Wikipedia:WikiProject Niger

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Welcome to the WikiProject Niger! This group was formed to better organize articles on Niger in a spirit of cooperation.

[edit] Scope

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Niger, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Niger in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Niger or one of its subcategories.

[edit] Open tasks

Work on articles relating to Niger Tagged as needing work in the AfricaProject . Tag articles with {{AfricaProject | class= |Niger=yes}} and an assessment.
Assess the Unassessed Niger articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
Tag all Niger-relevant articles with {{AfricaProject | class= |Niger=yes}} and an assessment.
Add your name to the WikiProject Niger members list (below), and to the mebers list of our parent Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa.
Invite more users to join. WikiProject Africa with knowledge of or interest in Niger.
Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red). Sort through Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics for Niger related requests.
Create Niger subcategories and populate the created categories. Remove items from Category:Niger that ought to be in subcategories.
Look for open source photgraphs that can be uploaded to the Commons for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Niger.
Create basic Niger topic articles: see User:TUF-KAT/Topics by country for a list of links for every nation/every basic topic.
More things to do...

[edit] Template

Please add Niger-related articles by modifying or adding the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:

{{AfricaProject
|Class=List/Stub/Start/B/
|importance=Low/Mid/High/Top
|Niger=yes
|Niger-importance= Low/Mid/High/Top
}}

Note that these tags are case sensitive. Please see {{AfricaProject}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

[edit] Needing photos

Mali articles needing photos may be tagged with {{reqphoto|in=Niger}}. Those tagged need photos can be found at : Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Niger

[edit] Currently 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, and/or discuss it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Niger. 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). ~~~~

Niger, of course, should be the highest priority. The article is poor, mostly lifted from the US State Department. I'm trying to work on History of Niger and then integrate it in, but PLEASE dip in to the main article or any breakout articles at any time. I've requested semi-protection for the article, as most of my time spent on it is removing racist vandalism. T L Miles (talk) 15:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
Second Tuareg Rebellion, start. Current event: help it stay current and NPOV. T L Miles (talk) 19:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Niger participants

If you haven't already done so, please also add your name to the members list of our parent Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa.

John Carter 19:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
T L Miles (talk) 16:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
--Aldux (talk) 22:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

Members should also feel free to add {{User WikiProject Niger}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of this group.

[edit] Recognized content

Niger articles		Importance
Niger articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	GA					2	2
	B		1			12	13
	Start	3	6	1	1	94	105
	Stub	4	9	3	2	235	253
	List					9	9
	Assessed	7	16	4	3	352	382
	Unassessed		1			4	5
	Total	7	17	4	3	356	387

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

[edit] By assessment

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Assessment logs

Niger articles by quality log: A running log of every Niger tagged article. You can check these for those needing an assessment.
All AfricaProject articles by quality log: check these for those needing the "Niger=yes" tag and those needing assesments.

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

Berber people

[edit] Did You Know (DYK)s

Iferouane: 14 December 2007.

[edit] 2007 Schools Wikipedia Selections

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Lists

[edit] Templates

Template:NER (Flag template)

Stubs

Template:Niger-stub add {{Niger-stub}}
- Template:Niger-party-stub add {{Niger-party-stub}}
- Template:Niger-bio-stub add {{Niger-bio-stub}}
- Template:Niger-politician-stub add {{Niger-politician-stub}}
  - See list of all above at : Category:Niger_stubs
Template:Niger-geo-stub add {{Niger-geo-stub}}
- See list at : Category:Niger_geography_stubs

Navigation Templates

Politics

Sport

Arts

Geography

Maps

[edit] Resources

[edit] Wikimedia

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Niger

Wikinews has related news:

Niger

See other language project's Category:Niger articles at:

de:Kategorie:Niger: German
fr:Catégorie:Niger: French

[edit] Model citation

When translating article from fr:wikipedia, you may use this model under References:

*Much of the content of this article comes from [[:fr:ARTICLE NAME|the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article]] (retrieved MONTH DD [[YYYY]]).

