Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Sahara

Interest

Hello, I just happened to notice this page, and was wondering what membership in such a project would entail. Western Sahara and the plight of the Sahrawi have always been subjects of interest for me, and I beleive I would find helping with such a project enjoyable.Conrino 06:26, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

===>I'm posting this at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Western Sahara and User talk:Conrino Let me personally welcome you to Wikipedia, and say hello to a fellow supporter of the Sahrawi cause. If you want to help out on the WikiProject Western Sahara, see here and here. If you have any questions, let me know. -Justin (koavf), talk 17:01, 23 February 2006 (UTC)

Hello, I'm new on Wikipedia and I logged in just to ask for the possibility to help you with this page. Me and some friends of mine, all students in International Studies in Italy, want to translate the portal into italian. You may know that, even if the Italian Government does not officially recognise the Saharawi Republic, many italian cities are involved in pro-Saharawi activities since the 80s, so that the issue is still hot in our country (especially at regional politics level). Can you help us? JacopoBencini (talk) 17:25, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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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 20:01, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

POV concerns

POV? If you have some suggestions to change this page radically, please list them. Otherwise, I founded this project, so I will revert it back to what I had previously. Why would you take off useful and relevant information (e.g. the to-do list)? -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 15:32, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

The to-do list is there in the article not removed as you alledge. It is not because you create the project that you can write whatever you want in it. What you call useful information was a naked Pro-Polisario POV-pushing. If you find anything pro-Morocco POV or anti-Polisario, bring it to the talk page first.--A Jalil 15:36, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

Contradiction Here's the contradiction: you want me to bring pro-Morocco bias to the talk page first, but you feel justified in deleting what you think is pro-Polisario bias without talking. Isn't that hypocritical? The template was, in fact, removed from the infobox, and that is plainly obvious. Why did you remove that? -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 15:38, 6 June 2007 (UTC)

POV There are other WikiProjects with flags of unrecognized countries, states, nationalist movements, etc: Wikipedia:WikiProject_Abkhazia, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palestine, Wikipedia:WikiProject_Assyria, and Wikipedia:WikiProject_Ossetia, for instance. There is no POV requirement for the display of a flag on a WikiProject page. I'm re-starting this WikiProject, and I would appreciate it if you didn't vandalize the page with mass deletions, the removal of the template from the infobox, and bolding inappropriate categories to prove some political point. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 20:44, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

POV

• This page does not separate between WS and the "sadr".
• The "sadr" flag has nothing to here.
• All small visulas and templates must be cleaned out acordingly (WS is a territory that must be presented in neutral manner)
• I will action this step by step.

wikima 21:29, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Wikipedia:WikiProject Morocco doesn't really separate between Morocco and Western Sahara, either. It seems perversely balanced. ¦ Reisio 21:41, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

This is a wikiproject for Western Sahara, Reisio, not the SADR. I looked at the page for Wikipedia:WikiProject Morocco and there is not a single occurence of the words "Western Sahara" or Southern provinces. I think that is correctly done.--A Jalil 21:52, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

Yet you guys have Talk:Western Sahara marked as part of WikiProject Morocco - does that seem neutral to you? :p (rhetorical) ¦ Reisio 03:45, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

Hello My name is Justin, and I founded this WikiProject. Did you read the title and scope sections? This is what the project is. If you want a different project, you can form one yourself, and I promise I will not change it around and mutilate it through entryism. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 23:53, 12 June 2007 (UTC)

This is ridiculous. All pages and projects in Wikipedia are founded by the community (started by one person), and no one claims ownership/patent/copyright of any thing here. If you think this is your property, then you either should change the naming to Wikiproject Justin Koavf, or find a place else than Wikipedia. As long as you claim this project is about Western Sahara, it is not yours. Sorry.--A Jalil 07:58, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

You're right It is ridiculous to do things like, for instance, make links to Moroccan categories bold. Why did you do that? I'm not claiming ownership on my part, but entryism on yours. -Justin (koavf)·T·C·M 15:29, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

