Wikipedia:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

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WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Shortcut	WP:CONGO
Category	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Portal	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikimedia Commons	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Africa|DRC=yes|DRC-importance=}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant 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.

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.

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.

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Articles for deletion

• 22 Apr 2024 – 2005 Air Kasaï Antonov An-26B crash (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)
• 19 Apr 2024 – Paulin Basinga (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Oaktree b (t · c); see discussion (3 participants)

Featured list candidates

• 16 Mar 2024 – List of World Heritage Sites in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (talk · edit · hist) was FL nominated by Tone (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 24 Jan 2024 – Aimé Mpane (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by APK (t · c); start discussion

Articles for creation

• 17 Apr 2024 – Draft:Ants of the Democratic Republic of Congo (talk · edit · hist) (initially Draft:List of ants of the Democratic Republic of Congo) has been submitted for AfC by HamBurgaMan (t · c)
• 15 Apr 2024 – Draft:Zenon Mukongo Ngay (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Editorlove1 (t · c)
• 24 Mar 2024 – Draft:Anzor Alem (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Mwashani (t · c)
• 03 Mar 2024 – Draft:Swedish soldiers in the Congo Free State (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Dencoolast33 (t · c)

Active members

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

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

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}}	This user is a Wikimedian of DRC User Group.	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.

Article requests

• History: Red Rubber (book); Ten-Year Plan (Belgian Congo); Operation Morthor (redirect); Pende revolt; Thirty-Year Plan for the Political Emancipation of Belgian Africa, 1969 Democratic Republic of the Congo student protests; Coup monté et manqué (1975); Service territorial; Kongolo martyrs (1961); Comité national du Kivu; Commando Hibou (aka Régiment Baki); Se Kukianga (Kikongo newspaper, founded 1891); Minsamu Miayenge (Kikongo newspaper, founded 1893); American Presbyterian Congo Mission
• Geography: Grand Marché de Kinshasa; Jardin botanique de Kinshasa; Land reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Lubumbashi synagogue; National parks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Palais de Marbre, Kinshasa; Sona-Bata;
• Politics: Alliance des Bayanzi; Law of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 31st Airborne Brigade (Zaire)
• Arts and Culture: Lendu people (redirect); Kumu people and a number of missing ethnic groups here; Official University of the Congo; Literature of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (redirect); Ngando (Le Crocodile); Lebanese people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Foire Internationale de Kinshasa; Architecture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Institute of National Museums of the Congo (Institut des musées nationaux du Congo, IMNC); Fédération d'Athlétisme du Congo
• Biography: Jean-Luc Vellut; Mwissa Camus; Marie Muilu Kiwanga; Daniel Ndeze Rugabo II; Kassim Tajideen; Bruce Fetter (historian)

Photo requests

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

• History: Compagnie du Katanga; Compagnie du Kasai
• Geography: Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Aketi (town)
• Politics: Crime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Arts and Culture: Makere people; Mayogo people; Lele people; Suku people; Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Biography: Mama Mobutu

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		1,177	1,660
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	2,217	5,817
Unassessed		1		1		51	53
Total	94	93	255	847	2,313	2,268	5,870
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 17,249			Ω = 5.31

Useful templates

• Template:Family name hatnote ({{Family name hatnote|Tshisekedi|Tshilombo|lang=Congolese}})

Web sources

Full texts

Photos

• 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)

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

The invite template is below:

{{Join the DPRC Project}}

Have you considered joining WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's coverage on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. Please see our list of open tasks for ideas on where to get started. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! ~~~~

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

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

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