Thread by @RahalMal

In my history class on contemporary Algeria, students are asked to chose a @Wikipedia article to improve, based on academic sources. Here is a selection of articles...
@WikimediaDZ

General Massu (in French) is one of them. The section on his role during the Algerian war for independence is now much clearer with less innuendo and more facts (e.g. torture is now called torture rather than "necessary methods")
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_M…

In the Algerian literature article in English, a section now describes Buqala 🥰

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_…

This article on Algerian history (which bizarrely ends in 1999) now has stronger and more precise sections about the challenges of the post-Independence thanks to two different students working on it.
(It even refers to Project Generation Independence!)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_o…

The article on Women in Algeria now has (more) references to research by Natalya Vince and Djamila Amrane (🥰 )
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_…

The article about Serkadji prison allowed students to experience how different it is to write about the colonial period than about the 1990s (in part because academic research is slow to produce).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serkadji_…

The article in English of the Algerian Communist Party (PCA) is now substantial...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algerian_…

And, following the article on the Algerian communist party we now also have a significantly improved article in French on PAGS (Parti de l'Avant-garde socialiste).
fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parti_de_…

Happy reading!