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In assessing articles, I'm wondering if there is any reason we should be putting the Africa Wikiproject tag on a) images, and b) Wikipedia project pages. I can't think of any use in putting the project template on these kind of pages but I would like to know what others think. -- Beloved Freak 01:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello everyone! There is a discussion at List of countries by formation dates that concernes this wikiproject. It relates to the fact that some users include former colonies (such as Algeria or Western Sahara) in the columm for the last territorial changes of their respective colonial power, and this because "formely" such colonies were considered "provinces". I believe this discussion and its result may interest you. Thank you! The Ogre ( talk) 20:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Wow. I'm not sure about the name - something like WPAfrica or WikiProjectAfrica is more conventional - and perhaps you might consider moving it before it's use becomes widespread. But the work that's gone into this and the end result? Amazing.
I guess I'd better think about getting support for this template, and migrating the old templates, into my AWB plugin... gulp. Ask at that page if you need it. -- kingboyk ( talk) 19:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
The article Economics of cocoa was originally at "Labor exploitation in the chocolate industry" - It needs a lot of rewriting and it needs to have other info too besides slavery of boys. WhisperToMe WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It is mentioned in a couple of other articles ( Kwame Nkrumah being one) that this was the first election under universal suffrage to be held in Africa. Can anyone find a reference for this (I've tried but failed), as it might make a good WP:DYK line. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 15:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
There is a present Afd debate re the article Corruption in Angola. Looking at the bottom of the article, this appears to be one article in a series proposed by an editor/series of editors. I can't not see how active these editors are in this project, BUT clearly these articles are highly Africa related. Because of the potential POV position of such articles, I think it would be useful if someone from this project could comment on this Afd. Thank You! Rgds, - Trident13 ( talk) 02:11, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure of this the best place to raise this issue, so apologies in advance if that is the case - and pleas point me in the right direction!
There is a big problem with the structure of the various articles on colonialism in Africa.
The key article is Colonization of Africa, which covers several thousand years of history. It then (sensibly) links to main articles that expand on each period.
These are:
European exploration of Africa - this has useful material but, of course, it's main focus is on exploration, not early colonialism. The nature of European settlement is therefore not explored, even for the original settler colony in modern day South Africa. It covers up to the mid-late 19th century.
Scramble for Africa. This covers c.1880s-1914 and is dedicated to the carve up of Africa by the European powers. The referring section in Colonization of Africa, however, also discusses the impact of the actual colonial period, c.1900-independence.
Decolonization of Africa discusses (or should) the nationalist movements c.1940 onwards.
This means that the key period of formal colonialism in Africa c.1900-50 has no dedicated article, and is being unsuccessfully shoehorned into other topics!
None of the articles are of high quality and editing is made more difficult by the structural defects surrounding the topic.
Perhaps a single 'European colonialism in Africa' article would be a good interim solution so that these topics could be worked up in a harmonized manner before being split apart again?
Sunjata 22:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Could we sort out some guidelines for tagging articles for importance? The country articles are pretty obvious candidates for "top" importance, and have been tagged accordingly. Apart from that, how else do we decide? -- Beloved Freak 19:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
How exactly does this work. I understand that technically the US has no allies in except for those that are in combat beside US forces. but I know that countries like North Korea are not "allies" even though they are part the UN. so like I said how does this work. and specifically I would like to know about Africa obviously. Arkkeeper ( talk) 19:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
The Treaty of Tripoli page has gone through some major revisions as of late. Could people weigh in on the issue if the controversy section should be expanded (I say no, because it will just create feuding about "POV balance") and re-examine the page. Also, if there is anything that can be added in regards to North African history, that would help. Thanks. Ottava Rima ( talk) 06:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The Africa Project banner is now set up for differing importance assessments for each relevant country. Please see the Template:AfricaProject for the information on how to perform them. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 00:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a brilliant idea. Why don't we make a Africa Barnstar. One of the biggest reasons why people edit is so they can get barnstars. The4532 ( talk) 22:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I believe the staggering size of the AfricaProject template may be the reason the differential importance assessments aren't working. The server will only support a given number of different switches within a banner, and with the number of quality and importance parameters built into this one, I get the impression that, having tried to have the system produce the variant importance assessments in several incarnations, this banner has reached the limit. If that is the case, then either the different importance assessments will have to be voided, or, alternately, the AfricaProject banner could, potentially, itself be broken up, into "regional" banners, which would have less a problem with size. I'm thinking that, if we were to create subprojects for the five UN regions or some similar subdivisions, the problem should be conquerable with that because the size problem won't be so bad. Opinions? John Carter ( talk) 01:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
{{AfricaProject |importance=Top |class=A |Egypt=yes |Egypt-importance=Top }}
{{AfricaProject |importance=Top |class=A |country=Egypt |country-importance=Top }}
It would be possible to get the banner automatically placed on all the articles in the Category:Africa, including the appropriate national tag on most of them as well. The one major disadvantage, of course, is that we would quickly have several thousand articles to assess. In any event, would the members of the project favor such bot assisted banner placement or not? John Carter ( talk) 14:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently stumbled on on-line Malagasy census data for the 1,000+ communes, almost all of which are missing. Before starting creating Malagasy-cruft in earnest, I finished (almost) one region as a test. The easiest way to navigate is {{ Diana Region}}. I'm using a little program, which produces the text based on the census database, so it is not exactly FA-class prose. Any comments, criticism or general nitpicking is most welcome! Now it's just a little mess for me to clean.
