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African Wikipedian Alliance

    African Wikipedian Alliance (AWA) is a network of African Wikimedians who are change makers working collaboratively to strengthen information integrity. It is a continental community of African Wikimedians who help combat information vandalism on Wikipedia and its sister projects, by helping to fact-check and verify suspected deliberate distortions by lobbyists, ideologues and other inauthentic contributors. AWA also proactively helps identify gaps in Africa-focused content, especially in indigenous languages, on Wikipedia and its sister projects, and supports the wider Wikimedia community to fill the gaps by supporting edit-a-thons or, in the case of Wikidata, digitization campaigns to build datasets that are of public interest.

    AWA achieves its mission by underwriting Wikipedians-in-Residence who connect Africa’s fact-checking and mis/disinformation researchers with Wikimedia communities. It also provides technical support or digital tools for Wikimedia chapters/communities that are developing resources for topic-focused initiatives around issues such as women representation on Wikipedia, or during the lead-up to key events such as elections by, for example, assisting with digitizing data about parliamentary representatives and election candidates on Wikidata.

    AWA is supported by Code for Africa(CfA). CfA is a nonprofit public interest organization founded in Kenya in 2012, and registered in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, with staff in 26 African countries. It is the continent’s largest digital democracy initiative. It seeks to leverage civic technologies and open data to give citizens access to actionable information, and to amplify citizens' voices, to make the society more responsive and accountable. CfA achieves this by building ‘knowledge ecosystems’, through support for communities such as AWA. CfA also supports a range of other communities-of-practise, such as the African Digital Democracy Observatory (ADDO), the africanDRONE network, the African Fact Checking Alliance (AFCA), the AfricaSensors maker movement, the PROTO digital activist community, and the WanaData women data science network

    Africa Wikipedian Alliance (AWA) Mission

    To grow a pan-African network of Wikimedians who are expert fact checkers, editors and creators on Wikimedia projects.

    Our Focus Countries

    While our team operates remotely with a presence across 30 African countries, our physical offices are located in:

    How We Engage With Wiki

    CfA engages with Wikipedians on three levels

    Wikipedian in Residence Fellows

    AWA works with experienced Wikipedians as fellows who contribute to its existing projects. These fellows act as a liaison between AWA and the Wikipedia community to rally efforts to update content on Wikimedia on specific core issues. At present the Wikipedians in Residence are focused on climate change and elections in Africa. The WiRs are given a stipend to cover their basic internet needs and to facilitate edit-a-thons. To participate in the Wikipedian in Residence fellowship, AWA observes the following process:

    1. Call for Application: A general call for application put out for experienced Wikipedians with core skills to apply
    2. Shortlisting: Fellows are shortlisted based on a selection criteria based on the number of campaign organized, number of wikimedia contributions to projects, and number of edit-a-thons carried out, experience in advanced Wikipedia edits, eg. meta-pages, experience in the use of outreach dashboard
    3. Onboarding: AWA has an onboarding process which takes about one to two weeks to orient selected Wikipedians In Residence on the projects and processes. This includes:
      • Sending onboarding emails to selected WiR fellows
      • AWA မှ တင်ဆက်မှုသည် AWA အသိုင်းအဝိုင်း၏ ထိတွေ့ဆက်ဆံမှုများနှင့် ပရောဂျက်များနှင့် ပေးအပ်နိုင်မှုဆိုင်ရာ အသေးစိတ်အချက်အလက်များကို ရှင်းပြထားသည်။
      • Adding WiR fellows to AWA slack channels for effective communication
      • Provision of mentors for guidance for the WiR fellows from the AWA team
    4. လေ့ကျင့်ရေး- AWA သည် WiR များကို ပံ့ပိုးရန်အတွက် အဆင့်မြင့် ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား ကိရိယာများကို အသုံးပြုခြင်းအတွက် လေ့ကျင့်ရေးအစည်းအဝေးများကို စီစဉ်ပေးပါသည်။ WiR သည် ၎င်းတို့၏အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းများအတွက် လေ့ကျင့်ရေးသင်တန်းများကို စုစည်းရန် ရရှိထားသောကျွမ်းကျင်မှုများကို အသုံးပြုသည်။
    5. Quality management:
      • A work plan of deliverables is made available to the WiR fellows to ensure they update their work
      • The outreach dashboard is used to track fellows and contributors' activities i.e, number of edits, number of articles created, number of citation, number of uploads, number of debunks etc
      • Regular meetings with fellows are held to review the quality and state of their deliverables. These meetings are also an opportunity to raise and explore solutions to any concerns in the fellowships
      • AWA’s Wikipedia expert monitors programmes to ensure the quality of work done by fellows meets the set standards
      • AWA involves the Wikimedia team as necessary to ensure that Wiki policies are observed, and programmes are impactful and executed in an excellent manner

