Wikipedia:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

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WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo
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CategoryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Portalflag Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikimedia CommonsCommons:Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo
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project(s)		Africa
Project banner template{{WikiProject Africa|DRC=yes|DRC-importance=}}
Userbox{{User WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
Assessment/Assessment
CSBRelevant for countering systemic bias

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

Scope[edit]

This group includes within its scope all articles related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo or one of its subcategories. This Project intends to cover an area that traditionally is low on Wikipedia's radar (See WP:Countering systematic bias). Please improve by joining and contributing.

Our mission[edit]

Worldwide density of geotagged Wikipedia entries. Really adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Dark Continent"...

Like our WikiProject Africa brethren, we have before us a large task: filling in the gap on Wikipedia concerning all things Congolese. This is probably one of the more difficult country-topics to maintain; the Congo is one of largest and most diverse African states, and has been in a state of instability since 1997.

The advantage? A clean slate. WikiProject DRC members have considerable latitude to create, edit, and revise relevant articles without the disruption of conjecture additions, unduly weighted material, or in-general unhelpful good faith edits (though some of our higher profile articles do suffer from this e.g. Patrice Lumumba). The French Wikipedia is a good place to start when looking for holes to fix. Just about all areas of the project are open to improvement.

Article alerts[edit]

Articles for deletion

Featured list candidates

Good article nominees

Articles for creation

Participants[edit]

Active members[edit]

To join WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo, edit this section and add the Wikitext #{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also place member identification on their user page.

  1. Francis Hannaway Francis Hannaway 21:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Brigade Piron (talk) 19:14, 29 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]
  3. Славянский патриот (talk) 04:40, 20 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
  4. Jackninja5 (talk) 02:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC) The Democratic Republic of the Congo has become very interesting to me now. I never call it simply "Congo". The Second Congo War gets my attention because for some reason I make a lot of edits about wars.[reply]
  5. Indy beetle (talk) 00:57, 23 September 2016 (UTC) Anything revolving around the Congo Crisis.[reply]
  6. Monopoly31121993 (talk) 13:18, 27 December 2016 (UTC) Mostly categories on Commons images related to DRC and DRC transportation edits on Wikipedia.[reply]
  7. Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum (talk) 21:20, 30 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
  8. BamLifa (talk · contribs) 07:30:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)  Whatever they say, DRC is still my country.[reply]
  9. AmplifyWiki (talk)
  10. CBJH (talk) 19:59, 26 October 2020 (UTC): Mostly Congolese political history from 1960 to 1997[reply]
  11. capitainAfrika
  12. Aegeou2 22:12:49, 16 December 2020 (UTC) [reply]
  13. A.S. Brown, History and culture.
  14. Dunutubble (talk · contribs) 16:27:03, 18 June 2022 (UTC) , History and politics.[reply]
  15. Jebiguess (talk · contribs) Modern political and military history and culture
  16. MiddleOfAfrica (talk · contribs) 21:21:55, 4 October 2023 (UTC)  Cultures, history and religions of the precolonial Kongo region; also interested in improving stub articles and creating templates[reply]

Former members[edit]

Thank you for your help! Please move your username back to the active list when you can participate again.

  1. John Carter 18:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  2. Congolese 05:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
  3. MinnesotanConfederacy 14:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Toussaint 17:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
  5. Gniniv (talk) 08:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  6. The Malau (talk) 08:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)[reply]
  7. Julia Barrow (talk) 17:09, 6 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]
  8. NhInsideWriter (talk) 03:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Member identification[edit]

Members of WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo participants.

Wikitext userbox where used
[[Category:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo participants]] none linked pages
{{Template:User Congolese Wikipedians}}
linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
This user is a participant in
WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
This user participates in
WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 linked pages
{{Template:User WP Democratic Republic of the Congo|invite}}
This user invites you to join
WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 linked pages

For other Democratic Republic of the Congo user templates, see Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo user templates.

Requests[edit]

Article requests[edit]

Photo requests[edit]

You can post your image requests on the list here, and on the talk page(s) of the subject(s) with this text: 

{{Image requested|in=the Democratic Republic of the Congo}}

Requests should be added 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.

Requests for expansion[edit]

Recognized content[edit]

Democratic Republic of the Congo articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total
FA 1 3 2 6
GA 2 2 10 9 3 26
B 9 7 19 11 51 97
C 27 23 36 85 183 354
Start 43 44 115 287 617 1,106
Stub 10 10 58 405 1,178 1,661
List 3 5 10 37 186 241
Category 3 2,067 2,070
Disambig 11 11
File 5 5
Portal 1 1
Project 4 4
Redirect 4 5 81 90
Template 137 137
Other 2 7 9
Assessed 94 92 255 846 2,313 2,218 5,818
Unassessed 1 1 51 53
Total 94 93 255 847 2,313 2,269 5,871
WikiWork factors (?) ω = 17,255 Ω = 5.31


Library[edit]

Useful templates[edit]

Web sources[edit]

Full texts[edit]

Photos[edit]

  • MONUSCO Photos - MONUSCO Flickr account, all photos licensed with Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
  • Radio Okapi Photos - Radio Okapi Flickr account (no longer updated), all photos licensed with Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Templates[edit]

Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for assessment information.

The invite template is below:
{{Join the DPRC Project}}
The citizenship template is below:
Citizenship template
Wikitext userbox where used
{{User Congo Democratic}}
This user comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
 linked pages

Awards[edit]

Post the text below to award users who make stellar contributions to Congo-related articles.

The Congo Barnstar{{subst:The Congo Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}

Related projects[edit]

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