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[edit] Introduction

The WikiProject China is a group dedicated to improve all of Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to China. Our goal is to enhance Wikipedia's coverage of China by creating, expanding, and maintaining such articles, to serve as the central point of discussion for issues related to China in Wikipedia as well as providing guidelines and recommendations. The scope of this project includes all topics related to China, with some separate project areas specified in the Workgroups.

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

[edit] Open tasks

Complete list | Chinese noticeboard Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Chinese cities workgroup Wikipedia:WikiProject China/Chinese provinces workgroup Requests: Economic development in China, Lingnan architecture, Chinese_cuisine_names (List of articles to create) ROC legislative election (1948), More... Expand: Cai Lun, Tang poetry, Bashidang, Chang'an, Chang Dai-chien, China National Ethnic Song and Dance Ensemble, Chinese traditional religion, Culture of China, Min Bei, Sino-African relations, Government Information Office, CCTV New Year's Gala, Agriculture in China, Chau Ju-kua, Linfen, Emperor Qianlong, Yitong Law Firm Copyedit: Song Dynasty, Wang Shiwei, Transfer of the sovereignty of Macau Cleanup: Xinhai Revolution, Siege of Tuyen Quang, Battle of Tzeki, Politics of Manchukuo Translation: Please visit the Chinese translation department and the Chinese transwiki project for more details. Verify: Nanjing University, Mao suit Portal: Fill in Anniversaries, update Did you know?, suggest Selected articles and pictures, maintain Portal:People's Republic of China and Portal:Republic of China (shared task with WikiProject Taiwan). Images Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in China

• Help Wikify and improve Yasheng Group, Mei Ping Wu, Silk Route Museum, created by new editors.

[edit] Participation

Feel free to add your name to the list of WikiProject China participants. You may also want to add the {{User WikiProject China}} userbox to your userpage.

[edit] Departments

Members who do the meta work may enlist in various departments. Tasks include working on the project, maintaining the project pages and related portals, assessing articles, participating in peer reviews, managing the consensus within the project. The following is a list of departments within the WikiProject. WikiProject Members can contribute content as a member of Workgroups as well.

[edit] Assessment

The assessment department focuses on assessing the quality of Wikipedia's China-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 {{WPCHINA}} 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] Cartography

The cartography department aims to create a collection of high-quality maps for use in China-related articles. The department gathers existing public domain and free-license maps as well as creating new ones from other materials where no suitable maps can be found. All project members are welcome to request additional maps that may be needed for particular articles from the department.

[edit] Collaboration

The Chinese Collaboration of the Week is currently inactive. Users are welcomed to revive the page.

The Chinese Collaboration of the week seeks to identify particular articles that would benefit from a significant collaborative effort. Every week, a single article is selected as the focus, and the project attempts to improve it, potentially to featured article standards.

Any articles dealing with some aspect of China (except for current featured articles and featured article candidates) are eligible, and everyone is invited to nominate articles.

[edit] Peer review

The peer review department conducts peer reviews of China-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.

• Bovet - the first European company to set up a manufacturing corporation in China. Zoticogrillo (talk) 01:00, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

• Review requested for Nanking Massacre, Battle of Nanking, Nanking Massacre controversy, Alleged fabrication of the Nanking Massacre. - The articles on Nanking Massacre and Battle of Nanking have been expanded and tone has been made somewhat more NPOV. The other two articles are new. --Richard (talk) 17:04, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Translation

The translation department of the Chinese WikiProject aims to utilize high-quality non-English material related to China 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] Related projects

• Arts: Cinema, Go (board game)
• Geography: Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Tibet, Cities, Provinces
• History: History, Military history
• Religion Buddhism, Taoism
• Other: Politics, Surnames

[edit] Project banner

Place {{WikiProject China}} or {{WPCHINA}} on China-related talk pages and it will come up as:

This article is part of WikiProject China, a project to improve all China-related articles. If you would like to help improve this and other China-related articles, please join the project. All interested editors are welcome.

[edit] The Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit

		Zhonghua Barnstar of Merit
		This award is given to those who have made significant contributions to articles that are part of Wikipedia:WikiProject China.
		this WikiAward was given to WikiProject China by ~ on ~~~

Usage

To use this, simply add {{subst:The Zhonghua Barnstar of National Merit|message}} to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

[edit] Adopt an article

Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.

• Example article: User:Example
• 1978 Constitution of the People's Republic of China: WikiProject Abandoned Articles

[edit] Resources

Find more about China 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

• wikibooks:Transwiki:Bypassing the Great Firewall of China
• Chinese Civilization in Time and Space (historical maps)

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