Wikipedia:WikiProject Niger

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WikiProject Niger

This WikiProject is about Niger.
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Welcome to the WikiProject Niger! This group was formed to better organize articles on Niger in a spirit of cooperation.

This group includes within its scope all articles related to Niger, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Niger in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Niger or one of its subcategories.

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• Work on articles relating to Niger Tagged as needing work in the WikiProject Africa . Tag articles with {{WikiProject Africa | class= |Niger=yes}} and an assessment.
• Assess the Unassessed Niger articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
• Tag all Niger-relevant articles with {{WikiProject Africa| class= |Niger=yes}} and an assessment.
• Add your name to the WikiProject Niger members list (below), and to the members list of our parent Wikipedia:WikiProject Africa.
• Invite more users to join. WikiProject Africa with knowledge of or interest in Niger.
• Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red). Sort through Wikipedia:List of missing Africa topics for Niger related requests. Add needed redlinks to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Niger/List of_missing_Niger topics/
• Create Niger subcategories and populate the created categories. Remove items from Category:Niger that ought to be in subcategories.
• Look for open source photographs that can be uploaded to the Commons for articles in Category:Wikipedia requested photographs in Niger.
• Create basic Niger topic articles: see User:TUF-KAT/Topics by country for a list of links for every nation/every basic topic.
• More things to do...

Have a request?

Found a Niger related topic which needs an article, and which you'd like other editors to work on? Go to the talk page, or add it to Wikipedia:WikiProject_Niger/List of_missing_Niger topics/.

Template

Please add Niger-related articles by modifying or adding the WikiProject Africa tag, like so:

{{WikiProject Africa
|Class=List/Stub/Start/B/
|importance=Low/Mid/High/Top
|Niger=yes
|Niger-importance= Low/Mid/High/Top
}}

Note that these tags are case sensitive. Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for more information on the template, as well as assessment information.

Needing photos

Mali articles needing photos may be tagged with {{reqphoto|in=Niger}}. Those tagged need photos can be found at : Category:Wikipedia_requested_photographs_in_Niger

If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here, and/or discuss it at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Niger. There should be no more than 20 articles listed at one time. Put the newest at the top and delete from the bottom when the total is over 20.

Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~

1. In Wikimedia Commons: Could someone rename the Category "Camels in Niger" into "Dromedaries in Niger"? (I don't know how to do that) NigerTZai (talk) 22:33, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]
2. Mdou Moctar - just started this page - could do with some more input. Haminoon (talk) 07:55, 17 June 2013 (UTC)[reply]
3. Dr. Blofeld began adding commune stubs recently. Here's a Commune Wishlist of communes of Niger that are either capitals of Department or other notable rural communes, already redlinked in articles. T L Miles (talk) 01:49, 23 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
4. Wikipedia 0.7 articles selected for Niger: These need to be cleaned up and stable versions tagged. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Niger for details. Hausa people also needs to be tagged as a Niger article for this. While many other could be suggested, this is due to be locked up by 20 October 2008, and so improving these selected articles will be work enough. I'll focus on expansion of Niamey, and tightening up Niger, Niger River and Tandja_Mamadou T L Miles (talk) 03:05, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. Niger, of course, should be the highest priority. The article is poor, mostly lifted from the US State Department. I'm trying to work on History of Niger and then integrate it in, but PLEASE dip in to the main article or any breakout articles at any time. I've requested semi-protection for the article, as most of my time spent on it is removing racist vandalism. T L Miles (talk) 15:25, 29 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. Second Tuareg Rebellion, start. Current event: help it stay current and NPOV. T L Miles (talk) 19:47, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
7. Jihadist insurgency in Niger. Used to be 2021 Niger attacks but was moved to contextualize the article (there has been an Islamist insurrection in the country since 2009). The article was not changed, however, to reflect this move. I started some edits but it will need more work with help from others. Dunutubble (talk) (Contributions) 13:41, 14 April 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Active members

To join WikiProject Niger, 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. John Carter 19:55, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. T L Miles (talk) 16:05, 19 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. --Aldux (talk) 22:42, 25 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 15:51, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. —M@sssly^✉ 12:50, 22 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
6. A12n (talk) 21:38, 29 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
7.  — Ammarpad (talk) 05:48, 6 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]
8. Ibdawud (talk) 15:00, 1 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]
9. Dunutubble (talk · contribs) 13:39:03, 14 April 2022 (UTC) [reply]

• Jebiguess (talk · contribs) 14:12:45, 4 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Former members

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

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 23:20:51, 19 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.[reply]

Member identification

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

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

For other Niger user templates, see Category:Niger user templates.

