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
* 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).