[Wikimedia-l] [Wikimedia Announcements] Afripedia, a project to help the development of Wikipedia in French-speaking Africa

[Hubert]

wow, really fantastic! Sounds like pioneer-work!

hubertl

Am 20.06.2012 22:43, schrieb Adrienne Alix:
> [Apologize for cross posting... ]
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Wikimedia France is very happy to announce a great new project :
> 
> A partnership has been formalized on last Friday between Wikimédia
> France, the Institut Français
> <http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_fran%C3%A7ais> (the network of
> the french cultural institutes in the world) and the Agence
> Universitaire de la Francophonie
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence_universitaire_de_la_Francophonie>
> (Association of Universities of the Francophonie) to support a common
> program about the development of Wikipedia in French-speaking Africa:
> this project is called "Afripedia".
> 
> Afripedia is a project to support the "digital development" of Africa.
> While the most part of the contributions and contributors on Wikipedia
> are from the North, we want to make easier the offline reading of
> Wikipedia and the production of content about Africa and made by African
> contributors. The project entails projected workshops to help use the
> encyclopedia and produce content on the Wikimedia projects.
> 
> Based on the offline technologies developped by Kiwix
> <http://www.kiwix.org/index.php/Main_Page/en> (and helped by Kiwix), the
> project will involve several phases:
> 
> 1/ software development to produce offline versions of Wikipedia (and
> probably other Wikimedia projects like Wiktionary) regularly and easily,
> and then a download solution to get these offline versions easier, with
> no technical ability needed.
> 
> 2/ Installation of these offline versions on flash drives, plugged on
> little computers extremely energy-efficient, without screen or keyboard.
> The computer spreads the content of the flash drive (=Wikipedia) with a
> wireless connection without internet (the content of the flash drive is
> available just by connecting to this wifi) [see [[Plug computer
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plug_computer>]]
> 
> 3/ Installation of the computers and flash drives and training of
> students and professors on the "Digital campus of Francophonie", a
> network of digital points supported by the Association of Universities
> of the Francophonie, to support the dissemination of Wikipedia content
> without the issues of irregular access to internet. One plug (with or
> without repeater) can provide Wikipedia for dozens of students !
> 
> 4/ Training in contribution on Wikipedia (in French and local languages)
> 
> 5/ After a first implementation (autumn 2012) in 20 points in 15
> countries of West Africa, we will assess the project and extend it over
> a larger scale for 2013, if the results are good.
> 
> 
> As it is one of our missions, we consider producing free knowledge in
> French and in local languages and making it accesible in territories
> developping access to digital technology but having no active Wikimedia
> community yet, to be essential. So we will also support the forming of
> contributors communities in these countries.
> 
> See also (in french) http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia
> 
> ==
> Â 
> The Institut Français is the operator for the French Ministry of
> Foreign Affairs in charge of the cultural action in foreign countries.
> Through its French Language Department, the Institut Français works
> towards the attractivity and spreading of French language across the
> world. It particularly takes care of the development of the teaching of
> French language and culture in secondary school and in universities.
> http://www.institutfrancais.com/
> Â 
> The Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (Association of Universities
> of the Francophonie) groups 786 higher education and research
> institutions from 98 countries on the five continents, using French
> language as a language for teaching and research. Its mission is to
> contribute to the solidarity between French-speaking higher education
> establishments and to the development of a scientific arena in French,
> respecting the cultures and languages diversity.
> http://www.auf.org/
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Adrienne Charmet-Alix
> Directrice des programmes - Wikimedia France
> Twitter : @AdrienneAlix
> adrienne.alix at wikimedia.fr <mailto:adrienne.alix at wikimedia.fr> |
> 07.62.92.42.01
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> 
> 
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