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Welcome to the Africa-related regional notice board, a notice board for things particularly relevant to Wikipedians working on articles related to Africa. With the advent of WikiProject Africa, this page has transferred some of its subpages and will be dropping some of its project-like functions, instead serving as a place to inform people of what's happening with Africa-related content.

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[edit] News and announcements

  • Mali is currently a good article nominee. Anyone who has not contributed significantly to this article may review it according to the good article criteria to decide whether or not to list it as a good article, as outlined on the nominations page. NOTE: the user who nominated this article has not begun the review process yet, but any user (who hasn't contributed to the article) may do so. To start the review process, follow this link to create a dedicated subpage for the review. T L Miles (talk) 18:55, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
    • Mali now listed as a Good Article, though it still needs work in Culture, Post Mali Empire History (IMHO). T L Miles (talk) 14:49, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
  • Starting a stub on 2007-2008 world food price rises, which is particularly hitting Africa. The FAO has a whole page on it at http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation, and there are some starting points at the BBC. Any help for the macro-economically minded is appreciated. T L Miles (talk) 15:17, 4 April 2008 (UTC)
  • Need photos and maps (especially agriculture and climate related)? Try the USDA site: there are constant rainfall and climate map updates, and photos, including non-agriculture images. Those created for the US gov. can be uploaded to commons with {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}} as Public Domain.T L Miles (talk) 18:58, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
  • At the risk of mucking things up I've created Category:European colonisation in Africa, under which I'm creating national sub-cats (i.e. Category:French colonisation in Africa). I only chose "Colonisation" as opposed to "colonialism" because the top article was Colonisation. I posted something about this at the AfricaProject in July 2007, but never had the nerve to make a major category change, and I can use folks help. Hope this helps streamline things. Just take a look at Category:British Empire to see how spread out and random things currently are. T L Miles (talk) 20:14, 25 January 2008 (UTC)
  • Made a start on South African Arms Deal - please help out with details and references for this skeleton in the ANCs closet. Wizzy…☎ 11:57, 26 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Could folks (especially those with some academic background) take a look at Tuareg, notably the section on social structure and slavery. While I have much sympathy with Tuareg peoples, it seems monitored by folks with an interest in not discussing the Tuareg history of bonded communities, slave trade, or poor relations with their neighbors. (see the talk page) Citations are especially desired. T L Miles (talk) 15:54, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
  • Hi all - I am busy organising the Wikipedia Academy South Africa, scheduled for mid-November. We're trying to get as many wikipedians in South Africa involved, if you're interested, please mail me, and we can discuss this further.Rebamex 13:46, 16 October 2007 (UTC)
  • The Mo Ibrahim Foundation has published its first Index of African Governance. This may be another source to mine for information on human rights, corruption, economic development, and other aspects in African country articles. — Amcaja (talk) 05:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)
  • The text at am:Wikipedia:Can't see the font? has been used to create the local Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic). Please change any links on en appropriately. Thanks, BanyanTree 21:37, 4 September 2007 (UTC)
    On a related note, Template:Contains Ethiopic text may be used in place of the 'Please see the instructions' notes currently in use in articles. - BanyanTree 03:08, 5 September 2007 (UTC)
  • Trade unions in Botswana and Trade unions in Benin are two newly minted articles. They could use some expert eyes. Cheers. --Bookandcoffee 23:21, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
As could Trade unions in Tanzania.--Carabinieri 08:58, 17 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I stumbled across a new (to me) licensing template, commons:Template:PD-UN, and have made a local copy at {{PD-UN}}. I'm slightly wary of the exact wording of the relevant UN legalese, but my understanding is that, as long as the relevant media is not also being used for an item the UN is selling, UN media is now free game. Assuming that the template isn't crushed by some legal argument that no one has mentioned thus far, this would obviously be a huge windfall, given the relative lack of media relating to Africa under GFDL-compatible licenses. - BanyanTree 05:18, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
  • We really need information on the current political stalemate in Malawi. Wizzy…☎ 10:00, 7 August 2007 (UTC)
    • What's the current focus article on the events? - BanyanTree 04:20, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
      • I would suggest creating Joseph Mwanyungwa and putting the information on the raid in his biography. The information on the parliamentary stalemate could go in either History of Malawi or Politics of Malawi, I suppose. Picaroon (t) 04:43, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
        • Article created. It still needs to be linked into other relevant articles. Thanks, BanyanTree 08:21, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
  • I just discovered a potentially valuable online source for information on Africa: Michigan State University hosts the African e-Journals project, a collection of bibliographical information on scholarly journals published in Africa, the complete texts of 11 such periodicals, & what appears to be a rich colectino of links to similar collections. Have a look, mine its resources, & help publicize this needed resource. -- llywrch 23:59, 4 August 2007 (UTC)
  • The notability of 2007 Swazi general strike has been questioned. —Nightstallion 15:00, 28 July 2007 (UTC)

Archives: 2006-11-05/2008-04-04.

