Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Current status

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Article status

• WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge last report; in November 2012 the 30,000 milestone was reached. It includes pictures, articles and other contents on several WMF projects
• Live recent changes to articles in the WikiAfrica categories on en.wiki
• List of institutions, templates and categories to calculate the number of contribution to WikiAfrica on Wikimedia Commons
• Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Books, a shelf for collections of pages about WA & SYK

Status report

Doing...

• Inviting Africa's cultural institutions to participate in WikiAfrica - this is ongoing - 45 in Europe signed up and 13 in Africa. More are signing up every single day.
• Creating and designing the African Incubator - this is done. The Incubator has a host of new articles passing through it.
• Planning communication strategy for the Bloggers Challenge - the Blogger's challenge has been released.
• Launching Share Your Knowledge in Europe - done!

Still to do...

• Contact Africa's bloggers - done!
• Batch upload photo archive from Africa Centre - still in the process of doing, but much has already been uploaded.
• October 2012, placing images from the categories listed here into relevant articles on different Wikipedias.

Participating organizations

• Africa Centre
• lettera27 - lettera27 contributes to WikiAfrica by involving 30 institutions and by producing 1.000 articles by 2012.
• NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano - Naba contributes to WikiAfrica with 300 articles by 2012.

Membership list

• Riannedac
• Islahaddow
• iopensa
• Roanhorse1963
• Dlungwana
• Dbiyounganitafrika
• Zari Naima
• Awinda
• Swatjester
• Aliceba (talk) 16:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)

UCT Public Culture article list

Members

• --Isla Haddow 12:50, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
• --Madelinejenks (talk) 16:21, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

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