Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kenya

Proposed merger with WikiProject Amboseli Biosphere Reserve Project

Given the scope of the above project falls entirely within the scope of this project, and that this project has assessment and a few other advantages over that project as a project, I propose and support merging that project into this one. John Carter (talk) 17:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

• I would support such a merger. As you say it makes sense since the Amboseli Biosphere Reserve Project falls totally within the scope of the WikiProject Kenya. --BelovedFreak 22:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Respectfully disagree with merger

Greetings,

As the lead author of the Amboseli Biosphere Reserve WikiProject, I'd vote to NOT merge it into the new WikiProject Kenya for several of reasons, namely:

>> The Amboseli ecosystem represents about 0.1% of the land area of Kenya. To have the project as what would appear to be the first substantive entry would seem to be a bit of tail-wagging-dog.

>> The Amboseli Biosphere Reserve WikiProject is intended inter alia to be a workspace for information exchange and updates by stakeholders in the ecosystem, as well as a source of information for the 'rest of the world'. I fear it would lose the first focus if it were embedded in another project.

>> At the moment, the WikiProject Kenya is more of a stub than a project, a good idea than a source of information. The project, in my view, should start with some substantive information on geography, ecology, history and sociology of the whole country, rather than a quite specialised coverage of one of its corners.

>> Given the current political situation, it would seem, quite frankly, frivolous to show-case an albeit important wildlife-based ecosystem, rather than reporting on the situation: time lines, causes, current status, prognosis. See, for example, Ushahidi.

I do think the WikiProject Kenya is a good idea, as it would be for all countries. I wonder if the overall WikiEditors would consider providing a general country template on which information could be hung?

Hope that helps.

Best regards, Harvey Croze

Harvey Croze (talk) 11:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Harvey Croze (talk • contribs) 11:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

While I can understand the reservations, I believe the following considerations are extremely relevant.

As it stands, the Amboseli project is clearly and obviously eligible for deletion. One minimum requirement is that a project have at least one listed member. At present, that project has none whatsoever, not even the above editor. This despite the fact that the above project has existed for almost a year. At present, I respectfully regret to say that that project is more than eligible for outright deletion right now. Personally, I do not believe that the rather long tether that project has been given to date will necessarily be extended much further, before deletion is considered. It's utter inability to gain even a single member over that period is, I believe, more than enough evidence to verify that that project itself is little more than an attempt at a project, and apparently a failed attempt. The fact that the above editor is also one of the few if any editors invovled, and that he is the author of a book which that project apparently deems as one of its primary source materials, also could be seen as calling into question the motivation behind the project, and whether it might, unfortunately, be a self-publicization effort. That could be another motivation for deletion. I respectfully submit that that project, as it currently exists, completely fails at even the most basic level, that being a key to collaboration. Despite having existed for only days short of a full year, it is still to all appearances a one-man effort. John Carter (talk) 13:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Kenya

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African cinema task force

An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Kenya. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:43, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 145 Kenya-related articles needing geographical coordinates

Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Kenya, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Kenya, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Kenya articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:

1. Meru Central District
2. Meru North District
3. Nairobi City Stadium
4. Naro Moru river
5. Nzoia River
6. Rahimtulla Tower
7. Solar Ice Rink

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 145 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?

By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?

The articles are all marked with {{coord missing}} tags, which need to be replaced with {{coord}} tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Wikipedia:Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:43, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Which photos are needed?

Since I'm staying in Kenya until August next year I can help out with photos. So if there are any requests for photos or anything else, just let me know. At best per email. --ElRaki (talk) 14:18, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

New article

I added the new article Juma and the Magic Jinn to this WikiProject. -- Suntag ☼ 18:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Redone Deleted Article

I had an article on The Village Market Nairobi speedily deleted under G11( Blatant Advertisement). After some discussion i have redone the page and tried to make it factual and removed the opinionated language. I would like you to look at the draft for any criticism. This is the redone article and I don't want to save and upload it lest it is deleted again. Check it out here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wamaina/The_Village_Market. I have just discovered that i can edit articles and add more to put out more information on Kenyan stuff and things. There's so much that is needed done.Wamaina (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

This Talk page is rather quiet. Seems it takes a long time to get a discussion going on here.Wamaina (talk) 17:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest

A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

The Kenya Portal

Hello everyone, I've done a little work to the Portal (not much) and I hope it meets with the Projects approval. I don't know who manages it, but they've done a great job. It looks good. I've co-ordinated the colours with the national flag and added a Panorama box (Kenya has great ones of these) and I hope all like it. Oh, I've also increased the copy in the intro box as well to fill out the empty space produced by the picture. Again, hope meets with approval. If I've trodden on anybody's toes please let me know straight away. If you wish, I can have a look at upgrading the Portal boxes contents as well. I'll await your instructions - just in case! :-) Take care everyone and hopefully speak soon Wiki User 68 (talk) 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Thank you for your efforts, looks really nice! I hope you don't mind my revert. Keep on improving the Portal. Best regards, --R.Schuster (talk) 10:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement

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Kenya articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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Kisumu

Hello everyone. I was wondering whether we could work together to update the Kisumu page which currently reads like a travel brochure, which is very undeserving for a leading town in East Africa. If possible could you constructively help me make it better, I am hoping to get together a work group of contributers to help out so that it is something close to the Nairobi page. I will be working on this for the next week or two, if you have some spare time I will be glad if you could help me open up Kisumu to the world. Thanks!--Krator1 (talk) 22:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Districts of Kenya article needs a map

The Districts of Kenya.

The Districts of Kenya article, which in September 2008 was marked as a High-importance Kenya article by Timrollpickering (talk · contribs) (a member of this project), needs a map that is labeled with the names of the districts. Thanks. 72.244.200.239 (talk) 10:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Lists of rulers of Kenya

Discussed at: Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lists of rulers of Kenya. East of Borschov 12:28, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing

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Check Article

Hi, does anyone have a free minute to check International Criminal Court investigation in Kenya on the quality and importance scales? Pi (Talk to me! ) 03:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Political parties info

Alot of the articles contain info that is well out of date and the infomation should be available from the IEBC website (when its not down). Should we make it and issue to bring the wikipedia articles up to date? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimemia Maina (talk • contribs) 06:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month

Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Kenya will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Kenya's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 22:16, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Requesting assist from Central Province specialists

Articles such as this one still need cleanup, and addition/moving of references and links. Left note on page's talk that the title is incorr. -- s/b singular hill, not plural hills. Is blanking and copy/paste to a new page the quickest mode to get the title changed or is there an admin. mode used to change the page title? Please assist where you can. Also need help in categorizing it correctly (within the project sub-pages).Blurbzone (talk) 09:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)