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Wikipedia:WikiProject Dubai

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WikiProject Dubai

Shortcut	WP:DUBAI, WP:DUB, WP:DU
Category	Dubai
Wikimedia Commons	Dubai
Parent project(s)	United Arab Emirates
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Dubai}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Dubai}}
Has goals?	Yes

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Welcome to WikiProject Dubai, a collaborative effort to improve the English Wikipedia's coverage of the Emirate of Dubai and the maintenance and organisation of articles on this topic. This page and its subpages contain suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of Wikipedians interested in the topic. If you would like to help, please join the project or inquire on the talk page.

This WikiProject aims:

1. To improve the English Wikipedia's coverage of Dubai by creating, expanding, and maintaining related articles, templates, images and categories.
2. To provide guidelines and recommendations for articles related to Dubai.
3. To serve as a point of discussion for issues related to Dubai in general in the English Wikipedia.

• January 13, 2008 - Temporary page for this WikiProject created.
• January 15, 2008 - Official project banner, {{WikiProject Dubai}}, is established.
• January 25, 2008 - {{User WikiProject Dubai}} is officially adopted as the WikiProject member userbox. It is followed by the creation of a second userbox, {{User WikiProject Dubai2}}.
• January 26, 2008 - Project moved to official Wikipedia space.

• All articles relating to Dubai are considered to be within the scope of this project.

Please feel free to join the project and expand its scope in any necessary directions.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Dubai: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2021-08-19 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : :Identify articles needing creation. Expand : :Expand Dubai-related articles which are stubs; this can be accomplished by adding relevant information, using proper referencing, and adding images. Other :  :*Tag articles appropriately with {{WikiProject United Arab Emirates|Dubai=yes}}. Assess all articles and lists with quality and importance ratings. Add appropriate Dubai-related categories to articles, and verify the accuracy of any existing categories. See the section "Categorization" below. Add references to the corresponding articles or lists Address issues associated with articles / lists / templates / categories / images / project pages if the project banner located on the corresponding talk page is tagged with attention=yes. Pages in need of attention can be found at Category:Dubai articles needing attention. Add images to Dubai-related articles tagges with imageneeded=yes. Project articles that don't have images can be found at Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Dubai. Invite more members using the template {{WikiProject Dubai Invitation}}. Welcome any new members using the template {{WikiProject Dubai Welcome}}. Address issues listed at Wikipedia:WikiProject Dubai/Cleanup listing.

To join WikiProject Dubai, add your username to our member list.

Dubai articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1	2		1	4
B	3	9	10	4		6	32
C	4	9	11	3		32	59
Start	2	18	78	65		180	343
Stub	1	13	92	139	1	185	431
List	1	5	10	1		5	22
Category					139		139
Disambig					2		2
File					10		10
Portal					1		1
Project					8		8
Redirect		1	9	16	60		86
Template					36		36
Other					2		2
Assessed	11	55	211	230	259	409	1,175
Unassessed						16	16
Total	11	55	211	230	259	425	1,191
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,641			Ω = 5.34

• List of tallest buildings in Dubai

• Human rights in Dubai - 22 February 2008.

• Dubai

Please feel free to list your new Dubai-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 2,000 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page. If you would like to request the creation of a particular article, please post on the project talk page.

DYKs

• Dubai International Terminal 3 - 28 December 2013
• Human rights in Dubai - 22 February, 2008
• Indians in the United Arab Emirates - 18 April, 2008

Collaboration of the week

Peer review

Feel free to list any articles that are currently listed or were previously listed and reviewed at WP:PR here.

Assessment

Dubai articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			1	2		1	4
B	3	9	10	4		6	32
C	4	9	11	3		32	59
Start	2	18	78	65		180	343
Stub	1	13	92	139	1	185	431
List	1	5	10	1		5	22
Category					139		139
Disambig					2		2
File					10		10
Portal					1		1
Project					8		8
Redirect		1	9	16	60		86
Template					36		36
Other					2		2
Assessed	11	55	211	230	259	409	1,175
Unassessed						16	16
Total	11	55	211	230	259	425	1,191
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 4,641			Ω = 5.34

In order to easily identify articles in need of attention, article assessments have been implemented. These are generated using the optional class and importance parameters in the {{WikiProject Dubai}} project banner on an article's talk page:

{{WikiProject United Arab Emirates| class= | importance= }}

The statistics at right are updated daily (or every other day) by an automated bot. See the subpage /Assessment for details.

Most maps related to Dubai are currently rasterized images (jpegs, pngs). I am currently in the process of converting these maps to SVG, in line with WP:MAPS. These maps will provide greater precision as well as scalability and reusability. Editors that are interested in developing and/or testing SVG-based Dubai maps can ping me on my talk page. Thanks! AreJay (talk) 14:44, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The attached image is an unmarked city-level map of Dubai. SVG maps are fully scalable and editable; the goal is to ensure that accurate SVG maps exist for each locality-based article. This can be achieved by reusing elements from this map and making modifications, where necessary. I will be uploading two other maps sometime soon — one with all residential areas color-coded and identified and one for the locality of Deira. AreJay (talk) 04:13, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For articles

• {{Neighborhoods in Dubai}}
• {{Dubai topics}}
• {{Dubai landmarks}}
• {{Dubai skyscrapers}}
• {{Future Dubai skyscrapers}}
• {{Developments in Dubai}}

For talk pages

• {{WikiProject Dubai}}

For user pages and user talk pages

• {{WikiProject Dubai Invitation}}
• {{WikiProject Dubai Welcome}}
• {{User WikiProject Dubai}}

The central category for this WikiProject is Category:Dubai. The main category and its associated subcategories are tagged with {{WikiProject United Arab Emirates}}. Please note that both main category is itself a subcategory of Category:Cities in the United Arab Emirates and Category:Emirates of the United Arab Emirates, which contain some other categories that are out of scope of this project.

The major category, Category:Dubai, should be reserved for very general articles about Dubai that cannot be further categorized into any of the below listed ones. Please note that Dubai-related articles should not be overcategorized; if one category, such as Category:Buildings and structures in Dubai, is already present on a page, then the more general Category:Dubai should not be added. The former category already indicates that an article is related to Dubai.

Here are some major categories for Dubai topics. Each category also has more specific categories that should be used in articles if applicable. Ideas for any new categories may be brought up on the project talk page.

• Category:Buildings and structures in Dubai
• Category:Mass media in Dubai
• Category:People from Dubai
• Category:Resorts in Dubai
• Category:Sport in Dubai
• Category:Transport in Dubai
• Category:Universities and colleges in Dubai

Please report vandalism, copyright violations, addition of unsourced material and edit-warring to Dubai-related articles here:

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Please consider adding these articles to your watchlist, to help in reverting the ongoing vandalism which is certain to resume once semi-protection expires. Even during the period of semi-protection, some articles continue to be vandalized by recently registered accounts. Consider reporting users who chronically vandalize articles to Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism.

If you find any other articles within the scope of this project which are being heavily vandalized (as a rough standard, over 10 vandals per day, or continual vandalism for several days such that the last 50+ edits are all vandalism and reverts, or 10+ vandalism / revert edits in 30 minutes), please report them at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection and add them to the list above.

• WikiProject Arab world
• Western Asia
• WikiProject Cities

• WikiProject United Arab Emirates

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