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WikiProject Yorùbá
This WikiProject covers Yorùbá topics.
Shortcuts	WP:Yo, WP:Yoruba
Wikimedia Commons	Yoruba
Parent project(s)	Nigeria
Project banner template	((WikiProject Yoruba))
Userbox	((User WikiProject Yoruba))
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

	Yoruba WikiProject

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WikiProject Yorùbá is a project covering the scope of topics related to Yorùbáland, the Yorùbá and the Yoruba language. WikiProject Yoruba was created on February 13, 2011 and is aimed at bringing together all Yorùbá related articles under one project to effectively monitor the coverage of these topics and in order for a community of users interested in the topics to form. Any users interested in contributing to the scope of articles covered or are already active in contributing can add their username under the 'Participants' section on this page.

Open Tasks[edit]

Assess the unassessed Yoruba articles as Stub, Start, B-Class, etc. More on assessment here.
Tag all Yoruba-relevant articles with ((YorubaProject | class= )) and an assessment.
Create all yet-uncreated project pages (those in red). See Wikipedia:WikiProject Yoruba/List of missing Yoruba topics
Create Yoruba subcategories and populate the created categories. Remove items from Category:Yoruba that ought to be in subcategories.

Needing work

If you're working on an article and you'd like to bring it to the attention of other editors, list it here. Format: # [[Article title]], class. Details on what should be done (optional). ~~~~

Goals[edit]

Improve Wikipedia's coverage of Yoruba.
Improve and maintain the navigation aids (tables of contents and indexes) for Yoruba-related topics on Wikipedia. See Category:Yoruba.
Improving Yoruba-related articles to make them more informative and better written.
Create guidelines for articles about items related to Yoruba.

Related projects[edit]

Yoruba-related notice board

Articles[edit]

All tagged articles are found below, sorted into their respective classes.

Yoruba articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA			1	1			2
GA	1	1	3	1			6
B	4	12	5	3		2	26
C	7	26	12	12		9	66
Start	3	36	27	31		28	125
Stub	1	28	15	29		18	91
List		2	6	15	3	4	30
Category	2				90		92
Disambig	1				3		4
File			2		1		3
Project					6		6
Redirect	3	3		1	12		19
Template					6		6
Other	1				6		7
Assessed	23	108	71	93	127	61	483
Unassessed						3	3
Total	23	108	71	93	127	64	486
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 1,534			Ω = 4.82

By assessment

Miscellaneous

Templates and categories[edit]

Please use these templates where applicable.

General templates

Template Use on Description

((User Yoruba Project))

User pages

This user is interested in
Yoruba

((WikiProject Yoruba|class=|importance=))

Article talk pages

Yoruba WikiProject banner, to be placed on all Yoruba article talk pages

class is optional - see the Assessment page for more information on classifying. Be bold, and assess!
If you don't want to assess, you can just add the template and someone else will do the assessment later.

Stub templates

A list of Yoruba-related stub templates:

Request image

To improve existing articles, add this to the tallk page in order to request for an image or photograph be included.

((reqphoto))

To add articles to subcategories of Category:Wikipedia requested photographs, use ((reqphoto)) with the following format: ((reqphoto|subject)) .

i.e. ((reqphoto|music topics))

If you notice that any are missing, please add them.

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
WikiProject Yoruba

Click on "►" below to display subcategories:
Yoruba

Participants[edit]

If you would like to be recognised as a contributor to articles in this projects scope,

To join WikiProject Yoruba (anyone may join), simply list your name on the members page.

Otelemuyen ^(talk) 02:06, 15 February 2011 (UTC). founder[reply]
Amujale (talk) 13:47, 22 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]
Rjhatl (Talk) 22 February 2011.
Eruditescholar (talk) 02:35,16 September 2014
Mahveotm
Ogun7(talk)
Kaizenify (talk) 00:22, 5 February 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Bilijin (talk) 23:01, 9 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
Oniwe (talk) 22:18, 24 August 2020 (UTC)Oniwe[reply]
Talisman-white
Willthacheerleader18 (talk) 03:07, 31 May 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Userboxes

Add the following Wikitext expressions to your user page:

Wikitext

Userbox

((User WikiProject Yoruba))

This user is a participant in WikiProject Yoruba.

Sister projects[edit]

Wikipedia in Yoruba! Copy the code below to place the Yoruba edition of Wikipedia template on a related page:

Input	Outcome
((InterWiki\|code=Yo\|Yoruba))	Yoruba edition of Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Tools[edit]

Main tool page: toolserver.org

Reflinks - Edits bare references - adds title/dates etc. to bare references
Checklinks - Edit and repair external links
Dab solver - Quickly resolve ambiguous links.
Peer reviewer - Provides hints and suggestion to improving articles.

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