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Type	Date	Event	Where	Sources	Notes
Languages	2001	Wikipedia in English (en), French (fr), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt), Afrikaans (af).	Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org http://fr.wikipedia.org http://es.wikipedia.org http://pt.wikipedia.org http://af.wikipedia.org
Languages	2002	Wikipedia in Yoruba (yo), Amarico (am), Kinyarwanda (rw), Hausa (ha), Oromo (om).	Wikipedia	http://yo.wikipedia.org http://am.wikipedia.org http://rw.wikipedia.org http://ha.wikipedia.org http://om.wikipedia.org
Languages	2003	Wikipedia in Arabic (ar), Swahili (sw), Wolof (wo), Zulu (zu), Sesotho (st), Twi (tw), Xhosa (xh).	Wikipedia	http://ar.wikipedia.org http://sw.wikipedia.org http://wo.wikipedia.org http://zu.wikipedia.org http://st.wikipedia.org http://twi.wikipedia.org http://xh.wikipedia.org
Languages	2004	Wikipedia in Malgascio (mg), Somalo (so), Lingala (ln), Shona (sn), Kongo (kg), Igbo (ig), Tswana / Setswana (tn), Bambara (bm), Swati /Swazi (ss), Ewe (ee), Kikuyu (ki), Tigrinya (ti), Tsonga (ts), Sangro (sg), Venda (ve), Kirundi (rn), Akan (ak), Tumbuka (tum), Ganda (lg), Chichewa / Nyanja (ny).	Wikipedia	http://mg.wikipedia.org http://so.wikipedia.org http://ln.wikipedia.org http://sn.wikipedia.org http://kg.wikipedia.org http://ig.wikipedia.org http://tn.wikipedia.org http://bm.wikipedia.org http://ss.wikipedia.org http://ee.wikipedia.org http://ki.wikipedia.org http://ti.wikipedia.org http://ts.wikipedia.org http://sg.wikipedia.org http://ve.wikipedia.org http://rn.wikipedia.org http://ak.wikipedia.org http://tum.wikipedia.org http://lg.wikipedia.org http://ny.wikipedia.org
Languages	2004	The page African languages is created on Meta.	Meta	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/African_languages
Presentations	2005	Achal Prabhala, An overview of the access to learning materials situation in Southern Africa, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.	Germany	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-AP1
Presentations	2005	Kasper Souren, Wikimedia projects and African languages: Thoughts on the Bambara Wikipedia, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.	Germany	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-KS1
Presentations	2005	Florence Devouard, How to get Wikimedia into the developing world, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.	Germany	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-FD1 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/f/f4/Wikimedia_in_the_developing_world_-_Anthere_-_Wikimania2005.pdf
Presentations	2005	Isam Bayazidi, Technology in schools and Open-Content Awareness in Arab Countries , Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.	Germany	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-IB1
Presentations	2005	Milton Ainehuranga, Women of Uganda Network , Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005.	Germany	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-MA2
Presentations	2005	FLOSS and Free Knowledge Conference in South Africa, April 2005, Pretoria 2005.	South Africa	Workshop 1 with a report by Angela Beesley and Erik Möller
Presentations	2005	Conference FLOSS, South Africa 2005. Presentation of WMF and Wikiversity by Florence Devouard (Anthere).	South Africa	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conference_reports/FLOSS,_South_Africa_2005/Workshop_2 report
Projects	2006	WikiAfrica promoted by lettera27 Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Italy.	Wikipedia	http://www.wikiafrica.org.
Presentations	2006	Benjamin Martin, Huru na Bure: Swahili collaboration and the future of African languages on the web, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006.	USA	http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:MB1
Presentations	2006	Kasper Souren, The Bambara Wikipedia, one year later, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006.	USA	http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:KS2
Presentations	2006	Roland Burger, Wikivoices - Culture and Language, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006. A project for the preservation of the languages and cultures of Nigeria and cultural exchange.	USA	http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:RB1
Events	2006	WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2006.	Italy
Presentations	2006年09月12日	Digital World African Conference - Conference presented by Florence Devouard (Anthere), Wikipedia: Empowering, Abuja (Nigeria), 12-13/09/2006	Nigeria
Languages	2007	Wikipedia in Taqbaylit / Cabilo.	Wikipedia
Events	2007	Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007	South Africa	and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Academies.
