some suggestions: For the purposes of Wikipedia, you are the author of this map, not the NASA. This also means that you can decide on your own license (or PD) and PD-USGov doesn't apply (that applies only to the underlying data, but not to what you create from them). The "no commercial use" should also go, as it conflicts both with WP policy and PD-USGov. From a visual point of view, I'd try to shift the color scale a little, so that the bottom of the basin gets a slightly greener tint. That would make the lakes stand out more clearly. -- Latebird ( talk) 06:07, 22 February 2008 (UTC)
Some sweeping changes have been suggested to the content of the History of Xinjiang. Please see Talk:History_of_Xinjiang#Sweeping_changes. An editor has proposed replacing it with the History of Xinjiang/Sandbox. You feedback would be appreciated. Mkdw talk 10:37, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
I'm wondering about WikiProject Tajikistan. When this project was first proposed in November 2006, several editors responded that they felt there wasn't enough interest or it should be a workgroup of this project, and the conversation seemed to stop there. Then in June 2007 it was created by Ibrahimjon, an editor from Tajikistan. As of now it has three members, basically no discussion, and little to no activity as far as I can tell. In the meantime, banners for the project sit cluttering up discussion pages (most of which also have a WikiProject Central Asia banner on them as well). I think it should be merged into this project (like the Uyghurs of Western China project was). I just discussed this with Chris, who is probably the most (if not only) active editor with WikiProject Tajikistan, and he said he'd support a merge.
Considering the intense discussion over the workgroups/projects last month, I want to tread lightly and discuss this before anything is done. How would others feel about such a merge? Otebig ( talk) 06:18, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
FYI: All the Tuva-related articles I could find are grouped now under Category:Tuva task force. -- Stacey Doljack Borsody ( talk) 18:45, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
Folks, an extremely uncooperative editor (see his talk page) automatically reverts any changes he sees to about a dozen Kazakhstan articles he believes are his property, and his English is horrid. If any of you are admins, (or if you can explain to him in Kazakh why his actions are unWikilike), can something be done? I notice on his talkpage that several have had the same problems I am having now at Coat of arms of Kazakhstan. Would you folks please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/BernardTom before it becomes a horrid mess? All are welcome to edit Wikipedia, sure, but he doesn't see what he is doing to these articles. Please help. Chris (クリス • フィッチ) ( talk) 04:47, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
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Hi, I'm new to this group, but I was interested in jumping right in and working on Turkmenistan-related articles, particularly on Turkmen culture, as I wrote a fairly extensive training manual on this subject while in the Peace Corps. However, it seems that the Project: Turkmenistan page is completely dead, and was nominated for deletion. I know that even with the new Internet cafes, Internet access is almost impossible from within Turkmenistan -- are there any expats from Turkmenistan, or others familiar with the country, who are active on this group? I don't really feel comfortable making major additions, let alone initiating articles, without the help of someone from the area. Also, finding appropriate sources could be exceedingly difficult. There is almost no published information on contemporary Turkmen culture (or contemporary Turkmen ANYTHING) other than that put out by the Turkmen government, and frankly I would not feel right citing the Ruhnama as the basis of a factual article for Wikipedia. On the other hand, the few articles in the Western press often contain blatantly wrong information. What exactly are the citation/sourcing standards for cultural information, and what is the cutoff between common sense/self-evident information and O.R. in this case? I can envision two extremes here. If I say palow is Turkmenistan's national dish and is extremely popular there, there are plenty of external sources I can find documenting this, in addition to my own experience of being fed palow at every Turkmen home I ever visited. I can also say with 100% certainty that running water is available for fewer than 24 hours a week in Turkmenbashy city, but this would be O.R. as I doubt you could find this published anywhere (other than perhaps the blogs of Peace Corps volunteers). But what kind of support would I need to write, say, about Turkmen koyneks (traditional women's dresses, worn by most women outside of cities and required for official/government functions)? If someone could point me to some guidance on this issue, I may try my hand at a few gentle expansions/edits. I will also check out the Turkmen wikipedia to see what kinds of sources they have going over there -- though my written Turkmen has never been more than rudimentary (especially the faux-"literary" language used in newspapers). Anyone interested in working with me on this? Also, incidentally, I'm moving back to Central Asia (to Kyrgyzstan) next week. Most of my friends there are Turkmen students at AUCA, so if anyone needs help with photos, source materials, or whatever, let me know. I'd love to see Wikipedia's coverage of post-Soviet Central Asia dramatically improved, and I'm happy to help with historical subjects too if for whatever something you need is only available in Bishkek. Stuffisthings ( talk) 04:58, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
