Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoga

Welcome to WikiProject Yoga. Several Wikipedians have formed this collaboration resource and group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of Yoga and the organization of information and articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.



Objectives and Scope
The mission of WikiProject Yoga is to ensure that Yoga-related articles on Wikipedia are written:-


 * In an informative style
 * In a neutral and non-sectarian manner
 * Using verifiable and reliable sources

This project is about discussing issues which affect Yoga-related articles in general. Discussions about particular articles should be handled on the talk pages of those articles.

The scope of this WikiProject is to improve, (primarily) the quality and, (if at all) the quantity of information about Yoga available on Wikipedia.

Guidelines
If you are a newcomer, the most important and often over-looked point to remember while editing Wikipedia is: You cannot insert your own particular viewpoints into articles. Articles should typically reflect verifiable opinion, in neutral and balanced prose.

The important thing to remember is that all sources and articles must conform to Wiki policies such as WP:NOR, WP:V. and WP:NPOV.

Also remember to cite your sources correctly. If you feel a viewpoint merits mention, you can find some material which may constitute a reliable source by checking books, journals, articles, newspapers and other sources that are available online.

New articles must be on notable topics. Variations on existing asanas are in general not considered notable; they are handled within the project by adding a 'Variations' section to the main article, and documenting each variation briefly. All variations must be cited to a reliable source; significant variations may be described in a brief paragraph, and illustrated if there is space on the right of the Variations section.

Things to watch
All original documents and text must use the original language as the primary source. This usually means that transliterations will come from Sanskrit (which usually appears in Devanagari) and use International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST). Asana articles, however, should be titled and described without diacritic marks, which should appear only in the IAST version of the Sanskrit name, i.e. only once in any article.

How to add articles to the project using the project template
to add a page/article to this project please place the following template at the top of the talk page.

If there are multiple project they should be combined using the BannerShell Template

How to request a picture for a Yoga article
Many articles can use more or better images. If these are not available in Commons, request them below at Image requests, naming the article concerned and if necessary briefly describing the kind of image needed.

How to annotate Yoga stubs
When you start a new yoga article it is a good idea to immediately annotate it as a Yoga stub. This will place it in an appropriate category which can be used for coordinate work on such new articles. It will also invite assessment from other project members. To do this add the following template in the final section (External Links) after the Yoga or Asana templates and before any categories.

Open tasks
Based on a number of feedback statements across the yoga project:


 * 1) Add and improve the quality of asana related articles
 * 2) List variations used in common practice under the main articles.

Required articles
The following yoga women are missing:


 * Sally Kempton
 * Swamini Mayatitananda
 * Sonia Nelson
 * Patricia Sullivan (yoga teacher)

Major articles to take to Good Article status
It can be seen that among top-importance yoga articles, only 1 is currently rated as a C, Patanjali, so this is an obvious priority for improvement to GA or FA status. Of course, some may be wrongly rated.

Image guidelines
Guidelines for encyclopedic Asana images:
 * Photographs
 * High resolution
 * Cropped to show the Asana occupying most of the image area
 * Clothing that reveals the anatomical position
 * Of an appropriate seriousness
 * Correct alignment in the posture
 * Without advertising

Image requests
Images meeting the guidelines are requested for:


 * Bharadvajasana (sitting sideways on chair, hands to chair back)
 * Marichyasana II and IV (on floor)
 * Marichyasana (standing, one foot on chair, hands to ledge/wall)

Participants
Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest.


