[edit] Goals

• Maintain information on Palestine including history, culture, geography and contemporary political, socio-economic and ideological contexts.
• Improve Palestine-related articles by expansion, verification and copyediting. Be thorough and watch for POV in particularly controversial articles.
• Broadening the knowledge base Palestine-related subject.
• Increase cooperation among Project members for full effectiveness in writing quality articles.
• Create templates, navigation boxes, infoboxes, categories and maps to improve the quality of articles and to establish easy-access resources. Also to keep articles consistent in structure and linking articles to other Palestine-related articles.

[edit] Scope

History: A record of Palestine's history from before the Canaanites to the current Israeli-Palestinian conflict encompassing wars, events (old and current), rulers (tribes, dynasties, empires, kingdoms and republics), historical figures and documents such as treaties, cessations and other agreements.

Geography: Encompasses regions, governorates, cities, towns and villages (former and current), natural geography such as mountains, seas and lakes, environment, natural resources, etc.

People: Biographies of notable personalities, rulers, titles and politicians. This may also include non-Palestinians that are related to Palestine in some way.

Culture and Faith: The region's traditions, cuisine, embroidery, literature, art, sports and its history in cinema. Religion is also a key factor in the Project and includes coverage of all of Palestine's faiths.

Civilizations: A description and history of all the known ethnic groups and societies that ruled or lived in Palestine since ancient times and their traditions and contributions to both the region and the world.

[edit] Palestine

Palestine is in the Levant and is one of several names for the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River and various adjoining lands. Different geographic definitions of Palestine have been used over the millennia, and these definitions themselves are politically contentious. The broadest definition of Palestine was that adopted by the British Mandate of Palestine, which included present-day Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The narrowest definition embraces only the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip which are partly governed by the Palestinian National Authority. Palestinians are mostly Arabic speakers and adherents of either Islam, Christianity, Judaism or Druzism.

[edit] Collaboration of the Week

Working together and cooperation are key to the purpose of the Project and every week or sometimes month, members nominate an article for collaboration. The objective is to improve the elected article to GA status

To advertise the Palestine Collaboration of the Week use {{PALCOTW}} to get:

The current Palestine Collaboration of the Week is • Al Aqsa Massacre •

[edit] Noticeboard

Articles needing attention could be either reported on the Project's noticeboard or placed into one of the following categories depending on the specific problem. Alternatively, stubs requiring expansion, articles in Wikis in other languages requiring translation, and requests for new articles can be listed at Portal:Palestine/Opentask.

Relocated to: Wikipedia:Notice board for Palestine-related topics#Notices and announcements.

Categories for articles needing attention:

• Including the parameter attention=yes in the Project banner code adds articles to Category:Palestine-related articles needing attention;
• The parameter merge=yes adds articles to Category:Palestine-related articles needing merge action.

[edit] Active Members

1. Fjmustak (talk · contribs)
2. Timeshifter (talk · contribs)
3. Tiamut (talk · contribs)
4. RolandR (talk · contribs)
5. G-Dett (talk · contribs)
6. Abu ali (talk · contribs)
7. Benaam (talk · contribs)
8. Ian Pitchford (talk · contribs)
9. Yahel Guhan (talk · contribs)
10. GHcool (talk · contribs)
11. Al Ameer son (talk · contribs)
12. DieWeisseRose (talk · contribs)
13. Sanguinalis (talk · contribs)
14. Aminz (talk · contribs)
15. PatGallacher (talk · contribs)
16. Bless_sins (talk · contribs)
17. HowardMorland (talk · contribs)
18. BrandonYusufToropov (talk · contribs)
19. Delad (talk · contribs)
20. Malik Shabazz (talk · contribs)
21. Madhero88 (talk · contribs)
22. GiggsHammouri (talk · contribs)
23. Pedrito (talk · contribs)
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25. Colourinthemeaning (talk · contribs)
26. SJP (talk · contribs)
27. Dead time freedom (talk · contribs)
28. Bastc (talk · contribs)
29. Leitz (talk · contribs)
30. MartinCollin (talk · contribs)
31. Imad marie (talk · contribs)
32. Luke0101 (talk · contribs)
33. Ashley kennedy3 (talk · contribs)
34. Tirpse77 (talk · contribs)
35. Lihaas (talk · contribs)
36. Yamanam (talk · contribs)
37. Kessale (talk · contribs)
38. Tyciol (talk · contribs)
39. Godzilla42 (talk · contribs)
40. Falastine fee Qalby (talk · contribs)
41. Wodge (talk · contribs)
42. Padres Hana (talk · contribs)
43. Numismatist18 (talk · contribs)
44. Zakouma (talk · contribs)
45. Appleville (talk · contribs)
46. Sab3el3eish (talk · contribs)
47. Supercarpenter (talk · contribs)
48. Palestinian Waters (talk · contribs)
49. Isamishaq (talk · contribs)
50. Rickyrab (talk · contribs)
51. Scheharazade (talk · contribs)
52. Jrtayloriv (talk · contribs)

[edit] Stub templates

[edit] Assessment box

This box below lists all article that WikiProject Palestine currently has within its scope by the article's importance to the Project (Low, Mid, High or Top) and its quality (Stub, Start, B, Good, A and Featured).

