Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Kenya/Archive 1

Proposed merger with WikiProject Amboseli Biosphere Reserve Project
Given the scope of the above project falls entirely within the scope of this project, and that this project has assessment and a few other advantages over that project as a project, I propose and support merging that project into this one. John Carter (talk) 17:16, 18 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I would support such a merger. As you say it makes sense since the Amboseli Biosphere Reserve Project falls totally within the scope of the WikiProject Kenya. -- Beloved Freak  22:08, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Respectfully disagree with merger
Greetings,

As the lead author of the Amboseli Biosphere Reserve WikiProject, I'd vote to NOT merge it into the new WikiProject Kenya for several of reasons, namely:

>> The Amboseli ecosystem represents about 0.1% of the land area of Kenya. To have the project as what would appear to be the first substantive entry would seem to be a bit of tail-wagging-dog.

>> The Amboseli Biosphere Reserve WikiProject is intended inter alia to be a workspace for information exchange and updates by stakeholders in the ecosystem, as well as a source of information for the 'rest of the world'. I fear it would lose the first focus if it were embedded in another project.

>> At the moment, the WikiProject Kenya is more of a stub than a project, a good idea than a source of information. The project, in my view, should start with some substantive information on geography, ecology, history and sociology of the whole country, rather than a quite specialised coverage of one of its corners.

>> Given the current political situation, it would seem, quite frankly, frivolous to show-case an albeit important wildlife-based ecosystem, rather than reporting on the situation: time lines, causes, current status, prognosis. See, for example, Ushahidi.

I do think the WikiProject Kenya is a good idea, as it would be for all countries. I wonder if the overall WikiEditors would consider providing a general country template on which information could be hung?

Hope that helps.

Best regards, Harvey Croze

Harvey Croze (talk) 11:37, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

—Preceding unsigned comment added by Harvey Croze (talk • contribs) 11:25, 4 February 2008 (UTC)
 * While I can understand the reservations, I believe the following considerations are extremely relevant.
 * As it stands, the Amboseli project is clearly and obviously eligible for deletion. One minimum requirement is that a project have at least one listed member. At present, that project has none whatsoever, not even the above editor. This despite the fact that the above project has existed for almost a year. At present, I respectfully regret to say that that project is more than eligible for outright deletion right now. Personally, I do not believe that the rather long tether that project has been given to date will necessarily be extended much further, before deletion is considered. It's utter inability to gain even a single member over that period is, I believe, more than enough evidence to verify that that project itself is little more than an attempt at a project, and apparently a failed attempt. The fact that the above editor is also one of the few if any editors invovled, and that he is the author of a book which that project apparently deems as one of its primary source materials, also could be seen as calling into question the motivation behind the project, and whether it might, unfortunately, be a self-publicization effort. That could be another motivation for deletion. I respectfully submit that that project, as it currently exists, completely fails at even the most basic level, that being a key to collaboration. Despite having existed for only days short of a full year, it is still to all appearances a one-man effort. John Carter (talk) 13:58, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme
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African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Kenya. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:43, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 145 Kenya-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Kenya, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Kenya, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Kenya articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Meru Central District
 * 2) Meru North District
 * 3) Nairobi City Stadium
 * 4) Naro Moru river
 * 5) Nzoia River
 * 6) Rahimtulla Tower
 * 7) Solar Ice Rink

...and there are many more, as well. At the time of posting this notice, there were 145 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

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

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The articles are all marked with coord missing tags, which need to be replaced with coord tags that contain the location's latitude/longitude coordinates; or you might be able to add coordinates to an existing infobox. You can find out how to do this at the Geocoding how-to for WikiProject members.

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:43, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Which photos are needed?
Since I'm staying in Kenya until August next year I can help out with photos. So if there are any requests for photos or anything else, just let me know. At best per email. --ElRaki (talk) 14:18, 15 November 2008 (UTC)

New article
I added the new article Juma and the Magic Jinn to this WikiProject. -- Suntag  ☼  18:09, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Redone Deleted Article
I had an article on The Village Market Nairobi speedily deleted under G11( Blatant Advertisement). After some discussion i have redone the page and tried to make it factual and removed the opinionated language. I would like you to look at the draft for any criticism. This is the redone article and I don't want to save and upload it lest it is deleted again. Check it out here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Wamaina/The_Village_Market. I have just discovered that i can edit articles and add more to put out more information on Kenyan stuff and things. There's so much that is needed done.Wamaina (talk) 19:49, 2 March 2009 (UTC)

This Talk page is rather quiet. Seems it takes a long time to get a discussion going on here.Wamaina (talk) 17:25, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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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)

