Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Qatar

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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)#Proposed change to election/referendum naming format. Cheers, Number 57 15:39, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

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)

From 1 October to 31 December, Women in Red is running a virtual contest on Asian women. In November, this will coincide with Wikipedia Asian Month. We look forward to strong participation from all those interested in improving coverage of Qatari women.--Ipigott (talk) 14:09, 22 September 2020 (UTC)

Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Western_Asia#Idea:_Make_Wikipedia:WikiProject_Qatar_a_task_force_of_Western_Asia? is proposing to make this project a task force of the Western Asia project? WhisperToMe (talk) 16:51, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Category:Qatar articles needing expert attention has been nominated for possible deletion, merging, or renaming. 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. Peaceray (talk) 05:19, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

The proportion of Qatari biographical pages on en:WP which are for women is worryingly low, and in fact lower than that for any other country in the world.Humaniki shows that at the end of 2021, only 4.32% (27 out of 625) of biographies for Qataris on English Wikipedia were for women. This proportion has improved slightly since the end of 2020, when the proportion of women was 3.36% (20 out of 596). However, we clearly need to go much much further.

There are some redlink suggestions at Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Qatar. I'm not sure how active WikiProject Qatar is at the moment, but is anyone interested in trying to get some of these redlinks blue in 2022? Dsp13 (talk) 23:59, 6 January 2022 (UTC)

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

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• 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.

- Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Wikipedia: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 |QUALITY_CRITERIA=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) 13:27, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Labour City, Qatar#Requested move 12 July 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - 🔥𝑰𝒍𝒍𝒖𝒔𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑭𝒍𝒂𝒎𝒆 (𝒕𝒂𝒍𝒌)🔥 16:44, 19 July 2023 (UTC)

On both Qatar Stars League and 2023-24 Qatar Stars League it says that for sponsorship reasons, the league may be refered to as QNB Stars League, I however doesn't find anything on the official website that mensions QNB. Is it really still in the name? Or even a sponsor at all? Jonteemil (talk) 23:27, 11 August 2023 (UTC)

Starting this July, we will see a new contest on the scene - the Developing Countries WikiContest (WP:DCWC)! Think of it as a WikiCup but only for articles and media on developing countries.

Competitors may submit GAs, GTs, FAs, FTs, FLs, FPs, and DYK and ITN entries from/on developing countries to gain points and proceed to further rounds. Points are also awarded to those who review GAs, FAs and FLs.

Qatar is listed as a developing country for the purposes of this contest, so articles related to it are eligible to be submitted for points. I encourage everyone here to sign up and compete with editors from around the world to create high-quality content!

Append your name to the DCWC signup page today!

Best wishes, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI (^{talk to me!}/_{my edits}) 10:57, 19 May 2024 (UTC)

WikiProject Qatar, the Developing Countries WikiContest will be returning for a second year, and sign-ups are now open! The contest will run from 1 July to 30 September, and the objective remains the same: improve as many articles relating to developing countries as you can to help fight systemic bias on Wikipedia.

In other news, we have a new face on the coordinator team this year: last year's sixth-place finisher, Arconning (talk · contribs)! The coordinators would like to extend a sincere thanks to Ixtal (talk · contribs), who is leaving the team, without whom the contest would not exist. After feedback from contestants last year, the scoring rules are undergoing some modifications; the new rules and a summary of the changes made will be posted to the contest talk page shortly.

If you have any questions, please leave a message on the contest talk page, use the {{@DCWC coordinators}} template, or contact one of the coordinators: Arconning (talk · contribs), sawyer777 (talk · contribs), or TechnoSquirrel69 (talk · contribs). (To unsubscribe from these updates, remove this talk page from this list.) Sent via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) —TechnoSquirrel69 (sigh) 12:15, 20 June 2025 (UTC)

A discussion on multiple proposed mergers is ongoing at Outline of Belarus that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Necessary to add here because, in addition, the Article Alert doesn't update the discussion page target. Dege31 (talk) 03:14, 11 July 2025 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Al Jazeera controversies#Requested move 20 August 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 22:02, 27 August 2025 (UTC)

Hello all,

I would appreciate an assessment of the quality of my first article (on the Qatari cultural celebration Al-Nafla) and any tips on what I could do to get it to a higher quality.

Thank you kindly,

The Diver (Ghawwas) غوّاص العلم (talk) 13:32, 4 November 2025 (UTC)

Hello all.

I've come across the page "List of Qatar-related topics", and have been trying to re-organize it and bring it up to date. If anyone has any feedback or wants to help, please let me know.

