Introduction edit

History edit

Wiki Zimbabwe is a new group of volunteers working together since 2021 to get content about Zimbabwe onto Wikipedia. The Group of volunteers has people from around Zimbabwe and from different sectors although most of them are librarians. The group did a course together by Wikipedia in African Libraries. The course was meant to equip African librarians with the requisite skills to evaluate the quality and reliability of individual articles, edit and create content of local and personal interest on Wikipedia and sister projects with laid down benchmarks for quality and relevance.

We share the idea of a world like many of the countries that every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge, and here in Zimbabwe we shall play a key role in actualization of that vision.We aim to achieve this by hosting several projects and events such as: edit-a-thons, GLAMs, Wikipedia Education programs and other Wikimedia projects, which aim to promote Wikimedia projects in Zimbabwe and the content of the nation online.

Objectives edit

  • Our primary objective is to promote free access to knowledge through Wikipedia and other sisters projects run by the Wikimedia Foundation. We are committed to the development, growth and free distribution of educational contents in Zimbabwe.
  • We empower people to contribute to Wikipedia and other sister projects to ensure that knowledge is freely accessible and most of all the content about Zimbabwe.
  • Most of all, the desire to make our efforts into making major local languages Shona and Ndebele to be visible in the Wiki space then followed by the other 16 official languages that are now examined in the country's examination board ZIMSEC.

Projects edit

Wiki Zimbabwe has been involved and organised in the following projects

Project Name Project Link Dashboard Other Links
SheSaid Matabeleland Wiki Loves Women Matabeleland SheSaid Matebeleland Zimbabwe
She Said Mashonaland Wiki Loves Women/Focus Group/SheSaid Zimbabwe-Mashonaland Newspaper Article
Wiki Loves Monuments Wiki Loves Monuments
Wiki Loves Women Focus Group
Wiki Loves Africa 2022 Landing page Newspaper Report
AfroCuration Zimbabwe Dashboard link
How to Contribute from Zimbabwe How to Contribute to Wikimedia from Zimbabwe Newspaper report
Climate Awareness in Zimbabwe Climate Change Awareness Campaign in Zimbabwe Climate change Report
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Wiki Loves Africa 2024 Zimbabwe Venturing Wide Link to Dashboad

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Partners edit

Conferences edit

  • 2023 WikiIndaba in Morocco one of the volunteers Sichelesile received scholarship to attend the conference inperson.