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Hello everyone! Currently a bot is being prepared to go on to create nearly 2 million articles of villages/cities/towns from all around the world. Afghanistan, being the first country on the list is the first to get that honour and after some tweaking it will go right ahead. A number of other Asian countries will then follow, which will then move on to African countries. However there currently is a dicussion going on at [5] and there are many opinions being held by a number of people. As you guys are going to be one of the first affected, it makes sense that anyone who has an oppinion about the creation of these articles to give an oppinion there. There has been 100 articles created as a trial run for places in Afghanistan and if you are interested to look at those they can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places/afghanistan/page1. Further information can be found here: Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Places, User talk:Fritzpoll and of course the village pump link I gave initially. Thanks for your attention. Kind regards! Calaka ( talk) 01:43, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
Not sure where to list new articles for this project, so I'll mention it here. APK yada yada 21:00, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
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I am currently in Kyrgyzstan. I have a camera, and I am very willing to take pictures of anything and everything that is missing from wiki. However, the is very underpopulated compared to the amount of . Could someone please tag the talkpages of stub articles of places that need pictures with {{ reqphotoin}}? I'd do it myself but the internet and computers here aren't going to help that happen. Aelfthrytha ( talk) 10:07, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
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I've made an SVG map of Central Asia. Please let me know if you have any comments or requests for changes. Thanks. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 17:56, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
This map problems listed are mostly coming from the source CIA map (outdated: Garabogazköl is dry, Aral Sea is large) and its projection. Usually in Wiki we are creating maps in Mercator projection, so no need show North arrow. A good idea can be using of the Google Map screenshot (or Yahoo Map where at the satellite image Caspian and Aral seas have more actual shape) for boundaries and lakes vectorising, but Aral Sea shape and Uzbekistan/Kazakhstan boundary we need redraw from the respective Wiki articles. Bogomolov.PL ( talk) 17:35, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
Oh! Sorry, I'm not sure how I did that. Thanks everyone for pointing it out. It should be fixed now. I've also removed the border line along the south coast of the Aral Sea. - TheMightyQuill ( talk) 16:57, 4 November 2008 (UTC)
Using Yahoo Maps and/or GoogleMaps is questionable, since they aren't free content. This has been discussed at Wikiproject maps, and even tracing copyright maps isn't really acceptable. Large vs small body of water is relative, isn't it? Compared to the Caspian Sea, the Garabogazkol is small. At any rate, it's now included, I can make it bigger if it has grown, and trace from this free NASA satellite image, but it won't be easy, and may take some time. Same for the Aral Sea. It's hard to match an image to a map, especially when the most noticeable landmarks (lakes/seas) have changed. I'll do my best. Thanks, TheMightyQuill ( talk) 00:46, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Two major things still need to be done on your map: (a) draw in Garabogazkol; (b) update the shape of the Aral Sea. You have done a great job correcting the Taj-Uzb-Kyr borders in the Fergana Valley, so why not use the same rough-and-ready approach to fix the two remaining items? Your map is anyhow not more than a rough sketch, so I would not strive for cartographic precision -- or you will never finish what you have set out to do. For the Aral Sea you have a great recent photograph (here on the talk page and in the Aral Sea article); use it to update (roughly) the shape of the sea. For Garabogazkol take any old map of the Caspian Sea (from before the dam was built) or any recent satellite photograph and draw it in (again roughly). The result will not be cartographically perfect, but it will probably be better than what you have now. Try it. Show us the next draft of your map. Good luck. -- Zlerman ( talk) 05:59, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
Lake Charvak is an artificial lake in Tashkent Oblast, Uzbekistan. It is covered by the article Lake Tcharvak, which uses the French transliteration Tcharvak instead of the conventional and more common English transliteration Charvak. The reason is historical: the article was created in April 2008 around a great photo of the lake, which came from a French source and accordingly referred to the lake as Tcharvak (Lac Tcharvak.jpg). Of course Lake Charvak redirects to Lake Tcharvak, but I still find the principal name awkward and possibly against Wikipedia naming conventions. My suggestion: move the content of Lake Tcharvak in its entirety to Lake Charvak and create a redirect from Lake Tcharvak to Lake Charvak. Is this acceptable? Please discuss below. -- Zlerman ( talk) 03:55, 12 November 2008 (UTC)
Could someone take a look at Iradan? It claims that the population of the village is 5 million (roughly the population of the country) and that the area is ludicrously large. Cites a website that doesn't have info. Needs fixing, but I don't want to do it unilaterally. Aelfthrytha ( talk) 07:41, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
Lots of stubs for Kyrgyz locations (cities, towns, villages) have been created recently. Unfortunately, basically none of them have Russian or Kyrgyz script versions of their names. Could someone or several someones (not me because I would muck it up) start chipping away at them? Aelfthrytha ( talk) 19:42, 18 December 2008 (UTC)