Projects	2007	The Africa Project.	Meta	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Africa_Project	2007 proposal
Events	2007	Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Cape Town, 2007.	South Africa	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town
Events	2007	Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Alexandria	Egypt	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Alexandria
Projects	2007	Chimurenga Library, an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. The research was supported by WikiAfrica and released with a GNU Free Documentation License and later on with the cc by-sa license.	South Africa	http://chimurengalibrary.co.za Iolanda Pensa,La bibliothèque de Chimurenga in The Chimurenga Library: An Introspective of Chimurenga Magazine, Cape Town Platform, 2009, pp. 4-6.
Events	2007	Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007.	South Africa	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Academy#Wikipedia_Academy_Johannesburg_2007 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Academies
Presentations	2007	WikiAfrica at ACASA-Art Council of the African Studies Association, University of Florida, April 2007.	USA	ACASA-14th Triennial Symposium on African Art http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/acasa
Presentations	2007	Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia in the offline world, 04/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007.	Taiwan	http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
Presentations	2007	Gerard Meijssen, Languages, small projects, the language committee, fund raising, signwriting , 03/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007.	Taiwan	http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:GM1
Presentations	2007	WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, 09/10/2007.	Germany	Litcam http://www.litcam.org/litcam/en/index Frankfurt Book Fair http://www.frankfurt-book-fair.com/en/portal.php
Events	2007	5 WikiAfrica Workshops at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2007.	Italy
Presentations	2007	Presentation of Wikipedia, Ars&Urbis International Workshop promoted by doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Douala, March 2007.	Cameroon
Events	2007	Workshop with Cornell University. report. Zambia. Novembre 2007.	Zambia
Languages	2008	Wikipedia in Arabic (Egyptian).	Wikipedia
Events	2008	Wikimania 2008 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org
Events	2008	Wikipedia training within the digital festival Afripixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, May 2008.	Senegal
GLAMs	2008	The Festival di cinema africano of Verona supports WikiAfrica by releasing its archives in cc by-sa.	Italy
GLAMs	2008	The Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina of Milan, at its XIX edition supports WikiAfrica by releasing a selection of its archive in cc by-sa.	Italy	http://www.festivalcinemaafricano.org/
Events	2008	WikiAfrica Workshop in Pisa, Pisa, 18/03/2008	Italy	http://wikiafrica.it/index.php/Wikiafrica:Pisa_2008.
Presentations	2008	WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 24/04-19/05/2008.	France	http://detour.moleskinecity.com/index.php/category/exhibition-in-paris/.
Events	2008	Workshop to contribute to African articles on Wikipedia, within the course Internet for social sciences curated by Marco Guadagnino, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 8-9-15-16/10/2008.	Italy
Events	2008	WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008.	Senegal	http://www.ker-thiossane.com/article.php3?id_article=548.
Events	2008	WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008.	Senegal	http://www.ker-thiossane.com/article.php3?id_article=548.
Presentations	2008	Philipp Schmidt, Rishab Ghosh, Ruediger Glott, The Global Survey of Wikipedia Contributers and Readers, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Dror Kamir, Cross-cultural dialogue through Wikipedia, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Hussein Ghaly, Building Arabic Engineering Knowledge, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Iryna Kuchma, Open Access: How to Create Change, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Teemu Leinonen, Open educational resources and globalization, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Merrick Schaefer, Making MediaWiki Usable for Youth in Africa, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Jay Walsh, Telling our global wiki story, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008.
Presentations	2008	Samuel Klein, Offline Wikipedia and OLPC, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008.	Egypt	Video http://archive.org/details/wikimania2008_Offline-Wikipedia-and-OLPC.
GLAMs	2008	The radio station Afriradio presentes all the events related to Africa at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2008.	Italy
Presentations	2008	WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Berlin, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, 20/10-16/11/2008.	Germany	http://detour.moleskinecity.com/index.php/2008/10/14/detour-berlin-the-moleskine-notebook-experience.
Presentations	2008	WikiAfrica at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, 13-16/11/2008. A WikiAfrica Moleskine special edition was distributed to all the scholars attending the conference with questions related to Africa on Wikipedia linked to the theme Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years.	USA	http://www.lettera27.org/index.php?idlanguage=2&zone=9&idprj=47&idnews=1427&pag=0.
Presentations	2008	WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2007.	Germany
Mouvement	2009	Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse) candidate for the Board elections 2009, 10/08/2009	Wikimedia	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en#Lourie_Pieterse_.28LouriePieterse.29 My main goal is to get South Africa, but also Africa, to become more involved with the Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en#Lourie_Pieterse_.28LouriePieterse.29.
