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Auto-assessment of article classes

Following a recent discussion at WP:VPR, there is consensus for an opt-in bot task that automatically assesses the class of articles based on classes listed for other project templates on the same page. In other words, if WikiProject A has evaluated an article to be C-class and WikiProject B hasn't evaluated the article at all, such a bot task would automatically evaluate the article as C-class for WikiProject B.

If you think auto-assessment might benefit this project, consider discussing it with other members here. For more information or to request an auto-assessment run, please visit User:BU RoBOT/autoassess. This is a one-time message to alert projects with over 1,000 unassessed articles to this possibility. ~ Rob^Talk 22:18, 3 June 2016 (UTC)

Media upload of images from Guinea-Bissau and Senegal

Dear project members,

I would like to draw your attention to a media upload that may be of relevance to your project. The African Studies Center, Leiden University, donated 756 images made by Roel Coutinho, a Dutch MD working in Guinea-Bissau and Senegal between 1973 and 1974. The images show aspects of daily life such as food preparation, festivities and school and hospital buildings, among other things. The metadata (including Portuguese captions) were prepared by Michele Portatadino, the upload was done by Hans Muller using the GWToolset.

Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 12:01, 7 June 2016 (UTC)

Contests

I've created Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. I've spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. Would anybody here be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? I'm thinking North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ Dr. Blofeld 19:33, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Indigenous women & Polar women editathons

You are invited...
	Indigenous women editathon & Polar women editathon Hosted by Women in Red - August 2016 - #wikiwomeninred

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Dashikis

We need more pictures of Dashikis! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 22:42, 6 August 2016 (UTC)

Notice to participants at this page about adminship

Many participants here create a lot of content, have to evaluate whether or not a subject is notable, decide if content complies with BLP policy, and much more. Well, these are just some of the skills considered at Wikipedia:Requests for adminship.

So, please consider taking a look at and watchlisting this page:

• Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Optional RfA candidate poll

You could be very helpful in evaluating potential candidates, and even finding out if you would be a suitable RfA candidate.

Many thanks and best wishes,

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 00:46, 14 August 2016 (UTC)

Of interest

These AfDs may be of interest to project participants: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Blossom Ozurumba, Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Irina D. França. Montanabw^(talk) 15:17, 19 August 2016 (UTC) Also Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Matilda Amissah-Arthur. Montanabw^(talk) 16:12, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

Cabo Verde

Please see the discussion on the title for Cape Verde/Cabo Verde. ♫ Hurricanehink (talk) 17:04, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Eponymous African ideologies

Has anyone noticed that we have articles for Garveyism, Mobutism and Sankarism but not for Fanonianism, Lumumbism or Nkrumaism? Aren't those eponymous political ideologies just as important? Charles Essie (talk) 02:22, 22 August 2016 (UTC)

Agreed. Want to write one together? I'm most interested in Nkrumaism, I think I could get Austin's work on it in the 1970s in short order. Or Fanonianism/Fanonism, I'd be intrigued to read the Gates piece on it. I'm down if you are. AbstractIllusions (talk) 20:21, 25 August 2016 (UTC)

@AbstractIllusions: I just started Nkrumaism. I'd appreciate some assistance, Charles Essie (talk) 15:39, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Should we try Lumumbism next? Charles Essie (talk) 15:26, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

List of universities in Tanzania is not exhaustive

New universities such as Mwenge Catholic University in Moshi is still listed as a university college. Similarly Moshi Univesiy College of Co-operative Studies should be listed as a fully fleged university.

There are several other universities and university colleges that are not listed here such as Jordan University college in Morogoro — Preceding unsigned comment added by 197.186.107.187 (talk) 07:12, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

Valuable source of new images on Commons

Just wanted to draw people's attention to the new deposit of images on commons from the collection of ETH-Zurich in Switzerland which (however improbably) has a large number of really useful photos of Africa (especially Ethiopia and former French West Africa). Unfortunately they're largely uncategorised and their captions are in German which makes it difficult to work with. If you have a free moment though, it's worth taking a look: Commons:Category:Media contributed by the ETH-Bibliothek.—Brigade Piron (talk) 20:47, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Book fund

I propose that we launch Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Book fund. Any editor in Africa or worldwide who wants a book/journal or resource to contribute to wikipedia they list the books they want by user name there. We run a series of contests in the new year, run by people within Africa, but inspired by some of my contest models. People who contribute to them can then be given the chance to win the books that they want. They can then use books to contribute to future contests or future article work independently, so books won in one contest could be used to contribute to a Wiki Loves Women contest later etc. So it serves as a double investment in content long term. Alternatively/additionally, editors could work together as a team and work on winning book resources for their own wikiprojects and build up resource material, with a sort of library service giving books out to editors who want them. Editors not interested in financial gain for themselves, but very interested in African development can compete in the contests and donate their winnings to a given wikiproject/country, and then they buy books which editors demand and hand them out. So say a new student editor from Nigeria or something wanted to buy a book from Amazon worth £90 or something but couldn't afford it due to course fees, using the fund he could request the book and contribute using it etc..

@Prburley:, @Fsmatovu:, @Megalibrarygirl:, @Dthomsen8:, @Anthere:, @Islahaddow:, any thoughts?♦ Dr. Blofeld 16:25, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

I can see that being very useful in some circumstances. I've found that a lot of anti-apartheid activists and trade unionists in South Africa are covered by books that exist only as snippet view on Google Books. Megalibrarygirl (talk) 16:35, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

Each African country could have its own section. Say MLG you want a book which documents some of those women from South Africa, you list the book under South Africa with the price. When a contest is held whoever wins a few hundred dollars can choose to buy some books for a few different people who need them and keep some to buy for themselves, or you can earn the books yourself by contributing etc. And you could stage contests based on the books in demand as prizes, so make people produce work for it so get the books they want etc..♦ Dr. Blofeld 17:20, 21 September 2016 (UTC)

I think it is a good idea generally. Anthere (talk)

I also think it is a good idea. If ordering via Amazon, delivery to some parts of Africa can mean that any book is more expensive than expected. Isla Haddow (talk) 09:54, 30 September 2016 (UTC)

Yes, if the prize fund was large enough that could easily be covered Islahaddow. I think as suggested by Anthere though something in its own right would be best proposed for that, a differeny grant proposal but I still think contests would be the best way to generate a surplus to put into that.♦ Dr. Blofeld 20:21, 3 October 2016 (UTC)

Couple of suggestions - what can be done with existing resources, such as Wikipedia:WikiProject Resource Exchange/Resource Request and more generally Wikipedia:Reference desk and Wikipedia:The Wikipedia Library? Some projects operate more specialist versions of the same, with a collective list of books etc. Ebooks where available would obviously help with the postage issue. And are individual Wikipedians the right "host" for this kind of thing? Would it be better done in collaboration with a local public/university library, so that once bought, the book doesn't "disappear" into a private bookshelf but is more publicly available? Obviously that won't work for some, perhaps the Wikipedian could have the book for a while then pass it on to a library or something? Le Deluge (talk) 13:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon

There's $200 offered for most geography destubs for this contest. At present there's not many people working on geo stubs so somebody help flesh out some geography stubs!♦ Dr. Blofeld 07:46, 16 October 2016 (UTC)

Nation Under Siege

Hey, can any of you guys look for more sourcing for Nation Under Siege? I found enough to justify an article, but I get the impression that there should be more out there. I initially came across this as a speedy deletion under a different title (promotion and copyvio issues meant I had to delete it), but figured that it could justify an article and made a stub of my own for the film. Tokyogirl79 (｡◕‿◕｡) 10:27, 14 November 2016 (UTC)

Please help populate underpopulated categories

There are currently 71 categories in Category: Underpopulated Africa categories. Your help in populating these categories is greatly appreciated, Ottawahitech (talk) 17:16, 21 November 2016 (UTC)please ping me

2016 Community Wishlist Survey Proposal to Revive Popular Pages

Greetings WikiProject Africa/Archive 8 Members!

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Missing topics list

My list of missing articles about places in Africa is updated - Skysmith (talk) 20:40, 8 January 2017 (UTC)

Media upload of historical photographs of various countries in Africa

Dear editors,

I would like to draw your attention to a media upload that may be of relevance to this page:

The Temminck Groll Collection consists of 2,641 historical photographs taken by the Dutch architect and architectural historian Coen Temminck Groll (1925-2015). The photos were taken in regions with which the Dutch have had historical relations, including countries in Africa, South America and Southeast Asia (see the category description for a full listing). The photos were taken during Temminck Groll's travels and study of 'shared cultural heritage' (heritage of the Netherlands located outside the country’s borders) and mainly date to the 1960s and 1970s. The photographs were digitised by the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands and made available to Wikimedia Commons in the context of the project The Netherlands and the world. If you have any questions about this upload, or have other media requests regarding Dutch shared cultural heritage, don't hesitate to leave a message at the project page!