[edit] General suggestions for Africa editors

  • The to-do list from the Africa portal ({{Portal:Africa/Things you can do}}) may be used as an open tasks template:

Here are some things you can do:

  • Create: Bonteheuwel, Coptic Evangelical Church, Education in Swaziland, Jean-Marie Koné, Nazi Boni, more...


  • Many African countries have an official non-native language that isn't English. In many countries it's French. In addition, France, Italy, Greece, Spain, etc. are close to Northern Africa. So if you're looking at a poorly-written article and speak another language, consult the non-English article links to find additional information to mine for the English-language page.
  • Verify any CIA factbook information you cite. Smaller African countries are less frequently updated and often contain outdated information.
  • Tag countries and capital cities, significant topics and articles with {{WPCD}} on their Talk pages to ensure inclusion on a CD HTML version of Wikipedia. Good coverage is the discriminator.

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[edit] Africa Award

Guy Smiley is awarded this Africa Award for exemplary work on Africa-related articles. Presented by Amcaja from the Africa-related regional notice board
Guy Smiley is awarded this Africa Award for exemplary work on Africa-related articles. Presented by Amcaja from the Africa-related regional notice board

Users may present the Africa Award to anyone doing good work on Africa-related topics. This includes article creation or expansion, map design, image uploading, even redirecting and stub sorting. Users who have listed themselves above are of course eligible, but don't neglect to award users who may not have heard of the regional notice board.

Credit goes to Jcw69 for the beautiful design. Suggestions on a better name are welcome. — Amcaja 19:09, 13 December 2005 (UTC)

  • NB: Because the award displayed to right is posted on this page, the text "Africa-related regional notice board" appears in bold text. If it is copied and pasted to another page, it will appear as a wikilink.