Presentations	2009	The Ars&Urbis Curatorial Meeting is supported by lettera27 foundation within WikiAfrica project, Douala, Cameroon, 19-24/01/2009. The gathering focuses on Douala and it involves international architects, curators and intellectuals; the programme also includes a presentation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.	Cameroon
Presentations	2009	Afriradio and the Festival di cinema Africano di Verona present WikiAfrica Cinema at Fespaco, the major Panafrican cinema festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28/02-07/03/2009.	Burkina Faso
Presentations	2009	WikiAfrica Art is presented within myDetour 5x5.	Italy	http://www.moleskine.com/it/events/mydetour_5x5_1.php.
Presentations	2009	WikiAfrica is presented within Detour Istanbul, 22/05-21/06/2009.	Turkey	http://www.moleskine.com/events/detour/detour_istanbul/.
Events	2009	Chimurenga magazine organises 4 workshops WikiAfrica during the biennale Cape Africa Platform 2009 and in collaboration with several local schools, Cape Town Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa, June, 2009.	South Africa	http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za/ctlibrary_sessions.php
Presentations	2009	Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-28/08/2009.	Argentina	http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal
Presentations	2009	WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, 12-13/09/2009.	Italy
Presentations	2009	WikiAfrica and Wikipedia are presented in the conference Mobile A2K: Resources, Interfaces and Contents on Urban Transformation, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, 05-09/10/2009.	Italy
Events	2009	Workshop within the Festival di cinema africano of Verona Cinema and Wikipedia in the schools: new access to African cinematography.	Italy
Projects	2010	Africa Project promoted by Wikimedia Israel and the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, from 2010.	Israel	http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Presentation of the project at Wikimania 2011
Projects	2010	Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010.	South Africa	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/WitsWorkshop http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/State_of_the_Chapter_2011
Mouvement	2010	Abbas Mahmood contributes to the Fundraising Campaign with an appeal.	Wikimedia	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Abbas_Appeal/en
Projects	2010	WikiAfrica sets the milestone 30,000 African contribution to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects by 2012.	Wikimedia
Events	2010	Wikimedia Sweden participates at the Göteborg Bookfair focussed on African literature, 23-26/09/2010.	Sweden	http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:Afrika_har_ordet_2010.
GLAMs	2010	The magazine about Africa Nigrizia, in collaboration with Fondazione Lettera 27, releases all its archive in cc by-sa to contribute to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.	Italy	http://www.nigrizia.it
GLAMs	2010	The Festival del Cinema Africano di Verona contributes to WikiAfrica with a WikiCatalogue, 12-21/11/2010.	Italy	http://festivalafricano.altervista.org/festival/
offline	2010	Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French.	Cameroon	http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/17/wikimedia-chapters-work-together-to-bring-more-free-knowledge-to-africa/ Dror Kamir, [//wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Going to Africa, presentation at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. Ben Kaminsky, Students to Take Computers and Wikipedia to Africa in "The Epoch Times", 17/09/2010.
offline	2010	Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French.	Benin	http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/17/wikimedia-chapters-work-together-to-bring-more-free-knowledge-to-africa/ Dror Kamir, [//wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Going to Africa, presentation at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. Ben Kaminsky, Students to Take Computers and Wikipedia to Africa in "The Epoch Times", 17/09/2010.
Events	2010	Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010.	South Africa	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/State_of_the_Chapter_2011
Presentations	2010	The Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina di Milano presents and supports WikiAfrica, 15-21/03/2010.	Italy
Presentations	2010	Achal Prabhala, Erik Möller, Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff, Phoebe Ayers, Arne Klempert, Milos Rancic, Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World , 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.	Poland	http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Allow,_Invite,_Encourage:_Growing_Wikimedia_in_the_World
Presentations	2010	Asaf Bartov, A Proposed Agenda for the Wikimedia Movement in Developing Nations , 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.	Poland	http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposed_Agenda_for_Wikimedia_in_Developing_Nations.pdf
Presentations	2010	Mayo Fuster Morell, Wikipedia eco-system: Power embedded in the governance infrastructure , 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010.	Poland	http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_eco-system_governance:_Power_embedded_in_the_governance_infrastructure
Presentations	2010	WikiAfrica presented at Festivaletteratura di Mantova 2010, 11-12/09/2010.	Italy
Mouvement	2010	Growing Wikimedia in Developing Nations working group	Wikimedia	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Wikimedia_in_Developing_Nations
Events	2010	The event Biography of a continent: Africa, 1960-2010 promoted by Officina GRIOT presents a WikiAfrica workshop on Creative Commons and Wikipedia, 6/10/2010.	Italy	http://www.africatralerighe.com/workshop
Languages	2011	Wikipedia in North Sotho (nso).	Wikipedia
Projects	2011	WikiAfrica launches Share Your Knowledge in January to involve African institutions and institutions with African contents in contributing to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.	Wikimedia	outreach:GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge
Projects	2011	French-speaking Africa (stub)	Meta	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/French-speaking_Africa.
