Wikipedia:WikiProject Ethiopia/Old Page



Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organize information in articles related to Ethiopia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list there. See especially the list of resources to get you started.

Scope and goals
To counter Wikipedia systemic bias through the creation of Articles relating to Ethiopia and its people. This project will better organize the creation and format of Ethiopia-related articles.


 * 1) To bring up every /Key article to Good, and then Featured article status.
 * 2) To create a /Transliteration system to be used for all articles concerning Ethiopia (and Eritrea) and a common way of adding the Ge'ez script version (when applicable) and transliteration to an article.

Hierarchy definition
No classification of this project has been defined.

Project templates
Use the following template to mark pages to be included in this project (note, the template is for the top of the talk page - the link below is to the template page):

 

which will return this:

Also, for your user page, you might want to add   to your userboxes, which returns the following (feel free to edit it if you can make the colors work better):

Project structure
Sub-sections:
 * /History
 * A lot of overlap; includes Kings, Dynasties, History of church, Literature, provinces, etc.


 * /Geography
 * Regions, Woredas, Cities, lakes, Mountains, ecology, etc.; some overlap w/History regarding pre-1994 provinces.


 * /Linguistics
 * See /Transliteration for transliteration issues; Can include languages in Eritrea out of simplicity, but see WikiProject Eritrea for more specific discussion on Eritrean languages.


 * /Culture
 * Includes music, food, dress, traditions, ethnicity; some overlaps with history (religion, literature, etc.)

Other subpages

 * List of
 * Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles)

Projects

 * 1) Improve Top-importance articles:
 * 2) Ethiopia (obviously)
 * 3) Languages of Ethiopia (expand to more than a list - i.e. add some text)
 * 4) People of Ethiopia (i.e. description of ethnicities & ethnic interactions over the centuries - also some genetics and origins discussion)
 * 5) Geography of Ethiopia (already substantial - some copy-editing can get it to GA or even FA)
 * 6) Politics of Ethiopia (can discuss historically, from Fetha Negest (also an important and  potential GA) to 1931 constitution, centralization, issues w/ feudalism & land reform, up to ethnic federalism today - a lot to talk about)
 * 7) History of Ethiopia (needs to be trimmed down and made into a more flowing narrative - Solomonic, Gondarine & modern sections need some expansion).
 * 8) Kingdom of Aksum (section into history, archaeology, architecture, culture, etc. & expand a lot)
 * 9) Ethiopian-Adal War
 * 10) Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi
 * 11) Ethiopian Civil War (late 1970s-1994) (barely a stub)
 * 12) 1984 - 1985 famine in Ethiopia
 * 13) Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
 * 14) Amharic language (+images and expand grammar)
 * 15) Tigrinya language (+images split off grammar section and summarize)
 * 16) Oromo migrations (I've created a skeleton at User:Yom/Oromo migrations to be filled soon)
 * 17) Battle of Adowa (a lot of background & specific military data to be incorporated);
 * 18) Less important ones:
 * 19) Zagwe dynasty
 * 20) Sabaean invasion hypothesis (theory?)
 * 21) Zemene Mesafint – split from History of Ethiopia, copy-edit & expand
 * 22) Solomonic dynasty
 * 23) Environmental issues in Ethiopia
 * 24) Add citations to WikiProject Ethiopia/Unreferenced BLPs

