Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chile/Archive 2

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 05:44, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Agustín Edwards Eastman
Dear Chile experts: This old abandoned AfC submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic that should be kept and improved instead? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 02:34, 31 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

Irene Morales
Hi, I expanded this article on a famous Chilean woman (well, child) soldier during the War of the Pacific. Would anybody be interested in looking for further information and better sources, particularly anybody with access to a good library in Chile? I'm hoping to make this a good article. Much appreciated, &mdash;innotata 03:20, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Hi there. There are some good sources in Spanish that you could use, on the Digital National Library of Chile. Visit coleccionesdigitales.cl, and search "Irene Morales" (selecting the Exacta thingy), and there you'll find some books and even some poetry! --Diego Grez (talk) 04:46, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * Thank you! That should be very helpful. (Although my Spanish isn't that good, so if anyone wants to collaborate please drop me a line, and I may end up asking for help here later.) &mdash;innotata 01:57, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * If you need help, just ask me, I may help you translating some bits if I've got the time. I'm a student of history at the U. of Chile, and though I'm in exam time, I love the history of my country and will help if you want me to. Diego Grez (talk) 03:31, 15 October 2014 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks! &mdash;innotata 03:37, 15 October 2014 (UTC)

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WikiProject needs redesign
Hi. I have been a member of the WikiProject for some time but it does not seems like there is people interested on it (apart from Ruoddyssey and Dentren, and some other people whose names I can't remember). I'd like to propose two things:


 * 1) The main page of our WikiProject is a bit out of date and probably needs some stylizing and redesign. Examples WikiProject United States (It's okay, we aren't as many as they, but we can do a good job on making our WikiProject main page more good-looking and perhaps that will attract more members!)
 * 2) As I said before, the project seems very inactive apart from three semi-active editors. There is a list of members of the project, and I was thinking of posting a message on every single person's talk page to remind them that this project exists, and what are we up to.

What do you think, Chilenos de Corazón? :D Diego Grez (talk) 16:10, 8 January 2011 (UTC)


 * Let's go for it! I can help with the redesign. It really does need to be revamped, and I've been eying some designs. Also, what do you think about the Portal? - Ruodyssey (talk) 10:13, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah, go ahead! As for the portal, I really had a fun time doing the portal for Pichilemu. If I have the time, I will re-design the Chile portal the next week :D The best part is to select the "In this day" events :P Diego Grez (talk) 16:07, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * A redesign with an actualization of the most needed improvements would be more than nice, but please add no more than one link to Pichilemu on it. We could also separe the member list into one "active members" and "other members" (based on when their last was), that would help people to know who to contact. Dentren  |  Ta lk  17:31, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Hah! You're taking it seriously :D Obviously, as Pichilemu is just the capital of a province, one link should be enough, and a link to the portal. All the ideas are welcome Diego Grez (talk) 17:41, 9 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Don't forget to add a couple of my Chilean battleship articles to the portal. ;-) Good luck to both of you! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 07:12, 11 January 2011 (UTC)

What do you guys think of the changes? - Ruodyssey (talk) 12:42, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Excellent. Even better than I would have thought of! (My redesign of the portal has been delayed... I think I will have enough time in February, but for sure it will look perfect! ;) Diego Grez (talk) 17:53, 22 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Great to hear! I'm sure you know of some DYKs to add, too. :) - Ruodyssey (talk) 05:16, 23 January 2011 (UTC)
 * Yeah! Check my userpage, I have created many DYKS about Chile (I think my only non-Chile DYK is Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand / Sie Liebt Dich). Apart from these ones, I recall the Penguin Revolution as being a DYK, and the 2010 Pichilemu earthquake. Diego Grez (talk) 17:06, 23 January 2011 (UTC)

Santiago
Hello, do you like this image --217.246.209.204 (talk) 19:03, 11 September 2011 (UTC)

Project barnstar proposal
I created a new barnstar that we may want to use for the project (BarnstarWPChile. Take a look at it: -- Kimon talk 18:41, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I made some minor changes in the barnstar.. I hope there is somebody to give it to. Dentren  |  Ta lk  08:31, 10 December 2007 (UTC)
 * Looks good although border style is straight. -- Andersmusician  VOTE  05:04, 13 December 2007 (UTC)


 * I like the changes you made Dentren. -- Kimon talk 16:49, 13 December 2007 (UTC)

Portal:Chile?
Is there any interest to create a portal for Chile? I will start the portal and create as much content for it as I can but, I'll need help. Anybody willing to assist? -- Kimon talk 15:50, 29 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I've created it: Portal:Chile. Feel free to edit/amend as you see fit. There's a lot of work to be done. -- Kimon talk 17:59, 29 December 2007 (UTC)


 * For now there isnt many people that use the portal but in the future I hope it helpfwill be useful. Here i made alist of Chile-related pages in wikipedia.

