Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sudan

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Wouldn't a portal be better? — mark ✎ 08:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

maybe you will take the german one as template, see de:Portal:Sudan Sven-steffen arndt 23:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Contents

[edit] sections moved in restructuring

I've moved the sections below from the page as I'm in the middle of a restructuring and can't figure out a logical place to put the transliteration note. I think the list of articles was originally for article requests, but it's clear they have been started in the meantime. I'm going to replace these with an article help section that people can specify what sort of assistance they are suggesting and let other editors move any appropriate articles below to that section. - BT 02:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] A Note On Transliteration

I've got some data culled from Google on various transliterations of terms related to Sudan. It seems as good a way as any to try to settle on a standard transliteration. For example, here are some data for Janjaweed:

  • Janjaweit 23
  • Jangawid 41
  • Janjuweed 65
  • Jingaweit 404
  • Janjawid 7210
  • Janjaweed 18000

So in this case Janjaweed is certainly the best transliteration. I'll post more of these in respective articles. Perhaps we could look into an Article on tips on consistently transliterating Arabic?

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic) - BT 02:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ethnic groups

[edit] Current or Recent Political figures

[edit] Current Political parties

BanyanTree 00:08, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Religious Groups

  • The Mahdiya, which has strong support in Darfur,
  • The Khatemya, which is closer to Egypt and has its grassroots support in the north.

(from http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11633)

[edit] Rebel groups

This list includes groups related to the Darfur conflict

[edit] Pages on Sudan

[edit] Project directory

Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:02, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Banner and userbox

It doesn't look to me that this project has either a banner or userbox. If this is true, please feel free to use {{WikiProject Sudan}} and/or {{WikiProject Sudan userbox}}. Thank you. Badbilltucker 02:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Sudan

HI WIkiSudan. PLease can a member of your project try to expand the articles on the states of Sudan. They are very poor indeed -quite embarassing. You would expect some more detailed articles on major states of countries but often they are only two lines long and cover an area of like 400,000 sq miles!!! I have seen much improvement in a number of articles . Keep up the good work everyone its just I feel this is very important -there must be some information available somewhere ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ "Expecting you" Contribs 10:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Same with me. Though I regret not being able to join the project, I wish everyone here luck, and furtherly encourage everyone to continue the good work. I added some more items to be de-redlinked in the articles that are needed column. Spencer 22:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Project banner

It is my sincerest hope that this statement is not taken as being an attempt to subvert this project, take control over it, or any similar thing. However, the Template:AfricaProject has recently had parameters put into it to allow it to provide separate assessments for all the "Africa" projects, including this one. If in the interests of reducing banner clutter the members of this project were to choose to use that banner, please let me know and I can adjust any categories accordingly to permit it. Thank you. John Carter (talk) 00:20, 5 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] translation request

Can you type out the Arabic text on the top of this image? I have a graphics editor who will fix these if I can get him the text. Image:--1999sudangg save for top text.jpg I just need the top text on this, we already have the bottom. Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal to consolidate African country WikiProject banners

Template:AfricaProject was recently modified, and now contains individual parameters for all countries in Africa (see usage notes). Since project-specific assessment for all African countries can now be accomplished through the template, a proposal has been made at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa to consolidate all individual African country WikiProject banners.

Comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you, Black Falcon (Talk) 23:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)