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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)[reply]

UCT Public Culture article list

Members

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

Articles Created

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+==Article status[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]==
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+*'''[[:File:WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge results, December 2012.pdf|WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge last report]]'''; in November 2012 the [[Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/30,000|30,000 milestone]] was reached. It includes pictures, articles and other contents on several WMF projects
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+*'''[http://toolserver.org/~erwin85/relatedchanges.php?lang=en&family=wikipedia&category=WikiAfrica&d=10&submit=Submit Live recent changes]''' to articles in the WikiAfrica categories on en.wiki
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+* [[commons:Commons:WikiAfrica|List of institutions, templates and categories to calculate the number of contribution to WikiAfrica on Wikimedia Commons]]
-<span style="color:black">Article status</span>
+*[[Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Books]], a shelf for collections of pages about WA & SYK
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
-|}
+==Status report[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]==
-Our current page count (in English) is: {{PAGESINCATEGORY:WikiAfrica article drive articles}}!
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-<span style="color:black">Status report</span>
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
-|}
 '''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.
-* Design project page WikiAfrica
+* Creating and designing the African Incubator - this is done. The Incubator has a host of new articles passing through it.
-* Outline strategy outreach participating organization
+* Planning communication strategy for the Bloggers Challenge - the Blogger's challenge has been released.
-* Improve step plan Wikipedia
+* Launching Share Your Knowledge in Europe - done!
 '''Still to do...'''
-* Contact participating organizations
+* Contact Africa's bloggers - done!
-* Batch upload archive Africa Centre
+* Batch upload photo archive from Africa Centre - still in the process of doing, but much has already been uploaded.
+*October 2012, placing '''[[:commons:User:Elitre/SYK|images from the categories listed here]]''' into relevant articles on different Wikipedias.
+==Participating organizations[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]==
-'''Done!'''
-* Create WikiAfrica project page
-* Create first articles
-{| style="position:absolute; top:0; width:100%; background:#CCCCFF; color:#000000;" valign="middle"
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-<h1 style="margin:0; border-bottom:1; color:black;">
-<span style="color:black">Recent uploads</span>
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
-|}
-'''WikiAfrica Poetry'''
-#[[List of South African poets]]
-#[[South African poetry]]
-#[[Badilisha Poetry X-Change]]
-#[[Badilisha Poetry Radio]]
-'''WikiAfrica Art'''
-#[[Infecting the City]]
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-|-
-<h1 style="margin:0; border-bottom:1; color:black;">
-<span style="color:black">Participating organizations</span>
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
-|}
 * [[Africa Centre]]
 * lettera27 - [[Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/lettera27|lettera27 contributes to WikiAfrica]] by involving 30 institutions and by producing 1.000 articles by 2012.
 * [[NABA - Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti Milano]] - [[Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/NABA|Naba contributes to WikiAfrica]] with 300 articles by 2012.
-{| style="position:absolute; top:0; width:100%; background:#CCCCFF; color:#000000;" valign="middle"
+==Membership list[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]==
-|-
-<h1 style="margin:0; border-bottom:1; color:black;">
-<span style="color:black">Membership list</span>
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
-|}
 * [[User:Riannedac|Riannedac]]
 * [[User:Islahaddow|Islahaddow]]
 * [[User:iopensa|iopensa]]
+* [[User:Roanhorse1963|Roanhorse1963]]
