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width:50%; padding:0.3em 0.3em 0.3em 0;">(Rated Project-class, High-importance)</th> <td class="mbox-empty-cell"><span class="metadata" style="display:none; speak:none;"><span class="wpb-project">Africa</span><span class="wpb-project_link">Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa</span><span class="wpb-banner_name">Template:WikiProject Africa</span><span class="wpb-assessment_cat">Africa articles</span></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="mbox-text" style="padding:3px 0 3px 5px;" colspan="2"> <table style="background:transparent; border:none; padding:0; width:100%; border-spacing:0;"> <tr> <td class="mbox-image" style="padding:2px 0;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg" class="image"><img alt="WikiProject icon" src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/80px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg" width="80" height="90" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/120px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/160px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1624" data-file-height="1824"/></a></td> <td class="mbox-text"> <div role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portal plainlist tright" style="margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em;border:solid #aaa 1px"> <ul style="display:table;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0.1em;max-width:175px;background:#f9f9f9;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold"> <li style="display:table-row"><span style="display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/25px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg" width="25" height="28" class="noviewer" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/37px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/21/Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg/50px-Africa_satellite_orthographic.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1624" data-file-height="1824"/></span><span style="display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Africa" title="Portal:Africa">Africa portal</a></span></li> </ul> </div> <div class="plainlinks hlist navbar mini" style="float:right; 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If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the <a class="mw-selflink selflink">discussion</a> and see a list of open tasks.</td> <td class="mbox-empty-cell"></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="assess assess-project" style="text-align:center; white-space:nowrap; font-weight:bold; background: #c0c090;" rowspan="1"><span style="display:none;" title="Project Page"><img alt="" src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/16px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png" title="Project page" width="16" height="16" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/24px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Symbol_information_vote.svg/32px-Symbol_information_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185"/></span> <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Project-Class_Africa_articles" title="Category:Project-Class Africa articles">Project</a> </td> <td class="mbox-text" colspan="2">This page does not require a rating on the project's <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Assessment#Quality_scale" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Assessment">quality scale</a>.</td> </tr> <tr> <td class="import import-high" style="text-align:center; 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color: white; background-color:black; border: 1px solid black">Project navigation links</th> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa">Main project page</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Africa-related_regional_notice_board" title="Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board">Notice board</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Africa-related_regional_notice_board" title="Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Africa" title="Portal:Africa">Portal</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal_talk:Africa" title="Portal talk:Africa">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Watchlist" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Watchlist">Watchlist</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td colspan="2">Departments:</td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Assessment" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Assessment">Assessment</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Assessment" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Assessment">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/French_Africa_work_group" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/French Africa work group">French Africa work group</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/French_Africa_work_group" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/French Africa work group">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Africa-related_regional_notice_board/Peer_review" title="Wikipedia:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review">Peer review</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Africa-related_regional_notice_board/Peer_review" title="Wikipedia talk:Africa-related regional notice board/Peer review">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Protected_areas_task_force" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Protected areas task force">Protected areas task force</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Protected_areas_task_force" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Protected areas task force">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Saint_Helena_work_group" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Saint Helena work group">Saint Helena work group</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Saint_Helena_work_group" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Saint Helena work group">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Spanish_Africa_work_group" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Spanish Africa work group">Spanish Africa work group</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Spanish_Africa_work_group" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Spanish Africa work group">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td> → <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Translation" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Translation">Translation</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Translation" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Translation">talk</a></td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="2" style="font-size: 