Niger articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	1			2
GA	2		1				3
B	8	7	2	3		11	31
C	15	8	7	11		40	81
Start	51	59	66	59		169	404
Stub	6	52	44	89		529	720
List	4	1	3	3		50	61
Category				2	1,165		1,167
Disambig					3		3
File					2		2
Project					5		5
Redirect		4	1	2	39		46
Template		1			69		70
Assessed	86	132	125	170	1,283	799	2,595
Unassessed						3	3
Total	86	132	125	170	1,283	802	2,598
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 6,763			Ω = 5.45

Assessment logs

• Niger articles by quality log: A running log of every Niger tagged article. You can check these for those needing an assessment.
• All WikiProject Africa articles by quality log: check these for those needing the "Niger=yes" tag and those needing assesments.

Featured articles

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by JL-Bot (talk · contribs) (typically on Saturdays). There is no need to edit the list yourself. If an article is missing from the list, make sure it is tagged or categorized (e.g. Category:WikiProject Niger articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Good articles

• Berber people

Did You Know (DYK)s

• Zodi Ikhia: 30 December 2009
• Seasonal migration in Niger: 4 April 2009
• Samira Hill Gold Mine: 25 December 2008
• Bahá'í Faith in Niger: 10 May 2008
• Iferouane: 14 December 2007
• Bayajidda: 24 December 2006
• Battle of Tondibi: 19 August 2005
• Plumpy'nut : 14 August 2005

2007 Schools Wikipedia Selections

• Demographics of Niger
• Niger
• Niger River

• List of cities in Niger
• List of government ministers of Niger
• List of Niger-related topics
• List of Nigeriens

• Template:NER (Flag template)

Stubs

• Template:Niger-stub add {{Niger-stub}}
  • Template:Niger-party-stub add {{Niger-party-stub}}
  • Template:Niger-bio-stub add {{Niger-bio-stub}}
  • Template:Niger-politician-stub add {{Niger-politician-stub}}
    • See list of all above at : Category:Niger_stubs
• Template:Niger-geo-stub add {{Niger-geo-stub}}
  • See list at : Category:Niger_geography_stubs

Navigation Templates

• Category:Niger navigational boxes
• Template:Nigerien elections
• Template:Music of Niger
• Template:Nigerien political parties
• Template:NigerPMs
• Template:NigerPresidents
• Template:Niger topics footer

Politics

• Template:Politics of Niger
• Template:Nigerien political parties
  • Template:Political Affiliations: Niger
• Template:NigerPresidents
• Template:Nigerien parliamentary election, 2004
• Template:NigerPMs
• Template:Nigerien elections

Sport

• Template:Football in Niger
• Template:Niger Premier League
• Template:Infobox Olympics Niger
• Template:Niger-footy-bio-stub

Arts

• Template:Music of Niger
• Template:Nigerfilmlist

Geography

• Template:Country data Niger
• Template:Regions and departments of Niger
• Template:Infobox Settlement

Maps

• Module:Location map/data/Niger
• Template:Sahara_Labelled_Map
• Template:Africa Labelled Map

Points of interest related to Niger on Wikipedia: Outline – History – Category – WikiProject – Alerts – Stubs

Wikimedia

See other language project's Category:Niger articles at:

• de:Kategorie:Niger: German
• fr:Catégorie:Niger: French

Model citation

When translating article from fr:wikipedia, you may use this model under References:

*Much of the content of this article comes from [[:fr:ARTICLE NAME|the equivalent French-language Wikipedia article]] (retrieved MONTH DD [[YYYY]]).

External resources

Governments and NGOs

Government websites

The Niger government websites have often been inaccessible in the past. This is especially true of the domain names: http://www.niger-gouv.ne/ and The Délégué Général à l'Informatique (DELGI) http://www.delgi.ne., which appeared to go down on 27 April 2007. Late 2007 saw the relaunching of a number of government sites.

• http://www.presidence.ne/ President of Niger
• http://www.assemblee.ne/ National Assembly of Niger
• http://www.communication-gouv-niger.ne/ Government communications office of Niger.
• Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision du Niger (ORTN ): Niger state broadcaster, with information about and media from Voix du Sahel (Radio), Télé Sahel and TAL TV (TV)
• http://www.niger-tourisme.com: Ministère du tourisme et de l'artisanat nigérien.
• United Nations, Nigerien Conuslate in New York.
• Invest in Niger: Centre de Promotion des Investissements Sis à la Chambre de Commerce d'Agriculture, d'Industrie et d'Atisanat du Niger.

Foreign Governments

• Canadian International Development Agency:Niger.
• U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs, Travel Information for Niger.
• Canadian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International trade, TRAVEL REPORT: Niger.
• United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Niger Travel Advice for British citizens.
• United States Embassy, Niamey.
• United States Peace Corps: Niger.
• Friends of Niger: a United States group, largely former Peace Corps volunteers.
• United Kingdom Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Niger profile.
• United Kingdom Department of Intenational Development:Niger.
• British Embassy to Niger: staff resident at Accra, Ghana.
• French Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Niger information.
• French Embassy in Niamey.
• Institut de Recherche pour le Développement au Niger: French government development office in Niger.
• Direction de l’Environnement of Le Ministère de l’Hydraulique, de l’Environnement et de la Lutte Contre la Désertification (Evironmental Directorate of the Ministry of Water, Environment, and Counter - Desertification, Government of Niger. The soub categories contain PDFs of Nigerien and international reports/regulations on Rural and Environmental issues, including the Laws on local governance from 1960-2002.

