Welcome to the Ethiopia WikiProject. We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of articles related to Ethiopia. The goal of this WikiProject is to provide complete coverage of Ethiopia by expanding articles on people, places, and things related to the country. This project and its subprojects contain suggestions that should help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, become a member. Then look through the tasks or join one of the specialized departments below.

Categories for discussion

• 26 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Ethiopia ( talk ·   ·  hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle ( t ·  c); see discussion

Redirects for discussion

• 18 Apr 2024 – Islamist insurgency in Somalia (2007–present) ( talk ·   ·  hist) → War in Somalia (2006–2009) was RfDed by Pppery (alt) ( t ·  c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 13 Apr 2024 – Evarcha maculata ( talk ·   ·  hist) was GA nominated by Simongraham ( t ·  c); start discussion

Articles for creation

• 21 Apr 2024 – Draft:Enawgaw Mehari ( talk ·   ·  hist) has been submitted for AfC by Jbogale2 ( t ·  c)
• 27 Apr 2024 – Draft:Yesuf Fitfit ( talk ·   ·  hist) submitted for AfC by FailedMusician ( t ·  c) was declined by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 28 Apr 2024

• All members should always feel free to patrol the recent changes list to note improvements, other changes, or vandalism of articles within the scope of this project.

• Mark articles related to Ethiopia with {{ WikiProject Ethiopia}} in the talk page of the article:
  • WE HAVE A NEW ADDITION TO THE TEMPLATE! You can now assign an article to a department (check template documentation for specs).
  • MAKE A HABIT OF UPDATING THE TALK PAGE of every Ethiopia-related article you visit. Update the templates: add class, importance, department. Also remove the Ethiopia=yes from the WikiProject Africa templates to unclutter and stop double tagging.

• Check the alerts above and join the review or reassessment of any articles listed. This list is auto-generated and should not be edited.

• Create any of the articles, lists, templates, infoboxes requested.

• Fix any of the redlinks listed on this page. You can do this by creating the article or change the articles to link to the appropriate articles or sections of other articles.
• See Ethiopia articles needing attention for a complete listing of Ethiopia-related articles that need attention. Please respond to these requests if you're able.

• We need to start a list of encyclopedia articles directly relevant to this project at exhaustive list of articles. This list should include all substantive articles in print encyclopedias relating to this topic that are not covered by Wikipedia.

• Add references to articles. A list of useful references is compiled on the references page.
• There maybe a more detailed list of tasks here.

• Administrative department -- This department will develop a comprehensive Manual of Style for Ethiopia-related articles including transliteration and pronunciation of words usually written in Ge'ez script. This department will also be in charge of clean-up of good articles and flagging of articles that need attention by other departments
• Assessments department -- These editors work to assess and categorize articles within the scope of the project, possible nomination for GA or FA. They will therefore be responsible for the Outline of Ethiopia, and the Portal:Ethiopia
• Outreach department -- These editors work to recruit and welcome new editors to the project.
• Sub-projects -- The following departments will concentrate on specific topics. Notice each Subproject has its own page. You can suggest new articles for the sub-project in its own page. Some articles maybe within the scope of more than one department.
  • History and politics department -- History of Ethiopia, Politics of Ethiopia, Emperors and dynasties, wars, battles, history of church, historical biographies, Political biographies etc.
  • Geography department -- Geography of Ethiopia, Regions of Ethiopia, Zones of Ethiopia, and Districts of Ethiopia, cities, lakes, mountains, rivers Historical provinces, etc.
  • Languages department -- Languages of Ethiopia
  • People and culture department -- Demographics of Ethiopia, Culture of Ethiopia, literature, ethnic groups, religions, and holidays also includes biographies of people in pop culture, media, music, film, radio, etc.
  • Economy and infrastructure department -- Economy of Ethiopia, Transport in Ethiopia, Health in Ethiopia, Education in Ethiopia, Urbanization, Rural life, also includes biographies of any people in related subject
  • Climate and environmental department -- Environmental issues in Ethiopia, Wildlife of Ethiopia, Climate of Ethiopia, Climate change

The following templates can be used on pages in Wikipedia to associate them with the Ethiopia WikiProject. Click on a template's title to see a sample of what it produces when included on a page.

Main templates

• {{ WikiProject Ethiopia}} — Template to add to talk pages of all Ethiopia-related articles
• {{ User WikiProject Ethiopia}} — Userbox for members to show off and advertise our project!
• {{ Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia/Template:Subproject}} — Template for the subpages of this project
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia/Templates/Woreda templates

Stub templates

• Geographic stubs
• Biographic stubs
• Infrastructure stubs
• Culture Stubs
• Category:Ethiopia stubs

Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Ethiopia-related articles § Ge'ez alphabet

Ethiopians commonly use their fathers' given names as patronymics after their own, e.g. Abiy Ahmed means Abiy, the son of Ahmed. Sometimes their father's father's name appears in third place, but this style is usually for official documents; only in rare circumstances would Ethiopians adopt their grandfather's name as a last name for common usage. Note that if the name is Amharic, it does not imply that a subject is a member of the Amhara people, as many other groups also use Amharic names.

Many Ethiopian names are compound nouns in Ge'ez, for example "Zara Yaqob" which means "Seed of Jacob". He should not be referred to as "Zara" or "Mr Yaqob" -- unless this unusual usage can be verified in a reliable source, which then needs to be added to the relevant article.

Ethiopians, especially in the West, will frequently adopt their own transliteration scheme for styling themselves, that does not always correspond to any of the various schemes employed by linguists. Whenever proper names become notable under such ad hoc spellings, they should be preferred as the most common searchable term, e.g. songstress Manalemosh Dibo. Articles about musicians with stage names are listed at their more familiar name, e.g. Teddy Afro and Gigi (singer), with the legal name given in the article lead sentence.