100%; color: white; background-color:black; border: 1px solid black">Useful links</th> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Articles_to_be_written_or_improved" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Articles to be written or improved">Article requests</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Deletion_sorting/Africa" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Deletion sorting/Africa">Deletion sorting</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa#Open_tasks" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa">Open tasks</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Africa" title="Category:WikiProject Africa">Project category</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #DEB887;"> <td colspan="2"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Stubs" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Stubs">Stub templates</a></td> </tr> <tr style="background: #F4A460;"> <td><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa#Templates" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa">Templates</a></td> <td style="text-align: right;"></td> </tr> <tr style="text-align: center; background: #DEB887;"> <td colspan="2"><small class="editlink noprint plainlinksneverexpand"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Navigation&action=edit">edit</a> · <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Navigation" title="Special:RecentChangesLinked/Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Navigation">changes</a></small></td> </tr> </table> <p></p> <div id="toc" class="toc"> <div class="toctitle"> <h2>Contents</h2> </div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Wiki_Loves_Africa"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Wiki Loves Africa</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#Frustrating"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">Frustrating</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#The_Africa_Destubathon"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">The Africa Destubathon</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#Upcoming_.22420_collaboration.22"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Upcoming "420 collaboration"</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#Help_would_be_really_useful.3F"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Help would be really useful?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Popular_pages_report"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Popular pages report</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#Automated_assessment_of_article_importance"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Automated assessment of article importance</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Hunde_language"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Hunde language</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-9"><a href="#Recruit_new_editors_for_the_project.3F"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">Recruit new editors for the project?</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-10"><a href="#Ashanti_hoax_tags"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Ashanti hoax tags</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <p></p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Wiki_Loves_Africa">Wiki Loves Africa</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Wiki Loves Africa">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Here are some fresh news regarding the photo contest <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa" class="extiw" title="c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa">c:Commons:Wiki Loves Africa</a><br/> As a reminder, the theme chosen for 2016 is "Music and Dance".</p> <p>IMPORTANT: the dates have changed. The new dates for the contest are 1st of December till 31st of January.<br/> It is planned on purpose to start just after <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiIndaba_conference_2016" class="extiw" title="m:WikiIndaba conference 2016">WikiIndaba</a>.<br/> We are happy to say that Wikimedia Foundation has agreed to invest slightly more money at the local level this year.<br/> We will be able to support up to 10 countries (against 8 during previous years).<br/> Maximum budget available per country is also potentially slightly higher this year, up to 1000 dollars (or even slightly more if you can convince us).<br/> Submission of propositions is now open</p> <ul> <li>Read guidelines to submit propositions here : <a class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participating_country_event_guidelines">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016/Participating_country_event_guidelines</a></li> <li>Post your propositions there : <a class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016">https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Africa_2016</a></li> </ul> <p>If you are not yet member of the African list, please join <a class="external free" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians</a></p> <p><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anthere" title="User:Anthere">Anthere</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Anthere" title="User talk:Anthere">talk</a>)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Frustrating">Frustrating</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Frustrating">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Frustrating. Obviously we want the same coverage for Africa as elsewhere but for a lot of villages you'd be lucky to find a population figure, let alone any real information. Rather than zillions of short stubs, perhaps it would be best to only have articles for localities which actually have a few sources with info aside from population at the moment. Create articles for all the communes/municipalities but then create lists of villages in each one with the population in brackets. I might start redirecting a lot into the municipalities. There's no point in having tons of articles if all of them are generic with xxx is a village, In 2002 it had xxx. ♦ <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld" title="User:Dr. Blofeld"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e"><i>Dr. Blofeld</i></span></a> 09:57, 13 September 2016 (UTC)</p> <p><span class="template-ping">@<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2" title="User:Aymatth2">Aymatth2</a>:</span> What shall I do? Obviously we want to cover everywhere and have the same coverage in Africa as elsewhere but for the majority of rural localities it's just population available. Which is best do you think, list them with population in brackets in the municipality like <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diouloulou" title="Diouloulou">Diouloulou</a> until one has enough info for a proper stub. Or short ones like <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFnoumane" title="Aïnoumane">Aïnoumane</a> but the same generic population and nothing else? I think it's probably best to just create the municipality articles for now and clean those up as they'll mostly have at least some facts. The larger villages if they have some more facts I think it's worth having new entries like <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabiline" title="Kabiline">Kabiline</a>. But I'm kind of sick of categories for Africa often having a few hundred villages and most of them containing the xxx types entries. We want to improve overall <i>quality</i> of course.