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Episode 20 of WikiAfrica Hour starts 2023 with a bang! Ceslause hosts a panel made up of leaders from the incredible community events that are planned for this year. It is a timely glimpse into what post-COVID Wikimedia conferences are evolving into.
The stunning image above, called Firefighter, Ashton Bay, March 2017 was submitted by South African photographer StevenTerblanche for the Wiki Loves Africa 2017 contest under the theme of People at Work. The image, depicting a courageous firefighter battling against a veld-fire at Ashton Bay, Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape Province, Republic of South Africa, was one … Read More
The Wiki Loves Africa MetaData Weeks was launched in 2019 and has since added MetaData around four Wiki Loves Africa themes, like Africa at Play!, Africa on the move, Health+Wellness and Home+Habitat. It is one aspect of an on-going strategy to ensure Wiki Loves Africa images are useful, visible and usable on the Wikimedia projects. … Read More
WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique est un concours annuel dédié aux élèves de 9 à 13 ans dans plusieurs pays africains francophones. Le concours consiste à écrire des articles sur les particularités des villes ou régions des élèves des écoles primaires sur l’encyclopédie Vikidia. Lancé en 2017, le concours a commencé dans 4 pays dont la Tunisie. … Read More
Wiki In Africa is excited to announce (along with Wikimedia Community User Group Côte d’Ivoire (WMUGIC)) that this March, in celebration of Wangari Maathai Day, the Africa Environment WikiFocus will encourage Wikimedian and other academic and activist communities to contribute content related to Africa’s Climate to the Wikimedia projects! Individuals, communities, and organizations are free … Read More
WikiAfrica Hour hosted a watch party for the Wikimedia Cool Tool award 2022. The show was preceded by a conversation with Egbe Eugene Agbor, an experienced tool developer and maintainer in the movement.
In the Wikimedia movement, transitioning a group of volunteers from a loose collective to a formal usergroup (along with accreditation from AFCom) is the first step towards validation within the global community. Three of Africa’s leaders talk about the ups and downs for building and maintaining a Wikimedia Usergroup.
Wiki Loves Africa 2022 has announced the winners of the international competition. In this episode, we meet the winners and explore the photography & videography journeys that lead them to Wiki Loves Africa.
A round table discussion with the creatives on what drives Wikipedia’s global brand, as the Wikimedia community embarks on a quest for a sound logo. How are Wikis easily identified? Why are these identities important? Why is a sound logo needed?
December started with a workshop in Cape Town as WikiAfrica Heritage joined the SheSaid campaign. The workshop took place at the District Six Museum’s Homecoming Centre and focused on training heritage and culture professionals in adding the notable quotations of their icons to Wikiquote. Before the event, 27 of the 3,462 women listed as notable … Read More
Climate change is a pressing issue, especially for Africa. Many countries are already seeing the effects of changing weather patterns, bringing flooding and drought that have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable communities. Shortly after we announced the theme of the Wiki Loves Africa 2023 competition — Climate and Weather — Wiki in Africa … Read More
Wiki In Africa 2023 Open Position (applications now closed) Wiki In Africa believes that all peoples should see themselves and their experiences reflected online in order to be part of and make sense of the world. We believe in the transformative power that comes with free access to decolonised knowledge, information and education in all … Read More
A tête-à-tête with some very experienced Wikimedians/Wikipedians in Residence (WIR), to learn what it takes to be one, plan and execute topical projects successfully, while helping Wikimedia solidify relationships with other organizations.
Wiki Loves Women‘s #SheSaid campaign, which aims to redress the imbalance of gender representation on Wikiquote, continues to impact the visibility of women with new and improved articles being added in 12 languages since the 2022 project launched in October. In early December, over mid-way through the campaign and heading towards its end in December, Wikiquotes added … Read More
The Wiki in Africa team flew to Rwanda last month to Wiki Indaba, where some team members met in person for the first time after working together for almost a year. Although the team has a wonderfully synergistic professional relationship, bonds of friendship were cemented over wine from Cape Town and Tunisia, and project ideas for … Read More
There are millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia. Of all those subjects, the ones that relate to Africa have the least coverage. This is due to a number of reasons, but some are linked to the fact that many people do not know that they can have their knowledge and cultures reflected … Read More
WIKI LOVES AFRICA : INTERNATIONAL WINNERS 2022 _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ Intimate portrayals of “home” are exquisitely captured by the prize-winning images and videos of this year’s Wiki Loves Africa competition. The idea of home is an emotive subject and this year’s winners do not disappoint, framing the many factors – intimate, communal, individual, cultural, interior, and exterior … Read More