The Kenya Portal
Hello everyone, I've done a little work to the Portal (not much) and I hope it meets with the Projects approval. I don't know who manages it, but they've done a great job. It looks good. I've co-ordinated the colours with the national flag and added a Panorama box (Kenya has great ones of these) and I hope all like it. Oh, I've also increased the copy in the intro box as well to fill out the empty space produced by the picture. Again, hope meets with approval. If I've trodden on anybody's toes please let me know straight away. If you wish, I can have a look at upgrading the Portal boxes contents as well. I'll await your instructions - just in case! :-) Take care everyone and hopefully speak soon Wiki User 68 (talk) 00:31, 26 May 2009 (UTC)


 * Thank you for your efforts, looks really nice! I hope you don't mind my revert. Keep on improving the Portal. Best regards, --R.Schuster (talk) 10:41, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

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Unreferenced living people articles bot
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Kenya articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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Kisumu
Hello everyone. I was wondering whether we could work together to update the Kisumu page which currently reads like a travel brochure, which is very undeserving for a leading town in East Africa. If possible could you constructively help me make it better, I am hoping to get together a work group of contributers to help out so that it is something close to the Nairobi page. I will be working on this for the next week or two, if you have some spare time I will be glad if you could help me open up Kisumu to the world. Thanks!--Krator1 (talk) 22:41, 15 October 2010 (UTC)

Districts of Kenya article needs a map
The Districts of Kenya article, which in September 2008 was marked as a High-importance Kenya article by (a member of this project), needs a map that is labeled with the names of the districts. Thanks. 72.244.200.239 (talk) 10:15, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

Deletion of Lists of rulers of Kenya
Discussed at: Articles for deletion/Lists of rulers of Kenya. East of Borschov 12:28, 7 November 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) 20:41, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Check Article
Hi, does anyone have a free minute to check International Criminal Court investigation in Kenya on the quality and importance scales? Pi       (Talk to me!  ) 03:46, 26 February 2011 (UTC)

Political parties info
Alot of the articles contain info that is well out of date and the infomation should be available from the IEBC website (when its not down). Should we make it and issue to bring the wikipedia articles up to date? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimemia Maina (talk • contribs) 06:49, 22 December 2011 (UTC)
 * Just a Heads up that 30th April 2012 is the deadline for parties to post out registration with the Electoral Commission so a final list will be published soon after that date. Kimemia Maina (talk) 05:54, 5 April 2012 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Kenya will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Kenya'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)

Requesting assist from Central Province specialists
Articles such as this one still need cleanup, and addition/moving of references and links. Left note on page's talk that the title is incorr. -- s/b singular hill, not plural hills. Is blanking and copy/paste to a new page the quickest mode to get the title changed or is there an admin. mode used to change the page title? Please assist where you can. Also need help in categorizing it correctly (within the project sub-pages).Blurbzone (talk) 09:00, 17 February 2012 (UTC)

Kiswahili Project
Well neither the Kenya nor the Africa Project Pages have Kiswahili versions. Help! Kimemia Maina (talk) 18:13, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Counties v. Districts: The way Forward.
The background for this runs as such. Under Kenya's Provincial Administration System there were 46 legally recognized Districts, plus Nairobi Province. As far as I know all have Wikipedia articles. These districts pretty much coincide with the 47 counties introduced by the new constitution of Kenya for the purposes of Devolution. A few of these counties have separate wikipedia articles despite covering the same geographical territory. Further to that all, or nearly all the above Districts have been sub-divided multiple times to the point I reckon at last count Kenya could have well over 300 districts. Some of these sub divided districts have wikipedia articles some don't. Furthermore, with 2 bills on Devolved  government and the future of the Provincial Administration as a whole held up by Presidential vetoes, its likely the number and the names, of the districts will change together with the command structure of the Provincial Administration which to a format radically different to what's being used on Wikipedia. If you fancy having a look at the possible new structure, I suggest looking up the bills on the bill tracker page of www.kenyalaw.org Aside from merging and renaming District pages and County pages that cover territory that will become counties, what do we do when the new Provincial administration takes hold? What do we do with articles of districts that get merged, or done away with altogether? Finally what do we do with the Provinces articles as they certainly won't exist in 2013? Kimemia Maina (talk) 19:52, 30 May 2012 (UTC)

Barack Obama FAR
There is a discussion ongoing at Featured article review/Barack Obama/archive9Lihaas (talk) 16:28, 14 June 2012 (UTC)

Beautiful pictures of this country
Hi, just a quick note about this category on Commons containing photos related to this country which could really use inclusion in Wikipedia articles, beside an improved categorization. Thanks for your help! --Elitre (talk) 13:07, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