I'm not really sure which would be the correct term to use here - many english text use commune (which of course is french word). Town/Municipality/commune? Commune urbaine is used for some of the larger cities, so there is an official distinction between the largest ~50 cities and their rural cousins. – Sadalmelik ( talk) 22:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
As title, somebody broken the tp, fix it and debug it. Matthew_hk t c 20:17, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently came to the page List of African ethnic groups through dealing with vandalism on that page. I noticed this edit [1] which I don't think is vandalism but has made a complete mess of the page. It looks to me as if this information has been dumped in from another wiki. The templates mostly do not exist on english wiki and the ones that do are doing something stupid. I think all the templates need deleting (or possibly turned into regional sub-headings) and the ethnic groups merged with the main list. However, I have no knowledge of the subject at all and this could be a complete hoax for all I know.
To clean up the page, I have removed the inserted data to the article talk page while it is discussed. If some-one wants to leave a note on my talk page confirming you want to keep this data in the article, then I would be happy to work on it. But I need confirmation that the data is actually correct before I will do it. SpinningSpark 12:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object to setting up an automated archiving system for this talk page? User:MiszaBot II handles this function for many pages in the "Wikipedia talk:" namespace, and automatic archiving can be easily enabled by transcluding User:MiszaBot/config on this page. A basic configuration could be:
{{User:MiszaBot/config |algo = old(60d) |archive = Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive %(counter)d |counter = 1 |maxarchivesize = 100K }}
This configuration would archive any section which has not been edited in the last 60 days to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 1, and would build up the archive to a maximum size of 100K, at which point it would create another archive page (i.e. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 2). The parameter values can, of course, be changed. Thoughts? Black Falcon ( Talk) 23:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion regarding the choice of header for Portal:Africa (compare the original header to the current header). Interested editors are invited to share their thoughts on the matter here. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Is this list complete? If you find links, or think of sections, that belong on this list, please add them.
This list is a rudimentary table of contents (and overview) of Africa-related material on Wikipedia, and is part of Wikipedia's Table of contents system.
Maintaining it is an important duty of this WikiProject. Be sure to add it to your watchlist.
Sincerely,
The Transhumanist 22:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Andersen ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 11 January 2008
Hello,
there are currently 12 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I fixed up those that I could find some info for. These which seem possibly notable remain:
So I've done what I can. If these articles are worth keeping, folks with the requisite background need to jump in. T L Miles ( talk) 19:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Mike Kennedy Sebalu - Belovedfreak has added some references to the article and I have removed the tag from the article. As a member of a national parliament, Sebalu is virtually guaranteed to be notable. Black Falcon ( Talk) 21:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
FYI: In the past six months, there have been four changes in the "class" ratings of African country articles:
See Portal talk:Africa/Countries/Selected country for a full listing of African country ratings. (Please take the information with a grain of salt, since ratings are generally (except in the case of GA and FA) given based on the judgment of a single editor.) Black Falcon ( Talk) 22:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Sometime ago i made a sortable list of African countries, which i think would be a more useful than just a plain list of the countries that is currently at List of African countries. It pretty much incorporates List of African countries in order of geographical area, List of African countries by GDP per capita, List of African countries by population into one list. C hris_huh talk 00:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Some editor came along, decided it was obviously Ivory Coast not Côte d'Ivoire, and solved this problem in two minutes flat by ignoring the talk page and just moving it. While efficient, it ignores the ENDLESS discussion of this on Talk:Côte d'Ivoire (or somewhere, I don't remember anymore). I folks could weigh in, decide which is right, and form some concensus either way, please do. Thanks. T L Miles ( talk) 19:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
The editor has been blocked as a suspected sockpuppet of a banned user. Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
It's one of the few countries that the non-English version is accepted usage, both official and informal, in English. It's not the same thing as naming the article on Warsaw, "Warszawa," because, in this last case, Warszawa is not an accepted foreign name in English. Just do a google search on English language pages, some time, for "Côte d’Ivoire" versus "Ivory Coast." Folks get all tied up when things are irregular--order, they cried out for. It's been that way forever, it must remain. Etc. Fact is, "Côte d’Ivoire" is an accepted name in English for the country once and also known in English as Ivory Coast. It can only have one name on en.Wikipedia, and "Côte d’Ivoire" is accepted English. -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
See diff, as User:Proxy User removes citation of name change, and rewrites article to say Ivory Coast is the accepted name. In the background you may hear the sound of my head banging the desk... T L Miles ( talk) 17:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
We currently have two assessment backlogs:
I don't think there's any easy way to reduce the "importance" backlog, as importance is something that requires evaluation of context and judgment. (Probably the only easy way to reduce that backlog is to remove the "importance" parameter from Template:AfricaProject - see relevant discussions here, here, here, and here - but it does seem to have some usefulness.) However, there are some things we can do about the "class" backlog. For instance, we could:
Is there support for one or both of these actions? If so, we could file a bot request to have this done.
