Wikipedia:WikiProject South Africa/Collaboration

Every two weeks a South African Collaboration of the Week will be picked using this page. This is a specific topic which either has no article or a basic stub page that is directly related to South Africa, the aim being to have a featured-standard article by the end of the week, from widespread cooperative editing.

The project aims to fill gaps about South Africa in Wikipedia, to give users a focus and to give us all something to be proud of. Anyone can nominate an article and can vote for the nominated articles.

Every Sunday, the votes are tallied, and the winner will be promoted for a week to potential contributors.

The current South African Collaboration of the Week is Schabir Shaik

Previous winners that have gone on to become featured articles can be found at /Features.
All previous winners can be found at /History.
Removed nominations can be found at /Removed.

Selecting the next Collaboration of the Week

The next winner will be selected on Sunday, 5 December, 18:00 (UTC -0500).

Voting

Please vote for as many of the following candidates as you like. Please add only support votes. Opposing votes will not affect the result, as the winner is simply the one with the most support votes (see Approval voting).

Only registered users should vote. Any Wikipedian can vote on this page. You do not have to be South African.

To enter your votes, simply edit the appropriate sections by just inserting a new line with "# ~~~~". This will add your username and a time stamp in a new numbered list item.

Tie-breakers

In case of a tie, voting will be extended for 24 hours. If there is still a tie, the candidate that was nominated first wins.

Nominations

New nominations can be made at any time and should be added at the end of this page. Please use the template.

If the page you are nominating already exists, please add {{South African COTW candidate|Thispage=Article name}} to the top of its talk page. This expands to:

{{South African COTW candidate}}

If the article is selected as the ACOTW, the template {{Current South African COTW}} should go at the top of the article page. This expands to:

{{Current South African COTW}}

Considerations for nominations

• Please only nominate South African articles which don't currently exist or are stubs. (Two paragraphs or less of information or fewer than 1,000 characters) If you have an article that is not related to South African please use Collaboration of the Week, which is not specific to South Africa-related articles.
  • For non-stubs, submitting the article to pages needing attention, cleanup, peer review, or requests for expansion may be more appropriate.
• Giving reasons as to why an article should become the SACOTW may assist others in casting their vote.
• Can the wider community easily contribute to the article? Or is it something only a small number of people will know about?

Pruning

Nominations will be moved to /Removed if it has not received any votes in the first week (7 days) of being nominated (excluding the person who nominated it). If a nomination has been untouched (unvoted & uncommented) for over two weeks (14 days), it shall be likewise pruned. Feel free to perform pruning that meets the above criteria. Please see the talk page for discussion of this change in pruning policy.

Candidates for next week

I see two easy classes of article - (historic) South Africa that needs filling in, and the (very exciting) unfolding event. Perhaps two ? Wizzy 18:34, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

National Road (South Africa)

There is so much more that could be said about the extensive National Route system but there is almost no information here.

Votes

1. PZFUN 07:21, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. London 07:28, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Comments

• I thought they were "National Roads", not "National Routes". —AlanBarrett 17:55, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • South Africa has N Routes, which are inter-provincial, M Routes which are intra-provincial, and S routes which are rural roads. PZFUN 19:52, 24 Nov 2004 (UTC)
    • Thoughout South Africa there are also R eg R24 which stands for Route 24--Jcw69 18:02, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
  • Hmm, I'm also wondering about the "routes" designation. I've only ever encountered national roads, rural roads, etc... Also, there's the National Road Agency. Google doesn't seem to be helpful in this regard. (Dewet 18:30, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC))
• I moved the page and title to National Road. See its talk page for more infornation.. PZFUN 20:53, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Schabir Shaik

Comments The Shaik Trial has been ongoing for some time now but still no article. How the outcome of this trial might effect our Deputy President Jacob Zuma is in question?

I have made a start - difficult to be NPOV though. Any early history ? Wizzy 09:33, Dec 3, 2004 (UTC)

Votes

1. --Jcw69 18:22, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
2. --Impi 22:27, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)
3. --Wizzy 18:34, Nov 25, 2004 (UTC)

Languages of South Africa

Votes

1. --Greenman Nov 29, 2004
2. --Kierano March 2, 2005

Comments

• Ok, created it, based mainly on what was in the Afrikaans version. It's not perfect, but at least there's an article on this subject now. Impi 22:22, 25 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Cape_Buffalo

1. Renier Maritz 11:25, 29 Nov 2004 (UTC)

Zwelinzima Vavi

Votes

1. Wizzy 14:40, Dec 2, 2004 (UTC)
2. --Jcw69 18:28, 2 Dec 2004 (UTC)
3. Páll 21:06, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Comments Cosatu general secretary, much in the news these days.

Telkom

Votes

1. Wizzy 10:04, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC) (just signing my posts)
2. Páll 21:06, 14 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Comments Stubby article - I removed a lot of POV mudslinging.

Eskom

Votes

1. Wizzy 10:04, Dec 7, 2004 (UTC) (just signing my posts)

Comments Also stubby.

See also

• Wikipedia:African Collaboration of the Month