Call for Wikipedians Residing in Africa
Got this on my talk page. Think somebody might be interested in following up. Hi! I hope you are well and thriving!! WikiAfrica has just put out a call for two Wikipedians in Residence. One in Cape Town at WikiAfrica, at the Africa Centre; and the other for WikiAfrica Cameroon in Douala, at doual’art. I would be very grateful if you could spread this call far and wide among your networks to ensure that both projects get excellent candidates. Here is the link for the information page http://www.wikiafrica.net/two-wikipedians-in-residence-for-africa/ Isla Haddow 09:44, 8 November 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Islahaddow (talk)

Lake Victoria ships
In 2011 I created or greatly expanded articles about various Lake Victoria ferries built and launched at Kisumu; from SS William Mackinnon in 1890 to MV Umoja and MV Uhuru in 1965. Two of the more historic ships, SS Nyanza (1907) built in 1907 and SS Usoga built in 1911, were photographed still at their moorings in Kisumu in 2007 and are published online here: Death of a Fleet at Kisumu. Please can any Wikipedian WP:VERIFY whether Nyanza and Usoga still survive?

Various historic and recent photographs of past and present Lake Victoria ships are published online, but Wikimedia Commons has none. If there is any Wikipedian who has photographs of Lake Victoria shipping that they will donate, or if there is a Wikipedian able to visit Lake Victoria and photograph its ships, that would improve the quality of Wikipedia's articles about the lake's shipping history over the last 123 years. Good recent photographs Nyanza and Usoga would be particularly helpful.

Thanks Motacilla (talk) 21:13, 15 April 2013 (UTC)

File:Building after 1998 bomb blast.jpg
File:Building after 1998 bomb blast.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 65.94.76.126 (talk) 05:48, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Proposed move of Anglo-African to British in Africa
See Talk:Anglo-African. Helen (talk) 07:20, 26 June 2013 (UTC)

Counties to Districts
I have opened a request at Talk:Mombasa District to move the District articles to the County names following the constitutional changes. Two editors have copy/pasted the articles across previously so this needs administrators to move them now. Please contribute to the discussion if there are any concerns. SFB 14:26, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

I had gone and sort of gung ho done it some time in May only for the articles to all be moved back. There is a user Nairobi...something who's moved the pages again. Hopefully it is left. Also this means a whole lot of other pages need re-writing and merging and so on, but the situation is fairly fluid on the ground I can tell you that Kimemia Maina (talk) 08:06, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

County Assembly Wards
Gien the elections was a few months ago and there are several websites that have tabulated this info, why don't the county pages on wikipedia have tables listing data on County Assembly Wards? Kimemia Maina (talk) 08:01, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

See the format I have applied to this page as a propsed template for the other 46 results pages Kenya County Representative elections in Laikipia, 2013 Kimemia Maina (talk) 12:31, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

Countries and territories bordering the Indian Ocean
has been nominated for deletion -- 76.65.128.222 (talk) 11:18, 30 August 2013 (UTC)

Aberkaruru-falls.jpg
image:Aberkaruru-falls.jpg has been nominated for deletion -- 70.24.249.39 (talk) 05:37, 20 September 2013 (UTC)

Quincy Timberlake
Hi all: this article is the creator's first and has neutrality problems; a couple of other editors have already worked on it, but could I ask for some expert eyes on it and if possible help with improving it? Thanks! Yngvadottir (talk) 09:38, 24 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I just came here to ask for the same. I'm afraid there may be soapboxing, and that the article presents a one-sided view. I don't know enough about the subject matter to properly judge due weight. Can anyone here help out? Martijn Hoekstra (talk) 10:30, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

-My goodness that article is huge! Yes the man in question has a reputation (or rather notoriety) for self promotion. Kimemia Maina (talk) 10:19, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

2013 General Elections Pages
Hi There. Just now there is a huge plethora of pages (many of which are largely blank) covering the general elections that Kenya had in Kenya at the national and county level for each county. What I mean is there is one page for say Nairobi County, there is page for the Senatorial Elections, a separate page for Gubernatorial elections, and County elections as so on. As a matter of making it easier to retrieve, and update, may I Suggest that all these pages be collapsed (merged) into the relevant page? I feel it would be easier to then make it easier for folks with relevant local knowledge on the counties to fill in the necessary information and also make learning about this new  system of governance easier (navigation wise)Kimemia Maina (talk) 10:20, 20 February 2014 (UTC)

