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Wikiproject Dacia
A group of Wikipedians have formed this project to better organize and improve the quality and accuracy in the articles related to ancient Dacia and primarily to the history of Dacians, Getae and Moesi.
This project and its subpages contain the suggestions of the participating Wikipedians and it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of others. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and review the Tasks below.
For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProjects and Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.
Goals and Scope
Scope
The scope of the project includes the following elements:
- The time span: 1500 BC - 600 AD, with the core focus on the Classical times. This doesn't imply any support for Daco-Romanian continuity nor it denies it. It also doesn't imply that Dacians, Getae or Moesi appeared exactly in 1500 BC or disappeared in 600 AD. It simply provides a common sense time frame within which most known and reliable academic references to the mentioned people and space were made. References outside this time frame are scarce to non-existent.
- The space: The sum of Dacia (at Burebista's time) plus Moesia and Scythia Minor (after Roman conquest) where Dacians, Getae and Moesi where known to live, without implying a continuum or uniformity or that they are necessarily identical people. While closely related, Thrace is considered relatively distinct, at least linguistically. The related articles about Thrace, especially around the common culture, religion, warfare, are usually marked with low importance but not zero importance, and without implying that Dacians are Thracians or the other way around.
- The people: As Dacia was named after Daci, the Dacians are at the core focus, but others who lived in the same space, in various periods within the time span in scope, including Celts, Romans, Greeks, Germanic people, Sarmatians, Scythians, Illyrians, Thracians and others not mentioned here, are by no means excluded. Articles related to their contribution and interaction with Dacians, Getae and Moesi are very welcomed and encouraged.
- The culture: The core focus is the Paleo-Balkan culture, where religion, language, warfare, art had more or less enough commonality across the ancients in the space and time span defined in the scope. The other different cultures that existed or later migrated in the space are not excluded or their importance is not minimized in any way, but are not the core focus. There also are other specialized projects that focus on those cultures.
- The name: The name choice for the project doesn't imply that all the space or territory defined in the scope was only or entirely Dacian. It was chosen for simplicity and since it has more resonance than other possible choices.
Your input on greater clarification on the scope is greatly appreciated, if you wish to comment make a new section on our Talk page
Goals
We at WikiProject on Dacia work together to reach the following goals:
- Make the little known but important Dacian history available to the world.
- Increase the exposure and quality of Dacia related articles on Wikipedia.
- Improve every article in the category Dacia stubs.
- Ensure that every Dacia related article on Wikipedia is well written, comprehensive, factually accurate, appropriately referenced, neutral, and stable.
- Support other WikiProjects, groups, and editors, who are striving to achieve the same goals.
- Make resistance cars.
Tasks
Important/High Priority
- Working Help Roman Dacia get WP:GOOD again, now that the plagiarisms were cleaned up
- Working List of Dacian tribes - needs expansion and articles for every tribe, references
- Check the article alerts and help with the resolution
- Check the articles that need attention and help with the issues.
Specific/Articles
- Help National Museum of the Union (draft) get WP:DYK by adding 5x content
- Help Helmet of Iron Gates (draft) get WP:DYK
- Help Dacian Draco get WP:GOOD
- Help Helmet of Coţofeneşti get WP:GOOD
- Help Ziridava get WP:GOOD
- Help Capidava get WP:GOOD
- List of Dacian towns - needs expansion and articles for each city/dava (use Amutria and Argidava as examples, also Dacian town template to jump start the creation of the new article in a consistent manner)
- List of Dacian kings - needs related articles for every king, references
- Argidava - expansion
- Dacian Draco - needs expansion and better/more media/images
- Duras (Dacian king) - needs to be wikified, more content, references
- Limanu - need to have more references on the "Titan's cave" and some explanation about the Ciris(Keiris/Ceiris).
- Prehistory of Transylvania, someone wrote it like a long essay with no inline citations, it needs a major cleanup
- Create the Portal:Dacia. See related projects section for examples.
- Implement ability to minimize/hide boxes/sections on the main project page (here!)
- Create Awards for WikiProject Dacia - Suggestion: could name contribution levels with comati, pileati, tarabostes.
