Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia

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Welcome to the Wikiproject on Estonia!

It has come to the attention of several editors that Estonia is under-represented on the English Wikipedia. To join, please sign your name with four tildes (~~~~) under the "Participants" section. Why not label yourself? Add a WikiProject Estonia userbox to your userpage.

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[edit] Goals

  1. To create articles about notable Estonians and places in Estonia.
  2. To expand Estonian stubs.
  3. To get as many Estonian articles as possible to Featured Status.
Estonia
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 1 1
A 3 4 1 8
Good article GA 1 1
B 19 32 52 14 117
Start 13 87 257 400 24 781
Stub 2 18 91 1164 54 1329
Assessed 37 141 402 1579 78 2237
Unassessed 2 2 34 38
Total 37 141 404 1581 112 2275

[edit] Participants

[edit] Tasks

[edit] Missing articles

[edit] General

  1. Label the talk pages of any articles about Estonian people with this template.
  2. Expand stub articles found in Category:Estonia stubs, Category:Estonian people stubs and Category:Estonia geography stubs
  1. Copyedit Estonian articles
  2. Wikify Estonian articles
  3. Maintain Portal:Estonia

[edit] Templates

  • {{User WikiProject Estonia}} - a userbox any member can add to their userpage.
  • {{WikiProject Estonia}} - the project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all relevant articles.
  • {{Et-welcome}} - For welcoming new users who might be interested in topics related to Estonia. Use {{subst:Et-welcome}}.

[edit] Stub templates

All stub templates are added to the bottom of the article page.

[edit] Article/other templates

[edit] Project Awards

The Award of the Soaring Swallow, Estonia's national bird set against Estonia's national flower, the Cornflower, is for outstanding contributions to Estonia related articles. This award is only given by a consensus of editors with this template: {{subst:wp-ee contrib award}}



The Estonian Barnstar of National Merit is available to be given out to members whose work regarding the project is found by other members to be particularly deserving of recognition. Anyone is able is to award another user a barnstar, for whatever reason they see fit. To award the barnstar, add the following template to another user's talk page: {{subst:Estonian Barnstar|Message ~~~~}}

[edit] Effort of the Month

90th Anniversary of Estonian Republic

[edit] Announcements

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Estonia

[edit] Country of birth for the Soviet era

Please check Wikipedia:Centralized discussion/Country of birth, it appears important Alex Bakharev (talk) 14:34, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The Baltic states task force for WikiProject Military history

The Baltic states military history task force is all set up and ready for sign up--Termer 06:29, 13 November 2007 (UTC)

[edit] 2000 WikiProject Estonia articles

We recently went over 2000 articles tagged for WP:WPET. Well done, everybody!

However, 1052 of them are stub-class, 629 are start-class and 218 are unassessed. No featured class articles and just one GA-level article. Quality, people, quality, not quantity! Perhaps a little motivation is needed - how about a barnstar for getting next article to GA level and Award of the Soaring Swallow for the first FA level article? Let's get cracking, people!

-- Sander Säde 18:20, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
I went through the unassessed articles and assessed them... pita, but at least now it is done. -- Sander Säde 16:57, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] List of recent Estonia-related changes

I wrote a minor script, that displays this page on top of your watchlist. It should work without Twinkle and it is relatively untested. If you need to change the options, edit the URL - namely &hideminor=0&days=1&limit=50, it should be self-explanatory. To install (instructions blatantly stolen from Twinkle page):
1. copy the text below and paste it into the bottom of your monobook.js file:
2. save the new monobook.js page, and
3. completely refresh your browser by bypassing your cache (hit Control-Shift-R in Firefox or Control-F5 in Internet Explorer).
The script:
addOnloadHook(estRelated);
 
function estRelated() {
  if (document.URL.indexOf('Special:Watchlist') == -1) return;
  estaj=sajax_init_object(null);
  estaj.open("GET", "http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Estonia/EA&hideminor=0&days=1&limit=50", true);
  estaj.onreadystatechange = function()
  {
    if(estaj.readyState != 4) return;
    sPage = estaj.responseText; 
    document.getElementById("contentSub").innerHTML = sPage.substring(sPage.indexOf("<h4>"), sPage.indexOf('<div class="printfooter">') - 25);   
  };
  estaj.send(null);
}
Please let me know if you have any problems or ideas.

DLX 07:56, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

It might be good to use as URL in this script http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Recentchangeslinked&target=User:Sander_S%C3%A4de/WPEarticles&hideminor=0&days=7&limit=50 (as link), which is updated (hopefully) more often then previous one - and contains all WikiProject Estonia articles and talk pages - you can see the list here. That list gets updated whenever I (or if someone else wants to do it as well - go ahead) runs this script. Sander Säde 18:22, 9 July 2007 (UTC)


[edit] Suggestion

In order to bolster development of the Estonian articles, it would be great to improve referencing and expand coverage. My suggestion is to proceed from sources to articles rather than other way round. Something along the following lines could work:

1) Enter an Estonia-related search term in Google Scholar
2) Choose an interesting source among the results
3) Summarize (some important part of) it briefly so that you don’t violate copyright
4) Insert claims from the summary with properly formatted inline references into various relevant articles

What do you think of this? Colchicum 14:59, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

Pay attention to this [1] (only about 1000 items, not 132,000) and this [2] (only about 750 items, not 22,900). Colchicum 16:52, 26 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Categories related to Estonia

I created Wikipedia:WikiProject Estonia/categories, a list/table that lists Estonia-related categories. If you have time, please do try to fill it... -- Sander Säde 19:37, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Estonian GA articles

As Haapsalu Castle just passed good article review, I noticed that it the only GA-class Estonian article (see Category:GA-Class Estonia articles). Come on, guys and gals, we can do better then that! How about trying to pass at least Estonia, Tallinn, Tartu and few others important Estonian articles through GA review (Bronze Soldier of Tallinn would be good as well, except there is way too much edit warring for GA). Ideally, we should try to get GA for all Category:Top-importance Estonia articles - and then attempt featured article on few best ones. -- Sander Säde 05:52, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Wikipedia articles related to Estonia

Please feel free to list your new Estonia-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYN has a five day time limit from the creation of the article.

[edit] New articles found by bot

Archives of this page

[edit] Requests for articles

Please add requests for articles here. More missing articles can be found on our missing articles list.

True... I guess I'll start slowly creating those. Soomaa National Park exists, though, as well as Lahemaa National Park. -- Sander Säde 05:45, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Requests for images

Please add requests for photos and illustrations here. If you have found appropriate picture, please leave the link to it, do not just remove the item from list.

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