WikiIndaba conference 2014/Day 3/Team 1 WikiIndaba Strategy

Strategy

Questions

1. What can be done to increase understanding of and use of Wikipedia in Africa?

• Take a feather from Cameroon videos to make local content to drive awareness

Find out what articles people want to read - perhaps a campaign; also perhaps a pop up asking what people did not find when they were on wikipedia

• target librarians and teachers
• give additional resources
• provide training to teachers through teacher colleges and or Dept of education interventions
• Create a MOOC for teachers
• Create competition for users to navigate wikipedia for prizes
• Target academics to:
  • include wikipedia programmes in their student’s course work, citations and research
  • create wikibooks
• Mass Media Campaign
• Create WikiAfrica E-Book

2. What can be done to attract users? What subjects are effective?

• Add sports related content
• Use local entertainers
• Find what people want to read on Wikipedia
• Conduct Wiki challenges between cities ie CT and JHB or countries.

3. How should we organise ourselves to work together going forward?

• Create a name for the network:
• Njangi - pidgin English
• Ipade - yoruba - people coming together
• Lama - لمة coming together in Arabic
• Pabwalo - Chichewa - coming together to discuss issues
• Create a Road map for the next year:
  • create local / regional groupings to drive interest
  • create cross-regional grouping around interest (GLAM, Education, etc.)
  • set practical goals and targets:
    • Regional Wikimedia
      • do a meeting with aligned people at their home
      • amount of outreach events
      • participation of people in planning
      • wiki meetups
• investigate a user campaign in the region
• investigate the region and the open movement in neighbouring countries
• get at least contacts and engagement in one other country
• create a ‘map’ of open movement in your region
• set priorities for the region / local
• provide one WikiTour ?
• create content around theme
• find out what the users want to see
• create a list of toolkits that are needed for each project
  • Theme projects
• Establish what themes are interesting … for continental involvement:
• GLAM
• Toolkits
• Continental competition: Wiki Loves Africa / Monuments
• Education
• Kumusha Bus

4. What is the best way / tool to stay connected as a group and regions going forward?

• Create a mailing list / group discussions
• notice board / update as to what is happening = creating a facebook group
• skype checkins once every two months
• Get volunteers for people to be regional Community Builder for #wikiindaba + one continental connector + continental project builder

5. What is the future of WikiIndaba?

• Should we have more wikiindaba ? Yes
• How often ? provisionally once a year (there may be regional events in the future as well. It is not exclusive)
• Should there be turns between regions ? Yes, but next year would probably occur in South Africa. Maybe Tunisia next year. City should change. Maximum consensus for Cap Town ! Or Durban.
• Question: does it require a chapter ? A: No. But it requires quite an amount of work (hence of organizers) and a “legal” structure (to pay invoices, receive grant etc.)
• Comments:
  • I want more fun and more lively people (says Aminou). Aminou volunteers to be entertainment director.
  • 14 countries present this year. Try to increase the participation (more countries). This year was limited by funds (35 scholarships)
  • Respecting the time more
  • more time for brainstorming. Earlier planification and communication about the brainstorming part
  • maybe next time get a professional facilitator
  • We could use Wikinews to get some interest from the media
  • The outcome should be specific (clear outcomes. Set of stuff to do)