Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa

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WikiProject Africa

This WikiProject is about Africa.
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template:		 {{AfricaProject}}
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userbox:		 {{User Africa Project}}
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Welcome to the Africa WikiProject.

The current top three tasks are

  • Tag article talk pages with {{AfricaProject | class=| importance=}}
  • Discuss the scope on the project talk page
  • Improve the article for February's collaboration of the month: Uganda.

See all open tasks.

Contents

[edit] Goals

  • Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Africa.
  • Improve and maintain the navigation aids (tables of contents and indexes) for Africa-related topics on Wikipedia. See List of basic Africa topics and Category:Africa.
  • Improving Africa-related articles, making them more informative and better written.
  • Create guidelines for articles about items related to Africa.
  • Become even somewhat like WikiProjekt Afrika.

[edit] Scope

  • The project covers all articles about people, places, things, and events associated with the African continent.
  • It covers all Africa-related topics not covered by WikiProject African diaspora.

[edit] Related projects

[edit] Descendant projects

[edit] Project work groups

[edit] Members

  1. Emiellaiendiay 21:56, 19 February 2007 (UTC). Founder
  2. Thomas.macmillan 23:21, 19 February 2007 (UTC)
  3. FayssalF - Wiki me up ® 09:23, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  4. --Toussaint 23:44, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  5. Xdamrtalk 23:56, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
  6. Warofdreams talk 00:01, 22 February 2007 (UTC)
  7. Darwinek 21:17, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
  8. Belovedfreak 18:44, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
  9. Mangwanani 15:08, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  10. A12n 15:23, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  11. Picaroon 21:29, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  12. Scott Free 22:44, 4 March 2007 (UTC)
  13. -Halqh حَلَقَة הלכהሐላቃህ 21:07, 12 March 2007 (UTC)
  14. Smmurphy(Talk) 21:44, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  15. --Guinnog 21:49, 14 March 2007 (UTC)
  16. nausea 06:52, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  17. Meateatingvegan 22:47, 15 March 2007 (UTC)
  18. Nannus 19:25, 16 March 2007 (UTC)
  19. Malangali 12:05, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  20. Aldux 19:02, 19 March 2007 (UTC)
  21. gozar 01:09, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
  22. Julius Sahara 18:16, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
  23. Howard C. Berkowitz 03:03, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  24. Rarelibra 10:52, 28 March 2007 (UTC) Maps - lots and lots of maps. :)
  25. Nish81 13:40, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
  26. Haytham abulela11:09, 1 April 2007 (GMT +4)
  27. Punkmorten 20:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
  28. Gallador 12:17, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
  29. Part 12:17, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
  30. Louse 01:46, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
  31. AliFazal 18:38, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
  32. Taharqa 23:00, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
  33. Anonymous Dissident
  34. Themalau 09:20, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
  35. Wikimasri 02:17, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
  36. Heather 18:15, 27 April 2007 (UTC)
  37. Natsubee 10:55, 1 May 2007 (UTC)
  38. Africa Festival
  39. --Ezeu 23:25, 8 May 2007 (UTC)
  40. Gagman385 12:43, 9 May 2007 (UTC)
  41. John Carter 20:34, 17 May 2007 (UTC)
  42. Omoo 12:25, 9 June 2007 (UTC)
  43. Mattkenn3 14:49, 18 June 2007 (UTC)
  44. Tanzanite 19:17, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
  45. T L Miles 17:01, 12 July 2007 (UTC)
  46. Harlowraman 03:50, 16 July 2007 (UTC)
  47. Black Falcon (Talk) 20:05, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
  48. Marco Alfarrobinha {chat}contributions 00:11, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
  49. LarryQ 03:07, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
  50. Æetlr Creejl 22:10, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
  51. Tristan benedict 09:29, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
  52. Yahel Guhan 03:26, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
  53. Wikiacc (?) 02:11, 6 October 2007 (UTC) - finally got around to it after being invited in March
  54. Kain Nihil 11:39, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
  55. gamblingbear October 2007
  56. SteveH (talk) 08:41, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
  57. JTB01 (Talk) 12:05, 17 November 2007(UTC)
  58. Quimbaraquimba (talk) 05:31, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
  59. The4532The4532 (talk) 21:43, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
  60. Green Giant (talk) 01:20, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  61. Ajisekanla (talk) 14:10, 12 December 2007 (UTC)
  62. Muddyb Blast Producer (talk) 07:14, 3 January 2008 (UTC)
  63. GoLLoMboje (talk) 09:56, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
  64. Kaly99 (talk) 19:23, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
  65. ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ Talk? 12:03, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
  66. Sadalmelik (talk) 07:12, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
  67. Nishkid64 (talk) 03:11, 20 February 2008 (UTC)
  68. Michel Doortmont (talk) 12:23, 28 February 2008 (UTC)
  69. Kevin Patterson
  70. Ten Islands (talk) 21:16, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
  71. User:Damian Doyle (talk) 22:15, 10 March 2008.
  72. Editorofthewiki 18:48, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
  73. Robbie Honerkamp (talk) 15:07, 13 March 2008.
  74. Todgar - linguistics and social/cultural anthropology
  75. Cattus talk 00:51, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
  76. Shanbhag.rohan
  77. Smallbig (talk)
  78. bessala (talk)
  79. passionforafrica - social and environmental history, social anthropology, climate vulnerability and adaptation (talk)
  80. Chris Lowe 1 May 2008 (talk)
  81. Mounblow 15 May 2008 (talk)
  82. EJF (talk) 20:59, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
  83. Ekhaya2000 (talk) 06:53, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
  84. Kuiseb (talk) 11:20, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Userboxes

[edit] Project members

Members of this project may add the following userbox to their userpages.