Proposing New Page: Gender Disparities in Kenyan Education
I propose to create a new Wiki entry called “Gender Disparities in Kenyan Education”, which currently doesn’t exist in any form. Currently the only articles related to this are Education in Kenya (parent article), Sex Differences in Education (parent article) and Women in Kenya. The combination of studying education in Kenya with a concentration in gender disparities, particularly the disparities that females face, does not hold a presence in Wikipedia. My article will first try and define what gender disparities in education are and what kind of problems they face, broadly including female presence in different levels of education, difference in sex success rates in school, and discrimination different sexes face while in school. It will then elaborate on general statistics in transition and overall academic performance in both males and females and delve into the overall difference in the quality of education that Kenyans face in terms of sex. Next it will examine the differences in these outcomes through different levels of education, address the challenges of gender disparities in education and their subsequent consequences. Finally, I will suggest some possible solutions to help Kenya in pursuing gender equality in education.

I plan on drawing from “Girls’ and women’s education in Kenya. Gender perspectives and trends. Nairobi: UNESCO”, by Chege, F. N., & Sifuna, D. N. (2006); “Impact of Free Primary Education in Kenya A Case Study of Private Schools in Kibera” by James Tooley, Pauline Dixon, and James Stanfield; “Women, men, and the division of power: A study of gender stratification in Kenya. Social Forces” by L.A. Cubbins; “Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics. Manuscript. Geneva: UNRISD” by the UNRISD; “The structure of social disparities in education: Gender and wealth. World Bank, Development Research Group, Poverty and Human Resources” by Filmer; “African higher education: Challenges for the 21st century. Higher Education” by Teferra and Altbachl; “The state of the world's children 2007: Women and children: The double dividend of gender equality” by UNICEF; “Unequal access, unequal participation: some spatial and socio‐economic dimensions of the gender gap in education in Africa with special reference to Ghana, Zimbabwe and Kenya.Compare” by Shabaya and Konadu‐Agyemang.

I would appreciate any suggestions for more scholarly references. Thank you! Njeri Muturi (talk) 05:38, 1 March 2014 (UTC)

AfC submission - 09/04
Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Thimlich Ohinga. FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 00:56, 10 April 2014 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
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Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 13:03, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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Expert attention
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Githima / Village
There's a new stub for Githima Village which seems from the coordinates of Gatundu to be a different place from Githima. Perhaps someone familiar with Kenyan geography could sort out a better article title and hatnotes to distinguish and link the two? Over to you. Pam D  16:20, 24 April 2015 (UTC)

Jonathan Mwangangi Mueke
Could any editors assist in cleaning up the WP:BLP of the Deputy Governor of Nairobi County Jonathan Mwangangi Mueke which appears to be written as an autobiography? AusLondonder (talk) 03:32, 9 March 2016 (UTC)

Auto-assessment of article classes
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Reassess Kenya
Please reassess Kenya because I think it should be a B now.   MediaKill13   (  talk  )   07:52, 24 June 2016 (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)

AfD: Elizabeth Munge
Above article, which is relevant for this project, is being considered for deletion. K.e.coffman (talk) 01:44, 9 September 2016 (UTC)

WikiProject Africa/The Africa Destubathon
Was hoping to see more editors from Kenya competing in this!♦ Dr. Blofeld  10:55, 28 October 2016 (UTC)

Maasai Flag Dispute
please assist in veryfying if this is indeed true. do maasai have a flag or someone is building castles in the air Page:Maasai people Response:A Maasai flag might look more like the logo here that the current FOTW pic. -- Himasaram 22:14, 17 August 2006 (UTC)


 * My Response: No such flag exists. if so please cite source as the flag looks more logoish  Shadychiri (talk)
 * Edited out The flagShadychiri (talk) 20:37, 7 November 2016 (UTC)

Attention Expert in Maasai
Maasai have been listed as polyandrous. Raised a discussion in the polyandrous page and need someone to ascertain validity of statement. Thanks Shadychiri (talk) 16:11, 1 January 2017 (UTC)

Decorations and Orders Kenya
Considering starting an article that goes further into orders and medals awarded by the President of Kenya and it's history. Would also like to maintain a list on who gets conferred the above. Not sure whether this would be in conflict with Orders,_decorations,_and_medals_of_Kenya. What do you think of this? Thelost byte (talk) 11:33, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Old recordings from Kenya
Recently Wikimedia Sweden and the Museum of World Culture uploaded 25 recordings from their collections of Gerhard Lindbloms expedition to Kenya way back in 1911. Have a look and see if any of the recordings are of use, help improve descriptions and categories, ask for translations, report errors and continue to do good stuff. /Axel Pettersson (WMSE) (talk) 13:24, 18 May 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.

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The discussion about this can be found here.

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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.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  07:44, 30 May 2018 (UTC)