Wikipedia:Developing Countries WikiContest/2024/Suggested articles
Here participants (or non-participants) can add articles or topics that would be suitable for the Developing Countries WikiContest. If you want to participate but aren't sure what to work on or don't know where to start, look through this page for ideas!
Broader topics
[edit]- Major geographic or socioeconomic features, e.g. Rail transportation in the Philippines
- General religion articles, e.g. Religion in Serbia
- National literature and art, e.g. Brazilian literature
- Folk culture and oral tradition, e.g. Georgian folk medicine or Mexican folk dance
- Ethnic group articles, e.g. Tat people (Caucasus)
- Sports and athlete articles, e.g. History of sport in Palestine
- National subdivisions, e.g. Altai Republic
- Missing second-level country articles, e.g. Foreign trade of Tuvalu or Energy in the Central African Republic
- Requested articles – several pages categorized geographically; assess notability independently
- Women in Red redlink lists (by nationality)
Specific articles
[edit]Second-level articles are marked with 2L and least-developed countries are marked with LD.
| Article | Country or countries | Current assessment | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Griot |  Africa
| Start | Type of storyteller of oral tradition, most prominent in West Africa. Needs references, expansion for the various regions |
| Ifá | Africa
| B | Divination system. Needs references |
| Mami Wata | Africa
| C | Water spirit. Needs references and reorganization |
| Mfecane | Africa
| C | 19th century warring period. Needs references |
| Nguni people | Africa
| Start | Cultural group. Needs expansion and references |
| Oshun | Africa
| B | Deity. Needs references |
| Roselle (plant) | Africa
| Start | Flower. Needs references and reorganization |
| Desert blues | Africa
| Start | Fusion of blues and rock with traditional Tuareg music. Needs expansion. |
| Ugali | Africa
| Start | Food. Needs references |
| Ka'ak |  Middle East
| C | Middle Eastern baked good. Needs expansion and restructuring. |
| Hasan Akhund |  Afghanistan LD
| Start | Prime minister. Needs expansion |
| Mahmud of Ghazni | Afghanistan LD
| Start | Middle Ages sultan. Need reorganization |
| Jonas Savimbi |  Angola LD
| C | Revolutionary. Needs references |
| MPLA | Angola LD
| C | Political party. Needs expansion and references, popular culture section needs attention |
| Albert Azaryan |  Armenia
| Start | Soviet Armenian gymnast, 3-time gold medalist at the Olympics. poor sourcing, needs expansion |
| Arshile Gorky | Armenia
| C | Armenian-American painter and genocide survivor. Decent sourcing, needs cleanup and expansion. |
| Mountain Jews |  Azerbaijan,  North Caucasus
| C | Needs cleanup and more citations of better quality. There are lots of good sources out there for this one! |
| Bangladesh national cricket team |  Bangladesh LD
| C | Cricket team. Excessive detail needs cleanup |
| Dahomey Amazons |  Benin LD
| Start | 17th–19th-century all-female regiment. Needs expansion; popular culture section needs attention |
| Bujumbura |  Burundi LD
| Start | Largest city in Burundi. Needs expansion and references |
| Gustave (crocodile) | Burundi LD
| Start | Man-eating crocodile. Needs expansion |
| Bon Om Touk |  Cambodia LD
| C | Cambodian boat-racing festival. Needs copyediting and more refs. |
| Killing Fields | Cambodia LD
| C | Genocide sites. Needs expansion and references |
| Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum | Cambodia LD
| C | Museum. Needs references |
| Faustin-Archange Touadéra |  Central African Republic LD
| C | Current president. Needs expansion |
| Idriss Déby |  Chad LD
| B | President. Needs reorganization |
| N'Djamena | Chad LD
| C | City. Needs expansion and references |
| Pearl River |  China
| Start | One of the most important rivers in China, currently only 300 words! |
| Jilin | China
| C | Wide swathes of unsourced content for this northern province. |
| Comoro Islands |  Comoros LD
| C | Archipelago. Needs expansion and reorganization |
| Moroni, Comoros | Comoros LD
| Start | City. Needs expansion and references |
| Bili ape |  DR Congo LD
| Start | Alleged ape species. Needs reorganization |
| Siege of Jadotville | DR Congo LD
| Start | 1961 battle. Needs reorganization |