Before we submit a bot request (assuming there is adequate support), we may also wish to consider the title of Template:AfricaProject - see, for instance, the comment left here, in the section titled {{AfricaProject}}. I suppose that, ultimately, it doesn't matter too much what the template is called, but it may be something worth considering before we ask a bot operator to tag up to 2000 talk pages (again, assuming there is support for automatic assessment). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Is this a good idea, assigning the importance of a topic to one area to another? For example, major plant pathogens may be improtant to plant articles, but even if they impact an economic crop of Nigeria, they might not be of top importance to Wiki Project Africa. stub is good, though. What is the assessment scale, anyway? -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
User:John_Bot appears to be doing this job, but it (from a quick look) MAY be breaking the assessments. The bot appears to be "preparing" the assessments by removing previous assessments. In some case thais happens AFTER the same bot has auto placed stub assessments (I assume following topic stub tags). The upshot it that the bot is removing AP assessmements and leaving previously assessed articles unassessed. see this and this as recent examples. I left a note on the operators talk page, but an admin probably should take a look at the logs and stop the bot if needed. T L Miles ( talk) 13:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems there has been a change of bots, and Betacommand (& BetacommandBot) will take care of this job now. – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The article about Cyclone Elita, a tropical cyclone that affected Madagascar in January–February 2004, was promoted to featured article status on 9 April 2008, bringing the total number of Africa-related featured articles to 33 (plus at least one featured list). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
This template should not default to alphabetical order, or there should be some way to over-ride it. For example, the article on Dagara people should list Ghana first, so I listed Ghana=yes, then Burkina Faso=yes, but it shows Burkina Faso first. This should be removed, or be an option. Some pages will be far more important to one country than the next, and the most important country should be listed first on the template. -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The article AIDS was demoted from featured article status on 18 May 2008. There are currently 32 Africa-related featured articles and 1 Africa-related featured list.
Image:Rose Geranium.jpg, a high resolution photograph of Pelargonium graveolens—a plant species indigenous to various parts of southern Africa—was promoted to featured picture status on 13 May 2008. There are currently 24 Africa-related featured pictures which are included in the "Featured picture" queue for Portal:Africa.
– Black Falcon ( Talk) 06:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 ( talk) 19:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to list new articles/stubs for this project, so I thought I'd add it here. Embassy of Senegal in Washington, D.C.. I have several more coming later this week.
There has been another database update and this time there are 11 Africa-related articles that are tagged as having unclear notability. For more details, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Notability#Feedback on per-project listings. I've copied the list below. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 16:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
There has been a persistent vandal that has been trying to split the Architecture of Africa article into two, one based on North African architecture, and another on Sub-Saharan architecture. Her argument being that the two are distinctly different and unrelated, with North African bearing traits of South Mediterranean architecture and Sub-Saharan with not much. I personally don't see much issue with keeping both in a single article, as the article itself is not very long in the first place, and there is plenty of space to point out the division in style from North and Sub-Saharan within the article itself without having to split it. Only problem is her insistence on splitting it is mostly on grounds that bunching both together robs Mediterranean people of their achievements and benefits Black Africans. No idea what that's about though. Anyone want to chime in on this? Chan Yin Keen | Talk 21:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Whites in Zimbabwe and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 06:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 2384 articles assigned to this project, or 13.0%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 11:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
A new Assessment class is being rolled out across English Wikipedia C-class. If you assess articles, please look at the new assessment scale at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Some Africa Sub-projects already have C-class categories, see Category:C-Class_articles. The current Africa Project Tag does not yet seem to be able to handle this. Folks should follow this process, and we can see when we can begin tagging Africa Project articles. Is there anything us laymen editors can do to help implement this? T L Miles ( talk) 03:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist 09:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 22:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello everyone. Could you please come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Madeira work group and participate / help? Thanks! The Ogre ( talk) 14:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
An article, albeit a stub at moment, which I created has been put up at Afd. The article being Mustafa Tajouri. Tajouri is the Ambassador of Libya to Russia, and only a few sources can be found on this highest level diplomat from Libya - those sources being in English and Russian. As Tajouri is Libyan, it is likely there are going to be sources for information out there in Arabic, however, not understanding Arabic, I can't find and add these sources to the article. If any of this project members could take a look and see if they can find any info on this ambassador, and add it to the article. There are going to be a heap of ambassador articles on subjects from Africa, and they are forming part of this article I am working on developing. Also if someone could add the name in Arabic to the article, and correct it if incorrect, that would be good too. On a small sidenote, Category:Articles needing Arabic script or text has more article in it which I have created and also need names in Arabic. Ambassadors are high level representatives of their nations, and they have likely had a multitude of credentials for which they were appointed to the position in the first place, it's just finding the info that can be difficult, and it is important to fight systematic bias to have articles on these ambassadors. We need editors help. Thanks. -- Россавиа Диалог 19:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new Africa Project banner template (currently at User:Merenta/NewAfricaTemplate) that's the same as the current one, but it also supports C-class assessments (at subproject level as well as at main project level). As discussed in other parts of this page, the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team has created this new class and indeed, there are already C-class articles in some Africa Project subprojects.
