Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone
This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians. New participants are welcome; please feel free to participate!
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Shortcut | WP:SIERRALEONE |
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Category | Sierra Leone |
Wikimedia Commons | Sierra Leone |
Parent project(s) | Africa |
Project banner template | {{WikiProject Africa|Sierra Leone=yes}} |
Userbox | {{User WikiProject Sierra Leone}} |
Assessment | /Assessment |
CSB | Relevant for countering systemic bias |
Welcome to the WikiProject Sierra Leone! This group was formed to better organize articles on Sierra Leone in a spirit of cooperation.
Scope
[edit]This group includes within its scope all articles related to Sierra Leone, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Sierra Leone in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Sierra Leone or one of its subcategories.
Participants
[edit]Active members
[edit]To join WikiProject Sierra Leone, 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 20:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
- Kaly99 (talk) 19:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC) working on Sierra Leone's protected areas
- Thomas.MacMillan 15:44, 22 January 2008
- ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ $1,000,000? 10:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)
- Your friend Eddy of the wiki[citation needed] 01:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
- Ratattuta (talk) 18:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
- Harrypotter (talk) (Aka User:Leutha)
- Hawanatu (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2019 (UTC)
- Jimmymansaray (talk) 15:00, 19 July 2015 (UTC)
- Amin Dayekh (talk · contribs)
- Sullay (talk) 01:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)
- Serenesage (talk) 08:42, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
- iogburu (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2022 (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) 20:20:44, 8 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.
Member identification
[edit]Members of WikiProject Sierra Leone should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Sierra Leone participants.
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{{Template:User WikiProject Sierra Leone}}
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{{Template:User WP Sierra Leone}}
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{{Template:User WP Sierra Leone
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For other Sierra Leone user templates, see Category:Sierra Leone user templates.
Open tasks
[edit]To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone:
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Other tasks
- Reference and clean up the articles selected for the Wikipedia 0.7 DVD release
- Expand history to include information prior to European contact in 1462, for History of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone articles.
- Populate the district templates with cheifdoms and towns.
Article alerts
[edit]Articles for deletion
- 16 Nov 2024 – Bomba Jawara (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Smallangryplanet (t · c) was closed as keep by OwenX (t · c) on 23 Nov 2024; see discussion (5 participants)
Articles to be merged
- 06 Jul 2024 – Palaver sauce (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Kontomire stew by Melsj (t · c); see discussion
Articles to create
[edit]- Religion in Sierra Leone
- Government of Sierra Leone currently a redirect
- Culture of Sierra Leone
- Literature of Sierra Leone
To do
[edit]A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Sources
[edit]Here are some useful sources for writing about Sierra Leone:
- Sierra Leone Encyclopedia produced by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations.
- USAID African picture library A selection of public domain, as USAID is a US federal agency, pictures of Sierra Lone (and other African countries)
Templates
[edit]Assessment
[edit]Please copy {{WikiProject Africa|Sierra Leone=yes}} to any Sierra Leone related article's talk pages to place the {{WikiProject Africa}} with the Sierra Leone wikiproject selected. To assess the class and importance of an article use the syntax shown to the right, please consider leaving a comment about how to improve the article by clicking on the link in the template.
{{WikiProject Africa| |Sierra Leone=yes |class= |importance= |Sierra Leone-importance= }}
The importance of the article can be assessed for WikiProject Africa using importance and for Wikiproject Sierra Leone using Sierra Leone-importance. The appearance of the banner is shown below.
