Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa
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- Monitor article alerts and participate in discussions affecting South African articles.
South Africa articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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2 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 17 | |
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1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | |||
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2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
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4 | 10 | 37 | 48 | 2 | 101 | |
B | 27 | 64 | 140 | 309 | 12 | 552 | |
C | 41 | 138 | 728 | 1,402 | 595 | 2,904 | |
Start | 55 | 240 | 2,180 | 4,751 | 2,293 | 9,519 | |
Stub | 55 | 2,221 | 7,215 | 3,436 | 12,927 | ||
List | 2 | 14 | 474 | 520 | 8 | 1,018 | |
Category | 9,256 | 9,256 | |||||
Disambig | 46 | 46 | |||||
File | 132 | 132 | |||||
Portal | 91 | 91 | |||||
Project | 88 | 88 | |||||
Redirect | 2 | 9 | 1,295 | 1,306 | |||
Template | 750 | 750 | |||||
NA | 4 | 3 | 2 | 9 | |||
Other | 2 | 81 | 83 | ||||
Assessed | 131 | 523 | 5,802 | 14,270 | 11,741 | 6,348 | 38,815 |
Unassessed | 3 | 3 | 1,001 | 1,007 | |||
Total | 131 | 523 | 5,802 | 14,273 | 11,744 | 7,349 | 39,822 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 138,580 | Ω = 5.33 |
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Scope
This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate and improve pages on:
Participating
The project welcomes new members; there is more than enough work for all. If you wish to join the project, please edit this section and add your name. You can also add template {{User WikiProject South Africa}} to your talk page.
Current participants
- anselan (talk · contribs)
- Badbilltucker (talk · contribs)
- Bennelliott (talk · contribs)
- Blarcrean (talk · contribs)
- CGM1980 (talk · contribs)
- Colinvlr (talk · contribs)
- Ctatkinson (talk · contribs)
- Dewet (talk · contribs)
- Doortmont (talk · contribs)
- Doug (talk · contribs)
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- Sotho_of_the_South (talk · contribs)
- T3rminatr (talk · contribs)
- Xdamr (talk · contribs)
- Yeshuahasochek (talk · contribs)
See also category:WikiProject South Africa participants for members that have a {{User WikiProject South Africa}}
on their userpage.
Task Forces
Quality scale
Article should be assessed and a grading added to the AfricaProject template on the article's talk page by adding class= to the template.
- Example: {{AfricaProject|South Africa=Yes|class=start}}
Information on Grading Scheme
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Current article assessments can be see in Category:South Africa articles by quality
See also: South Africa articles by quality
Templates
Project banner
{{AfricaProject|South Africa=yes}}
should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the Category:South Africa or any of its subcategories. It automatically adds these articles to the Category:WikiProject South Africa articles and will render in the talk page as follow:
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When adding the project banner to a talk page already containing one or more banners from other projects, consider using the {{WikiProjectBannerShell}} template in order to avoid cluttering the article talk page. Example:
{{WikiProjectBannerShell|1= {{SomeOtherProjectBanner|...}} {{AfricaProject|importance= |class= |attention= |South Africa=Yes|South Africa-importance=}} }}
Userbox
{{User South Africa}} |
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{{User WikiProject South Africa}} |
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Other templates
Additional South African specific templates can be found in Category:South Africa templates and should be used on articles as appropriate. A list of commonly used South African related templates is available at WikiProject South Africa/Templates
Categories
Categories to assist administrators and project members |
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South African Categories |
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Languages
Use {{lang}}, for marking up non-English words or phrases:
- {{lang|af|Afrikaans phrase}}
- {{lang|nr|South Ndebele phrase}}
- {{lang|nd|North Ndebele phrase}}
- {{lang|st|Southern Sotho phrase}}
- {{lang|ss|Swati phrase}}
- {{lang|tn|Tswana phrase}}
- {{lang|ve|Venda phrase}}
- {{lang|xh|Xhosa phrase}}
- {{lang|zu|Zulu phrase}}
See List of ISO 639-1 codes for more language codes.
