Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan

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We are a WikiProject, a group of registered Wikipedians, who try to improve articles related to the Kurdish geographical area (Kurdistan) and the people's culture within this territory. The Portal:Kurdistan is a part of our Project. Please don't hesitate to join the project by just writing down 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.

What is Kurdistan?

Kurdistan (literally meaning "the land of Kurds"; Ancient: Corduene, old: Koordistan, Curdistan, Kurdia) is the name of a geographic and cultural (but not political or administrative) region in the Middle East, inhabited predominantly by the Kurds. As a traditional ethnographic region, Kurdistan is generally held to include the contiguous regions in northern and northeastern Mesopotamia with large Kurdish populations. From a political standpoint, Iraqi Kurdistan is the only region which has gained an official recognition as a federal entity. The region was known by various cognates of the word Kurd during the ancient history of the Mesopotamia. The ancient Sumerians referred to it as Kur-a, Gutium, or Land of Karda, the Elamites as Kurdasu, the Akkadians as Kurtei, the Assyrians as Kurti, the Babylonians as Qardu, the Greeks as Carduchoi and the Romans as Corduene. more..

WikiProject Kurdistan

General information (edit · changes)

• Main Project Page
• Members
• Announcements
  • New articles
  • Open tasks
  • Project category
  • Kurdistan Portal
  • Kurdish Wikipedians' notice board

Departments

• Assessment
  • Statistics Table
• Outreach
• Review

Things to do

• FAC:
• FAR:
• FARC:

Article statistics

This list is generated automatically every night around 10 PM EST.
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Kurdistan articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	1						1
A			1				1
GA		1	3	5		1	10
B	12	33	30	42	1	21	139
C	10	35	74	151		65	335
Start	9	61	203	520	1	329	1,123
Stub		14	76	3,067	1	999	4,157
List	1	9	2	25	1	15	53
Category					712		712
Disambig					10		10
File					13		13
Portal					2		2
Project					10		10
Template					44		44
NA	2	9	30	29	109		179
Other				1	14		15
Assessed	35	162	419	3,840	918	1,430	6,804
Unassessed				1		38	39
Total	35	162	419	3,841	918	1,468	6,843
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 32,335			Ω = 5.61

Goals

• Improve the coverage of Kurdish parishes to more than just one line by added photos and infoboxes where appropriate
• To better organise and link together Kurdistan related articles throughout Wikipedia (festivals, customs etc.)
• Increase the detail of articles about Kurdish including illustrations and photos where appropriate
• Set a common style and categorize for Kurdish related articles
• Get the main Kurdistan article up to GA status at least
• Ensure that sub articles like History of Kurdistan are to a high standard.

Scope

The project generally considers any article related to Kurdistan, namely its history. (ss history we regard the study and interpretation of the record of humans, families, and societies as preserved primarily through written sources; in other words: culture, languages, all seen in their broadest senses.

Assessment of articles

Below is a bot generated table of the assessment process of Kurdistan articles. See also Wikipedia:WikiProject Kurdistan/Assessment. The stats are generated automatically every 24 hours or so, but they can be updated manually by entering Kurdistan (and replacing Foobar) into the Category box here.

Open tasks

Article alerts

Categories for discussion

• 06 Nov 2026 – Category:Yazidi religion (talk · edit · hist) CfDed by Nobedarê Dunav (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Files for discussion

• 03 Nov 2026 – File:2025 Erbil shooting.jpeg (talk · edit · hist) (on 2025 Erbil shooting) was FfDed by Donkeykong71818 (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 15 May 2026 – Chaldean Democratic Union Party (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by PresentlySuraye3 (t · c); start discussion
• 26 Apr 2026 – Turkish involvement in the Syrian civil war (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by OpalYosutebito (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 29 Oct 2026 – Yazidis (talk · edit · hist) move request to Yezidis by Nobedarê Dunav (t · c) was moved to Yezidis (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 05 Nov 2026; see discussion
• 29 Oct 2026 – Yazidism (talk · edit · hist) move request to Yezidism by Nobedarê Dunav (t · c) was moved to Yezidism (talk · edit · hist) by Jeffrey34555 (t · c) on 05 Nov 2026; see discussion

Articles to be split

• 22 Apr 2026 – Samsat (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Onceinawhile (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 04 Oct 2026 – Draft:Zakho Military College (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by PawWiki2 (t · c)

Project Barnstar

Place {{The Barnstar of Kurdish Merit}} to the talk page of users whom you might consider to make substantial contributions to articles relating to Kurdistan:

		The Barnstar of Kurdish Merit
		[your message]

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.