Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Morocco

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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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

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

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! 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. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Requested move at Talk:Saadian invasion of the Songhai Empire#Requested move 11 December 2023

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Saadian invasion of the Songhai Empire#Requested move 11 December 2023 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Bensci54 (talk) 21:33, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)#Requested move 6 February 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)#Requested move 6 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Lolekek (talk) 05:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Looking for input at Talk:Marrakesh

Hi everyone, we are looking to get opinions from other editors for a question about the best format for the infobox images at Marrakesh. Your input would be welcome at Talk:Marrakesh#Question for all editors. Thanks, R Prazeres (talk) 22:02, 15 March 2024 (UTC)

Erasure of name of Moroccan cities in Tifinagh script

Hello everyone, I'm not sure if someone will read this or an admin or anything but an user keeps on deleting the names of Moroccan cities when they're written in Tifinagh script. This cannot continue. Amazigh is as much an official langage of Morocco as Arabic. If you have some time and you notice the Tifinagh script is lacking, then please undo the modifications that erased them. If for some obscure reason Amazigh is unauthorized on this platform, then can someone please tell me why.Zeblade12 (talk) 10:33, 22 March 2024 (UTC)

I recommend perhaps starting a "Request for Comments" about this if no consensus is forthcoming. I'm pinging Skitash here as well, instead of replying at the discussion in User talk:Zeblade12.

Two initial comments: 1) there should be no problem including Tifinagh in relevant articles per MOS:FORLANG (but possibly in a footnote alongside Arabic), but 2) Tifinagh names present certain difficulties for verifiability.

Verifiability concerns include: it's easy to look up Arabic names in many sources, whereas I'm not sure if any Tifinagh dictionary exists or where to access one if it does, and it's unclear whether the editors adding their own Tifinagh transcriptions are following a standard convention or making up their own transliterations/translations. Naturally, the existence of multiple regional Amazigh languages also complicates the matter. The fact that I've seen various editors and IPs arbitrarily change Tifinagh names over the years without explanation (other than a terse "corrected") illustrates this problem. On at least one occasion I found that a Tifinagh name added by an editor this way looked nothing like the one seen on official signage.

This puts Wikipedia in the awkward position of acting like a pseudo-dictionary for Tifinagh without being able to cross-check it for reliability. Ideally, we could use whatever Tifinagh names are used by official sources, but the latter often omit Tifinagh. I imagine similar problems must exist for other local languages around the world that unfortunately have very limited institutional support (constitution notwithstanding). R Prazeres (talk) 19:14, 22 March 2024 (UTC)