Kind regards, --AWossink (talk) 15:04, 10 January 2017 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that African nationalism, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:08, 23 January 2017 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

February 2017 at Women in Red

February 2017
	Black Women & Women Anthropologists online editathons Faciliated by Women in Red

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Commons:Photo challenge Multilingualism

FYI, take a look in commons:Commons:Photo challenge/2017 - February - Multilingualism if there is any file you'd like to reuse. Or if you have any file you'd like to upload, that's also welcome.SO far we had some pictures from Ethiopia and Madagascar, but I am sure there are many other interesting combination in Africa.--Alexmar983 (talk) 07:13, 10 February 2017 (UTC)

Invitation to help improve and translate in other languages 16 biographies about African women

In the run up to International Women’s Day on the 8th March, Wiki Loves Women is launching the on-Wikipedia translated drive #16WikiWomen : m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon

The idea is for Wikipedians to take 16 days to translate the Wikipedia biographies of 16 notable African women, into at least 16 languages (African and/or international languages).

The articles to be translated will be the biographies of African women. The list of language can be, but is not limited to:

• International languages: Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, German
• African languages: Akan, Afrikaans, Igbo, Hausa, Wolof, Tswana, Zulu, Xhosa, Shona, Swahili, Yoruba, Sudanese, Amharic, Tsonga, Ewe, Sesotho, Chichewa

The list of the 16 women biographies that will be translated are:

1. w:en:Malouma, a Mauritanian singer, songwriter and politician
2. w:en:Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, a South African politician.
3. w:en:Cri-Zelda Brits, a South African cricketer
4. w:en:Anna Tibaijuka, a Tanzanian politician and former under-secretary-general of the United Nations
5. w:en:Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a Nigerian women’s rights activist
6. w:en:Flora Nwapa, a Nigerian author who writes predominantly in Igbo
7. w:en:Samia Yusuf Omar, a sprinter from Somalia
8. w:en:Maggie Laubser, a South African painter
9. w:en:Fatima Massaquoi, a pioneering educator from Liberia
10. w:en:Frances Ames, a South African neurologist, psychiatrist, and human rights activist
11. w:en:Asmaa Mahfouz, a Egyptian activist. The best version is currently in Arabic : w:ar:Asmaa Mahfouz
12. w:en:Yaa Asantewaa, the legendary former Queen Mother of Ghana
13. w:en:Fatou Bensouda, a Gambian lawyer
14. w:en:Martha Karua, a Kenyan politician
15. w:en:Chinwendu Ihezuo, a Nigerian professional footballer
16. w:en:Nassima Saifi, a Paralympian athlete from Algeria

Please jump in! Whilst all those articles already exist in English, you may improve them... or you may translate them into another language you know, or you relay the project in other linguistic communities.
If you wish to participate, please feel free to add your name and any comments here : m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/participants
Results will be tracked on this page : m:16 African Women Translate-a-thon/tracking

Thanks

Anthere (talk) 10:44, 20 February 2017 (UTC)

RfC "The Gambia" or "the Gambia"

It has been six years since this discussion ended with no consensus. Since then Categories are consistently named "...of the Gambia" or "The Gambia..." Some articles use "of The Gambia": Embassy of The Gambia, London, National Library of The Gambia. While others use "of the Gambia": History of the Gambia, Demographics of the Gambia.

I would like to settle this once and for all. The country enjoys a lot more internet access now and we should now be able to reach a consensus. Please join the discussion at the Is it "The Gambia" or "the Gambia" in the middle of a sentence.—አቤል ዳዊት^?(Janweh64) (talk) 03:07, 4 March 2017 (UTC)

Help with duplicate articles

Please see Talk:Sex trade in Senegal#Discussion, and any help appreciated. Andrewa (talk) 09:34, 21 March 2017 (UTC)

Better yet, comment at Talk:Prostitution in Africa#Ghana and Senegal. Andrewa (talk) 22:45, 22 March 2017 (UTC)

Frustrating

Frustrating. Obviously we want the same coverage for Africa as elsewhere but for a lot of villages you'd be lucky to find a population figure, let alone any real information. Rather than zillions of short stubs, perhaps it would be best to only have articles for localities which actually have a few sources with info aside from population at the moment. Create articles for all the communes/municipalities but then create lists of villages in each one with the population in brackets. I might start redirecting a lot into the municipalities. There's no point in having tons of articles if all of them are generic with xxx is a village, In 2002 it had xxx. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 09:57, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

@Aymatth2: What shall I do? Obviously we want to cover everywhere and have the same coverage in Africa as elsewhere but for the majority of rural localities it's just population available. Which is best do you think, list them with population in brackets in the municipality like Diouloulou until one has enough info for a proper stub. Or short ones like Aïnoumane but the same generic population and nothing else? I think it's probably best to just create the municipality articles for now and clean those up as they'll mostly have at least some facts. The larger villages if they have some more facts I think it's worth having new entries like Kabiline. But I'm kind of sick of categories for Africa often having a few hundred villages and most of them containing the xxx types entries. We want to improve overall quality of course.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:30, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

For Senegal for instance it would be better to have 300 odd half decent start class articles on all the communes and rural communities first I think, and make them more consistent rather than 14,000 short stubs on villages!.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:48, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

• I see no problem with stub village articles like Aïnoumane. The stub gives the population, time zone and commune and shows the place on the map, all useful information, and links to the satellite view. Possibly more information will turn up later, and the stub gives a place to add it. Maybe a famous person was born there. Or it may stay a stub forever. I would not bother to create a stub like this myself, but think it is marginally more useful than a list entry. Aymatth2 (talk) 12:32, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

I see it both ways. If you really think long term we're better off having individual articles, even if just population data I think as undoubtedly over time things will improve. It's just I know a lot of people don't like it. Perhaps I'll focus on the more important localities first and then see how it goes..♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:40, 13 September 2016 (UTC)

• If you are going to create village stubs, you may want to contact User:Lsj for automated assistance. He has created a bot that, among other things, can extract NASA data for a location including type of vegetation, population density and monthly temperatures and rainfall. With this information, the stubs would be a fair bit more useful. Aymatth2 (talk) 11:57, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

For an example of the kind of "village stub" that my bot can produce (and has produced for about half of Africa), see for example sv:Abuko. The bot software is written so that it is straightforward to port to another language version. Lsj (talk) 12:28, 14 September 2016 (UTC)

• @Lsj: That looks very useful. Has this possibility for the English WP been discussed elsewhere? I can see huge potential, but perhaps am missing potential drawbacks. A stray thought is that it might be useful to separate the stub framework from the content, which would be included as a "template". Generate the framework once, but keep the option to regenerate content, which may change from time to time. Thus:

{{infobox settlement|name=Xyz Village ...}}
'''Xyz Village''' is a village in [[Senegal]].
==Environment==
{{Bot generated/Xyz Village environment}}
==Demographics==
{{Bot generated/Xyz Village demographics}}
...

This would support embedding bot-generated content in existing articles, and would allow editor-written text to be added to bot-generated articles, while giving the option to periodically replace the embedded bot-generated content with more up-to-date content and/or more complete content. Things like temperatures, rainfall and vegetation may change periodically, and demographic information may change quite often. Thoughts? Aymatth2 (talk) 13:17, 15 September 2016 (UTC)

I am not aware of any such discussion on enwp. It has been discussed extensively on svwp, though. The potential is indeed huge, which is what gained consensus for the project (and gained svwp 2nd place in the wiki league ), but there are drawbacks and objections. Objections that people have raised in those discussions include:

• Possible quality issues with the sources used. Source data are not perfect, and the bot may unwittingly include errors.
• Some people question the relevance of 100,000 stubs about villages in Africa.
• Maintenance and updating becomes a challenge.
• The articles are too uniform, boring to read. The "random article" function is no fun anymore on svwp.
• The bot does a fair bit of analysis and calculations, and then translates the results into text. So the bot needs to answer the question "how flat is flat", in order to write "The terrain around X is flat." Some people argue that this violates WP:ORIGINAL, or is bad in some other way.

