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Wikipedia contributors are few in Africa. The custodians of the free online encyclopedia and other Wiki resources are gathered in South Africa to talk about "decolonizing the internet." ...
Africa's Wikipedia Chiponda Chimbelu 07/11/2014 July 11, 2014. Plans for an online encyclopedia of African traditions and culture were announced recently. The project, which has been dubbed the ...
The co-founder of Wikipedia says the languages of Yoruba in West Africa and Swahili in East Africa are the most popular among the several African languages being used on the online encyclopedia ...
On the real Wikipedia, no African language makes it into the list of “50 000 or more articles”. Even made-up language Esperanto does that. There are more article on Wikipedia in Cornish ...
Of the millions of subjects you can read about on Wikipedia, Africa gets the least coverage.According to Wikipedia this is mainly because many people don’t know that they can donate their images ...
As the Africa Wiki Challenge unfolds, let us embrace the power of storytelling to redefine Africa's narrative. Let us amplify voices, celebrate diversity, and bridge the digital divide.
If nothing is done to preserve African languages and knowledge online, they will die and be non-existent online writes Wesley Diphoko. OPINION: Wikipedia hosts conference in Africa to save African ...
In a question and answer session at Wikimania 2018, the annual global gathering of the Wikipedia community in Cape Town in July, an African Wikipedia editor stood up and asked an unusual question. ...
Heather blogs about Wikipedia Academies, which will take place this week in Johannersburg: “Jimmy is in the country to launch the African Wikipedia Academies – a series of Wikipedia sprints, workshops ...