Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone

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WikiProject Sierra Leone

Flag of Sierra Leone
Shortcut	WP:SIERRALEONE
Category	Sierra Leone
Wikimedia Commons	Sierra Leone
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Africa|Sierra Leone=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Sierra Leone}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

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

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

To join WikiProject Sierra Leone, 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 20:03, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. Kaly99 (talk) 19:26, 21 January 2008 (UTC) working on Sierra Leone's protected areas[reply]
3. Thomas.MacMillan
   15:44, 22 January 2008
4. $1,000,000? 10:35, 4 March 2008 (UTC)[reply
   ]
5. Your friend Eddy of the wiki^{[citation needed]} 01:36, 21 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
6. Ratattuta (talk) 18:38, 13 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
7. talk
   ) (Aka User:Leutha)
8. Hawanatu (talk) 17:42, 18 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
9. talk) 15:00, 19 July 2015 (UTC)[reply
   ]
10. Amin Dayekh (talk · contribs)
11. Sullay (talk) 01:46, 25 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]
12. Serenesage (talk) 08:42, 15 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]
13. iogburu (talk) 10:26, 16 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 20:20:44, 8 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.[reply]

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

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

For other Sierra Leone user templates, see Category:Sierra Leone user templates.

To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone: edit · history · watch · refresh · Updated 2019-09-10 Here are some tasks awaiting attention: St. George Cathedral (Freetown)

Other tasks

• Reference and clean up the articles selected for the Wikipedia 0.7 DVD release
  • Sierra Leone
  • Freetown
  • Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
  • Sierra Leone national football team

• Expand history to include information prior to European contact in 1462, for History of Sierra Leone and Sierra Leone articles.
• Populate the district templates with cheifdoms and towns.

Proposed deletions

• 07 Apr 2025 – Ansarul Islamic Boys Secondary School (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c) and endorsed by Bearian (t · c) on 08 Apr 2025 was deleted

Categories for discussion

• 16 Apr 2025 – Category:Krio genealogy (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 16 Apr 2025 – Category:People educated in Freetown, Sierra Leone (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Smasongarrison (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Apr 2025 – Category:Sierra Leonean tropical physicians (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by LibStar (t · c); see discussion

Requests for comments

• 13 Apr 2025 – Somali Civil War (2009–present) (talk · edit · hist) has an RfC by Zabezt (t · c); see discussion

• Religion in Sierra Leone
• Government of Sierra Leone currently a redirect
• Culture of Sierra Leone
• Literature of Sierra Leone

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

Here are some useful sources for writing about Sierra Leone:

• Sierra Leone Encyclopedia produced by the Government of Sierra Leone and the United Nations.
• USAID African picture library A selection of public domain, as
  USAID
  is a US federal agency, pictures of Sierra Lone (and other African countries)

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Sierra Leone/District templates

Please copy {{WikiProject Africa|Sierra Leone=yes}} to any Sierra Leone related article's talk pages to place the {{WikiProject Africa}} with the Sierra Leone wikiproject selected. To assess the class and importance of an article use the syntax shown to the right, please consider leaving a comment about how to improve the article by clicking on the link in the template.

{{WikiProject Africa|
|Sierra Leone=yes
|class=
|importance=
|Sierra Leone-importance= }}

The importance of the article can be assessed for WikiProject Africa using importance and for Wikiproject Sierra Leone using Sierra Leone-importance. The appearance of the banner is shown below.

Africa: Sierra Leone Unassessed

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 ??? This article has not yet received a rating on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. ??? This article has not yet received a rating on the project's importance scale. This article is supported by WikiProject Sierra Leone.

Sierra Leone articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	2	1			4
GA		1	2	5		1	9
B	4	7	5	5		4	25
C	8	5	15	25		67	120
Start	31	36	41	93		243	444
Stub	3	15	70	198		574	860
List	3	2		12		57	74
Category					1,441		1,441
Disambig					1		1
File					3		3
Portal					1		1
Project					2		2
Redirect	1		2	6	97		106
Template					85		85
Other					5		5
Assessed	50	67	137	345	1,635	946	3,180
Unassessed						1	1
Total	50	67	137	345	1,635	947	3,181
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 7,953			Ω = 5.44

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

Please feel free to list your new Sierra Leone related articles here (newer articles at the top, please). Any new articles that have an interesting or unusual fact in them, are at least over 1,500 characters, don't have any dispute templates on them, and cite their sources, should be suggested for the Did you know? box on the Wikipedia Main Page.

• Healthcare in Sierra Leone (25 November 2018‎)
• Order of the Rokel (11 July 2018‎)
• Order of the Republic (11 July 2018‎)
• Priscilla Schwartz (13 June 2018‎)
• Patrick Daniel Koroma (6 May 2018‎)
• Sierra Leone Colony and Protectorate (26 May 2017)
• Atunda Ayenda (12 July 2008)
• Portal:Sierra Leone (29 June 2008‎)
• List of newspapers in Sierra Leone (29 June 2008‎)
• Education in Sierra Leone (24 June 2008‎)

• ...that
  child soldier from Sierra Leone, was rescued by UNICEF
  and has written about his ordeal and rehabilitation in his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier? -- 18 February 2007
• ... that
  30 June 2008
• ...that despite
  27 January 2008
• ...that the history of
  media in Sierra Leone began in 1794 when the first printing press in Africa was delivered to the capital Freetown but that the press was destroyed before it could be used? -- April 26 2008
• ... that Atunda Ayenda is the first radio soap opera ever aired in Sierra Leone? -- July 16 2008
• ... that with an area of 8.2 km² (3.2 sq mi), Lake Sonfon is Sierra Leone's largest inland lake? -- 6 March 2011
• ... that Dr. Priscilla Schwartz is the first woman ever to serve as Attorney General in Sierra Leone? -- June 15 2018
• ... that the Order of the Rokel is the highest honor in Sierra Leone? -- July 11 2018