Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso

Welcome to the WikiProject Burkina Faso! This group was formed to better organize articles on Burkina Faso in a spirit of cooperation.

Scope
This group includes within its scope all articles related to Burkina Faso, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Burkina Faso or one of its subcategories.

General

 * To coordinate and improve articles related to Burkina Faso in a fair and accurate manner.

Specific

 * To improve key articles, such as Burkina Faso to FA quality.
 * To write new articles related to Burkina Faso (some missing articles can be found here)
 * To maintain the Burkina Faso portal.

Active members
To join WikiProject Burkina Faso, edit this section and add the Wikitext   with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
 * 1) John Carter 17:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Beloved   Freak  12:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3) DarthGator (talk) 12:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 4) ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦  $1,000,000? 13:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) I really should, considering how many departments I've created. I'm an Editor of the wiki[citation needed] 10:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) EJF (talk) 20:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 7) If you don't mind someone from Mozambique helping out... Ecoleetage (talk) 10:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 8) Stamboliyski (talk) 20:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) Webworkx64 (talk) 09:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC) taking on the challenge of expanding Blaise Compaore's page (both in French and English).
 * 14:27:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
 * 18:30:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
 * 18:30:24, 14 Aout 2023 (UTC)
 * 14:10:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
 * 1) EKokou (talk) 18:48, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
 * 2) User:Qhacim (talk) 19:50, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
 * 21:40:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

Member identification
Members of WikiProject Burkina Faso should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to .

For other Burkina Faso user templates, see .

Did You Know (DYK)s

 * Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992 - 13 September 2009
 * Ouaga-Saga - 1 October 2008
 * Bwa - 27 July 2008
 * Theatre of Burkina Faso - 13 July 2008
 * Literature of Burkina Faso - 11 June 2008

Photo requests
In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Templates
Please add tag Burkina Faso-related article by modifying the WikiProject Africa tag, like so: 

Please see WikiProject Africa for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.
 * WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates


 * To request a photo for an article, please add to the article talkpage.

News

 * Afrol News on Burkina Faso
 * allAfrica.com on Burkina Faso
 * UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Burkina Faso
 * United States State Department on Burkina Faso
 * lefaso.net - National news website
 * Le Pays - National news website

External

 * petiteacademie.gov.bf: Government of Burkina Faso education site, with biographies of hundreds of current and historical figures and short history pieces.
 * Public Domain images of USAID/USDA work in Burkina: They seem to have a project there, and someone enjoys putting general interest images (street scenes, etc.) on the web. All these can be uploaded to commons with . T L Miles (talk) 18:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)