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Languages
2001
Wikipedia in English (en), French (fr), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt), Afrikaans (af).
Wikipedia
Languages
2002
Wikipedia in Yoruba (yo), Amarico (am), Kinyarwanda (rw), Hausa (ha), Oromo (om).
Wikipedia
Languages
2003
Wikipedia in Arabic (ar), Swahili (sw), Wolof (wo), Zulu (zu), Sesotho (st), Twi (tw), Xhosa (xh).
Wikipedia
Languages
2004
Wikipedia in Malgascio (mg), Somalo (so), Lingala (ln), Shona (sn), Kongo (kg), Igbo (ig), Tswana / Setswana (tn), Bambara (bm), Swati /Swazi (ss), Ewe (ee), Kikuyu (ki), Tigrinya (ti), Tsonga (ts), Sangro (sg), Venda (ve), Kirundi (rn), Akan (ak), Tumbuka (tum), Ganda (lg), Chichewa / Nyanja (ny).
Wikipedia
Languages
2004
The page African languages is created on Meta.
Meta
Presentations
2005
Achal Prabhala, An overview of the access to learning materials situation in Southern Africa, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.
Germany
Presentations
2005
Kasper Souren, Wikimedia projects and African languages: Thoughts on the Bambara Wikipedia, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.
Germany
Presentations
2005
Florence Devouard, How to get Wikimedia into the developing world, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.
Germany
Presentations
2005
Isam Bayazidi, Technology in schools and Open-Content Awareness in Arab Countries, Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.
Germany
Presentations
2005
Milton Ainehuranga, Women of Uganda Network, Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.
Germany
Presentations
2005
FLOSS and Free Knowledge Conference in South Africa, April 2005, Pretoria 2005.
South Africa
Presentations
2005
Conference FLOSS, South Africa 2005. Presentation of WMF and Wikiversity by Florence Devouard (Anthere).
South Africa
Projects
2006
WikiAfrica promoted by lettera27 Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Italy.
Wikipedia
Presentations
2006
Benjamin Martin, Huru na Bure: Swahili collaboration and the future of African languages on the web, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006.
USA
Presentations
2006
Kasper Souren, The Bambara Wikipedia, one year later, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006.
USA
Presentations
2006
Roland Burger, Wikivoices - Culture and Language, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006. A project for the preservation of the languages and cultures of Nigeria and cultural exchange.
USA
Events
2006
WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2006.
Italy
Presentations
2006-09-12
Digital World African Conference - Conference presented by Florence Devouard (Anthere), Wikipedia: Empowering, Abuja (Nigeria), 12-13/09/2006
Nigeria
Languages
2007
Wikipedia in Taqbaylit / Cabilo.
Wikipedia
Events
2007
Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007
South Africa
Projects
2007
The Africa Project.
Meta
2007 proposal
Events
2007
Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Cape Town, 2007.
South Africa
Events
2007
Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Alexandria
Egypt
Projects
2007
Chimurenga Library, an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. The research was supported by WikiAfrica and released with a GNU Free Documentation License and later on with the cc by-sa license.
South Africa
  • http://chimurengalibrary.co.za
  • Iolanda Pensa,La bibliothèque de Chimurenga in The Chimurenga Library: An Introspective of Chimurenga Magazine, Cape Town Platform, 2009, pp. 4-6.
Events
2007
Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007.
South Africa
Presentations
2007
WikiAfrica at ACASA-Art Council of the African Studies Association, University of Florida, April 2007.
USA
Presentations
2007
Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia in the offline world, 04/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007.
Taiwan
Presentations
2007
Gerard Meijssen, Languages, small projects, the language committee, fund raising, signwriting, 03/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007.
Taiwan
Presentations
2007
WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, 09/10/2007.
Germany
Events
2007
5 WikiAfrica Workshops at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2007.
Italy
Presentations
2007
Presentation of Wikipedia, Ars&Urbis International Workshop promoted by doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Douala, March 2007.
Cameroon
Events
2007
Workshop with Cornell University. report. Zambia. Novembre 2007.
Zambia
Languages
2008
Wikipedia in Arabic (Egyptian).
Wikipedia
Events
2008
Wikimania 2008 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.
Egypt
Events
2008
Wikipedia training within the digital festival Afripixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, May 2008.
Senegal
GLAMs
2008
The Festival di cinema africano of Verona supports WikiAfrica by releasing its archives in cc by-sa.
