Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Rwanda/Archive 1

African cinema task force
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Proposal for a 200-WikiProject contest
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Rwanda and English
I found: Quist-Arcton, Ofeiba. "Commonwealth Admits French-Speaking Rwanda." NPR. December 1, 2009. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:27, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Also: Crumley, Bruce "France's Belated Mea Culpa on Rwanda." TIME. Friday February 26, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:28, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Also from Crumley "The 1994 genocide in Rwanda claimed more than 800,000 lives, sparked years of violent unrest in central Africa and poisoned French-Rwandan relations so severely that Kigali, the Rwandan capital, suspended diplomatic ties with Paris in 2006 and replaced French with English in Rwandan schools."

Maybe one can make France – Rwanda relations as an article. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:29, 9 September 2010 (UTC)


 * Rwanda cut relations in 2006: "Rwanda cuts relations with France." BBC. Friday 24 November 2006
 * And restored them in 2009: "Rwanda and France restore diplomatic relations." BBC. Monday 30 November 2009

Also "France arrests Rwandan President's widow, accused in Rwanda genocide." Christian Science Monitor. March 2, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 05:35, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Something related: WhisperToMe (talk) 07:55, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
 * McGreal, Chris. "Why Rwanda said adieu to French." Guardian Weekly. Friday 16 January 2009.

Rwanda articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release
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WikiProject cleanup listing
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Rwanda FAC
Hi again guys,

Following a lengthy peer review led by User:Cryptic C62, I have now nominated Rwanda for Featured Article status. I would like to invite any contributions to the process and feedback from members of this project at Featured article candidates/Rwanda/archive1 if you have the time/inclination! Thanks &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 12:33, 7 June 2011 (UTC)

Nyarubuye massacre
Talk:Nyarubuye_massacre

Hi! I'm not sure if anybody observes this article, since no answer came to my question on the talk page. Would you please check if you know an answer?

Thank you so much, --Schwäbin (talk) 08:51, 28 July 2011 (UTC)

WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Rwanda will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Rwanda'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) 22:18, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Rwanda FAC
Rwanda is up for second FAC. Please comment at WP:Featured article candidates/Rwanda/archive2. Thanks! &mdash; Amakuru (talk) 10:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

Improving the Rwandan Genocide Article
Hello, I plan to expand the article on the Rwandan Genocide. My plan to improve the article consists of the following:
 * Adding a Gacaca Court section
 * Editing the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) section
 * Editing the War Rape section (and renaming it as Gender Targeted Crimes Against Humanity)

Improving the Rwandan Genocide article plays an important part to this WikiProject especially since the future of Rwanda lies on the justice system. In the year of 2012, the Gacaca Courts were closed (BBC News article) and the United Nations announced that the ICTR will close by the end of 2014 (UN Centre News article). Although the Rwandan Genocide page is detailed and has many links to related pages, I was surprised that it does not have a section for the Gacaca Court, which played a major part in the justice system after the genocide. I also did not understand why the article does not go over the closing of the Gacaca Courts and planned closing of the ICTR in detail. I plan to add the article in where I feel it lacks the most. In expanding the article, I plan to use scholarly articles to find relevant information that will contribute to my plan and overall to this WikiProject.

I would greatly appreciate feedback to further improve my plan for the Rwandan Genocide article. Please post a message to me on my Talk page. Thank you! MinjKim (talk) 09:08, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Inema Art Center
Dear editors: The above old abandoned Afc submission will soon be deleted as a stale draft. Is this a notable topic, and should the article be kept and improved? &mdash;Anne Delong (talk) 23:00, 15 March 2014 (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) 21:00, 30 July 2014 (UTC)

French article on Agnes Binagwaho needs more content
Is anyone interested adding more to the French article of fr:Agnes Binagwaho? WhisperToMe (talk) 17:19, 28 September 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
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African American
Editors are trying to establish what would be the best lede paragraph for this page here. Some of the suggested phrasing involves African immigrants to the United States. As such, it may be of interest to WikiProject Rwanda members. Middayexpress (talk) 15:25, 26 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


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

Hard Choices, new article about book on humanitarian intervention
I've created a new article about the book on humanitarian intervention, titled, Hard Choices: Moral Dilemmas in Humanitarian Intervention.

Help with suggesting additional secondary sources would be appreciated at the article's talk page, at Talk:Hard Choices (Moore book).

Thank you,

&mdash; Cirt (talk) 17:32, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Rwanda article FA status
Hi. Some work is required on the Rwanda article in order to ensure that it keeps its featured article status, as I have outlined on its talk page. I've made some improvements myself, and Amakuru has agreed to do some work on the article, time permitting, but I'm sure there must be other editors who care about the subject enough to help us. Please do what you can, however small! Cordless Larry (talk) 21:45, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
 * Anyone? Cordless Larry (talk) 22:06, 24 May 2015 (UTC)
 * I have nominated Rwanda for a featured article review here. Please join the discussion on whether this article meets featured article criteria. Articles are typically reviewed for two weeks. If substantial concerns are not addressed during the review period, the article will be moved to the Featured Article Removal Candidates list for a further period, where editors may declare "Keep" or "Delist" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Cordless Larry (talk) 13:42, 13 August 2015 (UTC)

GA review
06:50, 15 May 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. 20:03, 20 July 2016 (UTC)

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