Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Ryukyu task force

WikiProject Ryukyu
	This WikiProject is about Ryukyu.
Shortcuts	WP:RYUKYU, WP:OKINAWA
Categories	Ryukyu Islands, WikiProject Ryūkyū
Wikimedia Commons	Ryukyu Islands
Parent; project(s)	Japan
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Japan\|ryukyu=yes}}
Userboxes	{{WP:WikiProject Japan/Ryukyu task force/userbox}}; {{User WikiProject Ryukyu}}
Helps organise child projects?	No
Has goals?	Yes
Assessment	Assessment
Popular pages	WP:WikiProject Japan/Ryukyu task force/Popular pages
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

This is a task force, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!

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WikiProject Japan (Talk)

Founded: 18 March 2006 (19 years, 5 months and 9 days ago) Articles: 97,924 (197 featured)
Shortcuts WP:JA • WP:JP • WP:JPN • WP:WPJ • WP:Japan • WP:JAPAN
Project pages Article guidelines • Assessment • Barnsensu • Collaboration • Recognized content • Popular pages • Requested (Japan, government, anime & manga, seiyū) • Reviews (A-Class, Peer) • Translation • Participants (inactive) • ToDo (cleanup)
Project references Arts and crafts glossary • Film credits glossary • Reference library • Reliable sources • Unusual place names • Year conversion
Task forces Ainu • Baseball↔ • Bibliography • Biography • Business & economy • Cars • Cinema↔ • CJKV↔ • Culture • Districts and municipalities (guideline)↔ • Education • Flora and fauna • Food and drink • Gaijin tarento • Geography & environment • History • Infrastructure • Karate↔ • Law & government • Military history↔ • Music • Mythology • Owarai • Photo • Politics • Prefectures • Religion • Royalty and nobility • Science & technology • Shinto • Sport • Tokyo • Transwiki↔ • Update ↔ = joint task force
Project links Category • Deletions • List • Japan • Meta • MOS (Japan, Anime, municipality guideline) • New articles • Notice board • Portals: Japan, Ancient Japan, Anime, Buddhism, Nintendo, Tokyo
Child projects Anime and manga (Dragon Ball, Yu-Gi-Oh!) • Entertainment (Hello! Project, Tokusatsu) • Games (Digimon, Final Fantasy, Nintendo, PlayStation, Pokémon, Square Enix, Zelda) • Japan (Sumo, Trains/New)
Related pages Categories (Lists, Wikipedians) • Projects (Automobiles, Computer and video games, F1, Martial Arts, Mixed martial arts, MotoGP, Motorcycling, Motorsport, Sports Car Racing, WRC)
Recognition {{WPJ-Barnsensu}} (recipients) {{WikiProject Japan Barnstar 2.0}} (recipients) {{The Japan Barnstar of National Merit}} (recipients) {{The Most Noble Barnstar of National Honor}} (recipients)
Templates {{WikiProject Japan}} {{Japan current era date}} {{Japanese}} {{nihongo}} {{Nihongo2}} {{Nihongo3}} {{Nihongo foot}} {{Needhiragana}} {{Needkanji}}
Userboxes {{User WikiProject Japan}} {{User WP Japan}}
Project parentage Asia, Countries, East Asia, Geography
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The Ryukyu task force, or WikiProject Ryukyu, is a task force of WikiProject Japan created to increase the number and improve the quality of Wikipedia articles on the Ryukyu Islands, Ryukyuan history, and Ryukyuan culture. Please note that this task force overlaps the areas covered by other WP:Japan task forces.

To do list

See the ヰキプロジェクト琉球 To do list for a complete list of open and completed tasks.

The biggest task is adding {{WPJAPAN|ryukyu=yes}} to all talk pages of any page falling within the scope.

There are 66/94 tasks completed.

70.21% completed (Estimate)

Recent changes

List of abbreviations (help):

D: Edit made at Wikidata
r: Edit flagged by ORES
N: New page
m: Minor edit
b: Bot edit
(±123): Page byte size change

26 August 2025

diffhist m Okinawa Prefecture 20:57 +2 Ira Leviton talk contribs (Fixed a reference. Please see Category:CS1 errors: dates.)
diffhist Okinawa Prefecture 19:44 +1,001 BaragonTheHandsome talk contribs (Added agent orange history) Tag: Visual edit

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Did you know

04 Aug 2025 – Gunbuster (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Z. Patterson (t · c); see discussion
01 Aug 2025 – Oroku-baka Tomb (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by AirshipJungleman29 (t · c); see discussion

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Recognized content

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:Ryukyu task force articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident

Good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Resources

Members

Anyone who often contributes to Ryukyu-related pages may sign the members page. You may add one of the userboxes below to your user page after doing so.

Userboxes

Wikitext

userbox

where used

{{WP:WikiProject Japan/Ryukyu task force/userbox}}

This user is a member of
WikiProject Ryūkyū.

linked pages

{{User WikiProject Ryukyu}}

This user participates in
WikiProject Ryukyu.