Dentren |  Ta lk  07:55, 30 December 2007 (UTC)
 * WikiProject_Chile
 * Portal:Chile
 * User:AlexNewArtBot/ChileSearchResult
 * Chile-related regional notice board


 * I would argue that there are very few members of this project but there is a larger and wider interest in Chile.
 * Hopefully, enough interested editors will join and contribute to our project and make the pages in Category:Chile featured articles :) -- Kimon talk 18:13, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Chile in the Dutch Empire
Hello everyone! There is a discussion at Talk:Dutch Empire, because user Red4tribe has made a map of the Dutch Empire (Image:Dutch Empire 4.png) that includes parts of Chile. Would you like to comment? Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

New Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Dutch_Empire_new.PNG http://www.colonialvoyage.com/ square=tradingpost (Red4tribe (talk) 16:31, 26 April 2008 (UTC))
 * Still OR, POV and unsourced (yours is not not a credible source). Please discuss stuff at Talk:Dutch Empire. This was just a request for comment, not a discussion. Thank you. The Ogre (talk) 16:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Status of the "Special Territories"
Advice please, about the status of Easter Island and the Juan Fernández Islands.

Somebody added them to the list of countries article, describing them as "dependent territories", thus making them analogous to, among others, Greenland, French Polynesia, Aruba, Gibraltar and Puerto Rico.

Someone has now deleted it again, preferring them to be, as they were previously, described as "overseas regions of countries legally integrated into the country", along with French Guiana, the Canary Islands and Hawaii.

So what does the designation "special territory" amount to, and how different is their legislative or self-governing status from that of the rest of the country? Thanks  Kevin McE (talk) 23:17, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

331 Chile-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Chile, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Chile, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Chile articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Coihaique Province
 * 2) Estadio Municipal de La Pintana
 * 3) Juan Pablo II Bridge
 * 4) Llanquihue Province
 * 5) Mancera Island
 * 6) San Quintín Glacier
 * 7) Sanhattan

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 331 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

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) 09:54, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:15, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Hola, the WikiProject Unreferenced Biographies of Living Persons (UBLPs) aims to reduce the number of unreferenced biographical articles to under 30,000 by June 1, primarily by enabling WikiProjects to easily identify UBLP articles in their project's scope. There were over 52,000 unreferenced BLPs in January 2010 and this has been reduced to 32,665 as of May 16. A bot is now running daily to compile a list of all articles that are in both Category:All unreferenced BLPs and have been tagged by a WikiProject. Note that the bot does NOT place unreferenced tags or assign articles to projects - this has been done by others previously - it just compiles a list.

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mormon temple in Santiago
There is a Mormon temple in Santiago. Should the article belong to this WikiProject? Spalds (talk) 18:55, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
 * Of course it should. Could you please link it to us? --Diego Grez (talk) 01:09, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Wow! Someone replied after all this time. I tagged it after there wasn't a reply. The talk page of the temple is here. Spalds (talk) 03:10, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Awesome. But I have a doubt about the article name. Shouldn't it be named Santiago Mormon Temple instead? (Let's exclude the Chile part. It's not the only Mormon temple in Chile. There's one in my hometown.) There are other non-Mormon temples in Santiago too, like a Jew one. --Diego Grez (talk) 17:18, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Well, I admit it. I'm not sure if the Pichilemu establishment is a temple or not. However, there's another temple in Concepción. --Diego Grez (talk) 17:22, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * There is one other temple in Chile, currently under construction. As for the rename, while your idea has merit, all other Mormon temples follow this format, so I assume that it was decided somewhere to do that. Looking at your userpage, you appear to be from the Pichilemu area. You may be referring to one of the many thousand (compared to 130 or so temples) meetinghouses the Mormon church has worldwide. There is a vast difference both in the meaning to the Mormons, and in the design of them. Spalds (talk) 17:25, 8 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Fair enough. They call it here a "temple", but well, I know nothing about Mormons :-) Diego Grez (talk) 17:29, 8 October 2010 (UTC)

2010 Copiapó mining accident; request for informal review
I am one of the principal editors working on the 2010 Copiapó mining accident.

