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WP:LITH

The Lithuania WikiProject is dedicated to creating a comprehensive, informative, and neutral guide to Lithuania for Wikipedia readers.

Goals

  1. To create standards, guidelines, and recommendations for how to better organize and structure articles related to Lithuanians and Lithuania.
  2. To provide editors with resources to assist them with their edits.
  3. To create, expand, and maintain articles related to Lithuania.
  4. To serve as the centralised place for all discussions related to Lithuania in Wikipedia.

Contents

[edit] Participants

Please add yourself if you are interested and want to join the project

[edit] Collaboration Effort

[edit] Announcements

[edit] General news

  • The project got moved to its permanent place.
  • Žirmūnai was nominated to Good Article. Feel free to evaluate it.
  • Lithuania was promoted to Good Article! That is the first such Lithuania related article in Wikipedia. Let's continue the great job.
  • List of cities in Lithuania done, many articles need heavy expansion.
  • Prime Minister of Lithuania done, some articles need expansion.

[edit] New articles related to Lithuania

This is the place to announce new articles related to Lithuania that you or someone else has recently created. Add new articles at the top of this list.

  • Tip: check here for an automated list of new articles that link to the Lithuania article.
  • Caution: This list does not include unwikified articles or articles that are Lithuania-related, but do not link to this article.
  • Tool: Wikipedia:Baltic States notice board has a section for new articles that are related to the three Baltic states.

[edit] List of recently created articles

List here recent stubs or more expanded articles. Add comments what could be done to improve them.

[edit] December 2006

[edit] November 2006

[edit] October 2006



See Archive for older articles.

[edit] List of recently created sub-stubs

List here recent sub-stubs (articles only 1-2 sentences in length)

[edit] November 2006

[edit] October 2006

[edit] September 2006

[edit] August 2006 and older
See Archive for older sub-stubs

[edit] Things to Do

[edit] Complex requests

  • What do you think about trying to bring Battle of Grunwald to FA status ? That could be a positive collaboration of Lithuanian and Polish editors. --Lysytalk 08:43, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Differentiate Lithuanian Karaims from Karaite Judaism. Karaims in Trakai and Vilnius stand that their religion is not Judaism. This is difficult as there's a lot of controversy around the issue. --Lysytalk 19:39, 27 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm thinking of Subcultures in Lithuania. Main categories: punks, metalheads, bikers, skinheads, goths, pagans, gay and lesbian. Subcategories: bands, zines, events, clubs, personalities. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 06:19, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
  • I'm not sure, are these subcultures so specific to Lithuania that they deserve separate articles ? Also, how would you select which subcultures to describe and which not ? (there are too many to describe them all) --Lysytalk 19:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
I'm talking about one article (for start) about subcultures in general in Lithuania - which is important subject I think. And yes it has some Lithuanian specific (neo-pagans for example). As to their number - it is not infinite. Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 20:39, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Article requests

Please add your requests here. The list will be divided into categories.

  • "So bad, it's good" I'd say underrepresented here. My wishing list:
    • Rytis Cicinas, Laimutis Purvinis, Suopis ir Rambynas, Žentai, Algimantas Jasiulionis, Minedas, Arvydas Brunius, Pūkas -- Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 16:25, 18 October 2006 (UTC)
  • Ludwig Rhesa - Liudvikas Rėza
  • Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas
  • Bernardas Brazdžionis
  • Biržai Regional Park
  • Pajauta valley
  • Green Lakes, Lithuania
  • Vytautas Žalakevičius
  • Aidas Marčėnas
  • Cinema of Lithuania all those legendary movies, cmon guys?
  • Minister Cabinet of Lithuania, all ministers should be also useful
  • Lietuvos kino studija
  • Knitted berets Megztos beretės. Certainly significant cultural and poltical phenomenon, bur sadly references will be hard to find.
  • Mūza Rubeckytė
  • Violeta Urmana-Urmanavičiūtė
  • Lasers in Lithuania, Center for Laser
  • Infobalt, Agrobalt
  • Algis Ramanauskas-Greitai, Ragai
  • Arūnas Valinskas, Dviračio šou, Kelias į žvaigždes, Taip ir Ne, Mis Nelaisvė, LNK
  • Vytautas Šerėnas, PhD, Dviračio šou
  • BC Teo basketball club (ex BC Lietuvos Telekomas)
  • Antanas Gustaitis creator of Lithuanian war airplane ANBO
  • Vytautas Kavolis sociologist, main power behind Lithuanian-Americans Santara-Šviesa liberal intelectual organization famous for their slogan Face to Lithuania
  • Herman of Wartberg Nermann von Wartberge, Hermannus de Wartberge, or Hermann of Wartberge. [1]
  • Vėlinės
  • Geldgaudiškis Castle
  • Hindiuism in Lithuania
  • Spurgos
  • Šližikai (prėskučiai, kūčiūkai, kalėdaičiai)
  • Čia priėjo Kindziulis
  • Herkus Mantas or Herkus Monte
  • Tadas Blinda