Recognized content
Featured articles
Good articles
Did You Knows (DYKs)
An easy way of updating this list is by using the CatScan tool and asking for articles that are in both the WikiProject South Africa articles category and the Wikipedia Did you know articles category. Requesting the results in CSV format make it easy to quickly create the list in a spreadsheet application.Example
- Afrikaner nationalism
- Angolan War of Independence
- Arniston (East Indiaman)
- Battle of Gingindlovu
- Battle of Isandlwana
- Battle of Ulundi
- Broadley's Flat Lizard
- Cagn
- Castle Kyalami
- Daniel Theron
- Disinvestment from South Africa
- Drifts Crisis
- Erik Chisholm
- Eureka Diamond
- Footprints of Eve
- Golden Gate Highlands National Park
- Griqualand East
- Hazel Crane
- Heitsi-eibib
- India – South Africa relations
- Ivan Toms
- Johanna Brandt
- Joseph Gérard
- Jules Porgès
- Kamfers Dam
- Karoo National Park
- Kate Molale
- Klasies River Caves
- Lionel Phillips
- Madeleine Masson
- Mafeking Cadet Corps
- Medical treatment during the Second Boer War
- Michiel Daniel Overbeek
- Mining industry of South Africa
- Moses Kotane
- Mzoli's
- Namaqua National Park
- Nan Cross
- National Cleavage Day
- Nkwenkwe Nkomo
- Oscar Pistorius
- Siege of Kimberley
- Sir Lowry's Pass
- South African wine
- Southern African Large Telescope
- Stellaland
- Stephen Bartlett Lakeman
- Take a Girl Child to Work Day
- Themba Mabaso
- Trade unions in South Africa
- Zola Maseko
Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections
- Afrikaans
- Angolan Civil War
- Arniston (East Indiaman)
- Cape Town
- Desmond Tutu
- Erik Chisholm
- Francis William Reitz
- Golden Gate Highlands National Park
- HMS Birkenhead (1845)
- Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
- Jan Willem Spruyt
- Johannesburg
- Mbabane
- Mzoli's
- Nelson Mandela
- Oscar Pistorius
- Pretoria
- Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
- Shaka
- South Africa
- South Africa under apartheid
- South African Scout Association
- Zulu
Formerly recognized content
Former featured articles
- Flag of South Africa - 22 March, 2005.
- Cape Town promoted 2006-06-23, featured on the Main page 2006-07-18, demoted 2008-02-18.
- South Africa promoted 2005-03-10, demoted 2008-02-13
- Johannesburg promoted 2005-01-18, featured on the Main page 2005-07-25, demoted 2007-07-28
Former good articles
Open tasks
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
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Here are some tasks awaiting attention:
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Article alerts
Template:ArticleAlertbotSubscription
Wikipedia Books
For an introduction to Wikipedia Books, see Wikipedia:Books
Related Projects and pages
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Protected areas task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Military history/African military history task force
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Commonwealth
Related pages that has become inactive
- Bush Telegraph
- Wikipedia:South African Collaboration of the Week
- Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Participants - Now maintained at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa#Participants
Resources
Wiki tools
- The CatScan tools is useful in finding articles that satisfy specific criteria within Category:WikiProject South Africa articles
On the English Wikipedia
- List of South Africa–related topics
- Category:South Africa-related lists
- Category:South Africa Wikipedia administration
- Wikipedia:South Africa Wikipedians' notice board
External Online Resources
- SouthAfrica.info
- Acts online contains a large number of bills and Acts of Parliament.
- The South African Military History Society Journal (A very good source for those writing about South African military history)
- The Internet archive has a large number of online books relating to South Africa and the History of South Africa.
- Results of South Africa search at the Internet archive.
- The {{internet archive}} template can be used to link to Internet archive content as in this example from Ladysmith, KwaZulu-Natal
- {{internet archive|howwekeptflagfl00macdgoog|How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith}} gives How We Kept the Flag Flying: The Story of the Siege of Ladysmith at the Internet Archive
- Some major newspapers have archives dating back centuries. One example is the New York Times.
- The Genealogical Society of South Africa maintains an digital library at http://www.eggsa.org/library and they have some documents available on CD rom that can be ordered from their store at http://www.eggsa.org/sales/eshop_e_dc.htm
Online University libraries
- University of Pretoria - https://www.up.ac.za/dspace/
- University of South Africa - http://www.unisa.ac.za/library
South African Government Sources
- South African Government
- The Official South African Geographical Names System
- Municipal Demarcations Board of South Africa
- StatsSA
Offline Resources
- National Archives and Records Service (NARS) Content is not available online, but searches can be done online at http://www.national.archives.gov.za/