Tasks

 * More Urgent - we need to develop a page Manual of Style (Ethiopia-related articles) to address all the various conventions in Ethiopian names, father's names, titles, etc., in the manner of  Manual of Style (China-related articles), Manual of Style (Indic-related articles), Manual of Style (Ireland-related articles), Manual of Style (Islam-related articles), Manual of Style (Japan-related articles), and Manual of Style (Korea-related articles)
 * You're right Feqade/Codex. Please make the appropriate subsection when you can (I'll try to get to it if not) so that we can begin discussion. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  | contribs  •  Talk  •  E  06:43, 7 July 2006 (UTC)
 * I had a spare moment, so I created the page, borrowing from some of the suggestions above. Feel free to edit the stuffings out of it. -- llywrch 18:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Wow that is an excellent start! Great job Llyw! ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 18:55, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * 1) An article on (and template for) all notable Churches (Here's a list of all beginning with "Debre" in Ethiopia and Eritrea from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica - using newly adopted translit, except for standardized "Sellasie")
 * 2) Dayr as-Sultan (also Debre Silṭan - in Jerusalem)
 * 3) Debre Abbay
 * 4) Debre Abrentant
 * 5) Debre Amin Tekle Haymanot
 * 6) Debre Asebot
 * 7) Debre Beggi`
 * 8) Debre Bahriy
 * 9) Debre Birhan Selassie
 * 10) Debre Birhan Selassie (Adwa)
 * 11) Debre Biśrat
 * 12) Debre Bitsu`a Amlak (i.e. Biṣu`a; aka Kodadu)
 * 13) Debre Bizen
 * 14) Debre Daga Istifanos (aka Daga Istifanos; not Debre Hayq Istifanos)
 * 15) Debre Damo
 * 16) Debre Dihuhan (i.e. Diḫuḫan)
 * 17) Debre Dimah (i.e. Dimaḥ)
 * 18) Debre Indriyas
 * 19) Debre Gennet Elyas
 * 20) Debre Halléluya
 * 21) Debre Hayl Qiddus Ragu'el
 * 22) Debre Hayq Istifanos (aka Debre Hayq or Debre Negʷedgʷad)
 * 23) Debre Kol
 * 24) Debre Libanos (originally Debre Asbo - renamed by Zara Yaqob)
 * 25) Debre Libanos of Akkele Guzay (occasionally Debre Werq, not to be confused with another in Gojjam)
 * 26) Debre Me`ar
 * 27) Debre Marqos
 * 28) Debre Maryam of Gojjam
 * 29) Debre Maryam of Seraye
 * 30) Debre Mawi' (aka Debre Mawi' Maryam)
 * 31) Debre Miśwa` (undiscovered, only mentioned in Chronicle of Eskender)
 * 32) Debre Mitmaq Maryam (i.e. Miṭmaḳ)
 * 33) Debre Negʷedgʷad (in Medieval Amhara province, not Hayq)
 * 34) Debre Ṣ́ehay Qʷisqʷam
 * 35) Debre Selam Mika'el
 * 36) Debre San (originally probably Debsan)
 * 37) Debre Ṣigé (in Seraye)
 * 38) Debre Ṣigé Qiddus Ura'el
 * 39) Debre Ṣiyon (multiple churches)
 * 40) Debre Sina of Eritrea (near Keren)
 * 41) Debre Sina of Gojjam (not to be confused with an island in Lake Zway)
 * 42) Debre Te'amina
 * 43) Debre Tillul (i.e. Ṭillūl)
 * 44) Debre Werq
 * 45) Gunde Gundé (Debre Garzen)
 * 46) add church here
 * 47) Expand historical provinces See here for 1935 political divisions
 * 48) Dembiya
 * 49) Begemder
 * 50) Lasta
 * 51) Wag (province)
 * 52) Tigray province
 * 53) Shewa
 * 54) Wollo
 * 55) Arsi
 * 56) Bale (i.e. include info for kingdom)
 * 57) Hadiya (another kingdom incorp. under Amda Seyon I)
 * 58) Dawaro
 * 59) Fätägar
 * 60) Ifat
 * 61) Adal
 * 62) Menz (northern Shewa)
 * 63) Other requested articles
 * 64) Father Renzo Mancin, the Chief Scout of Ethiopia
 * 65) Requested images
 * 66) Ethiopian Airlines headquarters at Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa

Adopt an article
Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.


