Wikipedia:WikiProject Bulgaria

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Bulgaria. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

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Active members
To join WikiProject Bulgaria, edit this section and insert the Wikitext   with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
 * 12:11:14, 12 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) Bulgarian cities, Pazardzhik Province
 * 2) Wikidata-Interwiki links.
 * 3) Bulgarian history, (EU) politics, and environment
 * 4) Maxim Stoyalov
 * 5) Culture, art, architecture, geography
 * 19:18:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC) language and culture
 * 12:16:33, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * , Macedonian minority rights in Bulgaria, Roma issues, soccer, nationalism in Bulgaria
 * 1) Native Bulgarian who wishes to improve Wikipedia, one edit at a time.
 * 2) BG folk music
 * 19:18:27, 2 July 2023 (UTC) language and culture
 * 12:16:33, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * , Macedonian minority rights in Bulgaria, Roma issues, soccer, nationalism in Bulgaria
 * 1) Native Bulgarian who wishes to improve Wikipedia, one edit at a time.
 * 2) BG folk music
 * 12:16:33, 25 July 2018 (UTC)
 * , Macedonian minority rights in Bulgaria, Roma issues, soccer, nationalism in Bulgaria
 * 1) Native Bulgarian who wishes to improve Wikipedia, one edit at a time.
 * 2) BG folk music
 * , Macedonian minority rights in Bulgaria, Roma issues, soccer, nationalism in Bulgaria
 * 1) Native Bulgarian who wishes to improve Wikipedia, one edit at a time.
 * 2) BG folk music
 * 1) Native Bulgarian who wishes to improve Wikipedia, one edit at a time.
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 * 1) BG folk music
 * 1) BG folk music
 * 1) BG folk music
 * 1) BG folk music
 * 1) BG folk music

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Member identification
Members of WikiProject Bulgaria should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

For other Bulgaria user templates, see .

Things to do

 * Create new articles and help translate articles from Bulgarian Wikipedia. You may like to write a highly-requested article (like a red link that you see everywhere), translate a well-written article from the Bulgarian Wikipedia or some other language you know, or just dedicate yourself to a field you feel confident in that obviously lacks coverage. If you know of an article which has substantial content on Bulgarian Wikipedia but little in English please add  at the top of an article or section. It should add the following:


 * Build and fill the new Municipal templates in a drive to build a detailed guide to Bulgaria by municipality by adding villages, notable landmarks, people and culture from each municipality. Please follow Template:Smolyan as a guideline and help get Bulgaria covered in detail in this way.
 * Edit other articles:
 * Expand stubs.
 * Fill in and check sources, references and external links.
 * Fill in categories.
 * Copy edit: check spelling and punctuation, standardize dates, mark stubs.
 * Add a photograph to an article for Wikipedia requested photographs in Bulgaria.
 * Comment on the Bulgaria-related articles up for deletion.
 * To maintain Portal:Bulgaria.

Current tasks
Use this section to suggest and initiate cooperative tasks. Please put new tasks at the top and sign.

Boyko Borissov
This article could need some improvement in content and style, especially the section "Domestic policy". Also, on the Talk-page it is suggested, that the name of the article should be "Borisov" and not "Borissov" as it currently is. --KaiKemmann (talk) 22:09, 16 March 2016 (UTC)

Relief map of Bulgaria?
Is there some compelling reason why we are using the blank (though it does show administrative boundaries) map of Bulgaria in our Location template, rather than this nice Relief Map of Bulgaria that the Bg page uses? Martha (talk) 17:48, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

Bulgaria on every language
While i've found that several articles can be read on many different languages, some others are not widely spread. I propose to translate the articles to those languages with the largest number of speakers. I could manage to translate and to add lacking information to articles in Spanish (besides the obvious English), i could also do it on Italian, but, while it is a popular language all around, i think it could be better to do it on a second stage of this project. I just need someone to help me with the basics of making a wikipage and i could have all the information translated to post it.

Komalantz 9 March 2009

Suggestions for "Did you know...?"
I came across the story of Solomon Passy's Trabant, which would be a real good item for the Did you know section on the main page. However, to qualify it needs to be an article that has been expanded by at least a 1000 words recently, which I am not able to do. Who can? Preslav 13:00, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * No one. It only qualifies if it gets expanded beyond 1000 characters, and it is already longer than that.

Another suggestion — this coin. --Cameltrader 12:53, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Wanted images for existing articles
I think it would be nice to have a section on this page dedicated to articles lacking images. It's a cliche that a picture is worth a 1000 words, but I think people not familiar with Bulgaria who see our beautiful country would be really pleasantly surpirsed. Many articles lack images, if we start identifying them, maybe we would be able to find images hidden in the Commons or other language versions, or someone might take pictures of the subject matter faster than otherwise. Thanks, --Vanka5 07:51, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * High-quality images are indeed very necessary. A good way to tag articles that need a photograph is to put Bulgaria on the talk page. This adds the article to Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Bulgaria which is quite underpopulated now, unfortunately :) Flag of Bulgaria.svg → Тодор Божинов / Todor Bozhinov → 09:40, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Thanks, Tosho! So we should really use then? Once we figure this out, the category will start filling up quickly. ;-) Thanks! --Vanka5 21:42, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I figured it out, it works! Thanks again, Tosho! --Vanka5 04:50, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

Add Bulgaria to every "List of" article where it is missing
As a way of putting Bulgaria on the map, I suggest adding it to every list from where it is missing, but other European/Balkan/etc. countries are present. E.g. search Google for "site:wikipedia.org "list of" Greece -Bulgaria -intitle:Greece -intitle:Greek" to find suitable pages. Philipstoev 12:41, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Assessment
We now have our very own WikiProject Bulgaria/Assessment. Please join in rating every single Bulgaria-related articles according to the quality and importance scale — you can find instructions on the page above. Thanks! Todor→Bozhinov 19:17, 21 March 2007 (UTC)

