Intro: Wiki In Africa
Wiki In Africa, a non-profit organisation that is based in South Africa, was founded in November 2016 as a financial and legal structure that operates global initiatives in support of the WikiAfrica movement.
Our mission is to activate and enable communities to ensure that open knowledge platforms reflect and represent the diverse cultures, peoples, biodiversities, and histories of the African continent and other previously marginalised and disenfranchised communities with the same depth and breadth as other knowledge systems.
To know
Establishing, through research, the gaps in knowledge that exists on Wikipedia about each country and community in Africa and find innovative and unexpected ways of drawing this information onto Wikipedia
Contribute Knowledge
Assist and support the contribution, uploading and expansion of content that already resides in heritage, culture, news-gathering and academic institutions across Africa.
Activate new Wikipedians
Activate, train and support a self-sustaining new generation of dedicated and proactive Wikipedian editors from across the continent that are able to generate new articles and subjects relevant to contemporary Africa by changing online behaviour and offline attitudes to knowledge.
Seed Wikimedian groups
Activate and support the growth of new User Groups and Wikimedia Chapters across Africa to effectively organise, deploy and reward these new editors through national and continental activities.
REBALANCING AFRICA'S NARRATIVE
Sharing the wealth and diversity of Africa’s knowledge, history, culture and contemporary reality through online contribution is a huge task. Wiki in Africa's multi-layered approach involves working with aligned partners to activate African contributions through a network of grant-funded, staffed projects.
Click on the logos below to explore each project.
IN SUPPORT OF THE WIKIAFRICA MOVEMENT
Wiki in Africa is a new non-profit association. She needs your support. If you like what we are doing, do not hesitate to follow us on Twitter or Facebook, or forward our newsletter to your loved ones. You can also make a donation, which will be very much appreciated.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY ...
We are only as successful as the impact we have on communities across Africa. Here you can see what people say about our projects from within the projects and from the Wikimedia movement.
THE ORGANISATIONS THAT SUPPORT OUR WORK
We could not do what we do and make the impact we make on Africa's knowledge and stories without the support and collaboration of these organisations. They are the backbone of our work.
