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Join the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project invites you to join us again this October and November, the two months which are dedicated to improving content about the cinema of Africa, the Caribbean, and the diaspora.

Join us in this exciting venture, by helping to create or expand contents in Wikimedia projects which are connected to this scope. Kindly list your username under the participants section to indicate your interest in participating in this contest.

We would be awarding prizes to different categories of winners:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

We would be adding additional categories as the contest progresses, along with local prizes from affiliates in your countries. For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. Looking forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 19:22, 22nd September 2020 (UTC)

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Welcome to the Months of African Cinema Global Contest!

Greetings!

The AfroCine Project core team is happy to inform you that the Months of African Cinema Contest is happening again this year in October and November. We invite Wikipedians all over the world to join in improving content related to African cinema on Wikipedia!

Please list your username under the participants’ section of the contest page to indicate your interest in participating in this contest. The term "African" in the context of this contest, includes people of African descent from all over the world, which includes the diaspora and the Caribbean.

The following prizes would be recognized at the end of the contest:

• Overall winner
  • 1st - $500
  • 2nd - $200
  • 3rd - $100
• Diversity winner - $100
• Gender-gap fillers - $100
• Language Winners - up to $100*

Also look out for local prizes from affiliates in your countries or communities! For further information about the contest, the prizes and how to participate, please visit the contest page here. For further inquiries, please leave comments on the contest talkpage or on the main project talkpage. We look forward to your participation.--Jamie Tubers (talk) 23:20, 30th September 2021 (UTC)

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Zambian Road Articles

Hi, People.

When I joined Wikipedia, I found that only the Great North Road, Great East Road and Lusaka-Mongu Road had articles from all the roads in Zambia.

Then, I decided to make sure that each & every "Main Road" in Zambia, from T1 to T6 (inter-territorial roads) and from M1 to M20 (territorial roads), has an article on Wikipedia; either its own article or mentioned under another article as a branch road.

I would use the "Road and Road Traffic Amendment Act (Cap 464)" as my citation on these articles, since every single "numbered route" in Zambia is listed in that document.

Now, a problem has arisen. Under each road article, I would place "Route" sections, describing the numbered routes entirely from start to finish. But now, on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Highways, certain editors have claimed that leaving the "Route" section uncited is wrong and also that citing GPS Websites such as OpenStreetMap and Google Maps is also wrong, as those websites are "unreliable", although I beg to differ!

So, what is your opinion on this matter? Which websites would you recommend for us to be using on Zambian Road Articles? If citations are not found for those "Route" sections, we risk editors deciding to erase that content. Chils Kemptonian (talk) 14:34, 29 September 2022 (UTC)

@Chils Kemptonian Well, this is a tough question to answer; since proper atlases, either online or offline , are not easily accessible in this nation, I can't think of how the problem can be resolved regarding citing. I see you did extensive work on the T2 road (Zambia) article and it is sad to think that such information (i.e. the "Route" section) can be erased easily by authorized editors. Anyway, when I have time, I will try to ask our fellow residents of Zambia about what books exist on the roads of the nation apart from that "Legislation" (Roads Act) cited in the introduction of the article I mentioned. GeographicAccountant (talk) 22:24, 2 October 2022 (UTC)

Requested move at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022

There is a requested move discussion at Talk:Death and state funeral of Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani#Requested move 25 September 2022 that may be of interest to members of this WikiProject. UtherSRG (talk) 10:50, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

That probably was cryptic... why do we care about that? This RM involves about 50 state funeral articles, including at least one that is related to this WP. - UtherSRG (talk) 12:12, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Zambian Constituency and District Articles

Greetings.

I have noticed that every Zambian Parliamentary Constituency has an article on Wikipedia except the ones from Southern Province and Western Province. Could there be a reason that the two provinces have been avoided? A few minutes ago, I created the Sioma (constituency) and Nkeyema articles (both created for the 2016 election),

Also, there were two duplicate articles, namely Nkeyama District and Nkeyema District. I decided to redirect the article with the spelling error (the first one) to the article with the correct name (the latter one). Did I do the right thing here? GeographicAccountant (talk) 02:11, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

I was creating the constituency articles, and was going through the template ({{Zambian constituencies}}) in order; I just hadn't got to the bottom rows yet. Cheers, Number 57 17:03, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

@Number 57 Cool. Thanks. GeographicAccountant (talk) 17:25, 7 October 2022 (UTC)

AfD: Chilinda District

Just leaving a notice of an AfD process for the Chilinda District article. See Chilinda District AFD GeographicAccountant (talk) 15:47, 18 October 2022 (UTC)