Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Metros of the former Soviet Union

message: Well gentlemen and (with luck, one day, :) ladies, we have began something that I had hoped to start ever since I got here back in autumn 2005... long time ago, yes, but anyway here we go. Now the most important thing to understand is that, for me anyway, most of the work will be focused on station articles... Let's face it there are only 21 systems, double that the amount of lines... but for stations... there will be 500+ articles. Now that is a LOT. And it will not be easy to keep an eye on all of those articles let alone write them. 
I must say I am AGAINST creating stubs and discourage people from doing so, and instead of having something like Voykovskaya or Grazhdansky Prospekt, I suggest people make an effort and take it to the level of Vyrlytsia or Varshavskaya from scratch... (create the stubs in your sandboxes...and publish them when they are fully complete...
Now then talking about article structure it is crucially important that people follow the guidelines layed out here. 
In addition to all that it is important to remeber that all of our systems are being actively developed and plans and designs change by the hour. Now alone it would be impossible to follow all that, but for those of you who can read Russian, I STRONGLY recommend joining this forum which I moderate. 
Now then, wrt to the project itself, I want people to put all ideas forward right now, because in our plans is to launch a portal and then we can really let the world know of the jewels that lie under our cities! Good luck everybody! --Kuban Cossack 14:45, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: We are off!

message: * See the layout of cs metro templates :cs:Wikipedie:Šablony/Doprava/Metro These templates of course can be modified, but - and this is important - they do not take any space from the right side ot the article. The reason are the images - in many articles en.wiki has many problems with them; they are under the template, under all text. This solutes the problem good, but takes quite a lot of time to use them in all stations. --Aktron 17:50, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm, fine. It was just an proposal :-) I have widescreen notebook display too. As I have seen in Kashirskaya article, we can deal with this quite well. But what about people with smaller resolutions? Galleries are also good; 4 images will be in one line and that I think it could be enough for each station. I just wanted to implement here the same system as works well on cs., but here is different system. --Aktron 19:04, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well in the end we must remember that this system works, I am not saying the Cs one is bad, but it has its advantages and disadvantages. Netherlands wiki managed to alter it in such a way that you can drop and hide it... I'll give it a go in my sb. --Kuban Cossack 19:32, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Template reogranization proposal 

message: Speaking of images, then wrt I was saying in the first paragraph, a station article w/o an image is effectively useless... Now there are complications that come wrt images, particularly as some systems forbid amateur photography. As far as I am aware:Saint Petersburg, Baku and Kazan have zero tolerance to amateur photography. Luckily Kazan Metro. In question of which sites allow free image distribution then it is the following:walks.ru's owner, Alexey Troshin has allowed free usage of his images on commons, (there is even a special license template for them). mymetro.ru has also allowed for GDFL. Kharkov Transportny and Skorostnoy Tramvay have allowed atribution-any purpose license. I encourage people to write e-mails to various site owners asking to expand our allowed database of images.--Kuban Cossack 18:28, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I could also add that Tashkent forbids taking images too. --Aktron 19:06, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I am yet to see a complete gallery of Tashkent online for that reason...--Kuban Cossack 19:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

text: I will be in Ukraine for two months (but not until summer) and will be able to take photographs of the Kiev Metro stations... so hopefully we'll have some good photographs after that... I remember that photography used to be prohibited in the Kiev Metro, is it still prohibited? Well if it is, I believe we can upload the images under fairuse right now, as we will not be able to obtain free use images... —dima/s-ko/ 02:50, 2 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No none of the Metros in the Ukraine have any restrictions, at least based on my knowledge.--Kuban Cossack 13:38, 3 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Images

message: Ok then, to kick-start our collaboration, I propose we begin with the station articles about stations that will open later this year. Now for those who know much about the our Metros, they will discover that to foresee an opening of a station is impossible, and thus the following list is sketchy. Nonetheless it be good if we begin with those articles. So here is the forecast for 2007:
#In June the eight station Rossiyskaya of the Samara Metro will open
#Two stations of Minsk Metro: Borisovsky Trakt and Uruchye (September)
#Two in Moscow:Sretensky Bulvar and Trubnaya (September)
#In November the first extension of the Kazan Metro - Prospekt Pobedy will open.
#Some time after that - the Kiev Metro station Krasny Khutor will follow.
Now there is plenty of press going about those stations, so let's see if we can keep on top of them all.--Kuban Cossack 18:28, 1 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: OK Slavyansky Bulvar is now finished, we already have Borisovsky Trakt and Uruchye...Can we make some sort of a portal notice or something? In any case I shall start on Trubnaya very soon.--Kuban Cossack 23:31, 8 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well I got two more done, Trubnaya and Krasny Khutor... so that's five already...two more left and then we need to code a template for it...the good news is that renderings of all the station's are available, the bad news is that sometimes I feel this project was launched for myself only :( WHERE IS ALL THE ENTHUSIASM???--Kuban Cossack 21:17, 20 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Our project

message: I am watching this wikiproject today, and I can see very surprising thing - no activity. Nobody is writing new articles, cooperation or will to do something is absolutely none. I think we have two opportunities now - to terminate this project somehow, or to try to reemerge it. I will surely help, if some activity would be seen. --Aktron (t|c) 21:25, 26 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well the problem is that my activity in this sector has fallen, as has that of numerous others. It is nice to have it, and moreover there are several users who make contributions, in particular User:Camerafiend, User:Elk Salmon and User:Goudzovski. Unfortunately none of them have actually joined the new project yet. I thought when intiating it that this would stimulate them, and others, to increase their volume of contributions. Unfortunately it looks like the opposite has happened. I myself just returned from a lengthy break am dissapointed to dicover this. --Kuban Cossack 11:46, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well, I plan recetly to be more active in en. and ru. wikipedias, reeemrging the SOVMETRO wikiproject should be also added. Of course, there are some unique Czech articles (even without ru. counterpart) relating to the topic. I think translating some of them is what we currently need. --Aktron (t|c) 13:38, 18 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks a lot. I will return to writing articles. However my time on wikipedia is also limited, and certainly one person cannot run a wikiproject. Like I said when I initially initiated it I thought we would have at least 6 people who would make regular contributions. I will try to lobby them once more. --Kuban Cossack 10:44, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I have a bad feeling about this... 

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message: I'd like to draw the participants' attention to this opened discussion and to ask for comments there. As relatively few enwiki users are familiar with the transliteration rules, the topic remains unanswered yet, while it is inappropiate to keep the current name.--Microcell (talk) 19:26, 23 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Renaming request 

message: Perhaps it may be beneficial for readers to have a single article about a station complex than two or three articles about several platforms? Artem Karimov (talk) 20:16, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: unification of station complexes into one article 

message: It looks like that SOVMETRO is almost dead. Therefore I propose to close it. Maybe it is better to unite under national projects like WP:RUSMETRO once again in the future. Artem Karimov (talk) 22:49, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal: closure of SOVMETRO 

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