Wikipedia:WikiProject Islam/Mosques task force

This is a task force of WikiProject Islam.

Mission objectives

To organise all mosque articles in a consistent fashion. More precisely:

Top of my head generic tasks

Specific tasks

Page moves

Capitalise the m in mosque in the following: TBA

Categories still to be analysed

Make sure that all articles in the following categories have WPISLAM tags in their talk pages:

Mosque by country templates

Although all countries may not have mosques (yet), the following are templates that potentially need to be created:

Templates needing updating:

Categories needed

Articles needed

Unresolved issues and standardisation

There are presently many inconsistencies in mosque articles, many concerning standardisation.

Membership and duties

Please list below your username with the usual four tildes and what you would like to help out with (e.g., adding basic info. templates to all Uzbekistan mosques, or updating a category).

Standards

A typical mosque article should (?) have the following information as an absolute minimum:

I recently created a specific infobox for mosques. Please check it out at Template:Infobox mosque and see if you want to use it to standardise all mosque pages. I've already implemented it into the Masjid al-Haram and London Central Mosque articles. --Yenemus (talk) 19:36, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
I think its better to keep the old one (Template:Infobox religious building) since its more flexible. If you change all the mosque pages over to this new template, you'd be doing alot of unnecessary work just for the 'Leadership' section, which in most cases you won't even be able to fill in. ~ Toushiro 「 話 」 04:58, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for your reply, and I partly agree with you but I just think it needs some adjustments and is still a good idea. The religious building infobox is far too vague and it seems redundant to mention "Architectural type: mosque" and "Religious affilition: Islam" all the time when the word Mosque is in the page title. This is being discussed further at the talk page. --Yenemus (talk) 09:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)
Please use {{Infobox religious building}} at all times.
  • The religious_affiliation should be Islam, or, where known, the tradition of Islam (e.g. Sunni Islam, Shia Islam, Shia (Twelver), etc.), and always linked, that impacts on the color of the infobox. Regrettably, Sufism does not populate the color; so please use Sunni, and then add Sufism as the sect.
    • Where the building was a mosque, and is no longer a mosque (e.g. used for other purposes or destroyed / demolished, or abandoned / in a ruinous state, then, please add the word (former) after the linked religious_affiliation to change the color of the infobox from green to grey.
  • The status should reflect the use of the building as a mosque, Friday mosque, Dargah, Sufi shrine, etc.
  • The functional_status should reflect whether the mosque is currently used for worship (Active), or not longer used for worship (Abandoned, Closed, Ruinous state, Destroyed, Preserved (as a museum), Archaeological site, Under construction, etc.)
  • The architecture_type should reflect the design of the building that, in the majority of cases, will be Mosque architecture (not mosque), although, the building may have been initially designed for another purpose (Church, Hindu temple, etc.).
  • Where the building has been listed as an historic building, etc., under module, {{Infobox historic site}} should be embedded. There are many in India that are are good examples, such as Baba Lului's Mosque.
Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
  • The country should always be a seperate line, and linked; and not added to the location line.
  • Generally speaking, only the location and country should be used. Please ignore territory, state, municipality, region, etc
Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
  • Add categories for Mosque buildings with domes by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified.
  • Add categories for Mosque buildings with minarets by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified.
  • Add categories for Mosques by architectural design by design category, difusing the use of the generic category of Islamic architecture as much as much as possible.
  • Add categories for Mosques by century by country, where volume is justified, otherwise, use by continent, where volume is not justified. Categories tend to diffuse from the 12th century, by continent; and from the 14th century by country.
  • Please do not use the initials AD, as this is linked to Christianity. Instead, please use CE. Better still, and where known, use {{AH}} for Hijri years or {{BH}} when the date is before 1 AH (622/623 CE).
Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)
Where volume is justified.
Rangasyd (talk) 01:21, 18 February 2025 (UTC)

Assessment and quality

Mosque articlesTotal
Quality
FA 0
FL 0
A 0
GA 12
B 35
C 210
Start 1025
Stub 1327
List 114
Category 1369
Disambig 14
Draft 10
FM 9
Project 3
Redirect 49
Template 154
Assessed 4336
Unassessed 0
Total 4336

Categories checked

The following categories have been analysed to check that all mosque articles in that category have the WPISLAM tag on their talk pages. Please add to this list if ( :) ) and once you have checked. Please also update the Quality and Importance table above: