Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethiopia/Archive 1

Jijiga
I just looked at the page for the city of Jijiga and was surprised how much the description cited by Nega Mezlekia differs from my own personal observations of the city. While he is quotes as saying "on a vast, unmitigated plain, with no greenery in sight except for the occasional cactus bush…”, I can assure anyone that the region surrounding the town is actually quite green and full of farm land. In fact when we landed our helicopters there we had to be careful of the corn fields and mud pits. It is one of several very productive agricultural regions between Dire Dawa and the Somali boarder. I know that we should not cite our ourselves when attempting to make an article accurate, but having been there I can’t help wishing to correct this one. As it is already an article with unsourced statements, would it be prudent of me to add my own observations? Does anyone have any suggestions? Quintman 02:07, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Name
Just noticed that the uncapitalization of the "P" in project actually redlinks WikiProject Ethiopia, but that typing that into the search bar takes you directly here. I would just move the page, but I don't really feel like moving all of the sub-pages & talks and I'm not sure if that's really that much of a problem. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  06:43, 4 June 2006 (UTC)

Good
Good idea. Badagnani 09:08, 4 June 2006 (UTC)


 * What's this in reference to? &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  02:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Image
If anyone could find a free image (e.g. a blank map w/o political borders or a full one with place names) of N. Ethiopia & Eritrea and Southern Arabia (i.e. Yemen and s. Saudi Arabia), it would be greatly appreciated. I need it to top off GDRT, which I've basically just finished adding to. Of course, if you could find a free image of an inscription as well, that'd be even better, but I'm not expecting that much. ዮም  (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  02:59, 5 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Long self-fulfilled. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  03:16, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

Key articles
Take a look at Version 1.0 Editorial Team/Work via Wikiprojects, & consider how our existing articles should be graded according to what is already there. (I know I've mentioned elsewhere my pick of 5 key articles, but it'd be nice to sort out 20-30 key or vital Ethiopia-related articles & grade them accordingly.) -- llywrch 03:24, 9 June 2006 (UTC)


 * I'll provide a list around that number (outside of the 5 higher priority key articles) tomorrow afternoon (night UTC) based partially on the existing Key Articles. &mdash; ዮም   (Yom)  |  contribs  •  Talk  05:42, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

Creating Ethiopian Geography articles
Just a note to everyone that I've hacked out an example of my personal campaign to create an article for every notable administrative unit & city/town in Ethiopia. I'm limited by what the material available to me, but you can review my efforts at the woredas & (indirectly) towns linked to at List of woredas in the Benishangul-Gumaz Region. Feedback welcomed. -- llywrch 01:30, 23 June 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, my work has been proceeding slowly -- but another Wikipedian has been adding stubs for various towns, & apparently attempting to poke me into speeding up my work. (Just a warning in case you stumble across one of these other articles -- I don't know how many there are, & several lack any links.) -- llywrch 22:56, 20 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Update: I posted a question on the creator's Talk page about his work, & it was deleted; I'm not sure what to make of that. Maybe someone else will have better luck getting an answer from him. -- llywrch 02:54, 22 July 2006 (UTC)

I have never entered anything into Wikipedia before. However, I was responsible for surveying Sof Omar as part of the British Expedition to Ethiopia in 1972. I have an extensive collection of photographs of the cave and notes relating to the history of its exploration as well as survey notes. The expedition explored other karst areas in Bale, Dira Dawa and Tigre. The only other cave of significance was Nur Mohammed. I can start the process of adding this to the site, but I need help in negotiating the editing process and of course time! --Dave Catlin 14:00, 22 July 2006 (UTC)Dave Catlin


 * First, I have to saythat you are making a very generous offer by wanting to share your collection! Keep that in mind as I write the following:

Like I said above, don't let my words above scare you off. I eagerly hope to see some of your contributions here on Wikipedia, & if there is anything I can help with, please let me -- or anyone else in this Wikiproject -- know. -- llywrch 00:54, 23 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 1) Take care that your text contributions are based on printed, accessible matertials. If you have published your findings, go ahead & cite them for your contributions. (Further information at WP:CITE). The reason for this peculiar requirement is that too many people either make up information out of whole cloth & try to slip it into Wikipedia, or that when pressed for their sources sometimes we find out that what "they know to be indisputable fact" is actually something a friend heard from another friend who heard it on tv or radio. And often these are the very ones who become unpleasant to the people who do know what are indisputable facts.
 * 2) Pictures, drawings, maps are not as controversial -- as long as they can be submitted under a free license (examples being the GPL or Creative Commons). Actually, a better place for submitting these materials might be commons.wikipedia.org, where all of the free image & sound files can be submitted & used by not only English-language Wikipedias, but those in other languages, such as German, French, Polish -- & Amharic.
 * 3) I did a bit of snooping, & was surprised that I could not find a Wikiproject that concentrated on geology, geomorphology -- or caves. They would be especially useful in a case like yours where you want to share a lot of descriptive information.

Thank you for your kind offer of help. Someone also kindly helped organise the references I added relating to the history of the exploration. I found a typo, but cannot find how to get the reference text back. Also I have other reference to add. Please explain how I can find the text for the references. Dave Catlin

Help Please: I have loaded a Sof Omar image into the system (Safari_Straight.JPG) but it comes out far too big. How can I reduce the size.--Dave Catlin 04:34, 26 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Image size is something I'm always struggling with, too. The answer lies at Extended image syntax -- which I keep a link to on my User page. -- llywrch 20:05, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

People of Ethiopia
We need to create an article about people of Ethiopia, just like Armenians or Georgians. I propose to the article Ethiopian People. Please make your suggestions. ThanksLdingley 20:50, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * It'll be a little difficult, as there are multiple Ethnic groups (the major ones have an article). Perhaps something could be done under Demographics of Ethiopia? &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 21:10, 27 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, we could mention all the ethnic groups of Ethiopia. Take a look at Armenians, the peoples page should be design for Ethiopians similarly. It’s true that Ethiopia has many ethnic groups (so goes Russia but go to Russians) but there should be a page about people of Ethiopia or Ethiopians. Let me know. Ldingley 21:48, 27 July 2006 (UTC)

Ldingley, I support your idea to provide articles for peoples of Ethiopia. Immediately, though, Yomo thought of it unfair to provide articles to small and big ethnic groups Etiopia equally. But, the world deserves to know all about Ethiopia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.156.22.157 (talk) 00:29, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Need help
Hi, i just started the article People of Ethiopia. I will start adding more information, mainly from books and other available sources. I think we should have separate article for People of Ethiopia and include all ethnic groups there. Please advice and make your suggestions. Thanks. Ldingley 22:11, 31 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Sure. Check out Languages of Ethiopia, as there's an ethnic group for every language (though not in all cases vice versa). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 02:55, 1 August 2006 (UTC)


 * There's also a list at Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Region. Although incomplete, I have been working on it. -- llywrch 17:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Here's a list of almost all ethnic groups and numbers for speakers and self-identified members of the ethnic group as according to the 1994 Ethiopian census (I've made links for all so we know which ones - almost all - need articles):

Source (by Grover Hudson, a well-known linguist of Ethiopian languages)

Table 2. Mother-Tongue Speakers of Ethiopian Speech Varieties and Members of Ethnic Groups, Ordered by Number of Mother-tongue Speakers (1994 Census) C=Cushitic, N=Nilosaharan, O=Omotic, and S=Semitic -  -    Ethnolinguistic group   Mothertongue speakers   Ethnic group members Amara S                17,372,913              16,010,894 Oromo C                16,777,975              17,088,136 Tigraway S             3,224,875               3,284,443 Somali C               3,187,053               3,139,421 Gurage S               1,881,574               2,290,332 Sidama C               1,876,329               1,842,444 Welayta O              1,231,674               1,268,445 - note Welayta language Afar C                 965,462                 972,766 Hadiyya C              923,957                 927,747 Gamo O                 690,069                 719,862 Gedeo C                637,082                 639,879 Kafa O                 569,626                 599,146 - note Kingdom of Kaffa Kambaata C             487,654                 499,631 - note Kambaata (language) Awi C                  356,980                 397,494 - note Awngi language Kulo O                 313,228                 331,477 Goffa O                233,340                 241,818 Bench O                173,586                 173,149 - note Bench language Ari O                  158,857                 155,065 - note Aari language Konso C                149,508                 153,407 - note Konso language Kamir C                143,369                 158,225 - Kamir people or Khamir/Hamir/Xamir Alaba C                126,257                 125,894 Gumuz N                120,424                 121,481 Berta N                116,084                 118,670 - note Berta language Koyra O                103,879                 107,586 Timbaro C              82,803                  86,499 Yemsa O                81,614                  165,770 Nuer N                 64,907                  64,527 Basketo O              57,805                  51,089 Mocha O                54,894                  53,846 Male O                 53,779                  46,458 Me’en N                52,015                  52,808 - note Me'en (language) Gidole C               50,328                  54,339 Konta O                48,987                  49,625 Anywak N               45,646                  45,656 Hamer O                42,838                  42,448 Maraqo C               36,612                  38,093 - another name for the Libido people Qabena C               35,783                  35,065 Burji C                35,731                  46,552 (watch out for Burji dynasty) Gawada C               32,698                  33,945 Dasenech C             32,064                  32,014 (properly Daasanach or Ðáasanač) Sheko O                24,106                  23,772 Saho C                 22,759                  23,258 (i.e. Irob) Harari S               21,283                  22,884 - note Harari language Dizi O                 21,075                  21,888 Dorze O                20,782                  28,969 Mello O                20,151                  20,181 Shinasha O             19,734                  32,660 (also called Boro, neighbors of the Gumuz and Berta) Suri N                 19,622                  19,616 Oyda O                 16,597                  14,059 Majangir N             15,152                  15,329 - note Majang language Nyangatom N            14,177                  14,201 Mao O                  13,657                  16,226 She O                  13,116                  13,164 Argobba S              10,860                  62,912 - note Argobba language Zayse O                10,172                  10,842 Fadashi N              8,715                   7,323 Tsamay C               8,621                   9,699 Zergula O              7,625                   390 Chara O                6,932                   6,976 Mossiya C              6,624                   9,205 Dime O                 6,501                   6,189 Bodi N                 4,570                   4,685 Arbore C               4,441                   6,622 Nao O                  3,656                   4,004 Mursi N                3,278                   3,254 Kachama O              2,682                   2,735 Kunama N               1,883                   2,003 Kemant C               1,650                   172,324 - at Qemant (properly Kemant or Kimant people) Koma N                 1,435                   1,522 Ganjule O              1,390                   1,142 Mer O                  989                     1,195 Shita N                301                     290 Gamili N               144                     184 Guagu N                103                     165 Kwama N                99                      140 Gebato N               78                      67 Mabaan N               25                      21 Other langs            139,047                 110,555

Kind of funny how there's a "She people," "Male people," "Mer people," and "Dime people." Also, does anyone know why Hamer is at Hammer? The Encyclopaedia Aethiopica has it at Hamär (by our translit, Hamer). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 21:46, 8 August 2006 (UTC)


 * About the spelling of Hamer/Hammer -- I guess that's how the person who created the article spelled it. If there's no gemination of the "m", then it should be fixed. (Nice list, BTW.) -- llywrch 05:22, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I think a move is in order, then, as there doesn't seem to be gemination (the Encylopaedia Aethiopica has always marked it in my experience). Hopefully you can use this list (along with the "debub.net" site I referred you to earlier) to complete your SNNPR list, as most of the above are from that area (and thanks for fixing my spelling mistake). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 08:14, 9 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Yes, I found the Debub.net site quite useful with its maps -- I can always use more maps. :) Are these spellings the ones we should standardize on? If so, I'll start helping with the work. -- llywrch 01:12, 10 August 2006 (UTC)


 * No, the spellings above were those of Grover Hudson. I was just quoting him directly. I guess I'll go through them and use standardized spellings throughout where possible. Some can be cross-checked with the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica (e.g. I found out that "she" and "mer" would by "Shé" and "Mér" using our transliteration system), but we may have to make a guess for some of them (a copy of Amharic version of the 1994 census would be great so that we could see the original fidel characters, but I don't think that's possible). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 01:20, 10 August 2006 (UTC)

I attempted to do a similar project on the German wikipedia, listing all Ethiopian ethnicities together with their language, religion and region. Maybe it is of any help to you. Have a look at: de:Liste der Ethnien in Äthiopien. If you have any information about the smaller groups, I'd be interested to learn about it. Could for instance the Mabaan with only 21 members be considered a seperate ethnicity, or are there maybe more of them in other countries? -- Bamse 02:29, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * First, that's a nice table of ethnic groups on de.wikipedia, Bamse -- very well laid out. Now to your question about the Mabaan: from their article at the Joshua Project (a website about various ethnicities in the world maintained by an Evangelical Christian group), it appears that the Maaban are native to neighboring Sudan, & a few have crossed the border into Ethiopia looking for new places to live. An interesting point is that the Joshua Project entry states that 3400 Mabaan live in Ethiopia, while Hudson's information is that only 21-25 live in Ethiopia. -- llywrch 17:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Great table, Bamse. I can't really think on a way to improve on it for the English version, except maybe adding 1984 census data (which I don't have access to right now). Regarding the Mabaan and others, most of those groups are in the Southwest, and live in bordering countries like in Sudan and Kenya, as Llywrch said. Interesting data, Llywrch. I wonder where they got their numbers from, since that's a pretty large disrepancy. Perhaps they merged peoples with similar languages into the group? Either way, where did you get the religious data from Bamse, Joshuaproject or elsewhere? &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 18:36, 21 August 2006 (UTC)


 * Thanks. The religious data I took from wikipedia and the sources listed in "Literatur". I am not sure what to do with "traditional" which does not tell me much. Are there more specific terms that I could use instead? What are they? Another problem is the map. The one I use now includes present day Eritrea and has a bit low resolution. Maybe somebody could teach me how to create a good looking thumb from the pdf-source file. -- Bamse 02:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I am trying to find some information about the small groups in the 1994 census (see: de:Liste der Ethnien in Äthiopien). Maybe somebody could point me in the right direction. Specifically I am looking for: Gobato/Gebato/Gabato (anything), Kwama (relation to Komo), Gamili (anything), Shita (anything), Zergulla (relation to Zayse), Ganjule (Religion), Konta (anything). --Bamse 08:38, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

According to this press release from the Walta Information Center, an official study has determined that there are 56 nationalities who speak 45 different languages in the SNNPR. -- llywrch 00:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

I have a comment on Awngi. This is the name of a language, not of an ethnic entity. The people speaking that language call themselves Awi (these are the Agaw of Gojjam). This little misnomer I have seen in other places, too, like Bamse's list on the German site. If I find time, I might start an entry for the Awi people (well, I just did). Any links pointing to the Awngi people should be redirected to the Awi people. There is now an entry for the Awngi language. I have now changed the name to Awi in the above list, with a note pointing to the Awngi language. Landroving Linguist 18:02, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Another issue: What does it mean that the Shinasha are associated with Gumuz and Berta? Except that these peoples live in the same political region, they have nothing in common. The Shinasha speak an Omotic language, while Gumuz and Berta belong to the Nilo-Saharan family. Also the cultural difference is considerable. I would suggest to strike that comment. -- Landroving Linguist 21:59, 18 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Either Yom (whom I guessing compiled the original list) or a later editor (which would be me, since I know I made some edits to it) relied on a published source that mentioned that while discussing something else. For most of these ethnic groups (especially the ones in the SNNPR) information is little more than incidental comments or footnotes in the usual authorities, which do not receive the same attention in fact-checking that other parts of the book do. As a result, some very odd information will seep into Wikipedia, & we can only hope that experts either point this out -- or fix it. (BTW, I changed that note from "associated w/" to "neighbors of"; in either case, it will help the next Wikipedian with identifying them & make it a little easier to research them.) -- llywrch 20:58, 24 January 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks. Certainly the Shinasha can be considered as neighbors of the Gumuz. It would stretch things to call them also neighbors of the Berta, since these live south of the Abay, while the Shinasha are north of the river. While about it: The Ethnologue lists the Shinasha as Boro, which is the self-name of the group. I once talked to a Shinasha man, and he assured me that they don't mind being called Shinasha, but truly call themselves Boro. Is there any party line on ethnic denominators in this project? I would always advocate for using the self-names of all groups. -- Landroving Linguist 16:08, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

Can some one tell me if Ineco Spt of Spain makes sense in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport_in_Ethiopia makes sense. Its on the 2006 paragraph. Thank you! — Preceding unsigned comment added by MiniKing (talk • contribs) 18:11, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Controversy over the race of Ethiopians
Please take a look at Controversy over the race of Ethiopians and the AfD at Articles for deletion/Controversy over the race of Ethiopians. --Ezeu 10:42, 30 August 2006 (UTC)

Proposed deletion
I just stumbled across Damotra, a novel in Amharic which has been tagged with a PROD notice (basically, someone intends to do a speedy delete unless someone else objects). Does anyone here have any knowledge of this book or its author -- either so we can argue to keep it or agree to delete it? (I'll admit my ignorance, but I also know that the average printing of a book in Amharic would not be very large in size.) -- llywrch 20:14, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


 * This I'm not to sure about. Although I've heard of neither, the author and newspaper seem on the safe side of notability (all edited by Shiferaw - a relative, friend or Moges himself?), but the book does not seem to be very notable. A google search shows 300 hits, almost all of which seem to be from Wikipedia and its mirrors. Asking Shiferaw to help establish its notability seems to be the best way to go about it (and if he doesn't respond, we can delete it since it's such a sub-stub). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 04:36, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

and another article
Stumbled across another stub, Queen eyleuka of Ethopia, wife of an "antediluvian" king Borsa. Never heard of either of them; a quick look thru the online version of the Kebra Nagast also fails to mention them. (This is the only contribution of this one editor.) Is this a likely hoax. & subject to speedy delete? -- llywrch 20:26, 8 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Not sure if it's a hoax, but it sounds more like the article is about Napata, Kush or Meroe, from the wording "Antediluvian." Of course there was no Emperor Borsa, and probably not ever a king (since no Nile kingdoms would have existed in Ethiopia outside of the Solomonic kingdom that we wouldn't have known about). Let's WP:PROD it and ask its editor to clarify. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 04:28, 9 September 2006 (UTC)

And still more articles
I guess someone is sifting thru the biography stubs, because I've found that several articles about Ethiopian mucicians have been prodded. These include: Aragaw Bedaso, Dawit Yifru, Tamrat Desta, & Zelalem Mekuria. I know next to nothing about contemporary music in Ethiopia; is there some objective rule of thumb that can be used to say which are notable performers & avoid this in the future? -- llywrch 07:47, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * A good question. Anybody know how this is done for other genres or cultural areas? I looked around a little and couldn't find anything. Could there be a minimum threshold, like at least one listed recording by a musician or at least two listed songs by a songwriter? &mdash; MikeG (talk) 15:01, 10 September 2006 (UTC)

About Gambela
I dont thick gambela is a city first. Gambela region came about first... and the major city was named gambela... gambela is first and foremost a region. The capital is then named after the region.... — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nolawip (talk • contribs) 03:08, 13 September 2006

Tagging talk pages and assessing articles
Hi. If you still have work to do tagging talk pages and assessing articles, my AWB plugin might be of interest to you.

The plugin has two main modes of operation:
 * Tagging talk pages, great for high-speed tagging
 * Assessments mode, for reviewing articles (pictured)

As of the current version, WikiProjects with simple "generic" templates are supported by the plugin without the need for any special programatic support by me. I've had a look at your project's template and you seem to qualify.

For more information see:
 * About the plugin
 * About support for "generic" WikiProject templates
 * User guide
 * About AWB (AutoWikiBrowser)

Hope that helps. If you have any questions or find any bugs please let me know on the plugin's talk page. --Kingboyk 12:35, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

I need some help on the language
Okay, I know this seems bizarre, because I've written a fair share of the articles on Ethiopia, I admit that I have no ability in the local languages. But I've encountered some pairs of geographical terms that I need help with as I work on the woreda articles. What do the following words mean:
 * "Tahtay" (as in the woreda Tahtay Maychew) -- is it the same word as "Tach" (as in Tach Gayint)?
 * "Laelay" (as in the woreda Laelay Adiyabo) -- is it the same word as "Lay" (as in Lay Armacho)?

I suspect that these correspond to the English "Upper" & "Lower" (as in, for example, "Upper Silesia"), but if so I have no clue which would be which. (And if I guessed, I know I would get it backwards; I still confuse my left & my right sometimes.)

One more word is "Zuria", as in "Bahir Dar Zuria"; I'd assume that "Zuria" means "Great" or "Greater" (as in "Greater London Area/Region"). Thanks in advance. -- llywrch 23:20, 28 September 2006 (UTC)


 * "Taḥtay" is Tigrinya for "below" while "Tach" is Amharic for below (I'm guessing on the Tigrinya, it's something like Taḥit in Ge'ez and Taḥat in Arabic), with the pharyngeal "ḥ" lost in Amharic and the "t" going to "ty" and then to "č." The same goes for the word "above," "Lay" (Amharic) and "La`ilay" (also spelled "Laelay"), where it's the loss of pharyngeals that makes the difference. As for "Zuria" (properly "Zuriya," but I think "Zuria" is a more common transliteration), the root "Z-R-Y" means "round," with "Zurya" meaning "surrounding area," which could be translated by "Greater." The first two can be translated as "Upper" and "Lower" since that's the style in English (as opposed to "above" and "below"). &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 02:04, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * Great. Since it's easier for me to change the transliteration at this stage, Yom, which versions would you prefer I use -- "La'ilay" vs. "Laelay", "Zuria" or "Zurya" or "Zuriya"? -- llywrch 02:48, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * I would also like to point out that La`ilay is also good Amharic, but the form Tahtay is not Amharic.  I don't know much about Tigrinya.  ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 12:28, 29 September 2006 (UTC)


 * In the case of Laelay vs. La'ilay, I think the better accuracy of La'ilay warrants the use of the latter even if Laelay is more common ("e" is often used to represent sixth order vowels on pharyngeals). As for Zuria vs. Zuriya (the latter being the direct transliteration), there's little gain from the extra "y" in terms of accuracy (it simpily makes clear that the "i" does not represent a pharyngeal or glottal stop, which most English readers wouldn't assume anyway), and the former is much more preferred, so I would go with "Zuria." &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 16:32, 29 September 2006 (UTC)

Somali clan anon
Hello all, Since I know that everyone loves dealing with Somali clan issues, I thought I'd let you know that has been making some recent modifications I'm not qualified to judge, such as changing the most populous clan in various woredas in the Somali Region from Darod to Hawiye. - BanyanTree 13:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * I noticed that yesterday, & at first glance it appears that the anon may be correct: the Hawiye clan territory does lie in the middle of the Somali Region, between the two major rivers (the Shabelle & the Ganala Dorya). I'm not about to change it back until I can find a citable source -- I've been using a variety of maps for this information, & I'd rather escalate this potential dispute to using better authorities than to Just Another Edit War. -- llywrch 19:17, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
 * Smart move. Good to see again; it's been a while. Cheers, BanyanTree 00:14, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

Project directory
Hello. The WikiProject Council has recently updated the WikiProject Council/Directory. This new directory includes a variety of categories and subcategories which will, with luck, potentially draw new members to the projects who are interested in those specific subjects. Please review the directory and make any changes to the entries for your project that you see fit. There is also a directory of portals, at User:B2T2/Portal, listing all the existing portals. Feel free to add any of them to the portals or comments section of your entries in the directory. The three columns regarding assessment, peer review, and collaboration are included in the directory for both the use of the projects themselves and for that of others. Having such departments will allow a project to more quickly and easily identify its most important articles and its articles in greatest need of improvement. If you have not already done so, please consider whether your project would benefit from having departments which deal in these matters. It is my hope that all the changes to the directory can be finished by the first of next month. Please feel free to make any changes you see fit to the entries for your project before then. If you should have any questions regarding this matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you. B2T2 15:00, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

new pages
Hi again. I noticed that you all are keeping track of your new articles. In order to share the Ethiopia-specific contributions with the more general page over at Africa-related regional notice board/New articles, I wonder if anyone would mind if I created a subpage at WikiProject Ethiopia/New articles that could be transcluded both to the main project page here and to the AFR subpage? Cheers, BanyanTree 17:35, 26 October 2006 (UTC)

add articles from Category:Ethnic groups in Ethiopia to WikiProject Ethnic groups?
Hi,

I wonder if it's OK for me to add articles from Category:Ethnic groups in Ethiopia to the WikiProject WikiProject Ethnic groups? I'd also be adding that category to Category:Ethnic groups categories. I'll watch this page for about a week for a response; if I don't hear anything I'll go ahead and do it... Thanks! --Ling.Nut 02:09, 4 November 2006 (UTC)

I have started developing this page
Environmental issues in Ethiopia need to add all environmental issues, like missing lions, and ethiopian wolf issue, etc.--Halaqah 23:39, 15 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia Day Awards
Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 19:59, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Abune Tewophilos
The article Abune Tewophilos contains no references and as been tagged as such since December 2005! I tried to find information on google but it is hard to find anything beyond the bare bones. If someone from this project has reference material, can you please add it to the article. If nothing has happened within a reasonable time frame I will remove all the material I can't find a reference for, which won't leave much! So please help if you can. -- Qarnos 08:30, 12 February 2007 (UTC)
 * Augh! This is one of those topics where an online search won't find anything, & it'll take the right library with the right periodicals & a lot of searching to fix this. I'm going by my gut here, but I suspect most of this article is sccurate -- so perhaps hold off for a little while longer until we can find the right person to do the necessary footwork? -- llywrch 22:05, 26 March 2007 (UTC)
 * You might want to ask Sendeq. He's a deacon in an Ethiopian Orthodox Church in New York and is very knowledgeable about these sorts of things. He may not be able to provide references, but he'll at least be able to check it for accuracy and POV. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 01:00, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

language request template
Is there an Ethiopian language request template, similar to Burmese? Chris 07:51, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
 * No, but I'll make a quick one right now for Ge'ez. From now on, you will be able to use Ge'ez for Ethiopian and Eritrean articles. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 03:21, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Chris 03:42, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Re: Ahmad Gragn & the Somali people
Just dropping a note that I added some material from the Futuh to Ahmad ibn Ibrihim al-Ghazi which suggest that he might not be Somali. (I don't consider this original research; I'm just reporting what the book says.) I thought people might want to know about it ahead of time before the fireworks start. -- llywrch 00:01, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

Bilateral relations discussion
I would like to invite you all to participate in a discussion at this thread regarding bilateral relations between two countries. All articles related to foreign relations between countries are now under the scope of WikiProject Foreign relations, a newly created project. We hope that the discussion will result in a more clean and organized way of explaining such relationships. Thank you.  Ed  ¿Cómo estás? 18:00, 8 April 2007 (UTC)

Girma Yohannis Iyasu
I just stumbled across this article, & while it seems to be plausible (I know that Iyasu V had issue, some of whom were used as figureheads during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia), is this person legit? By this, I'm asking whether anyone inside or outside of Ethiopia has even heard of him. If he's an otherwise well-known kook (or can actually trace his ancestory back to Lij Iyasu), I'd consider him notable; if we have an entry on Emperor Norton, then Girma deserves his entry in Wikipedia. I can't reach one of the sites in the External links section & the other goes to Angelfire (not the most reliable source to begin with) -- where I'm immediately redirected to another page. Sadly, I can foresee all sorts of people desparate for attention creating their own fictional web pages to claim that they are the "rightful heir of" (insert your choice of country here), & then claiming that they deserve an entry in Wikipedia. -- llywrch 22:37, 9 April 2007 (UTC)

I Have Pictures
Im new at Wiki so i guess i will just create an extra heading Here (under Image), you can move it if need be. Anyway, i just got back from Ethiopia for the second time and have about 4000 to 5000 pictures. Many of those pictures include stuff from the Museum of Ethiopia that may be helpful. I basically took a picture of Everything in the museum. 5000 Pictures = Roads, buildings, Lakes, birds, landscapes, Monuments, People...A little bit of everything. Unfourtunalty none of it is from the historical route. I was only in Addis/Ziway/Awassa/Langano/Debre Zeit/Meta Abo. About 4000 of these pictures are of my friends and family but im sure you could use the rest of them. Contact me via email and i can upload them to a select site. asten@astenb.com Beyoku 06:11, 21 April 2007 (UTC)


 * We're happy to use any pictures you want to share; our thanks in advance!. Upload them over at commons.wikimedia.org, so that the Wikipedias in every language can use them -- including Amharic & Tigrinya. Please make sure that you select a GPDF or Creative commons license; other licenses may result with the deletion of these files.. If you have any questions, contact me & I'll be happy to answer them the best I can. -- llywrch 23:36, 24 April 2007 (UTC)

Tigrinya-National Scout Association of Eritrea
Can someone who speaks Tigrinya render "National Scout Association of Eritrea" and "Be Prepared", (the Scout Motto), into Tigrinya? Thanks! Chris 14:36, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic)
I have used the text at am:Wikipedia:Can't see the font? to create the local Help:Multilingual support (Ethiopic). Please change any links appropriately. Thanks, BanyanTree 21:35, 4 September 2007 (UTC)

Graham Hancock
Ugh. I just found someone cited this book as it were a reliable source in an article & replaced that with a far more acceptible one. Then again, quotingany one of Mengistu's speeches would be a far more reliable source than Hancock's popycock. Should we, as a WikiProject, consider an appropriate punishment for those misguided fools who insist on citing his book? ;-) -- llywrch 00:45, 23 September 2007 (UTC)

Amharic interface for wikipedia available in 'my preferences'
Greetings,

The Amharic interface is mostly available for this Wikipedia (and all Wikimedia projects) now, by going to 'my preferences' and selecting 'am - አማርኛ' from the drop-down 'language' menu. Most of the few remaining messages should also become available in Amharic in the near future. ፈቃደ (ውይይት) 15:11, 28 September 2007 (UTC)

Judaic Ethiopia
On the history of Ethiopia page there is a section called Judaic Ehtiopia directly before the Axum period.

Presumably this is referring to the Myth that the Ethiopian Kings were descendants of the Queen of Sheba and David. There is absolutely no historical evidence for this. I propose that the early history of ehtiopia be reexamined. Particularly with refrance to Tadesse Tamrats "Church and State in Ethiopia". The origin of the falasha Jews in Ethiopia is uncertain but is misleading to suggest in the article that there is a Judaic history. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bean42 (talk • contribs) 11:22, 3 October 2007 (UTC)


 * It isn't our job to "reexamine" anything here; if you want to conduct original research, please go to Wikiversity. Otherwise, all you have done here is offer yet another uncited (and definitely disputed, I might add) P-O-V. Til Eulenspiegel 12:24, 3 October 2007 (UTC)
 * There are two points here to consider: (1) History of Ethiopia is in bad need of a total re-write, due in part from its origins as an article in the 191 Encyclopaedia Britannica, & in part because of a long-overdue pruning; (2) that the culture of Ethiopia displays ancient Judaic influences is undeniable, but when & how these came to be is still very much in dispute (see, besides Tadesse Tamrat's excellent book the anon mentioned above, Edward Ullendorff's Ethiopia and the Bible). -- llywrch 20:02, 7 October 2007 (UTC)

Claims that Ethiopia is POV
Please be advised that User:Strothra, who claims there are POV issues with the article Ethiopia, has just created a Peer review/Ethiopia/archive1 page you may wish to know about. Til Eulenspiegel 17:50, 11 October 2007 (UTC)

Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
There were several articles on Ethiopia that pointed to the non-existent article Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, which was deleted a while back for a copyright violation, I believe. I changed those pages to point to the non-existent Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (Ethiopia) and added a link to that page from the general Ministry of Agriculture page (which lists ministries of agriculture for many goverments). There are a lot of reference to the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in various Ethiopia articles, so please create at least a stub there if you know something about the ministry. Thanks! RainbowCrane | Talk 20:54, 20 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: Category talk:Unknown-importance Ethiopia articles
I just discovered this page, & my reaction is...WTF? Does anyone have an objection if I nominate this page for deletion? -- llywrch (talk) 04:36, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * The talk page? No, although the category should be kept so that we can easily track down any untagged (or partially tagged) articles. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 19:14, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I've seen (in other discussion pages) some complaining about indesciminate addition of "WikiProject" templates -- & plastering WikiProject Ethiopia on category talk pages seem to be a good example of what people complain about. Should we decide that Category pages should not have these templates? -- llywrch 22:08, 1 December 2007 (UTC)

Is there someone with a subscription to Highbeam research? I want to know the name of the third hijacker of Ethiopian 961
I found this: http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-64680823.html

It gives names of two of the hijackers, but the third only has his given name. I want to know his surname too.

So, does someone with a subscription to Highbeam work here? WhisperToMe (talk) 11:18, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * Someone found the name. Thanks! WhisperToMe (talk) 01:06, 13 January 2008 (UTC)

Did Ethiopian Airlines ever release a conclusive victim and survivor list of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961?
Did Ethiopian Airlines ever release a conclusive victim and survivor list of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961? I have never seen one?

If the list has country info for each passenger that would be good. WhisperToMe (talk) 01:40, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

"Ethiopia did not exist at the time of Adwa"
We have a new user who has edited the introduction to the article "Ethiopia" pushing the POV that there was no Ethiopia at the time of Adwa and that it was only "invented" later. He claims this is the "academic consensus" therefore he writes as if this POV were indisputable, citing a few fringe historians who assert this view, like a book called "The Invention of Ethiopia". Now is the time to find what the real majority of reputable scholars say about this. So far today, nobody but myself has challenged him on this, is everyone offline today? Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 00:12, 24 February 2008 (UTC)


 * Update: The wording seems to be resolved now to everyone's satisfaction, thanks to Yom for mediating... ! Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 20:51, 26 February 2008 (UTC)

Ethiopian Navy Incident
Would someone mind taking a look at this article, it has no sources and is very vague, for someone who doens't know about the topic (like myself) it's impossible to tell if it's about a real event or it is just completely made up. Clarification would be appreciated. Guest9999 (talk) 17:44, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I just noticed this inquiry, & had a look at the article in question. As it stands, the article makes no sense: why would the Ethiopian Air Force attack one of their own ships? And the Ethiopian Navy was fairly small -- IIRC, not more than half a dozen vessels: had one been attacked & sunk, it would have been difficult to hide the fact. And despite the eventual success of the EPLF, it was a couple of years before they were in the position where they could keep prisoners for many years -- captives require not only a place to be sequestered, but also fed & looked after -- & the EPLF had its hands full simply looking after its own people. I figure that had this happened, the EPLF would either kill their captives or simply release them. Anyone else suspect that this is a hoax article? -- llywrch (talk) 06:43, 4 July 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to consolidate African country WikiProject banners
Template:AfricaProject was recently modified, and now contains individual parameters for all countries in Africa (see usage notes). Since project-specific assessment for all African countries can now be accomplished through the template, a proposal has been made at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Africa to consolidate all individual African country WikiProject banners.

Comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you, Black Falcon (Talk) 23:27, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Draft Guidelines for Lists of companies by country - Feedback Requested
Within WikiProject Companies I am trying to establish guidelines for all Lists of companies by country, the implementation of which would hopefully ensure a minimum quality standard and level of consistency across all of these related but currently disparate articles. The ultimate goal is the improvement of these articles to Featured List status. As a WikiProject that currently has one of these lists within your scope, I would really appreciate your feedback! You can find the draft guidelines here. Thanks for your help as we look to build consensus and improve Wikipedia! - Richc80 (talk) 21:22, 25 May 2008 (UTC)

Repeated Blanking out mention of 1984 Ethiopian Famine from Africa
There is an ongoing problem at the article Africa with an editor who wants to blank out all mention of the Ethiopian famine in 1984, in which almost a million Africans perished, for obviously political reasons because the facts are inconvenient and make Marxism-Leninism look bad. This cannot be tolerated and the continuous edit warring needs to stop. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 12:49, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

Photograph of Crown Prince Asfa Wosen
The image accompanying the article on Asfa Wosen or Amha Selassie is incorrect. That photograph is of Prince Makonnen, taken in 1936 in Jerusalem as the royal family fled Ethiopia and journeyed to England. If this photograph was actually taken in 1923, Prince Makonnen was just an infant and Asfa Wosen was just 7 years old.

I would make the edit myself, but I'm pretty computer-illiterate and can't figure out how to do it. I have several images of Asfa Wosen, including one that was taken at the same time and is in the archives at the Library of Congress (within the public domain) if someone else would like to make the edit.

Jkimw (talk) 18:13, 17 June 2008 (UTC) jkimw

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 )  21:56, 4 July 2008 (UTC)


 * At this time I am the only person assigning class ratings to articles, & I feel that this new class adds unneeded complication to the rating grade. Unless someone objects, who is a member of this project & is willing to do the work needed to add this class, it will not be used. I have marked this category for speedy deletion. However, if in the future a new member wants to adopt this class, all she/he needs to do is to make a reasonable argument for it -- & do the work. -- llywrch (talk) 04:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden A-class review
2007–2008 Ethiopian crackdown in Ogaden is currently undergoing a WikiProject Military history A-class review here. - BanyanTree 23:51, 6 July 2008 (UTC)

Articles flagged for cleanup
Currently, 1810 articles are assigned to this project, of which 178, or 9.8%, are flagged for cleanup of some sort. (Data as of 2008-07-14.) Are you interested in finding out more? I am offering to generate cleanup to-do lists on a project or work group level. See User:B. Wolterding/Cleanup listings for details. More than 150 projects and work groups have already subscribed, and adding a subscription for yours is easy - just place a template on your project page.

If you want to respond to this canned message, please do so at my user talk page; I'm not watching this page. --B. Wolterding (talk) 18:09, 29 July 2008 (UTC)

Silt'e and Silt'i
The official name of the woreda is Silt'i and not Silt'e, while the name of the zone is Silt'e. I know that from government documents. Sigbatree (talk) 11:44, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Can you cite them? If so, go ahead and make the changes. &mdash; ዮም  |  (Yom)  |  Talk  • contribs • Ethiopia 18:48, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Yes, please provide cites. With that kind of information, I can update all of the existing woredas of Ethiopia. (This information is not easily found by a Google search.) -- llywrch (talk) 00:51, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

Amharic-Ethiopia Scout Association
Can someone who speaks Amharic render "Ethiopia Scout Association" and "Be Prepared", (the Scout Motto), into Ge'ez? Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 11:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)


 * In Amharic with Ge'ez font, "Be Prepared" would literally be << ተዘጋጅ >>. Regards, Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 14:30, 10 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 14:33, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Ethiopia
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 23:15, 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 Ethiopia. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:34, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

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

The articles in question are listed in Category:Ethiopia articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Achefer
 * 2) Adda Berga
 * 3) Becho
 * 4) Begemder
 * 5) Didessa River
 * 6) Gondar Zuria
 * 7) Gore Airport
 * 8) Tahtay Koraro
 * 9) Tahtay Maychew

...and there are many more. At the time of posting this notice, there were 376 articles in this category left to tag with geographical coordinates.

The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need replacing with coord tags that contain their latitude/longitude coordinates. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members. Please let me know if this is useful! -- The Anome (talk) 15:34, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

2007 census data
I just noticed the new (2007) census data from the Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia which can be downloaded as pdf from here. The filename has "prelimineray" [sic!] in its name. Are these numbers final or should I expect major changes. I am trying to update the de:Liste der Ethnien in Äthiopien on the German wikipedia. After a first glance at the new data in table 5, I am missing the Dorze, Qemant, Melo, Me'en (same as Me'enite?), Kachama, Mer (same as Mere?), Ganjule (part of Gedicho?), Shita (same as Upo?), Gamila and Mabaan in the new list. I was also looking at alternative names of these peoples and different spellings but no success so far. Who can help? bamse (talk) 21:57, 13 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The census result is now published in its final version it seems. I am still looking for the missing ethnic groups though. Any suggestions are appreciated.bamse (talk) 21:01, 26 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Sorry, I didn't see your question sooner Bamse. I agree with you that Me'en == Me'enite, & according to Landroving Linguist Shita == Upo. I suspect that the Qemant have been silently incorporated into one of the "Agew" categories; beyond that, your guess is as good as mine. :-( I'll update you should I figure out any more identifications. -- llywrch (talk) 22:59, 31 January 2009 (UTC) (P.S. Look at my new article for Opuuo language; it provides some caveats for relying on the Ethiopian Census material -- but all census material has some uncertainty to it. -- llywrch (talk) 23:05, 31 January 2009 (UTC))
 * Thanks for your reply. Just to add, Landroving Linguist in his reply on the German site, also suspects Mer=Mere. Compared to the 1994 census, there are much more groups now (in 2007). Maybe they listed dialects of some Languages separately or there are groups from other countries (refugees from Sudan?,...). Will keep looking. bamse (talk) 23:27, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The presence of refugees might be part of the answer. Another is simple politics: for unexplained reasons the Ethiopian government decided to merge certain ethnic groups & split others into new groups. (Maybe there are good reasons for this, but in some cases I wouldn't be surprised if it were simply arbitrary decisions made in response to the influence of identifiable individuals, but I don't know enough about the internals of the Ethiopian government to do more than express my vague suspicions.) Lastly, I would be surprised if improved census-taking skills weren't part of the changes: reading the population reports of the 1994 census I found numerous cases in different parts of the country where the population numbers were estimated -- census takers either could not or would not go to certain rural villages to collect information. In the notes for the latest census, only for one part of Ethiopia -- a few subdistricts of one woreda in the Afar Region -- did the CSA admit that they were forced to estimate the population. This makes a big difference in some cases, for example very small ethnic groups, like the Shita/Upuuo I alluded to above (who went from a headcount of less than 300 to 1600!) -- llywrch (talk) 18:03, 2 February 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks a lot for clarification. I e-mailed the CSA, asking for the missing ethnic groups. Will update here, if/when they reply. bamse (talk) 14:46, 3 February 2009 (UTC)

Milestone Announcements
I thought this WikiProject might be interested. Ping me with any specific queries or leave them on the page linked to above. Thanks! - Jarry1250 (t, c) 21:50, 1 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 05:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)

How to refer to people on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961
Is it proper to call Captain Leul Abate by "Abate" or by "Leul"? WhisperToMe (talk) 13:33, 6 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Abate is Leul's father. Til Eulenspiegel (talk) 13:37, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Article alerts
This is a notice to let you know about Article alerts, a fully-automated subscription-based news delivery system designed to notify WikiProjects and Taskforces when articles are entering Articles for deletion, Requests for comment, Peer review and other workflows (full list). The reports are updated on a daily basis, and provide brief summaries of what happened, with relevant links to discussion or results when possible. A certain degree of customization is available; WikiProjects and Taskforces can choose which workflows to include, have individual reports generated for each workflow, have deletion discussion transcluded on the reports, and so on. An example of a customized report can be found here.

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} 09:07, 15 March, 2009 (UTC)

Emperors of Ethiopia
I've noticed that the first sentence of articles for individual emperors of Ethiopia typically begin "so-and-so was nəgusä nägäst of Ethiopia" rather than "Emperor of Ethiopia." Because the Ethiopian term might not be enlightened to non-specialists (like me) who visit the article, I think it would be better to use both terms (with one in parentheses) or simply Emperor in the first sentence. Just using the Ethiopian term may leave the average reader confused (though I recognize there's a link). It seems other monarchs' pages typically mention the words king or emperor in the lede sentence. In fact, articles on Russian monarchs typically use the word "emperor" despite the fact that "czar" is much more commonly used by English speakers than "nəgusä nägäst." --JamesAM (talk) 17:52, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Truce term
Hi. I'm writing an article on truce terms and would like to know what Ethiopian children use. Truce terms are words used by children, usually under the age of about 11, to call a temporary halt or respite to the game to do something like tie a shoelace or discuss the rules or take off a jacket. I really need a source as well. They're often mentioned in etymological or regional dictionaries.Fainites barley scribs 19:58, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

Anonymous complaint about a passage in Mengistu Haile Mariam article
I posted this at Talk:Mengistu Haile Mariam, and I'm reposting it here and at the WikiProject:Africa talk page: After this complaint was posted at the "Administrators' Noticeboard/Incidents" page, I removed two unsourced, potentially libelous paragraphs about Mengistu's family members from the article and a sentence about Mengistu's childhood. The complaint appeared to focus on information that the article sources to the Paul B. Henze and Bahru Zewde sources. Someone with an interest in the subject may want to review that information for accuracy. Someone may also want to find sourcing for the passages that I removed, but also think about whether they violate WP:BLP whether or not they can be accurately sourced (I don't have an opinion about it). -- Noroton (talk) 18:08, 10 May 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)

Kulibi should be Kulubi
There's an article about "Kulibi" which is mostly a subset of the article on Kulubi. The correct pronunciation is Kulubi (I visited there in December 1966), and Google Maps agrees on the spelling, so the "Kulibi" article should be removed. I'm new to Wikipedia editing, and I don't know how to remove an article (or whether that would be appropriate).

By the way, there's a novel entitled Kulubi by Edmund P. Murray. I haven't read it since shortly after it was published in 1973, but I seem to recall enjoying it.

Backarogdy (talk) 03:25, 15 June 2009 (UTC)
 * The problem is that there is no standard transliteration of words written in the Ge'ez abugida, with a few exceptions. While there are a few academic systems of transliteration, their use is limited to the specialized literature; in most cases, the words are written in Latin letters based on how the writer has heard (or tought he has heard) them pronounced, which can be very idiosyncratic. (And difficult to match to better-known forms.) Thus, there is no "correct spelling". We can change the spelling or merge the articles, but it would be helpful if you could provide evidence why we should prefer one form over the other -- more than simply "Google Map's" usage (which often is only one possibly uninformed person's opinion -- just like Wikipedia), or what a sign said there (because that is often only one person who possibly has a shaky grasp of English, but more importantly cannot easily be verified). -- llywrch (talk) 16:22, 15 June 2009 (UTC)


 * Although I can't provide scholarly evidence, I support Backarogdy's statement that "Kulubi" is the best way to write it in English. I was born in Ethiopia, am a native Amharic speaker, and have lived there for more than eleven years. Elfalem (talk) 02:33, 18 June 2009 (UTC)

Ge'ez Place-names
I was recently involved dealing with an article someone had created in Somali on the English wiki on Buur Ukur. While researching this town, I came across a list of place-names containing both the common spellings without diacritics and the full version with diacritics and the Ge'ez spelling of Ethiopian place names. Since most articles seem to lack both the diacritised and Ge'ez spellings I'm just letting you know it exists at the Amharic NLP project; drawn from the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's Geographic Names Server and the 1990 Ethiopian census records. Apologies if everyone already knows of it. Akerbeltz (talk) 16:10, 20 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Hmm. I checked your link, & I was unable to find anything close to "Buur Ukur" (or any of the variants you listed) there. Further, I do have access to the 1997 Ethiopian Census -- the Ethiopian census was performed in 1994 & redone for the Somali Region in 1997, not in 1990 -- & the only towns it lists in the Gode Zone are Danan, Gode, Kelafo, Mustahil, & Ferfer. Then, the medical paper you cite in Buur Ukur mentions the town only in passing, & relies on "personal communications" which cannot be verified; this is an awful weak piece of evidence to use to prove "Buur Ukur" exists. Poking around through Google, I did find Bur Cur Egherta in the Bay Region of Somalia; however, it is a hill. A bit more Googling under the variant "Burukur" led me here, which is a settlement in the Gode Zone that was flooded by the Shabelle. In short, there may be a place with this name, but I wouldn't bet money on it; I suspect you are being taken in by a hoax. (BTW, the place name is Somali, not Ge'ez. That's a distinction any inhabitants of Buur Ukur/Burukur -- if it exists -- would likely find important.) -- llywrch (talk) 05:56, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * It's on the map on page 9, look for Mustahil and you'll see it right next to it. It crops up in a number of reports on that flood. I agree that the name is more likely to be Somali than Ge'ez but in the absence of an expert who can point us to the right Ge'ez name, we didn't have anything else to move it to! It may of course not be an actual settlement but just some place-name but I don't think at this point we can judge it to be a hoax. Akerbeltz (talk) 11:05, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * You're right; I apologize for the oversight. (I reached the bibliography & figured the rest of article was end material & skipped it. I was also feeling queasy after reading so much about schistosomiasis, & was ready to put the article aside.) However, comparing that map to this one at the DPPC, Buur Ukur would be on the south side of the Shabelle in Bare woreda, part of the Afder Zone. (It may even be another name for the administrative center of that woreda, Bare.) Anyway, even though I raised my suspicions above about this place name, I've been wrong enough times in the past about Ethiopian geography that I tend to let marginal articles like this one slide until I accumulate enough information to make the decision to delete undeniable. -- llywrch (talk) 20:41, 13 August 2009 (UTC)


 * It's ok, I had the same feeling when searching high and low for any refs to this strange place. You're right, they don't really agree on what's where - mind, I had a similar problem with trying to figure which side of the river Mustahil was on. I think we need to park Buur Ukur for now until we get better data. In the end, I wasn't so much concerned about the stub but just thought I'd mention that rather neat list of place-names in Ge'ez. Akerbeltz (talk) 21:16, 13 August 2009 (UTC)

Ethiopian Institute for Nonviolence Education and Peace Studies
Someone added a link to Ethiopian Institute for Nonviolence Education and Peace Studies to the article nonviolence, and I'm removing it now because instead of such links I'm using categories. Since the article Ethiopian Institute for Nonviolence Education and Peace Studies doesn't exist yet, I can't add that category. If anyone wants to start that article, please include it in that category. If you would like me to help you with that, please leave a message on my talk page as I won't be watching this page. &mdash; Sebastian 18:07, 27 October 2009 (UTC)

Sort Keys for Ethiopian Names
I was updating Berhanu Nega this morning, and I realized, even after reading the article for Ethiopian name, that I still don't know whether the name should be sorted by B or by N. If someone has enough time and knowledge to do so, an expansion of Ethiopian name would be appreciated, as well as (if the sorting is not to be done by father's name) an explanatory template akin to Template:Chinese name. Thanks. --Nlu (talk) 15:43, 22 December 2009 (UTC)
 * I've been working with Ethiopian names for 3 or 4 years now, & this is the first time I've encountered this page. Having read it, I can see how it didn't answer your question: the essay is not well written. (I may need to rewrite it for clarity.) Yet the solution is quite simple. The first of the pair of names is the individual's name, while the second is her/his father's name. So in the case of Goshu Zewde (a warlord of the early 19th century), "Goshu" is his name & "Zewde" is his father's name. He would be referred to as "Zewde" about as often as any non-Ethiopian would be referred to by her/his patronym -- probably as often as Bill Jones' son Timmy is referred to as "Bill's son", & in the same contexts.
 * However, there are two factors which complicate how one should handle these names:
 * Names that are compound words. Examples are the names of two different Emperos of Ethiopia -- Haile Selassie ("Holy Trinity"), & Zara Yaqob ("Seed of Jacob") -- in both cases neither would be referred to by the second part of their names any more than someone named Johnson would be known as "Son".
 * Ethiopians who have come to live outside of Ethiopia often adopt local practice, & her/his father's name becomes the individual's family name. This is a very real possibility in your case -- Berhanu Nega may, indeed, be properly known as Mr. Nega since he has come to live in North America. And in your case, the correct answer may require further research -- or simply asking him. -- llywrch (talk) 05:47, 23 December 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) 03:16, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

January 2010 Photos
Earlier this month, I was in Ethiopia, where I spent time in Nazareth (Adama), Shashemene, Wondo Genet and Awasa (but mainly in Nazareth). I made quite a few photos, and I have started uploading them to Wikimedia Commons. I have a lot more to go (as of this writing), but you may browse what I have at my Commons gallery page (where I will continue to upload). Feel free to use any of these, or not, as you see fit. Thanks, -- Gyrofrog (talk) 16:35, 23 January 2010 (UTC)

Image request
Would someone mind posting a photograph of the Ethiopian Airlines headquarters at Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa? The article needs a picture of the ET headquarters. Thank you WhisperToMe (talk) 04:49, 30 January 2010 (UTC)

School district name question
Hi! Would someone state what the Amharic and Tigrigna names of "Seattle Public Schools" are? They are posted at http://www.seattleschools.org/area/bfc/amharic/Amharic%20Services.xml http://www.seattleschools.org/area/bfc/tigrigna/Tigrigna%20Services.xml

Thanks WhisperToMe (talk) 10:50, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  01:02, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Ethiopia 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 Ethiopia 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 22:25, 19 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) 20:14, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

ONEG
There are many references, on the web, to something called ONEG, but surprisingly I could not find a clear definition on a trustworthy site: I only found " ONEG – Oromo army as referred to by the Amhara", "The Ethiopian regime ... invented what they called “selamawii Oneg” roughly translate as “peaceful OLF” in order to fabricate an imaginary faction (“Ethiopianist faction”) within OLF meant for their divisive agenda" and ""ONEG ( [ or « Oromo Liberation Front » [ in English ] ]""So perhaps this should be explained in the Oromo Liberation Front article? Apokrif (talk) 11:24, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

Women singing in church
Greetings! Gigi (the singer) has gone on record as saying "I grew up singing in the Ethiopian Church, which is actually not allowed for women, but there was a priest at my home who taught me how to sing the songs." However, women do sing in church (see image). Gigi's old webpage (archive link) is one source of this quote, but it has been mirrored around the internet, including both of Gigi's Myspace pages. From time to time, this claim has made its way into the Gigi (singer) article, and I have questioned her assertion that women can't sing in the Ethiopian Church at Talk:Gigi (singer), beginning in June 2005. More recently, Tigist Shibabaw, about Gigi's late sister, has included a reference to Gigi's statement (although Gigi doesn't mention any of her siblings by name). Again, this seems to come up now and again over the past few years, so is there a reliable source that can help settle this matter one way or the other? If anyone cares to comment, please do so at Talk:Gigi (singer) (so as to keep the discussion in one place). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:40, 21 December 2010 (UTC)

Infobox Images for Ethnic Groups
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethnic groups. Gyrofrog (talk) 18:56, 20 January 2011 (UTC) (Using ) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 18:56, 20 January 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Articles for Deletion
See Articles for deletion/Republic of Ogadenia. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:51, 7 April 2011 (UTC)

Category:African musical instruments
You are invited to join the discussion at User talk:Redheylin. Gyrofrog (talk) 18:18, 2 June 2011 (UTC) (Using )

Possible duplicate categories.
The following two categories seem like duplicates.

Category:Ethiopian prisoners and detainees

Category:Prisoners and detainees of Ethiopia

Should I combine them? If they are to be merged what should the residual category be?

(Baryaw (talk) 19:33, 27 June 2011 (UTC))


 * I am inclined to keep both, but establish some sort of guideline for what articles go where, or establishing a subcategory (or subcategories) that is a subset of both and is included in both (e.g. "Ethiopian people detained in Ethiopia"). I think "Prisoners and detainees of Ethiopia" could refer to people of any nationality who are imprisoned or detained within Ethiopia. However, looking through the category (and its subcategories) it only includes articles about Ethiopians. So in a practical sense, I agree they are duplicates, although the intended function appears to be different.  Adding to the confusion, I believe "Ethiopian prisoners and detainees" refers to Ethiopian prisoners where ever they happen to be, not just in Ethiopia (actually it has such a subcategory for this, Category:Ethiopian people imprisoned abroad). -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 19:46, 27 June 2011 (UTC)

Ĕthiopia Tĕwahĕdo Krĕstyan Orthodox and Judaism
Please see Articles for deletion/Ĕthiopia Tĕwahĕdo Krĕstyan Orthodox and Judaism. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:57, 20 July 2011 (UTC)

Discussion at Talk:Ethiopian coffee dress
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Ethiopian coffee dress. Gyrofrog (talk) 21:47, 1 August 2011 (UTC)

Ge'ez Revitalization/Rebirth
I think it's important to mention the potential reality of Ge'ez being restored as Ethiopia's official national language.

References can be made to the general sentiment of the people (even amongst the Amhara) who wish to have a non-discriminative official language that unifies the people without giving a lingual advantage to a particular group (in today's case, the advantaged group is the Amhara)

Here is a link that illustrates the general sentiment of the people in Ethiopia wanting a non-discriminative national language but at the same time African/Ethiopian made using it's own indigenous script:

http://www.waltainfo.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21385&Itemid=82

References should also be made to prominent individuals & groups working to actually make it happen such as Dessie Keleb who reportedly has been creating whole communities of Ge'ez first tongue speakers in Ethiopia since the early 1990s & has published 2 books, here is a link to one of them:

http://www.mereb.com.et/rs/?prodet=true&pid=39484858&vid=19

With all this said, I believe it's time we recognize this growing movement both inside and outside Ethiopia to revive Ge'ez as the lingua franca of Ethiopia rather than Amharic, Oromo, English or even Tigrinya — Preceding unsigned comment added by Pages416 (talk • contribs) 17:11, 29 August 2011 (UTC)

Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi
I've come across Mohammed Hussein Al Amoudi today and noticed that it has been heavily edited by someone likely employed as a "reputation manager" of the subject. I've left some thoughts at Talk:Mohammed_Hussein_Al_Amoudi but it would be useful if some of you with more knowledge of Ethiopia could find some better sources for the article. SmartSE (talk) 15:28, 15 January 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Ethiopia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Ethiopia's history, society and culture. We've created an event page on English Wikipedia (please translate!) and I hope you'll find the inspiration to participate. These events can take place off wiki, like edit-a-thons, or on wiki, such as themes and translations. Please visit the page here: WikiWomen's History Month. Thanks for your consideration and I look forward to seeing events take place! SarahStierch (talk) 22:16, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Would would be the best name for the article about the Israeli Ethiopian Jewish community?
Please participate in this discussion and express your opinion on the matter. TheCuriousGnome (talk) 19:54, 4 March 2012 (UTC)

ሐበሻ ቀሚሽ?
Someone might like to check/correct my Amharic ሐበሻ ቀሚሽ at Talk:Ethiopian coffee dress, my knowledge of Amharic is extremely limited. In ictu oculi (talk) 09:20, 10 September 2012 (UTC)

Looking for help
Hi! The WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge teams are glad to announce that many "African" pictures are being published on Commons, either donated by international institutions or by single photographers. You can help: please see the list of categories here, then you can either add relevant categories to the pictures or place them in relevant articles in your favourite Wikipedia. Contents are mainly about, but not limited to, Senegal, Ethiopia, Mali, Tanzania. Thanks a lot! --Elitre (talk) 13:48, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I've made one iteration through the list (though additional categories have already been added to that list), and added relevant Ethiopia-related categories to the files (commons:Category:Omo River Valley, in particular). It's entirely possible that I've overlooked some, miscategorized, and/or that other categories are applicable. Elitre indicated (over at Commons) that they could use more help (in general) with this effort. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 21:39, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Hi, I updated the list, there are many new images waiting for Wikipedia articles to host them. Who's willing to help? --Elitre (talk) 13:53, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

MAJOR RESTART
This project and it's main page have become extremely out of date. Over the next few weeks, (if there are no objections) I will be taken on this projects main page as a personal project. Please suggest any changes besides the obvious updates to be made.

Also, I will be archiving many of the discussions on it's talk page above. I will also be installing the MiszaBot to the talk page until there is regular upkeep established and there are more active editors. Please feel free to object to any of these things before I begin. አቤል ዳዊት (talk) 13:45, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Seeing no objections I shall begin. If you would like to preview a semi-finished new page check here. Wish me luck. አቤል ዳዊት (talk) 00:08, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

I will document my actions in the sections below:

Archive for historical reference

 * main page under /Old Page
 * subpages:
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Assessment -
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Cleanup listing - /Old Page/Cleanup listing
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Culture	- /Old Page/Culture
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Geography - /Old Page/Geography
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/History - /Old Page/History
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Key articles - /Old Page/Key articles
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Linguistics - /Old Page/Linguistics
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Resources - ✅ Should remain intact. Still relevant and useful
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Transliteration
 * WikiProject Ethiopia/Woreda templates - /Templates/Woreda templates Very well executed collection of templates... will require completion and updating
 * --አቤል ዳዊት (talk) 00:45, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

NEW PROJECT MAIN PAGE

 * Copy over new page
 * Design and fill in the Department pages
 * Add all articles in scope of project under one page called Articles similar to this page


 * --አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 12:20, 24 December 2012 (UTC)
 * If all the articles have been added to a category, then you can get a list by using Special:Export - just put in a category name and hit "Add" - in the big box will be a full text list for you to copy. WP:AWB can do the same thing.  Ron h jones (Talk) 22:25, 26 December 2012 (UTC)
 * Thanks,  Ron h jones . That worked perfectly. አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 09:28, 28 December 2012 (UTC)
 * will need regular update or redoing to be current and useful. I will put instructions on how to do this at the top of the page the next time I update it. አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 16:10, 13 January 2013 (UTC)


 * Work through Outline of Ethiopia to start filling in Missing articles page
 * Also add any and all redlinks found in articles to same Missing articles page
 * I have found a cool way of doing this. You can see it here: Autogenerated redlinks


 * Recruit! Recruit! Recruit! Need more people to help!
 * --አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 12:20, 24 December 2012 (UTC)

Morrasl (talk) 22:56, 3 May 2013 (UTC)
 * Just a suggestion... The colors to the WikiProject Ethiopia page are supposed to be just like Ethiopia's flag. However, they are too bright and distract a little from the content of the page. Can we "wash-out" the colors a little bit? Maybe add a little bit more white to the red yellow and green?

Automated process for article tagging and/or assessing
There are a lot of articles that need to be tagged and assessed. I would like to submit a request to have DodoBot automatically assess currently unassessed articles for our WikiProject, as explained here. If the process works well, I will also use the Bot to add the 'new department tags,' find articles related to this project that don't have a banner and maybe even reassess stub articles in the future. Feel free to raise any questions or concerns regarding this suggestion. I will assume there is consensus for the task if there are no objections in a week.አቤል ዳዊት (Janweh) (talk) 08:57, 31 December 2012 (UTC)

Ethiopian Airlines
Ethiopian Airlines, an article that your project may be interested in, has been nominated for a community good article reassessment. If you are interested in the discussion, please participate by adding your comments to the reassessment page. If concerns are not addressed during the review period, the good article status will be removed from the article. AIR corn (talk) 12:41, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Abuna or Abune
The other day I moved Abuna Merkorios to Abune Merkorios, because I noticed some other articles about patriarchs use the "Abune" spelling. What I didn't notice is that the article about that office is Abuna, not "Abune" and it turns out there are a few patriarch articles using "Abuna": Abuna Theophilos, Abuna Basilios, Abuna Takla Haymanot etc. while others (as I had seen) use "Abune." Presumably, we want to consistently use one spelling or the other (and then move articles as needed), but which one? I'm thinking "Abuna," as "Abune" might suggest it rhymes with "tune"; however a quick check at Google News suggests that "Abune" is more common (at least in English). -- Gyrofrog (talk) 18:35, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Now that I look at the "Abune"-titled articles, I notice that some of those are about Eritrean patriarchs. I'll leave a note about this at WP:ERITREA.  They may want to treat those articles in a similar fashion, or not, though I believe it would be useful to make it consistent across both churches. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 18:40, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Hurso Camp
I was wondering if any one can tell me if the Hurso Camp is still in operation, current date 8/1/2013. I'm talking to a Captain Reeves, and he claims to be stationed there. I need to know if he is real, or just a scammer? I think I already know, just need to verify. Someone with info on the camp please write me and tell me what you know about the camp, and if any one knows how I can find out if this Reeves guy is really in the Military. If you could provide any phone numbers for either the camp or where I can call to see if Reeves is real and not a scammer. Thank you so much for reading.

Sincerely Needing Answers,

Hursocamp66 Hursocamp66 (talk) 17:06, 1 August 2013 (UTC)


 * I never heard of the Hurso camp before. But it was fairly simple to do a Google search for "Hurso camp".  This brought up http://maddawalaabuupress.blogspot.com/2013/05/oromo-freedom-from-what-and-for-what.html from May 2013 describing it as a "concentration camp" in the 1990s that had been closed.  But another prominent google hit was from Wiki-leaks stating that it is where foreign military secretly train security forces.  At that point it becomes something that the Prime Minister of Ethiopia should be informed of and asked for his comment. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 17:31, 1 August 2013 (UTC)

Matthew Bryden
WikiProject Ethiopia members are invited to join the discussion at WANI. It concerns a content dispute on the wiki page on Matthew Bryden, the former UN Coordinator for the Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) and Horn of Africa political analyst. Project members are also encouraged to edit the page, as it could certainly benefit from knowledgeable contributors. Middayexpress (talk) 13:30, 26 October 2013 (UTC)

1996 flag
I've proposed that the file for the flag listed as "1996 to 2009" be changed to 1996 only to relflect its usage. Please comment at commons:File:Flag of Ethiopia (1996-2009).svg. SFB 23:24, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Project-Related page move proposal for Haile Selassie I
Someone has proposed moving the page Haile Selassie I to strip the 'I' from the page title, see Talk:Haile Selassie I. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 22:13, 11 December 2013 (UTC)

New article: Abdi Mohamoud Omar
Please be aware of Abdi Mohamoud Omar created by User:Abdi Mohamud Omar.

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 23:28, 17 January 2014 (UTC)

Is anyone watching this project?
Does anyone actually watch or follow this page any more? Articles important to Ethiopia are being proposed for deletion, nobody is responding, they are getting relisted and relisted and the only ones to vote are deletionists who see the word "Ethiopia" in the Title and figure they don't need any better reason than that to vote Delete. Til Eulenspiegel /talk/ 12:14, 23 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Til Eulenspiegel, the WikiIndaba presentation, Challenges and Successes in Africa - Ethiopia and the June 2014 article What does Wikipedia need to do in Africa? indicated that several bloggers in Ethiopia have been arrested, and that Facebook is better known in Ethiopia than Wikipedia. Nonetheless, dedicated Wikipedians in Ethiopia are persisting, and Project Luwi, just now starting up, is looking to work with Ethiopian universities this summer. Also, User:Greenman reports that Amharic language Wikipedia is showing good activity. Djembayz (talk) 15:53, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 27/03
Is anyone knowledgeable on Ethiopian history? Draft:Ato Mersha Nahusenay. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 18:53, 27 March 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 ) 01:55, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Ethiopia presentation at WikiIndaba 2014 is now online
The WikiIndaba 2014 sessions are now online at YouTube! This includes a presentation, Challenges and Successes in Africa - Ethiopia. Very informative and highly recommended. -- Djembayz (talk) 15:53, 6 July 2014 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 20:56, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

Rastafari movement
All of the longstanding and easily verified facts mentioning the significance of Rastafari were summarily removed from Ethiopia today by an insistent pair of editors who were also quite concerned that I not bring this issue up here, and leave it to their judgement. However, after due deliberation, I have decided to mention this thing that is happening here as worthy of your attention. It seems that the article on Rastafari cannot be linked to or alluded to from Ethiopia. Not that it is a totally orphaned article, but it deserves a mention and a link from Ethiopia as significant to the topic at the least. Binghi Dad (talk) 02:44, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The wikitext in question is actually undue soapboxing. The matter is also already discussed in its actual context on Talk:Ethiopia. However, the newly registered account above does not seem to want to engage on that very public page, but apparently instead on other pages such as this with far fewer viewers. I wonder why that is. Unfortunately, the late User:Til Eulenspiegel (who coincidentally specializes in this area) is no longer with us to provide clarification. Middayexpress (talk) 16:42, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * The statements that Rastafarians consider Ethiopia a spiritual homeland, and Haile Selassie I to be the Living God, are easily verifiable and your pretending you simply can find no verification of this seems like, well, not to put too fine a point on it, a lame excuse. What must be addressed here now is your specific personal issues with allowing these facts to be stated openly because of your own viewpoint. Binghi Dad (talk) 17:24, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There are many things that could be addressed here, as you well know "Binghi Dad". At any rate, that's not what was asserted in the wikitext. It claimed that "Ethiopia is also the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari movement, which globalized its flag colors via pop culture and Reggae music." That's a statement of fact in Wikipedia's voice, not of personal belief attributed to Rastafarians. It is also undue for the lede, where not even Ethiopia's own actual populations are mentioned. Similarly, asserting that "Israel is also the spiritual homeland of the Hebrew Israelites movement" would be undue for the Israel wikipage's lede (although the Hebrew Israelites do, by contrast, have a sizable presence in that country). That said, kindly direct any further responses to the relevant Talk:Ethiopia, where the discussion began and can be seen in its full context by the general public. Middayexpress (talk) 18:03, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That is the only question I wish to address here, and I can't quite figure out what your problem is with this factual statement other than that you are very determined to remove it at all costs even though it is factual, because of your personal stance toward the issue. You do not seem to be acquainted with logical thought either, since I thought most everybody knew that pointing at "otherstuff" by analogy as a justification for your heavy handed actions is unacceptable. This should have been discussed for consensus before you acted unilaterally on your own because it has been in the article for YEARS. Binghi Dad (talk) 18:22, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * That is unfortunately not how Wikipedia's functions. How long soapboxing has been on a page doesn't make it any less original research. Per WP:BURDEN, "the burden to demonstrate verifiability lies with the editor who adds or restores material" (that would be you), and "any material lacking a reliable source directly supporting it may be removed." The fact remains that it is not neutral to assert that "Ethiopia is also the spiritual homeland of the Rastafari movement" since that is stating Rastafarian opinion as fact ("opinions should not be stated in Wikipedia's voice"). It is also undue for the lede. Now leave any further remarks on the revelant Talk:Ethiopia. Middayexpress (talk) 18:47, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Hasn't it dawned on you that, that all of your verbs barked in the imperative voice are falling on deaf ears since I don't actually acknowledge you as any competent authority over me?
 * So, when you have a kaleidoscope of reasons for keeping the material out that are always changing when one reason is shot down, it strongly suggests that all of these are cover reasons for your REAL issue. Now we are getting closer. You have now shifted to your latest excuse for denying mention to Rastafari, that this is only Rastafarian "opinion" and therefore (assuming you are correct on that) their pov isn't worthy of covering, because *you* don't find their pov worthy of covering. Am I following you correctly? Binghi Dad (talk) 18:57, 10 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Utter nonsense. I've left a reply on the revelant Talk:Ethiopia. Middayexpress (talk) 19:25, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

struck comments by sockpuppet, see Sockpuppet investigations/Til Eulenspiegel. Dougweller (talk) 13:51, 24 February 2015 (UTC)

Why is Rastafarianism being discussed in a forum about Ethiopia? Haile Selassie was an Ethiopian Orthodox Christian and stated publicly he was "fully human" (i.e. not a deity). Wikipedia should not be legitimizing any/all fanciful claims just to humor certain groups at the expense of REAL and legitimate history.Trinacrialucente (talk) 02:47, 30 November 2015 (UTC)

Korah / Koshe
I've recently come across some articles about a settlement of "Korah" near Addis Ababa, its apparently the site of a leper colony and also a city dump and it house 130,000 people. There are several web pages about it, and a short documentary  and a current facebook campaign. None of the source I've found give any idea as to its exact location and I can't find it on any maps. The closest I've found is a recent guardian article on the koche rubbish tip. Not sure if this is the same place with a different spelling and I can't find that on a a map either. Can anyone shed light on this place? --Salix alba (talk): 23:08, 28 August 2014 (UTC)
 * @Salix alba: This is pure speculation, but I wonder if "Koshe" is another form of the word koshasha, which is Amharic for "dirt" or "filth" (e.g. "Don't pick that up from the floor, it's koshasha." "Don't touch the commode, it's koshasha."). IIRC, in Sudan (so, presumably in Arabic) a "koshash" is a garbage dump.  In other words, I wonder if Koshe is more of a descriptor rather than a name. -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:43, 11 September 2015 (UTC)

Gariba
I'm reading African Ark (ISBN 0810919028), which is mostly a pictorial book but it does have text by Graham Hancock. The chapter about Sheikh Hussein and Sof Omar mentions a group called Gariba, or "gypsies" [sic]. A caption to two photographs reads thusly: "Groups of gypsies, known as Gariba, make their base at the site of two entwined fig trees, said to be the place where Sheikh Hussein prayed and taught children. The Gariba come largely from animist cultures and are now practicing a crude form of Islam. They are looked down upon by orthodox Muslims because not all their beliefs are in accord with the Koran and because their appearance is wild and unkempt" (p. 192). Presumably, "gypsy" in this context refers to their way of life, rather than their ethnicity, though I could be wrong. So far I haven't found anything else about them though I haven't looked very hard, either. Might anyone know more about this group? The existing article Gariba is about a place in Kenya. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 22:56, 29 August 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)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Ethiopia, Thou Land of Our Fathers
Dear Ethiopia experts: This AfC draft has an anthem for Ethiopia, but it does not agree with the information in the Ethiopia article. Should the draft be kept and improved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 00:10, 6 November 2014 (UTC)

Nomination of Ethiopian Orthodox Tehadeso Church for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether the article Ethiopian Orthodox Tehadeso Church is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The article will be discussed at Articles for deletion/Ethiopian Orthodox Tehadeso Church until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 20:49, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Discussion regarding Ethiopianorthodox.org at Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Noticeboard
You are invited to join the discussion at Reliable sources/Noticeboard. Thanks. Gyrofrog (talk) 18:51, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
 * Why is this article still not deleted? The consensus is clearly that it should be deleted (add one more to this list).Trinacrialucente (talk) 02:34, 30 November 2015 (UTC)
 * Which article do you mean? Ethiopianorthodox.org is a website, not a Wikipedia article. The issue was how, or whether, to cite that website as a source.  (The discussion has since been archived, and may be viewed at WP:RSN/Archive 179#Ethiopianorthodox.org.) -- Gyrofrog  (talk) 17:36, 11 December 2015 (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) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Kaliti Prison
I'm looking for an image of Kaliti Prison. Can anyone help? Do we have an article at Ethiopian Wikipedia? I can't find that Wikipedia here: https://www.wikipedia.org/

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:24, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