♦ <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld" title="User:Dr. Blofeld"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e"><i>Dr. Blofeld</i></span></a> 10:30, 13 September 2016 (UTC)</p> <p>For Senegal for instance it would be better to have 300 odd half decent start class articles on all the <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_of_Senegal" title="Communes of Senegal">communes</a> and <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rural_communities_of_Senegal" title="Rural communities of Senegal">rural communities</a> first I think, and make them more consistent rather than 14,000 short stubs on villages!.♦ <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld" title="User:Dr. Blofeld"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e"><i>Dr. Blofeld</i></span></a> 10:48, 13 September 2016 (UTC)</p> <ul> <li>I see no problem with stub village articles like <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%AFnoumane" title="Aïnoumane">Aïnoumane</a>. The stub gives the population, time zone and commune and shows the place on the map, all useful information, and links to the satellite view. Possibly more information will turn up later, and the stub gives a place to add it. Maybe a famous person was born there. Or it may stay a stub forever. I would not bother to create a stub like this myself, but think it is marginally more useful than a list entry. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2" title="User:Aymatth2">Aymatth2</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aymatth2" title="User talk:Aymatth2">talk</a>) 12:32, 13 September 2016 (UTC)</li> </ul> <p>I see it both ways. If you really think long term we're better off having individual articles, even if just population data I think as undoubtedly over time things will improve. It's just I know a lot of people don't like it. Perhaps I'll focus on the more important localities first and then see how it goes..♦ <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld" title="User:Dr. Blofeld"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e"><i>Dr. Blofeld</i></span></a> 12:40, 13 September 2016 (UTC)</p> <ul> <li>If you are going to create village stubs, you may want to contact <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">User:Lsj</a> for automated assistance. He has created a bot that, among other things, can extract NASA data for a location including type of vegetation, population density and monthly temperatures and rainfall. With this information, the stubs would be a fair bit more useful. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2" title="User:Aymatth2">Aymatth2</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aymatth2" title="User talk:Aymatth2">talk</a>) 11:57, 14 September 2016 (UTC)</li> </ul> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd>For an example of the kind of "village stub" that my bot can produce (and has produced for about half of Africa), see for example <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abuko" class="extiw" title="sv:Abuko">sv:Abuko</a>. The bot software is written so that it is straightforward to port to another language version. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lsj" title="User talk:Lsj">talk</a>) 12:28, 14 September 2016 (UTC)</dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <ul> <li><span class="template-ping">@<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a>:</span> That looks very useful. Has this possibility for the English WP been discussed elsewhere? I can see huge potential, but perhaps am missing potential drawbacks. A stray thought is that it might be useful to separate the stub framework from the content, which would be included as a "template". Generate the framework once, but keep the option to regenerate content, which may change from time to time. Thus:</li> </ul> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> <div style="margin:10px; margin-left:5em; border:1px solid black; padding:5px; background:white;"> <p>{{infobox settlement|name=Xyz Village ...}}<br/> '''Xyz Village''' is a village in [[Senegal]].<br/> ==Environment==<br/> {{Bot generated/Xyz Village environment}}<br/> ==Demographics==<br/> {{Bot generated/Xyz Village demographics}}<br/> ...</p> </div> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd>This would support embedding bot-generated content in existing articles, and would allow editor-written text to be added to bot-generated articles, while giving the option to periodically replace the embedded bot-generated content with more up-to-date content and/or more complete content. Things like temperatures, rainfall and vegetation may change periodically, and demographic information may change quite often. Thoughts? <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2" title="User:Aymatth2">Aymatth2</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aymatth2" title="User talk:Aymatth2">talk</a>) 13:17, 15 September 2016 (UTC) <dl> <dd>I am not aware of any such discussion on enwp. It has been discussed extensively on svwp, though. The potential is indeed huge, which is what gained consensus for the project (and gained svwp 2nd place in the wiki league <abbr title="Smiling face" style="border-bottom: none;"><img alt="Face-smile.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/18px-Face-smile.svg.png" width="18" height="18" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/27px-Face-smile.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/79/Face-smile.svg/36px-Face-smile.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48"/></abbr>), but there are drawbacks and objections. Objections that people have raised in those discussions include: <ul> <li>Possible quality issues with the sources used. Source data are not perfect, and the bot may unwittingly include errors.