Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa

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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to South Africa. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

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[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:

  1. South Africa
  2. The History of South Africa
  3. South Africans.

[edit] Task Forces

[edit] Participants

[edit] The South African Bush Telegraph

The Bush Telegraph has started for those who are interested on been kept in the loop on issues involving South African articles and contributors

[edit] Recognized content

South Africa
articles		 Importance
Top Mid Low None Total
Quality
Featured article FA 2 2
Good article GA 8 8
B 24 24
Start 1 2 1 103 107
Stub 1 6 2 119 128
List 5 5
Assessed 2 8 3 261 274
Unassessed 433 433
Total 2 8 3 694 707

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did You Knows (DYKs)

[edit] Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Templates

{{WikiProject South Africa}} should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the Category:South Africa or any of its subcategories. It automatically adds these articles to the Category:WikiProject South Africa articles.

All members should feel free to add the {{User WikiProject South Africa}} to their userpages.

[edit] Infobox

  • {{Infobox Settlement}} can be used for all types of settlements in South Africa. This will provide a consistent look between South African articles and with articles from other settlements around the world. Examples: Durban, Kloof, and Johannesburg

[edit] Categories

A category tree can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Categories

[edit] Pages Needing Work

[edit] Missing Pages

  • Many smaller SA languages have no pages, or only stubs (links below).

[edit] Cuisine

Main article: Cuisine of South Africa

[edit] Culture

[edit] Geography

(See also Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions, and Wikipedia:WikiProject South African places)

[edit] People

  • R. W. Johnson academic
  • Arthur Johnstone
  • Vukile Mehana
  • Jan Grootboom, article exists at es:Jan Grootboom
  • Elkin Sithole, ethnomusicologist

[edit] Miscellaneous

[edit] Pages referencing large numbers of non-existent pages

[edit] Stubs needing work

  • Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife - If someone could put more detailed information, especially on conservation in KZN in general (eg: Rhino projects)
  • News24 - This online news service needs some TLC
  • All the SA language pages need work: all eleven official languages, and also all sorts of non-official languages. Very little is published on most of the unofficial ones (and even many of the official ones). But readers who are mother-tongue speakers/native speakers of English, Afrikaans, any of the nine official African languages, any of the Indian languages, and all of the other non-standard varieties/dialects, and especially those who may have direct experience of non-standard dialects (e.g. who know about speech communities embedded within other communities): these would ALL be welcome to contribute to the SA languages pages. Their knowledge is invaluable, especially if it has no published source. Of course, all such claims would have to be verified later, but in the meantime, such first-hand experience will push forward the boundaries of linguistic knowledge in South Africa.
  • Joel Netshitenzhe - I started this one on a well-known ANC politician ..supposedly has the backing of Thabo Mbeki for presidency. I am still trying to pick my way thru google. --maxrspct ping me 21:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Larger pages needing work

Quite a few ministers and ministries on Ministers of the South African Government are still redlink, contributions would be appreciated!

[edit] Other suggested work

[edit] Resources

[edit] Good pages to refer to

[edit] External Sources