dear all with WikiAfrica we are trying to get contents and data on African cities, villages and territories on Wikipedia.
1. Marcok is working on putting together the available data http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:Amministrazioni/Africa/Fonti#Collegame... 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. 3. m.casanova is collaborating in editing the data to produce the necessary CVS files. 4. we will make a test on Wikipedia in Italian (there are around 10 volunteers currently involved)
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.
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. thanks iolanda/iopensa