Western Sahara not the sahrawi republic

• By it creation this project page had been dedicated to Western Sahara and not the the so-called Sahrawi Republic.
• If you like to develop one for this entity republic feel free:
• WS is one thiung, the "sadr" an other
• It owuld be no problem to insert all pro-Morocco views in here, but we want to keep it neutral don't we?

wikima 16:48, 15 June 2007 (UTC)

What's the matter - competition tiring you out? :p ¦ Reisio 03:46, 16 June 2007 (UTC)

• I don't know why you guys can't make the difference between WS and "sadr" or what ever entitiy?
• You have been around for ages and still you seem to have difficulties to ujnderstand this.
• But you see, I don't lose hope.

Cheers - wikima

Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Proposals#Berbers

I believe this very unique culture, with a one-of-a-kind alphabet Tifinagh and history dating back as far as ancient Egypt, merits it's own WikiProject. There is a beautiful portal at Portal:Berbers, and I think Wikipedia would benefit greatly from this. Chris 02:28, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

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neighbor Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers

We're up and running! Please visit and contribute at Wikipedia:WikiProject Berbers! Thanks! Chris (クリス • フィッチ) (talk) 05:39, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

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POV bis

While doubtless pointless, I would note that the stated objective of standardisation and neutrality are rather in tension given some highly discussable "standard" references on terms - e.g. Sahrawi adopts a pointedly (and somewhat pointless in many ways) Polisario / Arab Leftist assertion on identity and state of society re the Western Saharan tribes. Empirically it is highly doubtful to assert tribe is no longer a referent in Saharan society, whether Western Sahara or other Saharan / Sahraoui peoples. Those referents should be modified or deleted. (collounsbury (talk) 17:30, 6 May 2008 (UTC))

Well that last edit is a start, glad to see some reasonableness now. But in no way enough to make a neutral overview or baseline. A review of the current Sahraoui society description which was expanded highlights the contradiction (never mind you have a comparative without a clear referant). (collounsbury (talk) 21:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC))

Okay I'm happy to help; if you've got a better re-write, just go for it. I'm not concerned that you'll substantially damage the text. -Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 21:49, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Then I will give it a go this weekend (collounsbury (talk) 14:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC))

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Western Sahara and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

When i saw the title and the flag of this article, I was a bit confused. There's no such thing as "Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)". Western Sahara and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic are two different things. Western Sahara is a disputed territory mostly controlled by Morocco. So if we are talking about the territory, SADR flag should NOT be included in the article. While Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic is a government in exile, recognized by a few states. So to be fair, the article should talk about one of those two things. And please, be neutral. Don't put neither Sadr's flag nor Morocco's flag Koumed (talk) 16:15, 8 July 2008 (UTC)

This project should be reported

This project really lack neutrality, and its maintainer does NOT respect Wikipedia policy. Just to remind Justin (koavf) who said "hello to a fellow supporter of the Sahrawi cause", we are not here to support Sahrawi or Moroccan cause, we give people information as it is. Someone should do something about that, Justin support SADR and this should NOT be tolerated. Plus he thinks he owns the project, and show not respect to other members' opinion. Most people think that project is pro-SADR, and nobody is taking any action. Koumed (talk) 02:20, 9 July 2008 (UTC)

As a sahrawi who supports SADR myself, i do agree on this, there needs to be neutrality in Wikipedia, propaganda should not be tolerated SahrawiGuy (talk) 11:56, 5 August 2022 (UTC)

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Can someone provide the Arabic script on this badge? File:Scouts de Sahara.png Thank you! Chris (クリス • フィッチュ) (talk) 16:20, 4 December 2009 (UTC)

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Title changed to WikiProject Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic

It is abnormal, for a project related to a disputed territory, to be as POV as that!!

The user who started the project claims that he "owns" it by some way. Ok! He can keep it as he want, but some people are fed up by this mixup (see discussion page).