Requested articles
Hallo there, Not sure this is the right place but anyway: I would like to ask for some help with regard to the Bulgarian dialects, for which there is practically nothing written until now. I have started with Serres-Nevrokop dialect and Blagoevgrad-Petrich dialect (or actually completely re-written the previous Macedonian articles) and established a template (see below). I would appreciate any contribution as this area lags severely behind. VMORO 01:28, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Slavicisation of Bulgars

New articles
This page lists recently created history articles within the scope of the project. Remember to nominate the best new articles at Template talk:Did you know so Wikipedia can highlight them on the main page.

The page is supported by the InceptionBot. All the results found by the bot are moved below in alphabetical order.

Bulgaria-related stub templates

 * Bulgaria-stub for articles not fitting in other categories; adds articles to Category:Bulgaria stubs
 * Bulgaria-footyclub-stub also adds the article to Category:European football club stubs
 * Bulgaria-gov-stub also adds the article to Category:European government stubs
 * Bulgaria-school-stub also adds the article to Category:European school stubs


 * Bulgaria-geo-stub for Geography of Bulgaria articles; adds articles to Category:Bulgaria geography stubs


 * Bulgaria-bio-stub for biographies of Bulgarian people; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian people stubs
 * Bulgaria-actor-stub also adds the article to Category:European actor stubs
 * Bulgaria-architect-stub also adds the article to Category:European architect stubs
 * Bulgaria-composer-stub also adds the article to Category:European composer stubs
 * Bulgaria-conductor-stub also adds the article to Category:European conductor stubs
 * Bulgaria-film-director-stub also adds the article to Category:European film director stubs
 * Bulgaria-painter-stub also adds the article to Category:European painter stubs
 * Bulgaria-poet-stub also adds the article to Category:European poet stubs
 * Bulgaria-scientist-stub also adds the article to Category:European scientist stubs


 * Bulgaria-politician-stub for biographies of Bulgarian politicians; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian politician stubs


 * Bulgaria-sport-bio-stub for biographies of Bulgarian sportspeople; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian sportspeople stubs
 * Bulgaria-basketball-bio-stub also adds the article to Category:Eastern European basketball biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-boxing-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European boxing biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-figure-skating-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European figure skating biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-judo-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European judo biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-rowing-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European rowing biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-swimming-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European swimming biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-tennis-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European tennis biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-volleyball-bio-stub}} also adds the article to Category:European volleyball biography stubs


 * Bulgaria-canoe-bio-stub for biographies of Bulgarian canoers; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian canoeist stubs
 * Bulgaria-footy-bio-stub for biographical stubs relating to Bulgarian football; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian football biography stubs
 * Bulgaria-Olympic-medalist-stub for biographies of Bulgarian Olympic medalists; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian Olympic medalist stubs
 * Bulgaria-athletics-bio-stub for stubs about Bulgarian people connected with the sport of athletics; adds articles to Category:Bulgarian athletics biography stubs


 * Bulgaria-struct-stub for stubs about a Bulgarian building or structure; adds the article to Category:Bulgarian building and structure stubs
 * Bulgaria-castle-stub also adds the article to Category:European castle stubs
 * Bulgaria-church-stub also adds the article to Category:European church stubs
 * Bulgaria-sports-venue-stub also adds the article to Category:Eastern European sports venue stubs
 * Bulgaria-university-stub also adds the article to Category:Europe university stubs

Other Bulgaria-related templates

 * Infobox settlement, an infobox for articles on cities, towns and villages. (Bulgarian specific syntax)
 * Cities of Bulgaria for articles on cities of over 20,000 inhabitants
 * Provinces of Bulgaria for Provinces of Bulgaria articles
 * unesco-bg for UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Bulgaria
 * BG A PFG for Bulgarian A Professional Football Group teams
 * Mobile network operators in Bulgaria for Bulgarian mobile network operators
 * Bulgarian monarchs for articles on Bulgarian monarchs
 * reqphoto, template for requesting photographs for Bulgaria related articles. Just put in the article's Talk page.
 * , template for awarding the Template:Bulgaria Barnstar of National Merit. To use this, simply add the template to the talk page of the user you wish to reward. Make sure you include a message which indicates why they are receiving the award.

Awards
In the spirit of kindness and recognition we strongly encourage the use of the following barnstars, awards and assorted goodies:

Wikipedia Ad
To raise the profile of the project, you can also add this Wikipedia Ad to your user profile:

To add it just copy the template to your profile. To find out more about Wikipedia Ads go to Template:Wikipedia ads

Featured and good content
An important goal of this project is to produce as much featured content that is directly related to Bulgaria as possible, with featured articles being a top priority.

Resources
Material from the following publications and newswires often deals with the subject here. This material can be in either citation, abstract, or full-text format, depending on the source. If anyone wishes to receive material from these sources, please send me an e-mail indicating either the specific subject of interest, or the dates and names of the relevant sources, and I will e-mail in response the material I recover. John Carter (talk) 18:04, 13 February 2011 (UTC)
 * A&G Information Services (1999–2006)

Tools

 * Main tool page: toolserver.org


 * Reflinks – Edits bare references – adds title/dates etc. to bare references
 * Checklinks – Edit and repair external links
 * Dab solver – Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
 * Peer reviewer – Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

 * |Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Bulgaria