[edit] Recently completed requests

[edit] Articles that need attention

Add here articles that need attention (need wikifying, copyediting, references, expansion, etc.) Add a comment on what needs to be done.

[edit] Special Cases involving Lithuanian editors not related to this project

Wikipedia:Mediation_Cabal/Cases/2006-09-10_Armia_Krajowa_in_Lithuania

[edit] Discussions regarding Lithuania

Add here links to pages where discussions are taking place. Add some comment on what the issue is.


[edit] Image requests

Add requests for images here. Describe what image you would like to see added.

  • I don't think there is a map of where Ežerėlis is (Image:LietuvaEzerelis.png) such as Image:LietuvaVilkija.png. Co-ordinates for Ežerėlis is 54°53′0″N, 23°37′0″E
  • I think image of Coat of Arms of Kavarskas was deleted Encyclopaedia Editing Dude 13:58, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
    • It was not deleted because we never had it. There is no image of Kavarskas COA available. If you could find it someplace, that would be great! Renata 14:17, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Can anyone identify this sculpture?
thanks all; added a gallery of public sculpture to the Kaunas page. Novickas 14:55, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Tools and resources

[edit] Referencing

A simple yet comprehensive tutorial would help a lot: I.E. - inline, general references

[edit] Images

  • Most images are located on Commons.
  • Starting point for Lithuania-related images on commons: Category:Lithuania
  • For images on English Wikipedia, try this search.
  • Some good images are on Lithuanian wiki. Try looking there, but those images most likely will have to re-uploaded to commons.
  • If there is no image you want try flickr.com. Look for creative commons images. However, only Attribution License & Attribution-ShareAlike License are acceptable on Wikipedia. When uploading, don't forget to identify flickr users who took the pic!
    • Don't get confussed because Flickr also has something it calls "public image." That is not the same as copyright status.

[edit] Guidelines

Main article: Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines

Here are some Wikipedia conventions:

  • For main articles use this template: {{main|ARTICLE NAME}}
  • For related topics use this template: {{see also|ARTICLE NAME}}
  • Add a non-breaking space (   ) between a unit and the value (eg. 25 [[kilometre|km]] renders as 25 km)
  • Use − for negative numbers
  • Wikify articles WP:WIKIFY
See also: Wikipedia:Manual of Style

[edit] Templates

[edit] Category tree

Main article Wikipedia:Categorization

The category tree is quite simple - you might explore it through category:Lithuania and its subcategories and sub sub categories. I've made some changes, to make it similar to other countries categories. IMO this is about enough, just some explanation is needed, and I might even write it in some time. They're quite easy to create - no request is needed.

Basic principle is to identify category properly - geography, history, education and so on. Then look into subcategories - maybe there is more precise category, not so general doe example Vytautas Magnus University should fit into category:Education in Lithuania, but more precise would be category:Universities in Lithuania, and also category:Education in Kaunas. category:History of Kaunas is also suitable for this article.

Multiple categories also can be used, where appropriate - for example Kūčios could be in category:Lithuanian cuisine (if section about food would be expanded) and category:Lithuanian traditions.

A bit more complicated is category:Lithuanian people - the principle is, that most of them go via category:Lithuanian people by occupation to precise occupation, for example category:Lithuanian architects. There are also a few subcategories - for example category:Lithuanian writers has subcategories category:Lithuanian poets and category:Lithuanian journalists.

Incomplete articles shoud be marked as an appropriate stub.

[edit] Useful links to other WikiProjects

... and so on by needed objects over here:

Wikipedia:List of WikiProjects

[edit] External links and tools

Find more information on Lithuania by searching Wikipedia's sister projects:

Dictionary 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

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