Wikipedia:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

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

Scope

This group includes within its scope all articles related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, history and so on. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on the Democratic Republic of the Congo in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within the Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo or one of its subcategories. This Project intends to cover an area that traditionally is low on Wikipedia's radar (See WP:Countering systematic bias). Please improve by joining and contributing.

Our mission

Worldwide density of geotagged Wikipedia entries. Really adds a whole new meaning to the phrase, "Dark Continent"...

Like our WikiProject Africa brethren, we have before us a large task: filling in the gap on Wikipedia concerning all things Congolese. This is probably one of the more difficult country-topics to maintain; the Congo is one of largest and most diverse African states, and has been in a state of instability since 1997.

The advantage? A clean slate. WikiProject DRC members have considerable latitude to create, edit, and revise relevant articles without the disruption of conjecture additions, unduly weighted material, or in-general unhelpful good faith edits (though some of our higher profile articles do suffer from this e.g. Patrice Lumumba). The French Wikipedia is a good place to start when looking for holes to fix. Just about all areas of the project are open to improvement.

Article alerts

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Did you know

• 13 Dec 2024 – Richard Stratton (diplomat) (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by BeanieFan11 (t · c); see discussion
• 20 Oct 2024 – Mwene Muji (talk · edit · hist) was nominated for DYK by Kowal2701 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for deletion

• 08 Dec 2024 – 2009 Aéro-Frêt An-12 crash (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Aviationwikiflight (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)

Articles to be merged

• 30 Oct 2024 – White people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to White Africans of European ancestry by 118.131.167.227 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 09 Dec 2024 – Draft:Agnès Uwimana Nkusi (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Agnés NKUSI UWIMANA (t · c)
• 12 Nov 2024 – Draft:Ouragan.cd (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by FRP2.0 (t · c)
• 24 Aug 2024 – Draft:Kinshasa School of Public Health (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Quetzal (t · c)

Participants

Active members

To join WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo, 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.

1. Francis Hannaway Francis Hannaway 21:06, 5 August 2010 (UTC)
2. Brigade Piron (talk) 19:14, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
3. Славянский патриот (talk) 04:40, 20 May 2014 (UTC)
4. Jackninja5 (talk) 02:08, 1 February 2015 (UTC) The Democratic Republic of the Congo has become very interesting to me now. I never call it simply "Congo". The Second Congo War gets my attention because for some reason I make a lot of edits about wars.
5. Indy beetle (talk) 00:57, 23 September 2016 (UTC) Anything revolving around the Congo Crisis.
6. Monopoly31121993 (talk) 13:18, 27 December 2016 (UTC) Mostly categories on Commons images related to DRC and DRC transportation edits on Wikipedia.
7. Dubito, ergo cogito, ergo sum (talk) 21:20, 30 September 2017 (UTC)
8. BamLifa (talk · contribs) 07:30:48, 15 October 2018 (UTC)  Whatever they say, DRC is still my country.
9. AmplifyWiki (talk)
10. CBJH (talk) 19:59, 26 October 2020 (UTC): Mostly Congolese political history from 1960 to 1997
11. capitainAfrika
12. Aegeou2 22:12:49, 16 December 2020 (UTC) 
13. A.S. Brown, History and culture.
14. Dunutubble (talk · contribs) 16:27:03, 18 June 2022 (UTC) , History and politics.
15. Jebiguess (talk · contribs) Modern political and military history and culture
16. MiddleOfAfrica (talk · contribs) 21:21:55, 4 October 2023 (UTC)  Cultures, history and religions of the precolonial Kongo region; also interested in improving stub articles and creating templates

Former members

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

1. John Carter 18:09, 3 December 2007 (UTC)
2. Congolese 05:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)
3. MinnesotanConfederacy 14:55, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
4. --Toussaint 17:20, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
5. Gniniv (talk) 08:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
6. The Malau (talk) 08:48, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
7. Julia Barrow (talk) 17:09, 6 March 2013 (UTC)
8. NhInsideWriter (talk) 03:50, 19 August 2014 (UTC)

Member identification

Members of WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo should place one of the following lines of Wikitext on their user page to add it to Category:WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo participants.

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For other Democratic Republic of the Congo user templates, see Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo user templates.