</li> <li>Some people question the relevance of 100,000 stubs about villages in Africa.</li> <li>Maintenance and updating becomes a challenge.</li> <li>The articles are too uniform, boring to read. The "random article" function is no fun anymore on svwp.</li> <li>The bot does a fair bit of analysis and calculations, and then translates the results into text. So the bot needs to answer the question "how flat is flat", in order to write "The terrain around X is flat." Some people argue that this violates <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ORIGINAL" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ORIGINAL">WP:ORIGINAL</a>, or is bad in some other way.</li> </ul> <dl> <dd>The frame/content split that you suggest is an interesting idea, but not entirely trivial to implement, as the bot articles are <i>not</i> all identical. A template-based framework would require either lots of different templates, or some very complex ones. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lsj" title="User talk:Lsj">talk</a>) 14:06, 16 September 2016 (UTC) <ul> <li><span class="template-ping">@<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a>:</span> My use of word "template" was misleading. I would have the bot generate text just as it does today, but spread the text over three files per article: the frame and the two "templates". So the file "Bot generated/Xyz Village environment" just holds the text describing the environment of Xyz Village, to be embedded in the article on Xyz Village. There could be value in writing a small, very generic template with a name like "botcontent" and one unnamed parameter giving text type, which would use the article name to find and return the bot-generate text file. So {{botcontent|environment}} would return the text in file "Bot generated/&articlename; environment" if present, null if not present. Something like that.</li> </ul> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd> <dl> <dd>I think this deserves a broader discussion though. The approach, applied to common classes of articles using different bots, would be a fairly radical shift from editor-written text alone to editor-written text plus content aggregated from other databases, or purely aggregated content in many cases. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Aymatth2" title="User:Aymatth2">Aymatth2</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Aymatth2" title="User talk:Aymatth2">talk</a>) 13:11, 17 September 2016 (UTC)</dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> </dd> </dl> <p>As long as the content is useful with the coordinates/map/population and some other gleaned facts I'd strongly encourage it. While it's true it will increase maintenance size, a lot of articles are going to be created by Africans coming online in the next few years, so better to set something up which is consistent and clean and then can be built upon, rather than being a huge task for people to attempt. <span class="template-ping">@<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a>:</span> I would fully support you doing this for Senegal as a start. I suggest though that templates like <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Bignona_Department" title="Template:Bignona Department">Template:Bignona Department</a> are created first.♦ <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Dr._Blofeld" title="User:Dr. Blofeld"><span style="font-variant:small-caps;color:#aba67e"><i>Dr. Blofeld</i></span></a> 12:51, 19 September 2016 (UTC)</p> <dl> <dd><span class="template-ping">@<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lsj" title="User:Lsj">Lsj</a>:</span> I support this, too. Strongly. I think it's high time we look at some kind of automated article creation tool to help with our geographic coverage. --<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao" title="User:Ser Amantio di Nicolao"><font face="Old English Text MT">Ser Amantio di Nicolao</font></a><sup><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao" title="User talk:Ser Amantio di Nicolao"><i>Che dicono a Signa?</i></a></sup><sub><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Ser_Amantio_di_Nicolao" title="Special:Contributions/Ser Amantio di Nicolao"><b>Lo dicono a Signa.</b></a></sub> 23:29, 24 September 2016 (UTC)</dd> </dl> <p>Just my two cents here, but don't forget about the people. Including stub articles for small villages encourages people to contribute to the Wiki knowledge base of those villages. It gives a platform onto which young wikipedians can easily build and gain experience. Imagine the excitement if a member of a small village (for instance one who received a scholarship and immediate access to the resources of the internet; or one who newly discovered wikipedia on a cheap mobile phone over a wireless connection) discovers that his village has a wikipedia page! They would see the lack of info compared to their personal lived experiences, and, if enticed enough, would want to contribute. Having stub articels as "placeholders" with basic info already there, would make it a lot easier for new wikipedians to contribute on topics close to them, like their village. I have found that having such a basic platform in place makes it a lot easier to engage with a wider audience, especially when trying to source information. I hope you understand what I mean. It would be great to have rich, engaging articles, but they have to start somewhere if they are going to start at all. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Janneman27" title="User:Janneman27">Janneman27</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Janneman27" title="User talk:Janneman27">talk</a>) 09:52, 29 December 2016 (UTC)</p> <p>No. There is nothing wrong with stubs. I myself have found several censuses on Burkina Faso villages, over 100 of which I have already created from red links and shall continue to create. Often I find a single village with tonnes of information because of some association with a European town. I shall continue to create these villages based on the 3 separate Burkina Faso government censuses I have gathered, plus UN and European Council programmes' maps and other Burkina government sources such as water well figures, school lists and pharmacy lists. Additionally, your section's responses here have given me more motivation to move into other African countries such as Senegal, not that I wasn't intending to anyway. It's all increased coverage and increased info, provided for free to readers, the obvious main goal of <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:ABOUT" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:ABOUT">Wikipedia</a>. <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SpikeballUnion" title="User:SpikeballUnion">SpikeballUnion</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:SpikeballUnion" title="User talk:SpikeballUnion">talk</a>) 13:53, 26 March 2017 (UTC)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="The_Africa_Destubathon">The Africa Destubathon</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: The Africa Destubathon">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Hi everybody. I'm planning on proposing the <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/The_10,000_Challenge/The_Africa_Destubathon" class="mw-redirect" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/The Africa Destubathon">Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/The Africa Destubathon</a> this week. We will target <i>every</i> African nation and offer additional prizes for doing women articles and hopefully geography and wildlife articles too. A big contest which will hopefully prove productive and reduce our overall stub count. If interested please comment at the bottom of <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/The_10,000_Challenge" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge">Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge</a>. Thanks.</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Upcoming_.22420_collaboration.22">Upcoming "420 collaboration"</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Upcoming "420 collaboration"">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <table style="width:100%; padding:2px;" class="TAFI-weekly"> <tr> <th> <div style="margin:0; background-color:#D4F2CE; border:1px solid blue; text-align:center; color:#082840; padding-left:0.4em; padding-top: 0.4em; padding-bottom: 0.4em; padding-right: 0.4em; font-weight:normal"> <div class="floatright"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cannabis_leaf_2.svg" class="image"><img alt="Cannabis leaf 2.svg" src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Cannabis_leaf_2.svg/100px-Cannabis_leaf_2.svg.png" width="100" height="108" srcset="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Cannabis_leaf_2.svg/150px-Cannabis_leaf_2.svg.png 1.5x, //web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Cannabis_leaf_2.svg/200px-Cannabis_leaf_2.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="730" data-file-height="790"/></a></div> <p>You are invited to participate in the upcoming</p> <p><big><b><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cannabis/420_Collaboration" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Cannabis/420 Collaboration">"420 collaboration"</a></b>,</big></p> which is being held from <b>Saturday, April 15</b> to <b>Sunday, April 30</b>, <i>and especially on <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)" title="420 (cannabis culture)">April 20</a></i>, 2017! <div style="clear:right;"></div> <hr/> <p>The purpose of the collaboration, which is being organized by <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cannabis" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Cannabis">WikiProject Cannabis</a>, is to <i>create and improve <b><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis" title="Cannabis">cannabis</a></b>-related content at Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects in a variety of fields</i>, including: <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cannabis_culture" title="Category:Cannabis culture">culture</a>, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cannabis_and_health" title="Category:Cannabis and health">health</a>, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hemp" title="Category:Hemp">hemp</a>, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:History_of_cannabis" title="Category:History of cannabis">history</a>, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Medicinal_use_of_cannabis" title="Category:Medicinal use of cannabis">medicine</a>, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cannabis_politics" title="Category:Cannabis politics">politics</a>, and <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Cannabis_and_religion" title="Category:Cannabis and religion">religion</a>.</p> <hr/> <p>For more information about this campaign, and to learn how you can help improve Wikipedia, please visit the <b><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cannabis/420_Collaboration" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Cannabis/420 Collaboration">"420 collaboration"</a></b> page.</p> </div> </th> </tr> </table> <p>---<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Another_Believer" title="User:Another Believer"><span style="color:navy">Another Believer</span></a> <sub>(<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Another_Believer" title="User talk:Another Believer"><span style="color:#C60">Talk</span></a>)</sub> 21:27, 10 April 2017 (UTC)</p> <dl> <dd>We have a number of strong cannabis articles for Africa, particularly for the larger and Anglophone nations such as <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_Nigeria" title="Cannabis in Nigeria">Cannabis in Nigeria</a> and <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis_in_South_Africa" title="Cannabis in South Africa">Cannabis in South Africa</a>. We could greatly use your assistance in creating new articles for our many remaining cannabis in Africa redlinks:</dd> </dl> <div class="div-col columns column-width" style="-moz-column-width: 20em; -webkit-column-width: 20em; column-width: 20em;"> <ul> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Angola&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Angola (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Angola</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Burkina_Faso&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Burkina Faso (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Burkina Faso</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Burundi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Burundi (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Burundi</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Cameroon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Cameroon (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Cameroon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Central_African_Republic&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Central African Republic (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Central African Republic</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Chad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Chad (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Chad</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Djibouti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Djibouti (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Djibouti</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Eritrea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Eritrea (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Eritrea</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Gabon&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Gabon (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Gabon</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Ghana&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Ghana (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Ghana</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Guinea&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Guinea (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Guinea</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Guinea-Bissau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Guinea-Bissau (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Guinea-Bissau</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Liberia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Liberia (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Liberia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Libya&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Libya (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Libya</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Mali&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Mali (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Mali</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Mauritania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Mauritania (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Mauritania</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Mauritius&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Mauritius (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Mauritius</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Mozambique&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Mozambique (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Mozambique</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Niger&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Niger (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Niger</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Rwanda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Rwanda (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Rwanda</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Saint_Helena,_Ascension_and_Tristan_da_Cunha&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Senegal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Senegal (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Senegal</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Seychelles&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Seychelles (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Seychelles</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_South_Sudan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in South Sudan (page does not exist)">Cannabis in South Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Sudan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Sudan (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Sudan</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Swaziland&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Swaziland (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Swaziland</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Tanzania&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Tanzania (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Tanzania</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Togo&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Togo (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Togo</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Uganda&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Uganda (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Uganda</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Zambia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Zambia (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Zambia</a></li> <li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cannabis_in_Zimbabwe&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cannabis in Zimbabwe (page does not exist)">Cannabis in Zimbabwe</a></li> </ul> </div> <dl> <dd><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Goonsquad_LCpl_Mulvaney" title="User:Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney">Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Goonsquad_LCpl_Mulvaney" title="User talk:Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney">talk</a>) 21:22, 21 April 2017 (UTC)</dd> </dl> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Help_would_be_really_useful.3F">Help would be really useful?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Help would be really useful?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a 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You're receiving this message because your WikiProject or task force is signed up to receive the popular pages report. Every month, <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Community_Tech_bot">Community Tech bot</a></span> will post at <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Africa/Popular_pages" title="Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Popular pages">Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Popular pages</a> with a list of the most-viewed pages over the previous month that are within the scope of WikiProject Africa.</p> <p>We've made some enhancements to the original report. Here's what's new:</p> <ul> <li>The pageview data includes both desktop and mobile data.</li> <li>The report will include a link to the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://tools.wmflabs.org/pageviews/">pageviews tool</a> for each article, to dig deeper into any surprises or anomalies.</li> <li>The report will include the total pageviews for the entire project (including redirects).</li> </ul> <p>We're grateful to <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-man">Mr.Z-man</a></span> for his original <span class="plainlinks"><a class="external text" href="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mr.Z-bot">Mr.Z-bot</a></span>, and we wish his bot a happy robot retirement. Just as before, we hope the popular pages reports will aid you in understanding the reach of WikiProject Africa, and what articles may be deserving of more attention. If you have any questions or concerns please contact us at <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Community_Tech_bot" class="extiw" title="m:User talk:Community Tech bot">m:User talk:Community Tech bot</a>.