Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Angola/Archive 1

National Civil Aviation Directorate
If there are any editors out there familiar with Angolan government departments, I would like to place a request for an article on National Civil Aviation Directorate to be created. In Portuguese it is known as Direcção Nacional de Aviação Civil --Россавиа Диалог 20:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
As you may have heard, we at the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial Team recently made some changes to the assessment scale, including the addition of a new level. The new description is available at WP:ASSESS.
 * The new C-Class represents articles that are beyond the basic Start-Class, but which need additional references or cleanup to meet the standards for B-Class.
 * The criteria for B-Class have been tightened up with the addition of a rubric, and are now more in line with the stricter standards already used at some projects.
 * A-Class article reviews will now need more than one person, as described here.

Each WikiProject should already have a new C-Class category at Category:C-Class_articles. If your project elects not to use the new level, you can simply delete your WikiProject's C-Class category and clarify any amendments on your project's assessment/discussion pages. The bot is already finding and listing C-Class articles.

Please leave a message with us if you have any queries regarding the introduction of the revised scheme. This scheme should allow the team to start producing offline selections for your project and the wider community within the next year. Thanks for using the Wikipedia 1.0 scheme! For the 1.0 Editorial Team, §hepBot  ( Disable )  22:23, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Naming of country subdivisions
TopoCode (talk) 19:16, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
 * The provinces now all use the format "X Province", see Talk:Provinces of Angola
 * I suggest to name all municipalities in the format "X Municipality", like the provinces. See also WP:NC:CS.

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Angola
Wikipedia 0.7 is a collection of English Wikipedia articles due to be released on DVD, and available for free download, later this year. The Version 1.0 Editorial Team has made an automated selection of articles for Version 0.7.

We would like to ask you to review the articles selected from this project. These were chosen from the articles with this project's talk page tag, based on the rated importance and quality. If there are any specific articles that should be removed, please let us know at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.7. You can also nominate additional articles for release, following the procedure at Release Version Nominations.

A list of selected articles with cleanup tags, sorted by project, is available. The list is automatically updated each hour when it is loaded. Please try to fix any urgent problems in the selected articles. A team of copyeditors has agreed to help with copyediting requests, although you should try to fix simple issues on your own if possible.

We would also appreciate your help in identifying the version of each article that you think we should use, to help avoid vandalism or POV issues. These versions can be recorded at this project's subpage of User:SelectionBot/0.7. We are planning to release the selection for the holiday season, so we ask you to select the revisions before October 20. At that time, we will use an automatic process to identify which version of each article to release, if no version has been manually selected. Thanks! For the Wikipedia 1.0 Editorial team, SelectionBot 22:27, 15 September 2008 (UTC)

African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Angola. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:20, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Angola-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Angola, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Angola, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Angola articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Campo de São Paulo
 * 2) Dalia (oil field)
 * 3) Estádio Joaquim Dinis
 * 4) Estádio dos Coqueiros
 * 5) Luiana National Park
 * 6) Mbanza Congo Airport
 * 7) Nancova

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 54 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

Why add coordinates?
By adding coordinates, a Wikipedia reader can easily view the location on a street map, nautical chart, topographic map, by satellite photo, realtime weather map, and in many other ways. Coordinate data makes an article eventually appear in various services such as Google Maps' Wikipedia overlay, Google Earth, and Wikipedia's own internal map service. Coordinate data also helps readers looking for geographically-based data, such as locations near a reference point, or related information.

How can I do it?
The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful, or if you have any questions! -- The Anome (talk) 09:29, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Featured article review of Zambezi
nominated Zambezi for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Tom B (talk) 16:44, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Portal:Angola
Just finished the first round of the Portal i.e. 1 x of everything. Take a look and let me know what you think and any suggestions (nice ones :-)) Feel free to add articles, bio's etc. Word of caution; For continuity (is that how you spell it?) copy and paste from an existing previous article on Portal:Angola and substitute details. That way the pictures et al stay the same size.

Hope everyone's happy with it. I'll make time to do a WikiProject Angola Userbox as well. Wiki User 68 Blah  Stuff  01:31, 23 February 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 04:45, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
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If you are already subscribed to Article Alerts, it is now easier to report bugs and request new features. We are also in the process of implementing a "news system", which would let projects know about ongoing discussions on a wikipedia-wide level, and other things of interest. The developers also note that some subscribing WikiProjects and Taskforces use the  parameter, but forget to give a link to their alert page. Your alert page should be located at "Wikipedia:PROJECT-OR-TASKFORCE-HOMEPAGE/Article alerts". Questions and feedback should be left at Wikipedia talk:Article alerts.

Message sent by User:Addbot to all active wiki projects per request, Comments on the message and bot are welcome here.

Thanks. — Headbomb {{{sup|ταλκ}}κοντριβς – WP Physics} 08:47, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
A proposal has been posted for a contest between all 200 country WikiProjects. We're looking for judges, coordinators, ideas, and feedback.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

GA Sweeps invitation
This message is being sent to WikiProjects with GAs under their scope. Since August 2007, WikiProject Good Articles has been participating in GA sweeps. The process helps to ensure that articles that have passed a nomination before that date meet the GA criteria. After nearly two years, the running total has just passed the 50% mark. In order to expediate the reviewing, several changes have been made to the process. A new worklist has been created, detailing which articles are left to review. Instead of reviewing by topic, editors can consider picking and choosing whichever articles they are interested in.

We are always looking for new members to assist with reviewing the remaining articles, and since this project has GAs under its scope, it would be beneficial if any of its members could review a few articles (perhaps your project's articles). Your project's members are likely to be more knowledgeable about your topic GAs then an outside reviewer. As a result, reviewing your project's articles would improve the quality of the review in ensuring that the article meets your project's concerns on sourcing, content, and guidelines. However, members can also review any other article in the worklist to ensure it meets the GA criteria.

If any members are interested, please visit the GA sweeps page for further details and instructions in initiating a review. If you'd like to join the process, please add your name to the running total page. In addition, for every member that reviews 100 articles from the worklist or has a significant impact on the process, s/he will get an award when they reach that threshold. With ~1,300 articles left to review, we would appreciate any editors that could contribute in helping to uphold the quality of GAs. If you have any questions about the process, reviewing, or need help with a particular article, please contact me or OhanaUnited and we'll be happy to help. --Happy editing! Nehrams2020 (talk • contrib) 22:06, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

BRFA for tagging of Angola-related articles
There's currently a bot request for approval for WikiProject tagging of the Angola-related articles in the categories listed at User:John Carter/Africa categories. Andrea105 (talk) 19:22, 9 November 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 02:49, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:34, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Isabel Maria de Gama
Crossposted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Angola, Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Republic of the Congo, and Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

I encountered the above article today during unreferenced BLP cleanup. I can't find any reliable sources for it, and the article's creator couldn't remember what he'd used. Does anyone at this project know of this person, and of any source I could use to verify the article? If I can't find anything in a week or so I will take the article to WP:PROD. Gonzonoir (talk) 14:24, 30 March 2010 (UTC)

Angola articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
Version 0.8 is a collection of Wikipedia articles selected by the Wikipedia 1.0 team for offline release on USB key, DVD and mobile phone. Articles were selected based on their assessed importance and quality, then article versions (revisionIDs) were chosen for trustworthiness (freedom from vandalism) using an adaptation of the WikiTrust algorithm.

We would like to ask you to review the Angola articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (♦) to the right of each article, and this symbol links to the selected version of each article. If you believe we have included or excluded articles inappropriately, please contact us at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8 with the details. You may wish to look at your WikiProject's articles with cleanup tags and try to improve any that need work; if you do, please give us the new revisionID at Wikipedia talk:Version 0.8. We would like to complete this consultation period by midnight UTC on Monday, October 11th.

