Wikivoyage:Africa Expedition

The Africa Expedition is a Wikivoyage Expedition to promote and coordinate collaboration to improve Wikivoyage's articles about Africa. It is designed to support new contributors, including those who are part of Free Knowledge Africa.

Knowledge about places in Africa is welcome, because some articles are lacking in information. If you'd like to join the effort, add your signature to the bottom of the page, or just plunge forward.

Rationale

Some of the best articles in Wikivoyage are written by people who want to share what they know about their homes with people who want to visit. Wikivoyage's coverage of African destinations and travel topics could be better, and it will be better if Africans tell the world what they know about their countries, cities, towns and villages.

Goals

To promote the use and contributions to Wikivoyage by Africans.
To improve Wikivoyage articles on African travel, geographic information, sports, cultural and tourist sites.
To partner with organisations and bodies involved in African culture, travel and tourism towards showcasing its resources.
To generate and promote free knowledge about African culture, history, travel and tourism.

Statistics

Note that numbers in the tables are not dynamically calculated and must be manually updated. Last updated on 24 September 2024.

Click on number to get an updated list of pages by status. (Note sometime the link just sits there, usually due to the database updating, come back in 10 minutes.)

Articles by status in Africa
Type/Status Matrix	Outline	Usable	Guide	Star	Unranked	Total (line)
District	18	22	0	0		40
City	1055	268	24	0		1347
Airport	0	1	0	0		1
Park	210	31	5	0		246
Dive guide	49	108	95	7		259
Rural area	37	5	0	0		42
Region	233	12	0	0	12	257
Total	1602	447	124	7	12	2192

Articles needing a little work to get to usable.
Outline cities	sleep	eat	see	do	check
needs only	0	0	265	0	0
has no	1055	1055	1055	1055	1055

Remember a reasonable Get in section, as well as listings, is needed to make usable.

How you can participate

You are invited to plunge forward and make changes to articles about Africa (or to any page on the site, including this one). Just click the Edit this page link, and you'll get a Web form that lets you change the contents of the page. Hit Save page, and your version is what's shown on the site. If you're nervous, feel free to practice on the graffiti wall.

This most important thing is to add content to articles: pick a place and describe what there is to see and do, to buy, to watch and drink, and where to sleep. To start, don't worry about making mistakes — there are plenty of Wikivoyagers who can 'tidy up' if you don't get things quite right.

Pictures are really an effective way of showing travellers what a place has to offer. The easiest way is to find a picture on the Wikimedia Commons. If you want to add your own pictures, upload them there so that all of the Wikimedia projects can use them.

If you find yourself getting more involved, you may want to read our tips for new contributors. Our list of goals and non-goals will give you a good idea of what we're trying to do with Wikivoyage. If you've got some specific info you want to share, we have some guidelines on where you can stick it (pun intended). You can also read our manual of style for more clues as to how to edit and layout guides, but don't worry too much about that stuff if you'd rather spend your time just adding content.

Current priorities

Destination articles in Africa
Historical sites in Africa — help travellers see beyond game parks and beaches to learn about Africa's rich history
Phrasebooks#Africa — help travellers learn key phrases in African languages
Religion and spirituality#African and African Diaspora religions — help travellers learn more about the indigenous religions of Africa

Other tasks

More resources

As we've said, the most important thing is to add content, so don't worry too much about getting things exactly right. But if you want to learn more about how Wikivoyage works, we have a wealth of resources available to help. And you can always ask questions on the talk page of this expedition.

About Wikivoyage
Welcome, newcomers
- Welcome, Wikipedians — we're very much like — and unlike — that great encyclopedia
- Welcome, business owners — hoteliers, restauranteurs, barkeepers, etc.
- Welcome, tourism professionals — we're all about cooperation
FAQ — fearfully anticipated questions... and answers.
Copyleft — information about the license and philosophy that guides this site

Finding travel information

Finding travel information (part of the Welcome, newcomers page)
List of itineraries
Directory of travel topics

Contribute

Quick contribution guide — eager to get contributing? A guide to making a useful contribution to Wikivoyage in just a few minutes
Tips for new contributors — useful information for first-time contributors
Manual of style — spelling, layout, formatting rules and article skeletons
Policies and guidelines — an index of all Wikivoyage policy guidelines
Ways to help Wikivoyage — writers, editors, and photographers are all needed
How to — step-by-step instructions for specific tasks
- How to edit a page
- Wiki markup — how to add links, boldface, headings and lots more
- Geocoding — creating static and dynamic maps.
- Banners — creating cropped images for page banners
Software features — guides to using MediaWiki functions

Talk

Travellers' pub — for general discussions about Wikivoyage
Wikivoyage:Arrivals lounge — a place for new contributors to post questions about Wikivoyage and get responses from experienced contributors.
Wikivoyage jargon — explains some of the abbreviations, words and phrases used in discussions, edit summaries etc.

Expedition members

African local experts

Non-African project supporters

(Experienced Wikivoyage contributors who will assist by answering questions and formatting contributions.)