This also applies to names of albums, songs, etc. that are sometimes transliterated directly as proper names. The name of an album is italicised, and if desired, the English interpretation could be given in parentheses and quotation marks ("like this").

Active members

To join WikiProject Ethiopia, edit this section and add the Wikitext of: #{{subst:me}}, together with your areas of interest, to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

1. Llywrch ( talk · contribs) 05:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply
2. Gidonb ( talk · contribs) 11:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply
3. Gyrofrog ( talk · contribs) 17:26, 28 December 2012 (UTC) reply
4. Divex ( talk · contribs) 09:05, 12 May 2016‎ (UTC) reply
5. Varavour ( talk · contribs) 15:58, 18 November 2016 (UTC) reply
6. Turtlewong ( talk · contribs) 02:41, 20 February 2017 (UTC) reply
7. Ferenjamin ( talk · contribs) 03:02:07, 6 June 2018 (UTC)  reply
8. BrantleyIzMe ( talk · contribs) 05:34, 5 July 2018 (UTC) (Editor renamed to Chouette254 ( talk · contribs) reply
9. Jon698 ( talk · contribs) 04:01, 12 April 2020 (UTC) reply
10. Yitbe ( ^A-21 · contribs) 16:49, 14 November 2020
11. Princesss73 ( talk · contribs) 13:20:33, 18 January 2021 (UTC) reply
12. Minenhle32 ( talk · contribs) 14:06:51, 18 January 2021 (UTC)  reply
13. Yorubaja ( talk · contribs) 14:17:23, 18 January 2021 (UTC) reply
14. Bushel C andle · contribs) 01:02:01, 5 April 2021 (UTC). I can copy-edit   [ but I only understand English (and some French, German and Spanish) ]. reply
15. Dabaqabad ( talk · contribs) 20:05:42, 15 June 2021 (UTC)  (Editor renamed to Gebagebo ( talk · contribs)) reply
16. QuietLiving ( talk · contribs) 07:23, 11 July 2021 (UTC) reply
17. Thiqq ( talk · contribs) 15:48:13, 24 August 2021 (UTC)  reply
18. Hamzamj1 ( talk · contribs) 17:16:39, 1 October 2021 (UTC)  reply
19. Ue3lman ( talk · contribs) 21:21:08, 24 January 2022 (UTC)  reply
20. XTheBedrockX ( talk · contribs) 15:52:22, 26 October 2022 (UTC)  reply
21. THEREALhistoryandgames ( talk · contribs)
22. Kehaa ( ¹⁹⁹⁸ · contribs) 16:31, 22 January 2020 (UTC)  reply
23. Instant History ( talk · contribs) 16:33:31, 15 April 2024 (UTC)  reply

Former members

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

1. ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 04:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC) reply
2. ፈቃደ ( ውይይት) 00:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC) reply
3. Jidan Jidan 04:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply
4. Badagnani 09:26, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply
5. MikeG 19:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC) reply
6. Yhever
7. George the Hippy
8. Szvest 10:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC) ^{Wiki me up™} reply
9. Golbez
10. Ldingley
11. Cluckbang
12. Tiqur Anbessa 14:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC) reply
13. buddhagazelle 25 Sept, 2006
14. Ebelular
15. ሀላካሕ contribs • Talk 04:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC) reply
16. Landroving Linguist 22:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC) reply
17. KevinMConnor 14:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)KevinMConnor reply
18. Æe tlr Cre ejl
19. Tibeb
20. Asiaticus
21. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 19:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
22. Bltrgs ^Talk 22:21, 15 June 2008 (UTC) reply
23. mkpumphrey
24. User:Sundostund
25. Amantana
26. Ian198700
27. Ahmed SHareef2nd ( talk · contribs) 01:23, 6 November 2012 (UTC) (Last edit January 2014 ) reply
28. Janweh64 ( talk · contribs) 19:06, 18 December 2012 (UTC) (Last edit July 2020) reply
29. Elfalem ( talk · contribs) 17:03, 25 December 2012 (UTC) (last edit October 2018) reply
30. Aleka birhanu ( talk · contribs) 03:19, 29 December 2012 (UTC) (last edit October 2017) reply
31. HOA Monitor ( talk · contribs) 13:02, 22 December 2013 (UTC) (Last edit April 2016) reply
32. A326 ( talk · contribs) 14:55, 15 August 2015 (UTC) (Last edit August 2015) reply
33. Kidus ( talk · contribs) 05:41:34, 28 March 2020 (UTC) (Last edit June 2020) reply
34. Daddywa ( talk · contribs) 14:08:41, 18 January 2021 (UTC) (last edit: 14:08, 18 January 2021) reply

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Ethiopia should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Ethiopia participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Ethiopia participants]]	none	linked pages
{{ Template:User WikiProject Ethiopia}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Ethiopia.	linked pages
{{ Template:User WP Ethiopia}}	This user participates in WikiProject Ethiopia.	linked pages
{{ Template:User WP Ethiopia|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Ethiopia.	linked pages

For other Ethiopia user templates, see Category:Ethiopia user templates.

Invitations

To invite someone to join the project, just copy and paste the following to their user talk page:
   {{subst:WikiProject Ethiopia Invitation}}
   ~~~~

Which creates the following invitation:

Thank you for your recent contributions to one of Wikipedia's Ethiopia articles. Did you know there's a WikiProject for editors interested in writing about Ethiopia? If you would like to join, simply add your username under the members section on the WikiProject Ethiopia page. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the WikiProject Ethiopia talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future!

The recipient's user name is automatically added in the introduction, and your signature is automatically added at the end.