Wikipedia:WikiProject Tango

Tango is a folk culture of music and dance with more than 100 years' history. Its origin was in the South American immigrant cities of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, but with touring musicians and stage shows, has spread around the world rapidly. In over 90 countries there are groups of hard-core afficionados who turn tango into a lifestyle.

Unlike most other forms of dance genres like ballet or swing, tango is more popular among adults and older people than the young. In 2009 Tango is inducted into the United Nation's list of Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

Although there are many scattered sources of information about the Tango on the internet, many of them has disappeared. Partly this is because websites and mailing lists have declined in popularity, and social media, chatrooms and online video streams have taken their places. Unfortunately this means that many published information about this subject has become more ephemeral.

Scope

The aim of WikiProject Tango is to create a curated taxonomy for the Tango in the various Wikipedia resources.

• Most of the visible work will be to improve Portal:Tango
• Also to improve Template:Tango

Please feel free to ask questions on our talk page.

Related Websites

Currently there are at least three Wiki-like sites covering general subject of Tango:

• [tango.info/wiki](https://tango.info/wiki)
• [tangowiki.org](https://tangowiki.org)
• [tejastango.com](https://tejastango.com)

Project Plan

This project begins in mid-2022.

Phase 1 - Organise the existing Tango pages on Wikipedia There are many pages, categories, lists, glossaries that are relevant to the Tango. In phase 1 we shall organise them into a taxonomy at Portal:Tango

Phase 2 - Cross link to outside data sources Several websites focus on music database, lyrics database, maps and calendars, festivals, competition results, etc. We will try to connect the relevant pages in Wikipedia to the outside sites.

Phase 3 - Create automation for Wikipedia Some of the data curated should be converted into reusable data sets for export and sharing. The project TangoData at Github is an crowd-sourced repository of open data.