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Welcome to the African history WikiProject We are a group dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of topics related to African history. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask them on our discussion page. If you would like to join us, please add your name to the list of project members!
Currently, there are 0 featured articles, 0 featured lists, 0 featured topics, 0 featured pictures, 0 featured sounds, 0 featured portals, and 0 A-Class articles within the scope of the project..
We have just launched the project and are considering our strategy. See Wikipedia:WikiProject African history/Strategy for more information.
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{{African history Navigation}} {{African history current collaboration|small=yes}}
Goals
edit- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of African history.
- Improve African history-related articles, making them more informative and better written.
- Create guidelines for articles about items related to African history.
Open tasks
edit- Improve collaboration of the month article: Wikipedia:WikiProject African history/Collaboration/Current.
- Work on articles needing work.
- Assess the unassessed African history articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
- Tag all African history-relevant articles with {{Afrohist|class=|importance=}} and an assessment.
- Invite more users to join.
- Create all yet-uncreated templates.
Scope
edit- The project covers all articles about people, places, things, and events associated with the history of Africa. These articles should all be included in the Category:History of Africa or one of its subcategories.
Task Groups
editTasks groups are communities of editors who have dedicated themselves to African history or a particular element of African history
Parentage and Related projects
editParents
edit- This project shares parentage between Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa and Wikipedia:WikiProject History
Children
editRelated Projects
editMembers
editUserboxes
editMembers of this project may add the following userbox to their userpages.
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{{User African history}} |
African members
editIf you're from Africa, more userboxes are available.
Countries
edit- Algeria
- Angola
- Benin
- Botswana
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Cape Verde
- Central African Republic
- Chad
- Comoros
- Cote d'Ivoire
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Djibouti
- Egypt
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Ethiopia
- Gabon
- Gambia
- Ghana
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Kenya
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mali
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Namibia
- Niger
- Nigeria
- Republic of the Congo
- Rwanda
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Senegal
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Somalia
- South Africa
- Sudan
- Spain
- Swaziland
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
- Uganda
- Western Sahara
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
Articles
editAll tagged articles are found below, sorted into their respective classes.
By assessment
edit- FA-Class African history articles
- GA-Class African history articles
- A-Class African history articles
- B-Class African history articles
- Start-Class African history articles
- Stub-Class African history articles
Miscellaneous
editNeeding work
editIf you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here.
Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~
Templates and categories
editPlease use these templates where applicable.
Note: The templates linked in red have not yet been created. If you know how, please help out by creating the appropriate templates.
General templates
editTemplate | Use on | Description |
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{{ ? }} | Article pages | African history series infobox |
{{afrohist|class=|importance=}} | Article talk pages | African history WikiProject banner, to be placed on all African history article talk pages
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{{African history current collaboration}} | Article talk page | Current Collaboration of the Month |
{{User African history}} | User pages | User box to show that you're a project member |
{{afrohist invitation}} | User talk pages | Invitation to user to join project |
{{afrohist navigation}} | WikiProject pages | African history WikiProject Navigation box |
{{portal|Africa}} | Article pages | Africa portal |
Categories
edit- List of all subpages of this page
- Wikipedia:WikiProject African history/Categories - A list of all categories associated with this Project.
WikiProject categories
editTemplate | Description |
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[[:Category:WikiProject African history]] | Add to every African history project page. |