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Please feel free to use this page to summarise what needs to be done on pages about Malaysia. Do use the articles' talk pages for detailed specific discussion about the articles.

Contents

[edit] General To do list

  • Be More Organized
Organize the WikiProject Malaysia Page and pages that is associated to it. Refer to the WikiProject Japan page, it it very well organized. Delegation of duties must be done, e.g. one person is in-charged of assessing a page at one time etc.
Be Bold, you can help us out!
  • Tagging WikiProject Malaysia
Try to tag as many Malaysia-related articles as possible,leave it unassessed if you do not know how to assess. Simply add {{WikiProject Malaysia}} to the talk page.
  • Templates
We need to have a centralized approach for the discussion, selection, and creation of templates. For example: Wikipedia:SGpedians'_notice_board#Templates_to_use. See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Malaysia/Templates.

[edit] Geography

General tasks

  • Articles about districts and towns of the same name should be separated. An article cannot be about the district and the town at the same time. (or can it?) Eg: Muar, Papar, etc.

To create

  • Penang River
  • Islands - the list of islands of Malaysia article is incomplete. Most of the islands listed there are not created. The ones listed below need to be created.
    • Tukun Island
    • Dayang Island
    • Sibu Besar Johor Island
    • Sibu Tengah Island
    • Payar Island
    • Duyung Island
  • Padang Besar Parliament Constituency (P.001) and 221 other national electorates.
  • Ba'kelalan State Assembly District (N.62) and 575 other state electorates.
  • Deer Cave or Gua Payau, largest cave passage in the world
  • Clearwater Cave, another important cave in Mulu.

To expand

To verify

[edit] People

General tasks

  • Orang Asal - umbrella term for aboriginal ppl of Malaysia. ie: Orang Asli of Peninsula + East Malaysian aboriginals.
  • Mamak people - I think its defined as a Southern Indian (or Tamil) Muslims of Malaysia. We have Mamak gang and Mamak stall, but nothing about this community.
  • Temiar - ethnic group of the Cameron Highlands
  • Create infobox {{Infobox Ethnic group}} for all ethnic groups (Category:Ethnic groups in Malaysia) or communities in Malaysia.

To create

  • Abu Talib Othman
  • Botak Chin
  • Burhanuddin Helmi, Burhanuddin bin Muhammad Nur al-Hilmi, Burhanuddin Al-Helmy - early and influential PAS leader
  • Eric Chia - ex Perwaja chairman charged with corruption
  • Frank Cooper Sands
  • Bernard Dompok - minister
  • Eusoff Chin - Tun Eusoff Chin former Chief Justice of Malaysia. "Friend" of VK Lingam.
  • Hishamuddin Rais - author, film director, social activists, ex-journalist, social commentator, etc
  • H. S. Lee - Colonel Tun HS Lee (Lee Hau Sik). Im sure he's more than just a street name.
  • Lim Kok Wing
  • Ling Liong Sik - 17 years MCA president
  • Loke Chow Kit - where the name Chow Kit derived from
  • Reverend Ouyang Wen Feng - gay pastor ordained in US
  • P. Kalimuthu - Bentong Kali
  • Patrick Lim, prominent tycoon, probably one of the richest Malaysians too with links to political corruption. Known to be affiliated with the Penang Global City Centre.
  • Sakaran bin Dandai - Full name: Tun Datuk Seri Panglima Haji Sakaran bin Dandai. 8th CM of Sabah and 8th Yang diPertua Negeri.
  • Stephen Kalong Ningkan - First Chief Minister of Sarawak.
  • Usman Awang - National Laureate
  • V. K Lingam - lawyer with many "friends" who happen to be judges.
  • Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan
  • Scouts movements in the states of Malaysia founders:

To expand

To verify

[edit] Organisations and institutions

General tasks

To create

  • Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA). Pretty obvious.
  • Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War and/or Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission - the tribunal which heard trials against Bush, Blair, etc.
  • Kinabalu Guerillas WWII anti-japanese rebel group in North Borneo.

