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WikiProject Burkina Faso

This WikiProject is about Burkina Faso.
Shortcut	WP:BURK, WP:BURKINA
Wikimedia Commons	Burkina Faso
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{ WikiProject Africa|Burkina Faso=yes}}
Userbox	{{ User WikiProject Burkina Faso}}
Assessment	/Assessment
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Welcome to the WikiProject Burkina Faso! This group was formed to better organize articles on Burkina Faso in a spirit of cooperation.

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Burkina Faso, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Burkina Faso or one of its subcategories.

General

• To coordinate and improve articles related to Burkina Faso in a fair and accurate manner.

Specific

• To improve key articles, such as Burkina Faso to FA quality.
• To write new articles related to Burkina Faso ( some missing articles can be found here)
• To maintain the Burkina Faso portal.

Active members

To join WikiProject Burkina Faso, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} 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. John Carter 17:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC) reply
2. Beloved Freak 12:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC) reply
3. DarthGator ( talk) 12:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC) reply
4. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 13:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC) reply
5. I really should, considering how many departments I've created. I'm an Editor of the wiki ^{citation needed} 10:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC) reply
6. EJF ( talk) 20:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC) reply
7. If you don't mind someone from Mozambique helping out... Ecoleetage ( talk) 10:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC) reply
8. Stamboliyski ( talk) 20:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC) reply
9. Webworkx64 ( talk) 09:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC) taking on the challenge of expanding Blaise Compaore's page (both in French and English). reply
10. Grn1749 ( talk · contribs) 14:27:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)  reply
11. EytanMelech ( talk · contribs) 18:30:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC) reply
12. Séba79 ( talk · contribs) 18:30:24, 14 Aout 2023 (UTC)
13. Jebiguess ( talk · contribs) 14:10:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC) reply
14. EKokou ( talk) 18:48, 19 December 2023 (UTC) reply

Former members

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

1. Buaidh ( talk · contribs) 21:40:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories. reply

Member identification

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

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

For other Burkina Faso user templates, see Category:Burkina Faso user templates.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso:  ·  history ·  watch ·  refresh · Updated 2008-06-09 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Adiza Sanoussi, Honorine Mare, Marie-Simone Séri, Maxime Somé, Monique Ilboudo, Sandra Pierrette Kanzie, Simporé Simone Compaore, Sophie Heidi Kam, Suzy Henique Nikiéma, Tagbaladougou Falls, Zarra Guiro More... Cleanup : Fula people, Mandinka people, Migrants' African routes, Ouagadougou Copyedit : Bil Aka Kora Disambiguation : Mouhoun Expand : Black Volta, Blaise Compaoré, Lobi, Red Volta, White Volta Stubs : Burkinabe parliamentary election, 2007, Congress for Democracy and Progress, Culture of Burkina Faso, Gaston Kaboré, Henri Zongo, Military of Burkina Faso, Upper Volta Verify : Ambassadors to Burkina Faso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Cinema of Burkina Faso, Dioula language, Mossi Kingdoms, Saye Zerbo Other : Burkina Faso (improvement from B-class)

Article alerts

Articles for deletion

• 12 Apr 2024 – Bangataka ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Abassi, Burkina Faso ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Abaye, Burkina Faso ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Paglayiri ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Ayaraba ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Babanloua ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Bangaba ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Abanga, Burkina Faso ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Karpala ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)
• 12 Apr 2024 – Babakou ( talk ·   ·  hist) AfDed by Broc ( t ·  c) was closed as keep by ToadetteEdit ( t ·  c) on 26 Apr 2024; see discussion (9 participants; relisted)

Requested moves

• 14 Apr 2024 – Nigerien crisis (2023–present) ( talk ·   ·  hist) is requested to be moved to Nigerien crisis (2023–2024) by Yxuibs ( t ·  c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 16 Mar 2022 – Diébédo Francis Kéré ( talk ·   ·  hist) is proposed for splitting by Kingsif ( t ·  c); see discussion

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Burkina Faso articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1	1	1	3			6
B	6		3	5		10	24
C	10	21	1	9		34	75
Start	35	17	33	87	1	224	397
Stub	10	1	27	377		2,662	3,077
List	3	1	11	15		79	109
Category				1	1,449		1,450
Disambig				1	12		13
File					2		2
Project					5		5
Redirect		1		4	34		39
Template					183		183
Other					2		2
Assessed	65	42	76	502	1,688	3,009	5,382
Unassessed						7	7
Total	65	42	76	502	1,688	3,016	5,389
WikiWork factors ( ?)		ω = 20,826			Ω = 5.82

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot ( talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Burkina Faso articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Did You Know (DYK)s

• Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992 - 13 September 2009
• Ouaga-Saga - 1 October 2008
• Bwa - 27 July 2008
• Theatre of Burkina Faso - 13 July 2008
• Literature of Burkina Faso - 11 June 2008

Photo requests

In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons ( Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Please add tag Burkina Faso-related article by modifying the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:

{{WikiProject Africa
|Burkina Faso=yes
}}

Please see {{ WikiProject Africa}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates

• To request a photo for an article, please add {{reqphoto|in=Burkina Faso}} to the article talkpage.

News

• Afrol News on Burkina Faso
• allAfrica.com on Burkina Faso
• UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Burkina Faso
• United States State Department on Burkina Faso
• lefaso.net - National news website
• Le Pays - National news website

External

• (in French) petiteacademie.gov.bf: Government of Burkina Faso education site, with biographies of hundreds of current and historical figures and short history pieces.
• Public Domain images of USAID/USDA work in Burkina: They seem to have a project there, and someone enjoys putting general interest images (street scenes, etc.) on the web. All these can be uploaded to commons with {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}}. T L Miles ( talk) 18:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC) reply

Theses

• Rouamba, Palingwindé Inès Zoé Lydia (2011). La participation des femmes à la vie politique au Burkina (1957-2009) (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université du Québec à Montréal.