I propose that this new banner template replace the current one. If there are any objections to this, please reply on this page. If there are no objections after a period of at least three days, or if consensus has been reached following objections, I will request that an administrator move the template. Cheerio and happy editing! Merenta ( talk) 14:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
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Could the ---- near the end of the {{ AfricaProject}} template be removed or put inside some noinclude tags as it's adding ad extra dividing line between talk banners when there is more than one one on a page.
Also the [[Category:WikiProject Africa templates]] at the end should also be removed as it's included in the documentation page and at the moment it's including every page using this template in that category.
Thanks. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 09:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I 've made a suggestion to several editors who edit national park articles in Africa that is would a good idea to set up a task force to specifically improve coverage in coordination with WikiProject Protected areas. If you are interested in joining please sign your name and leave a note if possible.
Last update (25 May 2008)
There are currently 34 Africa-related featured articles.
There are currently 4 Africa-related featured lists.
There are currently 25 Africa-related featured pictures which are included in the "Featured picture" queue for Portal:Africa.
– Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Last update (2 April 2008)
In the past four months, there have been three changes in the "class" ratings of African country articles:
See Portal talk:Africa/Countries/Selected country for a full listing of African country ratings. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
While compiling the information in the section above, I noticed that WikiProject Africa did not have a category for featured lists (I have now created Category:FL-Class Africa articles). I was bold and added categories for the "FL" parameter in Template:AfricaProject (see diff). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Template:AfricaProject was recently revised, and now contains parameters for all African countries. For the sake of consistency, completeness, and efficiency (to avoid redundant tagging and reduce the number of templates involved), I propose that all uses of the individual African country WikiProject banners be replaced with {{ AfricaProject}}. Any thoughts? (If there is consensus for this change, a bot would be able to do most of the work...)
To clarify what I mean, let me provide an example. Under this proposal,
{{WikiProject Algeria |class=Stub |importance=Low}}
would be replaced with
{{AfricaProject |class=Stub |importance= |Algeria=yes |Algeria-importance=Low}}
This change would not affect how the article is categorised for WikiProject Algeria, but would add the article to Category:Stub-Class Africa articles. In addition, it would allow standardisation of the WikiProject banners and the phasing out of the individual country banners. Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
{{AfricaProject |class=Start |importance= |Eritrea=yes |Ethiopia=yes |Eritrea-importance=Low|Ethiopia-importance=Low}}
Any thoughts about how to proceed? While I think it's fair to say that consolidation shouldn't occur for a template such as {{ WikiProject Egypt}}, which is associated with an active and well-supported WikiProject, shall we move ahead on (some of) the other ones? – Black Falcon ( Talk) 03:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I started replacing a few transclusions of Template:WikiProject South Africa today, but I just noticed this discussion here. Is this template now deprecated or not? --- RockMFR 21:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
(Posting a comment so that the section is not archived) – Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:34, 8 August 2008 (UTC) P.S. I will be resuming (I was on break during June and July) this task with AWB in the coming days. Also, I checked the talk pages of the notified projects and there still have been no objections between the time the notices were posted and now.)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arathi. Is Arathi as mentioned in Githieya's, "The Formation and Development of the Arathi," The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya, related to Aarti? This request is cross posted into WikiProject:religion Taemyr ( talk) 14:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
A new task force has been created The Bald One White cat 15:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Please be aware of {{ lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:16, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 03:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I just took a look at this, a glance. It has four tags on it, but when I read the first sentence of the definition of African Nationalism there, I figured it needed another one, a humour tag. Gallador ( talk) 17:24, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
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In assessing articles, I'm wondering if there is any reason we should be putting the Africa Wikiproject tag on a) images, and b) Wikipedia project pages. I can't think of any use in putting the project template on these kind of pages but I would like to know what others think. -- Beloved Freak 01:56, 5 January 2008 (UTC)
Hello everyone! There is a discussion at List of countries by formation dates that concernes this wikiproject. It relates to the fact that some users include former colonies (such as Algeria or Western Sahara) in the columm for the last territorial changes of their respective colonial power, and this because "formely" such colonies were considered "provinces". I believe this discussion and its result may interest you. Thank you! The Ogre ( talk) 20:38, 19 January 2008 (UTC)
Wow. I'm not sure about the name - something like WPAfrica or WikiProjectAfrica is more conventional - and perhaps you might consider moving it before it's use becomes widespread. But the work that's gone into this and the end result? Amazing.
I guess I'd better think about getting support for this template, and migrating the old templates, into my AWB plugin... gulp. Ask at that page if you need it. -- kingboyk ( talk) 19:11, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
The article Economics of cocoa was originally at "Labor exploitation in the chocolate industry" - It needs a lot of rewriting and it needs to have other info too besides slavery of boys. WhisperToMe WhisperToMe ( talk) 04:29, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
It is mentioned in a couple of other articles ( Kwame Nkrumah being one) that this was the first election under universal suffrage to be held in Africa. Can anyone find a reference for this (I've tried but failed), as it might make a good WP:DYK line. Cheers, пﮟოьεԻ 5 7 15:58, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
There is a present Afd debate re the article Corruption in Angola. Looking at the bottom of the article, this appears to be one article in a series proposed by an editor/series of editors. I can't not see how active these editors are in this project, BUT clearly these articles are highly Africa related. Because of the potential POV position of such articles, I think it would be useful if someone from this project could comment on this Afd. Thank You! Rgds, - Trident13 ( talk) 02:11, 23 January 2008 (UTC)
I am not sure of this the best place to raise this issue, so apologies in advance if that is the case - and pleas point me in the right direction!