Mouvement	2011	Wikimedia South Africa/State of the Chapter 2011	South Africa	Wikimedia South Africa/State of the Chapter 2011
Mouvement	2011	Recognition of Wikimedia South Africa, Provisional 26/03/2011.	South Africa	https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_South_Africa
Events	2011	Wikimania 2012 Official Bids: Stellenbosch, 2011	South Africa	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch
Events	2011	The project Share Your Knowledge: Creative Commons and Wikipedia for cultural institutions (2011-2012) is launched to facilitate the contribution of cultural institutions to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia project..	South Africa	en:Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge
Projects	2011	Wikipedian in residence at lettera27 Foundation to contribute to WikiAfrica.	Italy	w:it:Progetto:GLAM/Wikipediano in residenza presso Fondazione lettera27
Events	2011	Edit-a-thon Share Your Knowledge, 2-4/06/2011.	Wikimedia	Edit-a-thon Share Your Knowledge
Presentations	2011	The Africa Project - Bringing Wikipedia to Africa, session Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business, 04/08/2011, during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.	Israel	Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV6qJmGaMU8
Presentations	2011	Achal Prabhala, Mohau, Shijualex, Mayur, Asaf Bartov, People are Knowledge , session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.	Israel	http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/People_are_Knowledge
Presentations	2011	Iolanda Pensa and Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators , session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.	Israel	http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/WikiAfrica:_Call_for_last_mile_operators
Presentations	2011	Dror Kamir, Going to Africa , session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011.	Israel	http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa
Event	2011	Arabic Wikipedia Roundtable, Doha, Qatar, October 2011.	Qatar	http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_–_final_report#Preparation
Mobile	2011-10	Launch of Wikipedia Zero.	Wikimedia	Mani Pande, Wikipedia at no data cost is appealing to mobile readers in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 19/02/2012. Amit Kapoor, The countries in which mobile matters most in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 20/12/2012.
Events	2012	Wikimedia Education. Training in Cairo	Egypt	http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_–_final_report Cairo pilot
Languages	2012	The project Wikimedia Indigenous Languages is launched on meta.	Meta	Wikimedia Indigenous Languages
Projects	2012	First Wikipedian in residence in Africa; Francis Awinda is the Wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre in Cape Town to support to WikiAfrica.	South Africa
Projects	2012	Launch of the WikiAfrica Incubator.	Wikipedia	http://www.wikiafrica.it/wiki/WikiAfrica_Incubator
Projects	2012	Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Ghana.	Ghana
Projects	2012	Wiki Loves Monuments organised in South Africa.	South Africa	Matthew Roth, Wiki Loves Monuments 2012: the South African finalists in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 30/11/2012.
Projects	2012	Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Kenya.	Kenya	Zoe Bernard, Wiki Loves Monuments 2012: the Kenyan finalists , in Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 22/11/2012.
Projects	2012	Wikimedia France launches Afripédia.	France	w:fr:Projet:Projet_Afripédia http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia http://www.bulletin.auf.org/index.php?id=1336 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/28/afripedia-collaboration-expands-offline-wikipedia-in-africa. Projet_Afripédia on Wikipedia in French Presentation of Afripédia on meta with links to articles in the press Access to Wikipedia offline provided by Afripedia. Access to Wikipedia offline provided by Afripedia. Map of training organized by Afripedia. Map of training organized by Afripedia.
Projects	2012	In June Afripedia provides offline access to Wikipedia at the Maison des Savoirs, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.	Burkina Faso	w:fr:Projet:Projet_Afripédia http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia; http://www.bulletin.auf.org/index.php?id=1336; https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/28/afripedia-collaboration-expands-offline-wikipedia-in-africa.