| Ismaïl Omar Guelleh |  Djibouti LD
| Start | President. Needs reorganization |
| Lake Assal (Djibouti) | Djibouti LD
| Start | Lake. Close to GA |
| Eritrean War of Independence |  Eritrea LD
| C | 1960s–1990s war. Needs expansion, proseline needs attention |
| Isaias Afwerki | Eritrea LD
| C | President. Needs reorganization |
| Addis Ababa Bole International Airport |  Ethiopia LD
| Start | Big airport. Needs expansion |
| Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 | Ethiopia LD
| C | Hijacked airplane. Needs update and expansion |
| Ethiopian calendar | Ethiopia LD
| Start | Calendar used only in Ethiopia & by the Tewahedo Churches. Needs references |
| Injera | Ethiopia LD
| B | Food. Needs references |
| Lucy (Australopithecus) | Ethiopia LD
| B | Hominin fossil. Needs references |
| Solomonic dynasty | Ethiopia LD
| C | Late Middle Ages and Early Modern royal family. Needs references |
| Banjul |  The Gambia LD
| C | Capital of the Gambia. Needs expansion |
| Jacob Mendy | The Gambia LD
| C | Footballer. Needs expansion |
| Meskhetian Turks |  Georgia,  Turkey
| C | Quite a few poor-quality sources and a big ugly "notable people" section that needs cleanup, but plenty of sources to work with in the bibliography. |
| Svaneti | Georgia
| C | Scenic, rural region of Georgia. needs MOS fixes and more sourcing |
| Hvalsey Church |  Greenland
| C | Medieval Norse church ruins. Needs expansion. |
| Guinea national football team |  Guinea LD
| Start | Football team. Needs references |
| Amílcar Cabral |  Guinea-Bissau LD
| Start | Revolutionary and pan-Africanist anti-colonial leader. Needs references and reorganization |
| Bissau | Guinea-Bissau LD
| Start | Capital of Guinea-Bissau. Needs expansion and references |
| Baron Samedi |  Haiti LD
| Start | Vodou spirit. Needs references, in other media section needs attention |
| François Duvalier | Haiti LD
| C | 1957–1971 president and autocrat. Needs expansion |
| Gurkha |  India,  Nepal LD
| C | Soldiers. Needs references and reorganization |
| Tarawa |  Kiribati LD
| C | Atoll. Needs expansion and references, popular culture section needs attention |
| Kingdom of Laos |  Laos LD
| B | 20th century kingdom. Needs expansion and references |
| Maseru |  Lesotho LD
| Start | City. Needs expansion and references |
| First Liberian Civil War |  Liberia LD
| B | 1989–1997 war. Needs expansion and references |
| Ellen Johnson Sirleaf | Liberia LD
| B | First female African head of state. Needs reorganization |
| AS Adema 149–0 SO l'Emyrne |  Madagascar LD
| Start | Football match with the highest scoreline in all of association football. Needs expansion |
| Aye-aye | Madagascar LD
| B | Ugly-cute lemur. Needs expansion and references |
| Elephant bird | Madagascar LD
| B | Extinct flightless bird. Close to GA |
| William Kamkwamba |  Malawi LD
| C | Engineer. Needs expansion, references, and reorganization |
| Timbuktu |  Mali LD
| B | Famously far-away city. Needs references |
| Slavery in Mauritania |  Mauritania LD
| C | Slavery. Needs references |
| Graça Machel |  Mozambique LD
| Start | First lady of two different countries. Needs expansion and references |
| Burmese people |  Myanmar LD
| B | Largest and most hegemonic ethnic group in Myanmar. Needs references |
| Lethwei | Myanmar LD
| B | Combat sport. Needs references |
| Myanmar Air Force | Myanmar LD
| C | Military branch. Needs references |
| Flag of Nepal | Nepal LD
| Start | Pointy flag. Needs references |
| Lumbini | Nepal LD
| Start | Buddhist holy site. Needs expansion |
| Nepalese royal massacre | Nepal LD
| Start | Regicide. Needs expansion and references |
| Newar people | Nepal LD
| Start | Important ethnic group in Nepal. Needs copyediting and a few more refs. |
| Tenzing Norgay | Nepal LD
| B | Sherpa mountineer. Needs references |
| Provinces of Nepal 2L | Nepal LD
| Start | Administrative divisions. Needs references |
| Sherpa people | Nepal LD
| C | Ethnic group. Needs references and reorganization |
| Afrique Victime |  Niger LD
| B | Nigerien psychedelic rock album, needs expansion from many review articles. |
| Gobero | Niger LD
| B | 10,000-year-old human graveyard in the Sahara. good sourcing, needs expansion & copyedit |
| Mdou Moctar | Niger LD
| C | Musician. Needs expansion and references |
