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This is a WikiProject, a collaboration area and open group of editors dedicated to improving Wikipedia's coverage of a particular topic, or to organizing some internal Wikipedia process.
Please see the Guide to WikiProjects and the Directory of WikiProjects for more information.

Some Wikipedians have formed a project to better organise information in articles related to South Africa. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians. If you would like to help, please inquire on the talk page.

Scope

This WikiProject aims primarily to help coordinate pages on:

Task Forces

Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Municipalities task force

Participants

The South African Bush Telegraph

The Bush Telegraph has started for those who are interested on been kept in the loop on issues involving South African articles and contributors

Recognized content

South Africa articles		Importance
South Africa articles		Top	High	Mid	Low	None	Total
Quality
	FA					3	3
	GA					12	12
	B	1	1			35	37
	C					1	1
	Start	2	2	8	3	194	209
	Stub	1	1	5	11	1439	1457
	List					10	10
	Assessed	4	4	13	14	1694	1729
	Unassessed					413	413
	Total	4	4	13	14	2107	2142

Good articles

Did You Knows (DYKs)

Arniston (ship) (11 November 2007)
Mzoli's (22 September 2007)
Erik Chisholm (20 August 2007)
Afrikaner nationalism (7 October 2008)

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Flag of South Africa - 22 March, 2005.
Cape Town promoted 2006-06-23, featured on the Main page 2006-07-18, demoted 2008-02-18.
South Africa promoted 2005-03-10, demoted 2008-02-13
Johannesburg promoted 2005-01-18, featured on the Main page 2005-07-25, demoted 2007-07-28

Former good articles

Templates

{{AfricaProject|South Africa=yes}} should be added to the talk pages of all articles within the Category:South Africa or any of its subcategories. It automatically adds these articles to the Category:WikiProject South Africa articles.

Additional South African specific templates can be found in Category:South Africa templates and should be used on articles as appropriate.

All members should feel free to add the {{User WikiProject South Africa}} to their userpages.

Infobox

{{Infobox Settlement}} can be used for all types of settlements in South Africa. This will provide a consistent look between South African articles and with articles from other settlements around the world. Examples: Durban, Kloof, and Johannesburg

Pages Needing Work

Missing Pages

Many smaller SA languages have no pages, or only stubs (links below).

Cuisine

Main article: Cuisine of South Africa

Morogo
South African wine is still pretty rudimentary, let alone articles on all the wine regions, wineries, Pinotage, Constantia etc - the Wine Project badly needs some SA input, it's at the level where even basic knowledge can make a big difference. FlagSteward 17:32, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

Culture

South African Poetry – There's a WikiMoney reward for this one
Ditwits – Front page editorial cartoon for The Times; needs some cleaning

Geography

For towns pick the Red links on List of towns in South Africa

People

R. W. Johnson academic
Arthur Johnstone
Vukile Mehana
~~Jan Grootboom, article exists at es:Jan Grootboom~~
Elkin Sithole, ethnomusicologist

Miscellaneous

Pages referencing large numbers of non-existent pages

Stubs needing work

Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife - If someone could put more detailed information, especially on conservation in KZN in general (eg: Rhino projects)
News24 - This online news service needs some TLC
All the SA language pages need work: all eleven official languages, and also all sorts of non-official languages. Very little is published on most of the unofficial ones (and even many of the official ones). But readers who are mother-tongue speakers/native speakers of English, Afrikaans, any of the nine official African languages, any of the Indian languages, and all of the other non-standard varieties/dialects, and especially those who may have direct experience of non-standard dialects (e.g. who know about speech communities embedded within other communities): these would ALL be welcome to contribute to the SA languages pages. Their knowledge is invaluable, especially if it has no published source. Of course, all such claims would have to be verified later, but in the meantime, such first-hand experience will push forward the boundaries of linguistic knowledge in South Africa.
Joel Netshitenzhe - I started this one on a well-known ANC politician ..supposedly has the backing of Thabo Mbeki for presidency. I am still trying to pick my way thru google. -- 21:50, 29 July 2007 (UTC)
I have created an outline for PUTCO, but getting all the details together is taking some time. Anyone interested in helping out. --NJR_ZA (talk) 10:38, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
I have started an article about Thunder City the Cape Town based owner and operator of a number of unique ex military jet aircraft. Please help to expand it. Roger (talk) 17:22, 19 October 2008 (UTC)

Larger pages needing work

Quite a few ministers and ministries on Ministers of the South African Government are still redlink, contributions would be appreciated!

Other suggested work

Looking at "What links here" for SA-related articles can often turn up uncategorised SA articles. Categorising them (even simply as Category:South Africa for now) will put them somewhere where they can be accessed for improvement.
South African Collaboration of the Week
A few South African (or related) topics that could get someone started
I've started the Category:Media of South Africa, with an accompanying list, but I haven't even started on the newspapers and radio stations. -Kierano