The frame/content split that you suggest is an interesting idea, but not entirely trivial to implement, as the bot articles are not all identical. A template-based framework would require either lots of different templates, or some very complex ones. Lsj (talk) 14:06, 16 September 2016 (UTC)

• @Lsj: My use of word "template" was misleading. I would have the bot generate text just as it does today, but spread the text over three files per article: the frame and the two "templates". So the file "Bot generated/Xyz Village environment" just holds the text describing the environment of Xyz Village, to be embedded in the article on Xyz Village. There could be value in writing a small, very generic template with a name like "botcontent" and one unnamed parameter giving text type, which would use the article name to find and return the bot-generate text file. So {{botcontent|environment}} would return the text in file "Bot generated/&articlename; environment" if present, null if not present. Something like that.

I think this deserves a broader discussion though. The approach, applied to common classes of articles using different bots, would be a fairly radical shift from editor-written text alone to editor-written text plus content aggregated from other databases, or purely aggregated content in many cases. Aymatth2 (talk) 13:11, 17 September 2016 (UTC)

As long as the content is useful with the coordinates/map/population and some other gleaned facts I'd strongly encourage it. While it's true it will increase maintenance size, a lot of articles are going to be created by Africans coming online in the next few years, so better to set something up which is consistent and clean and then can be built upon, rather than being a huge task for people to attempt. @Lsj: I would fully support you doing this for Senegal as a start. I suggest though that templates like Template:Bignona Department are created first.♦ Dr. Blofeld 12:51, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

@Lsj: I support this, too. Strongly. I think it's high time we look at some kind of automated article creation tool to help with our geographic coverage. --Ser Amantio di Nicolao^{Che dicono a Signa?}_{Lo dicono a Signa.} 23:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

Just my two cents here, but don't forget about the people. Including stub articles for small villages encourages people to contribute to the Wiki knowledge base of those villages. It gives a platform onto which young wikipedians can easily build and gain experience. Imagine the excitement if a member of a small village (for instance one who received a scholarship and immediate access to the resources of the internet; or one who newly discovered wikipedia on a cheap mobile phone over a wireless connection) discovers that his village has a wikipedia page! They would see the lack of info compared to their personal lived experiences, and, if enticed enough, would want to contribute. Having stub articels as "placeholders" with basic info already there, would make it a lot easier for new wikipedians to contribute on topics close to them, like their village. I have found that having such a basic platform in place makes it a lot easier to engage with a wider audience, especially when trying to source information. I hope you understand what I mean. It would be great to have rich, engaging articles, but they have to start somewhere if they are going to start at all. Janneman27 (talk) 09:52, 29 December 2016 (UTC)

No. There is nothing wrong with stubs. I myself have found several censuses on Burkina Faso villages, over 100 of which I have already created from red links and shall continue to create. Often I find a single village with tonnes of information because of some association with a European town. I shall continue to create these villages based on the 3 separate Burkina Faso government censuses I have gathered, plus UN and European Council programmes' maps and other Burkina government sources such as water well figures, school lists and pharmacy lists. Additionally, your section's responses here have given me more motivation to move into other African countries such as Senegal, not that I wasn't intending to anyway. It's all increased coverage and increased info, provided for free to readers, the obvious main goal of Wikipedia. SpikeballUnion (talk) 13:53, 26 March 2017 (UTC)

Upcoming "420 collaboration"

You are invited to participate in the upcoming "420 collaboration", which is being held from Saturday, April 15 to Sunday, April 30, and especially on April 20, 2017! The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by WikiProject Cannabis, is to create and improve cannabis-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields, including: culture, health, hemp, history, medicine, politics, and religion. For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the "420 collaboration" page.

---Another Believer _(Talk) 21:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)

We have a number of strong cannabis articles for Africa, particularly for the larger and Anglophone nations such as Cannabis in Nigeria and Cannabis in South Africa. We could greatly use your assistance in creating new articles for our many remaining cannabis in Africa redlinks:

• Cannabis in Angola
• Cannabis in Burkina Faso
• Cannabis in Burundi
• Cannabis in Cameroon
• Cannabis in Central African Republic
• Cannabis in Chad
• Cannabis in Djibouti
• Cannabis in Eritrea
• Cannabis in Gabon
• Cannabis in Ghana
• Cannabis in Guinea
• Cannabis in Guinea-Bissau
• Cannabis in Liberia
• Cannabis in Libya
• Cannabis in Mali
• Cannabis in Mauritania
• Cannabis in Mauritius
• Cannabis in Mozambique
• Cannabis in Niger
• Cannabis in Rwanda
• Cannabis in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
• Cannabis in Senegal
• Cannabis in Seychelles
• Cannabis in South Sudan
• Cannabis in Sudan
• Cannabis in Swaziland
• Cannabis in Tanzania
• Cannabis in Togo
• Cannabis in Uganda
• Cannabis in Zambia
• Cannabis in Zimbabwe

Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 21:22, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

Popular pages report

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Automated assessment of article importance

Hello everyone! I'm currently working on a project studying how to do automatic classification of article importance. As part of that project, I've done some analysis of articles within the scope of WikiProject Africa and built a model to predict article importance. Started a thread over on the assessment page with more information and a link to our predictions (as well as a few other types of articles that might need an updated importance rating). Since I hadn't seen any comments over the past week, I thought I'd get in touch in here as well, would appreciate your thoughts and comments! Regards, Nettrom (talk) 23:48, 17 May 2017 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Africa

Here are some fresh news regarding the photo contest c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa
As a reminder, the theme chosen for 2016 is "Music and Dance".

IMPORTANT: the dates have changed. The new dates for the contest are 1st of December till 31st of January.
It is planned on purpose to start just after WikiIndaba.
We are happy to say that Wikimedia Foundation has agreed to invest slightly more money at the local level this year.
We will be able to support up to 10 countries (against 8 during previous years).
Maximum budget available per country is also potentially slightly higher this year, up to 1000 dollars (or even slightly more if you can convince us).
Submission of propositions is now open

• Read guidelines to submit propositions here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participating_country_event_guidelines
• Post your propositions there : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016

If you are not yet member of the African list, please join https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians

Anthere (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 20:48, 3 September 2016 (UTC)

The Africa Destubathon

Hi everybody. I'm planning on proposing the Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/The Africa Destubathon this week. We will target every African nation and offer additional prizes for doing women articles and hopefully geography and wildlife articles too. A big contest which will hopefully prove productive and reduce our overall stub count. If interested please comment at the bottom of Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge. Thanks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dr. Blofeld (talk • contribs) 07:59, 19 September 2016 (UTC)

Help would be really useful?

Stereotypes of Africans needs some help please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dwanyewest (talk • contribs) 20:25, 16 May 2017 (UTC)

Recruit new editors for the project?

Hi, just wonder if there is any template or program in the project to recruit newcomers or new editors to join the project? Bobo.03 (talk) 22:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)

Ashanti hoax tags

One user has tagged a number of pages associated with the Ashanti region or the historic Ashanti Empire as hoaxes, such that such articles now dominate the list of suspected hoaxes on wikipedia. Most of these tags seem unwarranted, as verifiable sources for the article are already linked. It'd be great if some other editors could check out these articles and remove the hoax tag where it's not needed.Landscape repton (talk) 08:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)

Reviewing Alodia

I hope that this is the right place to ask: Would anyone here be interested in reviewing my article Alodia, which is about a Medieval kingdom located in modern Sudan? I am trying to get it to "Good article"-status. Thank you very much, LeGabrie (talk) 02:29, 17 July 2017 (UTC)

Hunde language

Should the article be renamed to Hunde people? Lotje (talk) 15:29, 10 June 2017 (UTC)

No. Rather, the beginning of the article should either be moved into a Hunde people article or rewritten entirely. This is a language article documenting a language with Glottolog and Ethnologue references. SpikeballUnion (talk) 23:49, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

In fact, I may take it upon myself to fix this issue, and if there are several sources on the Hunde people, I'll make its article. SpikeballUnion (talk) 23:51, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

@Lotje: Done. SpikeballUnion (talk) 00:17, 20 July 2017 (UTC)

Categories of ancient periods (up to 500 CE) by continent have been nominated for discussion

Category:273 disestablishments in Africa and many similar categories have been nominated for possible upmerging. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. Marcocapelle (talk) 06:07, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

Galkayo

Can people from this project please go help sort out the issues on Galkayo? I know nothing about the topic, yet the two (or more) people arguing about things keep asking me to figure things out for them. Thanks you. ···日本穣 · 投稿 · Talk to Nihonjoe · Join WP Japan! 18:57, 29 July 2017 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Genocide Convention, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 31 July 2017 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Rhodesian Papers and Books Collection at the Pritzker Military Museum & Library

Pritzker Military Museum & Library which is a GLAM institution has recently received the Rhodesian Papers and Books Collection. If you are working on articles related to Rhodesia's or Zimbabwe's politics and/or military history, please tag them with PMML's project tag as well as the WikiProject Africa tag.

Also, if you need a resource or citation from a print source, email us at [email protected] We will scan the pages and email them to you.

Happy editing!

TeriEmbrey (talk) 15:16, 16 August 2017 (UTC)

Contemporary African artists

I have several articles on contemporary African artists up for review and in queue, if anyone's interested in giving a quick review:

• Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi (nom)
• Edson Chagas (nom)

czar 17:39, 20 August 2017 (UTC)

And less contemporary:

• Wikipedia:Peer review/National Museum of African Art/archive1

czar 02:00, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

Seeking feedback on Tswana vs Setswana

Your feedback is requested at Talk:List of Setswana medical terms#Setstwana or Tswana. Thanks, Mathglot (talk) 04:08, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

Dakar Dem Dikk

Please help to expand Dakar Dem Dikk. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 14:10, 28 September 2017 (UTC)

Domestic Violence in Kenya

I will be developing this stub throughout the next few weeks. I plan to write about physical and sexual violence in Kenya, social influences, and government and organizational responses. Sshah11 (talk) 18:32, 3 October 2017 (UTC)

Feedback needed on project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia

Hi Friends! Here is the current draft of my project proposal: Investigating the Impact of Implicit Bias on Wikipedia. I value your input and would greatly appreciate your feedback. Please share it on the project proposal discussion page. Thank you in advance! Best, Jackiekoerner (talk) 23:01, 7 October 2017 (UTC)

Updating Wikipedia articles about national parks in Africa

On behalf of the nonprofit organization African Parks via the Wyss Foundation, and as part of my work at Beutler Ink, I am working to create and improve several Wikipedia articles related to national parks in Africa. I created this page to describe the scope of the project and provide updates about my progress.

So far, I've submitted an expanded and updated draft for consideration at Talk:Liwonde National Park, and posted a note at WikiProject Malawi. I will likely be posting similar notes at other WikiProject Africa task forces for parks in other countries, once drafts are published.

I invite any Wikipedia editors to follow along and help improve Wikipedia articles by reviewing and responding to the edit requests I post on article talk pages. I'm happy to answer any questions or concerns about my work on my user talk page, or on talk pages belonging to articles in the scope of this project, since I have them watchlisted. Thanks! Inkian Jason (talk) 17:52, 9 October 2017 (UTC)

Revising HIV/AIDS in Lesotho

Hi all, I am revising the article HIV/AIDS in Lesotho. Before I started my revisions, it was a very basic article with one reference. I have created a new outline for the article based on my research findings, and am currently working on each subsection. If anyone has ideas on how to further or more effectively expand this article, or just give me suggestions on my work, please let me know! I would greatly appreciate any comments. More information about my revision plans for this article can be found on my talk page. STohme (talk) 01:44, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Women in Red/The World Contest

Hi. In November The Women in Red World Contest is being held to try to produce new articles for as many countries worldwide and occupations as possible. There will be over $4000 in prizes to win, including Amazon vouchers and paid subscriptions. If this would appeal to you and you think you'd be interested in contributing new articles on African women during this month please sign up in the participants section. If you're not interested in prize money yourself but are willing to participate and raise money to buy books about women for others to use, this is also fine. Help would also be appreciated in drawing up the lists of missing articles. If you think of any missing articles for your project please add them to the appropriate sub list Missing articles. Thankyou, and if taking part, good luck!♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:05, 16 October 2017 (UTC)

Nomination of David Ofori-Adjei for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether the article David Ofori-Adjei is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Ofori-Adjei until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. Theprussian (talk) 10:41, 18 October 2017 (UTC)

Jambiani

I thought this page needed some more information on the local lifestyle and income which is seaweed. Also a small edit to say that it is a group of villages and not only one village. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vickileewhite (talk • contribs) 20:34, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

@Vickileewhite, great but be sure to source your claim to a reliable, secondary reference. czar 21:35, 10 November 2017 (UTC)

2 new editors who could use help with sourcing

Editors June Matiku (talk · contribs) and Littlewitstert (talk · contribs) are working on various related articles, eg Suba people (Kenya), Irienyi people (created by June Matiku) Luo people of Kenya and Tanzania etc. It's great that they are working on these articles but they are rarely adding sources and when they do they are sometimes our articles on other subjects and oral history, all without inline citations. Readers have no way of knowing what might actually have verifiable sources and what might be based on unverifiable oral history. Right now I don't know what to do about these except stub any new articles and remove material added by these editors to old ones, which is a bit drastic. Any suggestions? Thanks. Doug Weller talk 09:34, 13 November 2017 (UTC)

Kunta people has had a lot of copyvio, some from sources discussing a different ethnic group. I'm considering taking one of these editors to ANI. Doug Weller talk 13:45, 27 November 2017 (UTC)

GA Reassessment of "Zimbabwe"

I made a reassessment of the article Zimbabwe, found here. There are several issues that have to be fixed for the good article status to be maintained IMO. I invite interested editors to take a look. Saturnalia0 (talk) 22:08, 28 November 2017 (UTC)

Disambiguation links on pages tagged by this wikiproject

Wikipedia has many thousands of wikilinks which point to disambiguation pages. It would be useful to readers if these links directed them to the specific pages of interest, rather than making them search through a list. Members of WikiProject Disambiguation have been working on this and the total number is now below 20,000 for the first time. Some of these links require specialist knowledge of the topics concerned and therefore it would be great if you could help in your area of expertise.

A list of the relevant links on pages which fall within the remit of this wikiproject can be found at http://69.142.160.183/~dispenser/cgi-bin/topic_points.py?banner=WikiProject_Africa

Please take a few minutes to help make these more useful to our readers.— Rod ^talk 12:55, 3 December 2017 (UTC)

We need YOU!

Hello WikiProject Africa,

Unregistered editors cannot create articles on Wikipedia, but they can use the articles for creation process to submit drafts that registered editors can either accept and publish or decline. WikiProject Articles for creation is looking for experienced editors who want to partake in this peer review process. If you have what it takes to get involved, then please take a look at the reviewing instructions. To discuss specific AfC reviews, do so freely on the designated talk page.

There is currently a backlog of over 1800 drafts (0 very old).

If you know an editor who may be willing to help out, please use the template you are currently reading {{subst:WPAFCInvite}} to draw attention to this WikiProject. Many hands make light work!

Worldbruce (talk) 00:28, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Editors willing to review a variety of drafts are especially welcome. If you're interested only in reviewing certain topics, that still helps. At least 19 pending drafts are related to Africa (are in the intersection of Category:Pending AfC submissions and the union of Category:Draft-Class Africa articles, Category:Draft-Class Egypt articles, Category:Draft-Class Ghana articles, Category:Draft-Class Nigeria articles, and Category:Draft-Class South Africa articles). Over 2000 pending drafts have not yet had a WikiProject added, so more may be in the scope of this and related WikiProjects. --Worldbruce (talk) 00:28, 19 December 2017 (UTC)

Anyone want to collaborate on "Cannabis in [country]" articles on Africa?

I've written a ton of the by-country articles on cannabis, and currently I'm trying to strengthen our Africa coverage. Right now our strongest Sub-Saharan African articles are Cannabis in South Africa and Cannabis in Nigeria, both of which were started by me but greatly improved by other editors specializing in those countries.

If anyone is interested in collaborating to cover cannabis in more African nations, please ping me on my Talk page. Thanks! Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 07:50, 20 December 2017 (UTC)

Recruit new editors for your project?

Happy new year! As you may remember, I've been building a tool to help WikiProjects identify and recruit new editors to join and contribute. See my previous post. I’ve been working it on in the past several months, and collaborated with some WikiProject organizers to make it better. We also wrote a Signpost article to introduce it to the entire Wikipedia community.

Right now, we are ready to make it available to more WikiProjects that need it. If you are interested in trying out our tool, feel free to sign up. Bobo.03 (talk) 19:23, 3 January 2018 (UTC)

A-Class review for Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo needs attention

A few more editors are needed to complete the A-Class review for Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo; please stop by and help review the article! Thanks! AustralianRupert (talk) 10:27, 19 January 2018 (UTC)

POV issues at Ambazonia (proposed breakaway of anglophone area of Cameroon)

If anyone has any neutral sources and perspective, Ambazonia has an ongoing issue with soapboxing and lack of decent sources, despite appearing to describe a Notable proposed secession movement in Cameroon. MatthewVanitas (talk) 13:42, 28 January 2018 (UTC)

Toolkit ready

Hi, my toolkit is ready at Wikipedia:Contests/Toolkit/Template Based on the successful women contest model and Wikipedia:The African Destubathon. Will save time in setting up future contests. If you're interested in using it to create a contest sometime for your African nation or region I'd be happy to help you set it up!♦ Dr. Blofeld 14:29, 1 February 2018 (UTC)

FAR for Armed Forces of the DRC

I have nominated Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. -Indy beetle (talk) 04:04, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Concerning activity, and a possible restructuring

Hello WikiProject Africa. I was hoping to get an idea of how many editors here are active and monitor this page, so respond if you take an interest in this project. Considering the size (nominally, at least) and scope of this project, I would like to float a proposal for revamping this project. The 10,000 Challenge was our last real initiative and its fallen into a lull of inactivity, as has this talk page. Would any other users be interested in some restructuring of the project. I know large contests or review schemas are hard to get off the ground, but we could do with some cosmetic changes or advice pages, maybe even a coordinator? Leave your feedback below. -Indy beetle (talk) 03:04, 2 February 2018 (UTC)

• I think this page's function as a noticeboard on topics related to Africa is sufficient enough. No need to build infrastructure where there isn't organic editor interest. czar 20:59, 11 February 2018 (UTC)
  • @Czar: Speaking of a lack of organic interest, can we not at least agree that the project is "semi-active"? The fact that no one but yourself has responded to this message, and the overall dearth of discussion of any sort on this page would support that classification, especially considering it relative to our nominal size. And its the fact that we are so large and yet so inactive that would make it hard to obtain consensus to make even cosmetic changes to the project. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:35, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

    The fact that anyone responded means that "semi-active" would be inaccurate. The project's scope is huge, so the emphasis on notifications appears par. What kind of cosmetic changes do you want to make? czar 23:40, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

Hence my inclusion of the phrase and the overall dearth of discussion of any sort on this page... In regards to the main page, well, I guess they're not really cosmetic, but adding things like relevant Wikilove awards that can be given for Africa related contributions, removing the old requests to help improve articles (dating to 2013), improving the references list, or adding a more comprehensive introduction. -Indy beetle (talk) 00:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

If you think those would be useful, especially if they would help your own participation, go for it czar 00:51, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I have not been active at this project, but as it happens is working with two Africa articles right now. I really think Africa ought to be the next major for Wikipedia along the line of the current women effort, so I would welcome your initiative, and I think it should include a new major contest (maybe next February, since US has a traditon for February as black history month) with WMF founding. Iselilja (talk) 23:48, 11 February 2018 (UTC)

I agree 100% that Africa should be the next area for improvement and its my dream that that occurs, but in some ways I think that ship has sailed and won't be returning to port for some time. The Africa Destubathon was winding down just as I was getting involved in related topics, and the whole Wiki seems to have moved on to women's matters. This I feel has much to do with social changes, particularly in the US, that involve women becoming more active online and asserting themselves on broad platforms. In many places in Sub-Saharan Africa, an internet connection is still hard to obtain and Wikipedia isn't nearly as popular or isn't promoted by as many institutions as it is in the US or Europe. Until that changes, it seems most of our countering systemic bias effort is going towards Women in Red. Even the Military History Project has decided to make its next contests geared towards women in the military. One can only envy such drive and productivity. -Indy beetle (talk) 00:24, 12 February 2018 (UTC)

I work with AFC to approve draft articles for publication, and over the last several years I've seen a substantial increase in Nigeria new articles, presumably as internet availability increases in that very populous country. In the same way that India has gotten really huge into English Wikipedia (and presumably the Wikipedias for various Indian languages) in the last ten year, I would anticipate that Nigeria will start playing more and more of a role here on English Wikipedia. This is exciting but will likely entail some controversy too, in that an influx of excited new ediitors unfamiliar to Wikipedia will require some work to keep quality up and keep topics NPOV. India coverage in many areas suffers from having body of eager but very POV editors, and a lack of NPOV editors familiar enough niche Indian topics and also willing to dive into them to help keep things neutral. Also, for social reasons too complex and fraught to get into, it can be hard to find proper sourcing (particularly online) for many topics, thus making it hard to establish textbook Notability for topics which are clearly highly significant. Just drawing some parallels and noting some larger patterns as Wikipedia evolves. MatthewVanitas (talk) 07:43, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Can I interest anyone in contributing to a reliable sources discussion?

In response to a point of contention over the level of credence to give to a couple of news sources reporting on a manslaughter trial (that of actress Elizabeth Michael) in Tanzania, I solicited outside comments nearly a week ago at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard#News24 and Nairobi News – Elizabeth Michael. So far, the only participants there have been two participants from the original discussion. Is there anyone here who can take a look at the discussion at RSN and contribute a fresh perspective to it? Largoplazo (talk) 17:52, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

For what it's worth, I considered posting this to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Tanzania but there has been no recent activity there or at its main page. Largoplazo (talk) 18:15, 13 February 2018 (UTC)

Requested update to List of national parks in Africa

Hello! I posted a request at Talk:List of national parks in Africa, on behalf of African Parks, to have the entry for Odzala National Park changed to Odzala-Kokoua National Park, since the Wikipedia article about the park has been moved. For reasons I'm not following, the editor who replied to my request declined to update the entry. I am curious if WikiProject Africa members agree, or can help me understand why the entry should not be updated to reflect the park's actual title. Thank you. Inkian Jason (talk) 17:49, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

The list has been updated. Inkian Jason (talk) 18:48, 22 February 2018 (UTC)

Can I send invitations to new members for your project?

Hi, I have been working on recommending new members for your project for a while, and have sent some lists to Czar who helped invite those recommended editors. I wonder if you mind me sending invitations directly for project Africa on your behalf to save time and efforts of yours? Thank you! Bobo.03 (talk) 16:43, 25 February 2018 (UTC)

Need support!

I've collaborated with the Swedish embassy to bring more female editors and articles about notable African women onto Wikipedia. The first editathon was held in Johannesburg where we had 60 participants, and it was a learning curve for me because almost all the articles created there were deleted. This time around we held the editathon in Lusaka Zambia with the, Swedish embassy and the Women's history Museum, where we had 37 participants and all articles were done on Sandbox, which gave ample time for the participants to reference, link their articles to other WP pages and categorize them. Problem is as always "notability", I don't want to delve much on the issue of notability but would like to ask if someone can help with checking all the articles created there and improve and approve them..... also tagging Women in Red. I can share their usernames if you also want.... Bobbyshabangu _talk 19:42, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

@Bobbyshabangu: Feel free to message me or list some articles/user contributions here, I'd be happy to help. -Indy beetle (talk) 21:22, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

Thanks @ (talk), I see that user talk has also started improving others and giving advice on how they can improve to those he declined.You can some of the articles here Bobbyshabangu _talk 08:12, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

Al-Istiwaiyyah

We could use someone who knows African geography well to comment on what exactly the name Al-Istiwaiyyah refers to. Please comment at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2018 March 10#Istiwaiyyah. Thank you very much for your help, Oiyarbepsy (talk) 16:51, 11 March 2018 (UTC)

Category:Fauna of the Miombo

Category:Fauna of the Miombo is currently being discussed at CFD. Members of this project are invited to take part in the discussion. DexDor ^(talk) 06:26, 24 March 2018 (UTC)

Help with revising close paraphrasing for Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo

Any help with revising some of the text of Jean-Baptiste Ouédraogo to address the issues found here would be most appreciated. -Indy beetle (talk) 19:03, 25 March 2018 (UTC)

Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller

Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller, an article that you or your project may be interested in, has been nominated for an individual good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status may be removed from the article. AIRcorn (talk) 22:29, 4 April 2018 (UTC)

Ending the system of portals

Hello, there's a proposal to delete all Wikipedia portals. Please see the discussion here. --NaBUru38 (talk) 14:02, 14 April 2018 (UTC)