Projects	2012	List of the institutions involved by WikiAfrica within Share Your Knowledge (2011-2012) in contributing to African contents on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects.	Wikimedia	List of the institutions involved
Mobile	2012	Partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Orange mobile phone company within the frame of Wikipedia Zero project; the company provides access to Wikipedia for free on mobile phones in Africa and Middle East.	Wikimedia	* Amit Kapoor, Wikipedia Zero grows readership in Africa and Asia in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 29/10/2012.
Projects	2012	November 2012: WikiAfrica reaches its 30,000 milestone.	Wikimedia
Events	2012	Yoruba Edition - Jimmy Wales Prize at Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC.	Wikipedia
Projects	2012	WikiAfrica Cameroon (2012-2013) is promoted by doual'art in collaboration with Orange Foundation, Orange Foundation Cameroon, lettera27 and the Africa Centre.	Cameroon	Guillaume Goursat, WikiAfrica project welcomes and trains Cameroonians to contribute to Wikimedia sites in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 15/03/2013.
Projects	2012	Start-up of the project WikiAfrica Primary School. Feasibility study focussed on Wikipedia African languages editions, Italy, Cameroon and South Africa.	Wikimedia
Events	2012	Wikipedian in residence training course, Milan, 03-05/2012.	Italy	Wikipedian in residence training course
Presentations	2012	Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda).	Nigeria
Presentations	2012	Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda).	Nigeria
Presentations	2012	Isla Haddow-Flood, A mutually beneficial partnership: Wikipedia and Africa, session WikiCulture and Community I, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.	USA	http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_mutually_beneficial_partnership_:_Wikipedia_and_Africa
Presentations	2012	Iolanda Pensa, The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control, session GLAM II, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.	USA	http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Power_of_Wikipedia:_Legitimacy_and_Territorial_Control
Presentations	2012	David Mugo Kariithi, The African Story , session WikiCulture and Community XI: Small Languages, 14/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.	USA	http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_African_Story
Presentations	2012	Meetup African language Wikipedias, 15/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012.	USA	http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/AfrophoneWikis#Un-meetup
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Cocody (Ivory Coast) thanks to Afripedia Project.	Côte d'Ivoire	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Events	2012	First international training organized by Afripedia, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 5-9/11/2012. The participants of the training are around 15 people working in the francophones digital campus (Campus Numériques Francophones), librarians and archivists from around 12 francophone West African countries; the participants will learn of to edit Wikipedia and how to use the documentation and the offline Wikipedia for leaning and teaching activities.	Côte d'Ivoire	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of N’Djamena thanks to Afripedia Project.	Chad	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the University of Nouakchott thanks to Afripedia Project.	Mauritania	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the University and the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Niamey thanks to Afripedia Project.	Niger	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Bamako thanks to Afripedia Project.	Mali	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Dakar thanks to Afripedia Project.	Senegal	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Offline	2012	Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Ouagadougou thanks to Afripedia Project.	Burkina Faso	Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Events	2012	WikiAfrica workshop during the Festival of African cinema of Córdoba in collaboration with the University of Cadiz and Wikimedia Spain.	Spain
Events	2012	Training at the Médéa University within the Arabic Language Initative.	Algeria	Haitham Shammaa, Algerian university students contribute their first Wikipedia articles in "WIkimedia Foundation Blog", 11/05/2012.
Mobile	2013	Agreement between Wikimedia Foundation and the company VimpelCom (Wikipedia Zero) - in Africa, Algeria, Burundi, Zimbabwe and Central African Republic.	Wikimedia	https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/VimpelCom_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation. Amit Kapoor, VimpelCom partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013.
Events	2013	Wikipedia training in Gogabis, capital of Omaheke Region.	Namibia	Peter Gallert, Teaching rural teachers in Namibia how to edit Wikipedia , in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog, 02/04/2013.
Projects	2013	WikiAfrica Cameroon established an Espace WikiAfrica (WikiAfrica Hub) in Douala c/o doual'art and with the support of the Orange Foundation.	Cameroon	Guillaume Goursat, WikiAfrica project welcomes and trains Cameroonians to contribute to Wikimedia sites in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 15/03/2013.
