Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations

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We are a WikiProject, a group of registered Wikipedians, who try to improve articles related to the Dravidian geographical areas of South Asia and the people's culture throughout this part of the world. Please feel free to join our WikiProject by posting your name in the participants and participating at your own pace. What is WikiProject? Wikipedia:WikiProjects, What is WikiProject best practices? Wikipedia:WikiProject best practices.

[edit] What is Dravidian?

Dravidian is a family of related languages and ethnicities in South Asia. These ethno/linguistic areas of the Dravidians comprise of Southern and Central India, Northeastern Sri Lanka and parts of Pakistan & Bangladesh. In Southern India, the Dravidian areas are composed of four states namely Andra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu. Within the four major Dravidian states are the Tuluvas and Kodavas, while in Central India are the Kolamis, Gonds, Gadaba, Kuis, Parjis, and Kurukhs. In Sri Lanka there are Tamils of Northeastern Sri Lanka, while in the Central part of the island are Tamils of Indian origins.more..

WikiProject Dravidian civlizations

General information (edit · changes)

• Main Project Page
• Members
• Announcements
  • New articles
  • Open tasks
  • Project category
  • Dravidian civilizations Portal
  • Dravidian-related topics notice board

Departments

• Assessment
  • Peer Review
  • Statistics Table
• Outreach
• Review

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Article statistics

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Dravidian civilizations articles		Importance
		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
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	Stub					1	1
	Assessed					11	11
	Unassessed					48	48
	Total					59	59

[edit] Goals

• To standardize the Dravidian related articles in Wikipedia.
• To improve Wikipedia coverage of Dravidian related articles by adding, expanding and improving Dravidian related articles.
• To serve as a central point of discussion for issues related to Dravidian related articles.

[edit] Scope

WikiProject Dravidian civilizations is a collaboration to create, improve, and expand articles related to Dravidian people, their history, languages, and culture.

All of these articles should be included in the following categories:

• The project will cover all aspects of Dravidian related articles from India, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

[edit] Sister Projects

• WikiProject Dravidian people
• WikiProject Dravidian languages
• WikiProject Tamil civilization

[edit] Assessment of articles

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of Dravidian related articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations/Assessment.

[edit] Open tasks

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Dravidian civilizations:

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Here are some open tasks you can do: Redirect Chola dynasty to Chola Empire. Maintain and imrpove the Dravidian civilizations Portal news section and DYKs. Redirect Martial arts of South India to Dravidian martial arts. Create Dravidian stubs. All articles should have the {{WPDRAVCIV}} banner added to their talk pages and be added to the Articles page. Observe improvements, other changes, and vandalism to these articles with the recent changes function.