Wikipedia:WikiProject Korea

Welcome to WikiProject Korea, a WikiProject dedicated to creating, improving and organizing all articles related to Korea. All editors are welcome to join and to participate.

Join and promote the project

 * Add yourself to the participant list, and add the project userbox to your user page to help promote the project.
 * Join a working group on a topic that interests you, and collaborate with other editors.
 * Invite people to the project by posting a welcome template on their talk page.

Contribute

 * Add Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Korea to your watchlist, and monitor article alerts. Discuss articles and ask questions.
 * Create a new article. Check out the list of new articles that need to be created.
 * Translate articles from the Korean Wikipedia (prioritize high quality articles).
 * Edit any articles that interest you. Recommended priorities:
 * Top-importance and high-importance articles
 * WikiProject Korea/Popular pages (top 500 pages by views, updates monthly)
 * Check pageview counts for articles to see what's frequently viewed and thus impactful.
 * Add sources to biographies of living persons lacking sources.
 * Add images to articles. See the list of requested images and the resources section below.
 * Assess Korea articles of unknown importance and unknown class, using the criteria at WikiProject Korea/Assessment.
 * See the cleanup listing for WikiProject Korea for more tasks.

Guidelines

 * Manual of Style/Korea-related articles
 * Naming conventions (Korean)
 * Suggested layout guidelines for Korea articles
 * List of reliable and unreliable sources for Korea articles

Tools

 * Category:Korea templates
 * Template:Korean for wrapping Korean text
 * Template:Infobox Korean name for infoboxes in articles
 * Korean Romanization Converter for converting Hangul to McCune–Reischauer and Revised Romanization (take with grain of salt)
 * Consider using the Noto fonts
 * Date converter for the Korean calendar
 * Naver English Dictionary and Naver Hanja Dictionary
 * Naver Papago (about) for machine translation
 * AutoWikiBrowser/CJK useful regex patterns for users of WP:AutoWikiBrowser

Technical

 * Making sure East Asian text (including archaic Hangul, example) renders in your browser: Help:Multilingual support (East Asian) and Help:Multilingual support.
 * Enable easy typing of characters with breves, used for McCune–Reischauer.
 * For Windows, consider using AutoHotkey to write a simple custom shortcut. E.g. making alt+u -> ŭ:  (and for upper case) , etc.
 * For Mac, go to keyboard language settings and enable the "ABC - Extended keyboard layout" (or make it your default; little difference in most cases). Once enabled, Alt+b then another letter inputs a breved letter.

Images

 * Please upload your photos of Korea to Commons! Even seemingly mundane photos can end up being helpful years later.
 * Make sure you consult Commons:Copyright rules by territory/South Korea. Also relevant: rules for North Korea and for Japan.
 * At present, the Korea Open Government License is permissible to use (but on thin ice).
 * Note that because South Korea doesn't have freedom of panorama, you generally cannot upload pictures of recent statues and buildings to Commons.
 * There's a loophole for Enwiki though: you can upload pictures exclusively for the English Wikipedia, with appropriate templates to discourage transferring to Commons. See File:Burj Khalifa.jpg for example.
 * If there's a copyrighted photo you'd like to use, consider asking the copyright holder if they're willing to allow its use. See Commons:Volunteer Response Team for more on this process. Example of a success case.

Places to find images

 * Flickr (about) has images searchable by copyright license. If a good photo is under a restricted license, consider messaging the uploader and asking if they're willing to change the license. This works surprisingly often.
 * This Korea Copyright Commission search engine has pictures searchable by copyright license.
 * The Archives of Korean History. Broad coverage of Korean history. Also has digitized many pictures from the US National Archives that the US hasn't digitized yet.
 * The US National Archives (about) has many pictures and video of Korea, mostly from around 1945 onwards.
 * The Seoul History Archives (about) has images, mostly about Seoul (but not exclusively).
 * Archive.org (about) has scans of old, copyright-free books with pictures of Korea by people such as Homer Hulbert (example). A number of early people in these categories have books on Archive.org: and.
 * The Korean Newspaper Archive (about) has scans of many 20th century newspapers in Korea.
 * The National Folk Museum of Korea (about) has scans of images that are old enough to be copyright-free.
 * The Encyclopedia of Korean Culture (about) often has pictures under the KOGL, but they're usually 20+ years old. Image metadata sometimes has info about when photos were possibly taken.
 * The National Diet Library of Japan (about) has many old books and photos about Korea from the Korean Empire and colonial periods.

Article assessment
See WikiProject Korea/Assessment for guidance on assessing the quality and importance of Korea articles.

New articles


Recognized content
See WikiProject Korea/Recognized content for a list of Korea articles, images, and lists that have been recognized on Wikipedia.

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Userbox
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Barnstars
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