 * User:Yom/Oromo migrations &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  19:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC) Already begun at a subset of my user page.
 * D`mt &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  19:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC) Have some interesting information to add from Encyclopaedia Aethiopica and Annales d'Éthiopie.
 * GDRT &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  13:39, 5 June 2006 (UTC) Might as well. Perhaps it's possible to get up to GA despite the lack of info?  Little more to do (maybe some copyediting, and alliances on map). Now GA status :).
 * Axum coinage &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  | contribs  •  Talk  05:37, 9 June 2006 (UTC) another might as well. I think I can get it up to FA status, but copy-edits and image finding would be very appreciated.
 * Battle of Adowa - llywrch 22:15, 11 June 2006 (UTC) Obviously a key article for Ethiopia, & perhaps the best known battle fought on Ethiopian soil.
 * Amda Seyon I &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  | contribs  •  Talk  20:41, 23 June 2006 (UTC) I have some info from the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica, Bordelands, and Ethiopian Royal Chronicles to add. If I can find some images, it's another one of those articles with enough info to get to FA.
 * Transport in Ethiopia have some experience and will look up information. gidonb 18:05, 24 June 2006 (UTC)

Requests

 * Tomorrow, August 18, is Buhe in Ethiopia. Is there anyone interested in seeing this holiday on MainPage ? Please expand the article. Thanks. -- PFHLai 19:20, 17 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Please be advised that User:Strothra, who claims there are POV issues with he article Ethiopia, has just created a Peer review/Ethiopia/archive1 page you may wish to know about. Til Eulenspiegel 17:49, 11 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Italian East Africa may need a reassessment--Robyvecchio (talk) 03:11, 29 November 2009 (UTC)
 * Adal Sultanate editors needed to resolve dispute. Baboon43 (talk) 14:05, 27 May 2012 (UTC)

Lists

 * Ethiopian famine
 * Kings of Axum
 * Rulers and heads of state of Ethiopia

Articles

 * Ethiopia, of course. Too many to list, however. Check Category:Ethiopia.

Templates

 * Template:Cities of Ethiopia - done

Infoboxes
Needed: 

Stub templates

 * Category:Ethiopia stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian people stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian royalty stubs
 * Category:Ethiopia geography stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian history stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian royalty stubs
 * Category:Ethiopia geography stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian history stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian history stubs
 * Category:Ethiopian history stubs

New Wikipedia articles related to Ethiopia
Please feel free to list your new Ethiopia-related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Main Wikipedia page. DYK has a 72 hr. time limit from the creation of the article.

A start:


 * Add new article here
 * Ethiopian Art, June 2012
 * 2011 Horn of Africa drought
 * Bambassi language, December 2008
 * Sophia Bekele, April 2008
 * Majang language
 * Injibara
 * Awngi language
 * Water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia
 * 2007 Ogaden conflict
 * Battle of Gallabat
 * Robert Hetzron
 * Edward Ullendorff
 * Arboye
 * Jeju (woreda)
 * Onesimos Nesib - featured in DYK 16 July 2006
 * Book of Aksum
 * Bahrey
 * Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus
 * National Archives of Ethiopia
 * National Library of Ethiopia
 * Dallol, Ethiopia - a real hot spot
 * Ethiopian Red Cross Society
 * Ethiopian Legal Information Website
 * Ethiopian Telecommunication Agency
 * Walta Information Center
 * Ethiopian News Agency
 * Woreda
 * GRMT
 * Dar'a
 * Menz
 * Afawarq Gabra Iyasus
 * Mengistu Lemma

Did you know?

 * Onesimos Nesib
 * Alaqa Gebre Hanna
 * Yared

Participants
Participation in WikiProject Ethiopia is not limited to anyone; it's open to all editors who want to contribute to Ethiopian-related topics. Please add your name to the list of participants below using to join the project. If you don't have a Wikipedia account yet, you can sign up here. Participants:


