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Welcome

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This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the continent of Africa with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

To participate, simply add your name to the members subpage.

Divisions Scope

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This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the continent of Africa, its countries, cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Africa in a fair and accurate manner.



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Departments

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Although the assessment page is yet to be created, there is a banner at {{WP Africa}} which we will use if and when the project takes off. We shall use it to do assessments of the articles in the scope of this project which are not assessed by other projects.

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DYK Did you know? (DYK)

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Articles on Africa-related subjects featured on the Main Page's Did you know? section:

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Articles on Africa-related subjects, not necessarily improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject.

Unsorted

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Education Education

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Geography Geography

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History History

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Landmarks Landmarks

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Africans Notable Africans

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FAC Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

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The following articles are in review as Featured article candidates:

GA Good articles (GA)

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The following articles have either been recognized as good articles or are currently under review for good article status:

Art, architecture and archaeology
Economics and business Economics and business
Culture and society Culture and society
Engineering and technology Engineering and technology
Food and drink Food and drink
Geography Geography
History History
Language Language
Mathematics Mathematics
Music Music
Politics and government Politics and government
Religion Religon
War and military War and military
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See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Gallery.

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Formerly recognized content

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Former featured articles Former featured articles
Delisted Good Articles Delisted Good Articles
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Project Barnstar

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Resources Resources

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Infoboxes Infoboxes

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Stubs Stubs

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If the priority articles in the top of this page don't interest you, you can always expand one of these stubs.

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