Find more about Niger on Wikipedia's sister projects:
	Dictionary definitions
	Textbooks
	Quotations
	Source texts
	Images and media
	News stories
	Learning resources

[edit] External resources

Governments and NGOs

Government websites

The Niger government websites have often been inaccessable in the past. This is especially true of the domain names: http://www.niger-gouv.ne/ and The Délégué Général à l'Informatique (DELGI) http://www.delgi.ne., which appeared to go down on 27 April 2007. Late 2007 saw the relaunching of a number of government sites.

http://www.presidence.ne/ President of Niger
http://www.assemblee.ne/ National Assembly of Niger
http://www.communication-gouv-niger.ne/ Govenment communications office of Niger.
Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Niger (ORTN ): Niger state broadcaster, with information about and media from Voix du Sahel (Radio), Télé Sahel and TAL TV (TV)
http://www.niger-tourisme.com: Ministère du tourisme et de l'artisanat nigérien.
United Nations, Nigerien Conuslate in New York.
Invest in Niger: Centre de Promotion des Investissements Sis à la Chambre de Commerce d'Agriculture, d'Industrie et d'Atisanat du Niger.

Foreign Governments

Canadian International Development Agency:Niger.
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Travel Information for Niger.
Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International trade, TRAVEL REPORT: Niger.
United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Niger Travel Advice for British citizens.
United States Embassy, Niamey.
United States Peace Corps: Niger.
Friends of Niger: a United States group, largely former Peace Corps volunteers.
United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Niger profile.
United Kingdom Department of Intenational Development:Niger.
British Embassy to Niger: staff resident at Accra, Ghana.
French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Niger information.
French Embassy in Niamey.
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement au Niger: French government development office in Niger.
Direction de l’Environnement of Le Ministère de l’Hydraulique, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification (Evironmental Directorate of the Ministry of Water, Environment, and Counter - Desertification, Government of Niger. The soub categories contain PDFs of Nigerien and international reports/regulations on Rural and Environmental issues, including the Laws on local governance from 1960-2002.

United Nations

UNESCO World Heritage sites: Niger: includes proposed sites and reports.
UNDP The Human Development Index reports: Niger.
Health Organisation Niger overview. Includes links to statistics, programs and news on health and demography in Niger.
WHO "Country Logbook" for Niger. Providing Surveys, Censuses, Monitoring of vital events, Health services & surveillance, Health situation & trend analysis, and Planning & strategic documents .
World Health Organisation 2007 statistics: Core Health Indicators for Niger.
Unicef, Nations at a glance:Niger.

International Orgnaisations

Law

World Bank "Doing Business reports": Niger.
World Bank "Doing Business reports": Niger Law Library.
United States Library of Congress: Guide to Republic of Niger Law Online.
Droit-Afrique: Niger legal library.
Droit Francophone:Niger, from the Ogranisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

Elections

Foundation for Electoral Systems, electionguide.org:Niger: note this is a United States government funded organization. Details are at RightWeb.

Business

LA MAISON DE L'AFRIQUE: Niger. Franco-African business group.
Estruscan Mining (Canada): corporate report on their Samira Hill Gold Mine, on the Benin border.
The MBendi website, Niger: A South Africa based business research group. Is especially useful for tracking government mining consessions.

Telecomunications

See also the UNECA page on telecomunications in Niger, and it's 1999 assessment.

GSMWorld.com:Niger Celtel Niger, Sahel-Com (SahelCom), and Telecel Niger SA.
telecelniger.com/: Telecel Niger, a division of Egyptian based Orascom Télécom.
ne.celtel.com: Celtel Niger S.A, a division of Celtel International.
www.intnet.ne: Société Nigérienne des Télécommunications. Page unupdated for some time.

Human Rights

Womens Rights

Global List of Women's Organisations: Women's Organisations in Niger.

Ethnicity and language

ethnologue.com: Ethnic and linguistic breakdown for Niger.

Environment and weather

Falling Rain: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Niger.
Washington Post, Historical Weather Date for Niamey, covering the last 16-22 years.
Biblioteque Numerique:Niger. From the Project environnement et foret en Afrique Centrale. A France government funded project studying environment conditions.
The AGRHYMET Regional Centre (ARC), Niamey Office. Institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) composed of nine member States, including Niger.

Travel

Lonely Planet worldguide: Niger.

Biography

Contemporary Africa Database ::: People: Niger, from the Africa Centre, London. 83 Biographical stubs and links, including a list of well known women from Niger. Someone needs to create articles for these.