There is a big problem with the structure of the various articles on colonialism in Africa.
The key article is Colonization of Africa, which covers several thousand years of history. It then (sensibly) links to main articles that expand on each period.
These are:
European exploration of Africa - this has useful material but, of course, it's main focus is on exploration, not early colonialism. The nature of European settlement is therefore not explored, even for the original settler colony in modern day South Africa. It covers up to the mid-late 19th century.
Scramble for Africa. This covers c.1880s-1914 and is dedicated to the carve up of Africa by the European powers. The referring section in Colonization of Africa, however, also discusses the impact of the actual colonial period, c.1900-independence.
Decolonization of Africa discusses (or should) the nationalist movements c.1940 onwards.
This means that the key period of formal colonialism in Africa c.1900-50 has no dedicated article, and is being unsuccessfully shoehorned into other topics!
None of the articles are of high quality and editing is made more difficult by the structural defects surrounding the topic.
Perhaps a single 'European colonialism in Africa' article would be a good interim solution so that these topics could be worked up in a harmonized manner before being split apart again?
Sunjata 22:50, 13 May 2007 (UTC)
Could we sort out some guidelines for tagging articles for importance? The country articles are pretty obvious candidates for "top" importance, and have been tagged accordingly. Apart from that, how else do we decide? -- Beloved Freak 19:00, 22 January 2008 (UTC)
How exactly does this work. I understand that technically the US has no allies in except for those that are in combat beside US forces. but I know that countries like North Korea are not "allies" even though they are part the UN. so like I said how does this work. and specifically I would like to know about Africa obviously. Arkkeeper ( talk) 19:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
The Treaty of Tripoli page has gone through some major revisions as of late. Could people weigh in on the issue if the controversy section should be expanded (I say no, because it will just create feuding about "POV balance") and re-examine the page. Also, if there is anything that can be added in regards to North African history, that would help. Thanks. Ottava Rima ( talk) 06:20, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
The Africa Project banner is now set up for differing importance assessments for each relevant country. Please see the Template:AfricaProject for the information on how to perform them. Thank you. John Carter ( talk) 00:26, 5 February 2008 (UTC)
I have a brilliant idea. Why don't we make a Africa Barnstar. One of the biggest reasons why people edit is so they can get barnstars. The4532 ( talk) 22:04, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
I believe the staggering size of the AfricaProject template may be the reason the differential importance assessments aren't working. The server will only support a given number of different switches within a banner, and with the number of quality and importance parameters built into this one, I get the impression that, having tried to have the system produce the variant importance assessments in several incarnations, this banner has reached the limit. If that is the case, then either the different importance assessments will have to be voided, or, alternately, the AfricaProject banner could, potentially, itself be broken up, into "regional" banners, which would have less a problem with size. I'm thinking that, if we were to create subprojects for the five UN regions or some similar subdivisions, the problem should be conquerable with that because the size problem won't be so bad. Opinions? John Carter ( talk) 01:18, 8 February 2008 (UTC)
{{AfricaProject |importance=Top |class=A |Egypt=yes |Egypt-importance=Top }}
{{AfricaProject |importance=Top |class=A |country=Egypt |country-importance=Top }}
It would be possible to get the banner automatically placed on all the articles in the Category:Africa, including the appropriate national tag on most of them as well. The one major disadvantage, of course, is that we would quickly have several thousand articles to assess. In any event, would the members of the project favor such bot assisted banner placement or not? John Carter ( talk) 14:50, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently stumbled on on-line Malagasy census data for the 1,000+ communes, almost all of which are missing. Before starting creating Malagasy-cruft in earnest, I finished (almost) one region as a test. The easiest way to navigate is {{ Diana Region}}. I'm using a little program, which produces the text based on the census database, so it is not exactly FA-class prose. Any comments, criticism or general nitpicking is most welcome! Now it's just a little mess for me to clean.
I'm not really sure which would be the correct term to use here - many english text use commune (which of course is french word). Town/Municipality/commune? Commune urbaine is used for some of the larger cities, so there is an official distinction between the largest ~50 cities and their rural cousins. – Sadalmelik ( talk) 22:26, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
As title, somebody broken the tp, fix it and debug it. Matthew_hk t c 20:17, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
I recently came to the page List of African ethnic groups through dealing with vandalism on that page. I noticed this edit [1] which I don't think is vandalism but has made a complete mess of the page. It looks to me as if this information has been dumped in from another wiki. The templates mostly do not exist on english wiki and the ones that do are doing something stupid. I think all the templates need deleting (or possibly turned into regional sub-headings) and the ethnic groups merged with the main list. However, I have no knowledge of the subject at all and this could be a complete hoax for all I know.