Requests

Article requests

• History: Red Rubber (book); Ten-Year Plan (Belgian Congo); Operation Morthor (redirect); Pende revolt; Thirty-Year Plan for the Political Emancipation of Belgian Africa, 1969 Democratic Republic of the Congo student protests; Coup monté et manqué (1975); Service territorial; Kongolo martyrs (1961); Comité national du Kivu; Commando Hibou (aka Régiment Baki); Se Kukianga (Kikongo newspaper, founded 1891); Minsamu Miayenge (Kikongo newspaper, founded 1893); American Presbyterian Congo Mission
• Geography: Grand Marché de Kinshasa; Jardin botanique de Kinshasa; Land reform in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Lubumbashi synagogue; National parks in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Palais de Marbre, Kinshasa; Sona-Bata;
• Politics: Alliance des Bayanzi; Law of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; 31st Airborne Brigade (Zaire)
• Arts and Culture: Lendu people (redirect); Kumu people and a number of missing ethnic groups here; Official University of the Congo; Literature of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Ethnic groups in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (redirect); Ngando (Le Crocodile); Lebanese people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Foire Internationale de Kinshasa; Architecture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Institute of National Museums of the Congo (Institut des musées nationaux du Congo, IMNC); Fédération d'Athlétisme du Congo
• Biography: Jean-Luc Vellut; Mwissa Camus; Marie Muilu Kiwanga; Daniel Ndeze Rugabo II; Kassim Tajideen; Bruce Fetter (historian)

Photo requests

You can post your image requests on the list here, and on the talk page(s) of the subject(s) with this text:

{{Image requested|in=the Democratic Republic of the Congo}}

Requests should be added 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.

Requests for expansion

• History: Compagnie du Katanga; Compagnie du Kasai
• Geography: Rail transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Aketi (town)
• Politics: Crime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Arts and Culture: Makere people; Mayogo people; Lele people; Suku people; Languages of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Biography: Mama Mobutu

Recognized content

Democratic Republic of the Congo articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Other	???	Total
FA		1	3	2			1	7
FL				1				1
GA	2	2	10	11			3	28
B	9	10	20	19			74	132
C	27	29	40	98			218	412
Start	45	48	120	321			670	1,204
Stub	8	10	52	413			1,230	1,713
List	3	5	10	37			188	243
Category					914	6		920
Disambig					2			2
Portal					1			1
Redirect			3	5				8
Template					24			24
Assessed	94	105	258	907	941	6	2,384	4,695
Unassessed		4	4	3			23	34
Total	94	109	262	910	941	6	2,407	4,729
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 18,392			Ω = 5.26

Library

Useful templates

• Template:Family name hatnote ({{Family name hatnote|Tshisekedi|Tshilombo|lang=Congolese}})

Web sources

• Congo Nouveau – National news website
• Media Congo – National news website
• KinshasaTimes – National news website
• KongoTimes.info – National news website
• Times.cd – National news website
• 7sur7.cd – National news website
• Scoop RDC – National news website
• LeCongolais – National and African news website
• Groupe de Presse l'Avenir – National media company
• Digital Congo – National news website, republishes stories from Congolese newspapers
• Le Phare – Kinshasa-based national newspaper
• Le Potentiel – Kinshasa-based national newspaper
• Congo Indépendant – National newspaper
• Le Soft International – National and international newspaper
• La Prosperite – National news journal
• Business et Finances – National business news journal
• Politico.cd – National political news magazine
• Virgunga Mountains Observer – Eastern Congo regional newsletter, focus on human rights
• Radio Okapi – National radio network, sponsored by MONUSCO
• RTVS1 Redaction – Kinshasa-based radio station
• Agence congolaise de presse (ACP) – Government press agency
• Journal Officiel de la République Démocratique du Congo – Government gazette
• Présidence de la République Démocratique du Congo – Official website for the President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Assemblée nationale – Official website for the National Assembly
• Sénat – Official website for the Senate
• CONGO, DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE – The World Factbook entry on the Congo
• The World Bank in DRC – World Bank website section on the Congo
• Centre Æquatoria – Belgian research center focused on the Équateur region
• Kongo Central – Government website for the Province of Kongo Central
• Province du Sud-Kivu – Government website for the Province of Sud-Kivu
• UKE.be – Website of the Union Kasaienne de l'Extérieur, focused on the Kasai region (no longer updated)
• Jeune Afrique | RD Congo – Jeune Afrique section on the Congo
• The Guardian – Congo – The Guardian articles tagged for the Congo
• Reuters – DRC News – Reuters articles tagged for the Congo
• NPR : Democratic Republic of the Congo – National Public Radio articles tagged for the Congo
• UN News – DRC – United Nations news articles tagged for the Congo

