Wikipedia:Sri Lankan Wikipedians' notice board
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Welcome to the Sri Lankan Wikipedians' Notice Board.
All wikipedians interested in working on Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan related subjects are invited to use this as a tool for better organizing their activities, making announcements to others with similar interests, and keeping track of work on the area.
The basic layout of this page was cribbed from the Danish notice board.
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[edit] Active Wikipedians interested in Sri Lanka
Please feel free to add your name and a little bit about yourself here.
[edit] Articles in need of creation
Please add any articles here you would like to see created.
[edit] History
- Original settlement of Sri Lanka - should describe the debate on whether Sinhalese, Tamil, neither, or both, were the original inhabitants of the island
- Hydraulics in ancient Sri Lanka
- Anuradhapura Kingdom
- Polonnaruwa Kingdom
- Kotte Kingdom
- Kandy Kingdom
- Portuguese conquest of Ceylon
- Ceylon under Portuguese rule
- Ceylon under Dutch rule
- British conquest of Ceylon
- Ceylon (need an article for history of island under British rule; current article is just a redirect to Sri Lanka)
- History of the Tamils in Sri Lanka
- History of the Muslims in Sri Lanka
[edit] Politics
- Donoughmore constitution
- Soulbury constitution
- Sri Lankan constitution of 1972
- Prevention of Terrorism Act
- Jathika Vimukthi Peramuna (a party active in the 1960s, not to be confused with the later Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna)
[edit] Ethnic issues
- Sri Lankan riots of 1956 (1956, not 1958)
- Bandaranaike-Chelvanayakam Pact
- Dudley-Chelvanayakam Pact
- Satyagraha campaign of 1961
- Sirima-Shastri Pact
- Sirima-Gandhi Pact
[edit] Biographies
- C. Suntheralingam - first major proponent of Tamil nationalism
- Kumar Ponnambalam - politician and philantrophist, Head of All Ceylon Tamil Congress
- Vanniasingham Vigneswaran - politician and head of Trincomalee District Tamil Peoples' Forum
- Dharmaratnam Sivaram - journalist, human rights worker and news editor for Tamilnet
- Sinnathamby Sivamaharasa - Namathu Elanadu journalist, former TULF politician
- Pon. Ganeshamoorthy Literary Figure, Poet, General Manager People's Bank, KKS
- Ariyanayagam Chandra Nehru, - Former TNA MP and NESOHR figure
[edit] Expatriate communities
- Sinhalese diaspora
- Tamils in the United Kingdom
[edit] Religion
- Islam in Sri Lanka - the current article is a description of the Muslims as a community. We really need an article on the practice and forms of the Islamic faith itself in Sri Lanka.
[edit] Articles in need of expansion
Please add here any articles you feel should have more material added.
[edit] Politics
- Constitution of Sri Lanka (1978)
[edit] Expatriate communities
[edit] Articles in need of improvement
Place articles here if there are problems with them - eg. poor grammar and/or style, the same wording in multiple articles, use of copyrighted text, etc.