By changing its title, the nature of the project matches what it contains.

Omar-Toons (talk) 19:53, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

It seems as if the project focuses mostly in the Western Sahara territory and not in the exiled government of the territory. Even if that's not true, a such an extreme movement should be discussed here before. Best regards --Ecemaml (talk) 22:05, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

Here are some sentences from the project's page:

- Template's title: WikiProject Western Sahara (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic)

- Presentation: better organize information and edits in articles related to Western Sahara and the related government in exile, the (Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic) (...) It is a collaboration about the region Western Sahara, the government the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (...)

- The flag: The one used by the Polisario front

- The rest: Always about the independist's POV (as the "owner" of the project (as he describes himself on this discussion page a few lines before) claims, according to his user page and his interventions).

You can easily see that too many people tried to discuss it, but the "owner" refused any discussion about what he did.

In my opinion, the best way is to create a page of the SADR (the one I did), and to put two links on the one of "Western Sahara": One link to the SADR's project page and another one to the Morocco's project page.

I don't give any importance to my POV, I only try to make wiki as neutral as possible. A few years ago (when I joined WP on the french portal), it was hard to keep the articles clean of any pro-moroccan POV. However, nowadays it's the opposite: The moroccan and pro-moroccan users understood that we're working on an encyclopedia, not on a propaganda portal. Unfortunately, now it is the opposite for pro-Polisario users too: it became hard to keep the articles clean from any pro-Polisario POV!

I think that the best way is to put the content of this page on the SADR project, and to create a new page for WS projet, where we can explain that the territory is disputed, and put the links to both projects. Is that so hard? I don't think so!

Omar-Toons (talk) 22:25, 8 May 2010 (UTC)

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Flag of the project

The flag of the project is the SADR's flag. But Western Sahara is a territory in sovereignty dispute between Morocco and SADR. So the flag of the project must be either white or a mixed flag of Morocco and SADR (half-half) or something better : no flag and a map representing the Western Sahara territory instead. I'm saying this because the neutrality must be a rule in Wikipedia : the UN said the Western Sahara does not belong to Morocco nor SADR because of sovereignty dispute. Therefore no flags of any of these must be representing the project. Moroccan Sahara (talk) 02:43, 5 May 2011 (UTC)

Agreed, it's highly inappropriate that the Sahrawi flag is plastered all over the place here, just as it would be if it were the Morocco flag. Wikipedia is not supposed to take a position on what country rightfully owns Western Sahara. Unless someone objects I'll begin removing these flags. To you Western Saharans, or Moroccans or Sahrawis, whatever you want to call yourselves: Wikipedia is not a battleground in your Western Sahara conflict. From now on anyone who wants to fight in that conflict, do it somewhere other then Wikipedia. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 09:38, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I would support that argument. (And, taking it a step further: Which flag actually flies over Western Sahara?) bobrayner (talk) 14:08, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

I would think both the SADR and Morocco flags fly over Western Sahara, weather the Western Sahara belongs to the SADR or Morocco is disputed. De-facto, SADR controls the Free Zone (region) and Morocco controls the rest. To the best of my knowledge, there is no undisputed Western Sahara flag. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 02:37, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Flags flying The flag of Western Sahara/the SADR/Polisario, and the Moroccan one, and the UN flag, and probably a Spanish flag or two still. There are a lot of flags over there. None of them represent Western Sahara other than this one, though. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 05:46, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

It represents the SADR, weather the SADR represents Western Sahara is disputed. Wikipedia has no opinion on weather it's the SADR or Morocco represent Western Sahara. When we must have a Western Sahara flag, we should probably use or but the vast majority of the time we don't need a flag, to unnecessarily use the SADR flag implies that SADR owns Western Sahara. Wikipedia:WikiProject North America is also about a peace of land and it does fine without a flag. The Western Sahara article doesn't have a flag in it's infobox. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 06:09, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Flag That's simply untrue Emmette--the flag was designed prior to the designation of the SADR. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:14, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