Full texts

• Belgian Congo. Vol. 1 (translated ed.). Brussels: Office de l'information et des relations publiques pour le Congo belge et le Ruanda-Urundi. 1959. OCLC 221824793.
• Ndaywel è Nziem, Isidore (1998). Histoire générale du Congo : de l'héritage ancien à la république démocratique. Brussels: Le Cri. ISBN 9782801111741.
• Brausch, Georges (1961). Belgian Administration in the Congo. London: Oxford University Press. OCLC 230080110.
• Chomé, Jules (1966). Moise Tshombe et l'escroquerie katangaise (in French). Brussels: Éditions de la Fondation J. Jacquemotte. OCLC 919889.
• Congo, 1955–1960 : recueil d'études (PDF) (in French and Dutch). Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. 1992. OCLC 30563934.
• Le Congo Belge Durant la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (PDF) (in French and Dutch). Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. 1983.
• The Congo Rebellion. Léopoldville: Press Service of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 1964. OCLC 781977731.
• From Leopoldville to Lagos : Our African Policy (translated ed.). Léopoldville: Republic of the Congo, Documents Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1962. OCLC 31180608.
• Jadot, J. M. (1959). Les écrivains africains du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi (PDF) (in French). Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences Coloniales. OCLC 920174792.
• Lefever, Ernest W.; Joshua, Wynfred (30 June 1966). United Nations Peacekeeping in the Congo: 1960–1964 (PDF). Vol. 2. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution. OCLC 631685344.
• Legum, Colin (1961). Congo Disaster. Baltimore: Penguin. OCLC 586629.
• Meditz, Sandra W.; Merrill, Tim (1994). Zaire : a country study. Washington, D.C.: Federal Research Division, Library of Congress. LCCN 94025092.
• Merriam, Alan P. (1961). Congo: Background of Conflict. Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. OCLC 424186.
• Mountz, William T. (May 2014). Americanizing Africanization: The Congo Crisis, 1960–1967 (PDF) (PhD). Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri. OCLC 905980182.
• O'Brien, Conor Cruise (1962). To Katanga And Back – A UN Case History. London: Hutchinson. OCLC 460615937.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2014). Bas-Uele : Pouvoirs locaux et économie agricole : héritages d’un passé brouillé (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren. ISBN 978-9-4916-1586-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2016). Équateur : Au cœur de la cuvette congolaise (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4922-4423-9.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2018). Haut-Katanga : Lorsque richesses économiques et pouvoirs politiques forcent une identité régionale (PDF). Provinces (in French). Vol. 1. Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4926-6907-0.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2018). Haut-Katanga : Lorsque richesses économiques et pouvoirs politiques forcent une identité régionale (PDF). Provinces (in French). Vol. 2. Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4926-6907-0.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2011). Haut-Uele : Trésor (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4926-6907-0.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2014). Kasaï-Oriental : Un nœud gordien dans l’espace congolais (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4916-1524-5.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2012). Kwango : Le pays des Bana Lunda (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-2-8710-6605-7.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2019). Mai-Ndombe. Mosaïque de peuples établie sur un patrimoine naturel (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren. ISBN 978-9-4926-6955-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2011). Maniema : Espace et vies (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-2-8710-6562-3.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2015). Mongala : Jonction des territoires et bastion d’une identité supra-ethnique (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren: Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale. ISBN 978-9-4922-4416-1.
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2013). Sud-Ubangi : Bassins d’eau et espace agricole (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren. ISBN 978-2-87593-014-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean, ed. (2014). Tanganyika : Espace fécondé par le lac et le rail (PDF). Provinces (in French). Tervuren. ISBN 978-9-4916-1587-0.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
• Omasombo Tshonda, Jean; Verhaegen, Benoît (2005). Patrice Lumumba: acteur politique: de la prison aux portes du pouvoir, juillet 1956-février 1960 (in French). Paris: Harmattan. ISBN 9782747563925. (Prologue only)
• Pain, Marc (1984). Kinshasa : la ville et la cité. Paris: Editions de l'ORSTOM. ISBN 2-7099-0728-3.
• The province of the Katanga and Congolese independence. Léopoldville: Republic of the Congo, Documents Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 1962. OCLC 25943688.
• Stenmans, A. (1961). Les Premiers Mois de la République du Congo (Léopoldville) (1er juillet-22 novembre 1960). Relation coordonnée des événements et réflexions d'ordre général (PDF) (in French). Brussels: Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer. OCLC 2128926.
• Tödt, Daniel (2021). The Lumumba Generation: African Bourgeoisie and Colonial Distinction in the Belgian Congo. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH. ISBN 9783110709308.
• Tshombe, Moïse (1967). My Fifteen Months in Government (translated ed.). Plano: University of Plano Press. OCLC 461806488.

Photos

• MONUSCO Photos – MONUSCO Flickr account, all photos licensed with Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0)
• Radio Okapi Photos – Radio Okapi Flickr account (no longer updated), all photos licensed with Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Templates

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The invite template is below:

{{Join the DPRC Project}}

The citizenship template is below:

Citizenship template

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Awards

Post the text below to award users who make stellar contributions to Congo-related articles.

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