Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Karachi

Karachi articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Karachi articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 23:13, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Sun Way Flight 4412 AfD
The Sun Way Flight 4412 article has been nominated for deletion. Mjroots (talk) 09:04, 29 November 2010 (UTC)

Photo request
Who is in the Karachi area, near Jinnah International Airport? Would someone mind photographing the Pakistan International Airlines head office? It is located on the airport property. Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 00:01, 27 December 2010 (UTC)

Target Killing
Article related to target killing should be made. HunterZone (talk) 12:05, 15 January 2011 (UTC)
 * There: Target killings in Pakistan. It's not really perfect, but anyways, its been started at least. Mar4d (talk) 07:14, 20 March 2011 (UTC)

Photo requests
Hi! I have photo requests at Jinnah Airport: Their locations can be seen in Google maps Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 20:09, 17 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Pakistan Airlines head office
 * Pakistan Civil Aviation Organization office
 * PIA Training Centre
 * PIA Engineering

White House Grammar School
Another editor has started an article about White House Grammar School, a school in Karachi. Eastmain (talk • contribs) 03:20, 27 May 2012 (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)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Defence Housing Authority, Karachi listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Defence Housing Authority, Karachi to be moved to Defence, Karachi. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 15:15, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
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Defence, Karachi listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Defence, Karachi to be moved to Defence, Karachi. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 21:45, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
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Defence Housing Authority, Karachi listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Defence Housing Authority, Karachi to be moved to Defence, Karachi. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 01:30, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
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Sindh Baloch Co-operative Housing Society listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Sindh Baloch Co-operative Housing Society to be moved to Sindh Baloch Cooperative Housing Society. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 06:15, 4 April 2018 (UTC)
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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.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

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.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:44, 30 May 2018 (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)

2020 Pakistan Stock Exchange attack listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for 2020 Pakistan Stock Exchange attack to be moved to Pakistan Stock Exchange attack. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 13:50, 29 June 2020 (UTC)
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National Stadium, Karachi listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for National Stadium, Karachi to be moved to National Stadium (Karachi). This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 07:31, 17 December 2020 (UTC)
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New Page Patrol

 * New Page Patrol needs experienced volunteers
 * New Page Patrol is currently struggling to keep up with the influx of new articles, including Karachi related articles. We could use a few extra hands on deck if you think you can help.
 * Reviewing/patrolling a page doesn't take much time but it requires a good understanding of Wikipedia policies and guidelines ; Wikipedia needs experienced users to perform this task and there are precious few with the appropriate skills. Even a couple reviews a day can make a huge difference.
 * If you would like to join the project and help out, please see the granting conditions and review our instructions page. You can apply for the user-right HERE. --John B123 (talk) 14:30, 23 May 2021 (UTC)

National Bank Cricket Arena listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for National Bank Cricket Arena to be moved to National Stadium, Karachi. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. —RMCD bot 07:46, 27 December 2022 (UTC)
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Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate 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) 20:52, 11 April 2023 (UTC)