General/Ongoing
- Assess all articles tagged for this project that have not been assessed for quality
- Review new articles. This is a bot generated list of newly created articles which may be of interest to the project. You can help by ensuring they are correctly categorized and tagged with {{WikiProject Dacia}} where appropriate.
- Check the articles with todo lists or which maybe need images or maps, and help with some of the items.
- Disambiguate project articles and get points
- Request an article or Create a missing article
- Add more rules for locating new articles at User:AlexNewArtBot/Dacia. See AlexNewArtBot for help.
- Contribute photos of archaeological objects and sites, maps and other useful media. Organize Dacia related images on Commons. See Commons:WikiProject Dacia, its media-related tasks and Dacia and Dacians gallery
- Bring consistency in the use and connection of Dacians, Getae and Thracians. Some articles clearly state connections while others question it.
- Please submit your suggestions and blessing for the categories to be used by bots
- Translate Dacia-related articles from the Romanian Wikipedia
- Translate and keep in sync with the Romanian version: WikiProiectul Dacia
- Identify other useful bots
Completed
- Done Created Commons:WikiProject Dacia, a new sister project focused on gathering and organizing media related on Dacia (join and support).
- Done Help salvage Roman Dacia article. Please take a look at Talk:Roman Dacia#Copyright violations / plagiarism for the issues.
- Done Help Dacian Draco get WP:DYK - Made it on April 7, 2011. See article views
- Done Moved religion, occupations, culture, language from Dacia to Dacians.
- Done Translate Dacia template from Romanian Wikipedia
- Done Merge or figure out Category:Dacian gods and Category:Dacian deities
Featured Pages
Recognized content
For a full list, visit the Recognized content page.
Featured articles
A-Class articles
Good articles
Did you know (DYK)s
- Dacian Draco - 8 April 2011 (article views)
- Celts in Transylvania - 26 April 2011 (article views)
- Dacian bracelets - 12 August 2011 (article views)
- Dromichaetes - 14 September 2011 (article views)
Drafts
New Articles/Under works
Below is a list of newly created articles or articles under serious work. Feel free to add yours and ask for help.
- Dacian language
- Costoboci
- Carpi (people)
- Amutria
- Capidava
- Ziridava
- Helmet of Coţofeneşti
- List of historical monuments in Romania
Drafts
Below is a list of articles not ready for prime time, which are kept in the project space. Some of them were already removed due to lack of notability or content. You can help expand them and bring them (back) to the main space. To avoid speedy deletion of new/incomplete articles or to try to reach WP:DYK with some articles, it is advised to create the articles first as subpages of Drafts or in your user space.
Pages with the prefix 'WikiProject_Dacia/Drafts' in the 'Wikipedia' and 'Wikipedia talk' namespaces:
WikiProject_Dacia/Drafts |
WikiProject_Dacia/Drafts |
Guidelines
- For citations/references try to use {{cite book}} (and its other flavors) and {{sfn}} templates in your article(s), for consistency. See also Wikipedia:Citing sources/Example edits for different methods. An example article is Amutria.
- Use this Dacia bibliography. Please feel free to add your own references and bibliography, alphabetically.
- Dacian town template - use this template to jump start the creation of a new Dacian town article
Collaboration
Please help with our current collaboration on this subject: Dacian language
Since there are many possibilities and theories around Dacians and their language, we are proposing to all involved to use their creativity, knowledge and energy in creating separate articles for different language affinities.
It is suggested to avoid changing the main Dacian language article, the origins of Dacian tribes, the maps of Dacia and the Wikipedia language tree without prompting conversations on corresponding talk pages and thoroughly verifying sources. Please pay attention to not introduce original research and to keep a neutral point of view, per Wikipedia policies and guidelines.
