Wikipedia talk:African Collaboration of the Fortnight

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What's the time period for the page. 12.220.47.145 7 July 2005 22:54 (UTC)

Third World Debt
This might be considered controversial but I added here because I feel that it is an African related topic. Falphin 21:40, 9 July 2005 (UTC)

a tie?
Architecture of Africa and Second Liberian Civil War are in a tie of 4 votes. Assuming that it's still a tie on the 17th, how will the next COTW be chosen? Revolución 01:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
 * Fortunately, it was resolved. If the situation does arise, I suggest we use the approach of the Collaborations of the Week, which extend voting for 24 hours, then, if still not resolved, take the article which was nominated first. Warofdreams 10:45, 18 July 2005 (UTC)

Use of AFRICAvoter
Hey, I noticed this has been used on some user talk pages, but because it hasn't been subst'ed in when you're looking through archives (or whatever) you can only see the current COTW, and not the one they were notified about, so I think it should only be subst'd in.. -- Joolz 17:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)

Removing a nomination
I am not sure of the time period for removing a nomination. I had nominated Culture of Africa, which I want to be removed, as it could not get sufficient votes. What should I do to remove this nomination? --Bhadani 14:03, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Copy and delete then save the change. Afterwards archive it in Removed nomination section. After that I would just watch to see if Revolución changes how it was done and then copycat that. Just make sure its been a while these sub-COTWs are usually more leniant.  Falphin 20:54, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Just copy and paste the entire nomination into the /Removed folder. I don't have a problem with nominations not getting enough votes myself. So if you nominate an article but if it doesn't get enough votes, I won't remove it because I think articles should be given a chance. I have nominated articles to the regular COTW before and they were removed for not getting enough votes in some strict time period, and personally I think that's unfair. Revolución 21:50, 5 August 2005 (UTC)

Option 1

 * Nominations without enough votes will not be removed. There will be no limit to how long a nomination can be on the African COTW. Nominations can be removed if the nomination is not an Africa-related topic or it is not a serious nomination or if the nominator wants it to be removed.


 * Support:
 * 1) Revolución 02:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2) Fenice 05:32, 6 August 2005 (UTC)


 * Comments:

Option 2

 * Nominations will be removed if they have not got enough votes in a given time period.


 * Support:


 * Comments:

Fortnightly/Monthly?
From watching the COTW here so far, it seems to me that we might be well served to slow down a bit. Most of our collaborations don't seem to have hit featured article quality, and I know I myself haven't had time to chip in as much as I'd like as they come and go so quickly. (I will, though, be hitting West Africa hard all week). Is it possible to make this a fortnightly or even monthly collaboration to give us time to really research and work? I think if we narrowed our focus we might actually get more done. In particular I'd be interested to start giving the Africa regional articles (West, Southern, Central, East Africa etc.) some serious collaboration time so we can have some regional overview articles. What's everybody else think? --Dvyost 19:19, 8 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fortnightly. I agree, weekly goes by too fast for me, and it seems most of the contributers here. I suggest change it to fortnightly, and let's see if we get any more featured articles. It can always move to monthly after that. Greenman 19:17, 9 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fortnightly is good by me, but I suspect we'll end up going to monthly. I think the silence here over the past few days is answer enough as to how little time people have for this project. Of the only two people to touch West Africa for its first five days of its collaboration week, one fixed the image up, the other vandalized the page. Ouch. Dvyost 07:57, 12 August 2005 (UTC)
 * Fortnightly. (But I think Dvyost is probably right.) BrianSmithson 11:54, 12 August 2005 (UTC)


 * After two weeks of voting, this appears to make 3 out of 3 for fortnightly. I'll change the new COTW date accordingly.  --Dvyost 22:06, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
 * I'll go and update the templates etc., which still say weekly! TreveXtalk 16:08, 28 August 2005 (UTC)
 * God job everybody. Don't forget to have a look at the African notice board as well. Svest 17:57, August 28, 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

more coordination needed?
i'm a fairly frequent reader and contributer on africa articles, usually on the DR Congo, but from personal experience (seeing NO ONE doing anything for dar-es-salaam last week for example) it would seem to me that there's a lack of coordination on the Collaboration. my guess is the problem is people who edit Africa-related articles typically have fairly specific expertise due to the it often being difficult to find information on African topics. This makes it difficult for people to "write what they know" because they may no absolutely nothing. i know very little about dar-es-salaam and west Africa so even though i did a little searching (and found nothing by the way) on D-E-S, i didnt feel i would be able to contribute anything. but ive read a few books on the congo so i'm able to make some contributions there. this collaboration page may just be too broad to target specific articles. most of the collaborations that have had a lot of success are very focused on specific countries like south africa or india. this page covers an entire continent and i think it's difficult to expect that people will be able to contribute to topics on Ghana when their knowledge pertains mostly to the Great Lakes region. I think the regional updates are a pretty good first step, such as this week's. I dont know what to propose for solutions. Having a kind of "required reading" list might be extremely useful just to give people better knowledge of the topic and thereby allowing them to an idea about how to contribute. Links like on the Countering system bias page to the topic may also be useful. Also, 'advertise' the hell out of this page on as many Africa related pages as possible (which you may already be doing). anyway, thanks.--Gozar 00:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

New topic
Even with the change to fortnightly, we seem to be overdue for a new topic, so I'm being bold and changing it over, but someone more qualified should probably take a glance at this; apologies if I screw anything up. I won't be able to do this on a regular basis, though, so someone else should keep an eye out too. Best, --Dvyost 22:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)

Save this project
I'm switching the COTF to African Democratic Rally, as we're long overdue for a move. Unfortunately Central Africa has received only one edit in a solid month of being COTF (my fault as much as anyone's). Let's hope the the ADR can do better; anyone who wants to help save this project, now is the time to act! --Dvyost 22:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC)

Request for Comments
I've finally added my accumulated research to the articles Amda Seyon I and Zara Yaqob, & would like some comments about them. No, you don't have to be an expert on Ethiopian history (although that would be nice ;): what I'm looking for is input on how well I cover the subjects, any discrepencies or contradictions, suggestions for improvement (I know I know, needs more images) -- the kind of issues someone using Wikipedia would feel is important. Please leave the comments on the Talk page. In return, I'd be happy to do the same for anyone else. -- llywrch 22:27, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Good job. I Did some copy editing. -- Svest 22:56, 22 October 2005 (UTC) Wiki me up&#153;

Revival of Collaboration
I am hoping to get this collaboration functioning again. --Revolución  hablar    ver  03:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)

Templates on talk pages
Just noticed that Kibera was the COTW; don't forget to add the template to the Talk: page (I forgot to do so when nominating, too!). &mdash; Matt Crypto 09:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)

um
Hi, I feel a bit odd writing this as I haven't been involved in this collaboration but I noticed that the Collaboration was listed in a redirect over at WP:AFR. There hasn't been an update, as far as I can tell, in over a month. Is there enough interest to restart this or shall I put Inactive on this page? - BanyanTree 03:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)