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WikiProject Botswana

WP:BOTSWANA
Categories	WikiProject Botswana, Botswana
Portal	Africa
Wikimedia Commons	Botswana
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Africa|Botswana=yes|Botswana-importance=}}
Userboxes	{{User WikiProject Botswana}} {{User WP Botswana}}
Assessment	/Assessment

Welcome to WikiProject Botswana! This group was formed to better organize articles on Botswana in a spirit of cooperation.

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

Active members

To join WikiProject Botswana, 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 17:48, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Sadalmelik (talk) 07:10, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
3. $1,000,000? 13:09, 23 March 2008 (UTC)[reply
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4. Vladimir2008 (talk) 05:59, 24 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]
5. Black Falcon ^(Talk) 22:52, 30 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. Brotobunz 13:51, 18 June 2008
7. Oxana879 5:16, 21 September 2009
8. いただき (talk) 07:25, 7 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
9. Sothomensch 18:49, 16 November 2011
10. Xenophonscitroen 04:04, 24 February 2011
11. Sabloem 15:14, 29 January 2015
12. TheBeastdot 22:00 10 September 2015
13. Mompati Dikunwane (talk) 10:13, 15 June 2017 (UTC)[reply]
14. Chandapiwa (talk)
15. Shoodho (talk) 20:35, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]
16. LefcentrerightTalk (plz ping) 22:15, 18 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]
17. DumelaJeremane (talk · contribs) 13:47:28, 31 May 2020 (UTC) [reply]
18. Eternal Shadow (talk · contribs) 19:30:01, 19 July 2021 (UTC) [reply]
19. Aficionado538 (talk · contribs) 11:56:00, 16 August 2021 (UTC) [reply]
20. DouwnsG (talk · contribs) 22:53:50, 14 July 2022 (UTC) [reply]
21. 48JcL48 (talk · contribs) 19:15:03, 2 April 2024 (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) 20:38:26, 18 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.[reply]

Member identification

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

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

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

The “Botswana Barnstar” and the “Botswana Barnstar of National Merit” may be awarded to any Wikipedian that has shown excellent contributions to any article related to Botswana.

	The Botswana Barnstar
	[Text Here]

	The Botswana Barnstar of National Merit
	[Text Here]

Botswana articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	1	1	3	2			7
B	8	1	6	6		1	22
C	17	8	9	12		36	82
Start	35	25	62	102		211	435
Stub	3	31	31	186		789	1,040
List	4	19	6	22		45	96
Category			1	7	1,349		1,357
Disambig					2		2
File					8		8
Project					9		9
Redirect		1	2	6	76		85
Template					91		91
Other					4		4
Assessed	68	86	120	343	1,539	1,082	3,238
Unassessed			1				1
Total	68	86	121	343	1,539	1,082	3,239
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 8,823			Ω = 5.56

• Article assesment log

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly by WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Former featured articles

Featured pictures

• 
  African buffalo (Syncerus caffer caffer) male with cattle egret
• 
  Cheetah Brothers AdF
• 
  Jabirú africano (Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis), delta del Okavango, Botsuana, 2018-07-31, DD 11
• 
  Lilac-breasted roller (Coracias caudatus caudatus) Botswana

B-Class articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Did You Know (DYK)s

• Chris Phatswe
  – 9 December 2006
• Trade unions in Botswana – 15 August 2007
• History of Gaborone – 23 July 2010

• Botswana
• Seretse Khama

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

Code	Template
{{WikiProject Africa|Botswana=yes}}	Africa: Botswana NA‑class This article is within the scope of WikiProject Africa, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Africa on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.AfricaWikipedia:WikiProject AfricaTemplate:WikiProject AfricaAfrica articles NA This article has been rated as NA-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Botswana.
{{WP Botswana Invitation}}	Hi, I've seen you frequently around articles related to Botswana. Please consider joining the Botswana WikiProject, an effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage and detail regarding Botswana. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks that you can help with. Thank you for your time.
{{User WikiProject Botswana}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Botswana.

There is also a template for welcoming new members to our project: {{

Stub templates

The stub templates listed without an associated category have been upmerged and use the category of the parent stub.

• {{Botswana-stub}} — Category:Botswana stubs

• {{Botswana-bio-stub}} — Category:Botswana people stubs

• {{Botswana-politician-stub}}
• {{Botswana-footy-bio-stub}}

• {{Botswana-geo-stub}} — Category:Botswana geography stubs
• {{Botswana-party-stub}}

Categories for discussion

• 26 Apr 2024 – Category:Natural history of Botswana (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Marcocapelle (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 14 Apr 2024 – Kgabo Commission (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion
• 10 Apr 2024 – Sebele II (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Thebiguglyalien (t · c); start discussion

Articles for creation

• 17 Mar 2024 – Draft:Gaborone Game Reserve (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M5637 (t · c)
• 05 Feb 2024 – Draft:Mmantlha Sankoloba (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Youknowwhoistheman (t · c)

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

• allAfrica.com on Botswana
• Botswana-news.com
• Mmegi/The Reporter Online
• The Voice online