I would like to invite experienced project members to visit our article and offer their views on how were are doing for an "A" class before we request an formal assessment.

Much of the article involves Spanish language and Chilean culture, customs, government and politics. A good look-over by uninvolved editors will make sure we are within Wikipedia policy, present the information accurately and explain things in it correctly.

We also need an opinion on the article's importance rating within the scope of the Chile project.

Thanks, Veriss (talk) 16:04, 29 October 2010 (UTC)

Chaitén
The English Wikipedia talks about the town and the commune at Chaitén The Spanish Wikipedia has separate articles: Should we try to have two separate articles like ES does? WhisperToMe (talk) 12:59, 17 June 2011 (UTC)
 * es:Chaitén_(comuna)
 * es:Chaitén (ciudad)

FACh CASA 212 crash
I created the 2011 Chilean Air Force CASA 212 crash article. It has a sister article at es-Wiki - es:Accidente del C-212 Aviocar de la Fuerza Aérea de Chile. That article has several sources in Spanish which may prove useful to expand and correct the article with. Anyone willing to take a look? Mjroots (talk) 19:03, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

NARA on-wiki ExtravaSCANza participation
Please see User:The ed17/NARA to brainstorm ideas and a structure on how we can help make the National Archives ExtravaSCANza a success, in the hope that such events will continue in the future. Day three is devoted to Chile, so this will directly affect you guys! Ed [talk] [majestic titan] 10:03, 31 December 2011 (UTC)


 * Some of the Chile images are uploaded, in Commons:Category:NARA ExtravaSCANza. I ended up with a few from Ecuador and Peru as well (same box). Carl Lindberg (talk) 20:46, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

Women in Chile
Hello. The Women in Chile page has recently been edited, and I wish to continue to add information to the page. I'm writing on this discussion page to let you all know what my plans are. Feel free to offer advice or ideas for revision.

I want to further discuss:

-Marriage and property rights for women in Chile (hopefully specifically saying what they are, and maybe what they have been in the past).

-Women's involvement in politics. Currently the only mention in that section is Michelle Bachelet and her presidency. There must be more facts about how many women are in politics and whether or not society dislikes female involvement in politics. I know that in the past there existed a Partido Femenino de Chile.

-Organizations for women's rights and empowerment, such as National Women's Service (SERNAM) and the Women's Study Center (Centro de Estudios de la Mujer). Also Chile's participation in international organizations that advocate better circumstances for women, like the United Nations and Chile's adoption of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.

-Women in the workforce (specifically mentioning informal and formal work done) and the income gap between men and women.

I also wish to add more links to the "See Also" section. Alissahart (talk) 20:17, 8 March 2012 (UTC) Changes have been put up Alissahart (talk) 20:10, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a category of women in politics in Chile: Chilean women in politics. This gives a rather broad range of women in politics. The current government adopted a broader package of benefits for maternity leave. I would also suggest looking at the Spanish page for the Agrupacion de Familiares de Detenidos Desaparecidos. Ccox csc (talk) 03:36, 5 April 2012 (UTC)


 * I found no information in sources I have about the recent maternity leave benefits. If you have a source, please go ahead and add that information to the page. I appreciate the feedback! If I have time, I'll try to read that Spanish Wikipedia page, but really don't know anything about that and don't have much time right now to study it. Alissahart (talk) 16:57, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

Here are some links from the government website about it. Most commonly, it is referred to in the literature as "posnatal." http://www.mintrab.gob.cl/?tag=posnatal Ccox csc (talk) 18:56, 5 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I added a line under Family Law. Alissahart (talk) 04:13, 7 April 2012 (UTC)

User:Alissahart, I am surprised that I forgot about her, but another significant woman in Chile's history is Inés de Suárez. She was a Spaniard by birth, but she accompanied the Conquistadores who arrived in Chile. She merits some mention in the article. I'll leave that for you to discern where. Ccox csc (talk) 10:51, 15 April 2012 (UTC)

José de San Martín
I have been working with the article José de San Martín. Although he was an Argentine general, he played an important role in the Chilean War of independence, from the aftermath of Rancagua to Maipu and the departure of the ships that took the fight to Peru. I would be better if some Chilean user checks it as well. Cambalachero (talk) 03:56, 25 August 2012 (UTC)

