Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kazakhstan/Archive 1

Film editors wanted
WikiProject Films has solicited interest in creating a Soviet/CIS cinema task force. We'd like to cordially welcome all regular editors of these articles to voice their interest in starting this task force so as to see if there is sufficient support. Many thanks! Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 02:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)

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.
 * 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.

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 )  21:38, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Soviet and post-Soviet films task force
Just thought that the community would like to know that WikiProject Films has a established a Soviet and post-Soviet cinema task force. Interested editors are encouraged to join onboard! Thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 21:46, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 207 Kazakhstan-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Kazakhstan, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Kazakhstan, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Kazakhstan articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Bayganin District
 * 2) Ishim River
 * 3) Kaztal District
 * 4) Makhambet District
 * 5) Osakarov District
 * 6) Sayram District
 * 7) Shalkar District

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 207 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 I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:42, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

References needed: Omirzaq Shokeyev
The article Omirzaq Shokeyev about the deputy prime minister of Kazakhstan needs references. I searched the web, but English language sources are not available. Also Government of Kazakhstan has the same problem. Chutznik (talk) 20:25, 25 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:43, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Kazakhstan 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 Kazakhstan articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) 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)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 21:00, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

AFD for Qabdesh Jumadilov
Articles for deletion/Qabdesh Jumadilov. 78.107.117.194 (talk) 10:35, 13 December 2010 (UTC)

Comment
I've helped to create 11 articles about Kazakh politicians. Abhijay Talk?/Deeds  02:46, 18 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Kazakhstan will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Kazakhstan's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 21:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Bolat Atabaev
I've started an article today on opposition activist/theater director Bolat Atabaev. I've taken the article as far as it can probably go from the English-language web, but if anyone would like to add on from Kazakh or Russian language sources--especially govt statements--I'd be very grateful! Cheers, Khazar2 (talk) 20:40, 23 June 2012 (UTC)

Romanization
What's the Wikipedia-romanization of the Kazakh cyrillic alphabet?--31.17.92.168 (talk) 21:06, 14 November 2012 (UTC)

Which non-government newspapers (without article) are notable?
The following newspaper stubs have been deleted
 * Liter (newspaper)
 * Delovaya Nedelya
 * Vremya (Kazakhstani media)
 * Nachnem s ponedelnika

They were only referenced by this page from BBC's website.

Being a newspaper is not enough to establish notability? Which newspaper (without article) is notable?

Are there other notable non-government newspapers? --Normash (talk) 06:05, 30 April 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories of Central Asia
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:22, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries bordering the Caspian Sea
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 05:44, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
Can someone please check WP:KAZAKHNAMES to make sure the example and text are correct? Thank you. In ictu oculi (talk) 03:29, 31 August 2013 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan)
Category:Recipients of the Order of Friendship (Kazakhstan) has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.244.158 (talk) 06:32, 12 September 2013 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Margulan Seisembayev
Dear Kazakhstan experts: Is this old Afc submission about a notable person, and should the article be saved from deletion as a stale draft? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 03:06, 11 February 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Asia may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 21:11, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles.--Kaiyr (talk) 14:22, 29 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)

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)

Famine in Kazakhstan of 1932–33
Please translate at least main points of the Kazakh article.Xx236 (talk) 07:01, 11 May 2015 (UTC)

Is лв really the symbol for the Kazakhstan tenge?
In List of circulating currencies, the symbol for the Kyrgyzstani som (сом) and the Kazakhstani tenge (теңге) is given as лв (same as the symbol for the Bulgarian lev), which seems highly unlikely. Please see the Talk page there for details, and please discuss it there. Thank you. --Thnidu (talk) 03:54, 19 September 2015 (UTC)

Naming conventions (Cyrillic)
Hi everyone. These guidelines still have a "proposed" sticker on the head, but they appear to be in use across all the Cyrillic languages:

Is there any debate about any of the language sections? Does it reflect correctly and completely this WikiProject? If there's a language where there isn't agreement, then shouldn't an "under discussion" sticker be on the individual language and we can work to remove the the "proposal" header above all of them? In ictu oculi (talk) 08:45, 1 December 2015 (UTC)

Invitation to Women in Red's special November activities
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Requested move of "Gennadi Yermakov"
Greetings! There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Gennadi Yermakov, regarding a page relating to this WikiProject. Discussion and opinions are invited. Thank you,  Paine   u/ c  03:42, 23 November 2016 (UTC)

Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments or Kazakh Museum of Folk Musical Instruments
The discussion currently active at Talk:Kazakhstan National Museum of Instruments features arguments for either variation. Greater participation is invited. &mdash;Roman Spinner (talk)(contribs) 07:17, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

Category:Recipients of the Order of the Golden Eagle has been nominated for discussion
Category:Recipients of the Order of the Golden Eagle, which is within the scope of this WikiProject, has been nominated for deletion. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides 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.RevelationDirect (talk) 03:28, 4 January 2017 (UTC)

Census templates
The Kazakh government stats site at http://stat.gov.kz has evidently shuffled its urls, so the census figures templates Kz-census2009 and Kz-census1999 point to some general welcome page and not to the useful hard figures desired. The templates are used quite widely, eg Shymkent.

Help locating the actual census results would be appreciated. Batternut (talk) 13:16, 22 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.

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)