More importantly, in so doing I've come across "Category:Qatar". This page has a lot of sub-categories, which themselves, have many sub-categories, which seem to eventually lead to a ton of pages, many of them only quite remotely connected with Qatar. As for pages directly in Category:Qatar, there are only three: Qatar, Outline of Qatar, and for some reason Project Riverbed.

Ideally, I would think that any page in this WikiProject should be under Category:Qatar. I would start adding pages, but I'm worried that perhaps this is not the accepted practice. Either way, if it is not the accepted practice, then clearly Project Riverbed does not belong in it. So should I start adding more pages, or should I just remove Project Riverbed? I think that it could be quite useful to have all pages in this WikiProject directly under that category, but maybe that's just me.

Thank you.

p.s. @Elspamo4 I'm tagging you here in case no one actually sees this, as you seem to me like someone who might have good input on this. Sorry if I'm bothering you, it just seems like this project is kinda dead when it doesn't come to people's pet conflicts and controversies, and no one cares about the basics. غوّاص العلم (talk) 10:09, 16 November 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for tagging me. It's not a bother in the slightest bit - I'm very happy to see activity on this wiki project and on its article pages. Keep it up!

I'm not very knowledgeable about categories, but two things I think I could add are:

1. It'd be redundant to add any page that is part of this wikiproject to Category:Qatar, because technically it'd already most likely be in the category, in one of its many branching subcategories. This is more useful than adding it to the parent category because it allows for easier navigation (most of the time) and less clutter. For a totally random example: Folklore of Qatar is technically already in Category:Qatar through its branching subcategories which lead back to its main topic, Category:Culture of Qatar, which leads directly to Category:Qatar.

2. Adding this Wikiproject to the talk page of an article automatically adds it to the Wikiproject's of articles, which provide a less specific way of navigating Qatar articles, similar to what you're suggesting by adding all articles to Category:Qatar, so it isn't necessary, imo.

Also, I've added more specific categories for Project Riverbed. Hopefully I was able to explain this properly (it's hard on mobile since categories are hidden, lol). I'm always all ears if you have any other questions or comments. Elspamo4 (talk) 03:58, 17 November 2025 (UTC)

Thank you very much for your kindness and for the detailed reply!

The exact link you sent me doesn't seem to work for me, but looking at this it looks like I can only see a certain amount at a time, and scanning it also showcases the issue I mentioned above which is that a lot of the the articles have very little to do with Qatar. Even when I try to filter by importance, low importance somehow contains both something as esoteric and insignificant as Indian roller and something as crucial as Human rights in Qatar, and mid importance includes both things as general as Middle East and as specific as the 1995 Qatari coup d'état.

My wish is for something that allows one such as myself who is interested in Qatar specifically to get a good picture of what's going on with articles directly related to it. For example, while playing around with different options I saw that the page List of Qatar-related topics has a link to see Related changes, which is super useful. The Related changes for Category:Qatar only shows the things directly under the category, and even if I could find a way to include everything in the sub-categories, it would just end up including a ton of stuff which is very remotely connected, if at all.

btw, is there a solid basis for determining the importance of articles to the wiki? Like why general things such as Arabic and Arabs are at top and high importance respectively, and the other things I mentioned above? And how does the process of changing these things look like? If there are just guides on here that I missed please feel free to just link them to me.

Thanks again my friend.

P.S. I never use this on my phone lol, I find it absolutely insufferable. I prefer my hobbies to be enjoyable lol, even they end up benefitting others somewhat god willing. غوّاص العلم (talk) 12:46, 19 November 2025 (UTC)

For WikiProjects that participate in rating articles, the banners for talk pages usually say something like:

• "This article has been rated as Low-importance on the importance scale."

There is a proposal to change the default wording on the banners to say "priority" instead of "importance". This could affect the template for your group. Please join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Council#Proposal to update wording on WikiProject banners. Stefen 𝕋ower ^{Huddle • Handiwerk} 19:48, 6 December 2025 (UTC) (on behalf of the WikiProject Council)

Hello WikiProject Qatar Members,

You are warmly invited to participate in Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026 on the English Wikipedia.

This campaign focuses on improving content related to Ramadan, its history, traditions, culture, heritage, notable events, and global observances.

You can participate by creating new articles related to Ramadan and its associated topics. Your contributions will help bridge content gaps and improve coverage of Islamic culture and history on English Wikipedia.

There are also International Prizes for eligible participants.

Please visit the project page for full details, timeline, and guidelines: Wikipedia:Wiki Loves Ramadan 2026

We look forward to your participation. Warm Regards, ZI Jony ^(Talk) 09:18, 26 February 2026 (UTC)

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Iran–Israel war#Requested move 19 February 2026 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:45, 27 February 2026 (UTC)