Africa: Sierra Leone Unassessed | |||||||||||||
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Sierra Leone articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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Quality | Importance | ||||||
Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | ??? | Total | |
FA | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||
GA | 1 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 | ||
B | 4 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 23 | |
C | 8 | 4 | 17 | 25 | 60 | 114 | |
Start | 31 | 37 | 38 | 90 | 237 | 433 | |
Stub | 3 | 15 | 70 | 199 | 574 | 861 | |
List | 3 | 2 | 12 | 56 | 73 | ||
Category | 1,416 | 1,416 | |||||
Disambig | 1 | 1 | |||||
File | 3 | 3 | |||||
Portal | 1 | 1 | |||||
Project | 2 | 2 | |||||
Redirect | 1 | 2 | 6 | 90 | 99 | ||
Template | 85 | 85 | |||||
NA | 1 | 1 | |||||
Other | 3 | 3 | |||||
Assessed | 50 | 67 | 134 | 343 | 1,602 | 932 | 3,128 |
Total | 50 | 67 | 134 | 343 | 1,602 | 932 | 3,128 |
WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 7,874 | Ω = 5.45 |
Content
[edit]This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Sierra Leone articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options. |
Featured articles
[edit]Good articles
[edit]Former good articles
[edit]Did you know? articles
[edit]- 1967 Sierra Leonean general election
- Abortion in Sierra Leone
- Agriculture in Sierra Leone
- Art in Sierra Leone
- Atunda Ayenda
- Operation Barras
- Ishmael Beah
- British military intervention in the Sierra Leone Civil War
- Child soldiers in Sierra Leone
- Femi Claudius Cole
- Aniru Conteh
- Robert Copland-Crawford
- Michaela DePrince
- Education in Sierra Leone
- Falaba
- Health in Sierra Leone
- John Jeremie
- Paul Kamara
- Lagden's bushshrike
- Lungi Lol confrontation
- Mass media in Sierra Leone
- Matilda Lansana Minah V
- Mining in Sierra Leone
- Ndawa
- Nyarroh
- Rape during the Sierra Leone Civil War
- Rokel River
- Flag of Sierra Leone
- Sierra Leone Grammar School
- Sierra Leone at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Sierra Leone at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Sierra Leone women's national football team
- Lake Sonfon
- Thomas DeSaille Tucker
- Western African Ebola epidemic
In the News articles
[edit]- 2012 Sierra Leonean cholera outbreak
- 2017 Sierra Leone mudslides
- Cotton Tree (Sierra Leone)
- Michaela DePrince
- Diamond
- ECOWAS
- Freetown fuel tanker explosion
- Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)
- 2009 Sierra Leone ferry accident
- Somali Civil War (2009–present)
- Special Court for Sierra Leone
- Olufemi Terry
- Western African Ebola epidemic
New Content
[edit]Please feel free to list your new Sierra Leone related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.
- Healthcare in Sierra Leone (25 November 2018)
- Order of the Rokel (11 July 2018)
- Order of the Republic (11 July 2018)
- Priscilla Schwartz (13 June 2018)
- Patrick Daniel Koroma (6 May 2018)
- Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (26 May 2017)
- Atunda Ayenda (12 July 2008)
- Portal:Sierra Leone (29 June 2008)
- List of newspapers in Sierra Leone (29 June 2008)
- Education in Sierra Leone (24 June 2008)
Did You Know (DYK)s
[edit]- ...that Ishmael Beah, a former child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier? -- 18 February 2007
- ... that education in Sierra Leone (pictured) had to recover from the destruction of 1,270 primary schools during the Sierra Leone Civil War? -- 30 June 2008
- ...that despite healthcare in Sierra Leone decreasing child mortality from 302 deaths per live birth in 1990 to 282 in 2005 Sierra Leone still has the highest level child mortality in the world? -- Featured 27 January 2008
- ...that the history of media in Sierra Leone began in 1794 when the first printing press in Africa was delivered to the capital Freetown but that the press was destroyed before it could be used? -- April 26 2008
- ... that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone? -- July 16 2008
- ... that with an area of 8.2 km2 (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake? -- 6 March 2011
- ... that Dr. Priscilla Schwartz is the first woman ever to serve as Attorney General in Sierra Leone? -- June 15 2018
- ... that the Order of the Rokel is the highest honor in Sierra Leone? -- July 11 2018