African Open Source Wikipedia Initiative

The African Open Source Wikipedia Initiative aims to bridge the gap in representation on Wikipedia by documenting African open source contributions. This campaign will empower participants with the skills and knowledge to enrich Wikipedia with accurate and comprehensive information about key open source projects and individuals across the African continent. By documenting these vital contributions, we seek to increase awareness, foster collaboration, and ensure that the rich history and ongoing innovation of African open source are documented on Wikipedia.

The Africa Open Source Wikipedia Initiative is a collaboration between the Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda and the Everything Open Source Community.

Training Schedule

Topic	Activity
Week 1
Introduction to Wikipedia	Welcome & Icebreaker: Introductions, program overview, and setting expectations.
	Introduction to Wikimedia: Ecosystem, projects, community, open source projects on Wikipedia
	Introduction to Wikidata: What is Wikidata, how it connects to Wikipedia, and how to add and edit data, creating Wikidata items for African Open Source Projects and contributors
	Introduction to Wikimedia Commons: What is Wikimedia commons, Wikimedia commons do's and dont's, uploading images to Wikimedia Commons.
	Home work: Create Wikidata items and Upload Images of Open Source Projects and contributors in Africa
Week 2
Detailed Wikipedia Editing	Introduction to Wikipedia: The Wikipedia Interface, User page, Talk page, other language wikipedias, structure a wikipedia article, documenting African Open Source Contributors and projects on Wikipedia.
	Wikipedia editing: How to create an article in the sandbox, adding citations, links, infobox, images, publishing an article.
	Home work: Create Wikipedia a wikipedia article of at least one notable African Open Source Project or contributor
Week 3
Peer Article Review	Article Review: Reviewing submitted articles, and sharing feedback.
	Editathon: Live editing session, sharing screens and sharing instant feedback
	Home work: Create Wikipedia articles, Wikidata Items, Upload images to commons of notable African Open Source Projects or contributors
Week 4
Wikipedia & Beyond	Guest Speaker: Open Source tech contributions for Wikipedia
Wikipedia & Beyond	Sharing outcomes and closure: Sharing outcomes and closure

Participants

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Get started

5 minutes

Step 1: Create Wikipedia account or Log in to Wikipedia
Step 2: Join the Outreach dashboard
Step 3: Assign your self article in the Spreadsheet

Choose one of the activities

Improve and expand an article: Help make improvements to Africa Open Source contributions on Wikipedia.; 20 minutes
Improve with a reference: Improve Africa Open Source Contributions with citations.; 20 minutes
Translate articles to other languages: Translate Wikipedia articles from one language to another.; 45 minutes
Create a new Wikipedia article: Choose a person you want to write a new Wikipedia article about.; 60 minutes

Extra activities

Share!: Share your contribution in social media. Use #AficaOpenSourceWikiEdits.; 5 minutes
Upload to Commons!: Upload your event photos under a free license on Wikimedia Commons. Please add them to the category c:Category:Africa Open Source Contributors.; 10 minutes

Outcomes

Nigerian Software Developers https://w.wiki/Dv2c
African Software Engineers https://w.wiki/Dv2q
People who went to University of Ghana https://w.wiki/Dv32
Historopedia https://histropedia.com/timeline-everything