Transport in Castro
Chiloe now has a mall and an airport — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.104.176.49 (talk) 00:20, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

Arturo Fontaine Talavera
Hello. I've just created this article Arturo Fontaine Talavera, and I was hoping someone else could help with it. The page in Spanish is very long and perhaps a translation would be a good start.Zigzig20s (talk) 23:01, 21 March 2013 (UTC)

Notability question.
Could anyone please comment on the notability of Pedro Pablo Caro. It is a bit difficult from the article to see what actually makes him notable (other than at a local level). But he is included in something called Biografias de chilenos, so I wonder if that is an indication that he is considered notable in Chile? Regards, Iselilja (talk) 18:07, 9 June 2013 (UTC)

Mayor vs Alcalde (in communes)
Most articles of Chilean communes shown the field "Alcalde" in their information boxes, and the word "alcalde" is use through the text.

In my view, this is in conflict with the Wikipedia's policy of naming conventions. "Alcalde" should be translated to "Mayor" or "Mayoress" Naming_conventions_(government_and_legislation). Specifically:

"When writing articles on government bodies or offices with native titles not in English, an English translation should be favored, except when reliable sources in the English language commonly use the native title. For example, National Assembly of Bulgaria (not Narodno sabranie) but 2003 loya jirga (not 2003 Grand Assembly) and Bundestag (not Parliament of Germany)."

81.99.226.197 (talk) 21:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Interesting point. Alcalde seems to be used in English language according to Collins Concise English Dictionary and Oxford dictionary, but Im not sure how common the usage is. Dentren  |  Ta lk  22:38, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
 * "an English translation should be favored"; I think 'mayor' should be used. Küñall (talk) 02:33, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

September 11 coup
The article needs a lot of work into the mobilisation going into the coup. Even the Chicago Boys article needs more work. I just wrote a paper aboiut it and am willing to work on this but would someone like to help?(Lihaas (talk) 20:54, 22 November 2013 (UTC)).

Provinces and regions
I know that this will hardly get a response because the project is largely inactive, but I propose that we rename provinces and regions of Chile, from its current status as "X Province" or "Y Region" to "Province of X" or "Region of Y", which would make the names of the articles more similar to how we call them in Spanish. Some provinces, however, like Cardenal Caro would remain in their "X Province" status because they don't use "de" in their original names. It would be easier and more recognizable, in my opinion, to change their names to the ones I'm proposing. Much similar to what Spain does with their provinces' articles (Province of León, for example). --Küñall (talk) 20:25, 12 April 2014 (UTC)
 * It is good that you do this consult before doing potentially controversial changes. In google scholar I found that "Los Lagos Region" got 486 results while "Region of Los Lagos" only 110 . Similarly "Antofagasta Region" got 1,150 results  while "Region of Antofagasta" only 260 . These results are not auspicious, since Wikipedia should reflect the most common usage in English. With this limited evidence in view I think we should refrain from making this proposed change or make further investigations into the English naming of Chilean regions. Sietecolores (talk) 20:54, 12 April 2014 (UTC)

Final words of Balmaceda
Many years ago I got an MA in Latin American Area Studies, and Chilean history was my area of interest. At that time I read somewhere that Balmaceda's last words were, "There are two kinds of problems in the world. Those that solve themselves and those that have no solution." I probably picked this up from an obscure history book, in either English or Spanish, and I foolishly forgot the citation. anyone out there know if this is true or if there is a citation for it? Thanks 76.21.179.10 (talk) 01:33, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * According to the National Library of Chile's website Memoria Chilena and several other books  this was actually a President Ramón Barros Luco quote: "En política, no hay sino dos clases de problemas: los que se resuelven solos y los que no tienen solución" (In politics, there are only two kinds of problems: those that solve themselves, and those that have no solution). Balmaceda's actual last words (on his so-called "political testament") were the following:

“Mi vida pública ha concluido. Debo, por lo mismo, a mis amigos y a mis conciudadanos la palabra íntima de mi experiencia y de mi convencimiento político."

"Mientras subsista en Chile el gobierno parlamentario en el modo y forma en que se ha querido y tal como lo sostiene la revolución triunfante, no habrá libertad electoral ni organización seria y constante en los partidos, ni paz entre los círculos del Congreso. El triunfo y el sometimiento de los caídos producirán una quietud momentánea; pero antes de mucho renacerán las viejas divisiones, las amarguras y los quebrantos morales para el Jefe del Estado."