Italy
GLAMs
2008
The Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina of Milan, at its XIX edition supports WikiAfrica by releasing a selection of its archive in cc by-sa.
Italy
Events
2008
WikiAfrica Workshop in Pisa, Pisa, 18/03/2008
Italy
Presentations
2008
WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 24/04-19/05/2008.
France
Events
2008
Workshop to contribute to African articles on Wikipedia, within the course Internet for social sciences curated by Marco Guadagnino, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 8-9-15-16/10/2008.
Italy
Events
2008
WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008.
Senegal
Events
2008
WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008.
Senegal
Presentations
2008
Philipp Schmidt, Rishab Ghosh, Ruediger Glott, The Global Survey of Wikipedia Contributers and Readers, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Dror Kamir, Cross-cultural dialogue through Wikipedia, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Hussein Ghaly, Building Arabic Engineering Knowledge, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Iryna Kuchma, Open Access: How to Create Change, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Teemu Leinonen, Open educational resources and globalization, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Merrick Schaefer, Making MediaWiki Usable for Youth in Africa, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Jay Walsh, Telling our global wiki story, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
Presentations
2008
Samuel Klein, Offline Wikipedia and OLPC, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.
Egypt
GLAMs
2008
The radio station Afriradio presentes all the events related to Africa at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2008.
Italy
Presentations
2008
WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Berlin, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, 20/10-16/11/2008.
Germany
Presentations
2008
WikiAfrica at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, 13-16/11/2008. A WikiAfrica Moleskine special edition was distributed to all the scholars attending the conference with questions related to Africa on Wikipedia linked to the theme Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years.
USA
Presentations
2008
WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2007.
Germany
Mouvement
2009
Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse) candidate for the Board elections 2009, 10/08/2009
Wikimedia
Presentations
2009
The Ars&Urbis Curatorial Meeting is supported by lettera27 foundation within WikiAfrica project, Douala, Cameroon, 19-24/01/2009. The gathering focuses on Douala and it involves international architects, curators and intellectuals; the programme also includes a presentation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Cameroon
Presentations
2009
Afriradio and the Festival di cinema Africano di Verona present WikiAfrica Cinema at Fespaco, the major Panafrican cinema festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28/02-07/03/2009.
Burkina Faso
Presentations
2009
WikiAfrica Art is presented within myDetour 5x5.
Italy
Presentations
2009
WikiAfrica is presented within Detour Istanbul, 22/05-21/06/2009.
Turkey
Events
2009
Chimurenga magazine organises 4 workshops WikiAfrica during the biennale Cape Africa Platform 2009 and in collaboration with several local schools, Cape Town Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa, June, 2009.
South Africa
Presentations
2009
Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-28/08/2009.
Argentina
Presentations
2009
WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, 12-13/09/2009.
Italy
Presentations
2009
WikiAfrica and Wikipedia are presented in the conference Mobile A2K: Resources, Interfaces and Contents on Urban Transformation, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, 05-09/10/2009.
Italy
Events
2009
Workshop within the Festival di cinema africano of Verona Cinema and Wikipedia in the schools: new access to African cinematography.
Italy
Projects
2010
Africa Project promoted by Wikimedia Israel and the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, from 2010.
Israel
Projects
2010
Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010.
South Africa
Mouvement
2010
Abbas Mahmood contributes to the Fundraising Campaign with an appeal.
Wikimedia
Projects
2010
WikiAfrica sets the milestone 30,000 African contribution to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects by 2012.
Wikimedia
Events
2010
Wikimedia Sweden participates at the Göteborg Bookfair focussed on African literature, 23-26/09/2010.
Sweden
GLAMs
2010
The magazine about Africa Nigrizia, in collaboration with Fondazione Lettera 27, releases all its archive in cc by-sa to contribute to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Italy
GLAMs
2010
The Festival del Cinema Africano di Verona contributes to WikiAfrica with a WikiCatalogue, 12-21/11/2010.
Italy
offline
2010
Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French.
Cameroon
offline
2010
Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French.
Benin
Events
2010
Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010.
South Africa
Presentations
2010
The Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina di Milano presents and supports WikiAfrica, 15-21/03/2010.
Italy
Presentations
2010
Achal Prabhala, Erik Möller, Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff, Phoebe Ayers, Arne Klempert, Milos Rancic, Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.
Poland
Presentations
2010
Asaf Bartov, A Proposed Agenda for the Wikimedia Movement in Developing Nations, 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.
