Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Zambia/Archive 1

2011 All-Africa Games
Hi, I've been working on this article. If anyone is able to add or improve, please join in. Of particular interest: I have not found the dates of the event! Also, any additional images of venues, plans, or of Lusaka itself. Thanks! -Cbradshaw (talk) 05:16, 18 September 2008 (UTC)

African cinema task force
An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Zambia. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 04:05, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Featured article review of Zambezi
nominated Zambezi 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 "Remove" the article's featured status. The instructions for the review process are here. Tom B (talk) 16:46, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group
Hi! I'd like to draw your attention to the new WikiProject coordinators' working group, an effort to bring both official and unofficial WikiProject coordinators together so that the projects can more easily develop consensus and collaborate. This group has been created after discussion regarding possible changes to the A-Class review system, and that may be one of the first things discussed by interested coordinators.

All designated project coordinators are invited to join this working group. If your project hasn't formally designated any editors as coordinators, but you are someone who regularly deals with coordination tasks in the project, please feel free to join as well. &mdash; Delievered by §hepBot  ( Disable )  on behalf of the WikiProject coordinators' working group at 07:02, 28 February 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.

The Transhumanist 00:39, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

WP 1.0 bot announcement
This message is being sent to each WikiProject that participates in the WP 1.0 assessment system. On Saturday, January 23, 2010, the WP 1.0 bot will be upgraded. Your project does not need to take any action, but the appearance of your project's summary table will change. The upgrade will make many new, optional features available to all WikiProjects. Additional information is available at the WP 1.0 project homepage. &mdash; Carl (CBM · talk) 04:11, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Zambia 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 Zambia articles and revisionIDs we have chosen. Selected articles are marked with a diamond symbol (&diams;) 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.

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WikiWomen's History Month
Hi everyone. March is Women's History Month and I'm hoping a few folks here at WP:Zambia will have interest in putting on events (on and off wiki) related to women's roles in Zambia'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) 22:19, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Wiki Loves Pride 2014
You are invited to participate in Wiki Loves Pride 2014, a campaign to create and improve LGBT-related content at Wikipedia and its sister projects. The campaign will take place throughout the month of June, culminating with a multinational edit-a-thon on June 21. Meetups are being held in some cities, or you can participate remotely. All constructive edits are welcome in order to contribute to Wikipedia's mission of providing quality, accurate information. Articles within Category:LGBT in Africa may be of particular interest. You can also upload LGBT-related images by participating in Wikimedia Commons' LGBT-related photo challenge. You are encouraged to share the results of your work here. Happy editing! -- Another Believer ( Talk ) 01:58, 5 June 2014 (UTC)

Comment on the WikiProject X proposal
Hello there! As you may already know, most WikiProjects here on Wikipedia struggle to stay active after they've been founded. I believe there is a lot of potential for WikiProjects to facilitate collaboration across subject areas, so I have submitted a grant proposal with the Wikimedia Foundation for the "WikiProject X" project. WikiProject X will study what makes WikiProjects succeed in retaining editors and then design a prototype WikiProject system that will recruit contributors to WikiProjects and help them run effectively. Please review the proposal here and leave feedback. If you have any questions, you can ask on the proposal page or leave a message on my talk page. Thank you for your time! (Also, sorry about the posting mistake earlier. If someone already moved my message to the talk page, feel free to remove this posting.) Harej (talk) 22:47, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject X is live!


Hello everyone!

You may have received a message from me earlier asking you to comment on my WikiProject X proposal. The good news is that WikiProject X is now live! In our first phase, we are focusing on research. At this time, we are looking for people to share their experiences with WikiProjects: good, bad, or neutral. We are also looking for WikiProjects that may be interested in trying out new tools and layouts that will make participating easier and projects easier to maintain. If you or your WikiProject are interested, check us out! Note that this is an opt-in program; no WikiProject will be required to change anything against its wishes. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thank you!

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Harej (talk) 16:58, 14 January 2015 (UTC)

Proposed move of Anglo-African to British in Africa
See Talk:Anglo-African. Helen (talk) 17:29, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Unreferenced living people articles bot
Okip  23:13, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

WikiProject cleanup listing
I have created together with Smallman12q a toolserver tool that shows a weekly-updated list of cleanup categories for WikiProjects, that can be used as a replacement for WolterBot and this WikiProject is among those that are already included (because it is a member of Category:WolterBot cleanup listing subscriptions). See the tool's wiki page, this project's listing in one big table or by categories and the index of WikiProjects. Svick (talk) 20:44, 7 November 2010 (UTC)

Languages in censuses and Race and ethnicity in censuses
Pleas add information about this country to this articles--Kaiyr (talk) 13:04, 28 July 2014 (UTC)

Edgar Lungu
Hello. Feel free to expand this stub Edgar Lungu. I was unable to find out anything about his background (date and place of birth, education, career before he became Minister of Defence...).Zigzig20s (talk) 09:12, 5 November 2014 (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)

Wrong Map of Eastern Province on the Katete District page
Hello there,

I wish to register that there is some misinformation on the Katete District page. The map attached is suggesting that Petauke is the first District you reach from Lusaka instead of Nyimba, which is completely wrong. On the map the place marked Nyimba is actually what is Petauke and the one marked Petauke is the Nyimba district. The bearings were exchanged, please work on that and get the information corrected. The correct map is available on google maps of I can send you one if your wish.

