Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Laos/Archive 1

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Hawksbill turtle? A Wikiproject for an entirely landlocked country is claiming a marine turtle as one of its best projects? Sabine's Sunbird  talk  00:32, 4 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.
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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 )  21:36, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Laos
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 22:33, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 141 Laos-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Laos, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Laos, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Laos articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Boun Tay District
 * 2) Pak Ou Caves
 * 3) Pak Seng District
 * 4) Phaxay District
 * 5) Phine District
 * 6) Samakkhixay District
 * 7) Saysetha District

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 141 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) 22:47, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Lao romanization
Is there any agreed convention for Lao spelling on Wikipedia? Eg. UNESCO Heritage Site 481 is now listed under Wat Phou, although this should be either Vat Phou (Lao/French-style) or Wat Phu (Thai/English-style). Most temples in Vientaine appear to use "Wat". Jpatokal (talk) 06:38, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 05:49, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
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Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 09:20, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 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) 03:30, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

School district name question
What is the Lao name of Seattle Public Schools? The name is posted at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/bfc/lao/Lao%20Services.xml WhisperToMe (talk) 10:51, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  02:48, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Hmong Wikipedia proposal
I'm trying to see if a Hmong Wikipedia could be started.

The proposal is at: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:33, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
 * meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Hmong
 * A list of possible starter articles is at meta:User:WhisperToMe/ArticlestostartHmongWikipediawith

Xieng Khouang Air Transport
Page 130 of the book The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down refers to the airline Xieng Khouang Air Transport, nicknamed "Air Opium" - It was an airline that the CIA gave to Vang Pao that flew opium shipments from Long Tieng to Vientiane. Does anyone know more about this airline? WhisperToMe (talk) 19:56, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Laos 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 Laos 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 23:14, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

Hmong Daw Wikipedia ready to accept contributions
The Hmong Daw Wikipedia is ready to accept contributions, as per meta:Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Hmong_Daw WhisperToMe (talk) 21:43, 26 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) 21:08, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

FYI the usage of is under discussion at Talk:Supreme People's Assembly (Democratic People's Republic of Korea)

76.66.202.72 (talk) 15:25, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Help with Lao language requested
Please see Reference_desk/Language WhisperToMe (talk) 04:27, 11 March 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Laos will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Laos'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) 21:35, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Xiengkhoung Providence Public Schools
Hi! Has anyone heard of the "Xiengkhoung Providence Public Schools" in Laos?

It was mentioned in:
 * Her, Lucy Y. "Ceremony is Hmong welcome to educators - Culture-sharing event aims to aid students, educate parents and elders.." Minneapolis Star Tribune. Saturday March 31, 2001. News 9B.

Moua Lia served as the superintendent of the system from 1967 to 1975. WhisperToMe (talk) 16:16, 12 March 2012 (UTC)

Burma → Myanmar requested-move notification
A requested move survey has been started (by Marcus Qwertyus (talk)) at Talk:Burma, which proposes to move:
 * Burma → Myanmar

Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. — P.T. Aufrette (talk) 22:43, 8 August 2012 (UTC)

2012 Hmong American infobox representatives open nomination period
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 03:22, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

2012 Asian American representative approval period (Now until 18 December)
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 06:33, 18 November 2012 (UTC)

Previous achievments of missing activist
Sombath Somphone is the name of an activist. Is he notable or is Disappearance of Sombath Somphone notable? I have this link Laos: Unhappy year-end. --193.213.42.242 (talk) 09:37, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Someone active here?
Just curious, I'm changing very much at lowp, so is anybody here speaking lo? mabdul 01:55, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

Buddhaimage1.JPG
image:Buddhaimage1.JPG has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 05:26, 21 June 2013 (UTC)

Buddha statue photos up for deletion


-- 65.94.79.6 (talk) 00:51, 22 June 2013 (UTC)

Speakers of Lao needed for article about Lao Airlines Flight 301
Lao Airlines Flight 301 does not yet have an article on Lao. Lao speakers need to write an article on it on the Lao Wikipedia. WhisperToMe (talk) 17:13, 21 October 2013 (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 ) 21:14, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

ລົມໜາວ
Is Winter Wind a well known Lao song? Would like to add additional footnote to Folks & Tales. In ictu oculi (talk) 07:00, 2 September 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)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Laos articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 13:31, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Template
I see that you've reactivated this WikiProject, I have a Wikiproject template ready, so the Southeast Asia one wouldn't have to be used anymore. Do you want me to implement it? -- Amaryllis Gardener  talk 15:16, 24 December 2014 (UTC)

National Biodiversity Conservation Areas now National Protected Areas?
From reading a number of sources, I'm wondering if the term National Protected Area has superseded National Biodiversity Conservation Area in Laos? The Ecotourism Laos website (Lao government-run) refers to the system of National Protected Areas here, though detailed profiles for individual areas may still have NBCA in the title (likely older material). IUCN refers to NPAs here. Lonely Planet's Laos 2014 and 2010 editions discuss the naming change in some detail in their Environment section: "the areas were renamed National Protected Areas a few years ago..."

At ProtectedPlanet.net NBCA names still appear, as here. Though it's unclear how up-to-date their data are and they use a variety of sources (including Wikipedia for descriptions). A number of recent books on conservation issues in Laos refer to NPAs.

My inclination would be to now use National Protected Area. Wondering what others may think. (I also posted this at Talk:National Biodiversity Conservation Areas where the article's existing list has a number of NBCA-titled articles). Thanks Declangi (talk) 06:00, 5 January 2015 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

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Talk:Asian American#Hmong American in infobox
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Asian American. Thanks. RightCowLeftCoast (talk) 19:06, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Looking for contributors for the Hmong Dawb Wikipedia
For those of you who contribute to WikiProject Laos, do you know any possible contributors for the Hmong Dawb Wikipedia? It's still in the incubator... WhisperToMe (talk) 04:17, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Burmese–Siamese War (1568-1569) listed at Requested moves
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Category:Kings of Champasak
Unsourced substubs since 2007. Please correct or replace by a list of kings.Xx236 (talk) 08:29, 14 April 2016 (UTC)

No Muong
Please develop the page.Xx236 (talk) 13:58, 15 November 2016 (UTC)

Charles Dean listed at Requested moves
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Kai yang listed at Requested moves
A requested move discussion has been initiated for Kai yang to be moved to Ping kai. This page is of interest to this WikiProject and interested members may want to participate in the discussion here. --Phonet (talk) 06:16, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Attapeu dam collapse listed at Requested moves
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