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WikiProject Samoa

Flag of Samoa
Shortcut	WP:SAMOA
Category	Samoa
Portal	Oceania
Wikimedia Commons	Samoa
Parent project(s)	Polynesia
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Polynesia|Samoa=yes}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Samoa}}

Talofa! Welcome toWikiProject Samoa! This group was formed to better organize articles onSamoa in a spirit of cooperation. If you want to participate, just add your name to the Participants list below. Happy editing!

This group includes within its scope all articles related toSamoa, its cities, geography, transportation, culture, people, language, history and much more. It aims to expand Wikipedia's resources on Samoa in a fair and accurate manner. All of these articles should be contained within theCategory:Samoa or one of its subcategories.

Find something from the TO DO SUGGESTIONS below that can be improved, whether content, grammar or formatting, and make it better. You can't break Wikipedia. Anything can be fixed or improved later. So go ahead, edit a page and help make Wikipedia the best information source on the Internet! Or you can start by helping to organise this page and WikiProject Samoa! Every article has a 'Talk' page where you can leave messages for others about WikiProject Samoa. Click the 'Discussion' tab at the top of the page to get to the 'Talk' page for this project. Again, welcome to WikiProject Samoa!

There was some sort of article cull in 2014, which made the project much smaller.

• 1000 articles: – 7 August 2018
• 1500 articles: – 25 May 2021
• 2000 articles: – 26 July 2022

To join WikiProject Samoa, edit this section and add theWikitext#{{subst:me}} with your areas of interest to the bottom of the following list of members. Members should also placemember identification on their user page.

1. Maxim Stoyalov
2. Vaafusuaga Samalaulu Fonoti -Talofa. Researcher in Samoan culture, oral traditions and history at the National University of Samoa. Matai (chief) from Malie, Manono, Leulumoega and Lufilufi.
3. N Panama 84534

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

1. Buaidh (talk ·contribs) 04:27:42, 15 May 2019 (UTC) [reply]
2. John Carter17:15, 3 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]
3. Teinesvaii I'm just logging here in WP:Samoa – I'm focusing onSavai'i, and creating villages stubs and general info relevant to Savai'i, as well as uploading my Samoa photos to commons.Teine Savaii (talk)11:13, 4 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
4. Himalayan Explorer -I'll help out when I can.
5. Michael Billington (talk)04:24, 11 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]
6. hs17127 (talk ·contribs) -Will rejoin and add more when I can

Members of WikiProject Samoa should place one of the following lines ofWikitext on theiruser page to add it toCategory:WikiProject Samoa participants.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
[[Category:WikiProject Samoa participants]]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Samoa}}	This user is a participant inWikiProject Samoa.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Samoa}}	This userparticipates in WikiProjectSamoa.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Samoa|invite}}	This userinvites you to join WikiProjectSamoa.	linked pages

For other Samoa user templates, seeCategory:Samoa user templates.

All templates relevant to Samoa are collected inCategory:Samoa templates. Here are some of the templates;

• {{Districts of Samoa}} is a template displaying all the Districts of Samoa.
• {{User WikiProject Samoa}} is a userbox which all members can add to the Talk page of their individualWikipedian User page.
• {{WikiProject Samoa}} is this project banner, to be added to thetalk pages of all articles which fall within the scope of the project. (this template is yet to be created)
• {{Samoa-stub}} – Stub notice for Samoa articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Samoa-geo-stub}} – Stub template for Samoa geography articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{Samoa-bio-stub}} – Stub notice for Samoa biography articles; to be placed on the bottom of the article page.
  • {{WikiProject Polynesia|Samoa=yes|Samoa-importance=}} – Add this template to thetalk page of all articles which fall within the scope of the project.

The 11 District templates below include villages or key places in each district, including other information which is notable in each area. Improve and expand the information in each template, or check that the information is updated and correct. Then add the relevant district template to the bottom of the relevant articles.

To automatically include a relevant template inCategory:Samoa templates, add the following to the template page:

<noinclude>[[Category:Samoa templates|{{PAGENAME}}]]</noinclude>

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

Many of these articles and pages need expanding with proper sources and references.

• Outline of Samoa article has a lot of important red link articles to be created.
• Category:Samoa geography stubs
• Category:Cities, towns and villages in Samoa
• Category:Samoa stubs – all Samoa stub articles which need expanding and improving to be a good article.

For example: Here's an articleA'ufaga[1] which needs expanding with a source attached which can be used as a reference. Or click on the list of potential sources below for other references.

Most of these important articles still need improving to meet the best quality for Wikipedia. Some are still stubs and need expanding.

• Samoa
• Upolu
• History of Samoa
• Culture of Samoa
• Faʻa Sāmoa
• Politics of Samoa
• Faʻamatai

We need to add more Images and Media on Samoa inWikimedia Commons. There are a number of public domain sites online, especially for historical images that are now in public domain or with aCreative Commons licence. Upload images to Commons and expand the database of images for Samoa, or add your own photos if you have some. If you're new, click on the Help section in Wikimedia Commons for tutorials.

• Flickr Creative Commons 2.0 Attribution
• Flickr Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution Share-Alike

Or you canadd existing photos in Commons to Samoa articles in Wikipedia to help improve them.

Refer to theproject subpage

All theRed links are missing articles that need to be created. Some of the articles (blue) have been created but are listed here as many are stubs and need expanding.

See/Requested articles

Samoa articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
FA				1		1
FM					4	4
A				1		1
GA		1	2	9		12
B	7	3	8	17		35
C	16	19	29	88		152
Start	10	49	140	556		755
Stub	2	4	107	1,079		1,192
List	2	2	8	74		86
Category					1,229	1,229
Disambig					3	3
File					1	1
Portal					1	1
Project					6	6
Redirect					61	61
Template					80	80
Other					3	3
Assessed	37	78	294	1,825	1,388	3,622
Total	37	78	294	1,825	1,388	3,622
WikiWork factors (?)		ω =11,665			Ω = 5.43

This is a list of recognized content, updated weekly byJL-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 istagged orcategorized (e.g.Category:Samoa articles) correctly and wait for the next update. SeeWP:RECOG for configuration options.

Potential sources for building content

There are a large number of resources available for this area. Please see the page of the specific country or area in which you are interested for the ones applicable for your specific interest.

Projects with some overlap include:

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Polynesia/American Samoa work group

See also

• Portal:Oceania

• Wikipedia:WikiProject Samoa/Popular pages
• Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Samoa

• Active WikiProjects
• WikiProject Samoa
• Polynesia-related WikiProjects
• WikiProject Countries projects
• WikiProjects participating in Wikipedia 1.0 assessments