United Nations

• UNESCO World Heritage sites: Niger: includes proposed sites and reports.
• UNDP The Human Development Index reports: Niger.
• Health Organisation Niger overview. Includes links to statistics, programs and news on health and demography in Niger.
• WHO "Country Logbook" for Niger. Providing Surveys, Censuses, Monitoring of vital events, Health services & surveillance, Health situation & trend analysis, and Planning & strategic documents .
• World Health Organisation 2007 statistics: Core Health Indicators for Niger.
• Unicef, Nations at a glance:Niger.

International Orgnaisations

• OECD/ AEO 2007 Niger country study.
• International Monetary Fund: Article IV Executive Board Consultation reports regarding Niger.
• IMF. Niger: Financial Position in the Fund as of January 31, 2008.
• IMF. Niger: Transactions with the Fund from May 01, 1984 to January 31, 2008.
• World Trade Organization MEMBER INFORMATION: Niger.
• The World Bank, Niger overview and resources.

Law

• World Bank "Doing Business reports": Niger.
• World Bank "Doing Business reports": Niger Law Library.
• United States Library of Congress: Guide to Republic of Niger Law Online.
• Droit-Afrique: Niger legal library.
• Droit Francophone:Niger, from the Ogranisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

Elections

• Foundation for Electoral Systems, electionguide.org:Niger: note this is a United States government funded organization. Details are at RightWeb.

Business

• LA MAISON DE L'AFRIQUE: Niger. Franco-African business group.
• Estruscan Mining (Canada): corporate report on their Samira Hill Gold Mine, on the Benin border.
• The MBendi website, Niger: A South Africa based business research group. Is especially useful for tracking government mining consessions.

Telecommunications

See also the UNECA page on telecommunications in Niger, and it's 1999 assessment.

• GSMWorld.com:Niger Celtel Niger, Sahel-Com (SahelCom), and Telecel Niger SA.
• telecelniger.com/: Telecel Niger, a division of Egyptian based Orascom Télécom.
• ne.celtel.com: Celtel Niger S.A, a division of Celtel International.
• www.intnet.ne: Société Nigérienne des Télécommunications. Page unupdated for some time.

Human Rights

• Human Rights Watch: Niger.
• Amnesty International:Niger.

Women's Rights

• Global List of Women's Organisations: Women's Organisations in Niger.

Ethnicity and language

• ethnologue.com: Ethnic and linguistic breakdown for Niger.

Environment and weather

• Falling Rain: Directory of Cities, Towns, and Regions in Niger.
• Washington Post, Historical Weather Date for Niamey, covering the last 16-22 years.
• Biblioteque Numerique:Niger. From the Project environnement et foret en Afrique Centrale. A France government funded project studying environment conditions.
• The AGRHYMET Regional Centre (ARC), Niamey Office. Institute of the Permanent Interstate Committee for Drought Control in the Sahel (CILSS) composed of nine member States, including Niger.

Travel

• Lonely Planet worldguide: Niger.

Biography

• Contemporary Africa Database ::: People: Niger, from the Africa Centre, London. 83 Biographical stubs and links, including a list of well known women from Niger. Someone needs to create articles for these.

Maps

• Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection: Niger Maps.

Flags

• Flags of the World: Niger.

News

International

• IRIN News - Niger Humanitarian news and analysis
• allAfrica - Niger news headline links
• Nigerportal - Niger web portal on Niger in french
• Nigerdiaspora - Niger network for the Niger diaspora worldwide
• Infos Niger for exchanging information about Niger both in French and English
• IRIN/UN Newswire for Niger.
• The New York Times: news about Niger, including breaking news and archival articless.
• Inter Press Service News Agency wire articles: Africa.

Domestic publications

• (in French) Le Républicain-Niger Daily
• (in French) Hasé Newspaper.bi-Monthly
• (in French) La Hache Newspaper
• (in French) Fofo Magazine - Music and Culture.Quarterly

Overviews

• (in French) Niger news and data page at Jeune Afrique.
• Niger news and data page at the UN's IRIN newswire.
• Niger news and data page at Reuters Alertnet.
  • Niger-Mali Tuareg unrest page at Reuters Alertnet.
• BBC News Country Profile - Niger
• CIA World Factbook - Niger
• Niger at Curlie
• US State Department - Niger includes Background Notes, Country Commercial Guides and major reports

Links

• The Index on Africa:Niger resources from The Norwegian Council for Africa.
• African Collection, Stanford University Libraries: Niger links.
• Africa Study Center at the University of Pennsylvania: online resources.