Last fall, when the US National Archives presented on Wikipedia for the International Council on Archives conference, we were approached by someone from Liberia&#39;s National Archives who was interested in Wikipedia for improving access to their land deed records, especially because a lot of their potential users are refugees abroad. At the time, I wasn&#39;t able to find any local or interested contacts to work with them on the project, but maybe it would fit in with this project? I still have the contact information, if you would be interested in getting in talking with them.<div>
<br></div><div>Dominic<br><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 June 2012 09:07, Iolanda Pensa <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:iolanda@pensa.it" target="_blank">iolanda@pensa.it</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="word-wrap:break-word">dear all<div>with WikiAfrica we are trying to get contents and data on African cities, villages and territories on Wikipedia.</div><div><br></div><div>1. Marcok is working on putting together the available data <a href="http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Amministrazioni/Africa/Fonti#Collegamenti_esterni" target="_blank">http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Amministrazioni/Africa/Fonti#Collegamenti_esterni</a></div>
<div>2. with the support of the University of Cape Town/African Center for Cities (Edgar Pieterse and Ismail Farouk) we are got in contact with Paul Sinclair, director of studies at the Uppsala University/Department of Archaeology and Ancient History. Paul Sinclair has been working on African cities for many years. I also contacted UN-Habitat.</div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">3. m.casanova is collaborating in editing the data to produce the necessary CVS files.</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">4. we will make a test on Wikipedia in Italian (there are around 10 volunteers currently involved) </span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">the idea is to create articles on African cities, villages and territories on wikipedia in all African languages (which include of course also English, French...). we plan to also provide the data for the German data project when possible and useful.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px"><br></span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">We would be really pleased if you can contact us if you have ideas, suggestions or links to existing databases (or to GLAMs we can contact to have access to data). please do not hesitate to forward the message to people who might be interested in the initiative.</span></font></div>
<div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">thanks</span></font></div><div><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:18px">iolanda/iopensa </span></font></div></div>
<br>_______________________________________________<br>
glam mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:glam@lists.wikimedia.org">glam@lists.wikimedia.org</a><br>
<a href="https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam" target="_blank">https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/glam</a><br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>