Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/Incubator/Ongoing conflicts

Welcome to the Ongoing conflicts group, an initiative of the Military history WikiProject.

Purpose & scope

This group is dedicated to improving and organizing Wikipedia's coverage of ongoing armed conflicts. This can be done through gathering all the articles, useful sources and editors in one place in order to achieve efficiency and high quality content.

Participants

• GreyShark (dibra) 17:08, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
• Nykterinos (talk) 21:26, 18 February 2015 (UTC)
• Fitzcarmalan (talk) 09:21, 21 February 2015 (UTC)
• XavierGreen (talk) 23:53, 13 May 2015 (UTC)
• Wykx (talk) 18:09, 17 December 2015 (UTC)
• Bolter21 (talk to me) 22:27, 20 December 2015 (UTC)
• Skycycle (talk) 21:08, 31 March 2016 (UTC)
• CPA-5 (talk) 22:20, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Former participants

• Absoluteharamvodka (talk) 21:05, 17 February 2015 (UTC) (I'm actually AbsolutelyHaram I've just misplaced that accounts password somehow)
• Hanibal911 (talk) 20:27, 23 February 2015 (UTC)

Open tasks

Worklist

Article	Grade	Editor(s) currently working	Notes
Kivu Conflict	C	absoluteharamvodka	Stub sections about conflict minerals and sexual violence need to be expanded, sections explaining each phase in the conflict need to be written
Insurgency in Northeast India	Start		Needs vast updates in its timeline and copy writing.
Naxalite–Maoist insurgency	Start		Needs vast updates in its timeline and copy writing.
Timeline of the Yemeni Crisis (2011–present)	Stub		Update and maintenance.
Oromo Liberation Front	B		Check up for good article review.
Internal conflict in Bangladesh	Start		Newly created, needs tons of work.
List of heritage sites damaged during the Syrian Civil War	List		Outdated and needs refs.
Battle of Kernaz	Start		Worst article regarding a battle of the Syrian Civil War.
Sinai insurgency	C	Fitzcarmalan	Major plan underway to convert the article's casualties list into table format with prose on User:Fitzcarmalan/Timeline of the Sinai insurgency so it can later be moved to the Wikipedia mainspace. Any help would be appreciated.
Boko Haram insurgency	Start		Requires significant expansion and updates.
Allied Democratic Forces insurgency	Start		Needs vast updates in its timeline
2017 Qatif unrest	Start		Needs to be checked.
Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)	B		Needs to be updated and check up for good article review.
Arab separatism in Khuzestan	Start		Needs to be checked for disputed claims.
Qatif conflict	Start		References needs to be checked, the main page too and also expanded the human rights section.
Israeli–Palestinian conflict	C		Needs a B-review and needs a check up in multiple issues.
Kurdish separatism in Iran	Start		Needs a check up.
Western Iran clashes (2016–present)	Start		Needs to be checked for disputed claims

Low level conflict watch list

Less than 100 deaths cumulative

• ISIL insurgency in Saudi Arabia - at least 70-90 killed from the 2014 al-Dalwah attack until June 2017.
• EPP insurgency - 67-84 killed as of April 2017.
• Leftist insurgency in Greece - 59 total casualties 2 casualties in 2013, zero casualties since.
• Maoist insurgency in Turkey - 50 killed between 2000 and September 2017.
• DHKP/C insurgency in Turkey - 39 killed as of August 2017.
• Salafist insurgency in Indonesia and Operation Tinombala - 32 killed as of August 2017.
• Shia insurgency in Bahrain - 20 killed as of June 2018.
• ISIL insurgency in Gaza - 1 dead in August 2017 [6].
• Kumanovo clashes - low intensity; 18+ casualties in 2015, zero casualties since.
• Insurgency in Northern Chad - low to mid intensity, no data on casualties
• Western Togoland Rebellion - 6 civilian killed in 2020.

No recent casualties

• Korean conflict - no casualties in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
• Chiapas conflict - low intensity; no casualties in 2015-16.
• Katanga insurgency - low intensity; unknown casualties in 2015.
• Mapuche conflict - low intensity; no casualties in 2015, 1 casualty in 2016 and [7], 1 casualty in 2017.
• Tajikistan insurgency - low intensity; 47 casualties in 2015, zero casualties since.[8] [9]
• Insurgency in Laos - low intensity; sporadic attacks continue. [10].
• FRUD conflict - low intensity; 12 casualties in 2014, no casualties in 2015.
• Western Sahara conflict low intensity; unknown casualties in 2015 and 2016.
• Kabylie Conflict - low intensity, with casualties in 2014 and 2015 in Algeria.
• Abkhaz–Georgian conflict - 24,924-37,179+ total casualties unknown casualties in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• Georgian–Ossetian conflict - 1,329-2,099+ total casualties unknown casualties in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• Fatah–Hamas conflict - 600+ total casualties, unknown casualties in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
• Insurgency in Nepal - 298 total casualties unknown casualties in 2015, 2016 and 2017.

Inclusion criteria issue

• Moro conflict in Sabah - not clear whether it is an organized insurgency or a collection of crime incidents.
• 2016 Kananga clashes - massive casualties from August 2016, but unclear scope with 107 fatalities including 7 from Central government
• Clash with the king of Rwenzururu in Uganda: at least 55 casualties in November 2016 and 50 between February and March but no secondary source found for this secondary figures.
• 2017 Venezuelan protests - 163 fatalities, initial signs of an armed insurgency (Caracas helicopter incident,El Junquito raid,Attempted assassination of Nicolás Maduro)
• 2017–18 Iranian protests - 20+ killed, but still no organized armed uprising

References

Other tasks

• Maps and photos are needed for countless of articles.
  • Detalied map for Central African Republic Civil War (2012-present)
  • Detalied map for War in Afghanistan (2015–present)
  • Detalied map for Colombian conflict
  • Detalied map for Internal conflict in Myanmar
  • Detalied map for War in North-West Pakistan
  • Detalied map for South Sudanese Civil War
  • Update the map of War in Somalia (2009–present)
  • Better/more consistant map for Northern Mali conflict
  • Better/more consistant map for Insurgency in the Maghreb (2002-present)

Resources

• ACLED Multipurpose
• Global Security Multipurpose
• Global Terrorism Database Multipurpose
• ISN Multipurpose
• Jamestown Foundation Multipurpose
• Janes Multipurpose
• MAR Multipurpose
• Mapping Militant Organizations Multipurpose
• RAND Multipurpose
• UNPO Multipurpose
• Wikileaks Multipurpose
• Journal de Bangui Central African Republic (in French)
• Caucasian Knot Caucasus (Russia)
• Radio Okapi Democratic Republic of Congo (in French)
• L'Observateur Democratic Republic of Congo (in French)
• Tehelka India
• Assam Tribune India
• SATP South Asia
• Sudan Tribune Sudan,Eritrea and South Sudan
• Peruvian Times Peru
• Davao Today Philippines
• Bangkok Post Thailand
• Patani Post Thailand
• Yemen Times Yemen
• DefenceWeb daily news from (mostly Southern) Africa

Tools

• Reflinks Fills in bare references
• Citegen Generates a reference from the page you are browsing
• Hotcat Manages categories