Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge

Since September 2016, we have been working to reach 10,000 article improvements for Africa from a series of regional contests and general independent article contribution. I encourage all editors from Africa (and elsewhere!) to contribute towards this as I think seeing 10,000 article improvements/creations on one list would be something monumental in wikipedia's history and something really worth working towards long term. It would be almost 1/500 of the entire encyclopedia and make a massive difference towards overall article quality on an area of the world which is very poorly undeveloped overall. Anybody can contribute any article on any country and topic in Africa to add to this list independently whenever they feel like it. Article cleanup and basic referencing improvements, expansions, new articles, DYKs, Good Articles, Featured Articles etc, are all welcome, though try to make new entries minimum start class entries with 1 kb of readable prose if possible, as the goal is to drastically reduce the number of stubs overall. We want to both inject quality into African articles and makes them more consistent in quality but also aim to make African coverage more comprehensive by creating new entries.

The half-way mark was reached on 24 July 2021.

See

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/Core articles
• Category:Stub-Class Africa articles, Category:Africa stubs
• User:AlexNewArtBot/AfricaSearchResult – New Africa-related articles

Articles to create:

• User:Skysmith/Missing articles about Locations - Africa
• Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics
• User:Dsp13/Wanted articles about Africa
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by nationality/Africa
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa
• User:Dsp13/List of African writers by country

If you're interested in participating in a contest for a region of Africa or a general destubbing one sign up in the relevant section here, If you're interested in participating in a general African Destubbing contest/drive and improve and creating articles about African women sign up directly at The Africa Destubathon. This will be the inaugural contest, being held from October 15 to November 27 2016 and needs contributors working on articles of all subjects for every country in Africa! Sign up there if you haven't already and might be interested in fleshing out a few stubs. Contestants though can opt out of having their entries put up as part of this challenge though, that will be respected.

1st thousand

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/1-1000

2nd thousand

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/1001-2000

3rd thousand

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/2001-3000

4th thousand

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/3001-4000

5th thousand

See Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa/The 10,000 Challenge/4001-5000

6th thousand

Please list articles you have improved here, place newer entries at the bottom of the list. You are free to list any article you wish related to any country or topic in Africa. State whether it's a new article/stub/a destubbing, an article cleanup/expansion/ref improvement, Good/Featured Article etc, and credit yourself after it. Add entries to the list below with a # so the numbers will count. Entries improved since the beginning of September 2016 may be added to the list. See the article list on the British 10,000 Challenge for how to list correctly. Let's begin editing towards this!