WikiIndaba conference 2021/Kipala/Report

Participant edit

Kipala (I presented 2x under my open name Ingo Koll)

Sessions attended edit

Opening Ceremony (a bit)

African language Wikipedias - indicators for development, growth and renewal where I presented together with Marc Ribe and Amir Aharoni

Challenges for Quality Control in Small Wikipedias which I presented

CEE Meets African Wikimedians: Regional Hubs Implementation Perspectives and Challenges

Wikimedia and African Libraries: envisioning future pathways

Wikipedia in African Libraries: milestones attained, challenges and outcomes

Swahili Wikipedia for SADC Countries

State of Wikimedia in Africa

Connections made edit

I have connected with Amir Aharoni, who counselled me later about Wikidata for swwiki and how to edit our (sometimes faulty) menues

and with Winnie Kabintie who asked about methods to build up community

Learning points edit

  1. I learned more about Wikipedia in libraries, I heard about the idea of regional hubs

Outcome edit

Contact to Amir was valuable for the training he could give me later