Women Visibility: How the Wikimedia Movement sheds light on women

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This March, in celebration of International Women’s History Month, and WikiAfrica Hour will be bringing together inspiring women from across the Wikimedia Movement to explore how our communities support women—and where we can do more. Join us!

Event Series WikiAfrica Hour Offline Demos

WikiAfrica Hour’s Offline Demos – MoodleBox and Kiwix – Offline OER

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How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution if you cannot see it in action first online? Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky. In this OEWeek25 […]

Wiki Loves Africa 2025 Contest Launch

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Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) is an annual contest where anyone across Africa can contribute free media that is relevant to their experience to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia communities (Wikimedia movement), and also make this shared media freely available for the Humankind. This year marks the 11th anniversary of the contest and […]

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – French

Wiki in Africa , South Africa

Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest. This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation. This training […]

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – English

Wiki in Africa , South Africa

Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest. This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation. This training […]

Uploading Files to Wikimedia Commons – Arabic

Wiki in Africa , South Africa

Wiki Loves Africa is organizing a training for its participants to guide them on how to upload files for the photography contest. This training will focus on the basics of uploading on Wikimedia Commons and will consist of a demo upload. Participants are advised to have a computing device handy to aid participation. The training […]

Event Series WikiAfrica Hour Offline Demos

WikiAfrica Hour’s Offline Wikis – Internet in a Box Demonstration

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How do we share free knowledge with people who have no stable internet? How do you identify the right offline solution, if you cannot see it in action online first? Many steps must be taken before offline solutions can benefit the people they are designed for, some of which are quite tricky.  In this OEWeek25 […]

Wiki Loves Africa 2025

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Wiki Loves Africa is an annual public contest organised by Wiki In Africa in collaboration with the Wikimedia movement across Africa. The contest encourages people across Africa can contribute media (photographs, video and audio) about their environment to Wikimedia Commons for use on Wikipedia and other project websites of the Wikimedia Foundation. Each year the theme changes and […]

WikiAfrica Hour – De-colonising knowledge on Wikipedia

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What do we mean by decolonising knowledge? Why is it essential to document this on Wikimedia projects? What established knowledge decolonisation initiatives are inside (and even outside) the Wikimedia movement that we should pay attention to? How can we improve existing initiatives and encourage others to do the same? This month on Wiki Africa Hour, […]