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+* [[User:Dlungwana|Dlungwana]]
-|-
+* [[User:Dbiyounganitafrika|Dbiyounganitafrika]]
-<h1 style="margin:0; border-bottom:1; color:black;">
+* [[User:Zari Naima|Zari Naima]]
-<span style="color:black">African languages</span>
+* [[User:Awinda|Awinda]]
-[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]
+* [[User:Swatjester|Swatjester]]
-|}
+* [[User:Aliceba|Aliceba]] ([[User talk:Aliceba|talk]]) 16:07, 15 April 2015 (UTC)
-Not only is Africa widely misrepresented and under-represented, but its languages are also struggling. However, there has been some progress. The following is an overview of African language Wikipedias and Wiktionaries. It was compiled by  [http://www.greenman.co.za/blog/]. Growth is stead in on the main languages across Africa, but there is a desperate need for more people to get involved in uploading information to their own language wikipedia.
+==UCT Public Culture article list[[File:Logo_WikiAfrica_Palabre.jpg|25px]]==
+'''Members'''
+*--Isla Haddow 12:50, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
+*--[[User:Madelinejenks|Madelinejenks]] ([[User talk:Madelinejenks|talk]]) 16:21, 2 April 2013 (UTC)
+'''Articles Created'''
+*
+'''Articles expanded'''
-* [[:af:]]   - [[Afrikaans|Afrikaans]] (South Africa, Namibia) (Oct 2007: 8374; May 2010: 15260; Feb 2011: 17002)
+*
-* [[:ar:]]   - [[Arabic]] (Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunis, Algeria)
-* [[:sw:]]   - [[swahili|Swahili]] (Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Congo Republic) (Jan 2007: 2980; May 2010: 17998; Feb 2011: 21244)
-* [[:yo:]]   - [[Yoruba|Yoruba]] (Nigeria, Benin, Togo) (Jan 2007: 517; May 2010: 8858; Feb 2011: 12174)
-* [[:am:]]   - [[Amharic|Amharic]] (Ethiopia) (Jan 2007: 742; May 2010: 3810; Feb 2011: 6738)
-* [[:ln:]]   - [[Lingala]] (DRC, Congo, Angola, Central African Republic)  (Jan 2007: 292; May 2010: 1255; Feb 2011: 1394)
-* [[:wo:]]   - [[Wolof language|Wolof]] (Senegal) (Jan 2007: 0; May 2010: 1068; Feb 2011: 1096)
-* [[:ig:]]   - [[Igbo|Igbo]] (Nigeria)  (558)
-* [[:kg:]]   - [[Kikongo|Kikongo]] (Angola,Congo republic) (512)
-* [[:kab:]]  - [[Kabyle language|Kabyle]] (Algeria) (475)
-* [[:so:]]   - [[somali|Somali]] (Somalia)  (Jan 2007: 0; May 2010: 0; Feb 2011: 1639)
-* [[:bm:]]   - [[Bambara language|Bambara]]  (Mali) (226)
-* [[:ee:]]   - [[Ewe language|Ewe]] (Ghana, Togo) (203)
-* [[:om:]]   - [[Oromo language|Oromo]] (Ethiopia)  (202)
-* [[:ti:]]   - [[Tigrinya|Tigrinya]] (Erythrea)  (171)
-* [[:zu:]]   - [[Zulu|Zulu]] (South Africa) (Oct 2007: 107; May 2010: 195; Feb 2011: 209)
-* [[:ts:]]   - [[tsonga|Tsonga]] (Mozambique) (Oct 2007: 10; May 2010: 174; Feb 2011: 185)
-* [[:ve:]]   - [[venda|Venda]] (South Africa)  (Oct 2007: 43; May 2010: 162; Feb 2011: 192)
-* [[:xh:]]   - [[Xhosa|Xhosa]] (South Africa, Lesotho)  (Oct 2007: 66; May 2010: 115; Feb 2011: 116)
-* [[:rw:]]   - [[Kinyarwanda|Kinyarwanda]]  (Rwanda)   (Jan 2007: 0; May 2010:; Feb 2011: 1501)
-* [[:st:]]   - [[Sesotho|Sesoto]] (Lesotho)  (Oct 2007: 43; May 2010: 69; Feb 2011: 117)
-* [[:tw:]]   - [[Twi]] (Ghana) (61)
-* [[:ak:]]   - [[Akan language|Akan]] (Ghana,Ivory coast) (59)
-* [[:ff:]]   - [[Fula language|Fula]] (45)
-* [[:lg:]]   - [[Luganda]] (Uganda) (43)
-* [[:ki:]]   - [[kikuyu]] (Niger-Congo) (35)
-* [[:sn:]]   - [[Shona]] (Zimbabwe) (31)
-* [[:tum:]]  - [[Malawi|Tumbuka]] (Malawi)  (30)
-* [[:xh:]]   - [[chichewa|Chichewa]] (Malawi)  (24)
-* [[:sg:]]   - [[Sango]] (République Centrafricaine) (24)
-* [[:tn:]]   - [[Tswana language|Tswana]] (Botswana)  (Oct 2007: 40; May 2010: 103; Feb 2011: 105)
-* [[:rn:]]   - [[Kirundi]] (Burundi) (18)
-* [[:ha:]]   - [[Hausa language|Hausa]] (Benin, Burkina Faso)  (17)
-* [[:hz:]]   - [[Herero]] (Namibia) (13)
-* [[:ss:]]   - [[Siswati|Swati]] (Swaziland) (12)(Oct 2007: 56; May 2010: 173; Feb 2011: 308)
-* [[:aa:]]   - [[Afar language|Afar]] (Ethiopia) (8)
-* [[:ng:]]   - [[Ndonga|Ndonga]] (Namibia) (4)
-* [[:kj:]]   - [[kwanyama|Kwanyama]] (Angola)  (4)
-* [[:mg:]]   -[[Malagasy|Malagasy]] (Madagascar)  (Jan 2007: 0; May 2010: 2450; Feb 2011: 3806)
+[[it:Progetto:WikiAfrica/30.000]]
-''The single figures in brackets after the country were last updated on 22 October 2008. The three dates also in brackets after the country name were last updated on the 11 February 2011.''
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