Events - grant request	2013	Wiki Indaba 2013	South Africa	Proposal for a conference http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2013 http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants_talk:WM_ZA/Wiki-Indaba-2013
Presentations	2013	Activating Africa at Wikimania 2013.	Cina	* Presentation of the panel http://wikimania2013.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Activating_Africa Video (start at 2.48 on the slider) http://new.livestream.com/socreclive/wikimania/videos/26971769 2.48 – Activating Africa – intro to the need – Isla Haddow-Flood 3.03 – Share Your Knowledge - 30,000 contributions – Iolanda Pensa 3.09 – Wikipedia Zero: Africa and the Road Ahead – Kul Wadhwa 3.20 – Wikipeida Zero: Wikipedia via Text in Africa – Dan Foy 3.28 – Afripedia – Adrrienne Alix 3.33 – Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa – Douglas Scott 3.53 – Joburgpedia – Dumisani Ndabane 4.08 – Activating Africa – Botswana, Oarabile Mudongo 4.12 – Social Media activation in Ghana – Sandister Tei
Statistics	2013-08	Erik Zachte collects statistics for the category Africa/Afrika/Afrique	Online	Description of the methodology https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Statistics_related_to_Africa English: http://tinyurl.com/pzql3gr French: http://tinyurl.com/pbeg3jg Italian: http://tinyurl.com/movuoar Afrikaans: http://tinyurl.com/ne3ecgm Swahili: http://tinyurl.com/on88l9b
Project	2013	What is about - C'est quoi. A series of communication tools about Wikipedia. Cameroon pilot project. A project to produce site-specific communication tools about Wikipedia. The tools target people who do not know Wikipedia and do not necessarily know what free knowledge and sharing knowledge are all about.	Cameroon	https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/What_is_about_-_C%27est_quoi._A_series_of_communication_tools_about_Wikipedia._Cameroon_pilot_project#Scope_and_activities Presentation of Wikipedia What is about at Wiki Indaba 2014. Presentation of Wikipedia What is about at Wiki Indaba 2014.	Supported by IEG
Project	2013-2014	Kumusha Takes Wiki : activating communities across Africa to create and contribute freely-licensed information, texts, images and media about their communities	Uganda and Ivory Coast	m:Kumusha Takes Wiki	Supported by WMF and Fondation Orange
Research Project	02 2014 - 01 2017	Joint research project developed within a Swiss and South African collaboration, specifically focuses on the theoretical frame of the project Wikipedia Primary School and in developing and evaluating a system to assess Wikipedia articles for primary education and to involve a wide network of scholars and contributors in their production.	South Africa	Research:Wikipedia Primary School SSAJRP programme	en:SUPSI, en:University of Cape Town, Wikimedia South Africa, Africa Centre
Events	2014	Wiki Indaba 2014	South Africa, Johannesburg	Description of the event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Indaba Images on Wikimedia Commons Videos on Youtube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBFQLpvHnAWXcrVFMxdYLPw
Project	oct-nov 2014	Wiki Loves Africa: Photographic contest with numerous local events (edithaton, photo hunts, workshops etc.)	all Africa	http://www.wikilovesafrica.org/2014 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa Results and best practices: here Grant request: Grants:PEG/Africa Centre/Wiki Loves Africa 2014. blog on WMF another blog on WMF	Supported by WMF and Fondation Orange
Presentations	2014	Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow.Kumusha Takes Wiki: activating communities across Africa, session DIVERSITY II, during Wikimania 2014, London, 6-10/08/2014.	London	http://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org
Presentations	April 2015	Michael Phoya. GLAM Joys and Sorrows: The Case for Malawi	The Hague	GLAM WIKI 2015.
Presentations	April 2015	Isla Haddow-Flood on behalf of Samuel Guebo. Kumusha Takes Wiki: A different kind of collaboration	The Hague	GLAM WIKI 2015.
Presentations	April 2015	Nkansah Rexford Nyarko. A tale of two countries	The Hague	[WIKI 2015.] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Iziko_Museums
Presentations	2015	Florence Devouard. Activating communities across Africa with Kumusha Takes Wiki and Wiki Loves Africa, session COMMUNITY II, during Wikimania 2015, Mexico City, 15-19/07/2015.	Mexico City	http://wikimania2015.wikimedia.org
Project	oct-nov 2015	Wiki Loves Africa: Photographic contest with numerous local events (edithaton, photo hunts, workshops etc.)	all Africa	http://www.wikilovesafrica.org https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Wiki_Loves_Africa_2015 Grant request: Grants:PEG/Africa Centre/Wiki Loves Africa 2015. http://blog.wikimedia.fr/top-depart-pour-wiki-loves-africa-7816	Supported by WMF

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