Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra

We are a group of Wikipedians committed to improving organisation and standardize look and feel of articles related to the Indian state of Maharashtra, the geographical regions, its people, art and culture. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Maharashtra
Maharashtra (महाराष्ट्र , IPA ) is a state located on the western coast of India. It is India's third largest state by area and second largest by population.

Marathi is the official state language. In Megapolis Bruhan Mumbai, Marathi, Urdu, English, Hindi and other languages are also spoken. In the northwest portion of Maharashtra, Khandesh, a dialect Ahirani is spoken by a minority. In south Konkan, a dialect known as Malvani is spoken by most of the people. In the Desh region, a dialect called Deshi is spoken, in the south-east Deccan region Deccani language is spoken, while in Vidarbha, a dialect known as Varhadi is spoken by most of the people. In Maharashtra we can find people of many religions. Mostly people from all over India have migrated here for business purpose. Mumbai is capital of Maharashtra which is also financial capital of India. Winter capital is Nagpur.

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WikiProject Maharashtra is a collaboration to create, improve, and expand articles related to Maharashtra, its history, dialects, and culture.


 * The project will cover all aspects of Maharashtra-related articles from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

[[Image:Nuvola apps kpdf.png|20px]] Goals

 * 1) Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all Maharashtra-related article
 * 2) To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to Maharashtra.
 * 3) To standardize the Maharashtra related articles in Wikipedia.
 * 4) To improve Wikipedia coverage of Maharashtra related articles by adding, expanding and improving Maharashtra related articles.
 * 5) To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Maharashtra related articles.
 * Marathi Wikipedia to English Wikipedia article translations (See:Category:Articles needing translation from Marathi Wikipedia >> English Wikipedia to Multi lingual Wikipedia Translations
 * 1) English Wikipedia to Marathi Wikipedia Translations. (See:mr:विकिपीडिया:भाषांतर प्रकल्प)

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

For other Maharashtra user templates, see .

General Strategy & Discussion

 * Discussion
 * To Do List
 * List Of Created Articles as per WP:MAHA
 * Strategy

Tasks
To insert this list into your user or user talk page, just insert  into your page.

There is a discussion going on Nagpur's talk page whether it meets Good Article status or not, editoors intersted are welcome to give their opinionMajun e Baqi (talk) 09:55, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Others

 * Template:Featured articles in Marathi page is supposed to be an updated every month with updates to be forked from mr:वर्ग:मुखपृष्ठ सदर लेख.
 * Template:User_interwiki_infoboard_mr page is supposed to be an updated every month with updates to be forked from Marathi Language Wikipedia.
 * Related Portals - Portal:India, Portal:Kerala, Portal:Hyderabad
 * These Marathi Language Wikipedia Articles need Interwiki Links on English Wikipedia.

Parentage

 * WikiProject India
 * Indian states

Descendant WikiProjects
No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar WikiProjects

 * WikiProject West Bengal
 * WikiProject Tamil Nadu
 * WikiProject Karnataka
 * WikiProject Kerala

Naming conventions

 * Naming conventions (Indic)

Structure
Refer to:
 * WikiProject_Indian_states for state articles
 * WikiProject_Indian_districts for district articles
 * WikiProject_Indian_cities for city articles

Templates
Several categories of templates are available to work with and on pages relating to Maharashtra.

Userbox
The following templates can be added to your user page:
 * to show that you are a member of this project.
 * to indicate that you are from Maharashtra.
 * to coordinate your efforts with the Marathi Language Wikipedia.
 * if you are a native Marathi speaker.
 * if you know some one in need of how to type in Marathi language i.e. devanagari fonts.
 * if you know some one Marathi whose contributions are likely to get rejected on English Wikipedia because of lack of English language skill level.
 * if you are from Marathwada region of the Maharashtra.
 * if you are from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.

WikiProject Maharashtra notice
To direct editors to WikiProject Maharashtra for guidelines to working on Maharashtra-related websites, place  at the top of the article's Talk page.

Award
For excellent contribution this Barnstar should be given.

Stubs

 * For stubs about the geography of Maharashtra, use . Articles will go into Category:Maharashtra geography stubs.
 * For any other stubs related to Maharashtra, you can just write . This will go into Category:Maharashtra stubs.

Recognized articles
The following articles which have been recognized by the wider Wikipedia community.

[[Image:Featured article star.svg|25px]] Featured articles

 * Make in Maharashtra
 * Brihanmumbai Electric Supply and Transport
 * Ram Narayan
 * Western Chalukya Empire
 * Vithoba

[[Image:Featured article star.svg|25px]] Featured lists

 * List of Governors of Bombay
 * List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar

[[Image:Symbol support vote.svg|25px]] Good articles

 * Solapur
 * 2008 attacks on North Indians in Maharashtra
 * Battle of Assaye
 * Deshastha Brahmin
 * Freida Pinto
 * History of Bombay under Portuguese rule (1534–1661)
 * History of Mumbai
 * Kareena Kapoor
 * Khandoba
 * Mumbai
 * Marathwada Statutory Development Board
 * Nassak Diamond
 * P. V. Narasimha Rao
 * Sai Baba of Shirdi
 * Watson's Hotel

Articles currently in FAC

 * None

Articles currently in PR

 * None

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.