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[edit] Introduction

The WikiProject Taiwan is a group that specifically deals with articles related to Taiwan. Our scope may overlap with WikiProject Japan and WikiProject China in some areas, but will be separate most of the time. This project will try to remain politically and racially neutral.

For more information on WikiProjects, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject and Wikipedia:WikiProject/Best practices.

[edit] Our scope

This WikiProject is intended as a politically-neutral, ethnically-neutral, and culturally-neutral platform for all contributors interested in increasing Wikipedia's coverage of Taiwan-related articles, including but not limited to: history (of all time periods), culture, people, military, geography, sports, science, politics and religion.

[edit] Our goals

1. Create a body of articles that accurately depicts the history and culture of Taiwan and the Taiwanese people.
2. Expand the number of articles regarding Taiwan and Taiwanese subjects.
3. Highlight the situation of post-1949 Taiwan without running into POV issues.
4. Add more English sources to existing Taiwan-related articles, using the <ref> element.
   

[edit] Participation

Project participants are listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan/Participants. Feel free to add your name there!

[edit] Departments

Departments are specific group of members who do the meta work. Tasks include keeping the project going, maintaining the project pages, related portals, assessing articles, participating in peer reviews, managing the consensus within the project and so on. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members may not necessarily do only departmental tasks.

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's Taiwan-related articles. While much of the work is done in conjunction with the WP:1.0 program, the article ratings are also used within the project itself to aid in recognising excellent contributions and identifying topics in need of further work.

The ratings are done in a distributed fashion through parameters in the {{WPTAIWAN}} project banner; this causes the articles to be placed in a set of categories that serves as the basis for an automatically generated worklist.

[edit] Collaboration

Currently, there is no Wikipedia collaboration specifically for Taiwan.

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of Taiwan-related articles on request; this helps to obtain ideas for further improvement by having contributors who may not have previously worked on particular articles examine them. Project members are invited to submit articles to the department in lieu of using the generic peer review process.

[edit] Photography

The photography department of this project aims to supply photos needed in Taiwan-related articles.

[edit] Translation

The translation department of the Taiwanese WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to Taiwan for the goals of the project. This includes both translating articles from and to other-language Wikipedias as well as assisting contributors with non-English sources.

[edit] Resources

Find more about Taiwan on Wikipedia's sister projects:

Definitions from Wiktionary
Textbooks from Wikibooks
Quotations from Wikiquote
Source texts from Wikisource
Images and media from Commons
News stories from Wikinews
Learning resources from Wikiversity

[edit] Online Maps

• Taiwan Geographical Name Information Systems: a project of the Ministry of the Interior. This is a four-year project which ended in 2003. This system provide access to a series of maps published by the ministry. These maps mark locations in both Traditional Chinese and English. The sysyem also provides access to many other databases about names of location. None of these databases contains English information.

[edit] Article alerts

Proposed deletion

• 8 Dec 2009 – Taipei 202 (talk) has been deleted.

Other news

• 10 Dec 2009 – The cleanup listings from WolterBot have updated.
• 7 Dec 2009 – A new edition of the Wikipedia Signpost is out.
• 30 Nov 2009 – The new book-class is released. See the Signpost article and the setup guide for details. Contact Headbomb for questions and help.
• 28 Nov 2009 – A new database dump is available.

Archives

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[edit] Templates

• To add a page to the project, please add one of the following templates to the top of the talk page of the article: {{WikiProject Taiwan}} or {{WPTAIWAN}}.
• To invite a user to participate in this project, add {{subst:WPTAIWAN-invite}} to their talk page.

[edit] Awards

There is now a barnstar which can be awarded to people in thanks for contributions to Taiwan-related articles. For details on how to use it, please see Wikipedia:WikiProject Taiwan/Barnstar.

		Taiwan Barnstar of Merit
		Awarded to Some Contributor by A User for contributions to WikiProject Taiwan, specifically for great work in getting the articles on X, Y, and Z to Good Article status. 20 December 2009