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Countries

This page is within the scope of WikiProject Countries, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of countries on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.CountriesWikipedia:WikiProject CountriesTemplate:WikiProject Countriescountry articles

WikiProject Countries to-do list:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Check out the article alerts; see if anything catches your fancy.
Cleanup : clean-up listing for Countries
Stubs : de-stub articles in Category:Stubs by region.
Other : add {{WPCountries}} to talk pages of related articles, and assess.

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Category:Flag template shorthands has an RFC

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Women in Green's October 2024 edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Countries:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2024!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2024, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there!

Grnrchst (talk) 09:53, 13 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Section size comparison table

Courtesy link: WP:WikiProject Countries/Common section size

See the link for a table of comparative section sizes of the seven common sections in country articles: the lead, History, Geography, Politics, Economy, Demographics, and Culture, for 24 countries. This is in part intended as helpful informational background for this project, and in part as a demo of new features like displaying section size information that was not easily available before a recent upgrade to Module:Section sizes and creation of a convenience template to invoke it. This table is quite dense (15 statistics per row) and can take some seconds to load; see the table at this project subpage.

Another thing that is relatively easy to do now and was almost impossible before, is to add a brief, comparative analysis of section size in order to support a comment in a Talk page discussion, like the following: imagine someone complaining about excessive lead size in some country articles, and including this Talk page post:

Compare the relative size of the lead in France (7.42%%), Germany (6.42%%), and Italy (8.51%%), with Belgium: (14.31%%)...

This would have been so tedious previously as to make such a comment very unlikely, but it is now doable, using this new feature.

Hopefully this illustrate some of the power of the new section size feature, and will lead to new ideas for tracking country article characteristics. These new features could be used by any WikiProject to compare article characteristics, but the Country project sprang to mind as one that might have clear benefits due to the common section structure among many of the country articles.

Feedback is welcome; you can leave general comments or bug reports about the {{section length}} template at Template talk:Section length, and specific comments about how to use it with this project below. I'd be especially interested to hear new ideas about how you might want to use this new capability. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 10:40, 21 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

What is field 'native_name' for in Infobox country?

A discussion is going on about the intended use of the |native_name= parameter in template {{Infobox country}}. Your feedback would be welcome at Template talk:Infobox country#What is |native_name= for?. Mathglot (talk) 23:55, 24 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Request for comment

Should the infobox template for countries be expanded to include greenhouse gas emissions? See the request at Template talk:Infobox country#Request for comment on greenhouse emissions

20WattSphere (talk) 12:09, 27 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:LGBT rights by country or territory#Requested move 30 September 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:LGBT rights by country or territory#Requested move 30 September 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. --MikutoH ^talk! 22:46, 30 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Talk:Czech_Republic#Requested_move_1_October_2024

For the interested. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 07:40, 1 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]