User:Kukkurovaca/Project Template

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First, an important note for everyone to remember:

A few Wikipedians have gotten together to make some suggestions about how we might organize data in articles about Buddhism. These are only suggestions, things to give you focus and to get you going, and you shouldn't feel obligated in the least to follow them. But if you don't know what to write or where to begin, following the below guidelines may be helpful. Mainly, we just want you to write articles!

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Title

WikiProject Buddhism

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to promote better coordination, content distribution, and cross-referncing between pages dealing with Buddhism and its sects, texts, terms, philosophies, etc.

Related Wikiprojects

Some related WikiProjects are WikiProject Hindu Mythology and...

Participants

• कुक्कुरोवाच

Structure

Key organizing pages:

Current:

• Buddhism

But: how much should be included here, and how much point to other pages?)

• Buddhist terms and concepts

But: needs updating and some more editing

• Timeline of Buddhism

• List of Buddhists

Needed:

• Buddhism: schools and teachers

• Buddhism: Culture (i.e., a page that gathers the pages on buddhist art, food, music, etc. (see List of Buddhist topics)

• Buddhism: regions (i.e., a page that collects the regional Buddhism pages (see List of Buddhist topics

Article Construction

Discuss the format for each article based on the WikiProject. Include various categories applicable to the topic.

We should probably discuss article types, which may have different parameters. Example types might be:

• Biographical material on people

• Articles on philosophical and doctrinal concepts

• Articles on texts

Formatting

Transliteration

Transliterated terms should take advantage of unicode diactrics; for example, "Nirvāṇa". See MSG shortcuts if (a) you don't like wading through a sea of &#...;'s and (b) they haven't switched the English Wiki over to UTF yet. (If either (a) or (b) is untrue, try [[1]].

Of related concern: how to express terms in origin language. (I.e., is it "Skt" or "Sanskrit", etc.)? Priority of languages? (See Talk:Buddhism)

Style tips

See Manual of Style

Terminology

See Buddhist terms and concepts and post questions, requests for additions, etc. to the talk page there.

General Strategy and Discussion forum

• /General
• /Strategy

Templates for Articles

...Forthcoming, hopefully/

Some general examples:

• Buddhism

• Zen

Specific features and issues

• [[Zen] has an internal glossary. Should this feature be spread to other articles, or should there be a central glossary, or both?

• Nagarjuna and Prajnaparamita feature tables comparing translations of texts. Does this feature seem sufficently valuable for us to make a standard of it?

Buddhist Toolbar

To edit, go to Template:Buddhism

An older experiment:

Obviously this needs

• Stylstic fiddling or total overhaul (I had a different version that was vertical, for comparison, but I appear to have completely lost that.)

• Some of the primary sub-branches of Mah&#257yāna--I'm horrible with details of this nature.

• What are other key Buddhist terms/concepts that should be included here?

• What other texts have articles on Wikipedia?

Links to outside resources

• Pāli Text Society Dictionary (Commonly and delightfully abbreviated "PTSD")

• Monier Monier-Williams's Sanskrit-English dictionary