Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria

This WikiProject was formed to foster better articles on the African country Algeria with a spirit of cooperation. This page and its future subpages contain suggestions on formatting and layout of articles, which can be discussed at the project's talk page.

Members

To participate, simply add your name to the members subpage.

Scope

This project covers the creation and editing of articles related to the nation of Algeria, its cities, counties, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Algeria in a fair and accurate manner.

Project divisions

• Categorization (talk) – Categorization of Algeria-related articles
• Cities (talk) – Cities, towns, villages and districts
• Physical geography (talk) – Regions, parks, climate, physical features
• Transportation (talk) – Roads, trails and rails in and around Algeria.
• Culture (talk) – Music, art, icons, mass communication
• People (talk) – includes residents of the current nation of Algeria, all its predecessors, and all those people who have resided in any of Algeria's predecessor states who have shaped Algeria
• Government (talk) – Governance, as well as federal, state and local politics in relation to Algeria and its predecessors
• History (talk) – history of Algeria and its predecessors
• Photo requests (talk) – List of requested photos.

Featured content

Featured articles

The following Algeria-related articles have become Featured articles, which means that they been identified as among the best articles produced by the Wikipedia community. They have not necessarily been improved to Featured Status by this WikiProject. These articles may be chosen as "Article of the month" or "Personality of the month" on the Algeria portal.

Education

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Geography

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Landmarks

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History

• Algerian Civil War

Notable Algerian

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Culture and the Arts

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Society and Politics

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Featured lists

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Featured images

For more information, see Wikipedia:Featured pictures. Pictures are chosen by the Wikipedia community because they are beautiful, shocking, impressive, and/or informative. Algeria-related featured pictures can be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Gallery.

Featured topics

See Wikipedia:Featured topics for more info. A featured topic is a collection of inter-related articles that are of a good quality (though are not necessarily featured articles). A featured topic represents Wikipedia’s best work by thoroughly covering all parts of that topic through several high-quality articles that share a similar structure and are well-linked with each other.

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Featured portals

See Wikipedia:Featured portals for more information. The criteria for becoming Freatured portals can be found at Wikipedia:Featured portal criteria. Portals can be put up for featured status at Wikipedia:Featured portal candidates.

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Peer review/Featured article candidates (FAC)

Following is a list of Algeria-related featured article candidates. Please contribute toward making them featured articles by voting and copyediting to remedy potential objections.

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Recent featured article candidates:

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Following is a list of Algeria-related articles submitted for peer review (an important step toward becoming a featured article). Please contribute by copyediting to remedy potential objections.

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Formerly recognized content

Former featured articles

Good articles (GA)

• Berber people

Criteria for assessing articles

Consult Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Assessment for information on assessing articles and the criteria utilized.

Requests

Article requests

See: Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Article requests

Photo requests

In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and on the Wikimedia Commons (Commons:Commons:Picture requests), please also post them at fr:Wikipédia:Atelier photographique on the French Wikipedia. If you do not know French, you can ask someone at fr:Wikipédia:Bistro_des_non-francophones/en to help you.

Related Portals

• Portal:Algeria

Every member should feel free to inform the managers of these portals if they have worked on an article which they believe would be of interest to the above portals.

Did you know?

Any articles that have been created or expanded in the last 5 days are eligible for Main Page inclusion at Template:Did you know, so if you find an interesting fact in any of these articles, please nominate it at Template talk:Did you know and, once posted on the main page, add it to the DYK list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/New article announcements. Another place to list interesting facts from new articles is at Portal:Algeria/Did you know (the archive of that page can be seen at Portal:Algeria/Did you know archive).

Open Tasks

• Place the {{WikiProject Algeria}} on the talk pages of all articles that fall within the scope of this project.
• Add the articles, by category, to the Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Articles, list, and
• Monitor the recent changes for improvements which might raise the assessment level, damages to the articles, and vandalism.
• Maintain and update the Template:Algeria tasks.

Project Barnstar

There are no barnstars yet which might be given out to editors who make substantial contributions to articles in their specific field.

Resources

News

• Afrol News Algeria
• All Africa.com Algeria
• Algeria Watch
• Algerie Press Service
• BBC News Algeria
• El-Khabar
• El Moudjahid
• North Africa Journal
• OneWorld Algeria

Directories

• Encyclopaedia Britannica - Algeria's country page
• CIA - The World Factbook
• Open Directory Project - Algeria directory category
• El Mouradia official presidential site (in French and Arabic)
• National People's Assembly official parliamentary site

Tourism, history, gastronomy

• Template:Wikitravel

Maps and travel guides

• Template:Wikitravel

Infoboxes

Template:Infobox province

Template:Infobox district

Template:Infobox settlement

Stubs

For information on which stubs to use on Algeria-related articles, see the list of stubs at Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Stub templates

• Category:Algeria stubs

Templates

• {{WikiProject Algeria}} - Template placed on the top of talk pages, not on article pages
• {{User WikiProject Algeria}} - For members
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Algeria/Provincial templates

Translation and style guides

• Naming Conventions

Websites

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Tools

Main tool page: toolserver.org

• Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
• Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
• Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
• Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

External watchlist

• Wikiproject Watchlist - WikiProject Algeria