It's still the SADR flag, my point stands. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 07:20, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

My point is that it isn't an undisputed Western Sahara flag, if it is why doesn't Western Sahara and Flag of Western Sahara list it as the flag of Western Sahara. Emmette Hernandez Coleman (talk) 07:27, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

Irrelevant Even if it's not, see Wikipedia:WikiProject_Palestine or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Abkhazia. Why does this only come up here? —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 07:34, 19 October 2012 (UTC)

No not Bold textirrelevant kid, very bloody relevant. As it happens the current [2016] version of Palestine project has no national flags at all. That looks to me to be good practice. Abkhazia, frankly no one cares about. This and Palestine get lots of activist attention. As I happen to visit the geography in question, it is easly reported that 75% or so of the territory is the Moroccan flag flying. The rump of course sans doubt has Polisario's flag. And no spanish flags - except when you're at a hotel where you've got every bloody country flag they can possibly put out in front to show how "international" they are.

The project, if it is anything but a thinkly disguised partisan political project, should not put out front a partisan flag. Simple as that. collounsbury (talk) 12:28, 25 September 2016 (UTC)

Comments requested at Flag of Western Sahara

Hello WikiProject Western Sahara editors! Your comment is requested over at Talk:Flag of Western Sahara; there is an RfC underway there to help decide what the article contents should be. (There are a few different options, such as redirection, disambiguation, etc.) If you can take some time to share your opinion on the matter, it would be very much appreciated. — Mr. Stradivarius ^♫ 15:07, 20 December 2011 (UTC)

POV template added...

... for the systematic association of Western Sahara (territory) with SADR (one of two claimants).

--Omar-Toons (talk) 09:22, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

Irrelevant WikiProjects can have symbols on them of any sort. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 16:47, 4 July 2012 (UTC)

It is not only about symbols (and no, Territories related Wikiproject must be neutral, the NPOV being a core content policy for the whole WP, not only articles), but the entire description.

As it is clearly mentioned on the template, it should not be removed before a consensual decision is taken. Thanks to kkep it on the header of the page.

Omar-Toons (talk) 02:26, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

Template instructions The template is for articles, as it explicitly states in the documentation. —Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 03:32, 5 July 2012 (UTC)

How

How can I contribute to this project GameOverTown (talk) 15:20, 13 August 2013 (UTC)

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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)

Category:Sahrawi people stubs and Category:Sahrawi politician stubs deletion discussion

Dawynn (talk) 18:36, 11 September 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject collaboration notice from the Portals WikiProject

The reason I am contacting you is because there are one or more portals that fall under this subject, and the Portals WikiProject is currently undertaking a major drive to automate portals that may affect them.

Portals are being redesigned.

The new design features are being applied to existing portals.

At present, we are gearing up for a maintenance pass of portals in which the introduction section will be upgraded to no longer need a subpage. In place of static copied and pasted excerpts will be self-updating excerpts displayed through selective transclusion, using the template {{Transclude lead excerpt}}.

The discussion about this can be found here.

Maintainers of specific portals are encouraged to sign up as project members here, noting the portals they maintain, so that those portals are skipped by the maintenance pass. Currently, we are interested in upgrading neglected and abandoned portals. There will be opportunity for maintained portals to opt-in later, or the portal maintainers can handle upgrading (the portals they maintain) personally at any time.

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.

So far, 84 editors have joined.

If you would like to keep abreast of what is happening with portals, see the newsletter archive.

If you have any questions about what is happening with portals or the Portals WikiProject, please post them on the WikiProject's talk page.

Thank you.    — The Transhumanist   08:00, 30 May 2018 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join us for the Months of African Cinema in October!

Greetings!

You are receiving this message because your username or portal was listed as a participant of a WikiProject that is related to Africa, the Carribean, Cinema or theatre.

