WikiFundi Offline

In Africa, access to electricity, technology and internet connectivity often fails or is not available at all. Driven by the belief that this should not prevent new editors from being trained or deter them from contributing to Wikipedia – WikiFundi provides an offline editable environment that is a similar experience to editing Wikipedia online.

WikiFundi provides an offline editable environment that enables new contributors to learn how to edit Wikipedia and work on articles collaboratively, even when access to power, technology and the internet is unavailable.

This platform enables individuals, groups and communities to learn how to edit Wikipedia and work on articles collaboratively. Once completed and connected to the internet, these articles can be uploaded to Wikipedia.

Since 2017, the technology has been activated in 13 countries via three programmes:

  • WikiChallenge African Schools – as part of the Orange Foundation’s Digital Schools Project in Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, and Tunisia.
  • WikiAfrica Schools – a project, currently in its pilot phase at secondary schools in South Africa, that is a collaboration with the Moleskine Foundation.
  • Wikipack Africa – assisted the outreach work of Wikipedians in Algeria, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ghana, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania and Uganda

WikiFundi was created by Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood within the framework of the WikiAfrica movement. The creation of WikiFundi and the proof of concept were funded by Foundation Orange and supported by Wikimedia CH.

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OFFline Resources

As part of the WikiFundi project, Wiki In Africa has curated a library of Offline Resources for all offline and education projects to use. You can access them here:

As part of our WikiAfrica Hour sessions, we have also highlighted other offline solutions for educators and other digital users. View the sessions below by clicking on each image: