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Projects and programs contributing to increase the quality and quantity of African content on Wikipedia and its sister projects, and to foster access and participation to the Wikimedia projects in Africa. For the full list of initiatives please refer to the timeline. Access to Wikipedia editWikipedia Offline editWikipedia Offline. Development and distribution of Wikipedia Offline.
Wikipedia on Mobile Phones editWikipedia Zero is a project which supports access to Wikipedia on mobile phones. Content on the Wikimedia projects editWikiprojects Africa edit
Research projects releasing content in cc by-sa and contributing to the Wikimedia projects editThe project Mobile Access to Knowledge: Culture and Safety in Africa. Documenting and assessing the impact of cultural events and public art on urban safety is a comparative international research project which is releasing all its background documentation under Creative Commons attribution share-alike and it is uploading its documentation on the Wikimedia projects. The project has been developed in collaboration with WikiAfrica and it is focussed on Luanda, Douala and Johannesburg. 30'000 African contribution milestone editIn 2009-2010 WikiAfrica has set a milestone of 30'000 African contributions to the Wikimedia projects by 2012. The milestone was reached by uploading the the Wikimedia projects texts and in particular images in collaboration with 100 institutions and many people. Oral citations edit
African Languages edit
Education Programme editConferences, presentations and events. Conferences in Africa about Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, and conferences anywhere about Africa on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Events editWiki Indaba 2014 editWiki Indaba was a 3 day conference held in Johannesburg (South Africa) from the 20th - 22nd June 2014. It was a gathering of African Wikimedians and other open knowledge volunteers who are aligned to our mission. The goals of the conference were to:
Links:
website: http://wikiindaba.net
Report of the working groups:
Grant application for WikiIndaba 2014 Grant report on WikiIndaba 2014 Contests editWiki Loves Monuments in Africa editWiki Loves Monuments. An international photo contest which invites everybody to document monuments and post them on Wikimedia Commons. In 2012 the contest is also organised in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa.
Case study on Wiki Loves Monuments in 2012 in Africa on Wikipedia in English https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Wiki_Loves_Monuments_2012_in_Africa.
Wiki Loves Africa editWiki Loves Africa was launched in 2014 and featured a second edition in 2015.
Presentations editThe presentations we know of are listened on the Africa timeline. Wikimania editConferences at Wikimania related to Africa are listed on the Africa timeline. Community editInformation on active chapters, affiliates, institutions and people active in contributing to projects and initiatives related to Africa and in Africa are listened in the Africa community page.
Community Online Networks edit
Activating communities in Africa editFor Wikimedia chapters and affiliates please refer to the Africa community page.
Cameroon edit
Chad edit
Congo, Democratic Republic of edit
Côte d'Ivoire edit
Ethiopia edit
Malawi edit
Mali edit
Namibia edit
Niger edit
Tunisia edit
Uganda edit
Wikimedia Governance edit
Linguistic Networks edit
Data edit
Research and resources (incuding communication tools) editPlease refer also to statistics related to Africa and bibliography.
Related Projects editWikiAfrica edit
Afripédia edit
Other projects edit
References edit
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