Wikipedia:WikiProject Syria

WikiProject Syria

Purpose: WikiProject Syria (or WP:SY for short) is meant to set a public forum for Wikipedia editors interested in improving and maintaining articles related to Syria, with a primary focus upon the history and achievements of the Syrian societies.

Issues for discussion on this forum: identifying articles and topics in the scope of this project, discussing ways to improve article standards, coordinating collaborations and article improvement efforts, developing standards and guidelines designed to achieve consistency between related articles, rating articles by appropriate standards and classes and organizing the articles by suitable categories and links.

Project structure: The WikiProject's main page includes the following elements:

• An introduction to the project's scope, its goals, and its subject area
• A list of the members and participants of the project
• An assessment of the current status of the articles within the scope of the project
• A catalog of all the templates and categories related to Syria and its WikiProject

Syria is an Arabic-speaking country in the Middle East, bordering Lebanon to the west, Israel to the southwest, Jordan to the south, Iraq to the east, and Turkey to the north. Syria has a population of 19 million and fourteen governorates. The modern state of Syria attained independence from the French mandate of Syria in 1946, but can trace its roots to the fourth millennium BC. Its capital city, Damascus, was the seat of the Umayyad Empire and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Empire. Historically, Syria has often included the territories of Lebanon, Historical Palestine, and parts of Jordan, but excluded the Jazira region in the north-east of the modern Syrian state.

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The main goals of this WikiProject are to:

• Improve and maintain Syria-related articles: fact and prose checking, expanding and ensuring currency of information, providing reliable citations and references, maintaining a NPOV, bringing more selected articles up to Featured article or Good article status;
• Expand Wikipedia's coverage of Syria-related topics: check for completeness of articles, start new articles, expand entries on neglected subjects;
• Maintaining consistency in article organization: maintaining a similar structure, coverage and presentation across articles, maintaining categories and links;
• Develop tools and resources for others to use in article production: templates, categories, infoboxes, diagrams, base maps, useful and commonly used references;
• Coordinating collaborations: between editors to establish priorities and avoid duplication of effort, gaining consensus on disputed issues.

The scope of this WikiProject includes Syrian-related articles, lists, categories, and templates.

Items within this scope can be grouped under the following high-level topics or themes:

• Syrian Geography – regions, locations, natural history, environment, vegetable and mineral resources, climate, hydrology, geology
• Syrian Archeology – chronologies, structures, monuments, pottery and other artifacts
• Syrian History – by time periods, by civilization, of events, of individuals, historical documents
• Syrian Cultures and Civilizations – descriptions of the peoples and their locations, histories, polities, interactions, accomplishments, society, beliefs, influences, continuity of heritage to the preset day
• Syrian Languages – languages related to Syria, their phonology, typology, grammar etc.
• Syrian Society – cultural practices, polities and governance, social structures and order, commerce and trade, education, warfare, costume and dress, gender roles, population trends
• Syrian People – biographies of notable personages, rulers, roles and titles, (includes also notable non-Syrian figures related to Syria)
• Syrian Arts – visual arts and decorative styles, iconography, media, cross-cultural influences, music, dance
• Syrian Mythology and Religion – religions, beliefs, philosophies, mythologies, rituals and ceremonies
• Projects with related or overlapping scope include: Wikipedia:WikiProject Arab world, Wikipedia:WikiProject Assyria, Wikipedia:WikiProject Ancient Near East.

• Syria-related articles up for deletion.

Shortcut: WP:SY/P

New participants please use the 'edit' link above to join the project.

Members are recommended to add the project to their watchlist.

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Areas of interest/expertise...

Shortcut: WP:SY/RATE

WP:SY article rating and assessment scheme
(NB: Listing, Log & Stats are updated on a daily basis by a bot)

Current detailed listing of Syria articles by quality

Daily log of status changes

Current Statistics

Syria articles Importance Top High Mid Low None Total Quality FA 4 1 5 GA 1 2 3 B 9 44 70 10 133 Start 5 38 190 140 3 376 Stub 31 215 329 6 581 List 11 10 21 Assessed 14 118 489 489 9 1119 Unassessed 27 27 Total 14 118 489 489 36 1146

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Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Ibrahim Zakaria, Law enforcement in Syria, Union of Revolutionary Syrian Youth, State of Damascus, State of Aleppo Copyedit: Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Palmyra Verify: Syria, History of Syria, Geography of Syria, Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Palmyra Cleanup: Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Palmyra Expand: Boy Scouts de Syrie, Damascus, Aleppo, Homs, Palmyra Stubs: Sara Shamma, Afrin, Al Bab, Al-Haffah, Al-Malikiyah, Al-Mayadin, Al-Mukharram, An-Nabk NPOV: Golan Heights