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WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Category	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Portal	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Wikimedia Commons	Democratic Republic of the Congo
Parent project(s)	Africa
Project banner template	{{WikiProject Africa|DRC=yes|DRC-importance=}}
Userbox	{{User WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo}}
Assessment	/Assessment
CSB	Relevant for countering systemic bias

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.

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.

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.

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

Articles for deletion

• 02 Dec 2025 – Territory of the Congo River Alliance (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Launchballer (t · c) was closed as merge by Left guide (t · c) on 14 Dec 2025; see discussion (7 participants; relisted)

Proposed deletions

• 15 Dec 2025 – Matadi (commune) (talk · edit · hist) was PRODed by JoeNMLC (t · c): No significant coverage in independent reliable sources to establish notability. Found directory listings, and mentions, but no in-depth content.

Categories for discussion

• 10 Dec 2025 – Category:Democratic Republic of the Congo female handball players (talk · edit · hist) was CfDed by Kaffet i halsen (t · c); see discussion

Templates for discussion

• 05 Nov 2025 – Template:Democratic Republic of the Congo topics (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Nov 2025 – Template:Culture of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (talk · edit · hist) was TfDed by Nederlandse Leeuw (t · c); see discussion

Good article nominees

• 13 Sep 2025 – Parajotus refulgens (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Simongraham (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 27 Oct 2025 – Kingdom of Kongo (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Kowal2701 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

• 10 Dec 2025 – Draft:CG5 (musician) (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Greshthegreat (t · c)

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
17. Wowzers122 (talk · contribs) 21:00:51, 30 March 2025 (UTC)  Mostly politics post-2006, especially post-2018. Occasionally, I write on stuff between 1990-2006 because there's a big content gap there, but I'm not as interested in that stuff.
18. LouisBStevenson (talk · contribs) Precolonial Congo and the Congo Free State

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)

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.

Wikitext	userbox	where used
]	none	linked pages
{{Template:User Congolese Wikipedians}}	This user is a Wikimedian of DRC User Group.	linked pages
{{Template:User WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo}}	This user is a participant in WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Democratic Republic of the Congo}}	This user participates in WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.	linked pages
{{Template:User WP Democratic Republic of the Congo|invite}}	This user invites you to join WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo.	linked pages

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

• 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; 1991–1995 Katanga ethnic cleansings (mentioned a bit in this article); Sacred Union of the Radical Opposition (USOR, Anti-Mobutu alliance); National Sovereign Conference (fr); Youth of the Popular Revolutionary Movement (Jeunesse du Mouvement Populaire de la Révolution, JMPR);
• 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)

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.

• 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

Democratic Republic of the Congo articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		1	3	2		1	7
FL				1			1
FM					2		2
A						1	1
GA	2	3	10	18		3	36
B	14	14	24	26		108	186
C	25	35	72	114		275	521
Start	43	51	146	340		721	1,301
Stub	8	9	47	1,334		1,203	2,601
List	3	5	10	39		190	247
Category					2,199		2,199
Disambig					11		11
File					5		5
Portal					1		1
Project					3		3
Redirect		1	3	8	208		220
Template					151		151
Other					10		10
Assessed	95	119	315	1,882	2,590	2,502	7,503
Unassessed		1	2			4	7
Total	95	120	317	1,882	2,590	2,506	7,510
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 19,148			Ω = 5.18

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

• 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)

Please see {{WikiProject Africa}} for assessment information.

The invite template is below:

{{Join the DPRC Project}}

Have you considered joining WikiProject Democratic Republic of the Congo? We are a group of editors dedicated to improving the overall quality of Wikipedia's coverage on the Democratic Republic of the Congo. If you would like to join, simply add your name to the list of participants. Please see our list of open tasks for ideas on where to get started. If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask at the project talk page. We look forward to working with you in the future! ~~~~

The citizenship template is below:

Citizenship template

Wikitext	userbox	where used
{{User Congo Democratic}}	This user comes from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.	linked pages

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

{{subst:The Congo Barnstar of National Merit|message ~~~~}}