To expand

  • Multimedia Super Corridor - needs a lot more work, for example:
    • What are the terms of the MSC tax breaks etc.
    • List of flagships that exist as part of the MSC
    • Information about the MSC IAP
    • Infrastructure built for the MSC

To verify

[edit] Buildings and structures

General tasks

To create

  • Some notable prisons: Kajang Prison, Sungai Buloh Prison, Kamunting Detention Centre.

To expand

To verify

[edit] Politics, government and law

General tasks

To create

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To verify

[edit] Events

General tasks

To create

  • 2007 Batu Buruk riot, (alternately Batu Buruk riot, Pantai Batu Buruk riot, or 2007 Terengganu riot), a brief riot in Terengganu in September 2007, also notable for the flag burning incident.

To expand

  • 1971 Kuala Lumpur floods, consists of only a single sentence.
    • Since this article was created, how about other historical Kuala Lumpur floods?

To verify

[edit] History

General tasks

To create

To expand

To verify

[edit] Sports

General tasks

  • Sepak Takraw - Article needs to be injected with Msian perspective.

To create

  • Malaysia Hockey League

To expand

To verify

[edit] Education

General tasks

To create

  • INTEC UiTM
  • KBU International College (KBU)
  • Methodist College Kuala Lumpur
  • SEGi College
  • The One Academy

To expand


To verify

[edit] Culture

General tasks

To create

  • Sumazau - A form of dance performed by Kadazandusuns (ms:Tarian Sumazau)
  • Joget - dance style (ms:Tarian Joget)
  • Ngajat - Iban dance (ms:Tarian Ngajat)
  • Shamanism in Malaysia - its still practiced here.
  • Baju Kurung - Female Malay typical dress
  • Songkok - Muslim Malay traditional headgear
  • Balik kampung - festive season phenomenom
  • Malaysia boleh! - popular phrase
  • Open house (Malaysian party) - "rumah terbuka"
  • Rasa Sayang - popular oldie song, now part of an ongoing plagiarism row with Indonesia.

To expand

To verify

[edit] Transport

General tasks

To create

  • Komuter stations:
    • Bukit Badak
    • Jalan Kastam
    • Jalan Templer
    • Kampung Dato Harun
    • Kampung Raja Uda
    • Kuang
    • Padang Jawa
    • Seri Setia
    • Setia Jaya
    • Teluk Gadong
  • Kuala Lumpur Airport Services
  • DagangNet
  • Port Klang Free Zone - This area has been in operation since 2006, and has been courting some controversy over mismanagement (See here and here). Yet no article mentions anything about it, not even Port Klang.
  • Trolley cars and trolleybuses in Penang - As ludicrous as it implies, there were trolley car services in Georgetown, Penang during the turn of the 20th century (not to be confused with the hill trams), followed by trolleybuses during the first half of the 20th century, in turn replaced by conventional diesel buses. Got a book just on that.

To expand

To verify

To Improve

  • Kuala Lumpur International Airport
    • When was the first flight out of KLIA? By who?
    • How many passengers/luggage does KLIA handle?
    • Terminal schematic would be nice especially highlighting the satellite terminal aspects.

[edit] Business

General tasks

To create

  • Taxation in Malaysia
  • Scomi - Prominent energy and logistics services provider
  • Synergy Drive (Malaysia) - Effect of merger between Sime Darby, Golden Hope Plantations, and Guthrie
  • MAIKA Holdings or Maika Holdings, "troublesome" investment arm of the Malaysian Indian Congress (MIC). An article related to the organisation (MAIKA Telecom Share Scandal) also exists (as well as mention in S. Subramaniam#Maika Controversy), so it's only very fitting to get working on this one.

To expand

  • Malaysia Airports Group
  • Perwaja Steel, one of the most prominent GLCs formed during Mahathir's time. Courted a few controversies in the 1990s and 2000s.
  • Pos Malaysia. A mere paragraph to show for a large organisation in charge of the mail.

To verify

[edit] Flora and Fauna

General tasks

To create

To expand

To verify

[edit] Other

General tasks

To create

  • Gay rights in Malaysia

To expand

To verify