Wikipedia:WikiProject Mali

WikiProject Mali

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Shortcut	WP:MALI
Category	Mali
Wikimedia Commons	Mali
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{AfricaProject|Mali=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Mali}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

Welcome to the WikiProject Mali! This group was formed to better organize articles on Mali in a spirit of cooperation.

Scope

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Mali, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Mali in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Mali or one of its subcategories.

Open tasks

• Work on articles relating to Mali Tagged as needing work in the AfricaProject . Tag articles with {{AfricaProject | class= |Mali=yes}} and an assessment.
• Assess the Unassessed Mali articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
• Tag all Mali-relevant articles with {{AfricaProject | class= |Mali=yes}} and an assessment.
• Add your name to the WikiProject Mali members list (below), and to the members list of our parent Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa.
• Invite more users to join. WikiProject Africa with knowledge of or interest in Mali.
• Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red). Sort through Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics for Mali related requests.
• Create Mali subcategories and populate the created categories. Remove items from Category:Mali that ought to be in subcategories.
• Look for open source photographs that can be uploaded to the Commons for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Mali.
• Create basic Mali topic articles: see User:TUF-KAT/Topics by country for a list of links for every nation/every basic topic.
• More things to do...

Template

Please add Mali-related articles by modifying or adding the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:

{{AfricaProject
|Class=List/Stub/Start/B/
|importance=Low/Mid/High/Top
|Mali=yes
|Mali-importance= Low/Mid/High/Top
}}

Note that these tags are case sensitive. Please see {{AfricaProject}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

Needing photos

Mali articles needing photos may be tagged with {{reqphoto|in=Mali}}. Those tagged need photos can be found at : Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Mali

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.

Currently needing work

If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here, and/or discuss it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Mali. There should be no more than 20 articles listed at one time. Put the newest at the top and delete from the bottom when the total is over 20.

Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~

1. History of Mali, Start class. Light on French Rule, Docolonisation, history since 2000: These + Medieval/Pre-Colonial history need to be integrated into a narative and summarised in Mali. T L Miles (talk) 14:48, 12 June 2008 (UTC)

1. Create and expand Communes of Mali

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 19:45, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
• T L Miles (talk) 16:04, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
• Dr. Blofeld ^{White cat} 17:56, 24 January 2009 (UTC)
• ~EDDY ^{(talk/contribs/editor review)}~ 21:29, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

Members should also feel free to add {{User WikiProject Mali}} to their userpages to identify themselves as members of this group.

Recognized content

Mali articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1		2	1		1	5
B	14	6	5	4		17	46
C	18	12	9	27		66	132
Start	51	31	66	124		383	655
Stub	11	11	79	198		1,189	1,488
List	3	5	3	21		51	83
Category				4	1,571		1,575
Disambig					4		4
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					8		8
Redirect		1		3	68		72
Template				2	98		100
Other					4		4
Assessed	98	66	164	384	1,759	1,707	4,178
Unassessed						13	13
Total	98	66	164	384	1,759	1,720	4,191
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 12,879			Ω = 5.54

Former featured articles

• Great Mosque of Djenné

Good articles

• Agacher Strip War
• French Sudan
• Hamidou Maiga
• New Ancient Strings
• Western African Ebola virus epidemic

Former good articles

• Berber languages
• Berbers
• Mali
• Timbuktu
• Trans-Saharan trade

Did you know? articles

• Adrar des Ifoghas
• Air Mali (1960–1989)
• Seku Amadu
• Battle of Kirina
• Bògòlanfini
• Gustave Borgnis-Desbordes
• Bwa people
• Confédération africaine des travailleurs croyants (French West Africa and Togo)
• Bitòn Coulibaly
• Ismaël Coulibaly
• Fily Dabo Sissoko
• Dakar–Niger Railway
• Mamadou Diabaté
• Mahmoud Dicko
• French Sudan
• Gory Gopela
• Groupe Bogolan Kasobané
• Hawad
• Daba Modibo Keïta
• Lake Débo
• List of rulers of Liptako
• Mali Federation
• Malian Family Code
• Mamma Haidara Commemorative Library
• Military history of the Mali Empire
• Mining industry of Mali
• Movement for Oneness and Jihad in West Africa
• National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad
• Senufo people
• Slavery in Mali
• Songhoy Blues
• Sulayman of Mali
• Omar Saidou Tall
• Téréba Togola
• Tomora
• Battle of Tondibi
• Dandara Touré
• Union of African States
• Western African Ebola virus epidemic
• Wildlife of Mali

In the News articles

• 2012 Malian coup d'état
• 2015 European migrant crisis
• 2020 Malian coup d'état
• Air Algérie Flight 5017
• 2015 Bamako hotel attack
• ECOWAS
• Battle of Gao
• 2017 Gao bombing
• Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta
• Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga
• Mali War
• 2021 Malian coup d'état
• Moura massacre
• Bah Ndaw
• Niger River
• Nigerien crisis (2023–2024)
• Ogossagou massacre
• Malick Sidibé
• Django Sissoko
• Amadou Toumani Touré
• Younoussi Touré
• Tuareg rebellion (2012)
• United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali
• 2009–2010 West African meningitis outbreak
• Western African Ebola virus epidemic

Templates

Please see {{AfricaProject}} for assessment information.

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Mali/Regional commune templates

Resources

• Personnalités politiques du Mali: short biographies of major political figures, Le Mali en ligne(2005-2008) Retrieved 2008-09-12.

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.