Wikipedia talk:WikiProject South Africa/Archive 8

Adding the South African Geographical Names Service ID wikidata property
Hello, I created the property Q120737094, but didn't know it supposed to be proposed first. This is the ID that associates a place with an official name and exact coordinates by the South African Geographical Names Council. OpenStreetMap has the ID linked to as key: sagns_id. For instance, the ID for Cape Town is 91634. Maqdisi (talk) 05:58, 23 July 2023 (UTC)

Credibility bot
As this is a highly active WikiProject, I would like to introduce you to Credibility bot. This is a bot that makes it easier to track source usage across articles through automated reports and alerts. We piloted this approach at Vaccine safety and we want to offer it to any subject area or domain. We need your support to demonstrate demand for this toolkit. If you have a desire for this functionality, or would like to leave other feedback, please endorse the tool or comment at WP:CREDBOT. Thanks! Harej (talk) 17:29, 5 August 2023 (UTC)

Adding the Red List of South African Plants conservation status
Hello, South Africa as a megadiverse country has fully assessed the status of its entire flora. Most plants assessed aren't in the IUCN Red List and I wish to add the categories as a Conservation Status field in a species' Wikidata page and in the Infobox of a species.

I already added the Red List of South African Plants Category diagrams page, but I have no idea on how to proceed.

I've been using the NZTCS conservation status to understand what is required.

A proposal needs to be made like this:

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/NZTCS_conservation_status

But how do I go about doing that?

Any idea, @Pbsouthwood? Thank you, Maqdisi (talk) 14:53, 31 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Hi, Is this a thing that will be done on Wikipedia or on Wikidata? Cheers, &middot; &middot; &middot; Peter Southwood (talk): 16:56, 31 August 2023 (UTC)
 * It looks like it requires both, first it needs to be added as a property in Wikidata, then when adding the conservation status in Wikipedia, it pulls the image when a status code like LC is added Maqdisi (talk) 03:18, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * Also, if you have any suggestions with the Category diagrams, I'd appreciate it. To save space, I had to leave off Critically Rare, Rare and Declining from the main category list:
 * https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Status_SANBI.svg
 * I don't quite know how to place it in a secondary one.
 * http://redlist.sanbi.org/redcat.php
 * Thanks, Maqdisi (talk) 04:03, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * I've created a Proposal at Wikidata:
 * Wikidata:Property proposal/Red List of South African Plants conservation status Maqdisi (talk) 16:58, 6 September 2023 (UTC)

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

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) 13:45, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

2023 Rugby World Cup final is ITN candidate
I've nominated 2023 Rugby World Cup final to be featured on the main page in the ITN (In the news) section. For that to happen, somebody with interest and subject knowledge (the latter rules me out) would need to add to the prose describing the match. Without that effort, it won't feature on the main page.  Schwede 66  02:49, 31 October 2023 (UTC)

Cape Town special event- meet the Wikimedia Foundation CEO
Its a bit last moment but I wanted to share this with everyone here in case you are in Cape Town and free on Monday, 11 December 2023. Sadly I am no longer living in Cape Town and so will miss this event but there will be many other local Wikipedia editors attending. Read below for details.

Maryana Iskanda, CEO of Wikimedia Foundation, and Christian Humborg, Executive Directors of WMDE, are in Cape Town for a flying visit. They would like to meet with the Wikimedians of the Cape (or any other visiting Wikimedians) on Monday, 11th December 2023.

Wiki In Africa and Wikimedia South Africa have planned the following for the meetup.


 * 11:00 Gather at the District Six Museum
 * 11:30 District Six Museum group tour
 * 12:30 Leave District Six Museum for lunch venue
 * 13:00 Lunch at Addis at the Cape
 * 14:30 Lunch ends

You are invited to attend either or both activities. Please let us know if you can make it, you will need to fill out a form so we can finalise numbers. The final date to confirm attendance is Friday, 8 December.

for your own account.*
 * The Museum tour and/or lunch will be paid for. Transport and parking are

Please feel free to make contact if you have any questions.--Discott (talk) 14:14, 5 December 2023 (UTC)

Good article reassessment for Scouts South Africa
Scouts South Africa has been nominated for a 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. AirshipJungleman29 (talk) 20:08, 21 December 2023 (UTC)

Wikipedia birthday celebration in South Africa
Hello everyone, as you know Wikipedia turned 23 on 15 January this year. Wikimedia South Africa will be celebrating this event by hosting meetups in both Cape Town and Johannesburg as well as online. This event is open to anyone with a passion for Wikipedia. You can learn more about it (and other meetups around the world and in the future) at the meetup page here.

Date and time: Saturday, 27 January 2024. Starting from 11:00 and ending at 13:00 SAST.

Location
 * Cape Town Venue: Tigersmilk Restaurant. Ground Floor Sunclare Building 21 Dreyer Street. Claremont, Cape Town.
 * Johannesburg Venue: Gaucho Restaurant Address: 67 7th St, Linden, Randburg, 2104

Digital attendance I will also be hosting a digital hangout which we hope to connect with the ones in Cape Town and Johannesburg. It will take place at the same time and date (11:00-13:00 SAST on 27 January 2024). You can join through the link to our channel on Discord below. Discott (talk) 10:45, 22 January 2024 (UTC)