"Sólo en la organización del Gobierno popular representativo con poderes independientes y responsables y medios fáciles y expeditos para hacer efectiva la responsabilidad, habrá partidos con carácter nacional y derivados de la voluntad de los pueblos, y armonía y respeto entre los poderes fundamentales del Estado."

"El régimen parlamentario ha triunfado en los campos de batalla; pero esta victoria no prevalecerá. O el estudio, el convencimiento y el patriotismo abren camino razonable y tranquilo a la reforma y a la organización del gobierno representativo, o nuevos disturbios y dolorosas perturbaciones habrán de producirse entre los mismos que han hecho la revolución unidos y que mantienen la unión para el afianzamiento del triunfo, pero que al fin concluirán por dividirse y por chocarse. Estas eventualidades están más que en la índole y en el espíritu de los hombres, en la naturaleza de los principios que hoy triunfan y en la fuerza de las cosas."

"Éste es el destino de Chile y ojalá que las crueles experiencias del pasado y los sacrificios del presente induzcan la adopción de las reformas que me hagan fructuosa la organización del nuevo Gobierno, seria y estable la constitución de los partidos políticos, libre e independiente la vida y el funcionamiento de los poderes públicos y sosegada y activa la elaboración común del progreso de la República."

"No hay que desesperar de la causa que hemos sostenido ni del porvenir."

"Si nuestra bandera, encarnación del gobierno del pueblo verdaderamente republicano, ha caído plegada y ensangrentada en los campos de batalla, será levantada de nuevo en tiempo no lejano, y con defensores numerosos y más afortunados que nosotros, flameará un día para honra de las instituciones chilenas y para dicha de mi patria, a la cual he amado sobre todas las cosas de la vida.

Cuando ustedes y los amigos me recuerden, crean que mi espíritu, con todos sus más delicados afectos, estará en medio de ustedes.”

I'm fairly sure there may be an English translation out there. --Diego Grez (talk) 04:57, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Constitucion
I added information to the constitucion page and updated information for CELCO. Unfortunately the page has been locked. One of the locking editors removed a section about the fisherman pedro munoz who saved tsunami victims. Any positive contributions would be appreciated. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 186.11.38.0 (talk) 05:07, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

Schools in Santiago vs. Metropolitan Region?
Hi! I created Category:Schools in Santiago, Chile but found that there was already Category:Schools in Santiago Metropolitan Region. What places are considered to be "in Santiago" and which places in the metropolitan region are "not in Santiago"? WhisperToMe (talk) 13:02, 17 March 2015 (UTC)

Los 33
The film The 33 (film), about the miners, has been released, but the article needs updating. As it is an international film, it may be a good idea to keep it in a good state. Cambalachero (talk) 18:58, 31 August 2015 (UTC)

War of the Pacific
There is contention between three editors at War of the Pacific about whether the section on causes of the war should be tagged for undue weight, and as to whether the article needs a substantial rework to better reflect Chilean historiography, Peruvian historiography, and Bolivian historiography. This has been going off and on for a year or so. Formal mediation was recently reflected, but there was no agreement on mediation. Can editors who are familiar with the Chilean historiography but have not edited in the past please take a look at the article? Robert McClenon (talk) 20:10, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

History of South America
I've been working on History of South America. Any assistance with copy editing would be much appreciated. -- Marek . 69    talk  22:39, 26 March 2016 (UTC)

Can someone
…with experience on matters of Chilean history——look in at the Villa Baviera article? It is in awful shape. The whole history section needs to be re-written, as it is entirely unsourced. Cheers. Le Prof Leprof 7272 (talk) 01:51, 24 April 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Is Osvaldo Rodríguez (poet) notable?
His bio is unreferenced and tagged for notability for several years. I cannot find any good sources in English, but there is some stuff in Spanish - can someone add a ref, preferably one that establishes notability? --Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus&#124; reply here 02:24, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

