Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ethiopia/Geography

message: Elfalem is working on some infoboxes for Ethiopian cities (and I think he'll help out w/ woreda and Region ones), but he needs some idea of how much information we can know. Llywrch, I know you have access to CSA data; how many cities does it analyze? If it only gives numbers for the big ones, there's also a site that has current estimates for all cities greater than 20,000 people that we can use, but I have to remember where it was located. — ዮም (Yom) | contribs • Talk 21:04, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Infoboxes

message: I've just had a brief chit-chat with , who is in the process of creating articles for every single woreda in Ethiopia. They're all being put in :Category:Woredas of Ethiopia. Llywrch has just told me that in the end, there will be about 500 articles, which would mean that the category would span two-and-a-half pages. I suggest sorting them by region, which would lead to eleven daughter categories: 
*:Category:Woredas of Addis Ababa 
*:Category:Woredas of Afar Region
*:Category:Woredas of Amhara Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Benishangul-Gumaz Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Dire Dawa 
*:Category:Woredas of Gambela Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Harari Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Oromia Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Somali Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region 
*:Category:Woredas of Tigray Region 
This would be consistent with the sorting of subdivisions in other countries (see for instance :Category:Municipalities of the Netherlands). Special woredas could be double-categorized. Any thoughts on this? Aecis I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. 23:24, 10 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Not to criticize your general idea, but there is only one woreda article worth writing for Dire Dawa, & I don't plan on writing separate articles for each woreda in Addis & Harar. (Doing so would be the equivalent of writing an article about every electorial ward in Chicago; I may be wrong about this, but someone else will have to populate that category.) I also think that some of the smaller regions could be lumped together into one miscellaneous category, viz. Dire Dawa, Gambela & Benishangul-Gumaz. Other thoughts? -- llywrch 02:50, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Hmm...well Dire Dawa and Addis don't really have woredas, though, do they? I thought they just go straight down to the kebele ("neighborhood") level, which would be like American electorial wards. They're simply chartered cities (astedader akababi, singular). Harari, as a region, might have one or two, though it doesn't seem worthy of Category. All the rest do seem worthy, however, and spliting them as above, excepting the two chartered cities, and maybe also Harari Region (on the other hand, it is still a region, and thus its importance might warrant such a category. — ዮም | (Yom) | Talk • contribs • Ethiopia 05:25, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Llywrch, thank you for drawing my attention to this discussion. The issues you raised of few woredas in some categories are real and worth considering before making the categories, however in none of the cases I would move away from the consistency of breaking the woredas up by regions. The categories should not only be compatable with each other, but also consistent with categories at different levels (for category linking), as well as meeting the expectations of those searching, for example alphabetically (Benishangul-Gumaz could be under the "D" by lumping it with Dire Dawa). I know I may sound rigid and liked your creative thinking, but here the rigidity serves our goals best. So every region that has woredas (even one) should have a category. gidonb 05:44, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  Well, until we come to a consensus, any objections to my continuing to lump them all under one category? I'm certain that this won't be the last time these articles will be corrected. -- llywrch 19:22, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

text: No objections whatsoever on my part either. Is there a bot available that could do the resorting for us? Aecis I'm too busy acting like I'm not naive. 22:47, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Woreda categories  

message: Does anyone know whether there is bridge across the Omo River that links this woreda to the rest of the SNNPR? If there isn't (& I suspect that this is the case), then this should be added as an example of a "Subnational inaccessible district" to List of enclaves and exclaves. -- llywrch 20:27, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Access to [[Yem special woreda]] 

message: At the moment, if you search for "Tissisat Falls", Wikipedia returns no hits. (The article is under "Blue Nile Falls") If someone knows how to "tell" the Wikipedia index to send people looking for "Tissisat Falls" to the article cited, I think (judging from Google hits for that) it would be a good idea.
Tkbwik (talk) 17:21, 30 October 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. (Perhaps I'm the first person to read this page in 3 years.) Nurg (talk) 05:33, 13 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Indexing [[Blue_Nile_Falls | Tissisat Falls]]