To clean up the page, I have removed the inserted data to the article talk page while it is discussed. If some-one wants to leave a note on my talk page confirming you want to keep this data in the article, then I would be happy to work on it. But I need confirmation that the data is actually correct before I will do it. SpinningSpark 12:35, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
Would anyone object to setting up an automated archiving system for this talk page? User:MiszaBot II handles this function for many pages in the "Wikipedia talk:" namespace, and automatic archiving can be easily enabled by transcluding User:MiszaBot/config on this page. A basic configuration could be:
{{User:MiszaBot/config |algo = old(60d) |archive = Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive %(counter)d |counter = 1 |maxarchivesize = 100K }}
This configuration would archive any section which has not been edited in the last 60 days to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 1, and would build up the archive to a maximum size of 100K, at which point it would create another archive page (i.e. Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Archive 2). The parameter values can, of course, be changed. Thoughts? Black Falcon ( Talk) 23:44, 8 March 2008 (UTC)
There is currently a discussion regarding the choice of header for Portal:Africa (compare the original header to the current header). Interested editors are invited to share their thoughts on the matter here. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:28, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
Is this list complete? If you find links, or think of sections, that belong on this list, please add them.
This list is a rudimentary table of contents (and overview) of Africa-related material on Wikipedia, and is part of Wikipedia's Table of contents system.
Maintaining it is an important duty of this WikiProject. Be sure to add it to your watchlist.
Sincerely,
The Transhumanist 22:17, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
History of Cape Colony from 1870 to 1899 has been nominated for a featured article review. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. Please leave your comments and help us to return the article to featured quality. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, articles are moved onto the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article from featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Reviewers' concerns are here. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Peter Andersen ( talk • contribs) 17:15, 11 January 2008
Hello,
there are currently 12 articles in the scope of this project which are tagged with notability concerns. I have listed them here. (Note: this listing is based on a database snapshot of 12 March 2008 and may be slightly outdated.)
I would encourage members of this project to have a look at these articles, and see whether independent sources can be added, whether the articles can be merged into an article of larger scope, or possibly be deleted. Any help in cleaning up this backlog is appreciated. For further information, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Notability.
If you have any questions, please leave a message on the Notability project page or on my personal talk page. (I'm not watching this page however.) Thanks! -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 16:43, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
I fixed up those that I could find some info for. These which seem possibly notable remain:
So I've done what I can. If these articles are worth keeping, folks with the requisite background need to jump in. T L Miles ( talk) 19:32, 24 March 2008 (UTC)
Mike Kennedy Sebalu - Belovedfreak has added some references to the article and I have removed the tag from the article. As a member of a national parliament, Sebalu is virtually guaranteed to be notable. Black Falcon ( Talk) 21:43, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
FYI: In the past six months, there have been four changes in the "class" ratings of African country articles:
See Portal talk:Africa/Countries/Selected country for a full listing of African country ratings. (Please take the information with a grain of salt, since ratings are generally (except in the case of GA and FA) given based on the judgment of a single editor.) Black Falcon ( Talk) 22:01, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
Sometime ago i made a sortable list of African countries, which i think would be a more useful than just a plain list of the countries that is currently at List of African countries. It pretty much incorporates List of African countries in order of geographical area, List of African countries by GDP per capita, List of African countries by population into one list. C hris_huh talk 00:43, 25 March 2008 (UTC)
Some editor came along, decided it was obviously Ivory Coast not Côte d'Ivoire, and solved this problem in two minutes flat by ignoring the talk page and just moving it. While efficient, it ignores the ENDLESS discussion of this on Talk:Côte d'Ivoire (or somewhere, I don't remember anymore). I folks could weigh in, decide which is right, and form some concensus either way, please do. Thanks. T L Miles ( talk) 19:22, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
The editor has been blocked as a suspected sockpuppet of a banned user. Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:16, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
It's one of the few countries that the non-English version is accepted usage, both official and informal, in English. It's not the same thing as naming the article on Warsaw, "Warszawa," because, in this last case, Warszawa is not an accepted foreign name in English. Just do a google search on English language pages, some time, for "Côte d’Ivoire" versus "Ivory Coast." Folks get all tied up when things are irregular--order, they cried out for. It's been that way forever, it must remain. Etc. Fact is, "Côte d’Ivoire" is an accepted name in English for the country once and also known in English as Ivory Coast. It can only have one name on en.Wikipedia, and "Côte d’Ivoire" is accepted English. -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:51, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
See diff, as User:Proxy User removes citation of name change, and rewrites article to say Ivory Coast is the accepted name. In the background you may hear the sound of my head banging the desk... T L Miles ( talk) 17:13, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
We currently have two assessment backlogs:
I don't think there's any easy way to reduce the "importance" backlog, as importance is something that requires evaluation of context and judgment. (Probably the only easy way to reduce that backlog is to remove the "importance" parameter from Template:AfricaProject - see relevant discussions here, here, here, and here - but it does seem to have some usefulness.) However, there are some things we can do about the "class" backlog. For instance, we could:
Is there support for one or both of these actions? If so, we could file a bot request to have this done.
