Has anyone forwarded this to this list yet?
A.
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From: Iolanda Pensa <iolanda(a)pensa.it>
Date: Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:40 AM
Subject: [cultural-partners] call for wikipedian in residence in Cape Town
To: Wikimedia Chapters cultural partners coordination <
cultural-partners(a)wikimedia.ch>
Cc: Isla Haddow-Flood <islahf(a)africacentre.net>
dear all
please find the call for a wikipedian in residence in Cape Town here
https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&src…
The Africa Centre is promoting and financing it. Your feedback would be
really important to improve the call and to make the best out of it.
I'll forward your remarks to Isla Haddow-Flood or please do not hesitate to
contact her directly (Isla Haddow-Flood <islahf(a)africacentre.net> in cc).
my very best regards
iolanda/iopensa
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The Africa Centre manages WikiAfrica / Share Your Knowledge in Africa;
lettera27 currently manages WikiAfrica / Share Your African Knowledge in
Europe, US and Canada. We are right now finalizing several collaborations
with cultural institutions and wikimedia chapters; the list will be
available in 2012.
For WikiAfrica we are currently working to involve on wikipedia and in the
GLAM project 50 cultural institutions based in Africa or with contents
related to Africa.
*Network - Current Status 25/10/2011*
* Wikimedia: we had a positive feedback from Spain, UK, Switzerland,
Germany; no responses jet from Netherlands, Austria, Poland,
Portugal. Waiting for a replay from Serbia. Interest from France but several
issues to be discussed and clarified; we are currently waiting for a reply.
The project is developed within a long collaboration with Wikimedia Italy.
we have been in contact with Wikimedia Canada to establish a collaboration
between them and the ROM Royal Ontario Museum. We informed Wikimedia
Foundation and we are discussing possibilities for their support to the
African side of the project and the follow up.The discussion with Wikimedia
associations was done outside of the mailing lists; an e-mail informing
about the project was sent to the cultural partnership mailing list
(20/09/2011). The Africa Centre is in contact with Wikimedia South Africa
and Wikimedia Kenya.
* Institutions: apart from the institutions with ** and * listed in the
project description with which we are already in contact; we had a very good
reaction from the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren and from the
Institute for Anthropological Research in Africa (IARA) Faculty of Social
Sciences / Catholic University of Leuven (with a very nice letter of support
from Filip De Boeck); good support from Iwalewa-Haus / University of
Bayreuth. No French institutions have been contacted or recontacted jet. We
are currently collaborating in Italy with 10 institutions. here pilot
project we developed in 2011 and that we are still currently working on is
Share Your Knowledge (
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge). here
a list of the institutions we are currently collaborating with
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progetto:WikiAfrica/Istituzioni. A press
* Institutions the Africa Centre based in Cape Town is planning to involve
in WikiAfrica: Timbuktu Manuscripts, Mali, via the UCT digitisation project
TomboUCTto ((
http://www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/about/project/ <http://<http:>
www.tombouctoumanuscripts.org/about/project/> ); Bibliotheca Alexandrina,
Egypt (
http://www.bibalex.org/ <http:// <http:>www.bibalex.org/> ); Robben
Island Museum, South Africa (
http://www.robben-island.org.za/ <http://<http:>
www.robben-island.org.za/> ); M-Net’s Africa Film Library (
http://www.africanfilmlibrary.com/ <http:// <http:>
www.africanfilmlibrary.com/>)t;); Sithengi’s 10 years of Film Festivals (this
is available in archival format which I have, but need to get authority from
the organisation); African Documentaries via Encounters (
www.encounters.co.za ); South African galleries / IZIKO (
http://www.iziko.org.za/ <http:// <http:>www.iziko.org.za/> ); South African
History Online (
www.sa
<http://www.sahistory.org.za/>history<http://www.sahistory.org.za/>
.org.za <http://www.sahistory.org.za/>); Africa South Art Initiative (
www.asai.co.za); Journalist partner : Highway Africa (
http://www.highwayafrica.com/ <http:// <http:>www.highwayafrica.com/> )
* People and institutions we contacted to get a general feedback on
WikiAfrica and Share Your African Knowledge: positive feedback from Open
Knowledge Foundation (Jonathan Gray), Creative Commons Italy / Centro NEXA
(Federico Morando); interest on the idea of implementing the project in
Africa from Africa Centre, Wikimedia Kenya (Isaac Kosgei - also interested
in collaborating as wikipedian in residence), Nhlanhla Mabaso, Heather Ford
(suggesting to focus on African contributors and providing advices for
institutions based in South Africa and Africa).
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