We have greatly streamlined the process since the Version 0.7 release, so we aim to have the collection ready for distribution by the end of October, 2010. As a result, we are planning to distribute the collection much more widely, while continuing to work with groups such as One Laptop per Child and Wikipedia for Schools to extend the reach of Wikipedia worldwide. Please help us, with your WikiProject's feedback!

For the Wikipedia 1.0 editorial team, SelectionBot 00:10, 18 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:40, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Query
As a relative newcomer to en-WP, I should like to know whether the WikiProject Angola is still working? I have seen edits by a number of people who are not registered with this project, and who apparently are in no way connected among themselves. Also, I have found out that the historical and political articles often include wrong and/or incomplete/outdated information, so that a common effort would be useful. Aflis (talk) 15:14, 18 June 2011 (UTC)


 * Three months after making the above query, I have not had any kind of feedback. Does this mean that the project is in fact dead? -- Aflis (talk) 11:34, 19 September 2011 (UTC)

Angola question

I am a student at the University of Utah. I am currently taking the course Gender and Economic development in the third world, course number 5560. As part of my course work I am researching maternal health in Angola. I have discovered that many articles discussing Angola’s history, economics, and past civil war already exist on Wikipedia. However, information regarding current health care and health problems is limited and I was unable to find any article devoted completely to the topic of maternal health in Angola. My goal is to post well researched information, including available statistics and current health problems and practices onto the maternal health in Angola page. This information is designed to give readers a better understanding of what the current situation regarding maternal health in Angola is and what are some of the contributing factors to the current problems. Information regarding maternal health in Angola is primarily obtained through organizations such as UNISEF and the UN. These organizations do a great job collecting and distributing information. However, information from Angola itself is difficult to find. I would appreciate any scholarly information that is available from different Universities and if possible published in Angola itself.

Thanks Haskimas B Naskasi (talk) 22:39, 16 March 2012 (UTC)

Photos of Luanda
I just wanted to inform that i have just uploaded some new images of Luanda. 138 photos by the urban planner Fabio Vanin: mainly buildings, streets and some cultural institutions; I already put them in categories. Hope some are relevant for your work. best, --Iopensa (talk) 20:34, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

Talk:Bushmen
I have proposed a move/renaming from Bushmen to San people following a clean up and expansion of Bushmen. Please participate in the discussion so we can resolve this long-standing name issue. Helen Online  07:27, 13 January 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Africa may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 01:58, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 05/06
Draft:The Magalhaes Brothers's Contribution to the Angolan Independence War. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:14, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Please add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 20:55, 30 July 2014 (UTC)


 * The last cencsus in Angola was ublished in 1970, i.e.before independence, Since 2013 an entirely new census is under way. My proposal is to wait for the resulta of the latter, and thenn ty a comparative analysis. -- Aflis (talk) 22:42, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

Note: To receive additional notifications about WikiProject X on this talk page, please add this page to WikiProject X/Newsletter. Otherwise, this will be the last notification sent about WikiProject X.

Harej (talk) 16:56, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Contests
User:Dr. Blofeld has created WikiProject Africa/Contests. The idea is to run a series of contests/editathons focusing on each region of Africa. He has spoken to Wikimedia about it and $1000-1500 is possible for prize money. Would anybody here be interested in contributing to one or assisting draw up core article/missing article lists? He says he's thinking of North Africa for an inaugural one in October. If interested please sign up in the participants section of the Contest page, thanks.♦ -- Ser Amantio di Nicolao Che dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 20:01, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Of interest
This AfD may be of interest to project participants: Articles for deletion/Irina D. França. Some sources are in Portuguese and difficult to ascertain if they meet WP:N. Montanabw (talk) 15:19, 19 August 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template Transclude lead excerpt.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:25, 30 May 2018 (UTC)