It is important and necessary to improve the coverage of all countries topics in Wikipedia.

My effort in English Wikipedia is on this path. Some years ago I started adding Spanish municipalities, because I'm from Spain. Later, I started to create lists and stubs on topics from other countries, sometimes African ones, like museums in Lybia and similar stuff. Also, I have added stubs on national archives and libraries from many countries. While I wrote that stubs I used to think how many knowledge hold that institutions, which until that moment were present in Wikipedia only as a red link, if any.

Some links: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Angola (probably incomplete list, see the navbox for more lists) * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Angola (see navbox for other national libraries)

I encourage you to create stubs on these topics and expand the coverage.

I enjoyed the article.

2014/1/3 phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com

Following a talk I gave at Northwestern University this fall, a nice little article about African-language Wikipedias appeared in the newsletter of the Africana Libraries Newsletter: http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/aln/ALN132.pdf (2nd page)

I'm especially pleased about this because I would love to see African studies departments (and especially African language classes) to incorporate contributing to Wikipedia into their curriculum, and I think librarians are well-placed to encourage this and do the training. Thanks to Marcia Tiede at Northwestern for writing the article.

best, Phoebe

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