Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the African country Zimbabwe with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

To participate, simply add your name to the members subpage.

            

Contents 1 Scope 2 Project divisions 2.1 Similar WikiProjects 2.2 Related Portals 3 Featured content 3.1 Featured articles 3.2 Featured lists 3.3 Featured images 3.4 Featured topics 3.5 Featured portals 3.6 Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC) 3.7 Formerly recognized content 4 Good articles (GA) 5 Criteria for assessing articles 6 Did you know? 7 Open tasks 8 Project Barnstar 9 Resources 9.1 Infoboxes 9.2 Stubs 9.3 Templates 10 STUBS - PLEASE READ

[edit] Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:

1. Zimbabwe
2. The History of Zimbabwe
3. Zimbabweans.

[edit] Project divisions

• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Zimbabwe-related articles
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Zimbabwe.
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Zimbabwe, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Zimbabwe's predecessor states who have shaped Zimbabwe
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Zimbabwe and its predecessors
• History (talk) – history of Zimbabwe and its predecessors
• Photo requests (talk) – List of requested photos.

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Rhodesia
• WikiProject Africa
• WikiProject South Africa

[edit] Related Portals

• Portal:Zimbabwe
• Portal:Harare

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

The following Zimbabwe-related articles have become Featured articles, which means that they been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the Zimbabwe portal.

Education

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Geography

• Zambezi

Landmarks

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Transport

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History

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Society and Politics

• (none)

War and military

• Frederick Russell Burnham

Notable Zimbabweans

• P. K. van der Byl
• Roy Welensky

Culture and the Arts

• (none)

Sports

• (none)

[edit] Featured lists

The following lists have become Featured lists:

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[edit] Featured images

For more information, see Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Pictures are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. Zimbabwe-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/Gallery.

[edit] Featured topics

See Wikipedia:Featured topics for more info. A featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.

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[edit] Featured portals

See Wikipedia:Featured portals for more information. The criteria for becoming Freatured portals can be found at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Portals can be put up for featured status at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates.

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[edit] Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Following is a list of Zimbabwe-related featured article candidates. Please contribute toward making them featured articles by voting and copyediting to remedy potential objections.

Recent featured article candidates:

Following is a list of Zimbabwe-related articles submitted for peer review (an important step toward becoming a featured article). Please contribute by copyediting to remedy potential objections.

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[edit] Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

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[edit] Good articles (GA)

The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology

Economics and business

Culture and society

• Whites in Zimbabwe

Engineering and technology

Food and drink

Geography

• Zimbabwe

History

Language

Mathematics

Music

Politics and government

Recreation

Religion

War and military

[edit] Criteria for assessing articles

Consult Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/Assessment for information on assessing articles and the criteria utilized.

[edit] Did you know?

Any articles that have been created or expanded in the last 5 days are eligible for Main Page inclusion at Template:Did you know, so if you find an interesting fact in any of these articles, please nominate it at Template talk:Did you know and, once posted on the main page, add it to the DYK list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/New article announcements. Another place to list interesting facts from new articles is at Portal:Zimbabwe/Did you know.

[edit] Open tasks

	Zimbabwe WikiProject Current Collaboration: Suburbs of Harare

• Improve collaboration of the month article: Suburbs of Harare.
• Work on articles needing work.
• Tag all Zimbabwe-relevant articles with {{WikiProject Zimbabwe}}.
• Invite more users to join. Here's how.
• Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red).
• Create Zimbabwe subcategories. Remove items from Category:Zimbabwe that ought to be in subcategories.
• Populate the created categories.
• Maintain and update the Template:Zimbabwe tasks.

[edit] Project Barnstar

There is at this time one barnstar which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in the scope of WikiProject Zimbabwe.

A template is available for awarding a barnstar to users, more information about it is available at WikiProject Zimbabwe/Barnstar.

[edit] Resources

[edit] Infoboxes

[edit] Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Zimbabwe-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/Stub templates

• Category:Zimbabwe stubs

[edit] Templates

Code	Template
{{WikiProject Zimbabwe}}	Portal WikiProject Zimbabwe is within the scope of WikiProject Zimbabwe, which aims to improve Wikipedia's coverage of Zimbabwe and Zimbabwe-related topics. If you would like to participate, visit the project page. NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the quality scale. NA This page is not an article and does not require a rating on the importance scale.
{{User WikiProject Zimbabwe}}	This user is a proud member of WikiProject Zimbabwe.
{{WP Zimbabwe Invitation}}	You have been invited to join the WikiProject Zimbabwe, a collaborative effort focused on improving Wikipedia's coverage of Zimbabwe. If you'd like to join, just add your name to the member list. Thanks for reading!

View the full list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Zimbabwe/Templates.

[edit] STUBS - PLEASE READ

While working on Zimbabwe-related topics, please could you take note of any stub articles which could fit into any of the following stubs. I'm trying to create all the following stubs as it seems to me that many other countries have all of these as part of their stubs categories. Simply add the name of the page at the end of the relavent line. Many Thanks, Mangwanani

• {{Zimbabwe-academic-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean academicans
• {{Zimbabwe-actor-stub}} - Zimbabwean actors
• {{Zimbabwe-architect-stub}} - Zimbabwean architects
• {{Zimbabwe-artist-stub}} - Zimbabwean artists
• {{Zimbabwe-athletics-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean athlete
  • Tendai Chimusasa,
• {{Zimbabwe-autoracing-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean auto racers
• {{Zimbabwe-composer-stub}} - Zimbabwean music composers
• {{Zimbabwe-engineer-stub}} - Zimbabwean engineers, inventor
• {{Zimbabwe-law-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean law related biographies
• {{Zimbabwe-mathematician-stub}} - Zimbabwean mathematician
• {{Zimbabwe-med-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean medical people
• {{Zimbabwe-mil-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean military personnel
• {{Zimbabwe-reli-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean religious figure
  • Ralph Edward Dodge,
• {{Zimbabwe-painter-stub}} - Zimbabwean painters
• {{Zimbabwe-scientist-stub}} - Zimbabwean scientists
  • Christopher Chetsanga, Rudo Makunike, Allan Savory
• {{Zimbabwe-physicist-stub}} - Zimbabwean physicists pages
• {{Zimbabwe-tennis-bio-stub}} - Zimbabwean Tennis players
  • Byron Black, Wayne Black, Kevin Ullyett
• {{Zimbabwe-band-stub}} - Zimbabwean musical ensembles
  • Zimbabwe tribesmen
• {{Zimbabwe-company-stub}} - Zimbabwean companies
  • ZOSS,
• {{Zimbabwe-battle-stub}} - Zimbabwean battles
• {{Zimbabwe-road-stub}} - Zimbabwean roads
• {{Zimbabwe-mil-stub}} - Zimbabwean military and military hsitory
• {{Zimbabwe-record-label-stub}} - Zimbabwean record label stub
• {{Zimbabwe-school-stub}} - Zimbabwean schools
• {{Zimbabwe-struct-stub}} - Zimbabwean buildings and structures
• {{Zimbabwe-sports-venue-stub}} Zimbabwean stadiums and other sports venues
• {{Zimbabwe-university-stub}} - Zimbabwean universities