    AWA Contributors

    AWA သည် Wikipedia တွင် သက်ဆိုင်ရာ တည်းဖြတ်မှုများနှင့် အပ်လုဒ်များ ပြုလုပ်ရာတွင် Wikipedia မှ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသူများ/တည်းဖြတ်သူများ စုဆောင်းထားသော အဓိကအကြောင်းအရာအကြောင်းအရာများကို အခြေခံ၍ Wikipedia တွင် စုဆောင်းထားသည်။ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသူများသည် Wikipedia ရှိ အချက်အလက်စစ်ဆေးခြင်းနှင့် မှားယွင်းခြင်း/မဟုတ်မမှန် ခွဲခြားသတ်မှတ်ခြင်းကဲ့သို့သော အဓိကအကြောင်းအရာများအတွက် AWA မှ သင်တန်းကို လက်ခံရရှိကြသည်။ ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသူများသည် ၎င်းတို့၏ဆန္ဒအလျောက်ပါဝင်ဆောင်ရွက်ကြပြီး ၎င်းတို့၏အင်တာနက်ကုန်ကျစရိတ်ကို ထောက်ပံ့ပေးရန်အတွက် ရံဖန်ရံခါ ထောက်ပံ့ကြေးအနည်းငယ်ကို ရရှိနိုင်ပါသည်။ AWA သည် ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ပရောဂျက်များတွင် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသူများကို ချိတ်ဆက်ရန် အောက်ပါလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်ကို အသုံးပြုသည်-

    1. Call for Application: A call for application is made by AWA for contributors to apply. The call for application is also shared with fellows to share in their networks
    2. Shortlisting: Contributors are selected to participate in campaigns based on their skills on how to edit wiki-pages on identified topics and on general experience as registered Wikipedians
    3. Onboarding:AWA fellows go through an onboarding process to understand projects better and how to participate
    4. Training: The AWA fellows access contributors and provide trainings to contributors through their edit-a-thon sessions/trainings organized by the fellows
    5. Performance review /Quality Checks:
    • Fellows monitor what every contributor is doing to ensure the right guidelines are observed
    • The outreach dashboard which is monitored by fellows and CfA team is used to track contributors’ activities
    • AWA အဖွဲ့/ Fellows များသည် ပရောဂျက်များ၏ တိုးတက်မှုကို ဆွေးနွေးကြပြီး ပရောဂျက်များနှင့် ပတ်သက်သည့် စိန်ခေါ်မှုများနှင့် စိုးရိမ်မှုများကို မြှင့်တင်ကာ ကိုင်တွယ်ဖြေရှင်းရန် အစည်းအဝေးများ ပြုလုပ်ပါသည်။
    • AWA ၏ Wikipedia ကျွမ်းကျင်သူသည် ပံ့ပိုးကူညီသူများမှ လုပ်ဆောင်သော အလုပ်အရည်အသွေးကို သတ်မှတ်စံနှုန်းများနှင့် ကိုက်ညီကြောင်း သေချာစေရန် ပရိုဂရမ်များကို စောင့်ကြည့်သည်။
    • AWA involves the Wikimedia team as necessary to ensure Wiki policies are observed and programmes maintain a high quality standard

    AWA Community

    AWA is investing in growing the community of Wikimedians in Africa. AWA's community organizes monthly meetups, edit-a-thons, develops online courses, and continental events. The community members are also eligible to apply for WiR fellowships by AWA. To participate in the community, the following criteria must be met:

    1. မှတ်ပုံတင်ခြင်း- အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းအဖွဲ့ဝင်အားလုံး ဤလင့်ခ် ကို အသုံးပြု၍ မှတ်ပုံတင်သင့်သည်။
    2. ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားတွင် စိတ်ဝင်စားမှု- မှတ်ပုံတင်ထားသော ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားတစ်ဦးဖြစ်ရန် သို့မဟုတ် ဝီကီပီးဒီးယားအဖြစ် မှတ်ပုံတင်ခြင်းလုပ်ငန်းစဉ်တွင်
    3. တည်နေရာ- အာဖရိကရှိ ဝီကီပီးဒီးယား သို့မဟုတ် အာဖရိကဆိုင်ရာ အကြောင်းအရာများကို တီထွင်ဖန်တီးရန် စိတ်ပါဝင်စားသော ဝီကီပီးဒီယန်းဖြစ်ပါ။
    4. Change Makers: Be a person who is driven to empower and transform marginalized communities

    Our Community Activities and photos

    • Meetups – Holding monthly meetups whose objective is to empower Wikimedians by training them on how to create and improve contents on Wikipedia and its sister projects with a focus on, fact-checking, and information verification. Meetings target Anglophone and Francophone-speaking countries.
    • Edit-a-thons – Holding bi-annual edit-a-thons/campaigns on specific topics (for both Anglophone and Francophone countries)
    • MOOC Courses – Conceptualizing and creating Wikimedia online courses.
    • Continental Event – Holding continental events on relevant topical subjects on Wikimedia projects and its movements.
    • Fellowships – We offer regular WiR fellowships that focus on cross-disciplinary content development.

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