North Africa

Do you think that the politically Spanish areas in North Africa should be added to the article North Africa, as per Talk:North Africa#Spain? Jjjjjjdddddd (talk) 00:50, 30 January 2018 (UTC)

I've added some places to the page. Jjjjjjdddddd (talk) 23:02, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background

On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   07:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

Poorly sourced stubs - Angola, now Chad

An editor (@Shevonsilva:) is creating a flood of stubs such as Peni, Chad, with sources which do not appear to mention the place concerned. After a lot of work on places in Angola they have now moved on to the communes of Chad. If anyone has good reliable sources they can add for these, the encyclopedia would really benefit! Thanks. PamD 07:22, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

@Pam not clear what you are concerning. Both sources are mentioning Peni. Yes, more reliable sources are more valuable. I did my best. Shevonsilva (talk) 13:03, 7 June 2018 (UTC)

Seemingly spurious population data changes from unregistered editor

2601:601:1700:1d9d:fce1:c1ba:8383:b578 (talk · contribs · WHOIS), and other related IPv6 addresses have expended a huge amount of effort inserting dubious population data into articles on cities in Niger. and other African countries: see Special:Contributions/2601:601:1700:1d9d::/64 for contributions from this specific IPv6 range. Please be on the lookout for other similar activity. -- The Anome (talk) 10:15, 23 June 2018 (UTC)

Njuri-Ncheke

Before nominating those articles for deletion, I thought that it may be a good idea to post a notice here (if they can be fixed instead by someone who knows good sources on the subject, it's all for the better).

Please see the following redundant:

• Njuri-Ncheke (edit | talk | history | protect | delete | links | watch | logs | views)
• Draft:Njuri Ncheke Elders (edit | talk | history | links | watch | logs)

One should likely be merged in the other (and can become a redirect to the other). Moreover, the referencing is substandard and the tone unsuitable. Thank you, —PaleoNeonate – 11:28, 28 June 2018 (UTC)

Conflicting Awjila maps

The two maps on the Awjila page show two very different locations. Mukogodo (talk) 00:32, 2 August 2018 (UTC)

!Kora_Wars

I am just wondering is this the correct title for the page? If not, please move the page to its correct title! Thanks --Xaiver0510 (talk) 06:34, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

That's what at least one source calls the concept. czar 23:58, 23 August 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that People's Republic of Angola, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:06, 10 September 2018 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Updating Education in Tanzania page!

Hi! I am a current student at Rice University enrolled in a class called Poverty, Justice, & Human Capabilities. One of our semester's projects is to create or edit a Wikipedia article regarding anything that we are passionate about and that is relevant. I think that this page is really great in addressing different levels and types of education in Tanzania, as well as some brief information about curriculum, exams, etc. I would like to add a page about special needs education in Tanzania because while they have made significant progress over the last few decades, there is still an interesting stigma centered around disability, especially in "developing" countries. I'm very interested in global education as well as pediatric health impairments. I would most likely focus on speech deficits (I myself was born with an internal cleft palate, so I’m fascinated by and passionate about this), cognitive disorders, and physical challenges. I think this page has a lot of great content, but I'd love to add and would also love your feedback and questions if any. If you're interested in more detail on my plans, please check out my sandbox! It has more sources and a more detailed outline of my plans: User:Spaul57/sandbox Sachi Paul (talk) 02:45, 26 September 2018 (UTC)

Rwandan Civil War

Just in case anyone here is interested, I've put the above article up for FAC today, in the hope of getting some feedback on it. If people here have the time and inclination, please could you have a look over it? Thanks  — Amakuru (talk) 12:15, 2 October 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Country Winners
• Diversity winner
• High quality contributors
• Gender-gap fillers
• Page improvers
• Wikidata Translators

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

Photo of a Tecno Mobile

Does anyone reading this use a Tecno Mobile? Please take a photo of your phone in a mirror, or your friend's phone on a table, and upload it to Wikimedia Commons for the article. Many, many thanks! Anna Frodesiak (talk) 01:54, 11 October 2018 (UTC)

Occupation label drive

Hello. As part the AfroCine project and proposed by Wiki Loves Women, we invite you to help translating the occupation labels in cinema in Wikidata. This is directly impacting wikipedia through infoboxes. Thanks for your attention !

Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves Women/Occupations

Anthere (talk) 18:20, 19 October 2018 (UTC)

Kyebando

Hello WikiProject Africa,

Its a great effort to have African Coverage on line, but as a researcher and data analyst i look out for the facts especially on location. i would think for a place with its border line as defining factors, the data collector should looked for informed people in the area. Having grown up in that place i feel no justice was done to bring out who we are, how we live n then the structures of that place notably Upland Club House which has been in existence since 1995 not being part of the places of Interest with a consideration for new developments.

For instance its Zonal demarcations and the relevant features in it, the land tenure system. This place has a huge history, there are educated people above 80 years that served in the post independence government of Uganda such as Ssalongo Lwanga who participated in drawing the zonal boundaries during the early times. Make it possible to consult. also as we publish we should have the facts. On Wikis around Europe i always see in the footer section a mention of the kind "prominent people", "influential figures". We cannot have passed on a full residential area given its location near Mulago hospital with out key individuals being mentioned. am very certain there is a very instrumental Doctor who has lived here. Consult and we update this wiki.

Micho demicin (talk) 12:00, 23 October 2018 (UTC)micheal mukasa Micho

Category:Swaziland has been nominated for discussion

Category:Swaziland, which is within the scope of this wikiproject, has been nominated for renaming to Category:Eswatini. The nomination includes proposals to similarly rename 434 sub-categories of Category:Swaziland. A discussion is taking place to see if it abides with the categorization guidelines. If you would like to participate in the discussion, you are invited to add your comments at the category's entry on the categories for discussion page. Thank you. --BrownHairedGirl (talk) • (contribs) 14:41, 5 November 2018 (UTC)

Featured quality source review RFC

Editors in this WikiProject may be interested in the featured quality source review RFC that has been ongoing. It would change the featured article candidate process (FAC) so that source reviews would need to occur prior to any other reviews for FAC. Your comments are appreciated. --IznoRepeat (talk) 21:48, 11 November 2018 (UTC)

Portal:Pan-Africanism has been created.

• Portal:Pan-Africanism has been created. I have entered a note on the talk page of Pan-Africanism. The discussion can be found here. Please centralise discussions there about ways to improve the portal i.e. if you have any suggestions or recommendations. In the meantime, please help by adding {{Portal|Pan-Africanism}} to all relevant articles. See Category:Pan-Africanism for the list of relevant articles. Once everything is finished I will make a "link file to portal" request with the Portal team. I will be asking that they link the Pan-African flag (this file) to this portal. If you have any objections please state it in the discussion page. Thank.Tamsier (talk) 18:42, 7 December 2018 (UTC)

Request for comment on move

Could we get some eyes on Talk:Africanized_bee#Requested_move_7_December_2018 NickCT (talk) 20:44, 11 December 2018 (UTC)

Masasi and Handeni

The usage of Masasi and Handeni are under discussion, see respectively Talk:Handeni Town Council and Talk:Masasi Town Council -- 70.51.201.106 (talk) 05:32, 15 January 2019 (UTC)

Burkina Faso current events

If any editors are interested, I have been working on a new article about the recent terror attacks and mass-resignations in Burkina Faso. If you would like to, please help by adding to the article Burkina Faso government resignation, 2019. Thank you! Brendon the Wizard ✉️ ✨ 00:31, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

species move

There is a proposal to move Common chimpanzee to chimpanzee at Talk:Common_chimpanzee#Requested_move_22_January_2019, the notice here is because the animal occurs on this continent. cygnis insignis 17:04, 23 January 2019 (UTC)

This is Wonderful

Its nothing more annoying to me than Europeans trying to tell Africans about their own history, traditions and culture. We know our ancestors better than you could lie about it. We understand the cruel minds of most however it must stop. For instance call the Dogon Tribe "an ethnic group of people" is so disrespectful. They are a proud Tribe of people. What does "ethnic" even mean? It sounds like a derogatory under time to me. A lot of European philosophers made up stories to uplift their people. Which is understandable when you are trying to conquer another group of people. But we are in a new age and we need to speak truth as well as fact. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.70.95.229 (talk) 19:45, 20 February 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects

 You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia:Village pump (idea lab)#Attention WikiProjects. We are designing a bot to do auto-assessment (among other tasks) and would appreciate your feedback. Qzekrom (talk) 01:26, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

List of heads of government of the Central African Republic: WP:FLRC nomination

Please see Wikipedia:Featured list removal candidates/List of heads of government of the Central African Republic/archive1 to comment. Tropicanan (talk) 11:50, 17 March 2019 (UTC)

Women in Red focus

In April 2019, WikiProject Women in Red is focusing on Women in Portuguese-speaking countries.--Ipigott (talk) 07:42, 27 March 2019 (UTC)

Azarias Ruberwa

Could someone from this WikiProject take a look at Azarias Ruberwa? Someone claiming to be Ruberwa's social media manager has recently been editing the article, so it might be a good idea for some others to go over the edits and make sure they are in line with relevant policies and guidelines. -- Marchjuly (talk) 08:30, 8 April 2019 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!

