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The vital articles list

A recent report by 1ctinus has confirmed suspicions that Africa is horribly underrepresented on the Level 5 vital articles list. As members of this WikiProject are likely to be knowledgeable about what articles should be added to improve African representation, I am inviting you to participate in discussions about improving the list's quality. Its talk page can be found here. Thanks, QuicoleJR (talk) 12:56, 18 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

New Tools Available for your WikiProject

Hello WikiProject Africa members,

For WikiProjects, new tools are available! These tools help manage collaborative activities on the wikis, like this WikiProject. These tools are available through the CampaignEvents extension, which is enabled on this wiki, English wikipedia and multiple other wikis incuding Wikidata and Meta. The tools are:

Event Registration: A way to register participants and manage collaborative activities on-wiki. It can be used for WikiProject events, such as a contest, collaboration, meetup, or edit-a-thon. Features include: public/private registration, automatic registration confirmation emails, ability to mass email participants, and more. See video guides on Commons. If you would like to try it out for a future event, I can help you set it up!
- Event Registration is already permitted by default in the Event namespace. Starting this week of May 19, it will also be permitted by default in the project (Wikipedia) namespace. Learn more about permitted namespaces.
Collaboration List: A way to promote your WikiProject and events to new audiences. The Collaboration List has two tabs: Events (i.e., all events that use Event Registration) and Communities (i.e., all WikiProjects on the local wiki). You can transclude it on a WikiProject or User page too, so you can have an automatically updated calendar of topically relevant events (see videos on how to do this).
Invitation Lists: Find editors to invite to join your WikiProject, based on their edit history. This tool generates an invitation list, and then you can choose to invite the editors via user talk page messages or email. If you want help trying out, let us know! See video demo.

Note that Event Registration and Invitation Lists require the event-organizer right. You can request the right from wiki admins.

If you have any questions or would like to learn more, please do not hesitate to reach out to me. I am happy to answer any questions you have. Thank you! - Udehb-WMF (talk) 11:16, 20 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Unreferenced articles June push

Please consider signing up for the June 2025 Unreferenced Articles backlog drive.
This project has over 2300 recorded unreferenced article. Help us improve your project by participating and signing up to the June push.

NorthernWinds (talk) 15:39, 22 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Marble Arch (Libya)#Requested move 21 May 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Marble Arch (Libya)#Requested move 21 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. ASUKITE 20:42, 29 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

The World Destubathon

Hello. Project members are invited to participate in The World Destubathon. We're aiming to destub a lot of articles and also improve longer stale articles. It will be held from Monday June 16 - Sunday July 13. There is $3338 going into it, with $500 the top prize. If you are interested in winning some vouchers to help you buy books for future content by improving articles for your country or any other, or just see it as a good editathon opportunity to see a lot of articles improved for your project, sign up if interested.♦ Dr. Blofeld 10:18, 31 May 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Stade de ASC HLM

I'm seeing a lot of unsourced stadia in Category:Articles lacking sources from December 2009, and I don't want to mass propose deletions without giving you all another chance after 15 and 1/2 year. Can somebody triage these unsourced stubs, or do you want me to do it? Bearian (talk) 05:51, 5 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Dibebad#Requested move 24 May 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Dibebad#Requested move 24 May 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 04:29, 7 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Democratic Republic of the Congo–Rwanda conflict (2022–present)

Please, update information. СтасС (talk) 13:32, 12 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

My Oga at the top

Someone from this project may wish to review recent edits to this article. I cannot tell whether the new editor is correcting or conducting OR. Cheers, Patrick 🐈‍⬛ (talk) 16:42, 17 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Proposed deletion of Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa

The article Northeast Coalition for the Liberation of Southern Africa has been proposed for deletion because of the following concern:

no source for the said organisation exists. This organisation may have existed, but the role may have been historically captured under the broader resistance movements of that period.

While all constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, pages may be deleted for any of several reasons.

You may prevent the proposed deletion by removing the {{proposed deletion/dated}} notice, but please explain why in your edit summary or on the article's talk page.

Please consider improving the page to address the issues raised. Removing {{proposed deletion/dated}} will stop the proposed deletion process, but other deletion processes exist. In particular, the speedy deletion process can result in deletion without discussion, and articles for deletion allows discussion to reach consensus for deletion. Bearian (talk) 03:42, 20 June 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Multiple merge discussion

A discussion on multiple proposed mergers is ongoing at Outline of Belarus that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Necessary to add here because, in addition, the Article Alert doesn't update the discussion page target. Dege31 (talk) 03:13, 11 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Somali Civil War (2009–present)#Requested move 18 July 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Somali Civil War (2009–present)#Requested move 18 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. – MrAussieGuy (Talk) 08:49, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Amina, Queen of Zazzau#Requested move 24 July 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Amina, Queen of Zazzau#Requested move 24 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 14:40, 25 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move at Talk:Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)#Requested move 11 July 2025

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)#Requested move 11 July 2025 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. TarnishedPath^talk 08:28, 28 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Nomination for deletion of Template:Use Cameroonian English

Template:Use Cameroonian English has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the entry on the Templates for discussion page. Pineapple Storage (talk) 11:03, 30 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Romano-Berber kingdoms

Hi everyone! I just wanted to give you all the heads-up that I've been trying to improve the coverage of the Romano-Berber kingdoms that sprouted up in the Maghreb c. 5-6th century AD, especially those eight (labled on this map) that were identified by Christian Courtois in 1955. In doing so, I've created an article for the Kingdom of the Nemencha, and I've heavily edited the articles about the Kingdoms of Capsus and Ouarsenis. In the future, I'd like to make articles for the Kingdoms of Cabaon and Hodna, as well as the Ucutumani Kingdom (proposed/discussed by Gabriel Camps). I've found that the coverage of these kingdoms is rather scattershot, not only on Wikipedia, but also in the literature, and I'm trying my best to clean up what I can. That said, if anyone has any insight, I'd love to hear their thoughts about ways these articles could be improved. (PS: I'm also posting this to the Greece and Rome and Berbers WikiProject pages.)--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 13:35, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Great work! I don't tend to edit much on North Africa as it tends to get decent coverage on-wiki, but yeah Berber history does not. Literature tends to focus on the Roman perspective so you end up w scraps of outsider views. You may find the chapter "The Roman and post-Roman period in North Africa" in the General History of Africa vol 2 useful. Also "The conquest of North Africa and the Berber resistance" in General History of Africa vol 3. Lmk if you need any help, I quite like searching for sources, don't know how useful these are [1] (intro discusses historiography, focuses more on Vandals) [2] [3]. Pinging @ElijahUHC and Lankdadank: who might be interested Kowal2701 (talk) 17:45, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I see you're already aware of Laroui, there's also Benabou 1976, Brett and Frentress 1996, Moderan 2003 Kowal2701 (talk) 20:14, 31 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Kowal2701: Thank you so much for finding these! I hope to integrate any useful info soon.--Gen. Quon_[Talk] 04:46, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, Mugnai 2016 looks good also Kowal2701 (talk) 10:58, 1 August 2025 (UTC)[reply]