Poland
Presentations
2010
Mayo Fuster Morell, Wikipedia eco-system: Power embedded in the governance infrastructure, 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.
Poland
Presentations
2010
WikiAfrica presented at Festivaletteratura di Mantova 2010, 11-12/09/2010.
Italy
Mouvement
2010
Growing Wikimedia in Developing Nations working group
Wikimedia
Events
2010
The event Biography of a continent: Africa, 1960-2010 promoted by Officina GRIOT presents a WikiAfrica workshop on Creative Commons and Wikipedia, 6/10/2010.
Italy
Languages
2011
Wikipedia in North Sotho (nso).
Wikipedia
Projects
2011
WikiAfrica launches Share Your Knowledge in January to involve African institutions and institutions with African contents in contributing to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia
Projects
2011
French-speaking Africa (stub)
Meta
Mouvement
2011
Wikimedia South Africa/State of the Chapter 2011
South Africa
Mouvement
2011
Recognition of Wikimedia South Africa, Provisional 26/03/2011.
South Africa
Events
2011
Wikimania 2012 Official Bids: Stellenbosch, 2011
South Africa
Events
2011
The project Share Your Knowledge: Creative Commons and Wikipedia for cultural institutions (2011-2012) is launched to facilitate the contribution of cultural institutions to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia project..
South Africa
Projects
2011
Wikipedian in residence at lettera27 Foundation to contribute to WikiAfrica.
Italy
Events
2011
Wikimedia
Presentations
2011
The Africa Project - Bringing Wikipedia to Africa, session Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business, 04/08/2011, during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.
Israel
Presentations
2011
Achal Prabhala, Mohau, Shijualex, Mayur, Asaf Bartov, People are Knowledge, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.
Israel
Presentations
2011
Iolanda Pensa and Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.
Israel
Presentations
2011
Dror Kamir, Going to Africa, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.
Israel
Event
2011
Arabic Wikipedia Roundtable, Doha, Qatar, October 2011.
Qatar
Mobile
2011-10
Launch of Wikipedia Zero.
Wikimedia
Events
2012
Wikimedia Education. Training in Cairo
Egypt
Languages
2012
The project Wikimedia Indigenous Languages is launched on meta.
Meta
Projects
2012
First Wikipedian in residence in Africa; Francis Awinda is the Wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre in Cape Town to support to WikiAfrica.
South Africa
Projects
2012
Launch of the WikiAfrica Incubator.
Wikipedia
Projects
2012
Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Ghana.
Ghana
Projects
2012
Wiki Loves Monuments organised in South Africa.
South Africa
Projects
2012
Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Kenya.
Kenya
Projects
2012
Wikimedia France launches Afripédia.
France
Projects
2012
In June Afripedia provides offline access to Wikipedia at the Maison des Savoirs, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.
Burkina Faso
Projects
2012
List of the institutions involved by WikiAfrica within Share Your Knowledge (2011-2012) in contributing to African contents on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.
Wikimedia
Mobile
2012
Partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Orange mobile phone company within the frame of Wikipedia Zero project; the company provides access to Wikipedia for free on mobile phones in Africa and Middle East.
Wikimedia
Projects
2012
November 2012: WikiAfrica reaches its 30,000 milestone.
Wikimedia
Events
2012
Yoruba Edition - Jimmy Wales Prize at Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC.
Wikipedia
Projects
2012
WikiAfrica Cameroon (2012-2013) is promoted by doual'art in collaboration with Orange Foundation, Orange Foundation Cameroon, lettera27 and the Africa Centre.
Cameroon
Projects
2012
Start-up of the project WikiAfrica Primary School. Feasibility study focussed on Wikipedia African languages editions, Italy, Cameroon and South Africa.
Wikimedia
Events
2012
Italy
Presentations
2012
Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda).
Nigeria
Presentations
2012
Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda).
Nigeria
Presentations
2012
Isla Haddow-Flood, A mutually beneficial partnership: Wikipedia and Africa, session WikiCulture and Community I, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.
USA
Presentations
2012
Iolanda Pensa, The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control, session GLAM II, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.
USA
Presentations
2012
David Mugo Kariithi, The African Story, session WikiCulture and Community XI: Small Languages, 14/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.
USA
Presentations
2012
Meetup African language Wikipedias, 15/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.
USA
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Cocody (Ivory Coast) thanks to Afripedia Project.
