Wikipedia:WikiProject South African municipalities

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This is a project to create, update, and expand the articles on municipalities in South Africa. District municipalities (Category C) are the second level of governmental subdivision, below provinces, while local municipalities (Category B) are subdivisions of district municipalities. There are also six metropolitan municipalities (Category A) which unify the functions of district and local municipalities for the six largest conurbations.

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[edit] Tasks

[edit] Templates

  • Generate an infobox template to be applied to municipality pages.
done Template:Zamuni is a translation of the excellent pt:Predefinição:Info/Município ZA, created by Tintazul.
  • Apply the infobox template to all local and district municipalities.

[edit] Standardising names

Rename (move) existing municipality articles, and create new ones, according to:

  • All local municipalities are named "XYZ Local Municipality".
  • All district municipalities are named "XYZ District Municipality".
  • Metro municipalities are treated as special cases, to be decided later by consensus (and left alone for now).
  • Where the name of the municipality doesn't refer to something else, a redirect page should be added from the municipality's name (without "Local/District Municipality") to the municipality's article.

The most accurate list of municipalities is available from the Municipal Demarcation Board in DBF format at [1].

[edit] Election results

  • After the 1 March 2006 municipal elections, check existing articles for information that has changed, particularly mayors' names and controlling parties.

[edit] Maps

  • Add a locator map showing its location within the province. User:Htonl generates these maps as SVG from the data issued by the MDB, and they are placed in the Commons and listed in the gallery commons:Maps of South African municipalities; if you want a copy of the scripts or a specific map to be generated, leave a message on his talk page.
  • Add a map showing:
    • if a district municipality, the constituent local municipalities;
    • otherwise, the electoral wards within the municipality.
User:Htonl can generate these maps similarly.

[edit] Census data

  • Include data on population density, education levels, etc from the Stats SA 2001 Census.
  • Generate graphs for data, such as age distribution, that can best be represented in that way.
  • Note New census data (aligned to the new boundaries) is now available - I have it if you're interested. I'll update the Stats when I have time.

Note: Kieran is willing to write a semi-bot to take care of this, and of the categories.

[edit] Categories and lists

  • Create subcategories of Category:Municipalities of South Africa for the district and metropolitan municipalities (done for the metropolitan).
  • Ensure that all municipalities are listed under the appropriate municipality categories, as well as provincial categories. (done for metro)
  • Create categories for the district municipalities, and list the local municipalities under the appropriate ones.
  • Clean up and update List of South African Municipalities.
    • See proposal at /Proposed new list.
      • Done. The list is fully up to date with the new naming convention and the new and changed municipalities that resulted from the abolition of cross-boundary municipalities. It now reflects the municipalities of the 1 March 2006 elections.

[edit] Towns and other conurbations which have articles

Find all South African town/village/city article, and, where it does not constitute a municipality itself (most cases):

  • Add a sentence on the page mentioning which municipality it lies in.
  • Add the article to a category for the municipality it lies in.

[edit] Members

  1. htonl 19:56, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  2. -Kieran 20:02, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
  3. Uxejn 17:33, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
  4. Paul Hjul 07:23, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
  5. Tintazul msg 21:57, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
  6. Kaasje 11:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)
  7. --Jcw69 06:26, 2 October 2006 (UTC) (I have added a large number of towns to wiki, its about time I added the municipality links)
  8. --Toussaint 04:14, 6 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] See also

[edit] Templates

[edit] Infobox

Template:Zamuni is available for use. Brief instructions and a link to an example are on the template page. Guidelines for use still need to be agreed on, although User:Tintazul, creator of the original Portugeuse version, has proposed some. (see talk page).

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