 * ዮም  (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  04:05, 30 May 2006 (UTC) Will mainly be working on History articles and history subsets of pages.
 * ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 00:13, 3 June 2006 (UTC) will do what I can when I get a chance!
 * Jidan Ethopia's or Habisha history and culture is very much connected with that of Yemen. You can't understand one without understanding the other. I newly created Wikiproject Yemen, and everybody is welcome to join there. I will help here as much as I can. Jidan 04:31, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * llywrch 05:34, 4 June 2006 (UTC) -- I guess we're getting organized now.
 * Badagnani 09:26, 4 June 2006 (UTC) -- I will help with music, both traditional and modern. Badagnani 09:26, 4 June 2006 (UTC)
 * gidonb 11:57, 4 June 2006 (UTC) Geography of Ethiopia, including human geography. Started working on the main article with Yom.
 * MikeG 19:23, 4 June 2006 (UTC) -- I'll work on what I know best, languages. And maybe help Badagnani with modern music.
 * Gyrofrog (talk) 12:30, 14 June 2006 (UTC) Happy to help out when I can (less often these days). I do keep a lot of these articles on my watchlist.
 * Elfalem - I'll do what I can.
 * Amantana - Mainly Harar - history, linguistics, culture. Other - mysticism, pluralism, Muslim Ethiopia, pre-Axum, ethnology, etc.
 * Yhever -- languages.
 * George the Hippy Topics related to Rastafari, Haile Selassie I and Amharic verbs
 * Szvest 10:51, 19 June 2006 (UTC) Wiki me up -- Help with admin tasks.
 * Golbez - I made the maps of the regions, so if any new maps need to be made, or thematic maps or whatever, come to me.
 * Ldingley- I will start contributing articles for the study of Ethiopian history (Akhsum, Gondar, etc.) and religion.
 * Cluckbang- I will work more on the ancient history and regarding Ethiopia's relations with Southern Arabia-Ancient Yemen article. I have already started a Habesha article, and everyone is welcomed to edit
 * Simfan3416:03, 31 August 2006 (UTC)-Being half Ethiopian, I'll help.
 * Tiqur Anbessa 14:17, 16 September 2006 (UTC) I'll try to help wherever I can!
 * buddhagazelle 25 Sept, 2006
 * Ebelular - I don't know much, I'm Irish but spent 3 weeks in Ethiopia doing charity work. I love the idea of wikipedia, and am willing to help however I can.
 * ሀላካሕ  contribs  •  Talk  04:05, 12 December 2006 (UTC) Working on History, food, languages of Ethiopia, ethnicities as well, nature and music.
 * Landroving Linguist 22:21, 18 January 2007 (UTC) Well, what do you expect? Languages, of course, maybe some ethnographic information and little bits of geography...
 * KevinMConnor 14:46, 11 May 2007 (UTC)KevinMConnor
 * Æe tlr   Cre  ejl
 * Tibeb - will try and provide articles on Ethiopian Art History (contemporary Fine Arts in Ethiopia)
 * Asiaticus - Have some knowledge and interest in the Second Italo-Abyssinian War already established order of battle pages for both sides. Intending to improve those from period sources and perhaps do some articles on battles within the campaign.
 * ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦      $1,000,000? 19:50, 15 June 2008 (UTC) -geography
 * Bltrgs Talk 22:21, 15 June 2008 (UTC)
 * mkpumphrey - My interest is primarily related to East Africa during the Interwar period.
 * Ian198700 - Interest in African and Ethiopia history and culture.
 * User:Middayexpress - general information
 * User:Sundostund - I am primarily interested in Ethiopian history, especially in Ethiopian Empire and Solomonic dynasty.
 * Ahmed SHareef2nd 6 November 2012, 1:23(UTC) Deeply interested in Ethiopian Studies Sudanese, My mother language is Arabic but I can also write in Amharic and English.

Resources
Rather large. See /Resources.

Descendant WikiProjects
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Related Wikiportals
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Related Collaborations and Regional notice boards

 * African Collaboration of the Month
 * Africa-related regional notice board

Related pages in Sister projects

 * de:Wikipedia:WikiProjekt Äthiopien
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia
 * Ethiopia

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Sister Project links


Tools

 * 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 watchlist

 * Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Ethiopia