Wikipedia:WikiProject Madagascar

WikiProject Madagascar
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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

This is a WikiProject, an open group of Wikipedia editors. New participants are welcome; feel free to talk to us!

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

Scope

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.

Article alerts

Good article nominees

04 Aug 2026 – Woolly lemur (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Propitheque (t · c); see discussion
18 May 2026 – 1988 Summer Olympics boycott (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Spintendo (t · c); start discussion

Participants

Active members

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.

John Carter 19:38, 3 December 2007 (UTC)reply
♦Blofeld of SPECTRE♦ ^$1,000,000? 18:45, 13 February 2008 (UTC)reply
Sadalmelik (talk) 07:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)reply
Mounblow 19:38, 14 May 2008 (ULF)
Visionholder (talk) 22:37, 20 June 2008 (UTC) – specialized in lemursreply
--RayqayzaDialgaWeird2210 20:48, 10 August 2008 (UTC)reply
MeegsC | Talk 17:14, 18 October 2008 (UTC)reply
Samuel Sidler 00:47, 10 April 2009 (UTC)reply
Lemurbaby (talk) 13:31, 20 August 2009 (UTC) - culture and historyreply
Berkas (talk) 27 December 2009 (UTC)
Alextelford (talk) 08:28, 18 July 2010 (UTC) - fauna of western dry deciduous forestsreply
Fanoman (talk) 02:05, 16 May 2012 (UTC) - Malagasy Historyreply
Brigade Piron (talk) 14:50, 20 June 2014 (UTC) - history, colonialism and ethnographyreply
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
Dthomsen8 (talk) 22:45, 6 September 2017 (UTC)reply
Flappy Pigeon - Insular dwarfism and other 'island phenomena' have interesting complexities. I'd like to focus on the science of Madagascar.
Zanahary (talk · contribs) 07:17:51, 21 November 2023 (UTC) reply
Rainako (talk · contribs) 23:18:26, 9 June 2022 (UTC) reply

Former members

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

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

Member identification

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.

Recognized content

Madagascar articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA	9	4	8	26			47
FL		2					2
FM					36		36
A				1			1
GA	11	9	6	70		2	98
B	18	19	22	17		20	96
C	35	52	44	80		71	282
Start	19	89	132	265		281	786
Stub	5	124	667	1,755		1,669	4,220
List	5	7	16	42		16	86
Category					1,536		1,536
Disambig					4		4
File					2		2
Portal					1		1
Project					10		10
Redirect	2	5	10	22	157		196
Template					117		117
Other					1		1
Assessed	104	311	905	2,278	1,864	2,059	7,521
Total	104	311	905	2,278	1,864	2,059	7,521
WikiWork factors (?)	ω = 30,863	Ω = 5.58

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

Former featured articles

Featured lists

A-Class articles

Cyclone Leon–Eline

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

Did You Know (DYK)s

Ring-tailed Lemur
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

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Requests

Makay Mountains

Image requests

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

commons:Category:SVG locator maps of Regions in Madagascar (location map scheme)

Templates

Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for assessment.

Stub templates

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.

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Article alerts

Participants

Active members

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Member identification

Recognized content

Featured articles

Former featured articles

Featured lists

A-Class articles

Good articles

Former good articles

Did you know? articles

In the News articles

Did You Know (DYK)s

Wikipedia:Version 1.0 Editorial Team release version selections

Requests

Image requests

Maps

Templates

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