Userbox Code
This user is a member of WikiProject Africa.

{{User Africa Project}}

[edit] African members

If you're from Africa, these userboxes and categories are also available.

Userbox Code
This user comes from Africa.
{{User Africa}}
This user comes from Algeria.
{{User Algeria}}
This user comes from Angola.
{{User Angola}}
This user comes from Botswana.
{{User Botswana}}
This user comes from Burundi.
{{User Burundi}}
This user comes from Chad.
{{User Chad}}
This user comes from Egypt.
{{User Egypt}}
This user comes from Morocco.
{{User Morocco}}
This user comes from Nigeria.
{{User Nigeria}}
This user comes from South Africa.
{{User South Africa}}
This user comes from Tanzania.
{{User Tanzania}}
This user comes from Zimbabwe.
{{User Zimbabwe}}
Category Code
Wikipedians in Africa Category: Wikipedians in Africa
Wikipedians in Algeria Category:Wikipedians in Algeria
Wikipedians in Cape Verde Category:Wikipedians in Cape Verde
Wikipedians in Egypt Category:Wikipedians in Egypt
Wikipedians from Eritrea Category:Wikipedians from Eritrea
Wikipedians in Morocco Category:Wikipedians in Morocco
Wikipedians in Rwanda Category:Wikipedians in Rwanda
Wikipedians in South Africa Category:Wikipedians in South Africa
Wikipedians in Tanzania Category:Wikipedians in Tanzania
Wikipedians in Zimbabwe Category:Wikipedians in Zimbabwe

[edit] Open tasks

Africa WikiProject
Current Collaboration:
Uganda

[edit] Articles

Africa
articles		 Importance
Top High Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 7 3 2 20 32
A 1 2 3 6
Good article GA 4 2 8 3 20 37
B 58 28 21 11 210 328
Start 33 93 169 134 1802 2231
Stub 29 180 352 909 7696 9166
List 6 4 17 283 310
Assessed 132 314 556 1074 10034 12110
Unassessed 2 2 5 7 4023 4039
Total 134 316 561 1081 14057 16149

All tagged articles are found below, sorted into their respective classes.

[edit] By assessment

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Needing work

If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here. There should be no more than 20 articles listed at one time. Put the newest at the top and delete from the bottom when the total is over 20.

Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~

  1. Wikipedia:Translation/Félix_Houphouët-Boigny, Start class. A cooperative translation from French Wikipedia's fr:Félix Houphouët-Boigny, which was a Featured article there, has begun. Please signup at the link above. T L Miles (talk) 14:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  2. Brigadier A. A. Africa ?? D.S.O. Chairman, National Liberation Council for Apollo_11_Goodwill_Messages#Ghana --Termer 06:08, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
  3. Zémidjan, stub. I started it, don't have time to develop it into a proper article yet. Anyone have a better picture? (Bengl 02:01, 30 September 2007 (UTC))
  4. Big Brother Africa 2, start. Just needs more editors and attention - references are widely available, it just needs more input. Seaserpent85Talk 00:07, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
  5. Viriato da Cruz, start. Angolan politician & poet. Needs copy editing and references. Belovedfreak 11:54, 26 June 2007 (UTC)
  6. The Historical Background to Church Activities in Zambia, This is a new article, but based on previous work and I need assistance to bring it up to the correct Wikipedia standards. Thanks.
  7. Ashanti, article. I think the article could be expanded and refined. It's still a bit rough and some of the information even if its true or beneficial will be deleted without proper citation. Research on this subject shouldn't be too difficult. Higher standards

[edit] All

For the permanent and complete list of articles that need expanding, copy editing, wikification, photos to be added, or even creation,

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Articles to be written or improved

[edit] Templates and categories

Please use these templates where applicable.

[edit] General templates

Template Use on Description
{{Africa}} Article pages Africa series infobox
{{AfricaProject}} Article talk pages Africa WikiProject banner, to be placed on all Africa article talk pages
  • class is optional - see the Assessment page for more information on classifying. Be bold, and assess!
  • If you don't want to assess, you can write {{AfricaProject | class=}} Someone else will do the assessment later.
{{Africa Current collaboration}} Article talk page Current Collaboration of the Month
{{User Africa Project}} User pages User box to show that you're a project member
{{subst:WP Africa Invitation}} User talk pages Invitation to user to join project
{{subst:Africa Welcome}} User talk pages Welcome box for new participants' talk pages
{{Africa Navigation}} WikiProject pages Africa WikiProject Navigation box
{{portal|Africa|Africa satellite orthographic.jpg}} Article pages and categories Africa portal
{{The AfricaProject Award}} Project Award

[edit] Stub templates

A list of Africa-related stub templates can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Stubs. If you notice that any are missing, please add them.

[edit] Categories

[edit] WikiProject categories

Template Description
[[Category:WikiProject Africa]] Add to every Africa project page.

[edit] All categories