MyWiki:WikiProject Japan/Ainu task force
{{Wikipedia:WikiProject Japan/Navbox}} The Ainu task force is a task force of WikiProject Japan aimed at increasing the number and improving the quality of Wikipedia articles on the indigenous Ainu people of northern Japan and adjoining Russian regions, their history and culture. Please note that this task force overlaps the areas covered by the Culture task force.
Wikipedia Ainu?
[edit source]If you are interested in supporting the creation of a Wikipedia Ainu, please see the discussion at meta:Requests for new languages/Wikipedia Ainu 2, and the current incubator (25 articles as of June 2012) at incubator:Wp/ain.
Open tasks
[edit source]Cleanup
[edit source]- Ainu music (dense and needs sectioning, smoothing)
Expand
[edit source]Populate
[edit source]- Category:Ainu literature? To include oral literature (yukar) or just written?
- Category:Yukar
- Category:Ainu cuisine
- Category:Ainu politics
Requested articles
[edit source]- Ainu beverages?
- Ainu Moshiri (redirect Mosir?)
- Ainu Party of Japan
- Discography of the Ainu
- Upopo, genre of music
- Ainu Rebels (musical/cultural group)
- Ainu Arts Project
- Law for the Promotion of Ainu Culture
Requested biographies
[edit source]- Shoji Yuk, political activist
- Koji Yuki, cultural revivalist
- Mina Sakai, tonkori player
- Atsushi Sakai (musician), musician
- Jirota Kitahara, yukar scholar
- Sayo Ogasawara, author
Image needed
[edit source]Specific questions
[edit source]- In tonkori, citation evidencing that the parts of the musical instrument are described metaphorically as female anatomy?
Sources
[edit source]- A. H. Savage Landor. Alone With the Hairy Ainu, or 3,800 Miles on a Pack Saddle In Yezo and a Cruise to the Kurile Islands. John Murray, Albemarle Street, London 1893. Antiquated source, but interesting (albeit biased) observations and sketches.
New articles
[edit source]- Bibliography of the Ainu (June 2012)
Templates
[edit source]You can add {{WikiProject Japan|ainu=yes}} to the top of the Talk page of articles that are related to this project. This will place the following to the top of the page:
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Stub template
[edit source]You can add {{Ainu-stub}} to the bottom of any article dealing with Ainu issues that is still at stub length:
 | This article about the Ainu people is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
Current participants
[edit source]Please keep the list alphabetical by username, and include month of joining.
- Cdjp1 (talk · contribs) (August 2025)
- Coastaline (talk · contribs) (September 2020)
- erynamrod (talk · contribs) (September 2018)
- Jarble (talk · contribs) (May 2012)
- MatthewVanitas (talk · contribs) (May 2012)
- Michitaro (talk · contribs) (May 2012)
- Nihonjoe (talk · contribs) (March 2013)
- OtharLuin (talk · contribs) (November 2022)
- Sturmgewehr88 (talk · contribs) (February 2014)
- Worldish2024 (talk · contribs) (December 2024)