[Foundation-l] Invitation to participate in Wiki Africa project!

[Florence Devouard]

On 2/10/12 10:13 AM, francisa at africacentre.net wrote:
> Dear Wiki colleagues,
>
> I am excited to invite members of Wikimedia Foundation


Ah. Hum. Okay.
Thanks for the invitation, which I just forwarded to Wikimedia France

Florence




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 ) or the
> Project page
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects) 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 for a step
> by step guide on how to start your articles for new authors.
>
> We look forward to working with all Wikimedia members interested in
> developing African content through 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 at africacentre.net
> Tel:+27793087519
>
>
>
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