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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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Community Notification: Nigeria Expedition

Dear all,

I wish to inform Wikiproject Nigeria of the proposed Nigeria Expedition; a project to promote travel information and tourism in Nigeria by improving existing and create new articles about cities, villages, geographical areas/regions, churches, monasteries, buildings, schools on the English Wikipedia and Wikivoyage. See the details of the project by using the link to the grant: [1] If you would love to join and participate, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Timmylegend (talk) 02:38, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification: Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 at Kwara

Dear all, This is a notification that a grant submission has been made for Wikipedia Pages Wanting Photos 2021 at Kwara. A project with the aim of engaging existing editors and training new editors on adding of relevant photos to existing articles. Details of the proposal can be found in the link below [[2]] Godstime Elijah (talk) 13:34, 7 May 2021 (UTC)

Kebbi disaster

Checked, but so far no article. How to fix this? For this I want to use the Eq Guinea blast, Goma eruptions and Dana air crash as models. All okay to create? Bokoharamwatch (talk) 18:29, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

@User:Bokoharamwatch I created the article at 2021 Nigerian boat disaster and nominated it at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates#Nigeria boat accident. Abcmaxx (talk) 23:52, 1 June 2021 (UTC) Yeah, I've just seen it - thanks; has it been moved, though? Bokoharamwatch (talk) 17:37, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

New kidnapping

New kidnapping as of today. If nobody does it, will take in next few hrs. Thx! Bokoharamwatch (talk) 10:25, 31 May 2021 (UTC) Clarification this is the Tegina kidnaping.... Bokoharamwatch (talk) 17:40, 4 June 2021 (UTC)

Three kidnappings no article(s) on any. I've decided enough, is ... well you know,.... Bokoharamwatch (talk) 15:49, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

Shekau

Death recently confirmed by other terrorist(s). Bokoharamwatch (talk) 06:47, 7 June 2021 (UTC) PS Now BH, after ISWAP confirmed this. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 15:47, 19 June 2021 (UTC)

By the way, his birthplace is given as either Yobe - fro village where he took his name, or even outside Nigeria (likely Rep of Niger). Anyone care to educate?? Do we make article about said village? Bokoharamwatch (talk) 07:07, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification

Dear all,

I wish to inform you all about my proposed MES2021 Photographs project.

Thanks for your support.

Regards,

James Moore200 (talk) 02:51, 9 June 2021 (UTC)

Flag of Katsina State

Nyanardsan came across this article earlier and mentioned it on Discord, which led to a discussion trying to figure out if the flag is actually real. None of the sources currently on the page are reliable, and the only source that goes beyond a bare assertion (the crwflags.com one) is talking about a different entity. The state website doesn't seem to have the flag, and the ministers' pictures all have just the Nigerian flag behind them.

A few questions for anyone who knows:

• Is the flag currently in the article real?
• If it's fake, does the state have a different flag or no flag?
• If it's real, is there some reliable source that shows or describes the flag?

(courtesy-ping Cordyceps-Zombie as article creator)

Thanks, Vahurzpu (talk) 03:29, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification

I wish to inform the experience editors in WikiProject Nigeria, I will be organizing a | Photowalk For Animal Lives in Wikimedia Commons & Hausa Wikipedia [[Aliyu shaba]]^Talk 07:47, 8 July 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification: WikiGLAM Awareness for Librarians in Kwara State

Dear all,

I wish to notify the Wikiproject Nigeria of the proposed WikiGLAM Awareness for Librarians in Kwara State: a project aimed to create awareness on the various Wikimedia products/ projects that librarians in Kwara State can adopt to promote open knowledge and free access to information in Kwara State. See details of this project via this link WikiGlam Awareness for Librarians in Kwara State

If you would love to participate, please kindly reach out to me on my talk page.

Thank you Bukky658 (talk) 23:33, 12 July 2021 (UTC)

Join Senate Elections in Nigeria Contest

You're specially invited to join the Senate Elections in Nigeria Contest from 1 August 2021 to 31 August 2021.

The contest will encourage and motivate experienced and new Wikipedia editors to create articles on senate elections in all the 36 states of Nigeria. Nigeria has conducted senate elections in 1979, 1983, 1992, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019. But articles about these elections are missing on Wikipedia and this contest will seek to specifically solve this problem.

Sign up for this contest by listing your username under the participants section.

The following prizes will be awarded at the end of the contest.

• Overall winner - Tecno Camon 17
• Runner-up - Infinix Hot 10 Play
• Second runner-up - Oraimo 27,000 mAh Power Bank

For more information concerning the contest and how to fully participate, visit the contest page by clicking here.

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Formatting code error in June newsletter

Please include three unmatched </center> tags in your next newsletter, to cancel the three unmatched tags in the 25 June message. (In one case I corrected these.[3])

Alternatively, you may wish to correct the affected editors' talk pages. – Fayenatic London 06:39, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification: Photo tour of urban green spaces in Lagos, Nigeria

Hello everyone,

This is to announce to Wikiproject Nigeria about the proposed photo tour of urban green spaces in Lagos, Nigeria. This project is to create new articles and modify existing articles on parks, nature reserves, gardens and other green spaces on the English Wikipedia and also upload images that can be used freely on Wiki Commons within Lagos State, Nigeria. This project would promote an awareness on urban sustainability as well as open source knowledge within Lagos. The details of the project can be accessed by using the link to the grant: [4] You can leave a message on my talk page if you would love to be a part of it. Thank you. ReoMartins (talk) 15:50, 2 August 2021 (UTC)

Community Notification: Project Wiki Drug Ilorin

Dear all,

I wish to inform Wikimedia Nigeria community of the proposed Project Wiki Drug (PWD). See the details of the project by using the link to the grant: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Project_Wiki_Drug. If you would love to join us either virtually or in person, please feel free to leave a message on my talk page. Thank you. Pheritenom Pheritenom (talk) 12:41, 6 August 2021 (UTC)