 * 1)  (Working on alternatives to the asanas stubs and list page at present. Check in at my   yoga sandbox) 01:37, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 2) Bhuto (Talk | Contribs) - Specialist in the fields of Ayurveda, Tantra & Yoga. Lack the fire to take an initiative, but can do a lot if asked specifically about an activity.  16:42, 21 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 3)  General Interested  (cat/ re-cat, new articles monitoring and article corrections)
 * 4)  (Working on yogasanas. 2 decades of Kriya Yoga practice (Saraswati)) 23:11, 1 July 2011 (UTC)
 * 5)  Hindu (Karma (Hatha (Ashtanga,) Laya/Kundalini,) Bhakti, Raja, Jnana, Mantra,) Jain, Shenist/Taoist, Integral Yoga--Dchmelik (talk) 08:57, 25 December 2011 (UTC).
 * 6)  Practicing Sanskrit Devanagari and IAST and my conceptual knowledge of Ashatanga/Hatha Yoga poses by updating Wikipedia seems like a nice study method:) Feel free to contact me, or give feedback on my edits, or add something to my  Todo List. Supaiku (talk; Todo) 07:43, 11 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 7)  Haven't made any commitment to update yet but I am a thoroughly enthusiastic Yoga Teacher and would love to contribute when the opportunity should arise. Teashias (talk) 03:00, 15 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 8)  I am working on templates, article ranking and a rough guide to standardizing asana articles, locating more free images and setting up a yoga portal  BO ; talk 14:37, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
 * 9)  (I am interested in working on yoga in the United States, Iyengar yoga, philosophy of yoga.) 22:41, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 10)   only asana exercise related material 23:26, 27 November 2012 (UTC) 23:28, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
 * 11)  (I am interested in working on some esoteric yoga stuff. Oren, or his bot, just tagged one of my articles.) 16:25, 14 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 12)  Hindu, Jain, Buddhist Yoga 12:33, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 13) Autumn Siegel (talk) 22:58, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
 * 14) Victoria.Lee.Croasdell (talk) 04:09, 26 March 2013 (UTC) Have been studying, teaching and practicing aspects of the Vedic Sciences since 1999.
 * 15)  (Interested in yoga related articles.) 03:23, 4 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 16)  (I am interested in removing random sectarian notes, typos, personal theories, and clarifying ambiguous terminology, fixing shwa deletion errors and changing other transliteration schemes back into IAST to keep consistent Sanskrit representation) Recently fixed Malasana and Anuloma Pranayama pages. JSTOR access if you need some citations. 15:36, 25 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 17)  I'm interested in improving all the yoga-related articles so that they do some justice to the subject. I have worked on Yoga as Exercise and Alternative Medicine and also Yin Yoga. EMP (talk) 23:15, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

2018 onwards

 * 1)  I am interested in standardizing asana articles, integrating mudras into articles about hand gestures, and and adding more perspective to articles about yoga philosophy. 23:51, 30 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 2)  I intend to bring the top-level articles on yoga as exercise, including asana and Iyengar yoga, to GA. I'll do a bit of work on individual asana articles when this seems necessary. 11:46, 1 December 2018 (UTC)
 * 3)  (I am interested in adding relevant and missing content for asanas, Hot yoga, Hatha yoga and pranayama, also can provide high-quality pictures) 16:28, 10 Mars 2019
 * 4)  I care about accuracy and reliability in yoga articles. There's still plenty of bias and claims about particular teachers and their achievements. So that sourcing and verification is important and needs to be well documented. Also, I notice pro-Western tilt in commentaries about yoga history, where Indian commentators are underrepresented. All that I'm sure will be worked out in time. 11:58, 1 July 2019
 * 5)  Would like to contribute information about the mystical concepts in Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Meditation, States of Consciousness, History of Yoga etc.  Would also like to contribute around contemporary clinical research about yoga.
 * 6)  Interesting to contribute to wiki as a global platform to share and improve efficacy of yoga related topics. The science of yoga is vast and eternal and will try my best to improve.

New articles
Please feel free to list your new Yoga-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.


 * Science of yoga
 * Yoga in America
 * Yoga for women
 * Vajroli mudra
 * Light on Yoga
 * Hatha Yoga: The Report of A Personal Experience

Key lists:


 * List of asanas
 * List of Indian asana yoga gurus - hierarchically organised by lineage
 * List of yoga schools

Peer review

 * Peer review

Statistics
The pageviews graph shows how many times people visit some of the project's major articles, and the effect of the International Day of Yoga on the number of visits: |Yoga_as_exercise|Lotus_position|Surya_Namaskar|Downward_Dog_Pose|Hatha_yoga|Yoga Pageviews for 90 days in the summer of 2020
 * WikiProject Yoga/Assessment – Our rating system
 * Project statistics – Statistics for our rating system
 * V1.0 index logs, sortings, stats, etc.

The Popular pages list shows the top pages in the project.

Categories
Content categories:
 * Category:Yoga
 * Category:Asanas
 * Category:Backbend asanas‎ — all these cats contain individual asana cats
 * Category:Balancing asanas
 * Category:Forward bend asanas‎
 * Category:Inverted asanas
 * Category:Kneeling asanas
 * Category:Medieval Hatha Yoga asanas
 * Category:Meditation asanas‎
 * Category:Reclining asanas
 * Category:Sitting asanas
 * Category:Standing asanas‎
 * Category:One-legged asanas
 * Category:Twisting asanas
 * Category:Yoga series
 * Category:Kriyas
 * Category:Vinyasas‎


 * Category:Yoga schools
 * Category:Yoga styles
 * Category:Yoga teachers
 * Category:Yoga as exercise

Administrative categories:
 * Category:Yoga stubs

Templates

 * See /Templates for navboxes, userboxes, barnstars, etc.

The yoga templates currently in use are attached below (set of blue Navbars).

Related WikiProjects

 * WikiProject Hinduism
 * WikiProject Buddhism
 * WikiProject Alternative medicine
 * WikiProject Philosophy
 * WikiProject Health and fitness

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.