As an alternative, it is suggested that you expand or create these articles, using as much academic evidence you can gather:
- Daco-Romanian, with related articles
- Daco-Moesian
- Moesi, Moesia
- Dacia Aureliana
- See Sorin Olteanu's Thraco-Daco-Moesian Languages Project (TDML)
- Daco-Thracian
- Thracian language
- Thraco-Roman
- Aromanians
- Megleno-Romanians
- See Sorin Olteanu's Thraco-Daco-Moesian Languages Project (TDML)
- Daco-Illyrian
- Dacian-Albanian connection - the theory about Albanians as Dacian migrations
- Dacian-Sarmatian connection
- Dacian-Schythian connection
- Dacian-Greek connection
- See Sorin Olteanu's Thraco-Daco-Moesian Languages Project (TDML)
- Dacian-Baltic connection - the theory about Dacians migrating to the Baltic
- Dacian-Slavic connection
- Dacian-Bactrian connection
- Dacian-Latin connection - the controversial theory about Latin descending from Dacian
- some of the above articles apply as well
- Napoleon Săvescu - very controversial, now merged into Protochronism
- Dacian script - controversial theories
- Limes Dacicus - the Roman defensive system from Dacia
Once these separate articles went through scrutiny and review, please propose the addition of links or sections about the various theories into the main articles, and/or prompt collaborative discussion for changes to important maps.
Thanks for your support!
Members
Current Active Members List
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Emeriti Members
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This list includes members of the project who have not edited for at least one year; it is manually updated on a periodic basis. If your name has been moved here, please feel free to move it back to the Members list upon your return.
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Templates
- Use this template at the TOP of an article's Talk page where the article relates to Dacia or Geto-Dacians. It is designed to help organize the articles and to direct people here. See the template's talk page for instructions on organizational usage.
- {{Dacia topics}}
- Put this template at the BOTTOM of significant articles, related to Dacia. For an example see Burebista.
- {{Dacia series}}
- Add this to first section of the Top, High and Mid (select few) importance articles related to Dacia
- {{Dacian cities}}
- Put this template at the BOTTOM of articles about Dacian settlements, towns, cities and fortresses. For an example see Argidava.
- {{Infobox dava}}
- For Dacian fortified cities. See Argedava
- {{Infobox castrum}}
- For Roman castra in Dacia and not only. See Porolissum
- {{Dacia-stub}}
- For Dacia-related stub articles. See Rubobostes
- If you think someone you collaborate with might have an interest in this project, put this on his/her talk page.
- WikiProject Dacia userbox for members. Looks like this:
This user participates in WikiProject Dacia |
Assessment
For more information on article assessments, or to make assessment requests, refer to the Assessment page.
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Categories
Relevant categories for the project (see project Goals and Scope above):
Note: These categories are not used by bots. Those are here and are manually picked, since many category trees do not fully apply.
Fully applicable
Partially applicable
Related Projects
Sister projects
- Dacia (in Romanian) (join)
- Commons:WikiProject Dacia (join)
Related projects
- History (parent)
- Ancient Germanic studies
- Archaeology
- Bulgaria
- Celts
- Classical Greece and Rome
- Eastern Europe
- European History
- Greece
- Historic Sites
- Illyria
- Republic of Macedonia
- Military History
- Moldova
- Museums
- Mythology
- Romania
- Serbia
- Ukraine
- Commons:WikiProject Romania
Portals
External
- Dacia and Dacians - Gallery on Commons
- Dacia and Dacians on Flickr
- Photos tagged with "dacians" at Flickr
- Photos tagged with "ancientdacia" at Flickr
- Wiki Loves Monuments Romania
Related Templates and Userboxes
Categories for users interested in Dacia:
Templates by User:Bine Mai:
This user is very interested in Ancient Dacia |
{{User:Bine Mai/Dacia Kingdom}}
This user believes that Decebalus was the greatest king that Romania ever had. |
This user looks up to Burebista as the best example of a good leader. |
Bots
- AlexNewArtBot (Rules · Log · Search Result · Archive · Docs) - Finds new articles based on defined rules
- Xenobot Mk V (Request for Dacia · Categories · Docs) - Tags talk pages based on defined categories
- WP 1.0 bot (Run · List Articles · Tools · Docs · Tools Docs) - Builds lists and indexes for article assessment
- AAlertBot (Alerts · Docs) - Delivers article alert reports
- Chris G Bot 2 (Run · Docs) - A rewrite of PockBot, which assesses articles within a given category
External links
- Update project data for Dacia NOW, using WP 1.0 bot
- Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Dacia
- Dacia articles found with Cat Scan
- Dacia articles found with Cat Scan (Romanian Wikipedia)
- List of Orphaned article that fall within the Project's scope (Can be modified to include other maintenance categories)