Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Niger

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  15:38, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Niger for deletion
A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Niger is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Niger 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 page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America1000 01:41, 21 August 2019 (UTC)

uh-oh. It seems I see pattern. Chad, now Niger? hmmmmmm........ Bokoharamwatch (talk) 08:11, 6 June 2021 (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)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!
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War in Sahel
French article - does it have an English counterpart? (see my post on WP Terror). Bokoharamwatch (talk) 08:13, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Portal deletion
As with Chad, I'm calling for the re-instatement of this country's portal. Ciao. Bokoharamwatch (talk) 08:16, 6 June 2021 (UTC)

Wiki Indaba 2021 is here!
Hosted by the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the first ever virtual Wiki Indaba conference is taking place online from the 5th to the 7th of November 2021 under the theme Rethink + Reset : Visions of the future.

Wiki Indaba 2021 is a unique opportunity to come together to build the capacity of African Wikimedians both within the continent and the diaspora to foster the growth of the coverage and our involvement in Wikimedia projects.

The call for submissions is open, please submit your session proposal either as a presentation, panel discussion, lightning talk, or workshop before September 24th 2021.

Most importantly, we would like to have you at the conference, please register here to get your free ticket and spread the word to your community members.

Looking forward to seeing you and hearing you speak at the conference.

Geoffrey Kateregga (talk) 23:45, 16 September 2021 (UTC) - On behalf of the Wiki Indaba 2021 Local Organizing Committee

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!
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Expand important article
Could you please lend a hand expanding/reconstructing the Jihadist insurgency in Niger article? It was moved this year from "2021 Niger attacks" so the article's scope could be widened and contextualized. However, ever since the move was done there has been no major attempt to reconstruct the article. Could you folks please lend a hand? Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 13:37, 14 April 2022 (UTC)

User script to detect unreliable sources
I have (with the help of others) made a small user script to detect and highlight various links to unreliable sources and predatory journals. Some of you may already be familiar with it, given it is currently the 39th most imported script on Wikipedia. The idea is that it takes something like and turns it into something like
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.
 * John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14.

It will work on a variety of links, including those from cite web, cite journal and doi.

The script is mostly based on WP:RSPSOURCES, WP:NPPSG and WP:CITEWATCH and a good dose of common sense. I'm always expanding coverage and tweaking the script's logic, so general feedback and suggestions to expand coverage to other unreliable sources are always welcomed.

Do note that this is not a script to be mindlessly used, and several caveats apply. Details and instructions are available at User:Headbomb/unreliable. Questions, comments and requests can be made at User talk:Headbomb/unreliable.

- &#32; Headbomb {t · c · p · b}

This is a one time notice and can't be unsubscribed from. Delivered by: MediaWiki message delivery (talk) 16:02, 29 April 2022 (UTC)

Notice of Good Article reassessment
Hi there! This is a notice that I have opened an individual Good Article reassessment on the article Niger women's national football team, which falls under the domain of this WikiProject. The review can be seen at this link (Talk:Niger women's national football team/GA2) and any editor is welcome to help fix it up so that it can maintain GA status. Thanks! PCN02WPS ( talk  &#124;  contribs ) 16:55, 2 July 2022 (UTC)

Project-independent quality assessments
Quality assessments by Wikipedia editors rate articles in terms of completeness, organization, prose quality, sourcing, etc. Most wikiprojects follow the general guidelines at Content assessment, but some have specialized assessment guidelines. A recent Village pump proposal was approved and has been implemented to add a class parameter to WikiProject banner shell, which can display a general quality assessment for an article, and to let project banner templates "inherit" this assessment.

No action is required if your wikiproject follows the standard assessment approach. Over time, quality assessments will be migrated up to WikiProject banner shell, and your project banner will automatically "inherit" any changes to the general assessments for the purpose of assigning categories.

However, if your project has decided to "opt out" and follow a non-standard quality assessment approach, all you have to do is modify your wikiproject banner template to pass WPBannerMeta a new custom parameter. If this is done, changes to the general quality assessment will be ignored, and your project-level assessment will be displayed and used to create categories, as at present. Aymatth2 (talk) 17:29, 12 April 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon
 Hello WikiProject Niger:

WikiProject Women in Green is holding a  month-long Good Article Edit-a-thon event in October 2023!

Running from October 1 to 31, 2023, WikiProject Women in Green (WiG) is hosting a Good Article (GA) edit-a-thon event with the theme Around the World in 31 Days! All experience levels welcome. Never worked on a GA project before? We'll teach you how to get started. Or maybe you're an old hand at GAs – we'd love to have you involved! Participants are invited to work on nominating and/or reviewing GA submissions related to women and women's works (e.g., books, films) during the event period. We hope to collectively cover article subjects from at least 31 countries (or broader international articles) by month's end. GA resources and one-on-one support will be provided by experienced GA editors, and participants will have the opportunity to earn a special WiG barnstar for their efforts.

We hope to see you there! Grnrchst (talk) 13:30, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Sources for Nigerien newspapers from the early 1990s to 2013?
Hello, we are trying to find sourcing from Nigerien newspapers from the 1990s to about 2013.

The specific case is to find info for a Nigerien Olympic sprinter who competed at the 1992 and 1996 Olympics, and was the coach of Niger's sprint team and the president of Association Nigerienne des Olympiens until his death in 2013. This is the athlete: Bouriema Kimba

We are looking for maybe an obituary from 22 April 2013, or ideally coverage of his sporting accomplishments from the 1990s. I checked the four "domestic publications" under the External resources section, but all four of them were dead links. Do you know how we might find domestic newspaper coverage from this time period?

Pinging recent members of this WikiProject: @Jebiguess, @Dunutubble, @Ibdawud.

Thank you, --Habst (talk) 01:07, 2 February 2024 (UTC)


 * I don't know too much about Nigerien newspapers (even when researching, I rarely see them) but for a first start I would look at old AFP and Le Monde archives to see if they source anything from a Nigerien newspaper, and start from there. Jebiguess (talk) 17:53, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
 * There might be something in the Jeune Afrique archives. Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 03:41, 6 February 2024 (UTC)
 * Have you tried looking for French-language resources? Most news coverage of that region is in French Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 03:37, 6 February 2024 (UTC)

Malbaza FC
Hi - hoping that someone can find some sources for Malbaza FC - currently is without refs so could do with improvement. Thanks JMWt (talk) 12:17, 16 March 2024 (UTC)

Developing Countries WikiContest
Starting this July, we will see a new contest on the scene - the Developing Countries WikiContest (WP:DCWC)! Think of it as a WikiCup but only for articles and media on developing countries.

Competitors may submit GAs, GTs, FAs, FTs, FLs, FPs, and DYK and ITN entries from/on developing countries to gain points and proceed to further rounds. Points are also awarded to those who review GAs, FAs and FLs.

Niger is listed as a least-developed country for the purposes of this contest, which means Niger-related submissions to the contest will get a multiplier in points. I encourage everyone here to sign up and compete with editors from around the world to create high-quality content!

Append your name to the DCWC signup page today!

Best wishes, Wilhelm Tell DCCXLVI ( talk to me!/my edits ) 15:09, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

Check GAN
Since the people involved in the discussion are not responding, can anyone check the page Afrique Victime? I want to re-nominate it to hopefully be a good article, since this is the only thing which needs to be done to nominate the page, all help will be appreciated!

Thanks,  03:50, 19 July 2024 (UTC)