Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Somalia

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  15:40, 20 October 2018 (UTC)

Buloburde
The second 'graph at seems to be the center of an ethnic clan war dating back years, almost all by IP or brand new accounts. Could someone with subject knowledge please write a coherent sentence or two and cite? I've requested ECP at WP:RFP. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 08:12, 25 November 2018 (UTC)
 * The page now has ECP and I've removed the contentious sentence for now. —&#91;  Alan M 1  (talk) &#93;— 21:33, 25 November 2018 (UTC)

List of cities in Somalia by population
Since August IP users have made a shedload of edits to numbers in List of cities in Somalia by population: before and after. Some of them may be corrections (WP:AGF); others have identical sources and different numbers, or are unsourced. Some look quite unlikely, such as Bosaso shrinking from 1.9 million to 340,000, to 240,000, and then 139,667. It could do with a good going-over if someone has time for it. Cheers, BlackcurrantTea (talk) 15:13, 24 January 2019 (UTC)

Guardafui_Channel
Has requested a map at commons and I have made a draft for that user. I can't find/or get in contact so I hope someone here can help me in getting in contact or providing me with feedback/information so I can complete the request, thanks. --Goran tek-en (talk) 14:19, 16 March 2019 (UTC)

Somalia-related discussion on RSN
I just wanted to draw people's attention to a discussion I started on the reliable sources noticeboard about the reliability of some Somali sources. Please chime there in if you have any familiarity with the sources. signed,Rosguill talk 17:43, 16 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)

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

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!
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

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)

GAR Notice
Mogadishu 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 may be removed from the article. Onegreatjoke (talk) 03:32, 7 January 2023 (UTC)

Publicizing RM on Somali Civil War
Please see Talk:Somali_Civil_War - Tbf69 🛈 🗩 12:27, 5 March 2023 (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) 14:23, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Draft:Somali Civil War (1991–1995)
I've been working on a draft for the period of the Somali Civil War between Barre's fall and the withdrawal of UNOSOM. I may change the scope to just between Barre's fall and the beginning of UNITAF, or expand it from Barre's fall to the creation of the TFG, idk. If anyone could help with this, though, that'd be appreciated. I also posted this to the Somali Civil War's talk page to gather more participation. - presidentofyes, the super aussa man 17:54, 2 July 2023 (UTC)

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

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) 13:44, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Need help with creating a consensus
About 2 months ago, I made an RFC at Talk:Somalia. After a slow RFC after which the opinion remained split, nothing happened. Owing to a recent edit war regarding the image, I am posting this here for further input so this issue can be put to bed. Fantastic Mr. Fox (talk) 20:51, 26 April 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Mideeye
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Mideeye that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 14:16, 8 May 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.

Somalia is listed as a least-developed country for the purposes of this contest, which means Somalia-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 ) 14:59, 18 May 2024 (UTC)

City University of Mogadishu / Guul University
It appears as though the article on City University of Mogadishu was unilaterally repurposed in 2018, moved to Guul University and text selectively replaced. As far as I can tell, these are two institutions that are entirely different, and I can't tell why this procedure would have been followed. Could someone with better contextual knowledge take a look? matt91486 (talk) 21:20, 7 June 2024 (UTC)

Somali clans
For anyone interested, a lot of these need heavy cleanup Kowal2701 (talk) 19:19, 17 July 2024 (UTC)