Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Archives
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The birth of the WikiAfrica mouvement
When: in 2006
Why and what, former projects, former partners: Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/birth of a movement
Kumusha Takes Wiki project
What : Kumusha Takes Wiki was a project that aimed at activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities (villages, townships, suburbs, inner cities, etc).
When:2013-2014
Main link: m:Kumusha Takes Wiki
Africa Incubator
What : The WikiAfrica Incubator is designed to support and assist new authors as they create their first articles in Wikipedia. It follows the basic rules and principles of Wikipedia. More experienced users can help develop these articles until they are ready to be moved into the main namespace.
When:2013-2014
Main link: Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator
30 000 articles in 3 years
What : The project WikiAfrica Archive wishes to Africanise Wikipedia by producing 30.000 articles in 3 years. The project relies on the collaboration with international archives, magazines, databases and cultural institutions. WikiAfrica Archives aims at generating a new approach to knowledge, which is fully inclusive, mainstream and intercultural. It contributes to building a free and open encyclopaedia and giving greater access and visibility to contemporary and historical archives. WikiAfrica Archives concentrates on contents related to art, cinema, literature and migration. It invites cultural institutions to adopt the copyleft, which is the most powerful distribution system. The project involves experts, students and volunteers, who will publish articles, upload images, write essays, quotations, review books and archives, allowing these contents to be fully accessible online.
When: 2012-2014
Main link: Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/30,000
Partners
- Italy: Lettera27 Foundation; Wikimedia Italia; Laboratory GRIOT/Rome; Nigrizia Multimedia – Afriradio – African Film Festival of Verona; African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan; Festivaletteratura di Mantova Mantua Literature Festival/Mantua
- Switzerland: SUPSI/Lugano
- South Africa: Chimurenga Magazine Cape Town; African Centre for Cities; University of Cape Town; Africa Centre
- Cameroon: Doual’art/Douala
- Senegal: Kër Thiossane/Dakar
- USA: Museum for African Art/New York, Asa - African Studies Association
Share Your Knowledge project
What : Share Your Knowledge enhances the content of cultural institutions. It strengthens their use and visibility and it makes them available on Wikipedia.
When: 2013-2014
Main link: Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge
See also: Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Current status