A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.

– Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Organisation/organization RfC

There is an RfC on whether all Wikipedia categories should use the spelling "organization" (regardless of the respective country) taking place here. Number 57 19:31, 18 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Western Sahara for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Western Sahara is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Western Sahara until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Nelson Mandela for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Nelson Mandela is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Nelson Mandela until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Counties of South Sudan

On the above page - can someone check the words at the end of the Western Lakes State section - and whether 'Fashoda Nile' (for which there is no article) is the same as 'Fashoda State'(for which there is). Jackiespeel (talk) 09:26, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Meaning of life

At Talk:Meaning of life, another editor recently noted that Meaning of life could benefit from addition of African perspectives. If you can help, please take a look at Meaning of life. Biogeographist (talk) 18:08, 29 April 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Macaronesia for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Macaronesia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Macaronesia until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Unassessed articles tagged as stubs

Hi. Currently, Category:Unassessed Africa articles has over 11,000 pages. Of those, around 5800 are articles that already have stub tags. Would the wikiproject support or object to a bot to go through those pages and assess them as stub-class? Thanks, --DannyS712 (talk) 06:18, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

@DannyS712: The project has been a little thin for the past couple of years but I, for one, would support such a move. If an editor finds one that has been incorrectly tagged (and thus incorrectly bot-assessed) they can fix it, which shouldn't be much of a problem. -Indy beetle (talk) 05:04, 27 May 2019 (UTC)

Hi DannyS712 -- it seems reasonable to me. I would support. Alanna the Brave (talk) 00:12, 28 May 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Igbo people for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Igbo people is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Igbo people until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Mombasa for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Mombasa is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mombasa until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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MfD nomination of Portal:Zimbabwe

Portal:Zimbabwe, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Zimbabwe and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Zimbabwe during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. Robert McClenon (talk) 03:59, 11 June 2019 (UTC)

Discussion at the reliable sources noticeboard about the general reliability of The Ghana Daily Graphic

There is a request for comment regarding the reliability of the Daily Graphic (Ghana) going on at the reliable sources noticeboard: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Daily Graphic and graphic.com.gh _signed, Rosguill ^talk 05:35, 12 June 2019 (UTC)

Discussion about the reliability of a Ugandan news source at RSN

Your input regarding whether the PML Daily is reliable for claims regarding some political bloggers is requested: Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § PML Daily article about political bloggers _signed, Rosguill ^talk 17:32, 18 June 2019 (UTC)

Discussion of "The Kingdom in the Closet" from The Atlantic on the reliable sources noticeboard

The reliability of "The Kingdom in the Closet", by Nadya Labi from The Atlantic, is being discussed on the reliable sources noticeboard. This article was previously cited in the LGBT in the Middle East article. If you're interested, please participate at WP:RSN § The Kingdom in the Closet by Nadya Labi. — Newslinger talk 00:11, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Why post this on the Wiki Project Africa though? This has nothing to do with Africa. Shouldn't this be posted on the Asia or Middle East projects?Tamsier (talk) 09:08, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

I posted here because it was one of the projects listed on Talk:LGBT in the Middle East. You're right in that the article from The Atlantic focuses on Saudi Arabia, and is not pertinent to this project. Sorry for the confusion, and I'll be more careful with notifications from now on. — Newslinger talk 11:56, 5 July 2019 (UTC)

Wikipedia African Month

Wikipedia African Month logo

Hello members of WikiProject Africa

In the last few months, both French Wikipedia and Portuguese Wikipedia have held a Wikipedia African Month (French; Portuguese). The French event for 2019 was held in May, and the Portuguese event in March. Both were inspired by Wikipedia Asian Month, which was first held in 2015, and now involves a great many language versions of Wikipedia.

As a participant in Wikipedia Asian Month who has also contributed to Wikipedia content about Africa, I now encourage members of WikiProject Africa to set up an English Wikipedia version of Wikipedia African Month. If you want to hold one in 2019, there's still time: I would suggest maybe September or October (but not November - that's when Wikipedia Asian Month is held). For next year, I would suggest that you communicate with the organisers of the event on French and Portuguese Wikipedias with a view to having all language versions of the event held in the same month (and maybe also in other languages, eg Spanish).

Don't be shy about sending messages in English to the French and Portuguese organisers - a lot of the new pages created for this year's French and Portuguese Wikipedia Asian Months are translations of Wikipedia articles originally published on English Wikipedia. As part of any English Wikipedia African Month, the same thing could be done in reverse. Events like these are a great way to spread knowledge across language boundaries. Last year, one of the articles I submitted to English Wikipedia Asian Month about East Timor was translated into Chinese by another editor within 24 hours, and then submitted to Chinese Wikipedia Asian Month.

To hold an English Wikipedia African Month, you just need two or three editors to work together. For guidance in figuring out what to do, I suggest you check out the French Wikipedia pages, which are a bit more elaborate than the Portuguese ones (both can be translated using Google translate). If you need further assistance, you might also wish to contact the organisers of English Wikipedia Asian Month for 2018: their user pages are linked from the English Wikipedia Asian Month 2018 page. Bahnfrend (talk) 10:57, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

@Bahnfrend: As one of the more active Wikipedia editors in Africa-related content, I'd be interested in such an initiative—if only I thought it would lead to some meaningful content creation/improvement. I don't think there's much chance this succeeding, as it seems most en.wikipedia editors are perfectly happy editing about other things. The Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge has been ongoing since September 2016 and sees an addition only every few days, hence it only being at the (as time of writing) 3443rd improvement. -Indy beetle (talk) 23:27, 2 July 2019 (UTC)

@Indy beetle: Thanks for your post. I think your point about the 10,000 Challenge is an argument in favour of having a go at a Wikipedia African Month - if an initiative is clearly not being very effective, it's a good idea to try something else. I will be attending the forthcoming Wikimania in Stockholm. I understand that a number of other Wikimedians interested in Africa will also be doing so. I will have a chat with some of them, and maybe then post some more on this page. Bahnfrend (talk) 09:40, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

Hi @Bahnfrend: - As a fellow contributor to African-related content, I totally agree with @Indy beetle: Whether this would lead to any meaningful content creation I don't know, but there is no harm in trying. I'm definitely game for it. I would probably suggest October which incidentally coincides with Black History Month in the UK.Tamsier (talk) 12:55, 22 July 2019 (UTC)

African Climate Change workshop

Hello everyone. I want to let everyone know of and invite project volunteers help out with (should you be interested) in the African Climate Change workshop and edit-a-thon that Wikimedia ZA and South South North will be running from the 6-8 August 2019. The event seeks to introduce around 40 climate change experts to editing Wikipedia with a specific focus on adding to the topic of climate change articles on Wikipedia. The focus will be on climate change in Africa. More information can be found on the event page on meta here. --Discott (talk) 13:11, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Ethiopia

Portal:Ethiopia, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ethiopia and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes (~~~~). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Ethiopia during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 19:32, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Gabon for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Gabon is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Gabon until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Mozambique for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Mozambique is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mozambique until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Tunisia for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Tunisia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Tunisia until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Niger for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Niger is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Niger until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Algeria for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Algeria is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Algeria until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 01:42, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Burkina Faso for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Burkina Faso is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Burkina Faso until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Guinea-Bissau for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Guinea-Bissau is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Guinea-Bissau until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Botswana for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Botswana is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Botswana until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Rwanda for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Rwanda is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Rwanda until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Namibia for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Namibia is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Namibia (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Mauritius for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Mauritius is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Mauritius until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Nomination of Portal:Cape Verde for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Cape Verde is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Cape Verde (2nd nomination) until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Call for portal maintainers

