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Friday, 31 May
| This user
finished in third place
in the 2021
WikiCup
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male
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| Uyu ukoresha ashobora kugiramo uruhare
n'
Ikinyarwanda
giciriritse.
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Murakaza neza kuri paji y'ibanze yanjye!
About Amakuru
I've been a member of
Wikipedia
since February 2006, and I was
promoted to administrator
in April 2016. I currently live in London, United Kingdom, having previously lived in Rwanda for several years. When I'm not reading some of the fine articles written by others, I tend to divide my Wiki-time between three main areas:
- Article writing, particularly those related to
Rwanda
, with occasional excursions into other topics. My long term goal is to get all Rwanda related articles up to B class or better, but it's slow work!
- WikiGnome
activity, making minor fix ups here and there, links to disambiguation pages etc. I recommend
WP:AWB
for this kind of work.
- Administrative tasks and consensus building - my favourite haunt is
WP:RM
, where I involve myself in some discussions, close others, and work with the editors there on the direction of that process and all the policies around article titles, primary topics and notability. Now that I'm an administrator, I intend to start slowly learning the ropes in the other areas of admin activity.
I am happy to consider any reasonable administrative requests, please just leave me a message on my talk page and I'll look into it.
My current username is a
Kinyarwanda
word, whose literal meaning is
news
. It is the most common greeting in the country, equivalent to the English "
how are you
". The dialogue goes as follows:
- Amakuru?
(What's the news?)
- Ni meza.
(It is good.)
I started editing under the separate account
User:Steverwanda
in 2006, and this user account has been renamed twice - it started as
User:SteveRwanda
, and was briefly also
User:Muraho
. I currently have three
WP:Alternative accounts
set up -
User:Amakuru-Mobile
,
User:Amakuru-Confirmed
, and
User:Amakuru-NotConfirmed
.
Featured article
Rwanda
is a country in central and eastern
Africa
located a few degrees south of the
Equator
, bordered by
Uganda
,
Tanzania
,
Burundi
and the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
. All of Rwanda is at high elevation, with a geography dominated by mountains in the west,
savanna
in the east, and numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate. The predominantly rural population of 11.7 million people forms three main groups: the
Hutu
,
Tutsi
, and
Twa
. After Rwanda was first settled by
hunter-gatherers
in the
Stone
and
Iron Ages
, the population coalesced into clans and then into a Tutsi-led
kingdom
. It was colonised by Europeans in the 19th century and gained independence from Belgium on 1 July 1962 after a Hutu revolt led to massacres of Tutsis and the establishment of a Hutu-dominated republic. In 1990 the Tutsi-led
Rwandan Patriotic Front
(RPF) launched a
civil war
, which was followed by the 1994
Rwandan Genocide
, in which Hutu extremists killed an estimated 500,000 to 1 million Tutsi and moderate Hutu but were ultimately defeated by the RPF. The economy suffered during the genocide, but has since strengthened and depends heavily on subsistence agriculture. (
more...
)
| This article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page as
Today's featured article
on July 1, 2012.
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Awards
Precious
Thank you for sharing your intimate knowledge about
Rwanda
, Africa, for getting us closer in news (Amakuru) and images to its nature, culture and people, - you are an
awesome Wikipedian
! --
Gerda Arendt
(
talk
) 10:35, 1 July 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for all your work on the Paul Kagame article. It's looking loads better already. Once you're done and if you feel like putting it up for GA, I'd be happy to review it.
Lemurbaby
(
talk
) 18:04, 5 October 2012 (UTC)
For all your hard work on getting the article on
Paul Kagame
to GA, and for everything you do to improve coverage of Rwanda on WP. Way to go!
Lemurbaby
(
talk
) 04:39, 17 May 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for your work on the RM backlog! The assistance of qualified editors like you is greatly appreciated, and helps the whole project. --
BDD
(
talk
) 19:00, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
Thanks for the Harley Davidson Club move.
Salty Batter
(
talk
) 17:04, 25 January 2015 (UTC)
For your contributions to bring
Rwandan Revolution
to Good Article status. Thanks, and keep up the good work! ?
?aron
09:18, 14 March 2015 (UTC)
Thank you! I was really impressed by the constructive and non-acrimonious tone and contributions from everyone involved in the recent
AFD
discussion on the
Alliance of Women Directors
article. What could have been?with the wrong editors involved?a very nasty debate, turned into a very positive discussion. Even editors who strongly felt that the article should be deleted worked hard to find sources and fix problems with it. This is the kind of positive collaboration people don't hear a lot about in Wikipedia-land and I'd like to recognize it.
Carl Henderson
(
talk
) 19:58, 3 April 2015 (UTC)
Thanks for your help!
Mc twizzle
(
talk
) 20:42, 3 September 2016 (UTC)
RfA Awards
Home-Made Barnstar
Congrats on your success rate on your RFA! Hope you win! Your contribs are pretty awesome.
Peter
Sam
Fan
19:22, 14 April 2016 (UTC)
The Barnstar of Diligence
Here is my support for your RFA~
Winterysteppe
(
talk
) 19:02, 15 April 2016 (UTC)
A beer for you!
A toast to your successful RfA! Best of luck to you!
RickinBaltimore
(
talk
) 15:42, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Congrats..The admins' T-shirt for you.
CAPTAIN RAJU
(
?
)
16:29, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
Thanks for making my first nomination go to the top of the charts. Congratulations!
wbm1058
(
talk
) 16:42, 19 April 2016 (UTC)
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