Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to South Africa. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:

1. South Africa
2. The History of South Africa
3. South Africans.

Task Forces

• Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Municipalities task force

Participants

• Dewet (talk · contribs)
• Jcw69 (talk · contribs)
• Kierano (talk · contribs)
• Phorque (talk · contribs)
• Piet Delport (talk · contribs)
• Elf-friend (talk · contribs)
• PZFUN (talk · contribs)
• anselan (talk · contribs)
• Kaasje (talk · contribs)
• Sotho_of_the_South (talk · contribs)
• Badbilltucker (talk · contribs)
• Jediwannabe (talk · contribs)
• Ctatkinson (talk · contribs)
• Lmcelhiney (talk · contribs)
• Xdamr (talk · contribs)
• Kittybrewster (talk · contribs)
• Icelandic Hurricane (talk · contribs)
• CGM1980 (talk · contribs)
• Bennelliott (talk · contribs)
• Rfwoolf (talk · contribs)
• Josephabradshaw (talk · contribs)
• Sahmeditor (talk · contribs)
• Leviel (talk · contribs)
• T3rminatr (talk · contribs)
• KaliG (talk · contribs)
• Doug (talk · contribs)
• Shaiesto (talk · contribs)
• Doortmont (talk · contribs)
• Yeshuahasochek (talk · contribs)
• Socrates2008 (talk · contribs)
• NJR_ZA (talk · contribs)
• Lizconno (talk · contribs)

The South African Bush Telegraph

The Bush Telegraph has started for those who are interested on been kept in the loop on issues involving South African articles and contributors

Recognized content

South Africa articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	2	1	8	4		2	17
FL		1	6	6			13
A			2	1			3
GA	3	11	37	46			97
B	26	63	138	298		9	534
C	41	137	723	1,387		583	2,871
Start	55	239	2,180	4,743		2,317	9,534
Stub		55	2,224	7,200		3,386	12,865
List	2	14	472	519		7	1,014
Category					9,085		9,085
Disambig					45		45
File					133		133
Portal					91		91
Project					88		88
Redirect			2	8	1,277		1,287
Template					685		685
NA					1		1
Other				5	75		80
Assessed	129	521	5,792	14,217	11,480	6,304	38,443
Unassessed				1		959	960
Total	129	521	5,792	14,218	11,480	7,263	39,403
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 138,089			Ω = 5.33

Featured articles

• P. K. van der Byl
• Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Good articles

• HMS Birkenhead (1845)
• Arniston (ship)
• Francis William Reitz
• Hendrik Pieter Nicolaas Muller
• Mzoli's
• Oscar Pistorius
• Erik Chisholm
• Jan Willem Spruyt
• South African Scout Association

Did You Knows (DYKs)

• Arniston (ship) (11 November 2007)
• Mzoli's (22 September 2007)
• Erik Chisholm (20 August 2007)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

• Afrikaans
• Cape Town
• Desmond Tutu
• Flag of South Africa
• Second Boer War
• South Africa

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

• Arthur Conan Doyle
• Second Boer War

Templates

{{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.

All members should feel free to add the {{User WikiProject South Africa}} to their userpages.

Infobox

• {{Infobox Settlement}} can be used for all types of settlements in South Africa. This will provide a consistent look between South African articles and with articles from other settlements around the world. Examples: Durban, Kloof, and Johannesburg

Categories

A category tree can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Categories

Pages Needing Work

Missing Pages

• Many smaller SA languages have no pages, or only stubs (links below).

Cuisine

Main article: Cuisine of South Africa

• Morogo
• South African wine is still pretty rudimentary, let alone articles on all the wine regions, wineries, Pinotage, Constantia etc - the Wine Project badly needs some SA input, it's at the level where even basic knowledge can make a big difference. FlagSteward 17:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Culture

• South African Poetry – There's a WikiMoney reward for this one
• Ditwits – Front page editorial cartoon for The Times; needs some cleaning

Geography

(See also Wikipedia:WikiProject_Cities, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ecoregions, and Wikipedia:WikiProject South African places)

• For towns pick the Red links on List of towns in South Africa

People

• R. W. Johnson academic
• Arthur Johnstone
• Vukile Mehana
• Jan Grootboom, article exists at es:Jan Grootboom
• Elkin Sithole, ethnomusicologist

Miscellaneous

• South African Army
• SANJAMB
• Independent Party (South Africa)
• Mandela: The Authorised Biography
• 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott

Pages referencing large numbers of non-existent pages

• List of towns in South Africa, List of rivers of South Africa, List of South African lakes
• List of South African birds
• Timeline of South African history
• Cinema of South Africa, South African literature
• List of South African musicians, Music of South Africa
• South African Olympic medalists

Stubs needing work

• Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife - If someone could put more detailed information, especially on conservation in KZN in general (eg: Rhino projects)
• News24 - This online news service needs some TLC
• All the SA language pages need work: all eleven official languages, and also all sorts of non-official languages. Very little is published on most of the unofficial ones (and even many of the official ones). But readers who are mother-tongue speakers/native speakers of English, Afrikaans, any of the nine official African languages, any of the Indian languages, and all of the other non-standard varieties/dialects, and especially those who may have direct experience of non-standard dialects (e.g. who know about speech communities embedded within other communities): these would ALL be welcome to contribute to the SA languages pages. Their knowledge is invaluable, especially if it has no published source. Of course, all such claims would have to be verified later, but in the meantime, such first-hand experience will push forward the boundaries of linguistic knowledge in South Africa.
• Joel Netshitenzhe - I started this one on a well-known ANC politician ..supposedly has the backing of Thabo Mbeki for presidency. I am still trying to pick my way thru google. --maxrspct ping me 21:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

Larger pages needing work

Quite a few ministers and ministries on Ministers of the South African Government are still redlink, contributions would be appreciated!

Other suggested work

• Looking at "What links here" for SA-related articles can often turn up uncategorised SA articles. Categorising them (even simply as Category:South Africa for now) will put them somewhere where they can be accessed for improvement.
• South African Collaboration of the Week
• A few South African (or related) topics that could get someone started
• I've started the Category:Media of South Africa, with an accompanying list, but I haven't even started on the newspapers and radio stations. -Kierano

• Comment on South Africa-related articles up for deletion.

Resources

External Sources

• SouthAfrica.info
• The South African Military History Society Journal (A very good source for those writing about South African military history)