Are there any editors from this WikiProject willing to maintain Portal:Africa and the several other portals that fall within the scope of this WikiProject? The Portals guideline requires that portals be maintained, and as a result numerous portals have been recently been deleted via MfD largely becasue of lack of maintenance. Let me know either way, and thanks, UnitedStatesian (talk) 02:04, 26 August 2019 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Nairobi for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Nairobi is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Nairobi until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

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Discussion invitation

Hi. I invite users here to a discussion on map coloring for the UN. Wadaad (talk) 08:56, 1 September 2019 (UTC)

Olowu of Owu Kingdom

Hi, anybody hanging around willing to take a loot at this photo if it might be of interest for the article? Thank you for your time. Lotje (talk) 16:38, 8 September 2019 (UTC)

Proposed move of African independence movements

For those interested, there is a discussion at Talk:African independence movements on whether the article should be moved to Independence movements in Africa. --Goldsztajn (talk) 14:07, 25 September 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 2019 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Medjed (god), which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 21 October 2019 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool

Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:23, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Cool Tool : Play ISA and win some prizes with the Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks

This is a quick announcement and call for All Commonists to come and play on the ISA tool. The images in this first Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks or Africa At Play! were originally submitted to Wikimedia Commons as part of the Wiki Loves Africa 2017 photographic contest. There are prizes to be won! The competition closes on 29th November You can enter the competition here: https://tools.wmflabs.org/isa/campaigns/39

The ISA Tool was created to provide a fun way for participants to add information/ tags / descriptors that identifies the elements that makes up each image by linking it to existing WikiData statements (it was named the coolest multimedia tool at the recent WikiData Conference). ISA is one of the pilot projects for the Structured Data on Commons project and helps to make images more useful as illustrations of articles, and also more easy to search for - it is multilingual too! (It is a tool that is so cool it won the multimedia award at WikiData Conference 2019.) Isla Haddow (talk) 09:55, 14 November 2019 (UTC)

New bot to remove completed infobox requests

Hello! I have recently created a bot to remove completed infobox requests and am sending this message to WikiProject Africa since the project currently has a backlogged infobox request category. Details about the task can be found at Wikipedia:Bots/Requests for approval/PearBOT 2, but in short it removes all infobox requests from articles with an infobox, once a week. To sign up, reply with {{ping|Trialpears}} and tell me if any special considerations are required for the Wikiproject. For example: if only a specific infobox should be detected, such as {{infobox journal}} for WikiProject Academic Journals; or if an irregularly named infobox such as {{starbox begin}} should be detected. Feel free to ask if you have any questions!

Sent on behalf of Trialpears (talk) via MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 02:34, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

Discussion relating to the issue SADR flag use on Western Sahara templates in respect of WP:NPOV

I've started a discussion at Template talk:Ethnic groups in Western Sahara#SADR flag neutrality issue. Posting here to possibly gain broader input on the issue, and also as reference given the broadness of the issue of SADR symbolism being used to represent this disputed territory across Wikipedia. Rob984 (talk) 17:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Request for input about Ghanaian news sources

I'm putting together an RfC to be held at the reliable sources noticeboard to get baseline reliability assessments for Ghanaian news sources. I'd appreciate help in setting up the RfC framing, and in particular I'm looking for feedback on whether there are any important Ghanaian outlets that should be included, as well as if anyone has more up-to-date information on the relative editorial skews and/or practices. Please feel free to edit and comment on the draft in progress, User:Rosguill/GhanaNPPSGRFC. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 20:57, 20 January 2020 (UTC)

One of your project's articles has been selected for improvement!

Hello, Please note that Serengeti, which is within this project's scope, has been selected as one of Today's articles for improvement. The article was scheduled to appear on Wikipedia's Community portal in the "Today's articles for improvement" section for one week, beginning today. Everyone is encouraged to collaborate to improve the article. Thanks, and happy editing! Delivered by — MusikBot talk 00:05, 27 January 2020 (UTC) on behalf of the TAFI team

AfD discussion of Race and intelligence

A discussion is taking place of whether to delete the article Race and intelligence, see [1]. There is some discussion related to Africa there. NightHeron (talk) 12:58, 7 February 2020 (UTC)

Notice: NPP source guide discussion about Ghanaian sources is underway

The new pages patrol is hosting its first discussion of sources from regions affected by systemic bias, starting with Ghana, and editors watching this page are invited to participate. This discussion is being hosted in order to better equip new page reviewers to be able to assess articles about subjects in these regions, and is intended to build editor’s basic familiarity with sources. You can find a past discussion of this proposal here. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 19:12, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Image

This image, which is used in the infobox on the project page and the talk-page project boxes of articles, seems to be highlighting North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula only. I recognize that it is accurately reflecting vegetation vs. desert, but that's the effect I'm seeing at first glance. Shouldn't we use a more inclusive image? —[AlanM1(talk)]— 18:00, 3 February 2020 (UTC)

Like one of these:

—[AlanM1(talk)]— 18:42, 5 February 2020 (UTC)

The Sahara too, not just North Africa. This is an actual satellite image, and both of your suggested alternatives also show the desert as brighter. Maybe a map? I do like the current image best of the three. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Chuka Chief (talk • contribs) 16:03, 6 February 2020 (UTC)

@Chuka Chief: Right, but the contrast is not as extreme (especially the left one). I've created a lightened/reduced contrast version of the original, which I'll post here for evaluation when I have the time to figure out the licensing maze. —[AlanM1(talk)]— 02:11, 14 February 2020 (UTC)

I really don't see a problem with the image we already have. -Indy beetle (talk) 01:51, 15 February 2020 (UTC)

Nouna, Burkina Faso

I'm a big geography buff, so I love looking at articles about other countries and cities in said countries. That said, this sentence on the page for Nouna, Burkina Faso, is eyebrow raising: "Out of those 20,000 inhabitants, Chris's Nouna has given them all a good time." It sounds somewhat juvenile. Remove it?— Preceding unsigned comment added by Aries Rising 1979 (talk • contribs) 19:54, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Removed. IP vandalism that stuck in December 2019.--Chuka Chief (talk) 20:02, 22 February 2020 (UTC)

Association of African Universities

I'm working to make a list of universities to add to Association of American Universities. Please see User:Bait30/table test if you would like to help.  Bait30  ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 05:47, 21 March 2020 (UTC)

Ian Smith Featured article review

Ian Smith has been nominated for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 23:42, 24 March 2020 (UTC)

Update for Wiki Loves Women

Hello!

During March, Wiki Loves Women ran the Tell Us About Her campaign on the ISA Tool. The drive was aimed at improving the visibility of political leaders and activists across Africa on Wikimedia projects. If you do not know it yet, the ISA tool is a fun and mobile-friendly tool that helps players to add better descriptions to photographs within selected categories that have been uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. The descriptions make the images more useful on Wikipedia and Wikidata. The information that is added to the image description is structured data (in the form of depicts or captions). Categories chosen for the Tell Us More About Her campaign were related to politicians, activists and, in particular, feminists based in Africa.

You can find out more about the campaign and the results here. There are many campaigns currently running on the ISA Tool, this was the first women-focused one. Please feel free to add your own!

-- Isla Haddow (talk) 11:01, 3 April 2020 (UTC)

Rozvi Empire

Can someone look at this article. It has been changed recently to say this former Kingdom in present Zimbabwe has been "revived". There is a source that I really don't understand. MB 00:52, 7 April 2020 (UTC)

RfC on reliability of African Independent

There is a request for comment on the reliability of African Independent (africanindy.com). If you are interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § RfC: Is African Independent a reliable source? — Newslinger talk 06:10, 20 April 2020 (UTC)

Perspectives sought on infoboxes

Any comments at Talk:1965 Burundian coup d'état attempt#Value of an infobox would be much appreciated. —Brigade Piron (talk) 16:52, 23 April 2020 (UTC)

FAR for Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence

I have nominated Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets the featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" in regards to the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. buidhe 11:19, 30 April 2020 (UTC)

Dilling (Sudan) and Dalang, Sudan

Is it possible that this "district" is actually the same as the city? The district article was created by a SOCK that's now blocked and only has one source (which actually should be removed I think) that gives no real information. -- Fyrael (talk) 19:35, 1 May 2020 (UTC)

Noticeboard discussion on reliability of the Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences

There is a noticeboard discussion on the reliability of the Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences. If you are interested, please participate at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard § Ethiopian Journal of Biological Sciences. — Newslinger talk 16:45, 4 May 2020 (UTC)