Côte d'Ivoire
Events
2012
First international training organized by Afripedia, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 5-9/11/2012. The participants of the training are around 15 people working in the francophones digital campus (Campus Numériques Francophones), librarians and archivists from around 12 francophone West African countries; the participants will learn of to edit Wikipedia and how to use the documentation and the offline Wikipedia for leaning and teaching activities.
Côte d'Ivoire
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of N’Djamena thanks to Afripedia Project.
Chad
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the University of Nouakchott thanks to Afripedia Project.
Mauritania
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the University and the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Niamey thanks to Afripedia Project.
Niger
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Bamako thanks to Afripedia Project.
Mali
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Dakar thanks to Afripedia Project.
Senegal
Offline
2012
Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Ouagadougou thanks to Afripedia Project.
Burkina Faso
Events
2012
WikiAfrica workshop during the Festival of African cinema of Córdoba in collaboration with the University of Cadiz and Wikimedia Spain.
Spain
Events
2012
Training at the Médéa University within the Arabic Language Initative.
Algeria
Mobile
2013
Agreement between Wikimedia Foundation and the company VimpelCom (Wikipedia Zero) - in Africa, Algeria, Burundi, Zimbabwe and Central African Republic.
Wikimedia
Events
2013
Wikipedia training in Gogabis, capital of Omaheke Region.
Namibia
Projects
2013
WikiAfrica Cameroon established an Espace WikiAfrica (WikiAfrica Hub) in Douala c/o doual'art and with the support of the Orange Foundation.
Cameroon
Events - grant request
2013
Wiki Indaba 2013
South Africa
Presentations
2013
Activating Africa at Wikimania 2013.
Cina
  • * Presentation of the panel http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Activating_Africa
  • Video (start at 2.48 on the slider) http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania/videos/26971769
    • 2.48 – Activating Africa – intro to the need – Isla Haddow-Flood
    • 3.03 – Share Your Knowledge - 30,000 contributions – Iolanda Pensa
    • 3.09 – Wikipedia Zero: Africa and the Road Ahead – Kul Wadhwa
    • 3.20 – Wikipeida Zero: Wikipedia via Text in Africa – Dan Foy
    • 3.28 – Afripedia – Adrrienne Alix
    • 3.33 – Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa – Douglas Scott
    • 3.53 – Joburgpedia – Dumisani Ndabane
    • 4.08 – Activating Africa – Botswana, Oarabile Mudongo
    • 4.12 – Social Media activation in Ghana – Sandister Tei
Statistics
2013-08
Erik Zachte collects statistics for the category Africa/Afrika/Afrique
Online
Project
2013
What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about Wikipedia. Cameroon pilot project. A project to produce site-specific communication tools about Wikipedia. The tools target people who do not know Wikipedia and do not necessarily know what free knowledge and sharing knowledge are all about.
Cameroon
Supported by IEG
Project
2013-2014
Kumusha Takes Wiki : activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities
Uganda and Ivory Coast
Supported by WMF and Fondation Orange
Research Project
02 2014 - 01 2017
Joint research project developed within a Swiss and South African collaboration, specifically focuses on the theoretical frame of the project Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their production.
South Africa
en:SUPSI, en:University of Cape Town, Wikimedia South Africa, Africa Centre
Events
2014
Wiki Indaba 2014
South Africa, Johannesburg
Project
oct-nov 2014
Wiki Loves Africa: Photographic contest with numerous local events (edithaton, photo hunts, workshops etc.)
all Africa
Supported by WMF and Fondation Orange
Presentations
2014
Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow.Kumusha Takes Wiki: activating communities across Africa, session DIVERSITY II, during Wikimania 2014, London, 6-10/08/2014.
London
Presentations
April 2015
The Hague
Presentations
April 2015
Isla Haddow-Flood on behalf of Samuel Guebo. Kumusha Takes Wiki: A different kind of collaboration
The Hague
Presentations
April 2015
Nkansah Rexford Nyarko. A tale of two countries
The Hague
Presentations
2015
Florence Devouard. Activating communities across Africa with Kumusha Takes Wiki and Wiki Loves Africa, session COMMUNITY II, during Wikimania 2015, Mexico City, 15-19/07/2015.
Mexico City
Project
oct-nov 2015
Wiki Loves Africa: Photographic contest with numerous local events (edithaton, photo hunts, workshops etc.)
all Africa
Supported by WMF
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