[edit] Wikipedians actively working on Africa-related topics

  • —iFaqeer (Talk to me!)
  • Peregrine981 09:53, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Ambi 12:19, 7 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • SimonP 18:01, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC)
  • Mustafaa 10:57, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • — mark ✎ 12:33, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC) (African languages & linguistics, ethnolinguistics, history, maps)
  • Neutrality/talk 00:25, Dec 13, 2004 (UTC)
  • Rjhatl 12:31, 22 Dec 2004 (UTC)
  • Grutness|hello? 13:18, 7 Jan 2005 (UTC) (but I'm only moving general geography stubs into Africa-geo-stubs for now)
  • Mount Pleasant (available to help out/open to suggestions, esp. Southern Africa, post-colonial politics & issues) --Mount Pleasant 16:13, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC)
  • Jcw69 (talk) --- looking after articles relating to southern africa
  • Warofdreams 13:48, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC) - working on sub-Saharan Africa, especially places.
  • Tuf-Kat 01:25, Feb 14, 2005 (UTC) - all kinds of world music, (especially) including African
  • BanyanTree 17:14, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) - (Greater Horn, Great Lakes, and conflict/politics)
  • Dewet 17:35, 14 Feb 2005 (UTC) - Southern Africa, especially the Western Cape.
  • Ombudsman 08:02, 14 Mar 2005 (UTC) - primatology
  • — Matt Crypto 22:46, 28 Mar 2005 (UTC) — the odd Kenyan or Tanzanian topic.
  • Gyrofrog (talk) — watching and editing (and occasionally creating) articles about Ethiopia
  • TreveX 00:49, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)
  • Gicheru 03:21, 29 May 2005 (UTC) Decolonization of Africa
  • Amcaja 18:32, 22 Jun 2005 (UTC) (talk) — writing articles on all things Cameroonian
  • Dvyost 07:09, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC) pitching in where I can
  • Guaka, Mali, West Africa, languages (working on the Bambara Wikipedia)
  • Revolución 03:35, 30 July 2005 (UTC)
  • Acntx 07:06, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
  • Szvest 22:49, August 27, 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up™
  • Codex Sinaiticus 18:55, 30 August 2005 (UTC) በ አማርኛ ዊኪፔድያ (Amharic Wikipedia) መጋቢ
  • llywrch -- Been working primarily on Ethiopian history topics for several months now, mostly biographies. Comments welcome.
  • Smmurphy 05:06, 29 October 2005 (UTC) - esspecially Sierra Leone
  • Sonelle (talk) 13:21, 14 November 2005 (UTC) Southern African articles (as time permits)
  • Wikiacc (talk) Been working on various random African country articles for some time.
  • Ezeu: Been working on East African related topics, as well as African Music.
  • omoo (talk), working on East African (tanzania and kenya) articles, and preventing vandalism
  • Gozar 05:50, 18 December 2005 (UTC); Great Lakes, DR Congo, micellaneous
  • Huldra 15:22, 12 January 2006 (UTC): Tanzania, Kenya, Mali
  • Aldux 17:45, 12 January 2006 (UTC): Kenya, Zambia, Chad
  • Nausea 17:21, 14 January 2006 (UTC): Zimbabwe (economy), Sierra Leone (Regions), South Africa
  • htonl 01:18, 19 January 2006 (UTC): (South Africa geography, institutions, politics & government, with a Western Cape focus)
  • Guinnog 18:17, 19 January 2006 (UTC) : Botswana, Zimbabwe, South africa, Bantustans
  • David | Talk 13:45, 19 February 2006 (UTC): Working on Southern Rhodesia, Rhodesia and Zimbabwe politics and elections
  • JackyR: Mostly southern Africa, esp South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe. Gathering views about different usages of African language names.
  • ergot 23:46, 19 February 2006 (UTC): West Africa (esp. Nigeria); bios, politics, etc.
  • Joziboy 22:00, 1 March 2006 (UTC): South Africa, Zulu language and culture, Xhosa, South African English, Johannesburg, and various minor things...
  • Yom 04:36, 15 March 2006 (UTC): Mainly Ethiopia and Ethiopian History articles (began a few months ago).
  • SteveRwanda 06:39, 15 March 2006 (UTC): Mainly working on Rwanda articles.
  • Jaw101ie 21:02, 21 March 2006 (UTC) I mostly work on Libya related pages, Libya
  • AkinAjia 22:52, 11 April 2006 (UTC) : Mainly working on Yorubaland; bios, politics etc.
  • Xdamr 12:05, 21 April 2006 (UTC) : South Africa (1870-1950), Jan Smuts, Louis Botha, Jameson Raid.
  • Elf-friend 10:23, 24 May 2006 (UTC) : Mostly South and Southern Africa.
  • Mingus ah um 22:08, 27 May 2006 (UTC) : My primary focus is on the Middle East, but I will surely dabble in articles re: North Africa
  • KI : Chad, CAR, Sudan... and maybe Libya a little
  • Impi 15:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC) Mostly South Africa and military topics
  • Astrokey44 02:42, 13 July 2006 (UTC) geography, history
  • Kahuzi 13:55, 13 July 2006 (UTC) Mainly francophone Africa, especially Chad, Congo, DRC
  • Nannus 22:35, 4 August 2006 (UTC) Main Focus African music and dance, African languages, Cameroon
  • SteveH 14:04, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Southern African history, Christianity in Africa
  • Julius Sahara 17:40, 11 August 2006 (UTC) Mostly Kenya-related topics
  • Merhawie 17:41, 23 August 2006 (UTC) I work on anything Eritrea related.
  • -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:09, 4 September 2006 (UTC) - Mostly Western Sahara-related articles.
  • --McTrixie 18:03, 22 October 2006 (UTC) - corporations in Africa; banks, telecoms, etc.
  • Screensaver 22:45, 22 October 2006 (UTC) (History, Zambia, History of Namibia)
  • A12n 20:24, 3 December 2006 (UTC) : Mostly topics related to African languages, but also other articles on various sujects where I see a need (notably re West Africa); will eventually get into rural economy topics
  • --Dblomgren 04:10, 21 December 2006 (UTC) - Democratic Republic of Congo, Orientale Province villages and rivers, Zande and Lingala language so far.
  • Picaroon 03:32, 23 December 2006 (UTC) Mostly Nigeria
  • Zahir Mgeni 21:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC): esp but not only E Africa: anthropology, ethnobiology, languages, history (mchanganyiko)
  • Themalau 22:16, 30 January 2007 (UTC), Mostly DRC, and Francophone Africa.
  • --Thomas.macmillan 16:24, 4 February 2007 (UTC), all over Africa, mainly stubsorting and creating new stubs, with a particular interest in Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Namibia.
  • Mangwanani 16:20, 5 February 2007 (UTC), Mainly Zimbabwe - people, places and Africa stubs.
  • Bennelliott 22:00, 18 March 2007 (UTC), Mainly South Africa related stubs, and standardising throughout. Bennelliott • Talk • Contributions
  • T_L_Miles Trying to organise and flesh out French Imperialism in West and Central Africa
  • Mehmet Karatay 09:24, 19 June 2007 (UTC) Improving the Mount Kenya article, including working on the articles that link from Mount Kenya.
  • Richardshusr - Working on History of Liberia 07:06, 24 June 2007 (UTC)
  • Babakathy - Mainly Zimbabwe, especially geography stubs. Also climate issues. Babakathy 23:25, 29 July 2007 (UTC)