Hey All,
What are the thoughts on translating the portal into more languages
(Arabic, Portuguese and French would be the most important ones). Only a
majority of the poor Africans does speak English ...
Grtz,
Maarten
2012/2/10 <francisa(a)africacentre.net>
Dear Wiki colleagues,
I am excited to invite all members of the South African chapter of
Wikimedia to participate in the Wiki Africa project that will expand and
increase the contents of Africa information in Wikipedia. Through this
invitation we hope to build a strong partnership in promoting African
content in Wikipedia.
WikiAfrica is an international collaborative project between Africa Centre
and Lettera27 that is designed to Africanize Wikipedia by generating and
expanding 30,000 articles over two years. The project promotes a new method
of acquiring and sharing knowledge that is fully-inclusive, mainstream,
intercultural and relevant to contemporary and historic Africa. The initial
two years are focused on encouraging external Africa-based, cultural
organizations, museums and archives, as well as bloggers and journalists,
to contribute their knowledge to Wikipedia.
These initial two years focus on content related to literature, poetry,
art, cinema and other cultural products. WikiAfrica will not exclude
anything that falls outside of these categories, but focuses most of its
energy in these areas. At the same time, the WikiAfrica project expands the
African content that is already available online and improves existing
articles by combining sources and promoting the participation of experts.
WikiAfrica contributes to the aims of Wikimedia projects online (especially
the WikiProject Africa, WikiProject African diaspora and the Africa Portal)
and also works externally with texts, quotes, images, audio and video.
The project will be approached and achieve its goals via the following
four activities:
-Create partnerships with organisations that have existing archives
that are readily accessible and that are predisposed to placing this
content online;
-Motivate the adaptation of a copyleft or Creative Commons approach to
intellectual property.
-Activate new Wikipedia users and editors in Africa through marketing
and promotion; and
-Create training tools and establish the mentorships required to
activate a new team of users and editors of Wikipedia (wikipedians).
Click on Get started (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Get_**started<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…)
or the Project page (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects<http://en.w…)
to contribute to Wiki Africa and become a member of Wiki Africa!
Please visit our incubator at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**
Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Incubator<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wi…
a step by step guide on how to start your articles for new authors.
We look forward to working with Wikimedia South Africa in knowledge
exchange, participation and contribution to this project.
For any questions don't hesitate to contact me.
Thank you
Francis Awinda
Administrator and content manager Wiki Africa
Email:francisa@africacentre.**net <Email%3Afrancisa(a)africacentre.net>
Tel:+27793087519
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