WikiProject Burkina Faso

This WikiProject is about Burkina Faso.
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Welcome to the WikiProject Burkina Faso! This group was formed to better organize articles on Burkina Faso in a spirit of cooperation.

[edit] Scope

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.

[edit] Goals

[edit] General

• To coordinate and improve articles related to Burkina Faso in a fair and accurate manner.

[edit] Specific

• 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 create and maintain the Burkina Faso portal.

[edit] Participants

If you haven't already done so, please also add your name to the members list of our parent Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa.

• 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)

Members can add the {{User WikiProject Burkina Faso}} userbox to their userpages to identify themselves as members of this group.

[edit] Things you can do

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso:

Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: Adiza Sanoussi, Honorine Mare, Marie-Simone Séri, Maxime Somé, Monique Ilboudo, Sandra Pierrette Kanzie, Simporé Simone Compaore, Sophie Heidi Kam, Suzy Henique Nikiéma, Tagbaladougou Falls, Zarra Guiro More... Copyedit: Bil Aka Kora Verify: Ambassadors to Burkina Faso, Bobo-Dioulasso, Cinema of Burkina Faso, Dioula language, Mossi Kingdoms, Saye Zerbo Cleanup: Fula people, Mandinka people, Migrants' African routes, Ouagadougou Expand: Black Volta, Blaise Compaoré, Lobi, Red Volta, White Volta Disambiguation: Mouhoun Stubs: Burkinabe parliamentary election, 2007, Congress for Democracy and Progress, Culture of Burkina Faso, Gaston Kaboré, Henri Zongo, Military of Burkina Faso, Upper Volta Other: Burkina Faso (improvement from B-class)

[edit] Recognized content

[edit] Featured articles

[edit] Good articles

[edit] Did You Know (DYK)s

[edit] Formerly recognized content

[edit] Former featured articles

[edit] Former good articles

[edit] Templates

Please add tag Burkina Faso-related article by modifying the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:

 {{AfricaProject |Burkina Faso=yes }} 

Please see {{AfricaProject}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Burkina Faso/Provincial templates

• To request a photo for an article, please add {{reqphoto|in=Burkina Faso}} to the article talkpage.

[edit] Resources

[edit] External

• (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)