Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge/Current status

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Article status

• WikiAfrica and Share Your Knowledge report, November 2012, milestone 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.
• List of WikiAfrica categories on Wikimedia Commons - WikiAfrica on Commons.

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.

Recent uploads

WikiAfrica Poetry

1. List of South African poets
2. South African poetry
3. Badilisha Poetry X-Change
4. Badilisha Poetry Radio

WikiAfrica Art

1. Infecting the City

WikiAfrica Culture

1. Talking Heads

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