Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa/Africa Sources List

Project scope

Erina, thanks for starting. I propose a change in the definition (maybe only wording?). Not "African sources" (which implies for me a restriction to sources located or originating in Africa) but "Sources on Africa". Plus you structured by countries. Parallel to this we should also have a topical structure for non-country-specific sources. I propose People, History, Geography, Arts, Philosophy and religion, Anthropology, psychology and everyday life, Biology and health. Kipala (talk) 07:44, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

In my opinion, we must prioritise increasing the visibility of reliable published in AFRICA and/or by AFRICANS. Even in the focus on address Knowledge Gaps, Wikipedia is very poor at measuring "citation bias" but I think we're all acutely aware of how seldom articles about Africa+ use African sources - not to mention how few African sources are used in the encyclopedia in general. Hopefully this list will be resource to encourage all contributors to broaden there search for citations. MassiveEartha (talk) 12:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

In 15 years editing mostly African topics and mostly in Swahili language I have prioritized visibility of reliable published material by African authors. Unfortunately up to date the available material of this kind is still limited. So if we can agree on the aim of closing the white spots about Africa on the international map of knowledge (can we agree?) we need reliable publications  about African topics from where so ever FULL SPOT . Remember: lots of top researchers from Africa work outside. And still much top research and publication about African topics is done outside.  Critically looking through reliable publications we can prioritize. (then I guess practically there will not be too much difference between our approaches).  Kipala (talk) 21:51, 4 November 2019 (UTC)   

Format and structure

Suggestion: make list a sortable table?
Perhaps a sortable table would be an easier format to navigate. A long list will likely be unwieldy. Fields might include:

• Wikipedia/Wikidata links (especially since it'd be great to also improve articles across languages about these sources)
• Format/Medium
• Source language
• Publisher/Owner
• Publication location (so therefore it's more about *where* it's published not the subject focus and it can be sorted both ways)
• Subject focus
• URL
• Access: OA/Paywall (for paywalled publications perhaps we could convince the Wikipedia Library to support subscriptions)
  

MassiveEartha (talk) 12:35, 4 November 2019 (UTC)

This is a good suggestion is there anyone that can help us implement the structure above --Erina Mukuta 11:17, 7 December 2019 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Erinamukuta (talk • contribs)

It would be good if there was a link to where the reliability of each one was discussed to. Along with a reliability rating system. Like how it is on the Perennial sources page. Since whatever the source is reliability isn't a black or white thing. Otherwise, your just taking the word of whoever posted the source and excluding ones that might be reliable in certain situations. Adamant1 (talk) 10:45, 20 July 2020 (UTC)

Thank you!

Thank you Erinamukuta and this WikiProject for putting this together. I work on the backlog at articles for creation and we are always trying to make sure that articles have good sourcing, especially from areas that struggle from systemic bias. I will be sure to pass this list along to my colleagues as they review articles. Bkissin (talk) 14:41, 21 May 2021 (UTC)

Reliable?

Just to clarify, is this page a list of sources, or a list of reliable sources? If the latter, I may scrape them for my CiteHighlighter script. –Novem Linguae (talk) 12:56, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Hi @Novem Linguae! My understanding is that this is a list of generally reliable African sources.
Princess of Ara 17:58, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

I'd be a bit cautious about adding them to your script wholesale; the listings here do not appear to have necessarily been subject to any discussion (here or elsewhere), and in general this page doesn't see a whole lot of activity. _signed, Rosguill ^talk 18:17, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

@Rosguill, I actually agree actually that community consensus should be involved in such listings before adding them to the cite highlighter. Princess of Ara 20:22, 18 November 2021 (UTC)

Addis Standard

Looking through discussions at the WP:RSN archives, there seems to be agreement that Addis Standard is a pretty reliable source for Ethiopian news. I think it would make sense for it to be on here. DJ (XTheBedrockX) (talk) 02:09, 25 October 2022 (UTC)