Hey All, What are the thoughts on translating the portal into more languages (Arabic, Portuguese and French would be the most important ones). Only a majority of the poor Africans does speak English ...
Grtz, Maarten 2012/2/10 <[email protected]> > Dear Wiki colleagues, > > I am excited to invite all members of the South African chapter of > Wikimedia 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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Get_started>) > or the Project page ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Projects<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<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 Wikimedia South Africa in 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:francisa@africacentre.**net <email%[email protected]> > Tel:+27793087519 > > > ______________________________**_________________ > WikimediaZA mailing list > [email protected].**org <[email protected]> > https://lists.wikimedia.org/**mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza<https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaza> >
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