| Niamey | Niger LD
| Start | City. Needs expansion |
| Americanah |  Nigeria
| C | A fascinating novel about Nigeria's place in a globalizing world. Like many of her other works, this one has been the subject of plentiful reviews. |
| Catholic Church in Palestine |  Palestine
| Stub | One-source stub for a decently important topic. There are around 80,000 Catholics in Palestine, mostly in the West Bank. |
| 2024 Kanlaon eruption |  Philippines
| Start | Filipino eruption, has potential. |
| Marcelino Libanan | Philippines
| C | Filipino politician and the House Minority Leader, has an opportunity. |
| Wisława Szymborska |  Poland
| B | Polish Nobel Prize–winning poet whose earlier work aligned with predominant socialist themes, which she later renounced. There are at least a couple of full scholarly sources about her and her work. |
| Paul Rusesabagina |  Rwanda LD
| C | Activist of ‘’Hotel Rwanda’’ fame. Needs reorganization. |
| Rwandan Patriotic Front | Rwanda LD
| C | Political party. Needs expansion and reorganization. |
| São Tomé |  São Tomé and Príncipe LD
| C | City. Needs expansion |
| São Tomé Island | São Tomé and Príncipe LD
| Start | Island. Needs expansion |
| Sadio Mané |  Senegal LD
| B | Footballer. Proseline needs attention |
| Nicolas Jackson | Senegal LD
| Start | Footballer. Needs expansion and references |
| Mende people |  Sierra Leone LD
| Start | Ethnic group. Needs references |
| Revolutionary United Front | Sierra Leone LD
| Start | Political party. Needs expansion, popular culture section needs attention |
| Guadalcanal |  Solomon Islands LD
| Start | Island. Needs expansion and references |
| Jacob C. Vouza | Solomon Islands LD
| B | Police officer and marine. Needs references (graphic images) |
| Waris Dirie |  Somalia LD
| B | Human rights activist. Needs reorganization |
| Abduwali Muse | Somalia LD
| Start | Somali pirate in US federal prison in...Indiana. Needs references |
| South African folklore 2L |  South Africa
| Stub | So much potential here, and a couple of good sources already on the article! |
| Dinka people |  South Sudan LD
| Start | Largest ethnic group in South Sudan, known for being tall. Needs references |
| The Vulture and the Little Girl | South Sudan LD
| B | Photograph. Close to GA |
| Darfur genocide |  Sudan LD
| C | Ongoing genocide. Needs reorganization |
| Rapid Support Forces | Sudan LD
| C | Paramilitary. Needs reorganization |
| Languages of Tanzania 2L |  Tanzania LD
| Start | Linguistic demographics. Needs expansion |
| Diamond Platnumz | Tanzania LD
| Start | Musician. Needs references and reorganization |
| Stone Town | Tanzania LD
| Start | Historical district. Needs references |
| 1999 East Timorese crisis |  Timor-Leste LD
| Start | Military conflict after East Timorese independence referendum. Needs expansion and references |
| Portuguese Timor | Timor-Leste LD
| Start | Colonial government. Needs expansion and references |
| Emmanuel Adebayor |  Togo LD
| B | Footballer. Proseline needs attention |
| Tuvaluan language |  Tuvalu LD
| Start | Language. Needs references |
| .tv | Tuvalu LD
| C | Web domain providing 8.4% of Tuvalu's government revenue. Needs references |
| Gershom Sizomu |  Uganda LD
| Start | Chief Rabbi of Uganda. Needs expansion and updating. |
| Mariam Nabatanzi | Uganda LD
| B | Mother of 44 children. Close to GA |
| Uganda Martyrs | Uganda LD
| Start | Executed Christians. Needs references |
| Who Killed Captain Alex? | Uganda LD
| C | Film. Close to GA |
| Bobi Wine | Uganda LD
| B | Politician and actor. Proseline needs attention |
| Năm Cam |  Vietnam
| C | Needs cleanup, more quality sources, and perhaps an expansion. The Vietnamese-language version is also quite bad, but there should be a lot of good sources. |
| Abdul-Malik al-Houthi |  Yemen LD
| C | Revolutionary & leader of the Houthis since 2004. Needs expansion and references |
| Dracaena cinnabari | Yemen LD
| Start | Dragon tree which produces blood-red sap. Needs references |
| Sheba | Yemen LD
| C | Ancient kingdom. Needs expansion |
| Socotra | Yemen LD
| C | World Heritage Site. Needs expansion |
| Patson Daka |  Zambia LD
| Start | Footballer. Needs expansion, proseline needs attention |
| Zambia national football team | Zambia LD
| Start | Football team. Needs expansion |