Wikipedia:WikiProject Pakistan/Logistics

The Logistics department serves its purpose as a hub for skilled users to help articles expand their content to the featured article status. This department would help in the following ways:


 * 1) Copy-editing — thoroughly review an article and edit according to the criteria as specified in the Wikipedia manual of style and provide assistance to the authors pointing them to ways they can expand their articles.
 * 2) Graphics — create or modify graphics in an article in such a way that the articles content is enhanced to a superior status. This may include cartography, illustrations of photos.
 * 3) Translation — Translate native content available on the web into plausible citations and content. Another coverage area may include translating articles from Wikipedia in other languages to the current one or to translate content from the English Wikipedia to the Urdu Wikipedia.
 * 4) Sources — Check the content of the article against the sources and citations provided to ensure verifiability and accuracy of content delivery. Another main area of interest for people opting to check sources would be to deal with neutral point of view (NPOV) debates.

Copy-editing
Copy-editing is a serious, painful and a time consuming job but one that gives you the most pleasure out of your contribution. Newly created article or even some articles with a high rate of updates usually forsake the content's legibility or readability. Hence, for the copy-editors following is a list of task that need be performed.


 * 1) Proof-reading lite — includes basic tasks like checking for spelling mistakes and punctuation.
 * 2) English variant conversion — articles related to Pakistan need to be written in British English or Pakistani English.
 * 3) Naturalising — copy-editing for editors whose English is fluent but not perfect.
 * 4) FACR prose copy-edits — copy-editing for efficient reading flow, structure and elegance of the article.
 * 5) FACR technical copy-edits — compliance to the manual's instructions for dashes, hard spaces, numbers, etc.

Instructions
 * To become a copy-editor, add your name to the copy-editors list below and add any requested page in your watchlist. Please add the level of copy-editing you can provide from the list above.
 * If you are requesting a copy-edit, please add the copy-edit request in the copy-edit requests list below and then notify the copy-editors by placing messages on their respective pages.

Copy-editors
Following is a list of copy-editors willing to help with articles.
 * - Levels 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
 *  Isles CapeTalk 13:55, 16 June 2008 (UTC)

Graphics
Graphics can add colour to articles and are considered a better approach towards understanding an article's content better. These may include maps, photographs or diagrams, etc. Following are the jobs of a graphics editor:


 * 1) Scavenger — a graphics editor that helps locate graphics on the internet that fall under the blanket of fair-use and possibly free images. Once a certain photograph is located on the internet, the editors then need to upload it to Wikipedia adding relevant licensing information and then pasting a link on the photography sub-project.
 * 2) Cartographer — editors affluent with mapping techniques or ones that can help located maps. It is required that scalable vector graphics images be used for mapping purpose, so if an editor locates a map on the internet that's not scalable, they can paste the external link of the map on the cartography sub-project and another graphics editor, adept with SVG images would recreate the map in the SVG format.
 * 3) Grim Reapers — editors who review and tag images used in the articles. If an image is not free, they are tagged for deletion but if their is a fair-use explanation, these editors notify the uploaders about it.

Instructions
 * To become a graphics editor, please consider adding your name to the graphics editors list below and adding the editing job you can do.
 * To request a graphics job, for instance, making a bitmap map into an SVG scalable map, add a request to the graphics requests list below.

Graphics editors

 * - Jobs 1 and 2

Translation
Internet is filled with content in the English language, but that pocket-full of important content is always in a different language. If you know a certain language are able to help out with a translation please consider being a translator.

Instructions
 * To become a translator, add your name to the translators list below and specify the languages that you can work with. Remember, only write the languages that you are willing to translate content to or from. So, if someone gives you content to be translated, you have a duty to oblige. It is important that you specify translation that you find comfortable doing and also languages that you can assist other users with.
 * To request translations, you can leave a messages directly on the translator's talk page or leave the content to be translated under the translation requests list below.

Translators

 * - Translation: UR-to-EN, FR-to-EN; Assistance: UR.
 * - Translation: EN-to-HI