Palestine-related articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA	2		3	1		6
	GA	3	12	12	1		28
	B	23	48	95	56	1	223
	C	5	24	80	117	1	227
	Start	13	145	795	763	17	1733
	Stub	2	74	728	936	231	1971
	List	2	10	17	26		55
	Assessed	50	313	1730	1900	250	4243
	Unassessed					9	9
	Total	50	313	1730	1900	259	4252

Individual users are allowed to rate the article's importance and its qualty as far as B-class. For good and featured articles please see GA nominations and FA candidates. For A-class, a user should contact other users in the Project to check the particular article for approval.

[edit] Project statistics

• Palestine-related articles by quality log (daily log of status changes)
• Palestine-related articles by quality
• Cleanup listing (bot generated analysis of all articles flagged for cleanup)

[edit] Advertising

A way to join the WikiProject Palestine category, is to add {{Template:User_WP_Palestine}} or {{User:DieWeisseRose/Userboxes/ProjPal}} to your user page. This will produce one of the following userboxes:

This user participates in WikiProject Palestine

This user participates in WikiProject Palestine.‡

[edit] Helpful links

For a listing of the pages below and more, please see Category:WikiProject Palestine. It is suggested that project members add the following pages to their watchlists:

Sister projects

• WikiProject Egypt
• WikiProject Israel

• WikiProject Jordan

• WikiProject Lebanon

• WikiProject Syria

Other related projects

WikiProject Israel Palestine Collaboration

WikiProject Middle East

WikiProject Military history/Middle Eastern military history task force

Regional notice board

Project to-do lists

Portal:Palestine/Opentask

Project Palestine Open tasks

Additions

New Palestine-related articles

Deletions

Deletion sorting/Palestine

Palestine-related images on WikiCommons

commons:Category:Palestinian territories (lots of unused images)

commons:Category:Palestine (lots of unused images)

Ongoing content discussions

Special:Recentchangeslinked/Category:WikiProject Palestine articles To invite other users — who solidly contribute to Palestine-related articles — to join this Project, add this message to their talk page.

[edit] Quick Help

[edit] Hall of Fame

A list of WikiProject Palestine's best works.

[edit] History

Ayyubid dynasty

History of Gaza

Operation Entebbe

Operation Pleshet

Operation Wrath of God

Palestinian fedayeen

Second Crusade

[edit] Geography

Bayt Jibrin

Bethlehem

Gaza

Jifna

Lajjun

Nablus

Tubas

[edit] Personalities

Abu Nidal

Izzat Darwaza

Yasser Arafat

Tawfiq Canaan

Norman Finkelstein

Khalil al-Wazir

[edit] Culture

Euston Manifesto

Hebron glass

Nabulsi soap

Palestinian costumes

Palestinian cuisine

[edit] Structures

Al-Aqsa Mosque

Birket Israel

Great Mosque of Gaza

Hurva Synagogue

Western Wall

[edit] Images

Coffee in Palestine

Bedouin woman in Jerusalem

Haram ash-Sharif in Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives

Palestinian woman in Ramallah

Anti-Israeli protest in Tanzania following 2009 Gaza conflict

[edit] DYKs

Our WikiProject has had 85 articles featured on the DYK section of the Main Page.

Abil al-Qamh • Alma, Palestine • Ayn Ghazal • Ataaba • Barfiliya • Bashshit • Al-Batani al-Sharqi • Battle of Karameh • Bayt 'Itab • Biriyya • Burayr • Church of Saint Porphyrius • Defence (Emergency) Regulations • Dallata • Daliyat al-Rawha' • Dayr Ayyub • Dayr Nakhkhas • Dome of the Chain • Dome of the Prophet •al-Fasayil • Fahmi al-Husseini • Feast of Saint George • Fir'im • Fountain of Qayt Bay • Great Mosque of Gaza • Hamam al-Sammara • Hebron glass • Hittin • Ibrahim Touqan • Ijnisinya • Ismail Shammout • Izzat Darwaza • Jabel Mukaber • Jacob's Well • Jahula • Jifna • Kafr 'Inan • Kafr Lam • Kamal Naji • al-Karmil (newspaper) • al-Khadra Mosque • Khirbat al-Minya • Khiyam al-Walid • Lajjun • Liwan • Lydda Death March • Mahmoudiya Mosque • al-Majdal, Tiberias • Majdal Yaba • Monastery of the Temptation • Mosque of Omar (Bethlehem) • Nabi Rubin • Nabi Samwil • Nabi Shu'ayb • Nabulsi soap • an-Nasr Mosque • Nizar Rayan • Nuris • Palestinian fedayeen • Place names in Palestine • Postage stamps and postal history of the Palestinian National Authority • Postal history of Palestine • Qadas • Qaqun • Qedarite • Sabil Abu Nabbut • Said al-Shawa • Salbit • Sami Hadawi • Sarafand al-Amar • Secacah • Sefire • Shafiq al-Hout • Sumud • Syro-Palestinian archaeology • Tarab Abdul Hadi • Tawfiq Canaan • Thursday of the Dead • Tulayl • Tuqu' • Umm ar-Rehan • White Mosque • Yalo • Zayta, Hebron • Zikrin