Wikipedia:WikiProject Samoa

Talofa! Welcome to WikiProject Samoa! This group was formed to better organize articles on Samoa in a spirit of cooperation. If you want to participate, just add your name to the Participants list below. Happy editing!

Scope
This group includes within its scope all articles related to Samoa, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, people, language, history and much more. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Samoa in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Samoa or one of its subcategories.

Find something from the TO DO SUGGESTIONS below that can be improved, whether content, grammar or formatting, and make it better. You can't break Wikipedia. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit a page and help make Wikipedia the best information source on the Internet! Or you can start by helping to organise this page and WikiProject Samoa! Every article has a 'Talk' page where you can leave messages for others about WikiProject Samoa. Click the 'Discussion' tab at the top of the page to get to the 'Talk' page for this project. Again, welcome to WikiProject Samoa!

Milestones
There was some sort of article cull in 2014, which made the project much smaller.


 * 1000 articles: - 7 August 2018
 * 1500 articles: - 25 May 2021
 * 2000 articles: - 26 July 2022

Active members
To join WikiProject Samoa, 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) Maxim Stoyalov
 * 2) Vaafusuaga Samalaulu Fonoti -Talofa. Researcher in Samoan culture, oral traditions and history at the National University of Samoa. Matai (chief) from Malie, Manono, Leulumoega and Lufilufi.
 * 3) N Panama 84534 -Elections and politicians.

Former/inactive members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
 * 04:27:42, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
 * 1) John Carter 17:15, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Teinesvaii I'm just logging here in WP:Samoa - I'm focusing on Savai'i, and creating villages stubs and general info relevant to Savai'i, as well as uploading my Samoa photos to commons.Teine Savaii (talk) 11:13, 4 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3) Himalayan Explorer -I'll help out when I can.
 * 4) Michael Billington (talk) 04:24, 11 January 2011 (UTC)
 * 5)  -Will rejoin and add more when I can

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

For other Samoa user templates, see .

[[Image:Nuvola apps kcmsystem.svg|22px]]Templates
All templates relevant to Samoa are collected in Category:Samoa templates. Here are some of the templates;
 * Districts of Samoa is a template displaying all the Districts of Samoa.
 * User WikiProject Samoa is a userbox which all members can add to the Talk page of their individual Wikipedian User page.
 * WikiProject Samoa is this project banner, to be added to the talk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project. (this template is yet to be created)
 * Samoa-stub - Stub notice for Samoa articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
 * Samoa-geo-stub - Stub template for Samoa geography articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
 * Samoa-bio-stub - Stub notice for Samoa biography articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
 * - Add this template to the talk page of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.

The 11 District templates below include villages or key places in each district, including other information which is notable in each area. Improve and expand the information in each template, or check that the information is updated and correct. Then add the relevant district template to the bottom of the relevant articles.



To automatically include a relevant template in Category:Samoa templates, add the following to the template page:

To Do Suggestions
Many of these articles and pages need expanding with proper sources and references.
 * Outline of Samoa article has a lot of important red link articles to be created.
 * Category:Samoa geography stubs
 * Category:Cities, towns and villages in Samoa
 * Category:Samoa stubs - all Samoa stub articles which need expanding and improving to be a good article.


 * For example: Here's an article A'ufaga  which needs expanding with a source attached which can be used as a reference. Or click on the list of potential sources below for other references.

Main Articles
Most of these important articles still need improving to meet the best quality for Wikipedia. Some are still stubs and need expanding.
 * Samoa
 * Upolu
 * History of Samoa
 * Culture of Samoa
 * Fa'a Samoa
 * Politics of Samoa
 * fa'amatai

Images & Media
We need to add more Images and Media on Samoa in Wikimedia Commons. There are a number of public domain sites online, especially for historical images that are now in public domain or with a Creative Commons licence. Upload images to Commons and expand the database of images for Samoa, or add your own photos if you have some. If you're new, click on the Help section in Wikimedia Commons for tutorials.


 * Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution
 * Flickr Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike


 * Or you can add existing photos in Commons to Samoa articles in Wikipedia to help improve them.

Draft articles
Refer to the project subpage

Missing articles
All the Red links are missing articles that need to be created. Some of the articles (blue) have been created but are listed here as many are stubs and need expanding.

See /Requested articles

Resources
Potential sources for building content


 * Geolocator
 * 2006 Samoa Population Census
 * 2006 Summary of Population Housing Figures, Samoa Bureau of Statistics
 * Samoa Territorial Constituents, Political districts & villages
 * An Account of Samoan History up to 1918 by Te'o Tuvale
 * History
 * History
 * Mau History by Albert Wendt
 * Samoa a hundred years ago
 * The making of modern Samoa
 * Theorizing self in Samoa
 * Elite communication in Samoa: a study of leadership
 * Socio-economic issues
 * Missionaries
 * Missionaries
 * Education in Samoa
 * The Samoans:A Global Family
 * Vikings of the Sunrise by Te Rangi Hiroa (Sir Peter Buck)
 * Grammar & Dictionary, Samoan language
 * 1951 Government of Samoa Report, Orgnization of district & village government
 * O Samoa Anamua by Siaosi Tana (Samoan language)
 * New Zealand Dictionary of Biography

Wiki sources
There are a large number of resources available for this area. Please see the page of the specific country or area in which you are interested for the ones applicable for your specific interest.

Related projects and pages
Projects with some overlap include:


 * WikiProject Polynesia
 * WikiProject Polynesia/American Samoa work group

See also
 * Portal:Oceania