Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone

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

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

Active members
To join WikiProject Sierra Leone, 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 20:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Kaly99 (talk) 19:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC) working on Sierra Leone's protected areas
 * 3) Thomas.MacMillan 15:44, 22 January 2008
 * 4)  ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦       $1,000,000? 10:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
 * 5) Your friend Eddy of the wiki [citation needed] 01:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 6) Ratattuta (talk) 18:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 7) Harrypotter (talk) (Aka User:Leutha)
 * 8) Hawanatu (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
 * 9) Jimmymansaray (talk) 15:00, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
 * 10) Sullay (talk) 01:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
 * 11) Serenesage (talk) 08:42, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 12) iogburu (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * 1) iogburu (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)

Former members
Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
 * 20:20:44, 8 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.

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

For other Sierra Leone user templates, see .

Open tasks
Other tasks
 * Reference and clean up the articles selected for the Wikipedia 0.7 DVD release
 * Sierra Leone
 * Freetown
 * Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
 * Sierra Leone national football team


 * Expand history to include information prior to European contact in 1462, for History of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone articles.
 * Populate the district templates with cheifdoms and towns.

Articles to create

 * Religion in Sierra Leone
 * Government of Sierra Leone currently a redirect
 * Culture of Sierra Leone
 * Literature of Sierra Leone

Templates

 * WikiProject Sierra Leone/District templates

Assessment
Please copy to any Sierra Leone related article's talk pages to place the WikiProject Africa with the Sierra Leone wikiproject selected. To assess the class and importance of an article use the syntax shown to the right, please consider leaving a comment about how to improve the article by clicking on the link in the template.

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New Content
Please feel free to list your new Sierra Leone related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.


 * Healthcare in Sierra Leone (25 November 2018‎)
 * Order of the Rokel (11 July 2018‎)
 * Order of the Republic (11 July 2018‎)
 * Priscilla Schwartz (13 June 2018‎)
 * Patrick Daniel Koroma (6 May 2018‎)
 * Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (26 May 2017)
 * Atunda Ayenda (12 July 2008)
 * Portal:Sierra Leone (29 June 2008‎)
 * List of newspapers in Sierra Leone (29 June 2008‎)
 * Education in Sierra Leone (24 June 2008‎)

Did You Know (DYK)s

 * ...that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier? -- 18 February 2007
 * ... that education in Sierra Leone (pictured) had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War? -- 30 June 2008
 * ...that despite healthcare in Sierra Leone decreasing child mortality from 302 deaths per live birth in 1990 to 282 in 2005 Sierra Leone still has the highest level child mortality in the world? -- Featured 27 January 2008
 * ...that the history of media in Sierra Leone began in 1794 when the first printing press in Africa was delivered to the capital Freetown but that the press was destroyed before it could be used? -- April 26 2008
 * ... that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone? -- July 16 2008
 * ... that with an area of 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake? -- 6 March 2011
 * ... that Dr. Priscilla Schwartz is the first woman ever to serve as Attorney General in Sierra Leone? -- June 15 2018
 * ... that the Order of the Rokel is the highest honor in Sierra Leone? -- July 11 2018

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