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[edit] Central African Republic

I've just noticed that the Central African Republic article talks about elections that are due to be held in March 2005. What happened to them? Did they happen or were they posptponed/cancelled? Thryduulf 13:47, 1 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Hello,

I am seeking to enter in contact with editors on the english wikipedia, living in African countries. This is at the same time for Wikimania and to prepare a report on African participation to Wikipedia. If you fit the profile, or know someone who fits the profile, please contact me on my user talk page or by email at anthere9ATyahoo.com

Thanks.

Anthere 05:41, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] African COTW

Revolución has created a African COTW if anyone here is interested. Falphin 7 July 2005 22:59 (UTC)

Wikipedia:African Collaboration of the Week — mark ✎ 7 July 2005 23:04 (UTC)

[edit] Rwanda stub templates

I've created two new stubs for Rwanda:

Use them wisely! :-) TreveXtalk 15:41, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Ivory Coast/Côte d'Ivoire

A highly contentious vote is shaping up over at Talk:Côte d'Ivoire on which form of the country's name is the accepted standard usage; I'd encourage interested editors to drop by and note which usage you prefer, as this vote will (hopefully) establish the article's place for some time. Cheers! --Dvyost 07:43, 14 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive

Architecture of Africa is currently nominated on Wikipedia:Article Improvement Drive. Come to this page and support it with your vote. Help us improve this article to featured status.--Fenice 08:46, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] African military history task force

The African military history task force is a new and rapidly growing branch of the military history project. We have an open task list where anyone can drop subjects of interest that could do with some work and a discussion page where we will try to help you with articles/questions concerning conflicts in Africa. Just take a look. Greatings Wandalstouring 01:34, 27 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Administrative divisions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Please could someone update the page on administrative divisions with information on the new Provinces? Kahuzi 17:52, 24 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Colonisation of Africa

I'm not sure how English-speaking African countries spell "colonisation", but I assume they use the British spelling. However, the article "Colonisation of Africa" keeps going back and forth between "colonization" and "colonisation". As per the manual of style, if an article has strong ties with a country that uses a specific spelling, that spelling should be used. If anyone could help clear this up, that would be most helpful. Also, the article has a good start, but it could use some work, so anyone who knows something about it might want to help out. -Tea and Crumpets (Talk - contribs) 04:09, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

Per Wikipedia:Manual of Style#National varieties of English, I changed all instances of "z" to "s", except in the references, categories, and interwiki links. I also moved the article Decolonisation of Africa to its new title, per the Manual of Style and for consistency with the article Colonisation of Africa. Cheers, Black Falcon (Talk) 16:31, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Header Image

I'm not quite sure what to say about the new header image. It is very intricate and well-made, but I don't think it is quite appropriate for a portal, mainly due to its cartoon-esque nature, but also because the content doesn't really tie in to that of the portal. What do others think? Picaroon (t) 05:50, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

User:CJ took it out with the comment: "nice effort, by you require permission to use Wikipedia's logo. moreover, the banner takes up too much space." It didn't look as good when it was first inserted in there, but I center aligned it and took out the original header, and I think it looks better. I wasn't aware of any permission requirement for using Wikipedia's logo within Wikipedia, but I do think that the image might benefit from the removal of the globe (I'd have to see it to be sure, though). I don't think the banner takes up too much space now that I rearranged it.
If you don't like it, go ahead and say so. -Tea and crumpets (t c) 21:36, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
I don't want to offend anyone, but there was a request for comments on the AfricaProject page. While beautiful (and clearly requiring a lot of hard work), I have a bias against things about Africa which feature animals. Many (not all) Senegalese folks I know find the Western obsession with wild African animals as a denial of the importance of African people, societies and cultures, and a continuation of the "Dark Continent" thing. While I'm sure that's not the intention, folks making the decision (ie, not ME), should be aware of that sensitive point. T L Miles (talk) 01:40, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
I think that the banner image is very good, but I think it seems to symbolise wildlife rather than Africa. I wasn't aware of the issue mentioned by T L Miles above, but that is definitely something worth considering. --BelovedFreak 19:18, 24 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Current events subportals

A discussion about most of the Current events subportals has been opened at Miscellany for deletion. You are invited to participate in discussing the fate of these subportals. --TheDJ (talk • contribs) 14:26, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] In the news

I have replaced the old news items with Wikinews transclusion, using Wikinews Importer Bot.
Feer 15:46, 22 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Width fixed for Africa Topics

07-Feb-2008: I fixed the table-setting typos (from 03Oct07) to correct the overrun of the right margin at Africa Topics. The width requires either the equals-sign or style-colon format:

width="100%"   or   style="width:100%"

I also fixed "bground" as background and re-wrapped the longer lines to fit 800x600 screens if the page is narrowed. -Wikid77 (talk) 12:27, 7 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Did you know section

I was wondering if anybody supported the idea of changing the "Did you know..." section so that it automatically rotates items, as Portal:Film has. (see Portal:Film/Did you know.) As well as the having the advantage of regularly alternating facts, we would be able to ensure that facts are grouped so that there is a variation in the facts displayed together. (ie. that 3 out of 4 facts displayed aren't from the same country). Any thoughts? --BelovedFreak 13:30, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

It's possible to manually update the list using Wikipedia:Recent additions (I admit that I had forgotten about the DYK section of Portal:Africa for some time). While an automatic rotation would be more efficient in the long run (once the structure is set up, it would be fairly easy to update), it would deviate from the structure of WP:DYK, which tends to highlight only newly-written content. At the moment, I don't have a strong preference, as both are workable alternatives. –Black Falcon (Talk) 17:42, 25 May 2008 (UTC)