Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Sudan/Archive 1

Archive 1

Portal

Wouldn't a portal be better? — mark ✎ 08:13, 19 December 2005 (UTC)

maybe you will take the german one as template, see de:Portal:Sudan Sven-steffen arndt 23:10, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Project directory

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Wikipedia Day Awards

Hello, all. It was initially my hope to try to have this done as part of Esperanza's proposal for an appreciation week to end on Wikipedia Day, January 15. However, several people have once again proposed the entirety of Esperanza for deletion, so that might not work. It was the intention of the Appreciation Week proposal to set aside a given time when the various individuals who have made significant, valuable contributions to the encyclopedia would be recognized and honored. I believe that, with some effort, this could still be done. My proposal is to, with luck, try to organize the various WikiProjects and other entities of wikipedia to take part in a larger celebrartion of its contributors to take place in January, probably beginning January 15, 2007. I have created yet another new subpage for myself (a weakness of mine, I'm afraid) at User talk:Badbilltucker/Appreciation Week where I would greatly appreciate any indications from the members of this project as to whether and how they might be willing and/or able to assist in recognizing the contributions of our editors. Thank you for your attention. Badbilltucker 20:00, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Sudan

HI WIkiSudan. PLease can a member of your project try to expand the articles on the states of Sudan. They are very poor indeed -quite embarassing. You would expect some more detailed articles on major states of countries but often they are only two lines long and cover an area of like 400,000 sq miles!!! I have seen much improvement in a number of articles . Keep up the good work everyone its just I feel this is very important -there must be some information available somewhere ♦ Sir Blofeld ♦ ^{"Expecting you" Contribs} 10:03, 14 April 2007 (UTC)

Same with me. Though I regret not being able to join the project, I wish everyone here luck, and furtherly encourage everyone to continue the good work. I added some more items to be de-redlinked in the articles that are needed column. Spencer 22:08, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

Project banner

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translation request

Can you type out the Arabic text on the top of this image? I have a graphics editor who will fix these if I can get him the text. File:--1999sudangg save for top text.jpg I just need the top text on this, we already have the bottom. Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:52, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

Proposal to consolidate African country WikiProject banners

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Comments or suggestions would be most welcome. Thank you, Black Falcon ^(Talk) 23:29, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Changes to the WP:1.0 assessment scheme

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Wikipedia 0.7 articles have been selected for Sudan

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African cinema task force

An African cinema task force has been proposed at WikiProject Films, which would include the cinema of Sudan. Interested editors are encouraged to sign up - if there is enough interest, then the task force will be created! Many thanks, Girolamo Savonarola (talk) 03:55, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Coordinators' working group

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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)

Lots of work needed at Greater Fangak

There aren't even articles on most of the subdivisions and tribes mentioned in this article, so not quite sure what to do with it. Just a heads-up: Greater Fangak. MatthewVanitas (talk) 01:27, 8 September 2009 (UTC)

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Project inactive?

I wanted to tag Ghazi Salah al-Din al-Atabani, but after looking at it I wonder if it has become inactive. If so, it would be better to tag it for WikiProject Africa, whose members might maintain it. Is this project still alive and kicking? :) --Moonriddengirl ^(talk) 11:28, 21 March 2010 (UTC)

Southern Sudan city shapes

Here is a source: Boswell, Alan. "Southern Sudan unveils plans to build animal-shaped cities." CNN. August 21, 2010. WhisperToMe (talk) 04:22, 23 August 2010 (UTC)

Sudan articles have been selected for the Wikipedia 0.8 release

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GA reassessment of War in Darfur

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WikiProject cleanup listing

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Largest Country

With South Sudan independent is Sudan still the largest state in Africa? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 114.78.124.94 (talk) 04:30, 9 July 2011 (UTC)

Recategorizing Cities

I will soon start going through pages of cities that are now located within the South Sudan borders and changing categories such as "Cities in Sudan" to, in this instance. "Cities in South Sudan". While I do not see any such problem, if any of these cities for some strange verifiable reason should still be categorized under Sudan itself, go ahead and readd the category; however, do not remove the South Sudan categories once added as they will be the base categories at this point. I'll start doing this sometime in the coming days. CycloneGU (talk) 18:33, 17 July 2011 (UTC)

South Sudanese detailed map

What's this? I'm not too well versed on the map templates, but I assume this is a broken attempt? Or... ? --S.G.^(GH) _ping! 13:14, 4 January 2014 (UTC)

List of mammals of Sudan and List of birds of Sudan

List of mammals of Sudan and List of birds of Sudan seem to cover both Sudans, not just the north, but I'm not certain. There is no List of mammals of South Sudan or List of birds of South Sudan. More impotently these difs (mammals birds) show that not many species (if any for the birds list) have been removed sense the South became independent in July 2011. It is possible, tough I would think unlikely, that the lists only cover the North, and that there were simply very few species unique to the south.

Could somebody look in to this, and see if these list cover both Sudans, or just the North.

If these lists really do cover both Sudans, then a quick fix would be to rename them "List of X of Sudan and South Sudan". Of course what we would really want to do is split each list in two, one for the North and one for the South, once we figure out which species are northern, which are southern, and which are both. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 20:20, 16 January 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)

"Anglo-Nubian"

FYI, the usage of "Anglo-Nubian" is up for discussion, see Talk:Anglo-Nubian -- 65.94.171.225 (talk) 05:20, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

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 Sudan members. Middayexpress (talk) 18:35, 23 October 2014 (UTC)

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Rubatab

Help requested at Rubatab. In particular, sourcing is desperately needed. Please see Talk:Rubatab#Profound problems with article. Rivertorch (talk) 17:10, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Radio Dabanga

The article about Radio Dabanga, a radio station in Southern Sudan, may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. - Eastmain (talk) 20:49, 6 January 2010 (UTC)

Radio Dabanga is actually operating in western Sudan, not southern Sudan. I've updated the page accordingly and added some additional information. Researcher99875 (talk) 12:36, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Nomination of Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed for deletion

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sections moved in restructuring

I've moved the sections below from the page as I'm in the middle of a restructuring and can't figure out a logical place to put the transliteration note. I think the list of articles was originally for article requests, but it's clear they have been started in the meantime. I'm going to replace these with an article help section that people can specify what sort of assistance they are suggesting and let other editors move any appropriate articles below to that section. - BT 02:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

A Note On Transliteration

I've got some data culled from Google on various transliterations of terms related to Sudan. It seems as good a way as any to try to settle on a standard transliteration. For example, here are some data for Janjaweed:

• Janjaweit 23
• Jangawid 41
• Janjuweed 65
• Jingaweit 404
• Janjawid 7210
• Janjaweed 18000

So in this case Janjaweed is certainly the best transliteration. I'll post more of these in respective articles. Perhaps we could look into an Article on tips on consistently transliterating Arabic?

See Wikipedia:Manual of Style (Arabic) - BT 02:53, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Ethnic groups

• Beja people
• Rizeigat or Rizigat
• Masalit
• Baggara or Baqqara
• Zaghawa
• Fur

Current or Recent Political figures

• Omar al-Bashir -- president
• Hasan al-Turabi
• Ali Uthman Taha -- vice president; said to be very influential
• various rebel leaders
• Sadeq al-Mahdi -- descendent of Muhammad_ibn_Abdalla, see below
• John Garang -- former SPLA head
• Riek Machar, currently an NPOV dispute over this South Sudan vice president

Current Political parties

• Sadeq al-Mahdi's Umma party
• Mohammed Osman al-Mirghani's Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) (needs disambiguation from Irish party of same name)
• Beshir's ruling Sudanese National Congress. (Seems to be called just "National Congress" in most articles. Should that article be at National Congress (Sudan) or something? I have created a stub at National Congress (Sudan) and made multiple redirects that should ensure that people eventually end up there. -

BanyanTree 00:08, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

• Communist Party of Sudan,Founded 1946 http://www.midan.net/

Religious Groups

• The Mahdiya, which has strong support in Darfur,
• The Khatemya, which is closer to Egypt and has its grassroots support in the north.

(from http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=11633)

Rebel groups

This list includes groups related to the Darfur conflict

• SLA -- Sudan Liberation Army
• Jem -- Justice and Equality Movement
• Janjaweed
• Beja Congress

Pages on Sudan

• History of Sudan -- this is verbatim from the CIA Factbook
• Politics of Sudan -- this is verbatim from the CIA Factbook
• Second Sudanese Civil War -- eek! this one's a mess: repetition, chronology's all over the place, etc etc
• Sudanese literature -- really needs editing by someone who knows about the subject.
• Languages of Sudan

Banner and userbox

It doesn't look to me that this project has either a banner or userbox. If this is true, please feel free to use {{WikiProject Sudan}} and/or {{WikiProject Sudan userbox}}. Thank you. Badbilltucker 02:31, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

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Beautiful pictures of this country

Hi, just a quick note about this category on Commons containing photos related to this country which could really use inclusion in Wikipedia articles, beside an improved categorization. Thanks for your help! --Elitre (talk) 13:06, 5 November 2012 (UTC)

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Expert attention

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Merger discussion for Wau Shilluk

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Contests

User:Dr. Blofeld has created Wikipedia: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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• Diversity winner
• Gender-gap fillers

For further information about the contest, the recognition categories and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. See you around :).--Jamie Tubers (talk) 00:50, 30 September 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) 04:25, 27 October 2019 (UTC)