Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoruba
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This WikiProject covers Yorùbá topics. | |
| Shortcut | WP:Yo, WP:Yoruba |
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| Portal | |
| Wikimedia Commons | |
| Parent project(s) | Nigeria |
| Project banner template | {{WikiProject Yoruba}} |
| Userbox | {{User WikiProject Yoruba}} |
| CSB | Relevant for Countering systemic bias |
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| Main project page | talk | ||
| Portal | talk | ||
| Noticeboard | talk | ||
| Watchlist | |||
| Departments: | |||
| → Assessment | talk | ||
| → Peer review | talk | ||
| Useful links | |||
| Infoboxes and templates | |||
| Open tasks | |||
| Project category | |||
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WikiProject Yorùbá is a project covering the scope of topics related to Yorùbáland, the Yorùbá and the Yoruba language. WikiProject Yoruba was created on February 13, 2011 and is aimed at bringing together all Yorùbá related articles under one project to effectively monitor the coverage of these topics and in order for a community of users interested in the topics to form. Any users interested in contributing to the scope of articles covered or are already active in contributing can add their username under the 'Participants' section on this page.
Contents
Open Tasks[edit]
- Assess the unassessed Yoruba articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
- Tag all Yoruba-relevant articles with {{YorubaProject | class= }} and an assessment.
- Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red). See Wikipedia:List of missing Yoruba topics
- Create Yoruba subcategories and populate the created categories. Remove items from Category:Yoruba that ought to be in subcategories.
- Here are some things you can do:
- Expand: Dauda Epo-Akara, Batile Alake, Esie, Adubi War, Salawa Abeni, Ayinde Bakare, Yusuf Olatunji, Haruna Ishola, Tunde Nightingale, more...
- Reference: Ọffa, Ijebu Igbo, University of Ilorin, Federal University of Technology Akure , Yusuf Olatunji, Haruna Ishola,
- Wikify: Batile Alake, Ilaro, Ọffa, Ijebu Igbo, Esie, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Yusuf Olatunji, Haruna Ishola
- Find images: Ijebu Igbo, Ogbomosho, Ejigbo, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Obafemi Awolowo University, University of Ilorin, Lagos State University, Ayinde Bakare, Yusuf Olatunji, Haruna Ishola, Tunde Nightingale, Ebenezer Obey
- Find maps: colonial/pre colonial territory
Needing work[edit]
If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here. Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~
Goals[edit]
- Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Yoruba.
- Improve and maintain the navigation aids (tables of contents and indexes) for Yoruba-related topics on Wikipedia. See Category:Yoruba.
- Improving Yoruba-related articles to make them more informative and better written.
- Create guidelines for articles about items related to Yoruba.
Related projects[edit]
Articles[edit]
| Yoruba articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
| 1 | 1 | ||||||
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | ||||
| B | 4 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 18 | ||
| C | 6 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 49 | |
| Start | 5 | 39 | 24 | 8 | 1 | 13 | 90 |
| Stub | 1 | 32 | 18 | 11 | 1 | 10 | 73 |
| List | 1 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 16 |
| Category | 2 | 49 | 51 | ||||
| Disambig | 1 | 3 | 4 | ||||
| File | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Portal | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||
| Project | 6 | 6 | |||||
| Redirect | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Template | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Assessed | 22 | 107 | 64 | 28 | 82 | 31 | 334 |
| Unassessed | 2 | 28 | 30 | ||||
| Total | 22 | 107 | 66 | 28 | 82 | 59 | 364 |
All tagged articles are found below, sorted into their respective classes.
By assessment[edit]
- FA-Class Yoruba articles
- A-Class Yorubaarticles
- GA-Class Yoruba articles
- B-Class Yoruba articles
- C-Class Yoruba articles
- Start-Class Yoruba articles
- Stub-Class Yoruba articles
Miscellaneous[edit]
- FL-Class Yorubaarticles
- List-class Yoruba articles
- Non-article Yoruba articles
- Unassessed Yoruba articles
Templates and categories[edit]
Please use these templates where applicable.
General templates[edit]
| Template | Use on | Description | ||
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| {{User Yoruba Project}} | User pages |
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| {{YorubaProject|class=}} | Article talk pages | Yoruba WikiProject banner, to be placed on all Yoruba article talk pages
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Stub templates[edit]
A list of Yoruba-related stub templates:
- {{Benin-geo-stub}}
- {{Nigeria-geo-stub}}
- {{Togo-geo-stub}}
Request image[edit]
To improve existing articles, add this to the tallk page in order to request for an image or photograph be included.
- {{reqphoto}}
To add articles to subcategories of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs, use {{reqphoto}}
with the following format: {{reqphoto|subject}} .
i.e. {{reqphoto|music topics}}
If you notice that any are missing, please add them.
Categories[edit]
WikiProject categories[edit]
| Template | Description |
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| [[Category:Project-Class Yoruba articles]] | Add to every Yoruba project page. |
Participants[edit]
If you would like to be recognised as a contributor to articles in this projects scope,
- To join WikiProject Yoruba (anyone may join), simply list your name on the members page.
Userboxes[edit]
Add the following Wikitext expressions to your user page:
| Wikitext | Userbox | ||
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{{User WikiProject Yoruba}}
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Featured Content[edit]
These are a list of Yorùbá related articles that have been assigned to various Wikipedia quality assessment categories.
Featured articles[edit]
Good articles[edit]
Did you know (DYK)s[edit]
- Obafemi Awolowo
- Oyo Empire
- Remi Sonaiya – 27 July 2016
Sister projects[edit]
Wikipedia in Yoruba! Copy the code below to place the Yoruba edition of Wikipedia template on a related page:
| Input | Outcome | ||
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| {{InterWiki|code=Yo|Yoruba}} |
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Tools[edit]
- Main tool page: toolserver.org
- Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
- Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
- Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
- Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.
External links[edit]
Related WikiProjects[edit]
WikiProject Yoruba is one of the African WikiProjects:
| Pan-African | |
| Continental | Africa |
| Northern Africa | |
| Eastern Africa | |
| Middle Africa | |
| Southern Africa | |
| Western Africa | |
| Territories | |
| Culture | |
| History | |
| Society | |
| Related |