Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipack Africa Content/WikiFundi:WikiAfrica
WikiFundi and the WikiChallenge African Schools are part of the WikiPack Africa project that has been created by Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood within the frame of the WikiAfrica movement.
WikiAfrica is an international movement that takes place on the African continent and beyond. It encourages individuals, interested groups and organisations to create, expand and enhance online content about Africa. This involves motivating for the representation of the continent’s contemporary realities and history, its peoples and its innovations on the world’s most used encyclopaedia, Wikipedia.
In its various guises and hosted at several institutions (including Lettera27, Africa Centre, Yorg, Short Story Day Africa and Wikimedia CH), the WikiAfrica movement has consistently instigated and led multi-faceted innovative projects. These projects have activated communities across Africa and driven content onto Wikipedia. Examples of aligned projects include:
- #OpenAfrica training courses
- #OpenAfrica Toolkits
- Kumusha Bus (in Ethiopia and Ghana)
- WikiEntrepreneur (in Ethiopia and Malawi)
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Share Your Knowledge encouraged 32,000 contributions to Wikipedia. -
A community-based GLAM project in Cote d'Ivoire and Uganda. -
A continent wide photographic competition that celebrates a different aspect of Africa each year. -
A project the celebrates Africa's women in four countries: Cameroon, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria.
Over 2016/17 it is working on Wiki Loves Women (in collaboration with the Goethe Institute), WikiPack Africa, WikiFundi and the WikiChallenge African Schools (supported by the Orange Foundation), Wikipedia Primary and Wiki Loves Africa.