On 2/10/12 10:13 AM, franc...@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:franc...@africacentre.net
Tel:+27793087519
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