Latin American 10,000 Challenge invite
Hi. The WikiProject Latin America/The 10,000 Challenge ‎ has recently started, based on the UK/Ireland The 10,000 Challenge and WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. The idea is not to record every minor edit, but to create a momentum to motivate editors to produce good content improvements and creations and inspire people to work on more countries than they might otherwise work on. There's also the possibility of establishing smaller country or regional challenges for places like Brazil, Mexico, Peru and Argentina etc, much like The 1000 Challenge (Nordic). For this to really work we need diversity and exciting content and editors from a broad range of countries regularly contributing. At some stage we hope to run some contests to benefit Latin American content, a destubathon perhaps, aimed at reducing the stub count would be a good place to start, based on the current WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon which has produced near 350 articles in just six days. If you would like to see this happening for Latin America, and see potential in this attracting more interest and editors for the country/countries you work on please sign up and being contributing to the challenge! This is a way we can target every country of Latin America, and steadily vastly improve the encyclopedia. We need numbers to make this work so consider signing up as a participant! Thankyou.♦ Dr. Blofeld  13:22, 21 October 2016 (UTC)

Please expand Library of Congress of Chile
I've created Library of Congress of Chile--please add references and expand it, maybe translate the Spanish article. Thanks.Zigzig20s (talk) 07:12, 27 December 2016 (UTC)

Miguel Krassnoff
I've just started attempting to translate the Spanish Wiki page on the convicted DINA operative, Miguel Krassnoff. I would appreciate any input, as I haven't used Wikipedia properly for about 10 years, and am a bit rusty. The Spanish page is very comprehensive, so I reckon all it needs is to be transferred over. I'm not sure how references work either. Thanks! Dave (talk) 17:56, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

Environmental Conservation Right
Could someone please take a peek at this? Nicnote •  ask me a question  •  contributions  16:42, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to edit
Hi, I invite you to edit and expand this article United States involvement in regime change in Latin America that would certainly benefit from more editors. Greetings. --Dereck Camacho (talk) 05:36, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

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Background
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There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:28, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Cristián Precht Bañados
I've created Cristián Precht Bañados as a stub about this Chilean priest, just defrocked by Pope Francis. The article can be expanded from the Spanish article. Mathglot (talk) 08:59, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:35, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Chilean dictionary
I thought this resource was worth listing here, for translators from Spanish who may not be familiar with certain Chilean expressions. "Diccionario Chileno"One caveat: like Urban dictionary, this is an open-source database, so anyone can add to it; so use with caution. Mathglot (talk) 23:46, 18 November 2018 (UTC)

Falta
Falta su muerte y lugar donde está enterrado.Milton (talk) 04:51, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Category:1541 in the Captaincy General of Chile has been nominated for discussion
Category:1541 in the Captaincy General of Chile, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for renaming, along with a few similar categories. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:52, 1 March 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

B class or C class?
Can anyone explain why articles annotated B class for WP Chile on their talk pages are given only a C rating? That no doubt explains why only 16 articles are rated B for WP Chile. {{cc {{u|User:SlimVirgin}} for bios.)--Ipigott (talk) 15:22, 2 June 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Category:16th century in Chile has been nominated for discussion
Category:16th century in Chile, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming, along with 100 other chronology categories relating to the pre-1818 Captaincy General of Chile. A discussion is taking place to decide whether this proposal complies with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. -- Brown HairedGirl  (talk) • (contribs) 11:56, 2 March 2020 (UTC)

A proposal to make a database of historic Chilean patents
I am submitting a grant proposal to WikiCite to fund development of a wiki with specialized information on historic Chilean patents up to 1910. Comments, critiques, suggestions, and endorsements are welcome. For extended comments please use the talk page there. -- econterms (talk) 15:13, 1 October 2020 (UTC)

Input request
Greetings, I have nominated Laguna del Maule (volcano) for a featured article nomination. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. The instructions for the review process are here. Thanks in advance for any comments. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 19:52, 20 August 2020 (UTC)
 * This is now at Featured article candidates/Laguna del Maule (volcano)/archive2 - was closed and restarted due to lack of activity - in case anyone is interested. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 18:31, 22 October 2020 (UTC)

Errors in "Electoral Divisions of Chile"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_divisions_of_Chile

This article appears to only cover the system prior to the 2017 election. It refers to 60 districts each electing 2 members, and similar. It needs to be updated to the current system.

