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WP:GAMBIA

WikiProject Gambia
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Category	The Gambia
Wikimedia Commons	Gambia
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	`((WikiProject Africa\|Gambia=yes))`
Userbox	((User WikiProject Gambia))
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Welcome to WikiProject Gambia. This WikiProject covers all articles about people, places, things, and events, associated with the nation now known as The Gambia. This includes the nation in its current form since 1965, the colonial existence of the nation under the British from the 1880s onwards, and the pre-colonial history that took the form of several nations. To participate, simply add your name to the project members page.

This WikiProject is a daughter project of WikiProject Africa. We encourage all editors to check them out, and contribute to their 10,000 Challenge too!

Goals and scope[edit]

To improve Wikipedia's coverage of The Gambia and to maintain neutrality and accuracy across these articles.
To serve as a central point of discussion for issues relating to The Gambia on Wikipedia.
To create and improve guidelines for articles about items relating to The Gambia.
To improve and maintain the navigation aids for The Gambia-related topics on Wikipedia.

As of 29 March 2024, there are 1,153 articles within the scope of WikiProject Gambia, of which 0 are featured and 8 are good articles. This makes up 0.02% of the articles on Wikipedia, 0% of all featured articles and lists, and 0.02% of all good articles. Including non-article pages, such as talk pages, redirects, categories, etcetera, there are 4,866 pages in the project.

Project organisation[edit]

If you wish to help out, please add your name to the list of participants.

It is recommended that Project members add each of the following Project pages to their watchlists.

Discussion board - Main talk page for this project
Article alerts - Bot generated listing of deletions, featured & good article candidates, requests for comments, peer reviews and move requests.
Unreferenced BLPs - Bot generated listing of Biographies with no references
New articles - Bot generated listing of new articles that may need assessment
To-do list - Editor generated listing of articles to be created and of articles that have problems.
Popular pages - Bot generated listing of the most viewed pages that should be improved and watched over closely for vandalism

Articles by quality and importance[edit]

Gambia articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA			2	6			8
B	7	3	3	10		4	27
C	14	13	14	26		26	93
Start	36	27	37	153		111	364
Stub	2	10	27	381		175	595
List	1		4	18	1	37	61
Category				1	1,161		1,162
File					15		15
Portal					1		1
Project					6		6
Redirect			1	11	27		39
Template				3	54		57
Other					3		3
Assessed	60	53	88	609	1,268	353	2,431
Unassessed						5	5
Total	60	53	88	609	1,268	358	2,436
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 5,859			Ω = 5.39

Templates[edit]

For assessment information, please use ((WikiProject Africa)).

Key Navboxes include:

Cabinet positions in the Gambia - for use on cabinet roles
Leaders of Gambian political parties - current leaders of political parties
Barrow Cabinet - current members of Barrow's cabinet
Governors of the Gambia - historic colonial governors
Attorneys General of the Gambia - historic attorneys general
Vice-Presidents of the Gambia - historic vice-presidents
Colonial Secretaries of the Gambia - historic colonial secretaries
Foreign ministers of the Gambia - historic foreign ministers

Related WikiProjects[edit]

There are a number of WikiProjects that have significant relevance to the work of WikiProject Gambia. A non-exhaustive list is included here:

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