This is the only (what looks like a) prison I see in Akaky Kaliti. Is this it? Anna Frodesiak (talk) 10:36, 11 August 2015 (UTC)


 * I got the coords, so disregard that. Still looking for a phot of the place. Anna Frodesiak (talk) 03:09, 12 August 2015 (UTC)

Expert attention
This is a notice about Category:Ethiopia articles needing expert attention, which might be of interest to your WikiProject. It will take a while before the category is populated. Iceblock (talk) 18:17, 16 August 2015 (UTC)

looking for photos of the Dutch Embassy in Addis
Hello, hello, over there, in the German-speaking Wikipedia, I'm writing an article about the Dutch Embassy in Addis Ababa. It's known for its modern architecture mixing Dutch and Ethiopian influences. However, what would be a good article without any photos. So, do you know anybody living in Addis or visiting the city soon who could take a photo? Thanks, best regards, --Jcornelius (talk) 13:01, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

Use of patronymic name vs. Habesha name
You are invited to join the discussion at Template talk:Patronymic name. This continues a discussion that began at Talk:Mare Dibaba; the issue was also raised at Talk:Habesha name. Thanks. Gyrofrog (talk) 20:25, 3 September 2015 (UTC)

Proposed page merge
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Patronymic. Thanks. Gyrofrog (talk) 15:32, 9 September 2015 (UTC)Hello,

Proposal of subsection on land grabbing into economy section of Ethiopia article
I suggest a subsection on landgrabbing for the section on the economy of the Ethiopia article. Kind regards, Sarcelles (talk) 07:10, 13 October 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. 20:02, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

Cannabis in Ethiopia needs improvement
We have a new article Cannabis in Ethiopia, but it could really use improvement and expansion, especially from anyone who can read Amharic sources. With a little polishing, it'd also be really useful to make a translated version for Amharic Wikipedia since it's a topic of increasing interesting these days. Goonsquad LCpl Mulvaney (talk) 03:01, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway
Can your please upload photos of new Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway? Also for new railway stations. --Holapaco77 (talk) 06:30, 12 January 2017 (UTC)

Pictures from 1934
Maybe someone is interested to know that a lot of (aerial) pictures of Ethiopia from 1934 were uploaded on Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:ETH-BIB_Mittelholzer-Abyssinia_flight_1934 The aviation pioneer Walter Mittelholzer made them during a flight from Switzerland to Ethiopia via Egypt. Unfortunately in many cases a description is missing. If you have questions about the information written in German you can ask me. --Hadi (talk) 17:28, 21 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Very interested. Can you translate these descriptions and filenames:


 * General translation: Abessinienflug means flight to Abyssina. The outbound flight lasted from the 2. February 1934 till 23. February 1934.


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinier_und_Reisebegleiter_Mittelholzers_vor_Auto-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0623.tif
 * Abyssinian and voyage companion of Mittelholzer in front of car


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinier_und_Mitreisende_Mittelholzers-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0384.tif
 * Abyssinian and travel companions of Mittelholzer


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinier_und_Soldaten,_Besucherin-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-1009.tif <--- WOW!!!!!
 * Abyssinians and soldiers, (female) visitor


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinier_vor_Zug-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0742.tif
 * Abyssinians in front of train


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinische_Frau_und_zwei_Reisebegleiter_Mittelholzers-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-1085.tif
 * Abyssinian woman and two travel companions of Mittelholzer


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinische Jäger mit totem Rind-Abessinienflug 1934-LBS MH02-22-0758.tif
 * Abyssinian hunters with dead cattle


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinische_Landschaft-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0674.tif
 * Abyssinian landscape


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinische_Richter_mit_Gewehren-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0593.tif
 * Abyssinian judges with rifles


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinische_Würdenträger-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0622.tif
 * Abyssinian dignitaries


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinischer_Ras_aus_dem_Innern_des_Landes_in_Galaausrüstung-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0393.tif
 * Abyssinian Ras from the interior of the country with gala outfit


 * File:ETH-BIB-Abessinischer Würdenträger zu Pferd-Abessinienflug 1934-LBS MH02-22-0399.tif
 * Abyssinian dignitary on horseback


 * File:ETH-BIB-Addis_Abeba-Abessinienflug_1934-LBS_MH02-22-0966.tif
 * Addis Abeba


 * &mdash;አቤል ዳዊት?(Janweh64) (talk) 22:17, 21 May 2017 (UTC)


 * Hi (Janweh64). Now I introduced the translations under the filenames. Greetings from Switzerland --Hadi (talk) 14:53, 24 May 2017 (UTC)

PS about the purpose of this flight:

''The photographer, aviation pioneer and Swissair co-founder Walter Mittelholzer (1894-1937) and his crew flew over the Alps - Athens - Jerusalem - Tel Aviv - Cairo - Aswan from 2 to 23 February 1934 with an excursion to Petra to Addis Ababa. Mittelholzer flew 7'118 km in 46.28h flying hours. The aim of the Abyssinia flight was to transport the aircraft to the court of the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie. Mittelholzer thus delivered the 3-engine Fokker (CH 192) by flight to the government to Ethiopia. In addition to documenting the outward flight with many aerial photographs, Mittelholzer photographed the Emperor Haile Selassie, the court and the military, and visited various tribes in southern Ethiopia.''

Text taken from youtube, where a movie (!) of this flight is available (spoken in German): --Hadi (talk) 16:31, 24 May 2017 (UTC)
 * Short version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIbxPSzDBgI
 * Long version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lDSE2E7PEk

Zerai Deres
Hello from italian Wikipedia! The article about Zerai Deres have been under major edit recently. Since I'm not a mother-tongue speaker, could you help me to check out the article and correct my broken english? Feel free also to improve the article with other info and sources, if you have any more. Thank you so much in advance! --Holapaco77 (talk) 13:07, 13 August 2017 (UTC)

Ethiopian historiography is now a Featured Article
The article Ethiopian historiography, which I created back in July and brought to Good Article status in August, is now a featured article! It was just promoted today after my successful FAC (you can see the archive here). I'm just letting you guys know this so you can add it to the list of featured articles on your project page, which seems to only include the article on the giraffe. Let's hope we can all work together to bring more Ethiopian history articles up to featured status! It's an area of Wikipedia that still needs a lot of attention. -- Pericles of Athens  Talk 23:30, 11 October 2017 (UTC)

Transcribe and translate?
This user's uploads include various images with Amharic text. It would be very useful if someone could transcribe and translate it. DS (talk) 21:59, 4 March 2018 (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  07:36, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

RfC on election/referendum naming format
An RfC on moving the year from the end to the start of article titles (e.g. South African general election, 2019 to 2019 South African general election) has been reopened for further comment, including on whether a bot could be used move the articles if it closed in favour of the change: Wikipedia talk:Naming conventions (government and legislation). Cheers, Number   5  7  15:36, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

NPOV and Abiy Ahmed
There seems to be some recent edits that violate Wp:NPOV on the article about Ethiopia's current prime minister Abiy Ahmed, where certain part of his career are emphasized and other aspects have been removed. Inter&#38;anthro (talk) 22:13, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

MfD nomination of Portal:Ethiopia
Portal:Ethiopia, a page which you created or substantially contributed to, has been nominated for deletion. Your opinions on the matter are welcome; you may participate in the discussion by adding your comments at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Ethiopia and please be sure to sign your comments with four tildes ( ~ ). You are free to edit the content of Portal:Ethiopia during the discussion but should not remove the miscellany for deletion template from the top of the page; such a removal will not end the deletion discussion. Thank you. UnitedStatesian (talk) 04:16, 20 August 2019 (UTC)

Here's another one, here's another one, ..... - tagged. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 17:27, 26 August 2021 (UTC)

Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North and South America
(Cross-posted to Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Oriental Orthodoxy)

I have proposed the deletion of Ethiopian Orthodox Coptic Church of North and South America. The article is not about (nor should it be confused with) the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church in North and South America. -- Gyrofrog (talk) 19:03, 19 January 2020 (UTC)

Habesha peoples
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Habesha peoples/Archives/2020/June. Gyrofrog (talk) 16:20, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Orthodox Tewahedo
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Orthodox Tewahedo. Gyrofrog (talk) 19:23, 12 March 2020 (UTC)

Discussion about article "Saint Maurice"
You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:Saint Maurice, which is about an article that is within the scope of this WikiProject. Gyrofrog (talk) 00:36, 2 August 2020 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
You can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Check a video?
Hi, I have found a CC-licensed video that we could use to take a screenshot to illustrate the Eskinder Nega page. However I’m unable to read the logo that appears in the lower left of the screen. I just want to make sure that it’s from EthioInfo rather than from a different news company that may not have actually CC-licensed their footage (a common copyright issue). Is there someone with better language skills who has a moment to look at it and tell me what the logo says? Thank you so much. Innisfree987 (talk) 15:40, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

Ethnic discrimination requested move
There's a proposal Talk:Ethnic discrimination in Ethiopia to change the name of the article from Ethnic discrimination ... to Racism .... Please add Support or Oppose (in bold) or a comment, with arguments. Boud (talk) 20:36, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

A new newsletter directory is out!
A new Newsletter directory has been created to replace the old, out-of-date one. If your WikiProject and its taskforces have newsletters (even inactive ones), or if you know of a missing newsletter (including from sister projects like WikiSpecies), please include it in the directory! The template can be a bit tricky, so if you need help, just post the newsletter on the template's talk page and someone will add it for you.
 * – Sent on behalf of Headbomb. 03:11, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Request for information on WP1.0 web tool
Hello and greetings from the maintainers of the WP 1.0 Bot! As you may or may not know, we are currently involved in an overhaul of the bot, in order to make it more modern and maintainable. As part of this process, we will be rewriting the web tool that is part of the project. You might have noticed this tool if you click through the links on the project assessment summary tables.

We'd like to collect information on how the current tool is used by....you! How do you yourself and the other maintainers of your project use the web tool? Which of its features do you need? How frequently do you use these features? And what features is the tool missing that would be useful to you? We have collected all of these questions at this Google form where you can leave your response. Walkerma (talk) 04:24, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

Tigurats / Tigretes spinoff article
There was a spinoff article recently created concerning the Tigurats people but the title is undecided. Also if this is a content fork or original research and needs to be merged or combined to Tigray Region, please voice your opinions there as well at Talk:Tigurats. AngusWOOF ( bark  •  sniff ) 19:30, 29 July 2019 (UTC)

Draft:Gafat People
This draft is mostly incomprehensible, but may be on a notable subject and has a number of good references. Can anyone assist? Calliopejen1 (talk) 20:25, 15 September 2020 (UTC)

Article for deletion: Yemane Niguse
Articles for deletion/Yemane Niguse: Please add Support or Oppose or Merge with ... (in bold) or a comment, with arguments, at this AfD. Boud (talk) 21:08, 1 April 2021 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list