Wikipedia talk:African Collaboration of the Fortnight

message: This might be considered controversial but I added here because I feel that it is an African related topic. Falphin 21:40, 9 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Third World Debt

message: Architecture of Africa and Second Liberian Civil War are in a tie of 4 votes. Assuming that it's still a tie on the 17th, how will the next COTW be chosen? Revolución 01:34, 16 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  a tie? 

message: Hey, I noticed this has been used on some user talk pages, but because it hasn't been subst'ed in when you're looking through archives (or whatever) you can only see the current COTW, and not the one they were notified about, so I think it should only be subst'd in.. -- Joolz 17:24, 21 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Use of {{tl|AFRICAvoter}}

message: I am not sure of the time period for removing a nomination. I had nominated Culture of Africa, which I want to be removed, as it could not get sufficient votes. What should I do to remove this nomination? --Bhadani 14:03, 3 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Removing a nomination

message: ===Option 1===
*Nominations without enough votes will not be removed. There will be no limit to how long a nomination can be on the African COTW. Nominations can be removed if the nomination is not an Africa-related topic or it is not a serious nomination or if the nominator wants it to be removed. 
*Support:
#Revolución 02:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Vote on whether to remove nominations that have not gotten enough votes in a given time period

message: *Nominations without enough votes will not be removed. There will be no limit to how long a nomination can be on the African COTW. Nominations can be removed if the nomination is not an Africa-related topic or it is not a serious nomination or if the nominator wants it to be removed. 
*Support:
#Revolución 02:06, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Option 1

message: i'm a fairly frequent reader and contributer on africa articles, usually on the DR Congo, but from personal experience (seeing NO ONE doing anything for dar-es-salaam last week for example) it would seem to me that there's a lack of coordination on the Collaboration. my guess is the problem is people who edit Africa-related articles typically have fairly specific expertise due to the it often being difficult to find information on African topics. This makes it difficult for people to "write what they know" because they may no absolutely nothing. i know very little about dar-es-salaam and west Africa so even though i did a little searching (and found nothing by the way) on D-E-S, i didnt feel i would be able to contribute anything. but ive read a few books on the congo so i'm able to make some contributions there. this collaboration page may just be too broad to target specific articles. most of the collaborations that have had a lot of success are very focused on specific countries like south africa or india. this page covers an entire continent and i think it's difficult to expect that people will be able to contribute to topics on Ghana when their knowledge pertains mostly to the Great Lakes region. I think the regional updates are a pretty good first step, such as this week's. I dont know what to propose for solutions. Having a kind of "required reading" list might be extremely useful just to give people better knowledge of the topic and thereby allowing them to an idea about how to contribute. Links like on the Countering system bias page to the topic may also be useful. Also, 'advertise' the hell out of this page on as many Africa related pages as possible (which you may already be doing). anyway, thanks.--Gozar 00:20, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  more coordination needed? 

message: Even with the change to fortnightly, we seem to be overdue for a new topic, so I'm being bold and changing it over, but someone more qualified should probably take a glance at this; apologies if I screw anything up.  I won't be able to do this on a regular basis, though, so someone else should keep an eye out too.  Best, --Dvyost 22:08, 21 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  New topic 

message: I'm switching the COTF to African Democratic Rally, as we're long overdue for a move.  Unfortunately Central Africa has received only one edit in a solid month of being COTF (my fault as much as anyone's).  Let's hope the the ADR can do better; anyone who wants to help save this project, now is the time to act! --Dvyost 22:28, 6 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Save this project 

message: I've finally added my accumulated research to the articles Amda Seyon I and Zara Yaqob, & would like some comments about them. No, you don't have to be an expert on Ethiopian history (although that would be nice ;): what I'm looking for is input on how well I cover the subjects, any discrepencies or contradictions, suggestions for improvement (I know I know, needs more images) -- the kind of issues someone using Wikipedia would feel is important. Please leave the comments on the Talk page. In return, I'd be happy to do the same for anyone else. -- llywrch 22:27, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Good job. I Did some copy editing. -- Svest 22:56, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Request for Comments 

message: I am hoping to get this collaboration functioning again. --Revolución hablar ver 03:04, 26 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Revival of Collaboration

message: Just noticed that Kibera was the COTW; don't forget to add the template to the Talk: page (I forgot to do so when nominating, too!). — Matt Crypto 09:28, 15 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Templates on talk pages

message: Hi, I feel a bit odd writing this as I haven't been involved in this collaboration but I noticed that the Collaboration was listed in a redirect over at WP:AFR.  There hasn't been an update, as far as I can tell, in over a month.  Is there enough interest to restart this or shall I put  on this page?  - BanyanTree 03:42, 4 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  um