WikiProject Maharashtra

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We are a group of Wikipedians committed to improving organisation and standardize look and feel of articles related to the Indian state of Maharashtra, the geographical regions, its people, art and culture. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there.

Maharashtra[edit source]

Maharashtra (Script error: The function "langx" does not exist. mahārāṣṭra, IPA [məharaːʂʈrə] (help·info)) is a state located on the western coast of India. It is India's third largest state by area and second largest by population.

Marathi is the official state language. In Megapolis Bruhan Mumbai, Marathi, Urdu, English, Hindi and other languages are also spoken. In the northwest portion of Maharashtra, Khandesh, a dialect Ahirani is spoken by a minority. In south Konkan, a dialect known as Malvani is spoken by most of the people. In the Desh region, a dialect called Deshi is spoken, in the south-east Deccan region Deccani language is spoken, while in Vidarbha, a dialect known as Varhadi is spoken by most of the people. In Maharashtra we can find people of many religions. Mostly people from all over India have migrated here for business purpose. Mumbai is capital of Maharashtra which is also financial capital of India. Winter capital is Nagpur.

Scope[edit source]

WikiProject Maharashtra is a collaboration to create, improve, and expand articles related to Maharashtra, its history, dialects, and culture.

The project will cover all aspects of Maharashtra-related articles from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Goals[edit source]

Creation of a generally standard look and feel for all Maharashtra-related article
To produce as many Featured Articles as possible related to Maharashtra.
To standardize the Maharashtra related articles in Wikipedia.
To improve Wikipedia coverage of Maharashtra related articles by adding, expanding and improving Maharashtra related articles.
To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Maharashtra related articles.
Marathi Wikipedia to English Wikipedia article translations (See:Category:Articles needing translation from Marathi Wikipedia >> English Wikipedia to Multi lingual Wikipedia Translations
English Wikipedia to Marathi Wikipedia Translations. (See:mr:विकिपीडिया:भाषांतर प्रकल्प)

Participants[edit source]

Active members[edit source]

To join WikiProject Maharashtra, edit this section and insert the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest into the following list of members in alphabetical order. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

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Former members[edit source]

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

Buaidh (talk · contribs) 19:02:29, 19 July 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

Member identification[edit source]

Members of WikiProject Maharashtra should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Maharashtra participants. Template:Yytop Template:Yycat Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yy Template:Yyend For other Maharashtra user templates, see Category:Maharashtra user templates.

General Strategy & Discussion[edit source]

Tasks[edit source]

To-do list for Bharatpedia:WikiProject Maharashtra: edit · history · watch · refresh
To-do list is empty: remove {{To do}} tag or click on edit to add an item.

To insert this list into your user or user talk page, just insert {{To do|target=Wikipedia:WikiProject Maharashtra}} into your page.

There is a discussion going on Nagpur's talk page whether it meets Good Article status or not, editoors intersted are welcome to give their opinionMajun e Baqi (talk) 09:55, 4 July 2020 (UTC)

Article alerts[edit source]

Template:Article alerts columns

Others[edit source]

Template:Featured articles in Marathi page is supposed to be an updated every month with updates to be forked from mr:वर्ग:मुखपृष्ठ सदर लेख.
Template:User_interwiki_infoboard_mr page is supposed to be an updated every month with updates to be forked from Marathi Language Wikipedia.
Related Portals - Portal:India, Portal:Kerala, Portal:Hyderabad
These Marathi Language Wikipedia Articles need Interwiki Links on English Wikipedia.

Parentage[edit source]

Wikipedia:WikiProject India
- Indian states

Descendant WikiProjects[edit source]

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar WikiProjects[edit source]

Naming conventions[edit source]

Wikipedia:Naming conventions (Indic)

Structure[edit source]

Refer to:

Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_states#Sections for state articles
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_districts#Sections for district articles
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Indian_cities#Sections for city articles

Templates[edit source]

Several categories of templates are available to work with and on pages relating to Maharashtra.

Userbox[edit source]

The following templates can be added to your user page:

{{tl|User WikiProject Maharashtra}} to show that you are a member of this project.
{{User Maharashtra}} to indicate that you are from Maharashtra.
{{User_interwiki_infoboard_mr}} to coordinate your efforts with the Marathi Language Wikipedia.
{{User wikimr}} if you are a native Marathi speaker.
{{Devfonthelp}} if you know some one in need of how to type in Marathi language i.e. devanagari fonts.
{{Welcomeen-mr}} if you know some one Marathi whose contributions are likely to get rejected on English Wikipedia because of lack of English language skill level.
{{HumanMarathwada}} if you are from Marathwada region of the Maharashtra.
{{Template:Vidarbha}} if you are from Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.