This is to introduce you to a new Wikiproject called AfroCine. This new project is dedicated to improving the Wikipedia coverage of the history, works, people, places, events, etc, that are associated with the cinema, theatre and arts of Africa, African countries, the carribbean, and the diaspora. If you would love to be part of this or you're already contributing in this area, kindly list your name as a participant on the project page here.

Furthermore, In the months of October and November, the WikiProject is organizing a global on-wiki contest and edit-a-thon tagged: The Months of African Cinema. If you would love to join us for this exciting event, also list your username as a participant for this event here. In preparation for the contest, please do suggest relevant articles that need to be created or expanded in different countries, during this event!

If you have any questions, complaints, suggestions, etc., please reach out to me personally on my talkpage! Cheers!--Jamie Tubers (talk) 20:50, 5 September 2018 (UTC)

Welcome to the Months of African Cinema!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which has been dedicated to improving contents that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

This is a global online edit-a-thon, which is happening in at least 5 language editions of Wikipedia, including the English Wikipedia! Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section, if you haven't done so already.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing Users who are able to achieve the following:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• Country Winners
• Diversity winner
• High quality contributors
• Gender-gap fillers
• Page improvers
• Wikidata Translators

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) 22:50, 03 October 2018 (UTC)

Nomination of Portal:Western Sahara for deletion

A discussion is taking place as to whether Portal:Western Sahara is suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia according to Wikipedia's policies and guidelines or whether it should be deleted.

The page will be discussed at Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Portal:Western Sahara until a consensus is reached, and anyone is welcome to contribute to the discussion. The nomination will explain the policies and guidelines which are of concern. The discussion focuses on high-quality evidence and our policies and guidelines.

Users may edit the page during the discussion, including to improve the page to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the deletion notice from the top of the page. North America¹⁰⁰⁰ 03:07, 23 April 2019 (UTC)

AfroCine: Join the Months of African Cinema this October!

Greetings!

After a successful first iteration of the “Months of African Cinema” last year, we are happy to announce that it will be happening again this year, starting from October 1! In the 2018 edition of the contest, about 600 Wikipedia articles were created in at least 8 languages. There were also contributions to Wikidata and Wikimedia commons, which brought the total number of wikimedia pages created during the contest to over 1,000.

The AfroCine Project welcomes you to October, the first out of the two months which have been dedicated to creating and improving content that centre around the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora. Join us in this global edit-a-thon, by helping to create or expand articles which are connected to this scope. Also remember to list your name under the participants section.

On English Wikipedia, we would be recognizing participants in the following manner:

• Overall winner (1st, 2nd, 3rd places)
• 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)

Discussion relating to the issue SADR flag use on Western Sahara templates in respect of WP:NPOV

I've started a discussion at Template talk:Ethnic groups in Western Sahara#SADR flag neutrality issue. Posting here to possibly gain broader input on the issue, and also as reference given the broadness of the issue of SADR symbolism being used to represent this disputed territory across Wikipedia. Rob984 (talk) 17:21, 7 January 2020 (UTC)

Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes 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. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

Ýou can opt-out of this annual reminder from The Afrocine Project by removing your username from this list

Anthem of Western Sahara

Hello, can anyone link me to a reliable source with information on Western Sahara's national anthem? I am looking for the composer and/or lyricist as well as date of official adoptions so that I can improve List of national anthems. Thanks in advance! MSG17 (talk) 00:34, 1 November 2020 (UTC)

The Months of African Cinema Contest Continues in November!

Greetings,

Thank you very much for participating in the Months of African Cinema global contest/edit-a-thon, and thank you for your contributions so far.

It is already the middle of the contest and a lot have been achieved already! We have been able to get over 1,500 articles created in over fifteen (15) languages! This would not have been possible without your support and we want to thank you. If you have not yet listed your name as a participant in the contest page please do so.

