Wikipedia:WikiProject Madagascar

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WikiProject Madagascar

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

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

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

Good article nominees

• 07 Mar 2024 – Savika (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zanahary (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Jan 2024 – Jews in Madagascar (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Zanahary (t · c); see discussion

Active members[edit]

To join WikiProject Madagascar, 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 19:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
2. ♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
3. Sadalmelik (talk) 07:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]
4. Mounblow 19:38, 14 May 2008 (ULF)
5. Visionholder (talk) 22:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC) – specialized in lemurs[reply]
6. --RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210    20:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
7. MeegsC | Talk 17:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
8. Samuel Sidler 00:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]
9. Lemurbaby (talk) 13:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC) - culture and history[reply]
10. Berkas (talk) 27 December 2009 (UTC)
11. Alextelford (talk) 08:28, 18 July 2010 (UTC) - fauna of western dry deciduous forests[reply]
12. Fanoman (talk) 02:05, 16 May 2012 (UTC) - Malagasy History[reply]
13. Brigade Piron (talk) 14:50, 20 June 2014 (UTC) - history, colonialism and ethnography[reply]
14. heinnlein'' 11:10, 21 June 2014 (UTC) - From the Dutch wikiproject Madagaskar, may answer questions about culture and can function as an 'ambassador' of the Dutch project if you like...[reply]
15. Dthomsen8 (talk) 22:45, 6 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]
16. Flappy Pigeon - Insular dwarfism and other 'island phenomena' have interesting complexities. I'd like to focus on the science of Madagascar.
17. Zanahary (talk · contribs) 07:17:51, 21 November 2023 (UTC) [reply]
18. Rainako (talk · contribs) 23:18:26, 9 June 2022 (UTC) [reply]

Former members[edit]

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

1. Buaidh (talk · contribs) 20:19:29, 9 June 2019 (UTC) – WikiProject templates and categories.[reply]

Member identification[edit]

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

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

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

Madagascar articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	10	4	8	22			44
FL		2					2
A				1			1
GA	12	9	4	20		1	46
B	16	20	20	10		2	68
C	35	44	48	62		17	206
Start	18	89	109	203		70	489
Stub	5	129	690	1,775		279	2,878
List	6	6	16	39		9	76
Category				4	1,459		1,463
Disambig					4		4
File				1	26		27
Portal					1		1
Project					11		11
Redirect	2	4	6	14	96		122
Template					104		104
Other					2		2
Assessed	104	307	901	2,151	1,703	378	5,544
Unassessed						8	8
Total	104	307	901	2,151	1,703	386	5,552
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 20,834			Ω = 5.58

• Articles by quality
• Article assessment log

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 Madagascar articles) correctly and wait for the next update. See WP:RECOG for configuration options.

Featured articles[edit]

Former featured articles[edit]

Featured lists[edit]

A-Class articles[edit]

Good articles[edit]

Former good articles[edit]

Did you know? articles[edit]

In the News articles[edit]

Did You Know (DYK)s[edit]

• Ring-tailed Lemur [1]
• Madagascar dry deciduous forests – 23 May 2006
• Anjajavy Forest – 26 January 2007
• Joseph-François Lambert – 26 May 2007
• Franco-Hova War – 30 August 2007
• Cyclone Elita – 23 January 2008
• Black Lemur – 5 August 2008
• Common Brown Lemur – 8 August 2008
• Ruffed lemur – 17 October 2008
• Collared Brown Lemur – 4 February 2009
• Red Lemur – 11 March 2009
• Gray Mouse Lemur – 8 April 2009
• List of lemur species – 13 May 2009
• Galidiinae – 26 October 2009
• Margot Marsh's Mouse Lemur and Arnhold's Mouse Lemur – 31 July 2009
• Illegal logging in Madagascar – 22 February 2010
• Hadropithecus – 28 February 2010
• Babakotia and Mesopropithecus – 5 March 2010
• Masonjoany – 20 August 2023
• Jews in Madagascar – 3 February 2024

• Madagascar
• Antananarivo
• Ring-tailed Lemur

• Makay Mountains

Image requests[edit]

In addition to posting your image requests on the list, on the talk page(s) of the subject(s), and 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.

Maps[edit]

• SVG locator maps of provinces of Madagascar

Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for assessment.

Stub templates[edit]

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

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

• {{Madagascar-geo-stub}} — Category:Madagascar geography stubs
• {{Madagascar-bio-stub}} — Category:Malagasy people stubs

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

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