Might try http://allafrica.com/
Fred
From: Stan Shebs shebs@apple.com Reply-To: wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 06:12:41 -0800 To: Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com, wikipedia-l@Wikimedia.org Subject: Africa info (was Re: [Wikipedia-l] Re: [Foundation-l] Day 4 Fund Drive Report (updated))
Andre Engels wrote:
Another issue that we found at least on the Dutch Wikipedia, is that Africa is rather underrepresented in the encyclopedia. Getting more articles on African subjects would benefit both Wikipedia as a whole and a specific project to get information to Africa.
A couple things I've discovered is that in African topics one has to go to those quaint old places called libraries (forget finding anything online), and one can get to the edge of current research very quickly. For English, there is the "Historical Dictionary" series which is very useful, but in their bibliographies you'll see comments like "only book on the subject".
The positive way to look at it is that it's an opportunity to make WP the must-use reference, with the only online info on a topic, while there are a thousand D-Day websites to "compete" with.
Stan
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