Please make sure to list the articles you have created or improved in the article achievements' section of the contest page, so that they can be easily tracked. To be able to claim prizes, please also ensure to list your articles on the users by articles page. We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We are very excited about what has been achieved so far, but your contributions are still needed to further exceed all expectations! Let’s create more articles before the end of this contest, which is this November!!!

Thank you once again for being part of this global event! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 10:30, 06 November 2020 (UTC)

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2020 Western Saharan clashes

Hi, all. I just wanted to flag that there is a lot of work to do on the article for current war (2020 Western Saharan clashes), and on making sure that the article is properly linked to from other pages on Wikipedia. I've done what I could over the last several weeks to clean up the lead and the background section, but the rest of the article is incomplete and leans heavily on propagandistic Moroccan sources. Come help out! --JECE (talk) 20:52, 4 January 2021 (UTC)

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!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes 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. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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!

Greetings,

It is already past the middle of the contest and we are really excited about the Months of African Contest 2021 achievements so far! We want to extend our sincere gratitude for the time and energy you have invested. If you have not yet participated in the contest, it is not too late to do it. Please list your username as a participant on the contest’s main page.

Please remember to list the articles you have improved or created on the article achievements' section of the contest page so they can be tracked. In order to win prizes, be sure to also list your article in the users by articles. Please note that your articles must be present in both the article achievement section on the main contest page, as well as on the Users By Articles page for you to qualify for a prize.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap filler - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Thank you once again for your valued participation! --Jamie Tubers (talk) 18:50, 11 November 2021 (UTC)

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

Main page: User:Headbomb/unreliable

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

• John Smith "Article of things" Deprecated.com. Accessed 2020-02-14. (John Smith "[https://www.deprecated.com/article Article of things]" ''Deprecated.com''. Accessed 2020-02-14.)

and turns it into something like

• 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.

- 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)

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 Wikipedia: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 |QUALITY_CRITERIA=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) 22:31, 13 April 2023 (UTC)

Disambiguation of links to Law enforcement in Western Sahara

Could you help to disambiguate links to Law enforcement in Western Sahara? There are over 50 articles (shown at Disambig fix list for Law enforcement in Western Sahara) which link to the dab page. It would be useful to readers if these linked to a more specific article and it is not always clear which article is most appropriate. Any help appreciated — Rod ^talk 17:37, 13 June 2023 (UTC)

Women in Green's 5th Edit-a-thon

Hello WikiProject Western Sahara:

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) 13:59, 21 September 2023 (UTC)

Potential Errors in Popularised Maps

Hi all, I understand that I am new to this topic on Wikipedia but I am profusely confused by the maps of the conflict popularised on the pages under this topic, even including the logo of the topic. There is a wealth of sources that clarify the berms cross over the Mauritanian border (A couple examples of: Zunes, S. et al (2010) 'Western Sahara : War, Nationalism, and Conflict Irresolution'; this map here shared by the USC; another map on Wikipedia including the 2020 berm.) The current maps seem to all suggest that the Polisario territory is not split up by the berms, which I cannot see has been questioned despite the conflicts in some sources.

As such, I would like to bring up a discussion for the sake of whether all the maps should be corrected to include new information (the 2020 berm) and fix berms not crossing over into Mauritania.

Regards Quinby (talk) 11:51, 31 January 2024 (UTC)

This has come up in at least one other discussion semi-recently, but I think there is a problem with there not being enough reliable map sources. ―Justin (koavf)❤T☮C☺M☯ 02:27, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

@Koavf The berm is visible from Google's satellite imagery (e.g., 25°58'28.3"N 11°59'50.5"W), which seems like enough of a source to reject the maps currently in place. The wiki map I shared above seems to be the most accurate relative to the satellite imagery, so potentially it could be adapted and used instead, especially following the 2020 berm. Quinby (talk) 09:17, 1 February 2024 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)#Requested move 6 February 2024

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Western Saharan clashes (2020–present)#Requested move 6 February 2024 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. Lolekek (talk) 05:03, 6 February 2024 (UTC)