</p> <p>Warm regards, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_Tech" class="extiw" title="m:Community Tech">the Community Tech Team</a> 17:15, 17 May 2017 (UTC)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Automated_assessment_of_article_importance">Automated assessment of article importance</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Automated assessment of article importance">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Hello everyone! I'm currently working on <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Automated_classification_of_article_importance" class="extiw" title="meta:Research:Automated classification of article importance">a project</a> studying how to do automatic classification of article importance. As part of that project, I've done some analysis of articles within the scope of WikiProject Africa and built a model to predict article importance. Started <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa/Assessment#Automated_assessment_of_article_importance" title="Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Assessment">a thread over on the assessment page</a> with more information and a link to <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:SuggestBot/WikiProject_Africa#Candidates_for_re-rating" title="User:SuggestBot/WikiProject Africa">our predictions</a> (as well as a few other types of articles that might need an updated importance rating). Since I hadn't seen any comments over the past week, I thought I'd get in touch in here as well, would appreciate your thoughts and comments! Regards, <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nettrom" title="User:Nettrom">Nettrom</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Nettrom" title="User talk:Nettrom">talk</a>) 23:48, 17 May 2017 (UTC)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Hunde_language"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunde_language" title="Hunde language">Hunde language</a></span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Hunde language">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Should the article be renamed to <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunde_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Hunde people">Hunde people</a>? <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Lotje" title="User:Lotje">Lotje</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Lotje" title="User talk:Lotje">talk</a>) 15:29, 10 June 2017 (UTC)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Recruit_new_editors_for_the_project.3F">Recruit new editors for the project?</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Recruit new editors for the project?">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Hi, just wonder if there is any template or program in the project to recruit newcomers or new editors to join the project? <a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Bobo.03" title="User:Bobo.03">Bobo.03</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Bobo.03" title="User talk:Bobo.03">talk</a>) 22:24, 11 July 2017 (UTC)</p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Ashanti_hoax_tags">Ashanti hoax tags</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Ashanti hoax tags">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>One user has tagged a number of pages associated with the Ashanti region or the historic Ashanti Empire as hoaxes, such that such articles now dominate the <a class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Wikipedia_suspected_hoax_articles">list of suspected hoaxes on wikipedia</a>. Most of these tags seem unwarranted, as verifiable sources for the article are already linked. It'd be great if some other editors could check out these articles and remove the hoax tag where it's not needed.<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Landscape_repton&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="User:Landscape repton (page does not exist)">Landscape repton</a> (<a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Landscape_repton" title="User talk:Landscape repton">talk</a>) 08:21, 12 July 2017 (UTC)</p>   </div>  <noscript><img src="//web.archive.org/web/20170715235040im_/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" title="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; position: absolute;"/></noscript></div> <div class="printfooter"> Retrieved from "<a dir="ltr" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&oldid=790207883">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Africa&oldid=790207883</a>" </div> <div id="catlinks" class="catlinks" data-mw="interface"><div id="mw-normal-catlinks" class="mw-normal-catlinks"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Category" title="Help:Category">Categories</a>: <ul><li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Project-Class_Africa_articles" title="Category:Project-Class Africa articles">Project-Class Africa articles</a></li><li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:High-importance_Africa_articles" title="Category:High-importance Africa articles">High-importance Africa articles</a></li><li><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:WikiProject_Africa_articles" title="Category:WikiProject Africa articles">WikiProject Africa articles</a></li></ul></div></div> <div class="visualClear"></div> </div> </div> <div id="mw-navigation"> <h2>Navigation menu</h2> <div id="mw-head"> <div id="p-personal" role="navigation" class="" aria-labelledby="p-personal-label"> <h3 id="p-personal-label">Personal tools</h3> <ul> <li id="pt-anonuserpage">Not logged in</li><li id="pt-anontalk"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyTalk" title="Discussion about edits from this IP address [n]" accesskey="n">Talk</a></li><li id="pt-anoncontribs"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:MyContributions" title="A list of edits made from this IP address [y]" accesskey="y">Contributions</a></li><li id="pt-createaccount"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Wikipedia+talk%3AWikiProject+Africa" title="You are encouraged to create an account and log in; however, it is not mandatory">Create account</a></li><li id="pt-login"><a href="/web/20170715235040/https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:UserLogin&returnto=Wikipedia+talk%3AWikiProject+Africa" title="You're encouraged to log in; however, it's not mandatory. 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