Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso
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Shortcut | WP:BURK, WP:BURKINA |
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Parent project(s) | Africa |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Africa|Burkina Faso=yes}} |
Userbox | {{User WikiProject Burkina Faso}} |
Assessment | /Assessment |
CSB | Relevant for countering systemic bias |
Welcome to the WikiProject Burkina Faso! This group was formed to better organize articles on Burkina Faso in a spirit of cooperation.
Scope
[edit]This group includes within its scope all articles related to Burkina Faso, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Burkina Faso or one of its subcategories.
Goals
[edit]General
[edit]- To coordinate and improve articles related to Burkina Faso in a fair and accurate manner.
Specific
[edit]- To improve key articles, such as Burkina Faso to FA quality.
- To write new articles related to Burkina Faso (some missing articles can be found here)
- To maintain the Burkina Faso portal.
Participants
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Burkina Faso, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}}
with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.
- John Carter 17:50, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Beloved Freak 12:06, 3 February 2008 (UTC)
- DarthGator (talk) 12:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)
- ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 13:25, 9 April 2008 (UTC)
- I really should, considering how many departments I've created. I'm an Editor of the wiki[citation needed] 10:28, 23 May 2008 (UTC)
- EJF (talk) 20:58, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
- If you don't mind someone from Mozambique helping out... Ecoleetage (talk) 10:40, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
- Stamboliyski (talk) 20:52, 6 November 2014 (UTC)
- Webworkx64 (talk) 09:43, 16 November 2016 (UTC) taking on the challenge of expanding Blaise Compaore's page (both in French and English).
- Grn1749 (talk · contribs) 14:27:22, 2 September 2020 (UTC)
- EytanMelech (talk · contribs) 18:30:24, 22 December 2021 (UTC)
- Séba79 (talk · contribs) 18:30:24, 14 Aout 2023 (UTC)
- Jebiguess (talk · contribs) 14:10:35, 4 October 2023 (UTC)
- EKokou (talk) 18:48, 19 December 2023 (UTC)
- User:Qhacim (talk) 19:50, 28 May 2024 (UTC)
Former members
[edit]Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.
- Buaidh (talk · contribs) 21:40:08, 18 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Burkina Faso should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Burkina Faso participants.
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For other Burkina Faso user templates, see Category:Burkina Faso user templates.
Things you can do
[edit]Article alerts
[edit]Good article nominees
- 07 May 2024 – Sorghum (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Chiswick Chap (t · c); see discussion
Requested moves
- 29 Aug 2024 – 2024 Barsalogho battle (talk · edit · hist) move request to 2024 Barsalogho attack by Blaylockjam10 (t · c) was moved to 2024 Barsalogho attack (talk · edit · hist); see discussion
Articles to be split
- 16 Mar 2022 – Diébédo Francis Kéré (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kingsif (t · c); see discussion
Recognized content
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A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Burkina Faso articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
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1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | ||
B | 6 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 27 | ||
C | 10 | 22 | 4 | 12 | 35 | 83 | |
Start | 37 | 16 | 35 | 90 | 231 | 409 | |
Stub | 10 | 1 | 26 | 381 | 2,724 | 3,142 | |
List | 3 | 1 | 11 | 15 | 80 | 110 | |
Category | 2 | 1,470 | 1,472 | ||||
Disambig | 1 | 12 | 13 | ||||
File | 2 | 2 | |||||
Project | 4 | 4 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 4 | 37 | 42 | |||
Template | 187 | 187 | |||||
Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
Assessed | 67 | 42 | 80 | 513 | 1,715 | 3,083 | 5,500 |
Total | 67 | 42 | 80 | 513 | 1,715 | 3,083 | 5,500 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 21,322 | Ω = 5.81 |
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Good articles
[edit]Former good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]1992 Burkinabé parliamentary election
Werner Bardenhewer
Burkina Faso at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
Burkinabe literature
Bwa people
Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants (French West Africa and Togo)
Confédération générale du travail du Burkina
Dagaaba people
Deux Balés National Park
Siege of Djibo
FESTIMA
French Sudan
Keïta! l'Héritage du griot
Dani Kouyaté
Sotigui Kouyaté
Watamou Lamien
List of rulers of Liptako
Ouaga-Saga
Alice Ouédraogo
Rassemblement Démocratique Africain
Revolutionary Military Organization
Sarraounia (film)
Senufo people
Serval
Shea nut and butter production in Burkina Faso
Sia, The Dream of the Python
Valère Somé
Theatre of Burkina Faso
Adama Touré (PAI general secretary)
Soumane Touré
Upper Ivory Coast
Water supply and sanitation in Burkina Faso
Wildlife of Burkina Faso
Yennenga
Hugues Fabrice Zango
Zarma people
In the News articles
[edit]2015 Burkinabè general election
2019 Burkina Faso government resignation
2024 Barsalogho attack
Air Algérie Flight 5017
Werner Bardenhewer
September 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
January 2022 Burkina Faso coup d'état
2014 Burkina Faso uprising
ECOWAS
Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)
2016 Ouagadougou attacks
2018 Ouagadougou attacks
Idrissa Ouédraogo
Yacouba Sawadogo
Solhan and Tadaryat massacres
2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak
Did You Know (DYK)s
[edit]- Burkinabé parliamentary election, 1992 - 13 September 2009
- Ouaga-Saga - 1 October 2008
- Bwa - 27 July 2008
- Theatre of Burkina Faso - 13 July 2008
- Literature of Burkina Faso - 11 June 2008
Requests
[edit]Photo requests
[edit]In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.
Templates
[edit]Please add tag Burkina Faso-related article by modifying the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:
{{WikiProject Africa |Burkina Faso=yes }}
Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.
- To request a photo for an article, please add {{reqphoto|in=Burkina Faso}} to the article talkpage.
Resources
[edit]News
[edit]- Afrol News on Burkina Faso
- allAfrica.com on Burkina Faso
- UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs on Burkina Faso
- United States State Department on Burkina Faso
- lefaso.net - National news website
- Le Pays - National news website
External
[edit]- (in French) petiteacademie.gov.bf: Government of Burkina Faso education site, with biographies of hundreds of current and historical figures and short history pieces.
- Public Domain images of USAID/USDA work in Burkina: They seem to have a project there, and someone enjoys putting general interest images (street scenes, etc.) on the web. All these can be uploaded to commons with {{PD-USGov-USDA-ARS}}. T L Miles (talk) 18:25, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
Theses
[edit]- Rouamba, Palingwindé Inès Zoé Lydia (2011). La participation des femmes à la vie politique au Burkina (1957-2009) (PDF) (PhD thesis) (in French). Université du Québec à Montréal.