Best Regards,

Kelvin Kakanku kaykaymuzwidi@yahoo.com — Preceding unsigned comment added by 164.160.12.38 (talk) 11:45, 7 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject
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Background
On April 8th, 2018, an RfC ("Request for comment") proposal was made to eliminate all portals and the portal namespace. On April 17th, the Portals WikiProject was rebooted to handle the revitalization of the portal system. On May 12th, the RfC was closed with the result to keep portals, by a margin of about 2 to 1 in favor of keeping portals.

There's an article in the current edition of the Signpost interviewing project members about the RfC and the Portals WikiProject.

Since the reboot, the Portals WikiProject has been busy building tools and components to upgrade portals.

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Thank you. &mdash; The Transhumanist  08:01, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

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  15:41, 20 October 2018 (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) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)

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

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)

Zambian Road Articles
Hi, People.

When I joined Wikipedia, I found that only the Great North Road, Great East Road and Lusaka-Mongu Road had articles from all the roads in Zambia.

Then, I decided to make sure that each & every "Main Road" in Zambia, from T1 to T6 (inter-territorial roads) and from M1 to M20 (territorial roads), has an article on Wikipedia; either its own article or mentioned under another article as a branch road.

I would use the "Road and Road Traffic Amendment Act (Cap 464)" as my citation on these articles, since every single "numbered route" in Zambia is listed in that document.

Now, a problem has arisen. Under each road article, I would place "Route" sections, describing the numbered routes entirely from start to finish. But now, on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways, certain editors have claimed that leaving the "Route" section uncited is wrong and also that citing GPS Websites such as OpenStreetMap and Google Maps is also wrong, as those websites are "unreliable", although I beg to differ!

So, what is your opinion on this matter? Which websites would you recommend for us to be using on Zambian Road Articles? If citations are not found for those "Route" sections, we risk editors deciding to erase that content. Chils Kemptonian (talk) 14:34, 29 September 2022 (UTC)


 * @Chils Kemptonian Well, this is a tough question to answer; since proper atlases, either online or offline, are not easily accessible in this nation, I can't think of how the problem can be resolved regarding citing. I see you did extensive work on the T2 road (Zambia) article and it is sad to think that such information (i.e. the "Route" section) can be erased easily by authorized editors. Anyway, when I have time, I will try to ask our fellow residents of Zambia about what books exist on the roads of the nation apart from that "Legislation" (Roads Act) cited in the introduction of the article I mentioned. GeographicAccountant (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Zambian Constituency and District Articles
Greetings.

I have noticed that every Zambian Parliamentary Constituency has an article on Wikipedia except the ones from Southern Province and Western Province. Could there be a reason that the two provinces have been avoided? A few minutes ago, I created the Sioma (constituency) and Nkeyema articles (both created for the 2016 election),

Also, there were two duplicate articles, namely Nkeyama District and Nkeyema District. I decided to redirect the article with the spelling error (the first one) to the article with the correct name (the latter one). Did I do the right thing here? GeographicAccountant (talk) 02:11, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * I was creating the constituency articles, and was going through the template (Zambian constituencies) in order; I just hadn't got to the bottom rows yet. Cheers, Number   5  7  17:03, 7 October 2022 (UTC)
 * @Number 57 Cool. Thanks. GeographicAccountant (talk) 17:25, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

AfD: Chilinda District
Just leaving a notice of an AfD process for the Chilinda District article. See Chilinda District AFD. GeographicAccountant (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2022 (UTC)

Constituency Development Fund
Hi, people.

Notice that there is a "Constituency Development Funds Performance" section on the Livingstone, Zambia article, added by User:Ezyg8. In your opinion, does this information belong on Wikipedia? Chils Kemptonian (talk) 22:33, 4 November 2022 (UTC)
 * No. I noticed they had added it to a few constituency articles too (which I removed). Cheers, Number   5  7  22:44, 4 November 2022 (UTC)

Good then; I've removed the content from the Livingstone article. GeographicAccountant (talk) 22:22, 5 November 2022 (UTC)

Russia-Zambia relations- needs update
Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 14:20, 16 November 2022 (UTC)

Mentioning that people tested positive for COVID-19
Hi. I just want to ask:

Is it "Necessary" to mention that somebody "tested positive for the Corona Virus Disease of 2019"?

Like the way it is written on the Inonge Wina page under the "Personal Life" section.

If I am not wrong, this is the only Zambian whose article has this written. GeographicAccountant (talk) 16:52, 19 November 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) 20:28, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

Mambwe District
Hi, People! I left a question on the Talk:Mambwe District Page, asking if indeed the district has a town centre with the same name. Replies would be appreciated. GeographicAccountant (talk) 13:24, 17 May 2023 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Chandesi#Requested move 25 August 2023
There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Chandesi that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. —usernamekiran (talk) 13:55, 3 September 2023 (UTC)

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

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) 13:56, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Emmanuel Mwamba
Hi.

May somebody look at the Emmanuel Mwamba article & see how the information has been arranged. That article looks messy & apparently hasn't been touched in ove half-a-year. GeographicAccountant (talk) 19:20, 14 November 2023 (UTC)