Before we submit a bot request (assuming there is adequate support), we may also wish to consider the title of Template:AfricaProject - see, for instance, the comment left here, in the section titled {{AfricaProject}}. I suppose that, ultimately, it doesn't matter too much what the template is called, but it may be something worth considering before we ask a bot operator to tag up to 2000 talk pages (again, assuming there is support for automatic assessment). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 07:41, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
Is this a good idea, assigning the importance of a topic to one area to another? For example, major plant pathogens may be improtant to plant articles, but even if they impact an economic crop of Nigeria, they might not be of top importance to Wiki Project Africa. stub is good, though. What is the assessment scale, anyway? -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:06, 12 April 2008 (UTC)
User:John_Bot appears to be doing this job, but it (from a quick look) MAY be breaking the assessments. The bot appears to be "preparing" the assessments by removing previous assessments. In some case thais happens AFTER the same bot has auto placed stub assessments (I assume following topic stub tags). The upshot it that the bot is removing AP assessmements and leaving previously assessed articles unassessed. see this and this as recent examples. I left a note on the operators talk page, but an admin probably should take a look at the logs and stop the bot if needed. T L Miles ( talk) 13:45, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
It seems there has been a change of bots, and Betacommand (& BetacommandBot) will take care of this job now. – Sadalmelik ☎ 06:10, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The article about Cyclone Elita, a tropical cyclone that affected Madagascar in January–February 2004, was promoted to featured article status on 9 April 2008, bringing the total number of Africa-related featured articles to 33 (plus at least one featured list). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:28, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
This template should not default to alphabetical order, or there should be some way to over-ride it. For example, the article on Dagara people should list Ghana first, so I listed Ghana=yes, then Burkina Faso=yes, but it shows Burkina Faso first. This should be removed, or be an option. Some pages will be far more important to one country than the next, and the most important country should be listed first on the template. -- Blechnic ( talk) 03:04, 4 May 2008 (UTC)
The article AIDS was demoted from featured article status on 18 May 2008. There are currently 32 Africa-related featured articles and 1 Africa-related featured list.
Image:Rose Geranium.jpg, a high resolution photograph of Pelargonium graveolens—a plant species indigenous to various parts of southern Africa—was promoted to featured picture status on 13 May 2008. There are currently 24 Africa-related featured pictures which are included in the "Featured picture" queue for Portal:Africa.
– Black Falcon ( Talk) 06:20, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 ( talk) 19:04, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I'm not sure where to list new articles/stubs for this project, so I thought I'd add it here. Embassy of Senegal in Washington, D.C.. I have several more coming later this week.
There has been another database update and this time there are 11 Africa-related articles that are tagged as having unclear notability. For more details, see Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Notability#Feedback on per-project listings. I've copied the list below. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 16:54, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
There has been a persistent vandal that has been trying to split the Architecture of Africa article into two, one based on North African architecture, and another on Sub-Saharan architecture. Her argument being that the two are distinctly different and unrelated, with North African bearing traits of South Mediterranean architecture and Sub-Saharan with not much. I personally don't see much issue with keeping both in a single article, as the article itself is not very long in the first place, and there is plenty of space to point out the division in style from North and Sub-Saharan within the article itself without having to split it. Only problem is her insistence on splitting it is mostly on grounds that bunching both together robs Mediterranean people of their achievements and benefits Black Africans. No idea what that's about though. Anyone want to chime in on this? Chan Yin Keen | Talk 21:45, 3 June 2008 (UTC)
As part of the WikiProject Good Articles, we're doing sweeps to go over all of the current GAs and see if they still meet the GA criteria and I'm specifically going over all of the "Culture and Society" articles. I have reviewed Whites in Zimbabwe and believe the article currently meets the majority of the criteria and should remain listed as a Good article. I have left this message at this WikiProject's talk page so that any interested members can assist in helping the article keep its GA status. In reviewing the article, I have found there are a few issues that may need to be addressed, and I'll leave the article on hold for seven days for them to be fixed. I have left messages on the talk pages of the main contributors of the article and other related WikiProjects. Please consider helping address the several points that I listed on the talk page of the article, which shouldn't take too long to fix if multiple editors assist in the workload. If you have any questions, let me know on my talk page and I'll get back to you as soon as I can. Happy editing! -- Nehrams2020 ( talk) 06:13, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
Currently, 2384 articles assigned to this project, or 13.0%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 18 June 2008.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page. -- B. Wolterding ( talk) 11:57, 25 June 2008 (UTC)
A new Assessment class is being rolled out across English Wikipedia C-class. If you assess articles, please look at the new assessment scale at Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Assessment. Some Africa Sub-projects already have C-class categories, see Category:C-Class_articles. The current Africa Project Tag does not yet seem to be able to handle this. Folks should follow this process, and we can see when we can begin tagging Africa Project articles. Is there anything us laymen editors can do to help implement this? T L Miles ( talk) 03:22, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
This project's subject has a page in the set of Lists of basic topics.
See the proposal at the Village pump to change the names of all those pages.
The Transhumanist 09:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.
Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot ( Disable) 22:25, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
Hello everyone. Could you please come to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Madeira work group and participate / help? Thanks! The Ogre ( talk) 14:59, 7 July 2008 (UTC)
An article, albeit a stub at moment, which I created has been put up at Afd. The article being Mustafa Tajouri. Tajouri is the Ambassador of Libya to Russia, and only a few sources can be found on this highest level diplomat from Libya - those sources being in English and Russian. As Tajouri is Libyan, it is likely there are going to be sources for information out there in Arabic, however, not understanding Arabic, I can't find and add these sources to the article. If any of this project members could take a look and see if they can find any info on this ambassador, and add it to the article. There are going to be a heap of ambassador articles on subjects from Africa, and they are forming part of this article I am working on developing. Also if someone could add the name in Arabic to the article, and correct it if incorrect, that would be good too. On a small sidenote, Category:Articles needing Arabic script or text has more article in it which I have created and also need names in Arabic. Ambassadors are high level representatives of their nations, and they have likely had a multitude of credentials for which they were appointed to the position in the first place, it's just finding the info that can be difficult, and it is important to fight systematic bias to have articles on these ambassadors. We need editors help. Thanks. -- Россавиа Диалог 19:14, 11 July 2008 (UTC)
I have created a new Africa Project banner template (currently at User:Merenta/NewAfricaTemplate) that's the same as the current one, but it also supports C-class assessments (at subproject level as well as at main project level). As discussed in other parts of this page, the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team has created this new class and indeed, there are already C-class articles in some Africa Project subprojects.
I propose that this new banner template replace the current one. If there are any objections to this, please reply on this page. If there are no objections after a period of at least three days, or if consensus has been reached following objections, I will request that an administrator move the template. Cheerio and happy editing! Merenta ( talk) 14:49, 18 July 2008 (UTC)
{{ editprotected}}
Could the ---- near the end of the {{ AfricaProject}} template be removed or put inside some noinclude tags as it's adding ad extra dividing line between talk banners when there is more than one one on a page.
Also the [[Category:WikiProject Africa templates]] at the end should also be removed as it's included in the documentation page and at the moment it's including every page using this template in that category.
Thanks. -- WOSlinker ( talk) 09:51, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
Hi there. I 've made a suggestion to several editors who edit national park articles in Africa that is would a good idea to set up a task force to specifically improve coverage in coordination with WikiProject Protected areas. If you are interested in joining please sign your name and leave a note if possible.
Last update (25 May 2008)
There are currently 34 Africa-related featured articles.
There are currently 4 Africa-related featured lists.
There are currently 25 Africa-related featured pictures which are included in the "Featured picture" queue for Portal:Africa.
– Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:07, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Last update (2 April 2008)
In the past four months, there have been three changes in the "class" ratings of African country articles:
See Portal talk:Africa/Countries/Selected country for a full listing of African country ratings. – Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:21, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
While compiling the information in the section above, I noticed that WikiProject Africa did not have a category for featured lists (I have now created Category:FL-Class Africa articles). I was bold and added categories for the "FL" parameter in Template:AfricaProject (see diff). – Black Falcon ( Talk) 19:49, 6 August 2008 (UTC)
Template:AfricaProject was recently revised, and now contains parameters for all African countries. For the sake of consistency, completeness, and efficiency (to avoid redundant tagging and reduce the number of templates involved), I propose that all uses of the individual African country WikiProject banners be replaced with {{ AfricaProject}}. Any thoughts? (If there is consensus for this change, a bot would be able to do most of the work...)
To clarify what I mean, let me provide an example. Under this proposal,
{{WikiProject Algeria |class=Stub |importance=Low}}
would be replaced with
{{AfricaProject |class=Stub |importance= |Algeria=yes |Algeria-importance=Low}}
This change would not affect how the article is categorised for WikiProject Algeria, but would add the article to Category:Stub-Class Africa articles. In addition, it would allow standardisation of the WikiProject banners and the phasing out of the individual country banners. Black Falcon ( Talk) 00:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
{{AfricaProject |class=Start |importance= |Eritrea=yes |Ethiopia=yes |Eritrea-importance=Low|Ethiopia-importance=Low}}
Any thoughts about how to proceed? While I think it's fair to say that consolidation shouldn't occur for a template such as {{ WikiProject Egypt}}, which is associated with an active and well-supported WikiProject, shall we move ahead on (some of) the other ones? – Black Falcon ( Talk) 03:10, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
I started replacing a few transclusions of Template:WikiProject South Africa today, but I just noticed this discussion here. Is this template now deprecated or not? --- RockMFR 21:01, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
(Posting a comment so that the section is not archived) – Black Falcon ( Talk) 02:34, 8 August 2008 (UTC) P.S. I will be resuming (I was on break during June and July) this task with AWB in the coming days. Also, I checked the talk pages of the notified projects and there still have been no objections between the time the notices were posted and now.)
Please comment on Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Arathi. Is Arathi as mentioned in Githieya's, "The Formation and Development of the Arathi," The Freedom of the Spirit: African Indigenous Churches in Kenya, related to Aarti? This request is cross posted into WikiProject:religion Taemyr ( talk) 14:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
A new task force has been created The Bald One White cat 15:52, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
Please be aware of {{ lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases. Thank you. Andy Mabbett | Talk to Andy Mabbett 18:16, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
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An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola ( talk) 03:14, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
I just took a look at this, a glance. It has four tags on it, but when I read the first sentence of the definition of African Nationalism there, I figured it needed another one, a humour tag. Gallador ( talk) 17:24, 30 October 2008 (UTC)