Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Liberia/Archive 1

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 * The current list is only these four:
 * Liberia
 * Pygmy Hippopotamus
 * Monrovia
 * Charles Taylor
 * To this my suggestions would be First Liberian Civil War, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, American Colonization Society, and George Weah. All are C class or above and have an important impact on the country. Thoughts? Aboutmovies (talk) 06:57, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Those seem ok. Also, History of Liberia. It's a B class article. For people not familiar with the country, it can work as an overview with a more in-depth look, piecing together the more specific articles you listed above.--Cattus talk 08:51, 3 October 2008 (UTC)
 * I'll see about getting that and the others added. Aboutmovies (talk) 21:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)
 * See below if people would like to comment. Aboutmovies (talk) 07:56, 11 October 2008 (UTC)

Resource
This website via the WayBack Machine has some good resources to cite information. Aboutmovies (talk) 21:30, 9 October 2008 (UTC)

African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Liberia. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:44, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Sources for articles
Don't know if anyone really does much with this project, but here are some good sources I've come across, mainly for some county/district work: Below is a citation for the later. The first appears to have a CDA for each county, just adjust the URL.
 * County Development Agenda
 * 2008 Census

In a related matter, I have created a county infobox and am slowly working through adding it to each county. I am also adding a somewhat standardized WP:LEAD, see Grand Bassa County for an example. Any interest in others doing further work to try and improve these beyond Stub status? Aboutmovies (talk) 09:53, 14 October 2008 (UTC)

Help request: 74 Liberia-related articles needing geographical coordinates
Based on a search of Wikipedia's articles related to Liberia, I've found some articles that I believe are about places in Liberia, and could usefully have geographical coordinates added.

The articles in question are listed in Category:Liberia articles missing geocoordinate data. At the time of writing, some examples included:
 * 1) Bopolu District
 * 2) District 3, Grand Bassa County
 * 3) District 4, Grand Bassa County
 * 4) Gibi District
 * 5) Kongba District
 * 6) Mesurado River
 * 7) Pepper Coast

...and there are many others. At the time of posting this notice, there were 74 articles in this category needing geographical coordinates.

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

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

Please let me know if this is useful, or if I can help in any way. -- The Anome (talk) 22:49, 26 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
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Liberia Coat of Arms about to be deleted
Just a heads up: File:Coat of arms of Liberia.png is about to be deleted from Commons, which will break lots of Liberia related templates. T L Miles (talk) 14:59, 26 March 2009 (UTC)

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

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WP 1.0 bot announcement
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Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  00:41, 28 March 2010 (UTC)

Liberia 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 Liberia 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 23:15, 19 September 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
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Women in Liberia
I am in the process of writing an article on Women in Liberia for my Gender and Economic Development course at University. The paper will cover Liberia’s civil war, Women’s role in Politics, Rights, Women’s health issues, gender inequalities and family code. I am looking for any feedback the wiki community might offer; all responses will be taken into consideration while writing this paper. In particular, if you are aware of any relevant articles/sources please share.

Javaman1145 (talk) 02:23, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

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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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Harej (talk) 16:57, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Proposal of subsection on land grabbing into economy section of Liberia article
I suggest a subsection on land grabbing for the section on the economy of the Liberia article. Kind regards, Sarcelles (talk) 19:22, 19 December 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)

1980 coup
It would be excellent if someone creates 1980 Liberian coup d'état. It is one of the pivotal events in the history of Liberia, and as such should have its own article, like the First and Second Civil War. --Sundostund (talk) 18:38, 17 August 2016 (UTC)


 * I decided to create the article myself, as can be seen. Obviously, it requires additional work (expansion, more details, etc). If anyone has some ideas how to improve it, please feel free to do so. --Sundostund (talk) 18:28, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

West African Ebola virus epidemic
hi, the above article is nominated for GA I would appreciate one individual from this wikiproject to review it, thank you--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 13:26, 27 October 2016 (UTC)
 * ✅--Ozzie10aaaa (talk) 02:34, 2 November 2016 (UTC)

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