2001:56A:7421:D200:60E2:78B5:C03D:ACDF (talk) 00:15, 25 October 2020 (UTC)

Input request to interested editors
Greetings,

is there anyone interested in commenting/reviewing Featured article candidates/Laguna del Maule (volcano)/archive2? After five weeks it has only two comments with explicit support/oppose. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 11:04, 18 November 2020 (UTC)

Feedback requested at Augusto Pinochet
Hello, there's a discussion going on about removing an honorific from the Infobox at Augusto Pinochet. Your feedback would be appreciated at Talk:Augusto Pinochet. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 06:25, 21 February 2021 (UTC)

Highest railway in Chile?
If you know the answer, make sure to add it to relevant wiki pages, especially to List of highest railways by country. Thanks! Zach (Talk) 21:29, 29 April 2021 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:The biggest march of Chile
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:The biggest march of Chile that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Lennart97 (talk) 10:09, 24 June 2021 (UTC)

GAR of interest to this project
Guallatiri, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 16:48, 30 June 2021 (UTC)

Luz Violeta
Luz Violeta has been redirected twice. Project members are invited to please improve sourcing, thanks! --- Another Believer ( Talk ) 20:46, 31 August 2021 (UTC)

Featured article candidacy relevant to this project
El Tatio has been nominated as a Featured article candidate here to see if it satisfies these criteria; feel free to comment. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 14:41, 29 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Bumping this, as without comments the FAC is likely to be archived. Jo-Jo Eumerus (talk) 07:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)

What is the deal with "Sanhattan?"
Sanhattan is stub class, and the talk page indicates it might be largely derisive. I'm not from Chile so I can't speak to this, but wanted to raise this issue here. Jasphetamine (talk) 22:22, 26 November 2021 (UTC)

Provinces, regions and communes
Hi there. Most of the articles about regions and provinces are outdated, mentioning intendants and governors instead of presidential delegates. I have updated about two dozens of provinces, but I could not complete the task. Provinces of the regions of Arica through Maule are done. The southern ones need work. Websites of former governments should be replaced too, with those of delegations. I have also found communes' articles are very, very outdated. There are mentions to parliamentaries who ceased office eight years ago, and districts and circunscriptions suppressed in 2017. So, lots of work need to be done. In that sense, I updated many of the O'Higgins region articles, but there's tons of work in the remaining communes' articles. Not to mention, too, that names of mayors (alcaldes) are very outdated too. Hope someone will lend a hand, however it's not top urgent. --Bedivere (talk) 23:34, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:01, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

NPOV concerns at Izkia Siches
There is some disagreement about whether this article is neutral and how much it should cover certain controversies. Please weigh in at Talk:Izkia Siches. —Mx. Granger (talk · contribs) 08:39, 26 July 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:History of the Constitution of Chile
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:History of the Constitution of Chile that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 05:09, 23 August 2022 (UTC)

FAR notice
I have nominated Rongorongo for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. A455bcd9 (talk) 18:25, 14 October 2022 (UTC)

Los Bajos, Frutillar
Hi, I am looking at finding sources for this article: Los Bajos, Chile. As far as I can work out this place is probably just a subdivision of the city of Frutillar, e.g., this article appears to describe it that way. Any suggestions for places I can look to know more? Without sourcing about the place the article should be deleted/redirected. FOARP (talk) 16:36, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


 * It is an area of Frutillar. Localities or small villages, hamlets, etc., are not administrative divisions, but they are often described and or mentioned in census records. This particular Los Bajos place is mentioned in several documents such as   I think it is worthy of a standalone article. Bedivere (talk) 21:34, 22 February 2023 (UTC)


 * Thanks Bedivere! FOARP (talk) 08:40, 23 February 2023 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments are used by Wikipedia editors to rate the quality of articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:26, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Tucapel Jiménez
Hi, I started a stub at Tucapel Jiménez. The article on Jiménez in Spanish is much more detailed and your help expanding it would be appreciated.--User:Namiba 15:08, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Chile:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 12:51, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Disappeared detainees in Chile
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Disappeared detainees in Chile that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – robertsky (talk) 04:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)

B-checklist in project template
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council § Determining the future of B-class checklists. &#x0020;This project is being notified since it is one of the 82 WikiProjects that opted to support B-checklists (B1-B6) in your project banner. DFlhb (talk) 11:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Decipherment of rongorongo to FAR
I have nominated Decipherment of rongorongo for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. a455bcd9 (Antoine) (talk) 09:47, 10 December 2023 (UTC)

Democratic Alliance of Chile needs sources
Hello WikiProject Chile. The article Democratic Alliance of Chile is listed under your WikiProject and is also one of the oldest unreferenced articles on the site. If anyone would be willing to take a look at the article and add sources, that would be much appreciated. Tooncool64 (talk) 07:40, 24 December 2023 (UTC)