Truly amazing Florence. This is great news. Best, Alice Sent hurriedly from my iPhone. Please forgive typos.
> On Jun 13, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Florence Devouard <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone > > WikiAfrica has recently started a new project, the Wikipack Africa. > > The project amalgamates: > > * the coding of a software, WikiFundi, that provides an off-line editing > environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment. The software will be made > available in French and English. > > * the creation of action packs for use by local Wikimedia chapters, user > groups or isolated individuals in Africa, and > > * a Wikipedia Writing Contest to be run in African Schools, #WikiChallenge > African Schools > > > > It will roll out in two phases : > > Phase 1 involves the creation of the WikiPack Africa. WikiPack Africa is a > digital kit located via a local network device (Raspberry PI). The local > network device will provide access to an off-line editing platform that > mimics Wikipedia, and provides related materials and additional OER > resources. The WikiPack Africa will both facilitate the outreach work of > Wikimedia chapters, User Group and individuals, and encourage the growth of > digital skills and content contribution by teachers and students across > Africa. The pack allows for ongoing training and contribution even when > technology, access and electricity outages fail or are not available at all. > > The WikiPack Africa delivered to users will comprise two Raspberry PIs and > some offline materials (posters, leaflets, pull-up banner, tee-shirts, etc.). > The WikiPack will be delivered to several Wikimedia User Groups located in > Africa end of 2016. A Call for Interest will be made to identify which groups > will receive the Packs (8 countries will be covered as part of the pilot > launch). > > > The project has been conceptualised and conceived by Isla and myself after > seeing how frustrating limited access to internet or even to electricity > could be when trying to participate to Wikipedia. > > The WikiPack Africa is primarily meant for individuals and groups wanting to > implement outreach projects and: > * work with galleries, libraries, archives and museums to bring cultural > content online; > * work with education partners to get educators and students contribute or > better understand Wikimedia projects; > * more generally, organise edit-a-thons, photo hunts, workshops, press > conferences, etc. to promote Wikimedia projects. > > > > The #WikiChallenge African Schools (Phase 2) will use the WikiPack Africa to > facilitate an entertaining, powerful, collaborative and interactive content > creation competition between schools in Sénégal, Côte d'Ivoire, Guinée, > Niger, Tunisia, Madagascar, and Cameroon (countries may change...). The > challenge will run early 2017. > > > > The full project is run in partnership with Wikimedia CH and the Orange > Foundation. It will be primarily implemented by Florence, Isla and Emmanuel > Engelhart (Kelson, from Kiwix) from May 2016 until summer 2017. > > The project proposal, its documentation and its outcomes will be under a CC > BY SA 4.0 licence. > > --------- > > CALL for SUPPORT > > Current next steps include in particular > > * working on the WikiFundi software. This shall be lead by Kelson and part of > the development should be done during the Kiwix Hackhaton prior to Wikimania. > If you are interested to help, and simply interested to better understand > what is planned, please get in touch; > > * working on the content that will be put on WikiFundi. > We will NOT provide the entirety of Wikipedia on the plateform, but only a > mix of "presentation material", some "help:pages", "showcase of best > articles" and a large % of templates currently available on Wikipedia. If you > want to help or provide insightful input, please get in touch (with me), by > email or on the wiki talk page or during Wikimania. > We start working on the English content first. My current challenge is to > identify the most relevant help pages... and adapt them to this offline > editing environnement. > > > > --------- > > * To read more about Wikifundi: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiFundi > > * More information about the wikipack : > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa/en and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipack_Africa/fr > > * WikiProject page on the English Wikipedia : > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Wikipack_Africa > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > African-Wikimedians mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians _______________________________________________ African-Wikimedians mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/african-wikimedians
