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WikiProject Maldives

WikiProject Maldives
Shortcut	WP:RAJJE, WP:MDV, WP:MALDIVES
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Maldives}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Maldives}}
Has goals?	Yes

Welcome to WikiProject Maldives on the English Wikipedia!. Some Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Maldives and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below. Main Page deployment

_{This project is in development.}

Goals

• To create, improve, and maintain articles relating to the Maldives.

Scope

• The scope of this project is all articles relating to the Maldives, including its geography, history, people, culture, and the like. All these articles should be contained in the Category:Maldives or one of its subcategories.

Guidelines

Open tasks

2011 WIDE SCALE CLEANUP

Most of the Maldives related articles are very very outdated. Join me in cleaning up and updating all the Maldives articles. - ziansh | talk 10:35, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

• New infobox for islands and atolls at {{Infobox Maldives}}

Please help us out in any way you can to make this WikiProject more active. Thanks.

TO DO LIST

Here

Requested Articles

• Kani, Kaafu Atoll Near the capital of Malè - A Club Med is located there.

Members

Active members

To join WikiProject Maldives, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

1. Ahmedshawwaf (talk · contribs)
2. Xoocit (talk · contribs)
3. unitsdone (talk · contribs)
4. CRC43 (talk · contribs)
5. Glacious (talk · contribs)
6. Hindustanilanguage (talk · contribs)
7. John Carter (talk · contribs)
8. Mikhailov Kusserow (talk · contribs)
9. N3m6 (talk · contribs)
10. wiki.jamesjihan (talk · contribs)
11. Ushau97 (talk · contribs)
12. Ziansh (talk · contribs)
13. 5061RR (talk · contribs)
14. Mausoom Mohamed (talk · contribs)
15. Abdulla Rasheed (talk · contribs)
16. dhibip (talk · contribs)
17. Dhidhdhoomv (talk · contribs)
18. Brucelynn2 (talk · contribs)
19. Cyber Warrior (talk · contribs)
20. RAAISn (talk · contribs)
21. Mohamed Naufan Ali Nifaz (talk · contribs)
22. Dhoru 21 (talk · contribs)

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. Inactive since May 2012: Fizan (talk · contribs)
2. Inactive since Feb 2012: ibn zareena (talk · contribs)
3. Inactive since Nov 2011: Nizam Ibrahim (talk · contribs)
4. Inactive since Apr 2012: Oblivious (talk · contribs)
5. Inactive since Dec 2006: Vasvaas (talk · contribs)
6. Inactive since Feb 2010: Werlox (talk · contribs)
7. Inactive since May 2008: Xumm1du (talk · contribs)

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Maldives should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Maldives members.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Maldives members]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Maldives}}	This user is a proud member of WikiProject Maldives.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Maldives}}	This user is a member of WikiProject Maldives.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Maldives|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Maldives.	linked pages

For other Maldives user templates, see Category:Maldives user templates.

Articles

Featured content

Candidates

New articles

Please feel free to list your new Maldives-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• 2007 Maldives mosque standoff MatthewVanitas (talk) 11:51, 18 June 2010 (UTC)
• Created Category:Maldivian musical instruments, and also two new articles for it: Bodu beru (drum), Onugadu. MatthewVanitas (talk) 16:19, 16 January 2011 (UTC)
• Added foods: Mas huni, Mas riha, Miruhulee boava. MatthewVanitas (talk) 17:03, 16 January 2011 (UTC)

Review and assessment

Peer review

Assessment

Recognized content

Maldives articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA				1			1
GA			1	1			2
B	2	2	6	7			17
C	6	4	8	32		1	51
Start	10	18	27	206		102	363
Stub		8	28	370	218	312	936
List		4	4	66		4	78
NA			2	5	845		852
Assessed	18	36	76	688	1,063	419	2,300
Unassessed						1	1
Total	18	36	76	688	1,063	420	2,301
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,690			Ω = 5.61

Featured content

Good articles

DYKs (Did You Know)s

• ... that Indo-Maldivian relations grew stronger after India responded to Maldives' request for help and thwarted a militant plot to overthrow the government in 1988?
• ... that after being shipwrecked on Malé Atoll in 1973, Tony Hussein Hinde pioneered surfing in the Maldives, which was previously unknown in the country?

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• Maldives

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Former good articles

Templates

• {{WikiProject Maldives}} - The project banner to be placed on the talk pages of all articles relevant to this project.

Barnstar

Anyone can award a barnstar! You don't need to be an admin, and neither the giver nor the recipient needs to be from the country. So if you see someone helping this Wikiproject, place the following on their wall:

Image	What to type	Country
	{{subst:The Maldives Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}	Maldives BarnstarMaldives

Categories

• Category:Maldives

Resources

• New Infobox (2010) to apply to islands of Maldives:-
  • Template: Infobox Maldives

Related projects

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.