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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 (Marathi: महाराष्ट्र mahārāṣṭra, IPA [məharaːʂʈrə]) 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 dialect 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. Second capital is Nagpur.

Divisions Scope

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

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

Participants

Active members

To join WikiProject Maharashtra, edit this section and add * {{User|yourusername}} and any comments to the following list of members in alphabetical order by username.

Member userbox

You may place {{User WP Maharashtra}} on your user page to display the following userbox:

This template will add your user page to:

For other Maharashtra user templates, please see:

General Strategy & Discussion

Tasks

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

Others

Parentage

Descendant WikiProjects

No descendant WikiProjects have been defined.

Similar WikiProjects

Naming conventions

Structure

Refer to:

Templates

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

Userbox

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.

WikiProject Maharashtra notice

To direct editors to WikiProject Maharashtra for guidelines to working on Maharashtra-related websites, place {{WikiProject India|maharashtra=yes}} at the top of the article's Talk page.

Award

For excellent contribution this Barnstar should be given.

महाराष्ट्र प्रकल्पासाठी उत्कृष्ट योगदान केल्याबद्दल हा बार्नस्टार प्रदान करण्यात येत आहे
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{{Maharashtra Barnstar}}

Stubs

Recognized articles

The following articles which have been recognized by the wider Wikipedia community.

Good articles

Articles currently in FAC

  • None

Articles currently in PR

  • None

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org
  • Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
  • Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
  • Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
  • Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.