Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Albania/Archive 1

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 16:47, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 21:22, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Proposed merger
For the purposes of centralized discussion, please go to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Southern Europe. Thank you. John Carter 16:43, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Debate on the correct adjective for Kosovo
Hi! Based on your interest in the Balkans, you may be interested in the currently ongoing debate on whether we should be using Kosovo or Kosovar/Kosovan as the adjective for Kosovo. — Nightstallion 16:19, 31 July 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Kosovo relaunched
Editors may wish to be aware that WikiProject Kosovo has been relaunched to help coordinate editing and facilitate monitoring of Kosovo-related articles. I will be sponsoring the project. If you have any queries about it, please ask me on my talk page or use Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kosovo. If you wish to become involved, please feel free to do so - simply leave your username at WikiProject Kosovo. One feature that you may find particularly useful is the public watchlist. If you click here you can see all the recent changes to articles listed on the watchlist. There is still a lot of work to be done on getting the project off the ground, so your help would be welcomed. In particular: -- ChrisO (talk) 22:30, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
 * The public watchlist needs to be populated with all Kosovo-related articles (and redirects), categories, images and templates. I've added as many as I've found so far but more need to be added.
 * WikiProject Kosovo and WikiProject Kosovo need to be populated.

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS. Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles. Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  21:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Norther epirus
I proposed for deletion Northern Epirus article. Please contribute herebalkanian (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Norther epirus
I proposed for deletion Northern Epirus article. Please contribute herebalkanian (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Norther epirus
I proposed for deletion Northern Epirus article. Please contribute herebalkanian (talk) 12:38, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Albania
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7. We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations. A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible. We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 23:25, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Albania-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Albania, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Albania, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added. The articles in question are listed in Category:Albania articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included: ...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 85 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.
 * 1) Delvinë District
 * 2) Durrës County
 * 3) Gjirokastër District
 * 4) Ishëm River
 * 5) Librazhd District
 * 6) Lushnjë District
 * 7) Mount Arith

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 09:27, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Albanian wiki
Hi. I've created Category:Albanian articles needing translation with the aim of transferring some of the more notable Albanian articles into English. Please help create missing articles from Albanian wiki and help translate them into English. If you know any articles which require Albanian translation or who want to help create articles to be translated please use a tag at the top of the article. It is part of a drive to dramtically improve inter wiki content. Thankyou.

What plant is this?
Hi, I don't know where else to ask in Wiki, I couldn't find an Albanian Wikipedians' noticeboard. What is the scientific name and/or what is the English name for a plant known in Albanian as çami i butë? Google search did not turn up the answer. Thank you, A from L.A. (talk) 17:28, 8 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:43, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Articles for deletion/Albania–Serbia relations
FYI. Ikip (talk) 00:32, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

Albanisation article
While it is a good thing to have such an article, it has a lot of information that are not cited and seem to have nationalistic tendencies. Can please someone do something about this? AnnaFabiano (talk) 23:49, 29 August 2009 (UTC)

Genocide Law 1995
There is currently a discussion at Talk:On Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Albania during the Communist Regime for Political, Ideological and Religious Motives about what the short form of the law is. Unfortunately none of the editors speak Albanian or have any knowledge of the Albanian legal system. Any input would be appreciated. The Four Deuces (talk) 16:32, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

Liberation Army of Chameria
I have proposed this article for deletion. Please free to contribute. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Liberation_Army_of_Chameria_(2nd_nomination)--I Pakapshem (talk) 19:09, 15 September 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 02:30, 22 January 2010 (UTC)