Wiki Activate Africa
Wiki Activate Africa is a non-profit association that enhances digital literacy by providing digital skills training and resources to Africans. It empowers Africans to effectively use online platforms and tools to contribute and create high-quality, Africa-centric content on Wikimedia projects, promoting diverse perspectives and representation in inline with the Wikimedia movement.
The organization also retrains and encourages Wikimedia volunteers who have relapsed in contributing to Wikimedia projects to start again to keep on disseminating free knowledge and other educational content to the public domain.
This idea is a continuous process for us and we started good with all our online trainings and meetings starting from WikiLockdown, WikiSanta, WikiInteract. We have organized Physical events such as Wikiactivate 2.0, Which was our first physical meetup. Anyone can become a member of this group. We continue to believe that the WikiActivate User group will address community needs and moving on towards the realization of the 2030 strategic direction.
- Create Awareness, Workshop, Training and Campaigns on IT skills and free knowledge projects
- Spreading the Wikimedia movement and projects.
- Encouraging Africans to be part of the SDGs goals.
- Introducing Wikipedia technologies to volunteers and organization partners.
- Conducting Hackathon/Workshops and Meetups.
- Promotion of Wikimedia projects and Free content in general. To encourage the use of Wikimedia resources in education
- Organize workshops on Wikimedia technology for a community member/College student.
- Develop a new student technical group.
- Organize more outreach programs to increase awareness about the Wikimedia technical education.
Wikidata Anniversary 2024
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The Wiki Activate Africa-Wikidata Birthday 2024 is an event organized by Wiki Activate to enhance the digital literacy of Africans by bridging the data gap on Wikidata regarding African universities and healthcare institutions. This campaign is launched in celebration of Wikidata's 12th birthday and aims to primarily ensure that every Nigerian University and Healthcare Institutions items missing the Location statement are updated.
Project Meta Page: Wikidata Anniversary 2024
Pictures from Event: Here
WikiActivate For Climate Action
[edit]The Wikiactivate initiative for SDGs Goal 13 seeks to contribute to the global campaign by addressing the existing gap related to Sustainable Development Goal 13 (Climate Action) on the English Wikipedia, with a specific emphasis on content related to Nigeria. This project's primary objectives are to raise awareness, provide training, and enhance or edit articles pertaining to Climate Change. By doing so, we aim to promote increased awareness and understanding of the issue of Climate Change within the Nigerian context.
Project Meta Page: WikiActivate For Climate Action
Project Result Dashboard: Dashboard
WikiActivate
[edit]The main goal of WikiActivate is proposed to consolidate and keep editors and new editors active on the successes gained and also improve on the shortfalls of the previous projects. This project still retains the aims of Signing Up, and improve/edit articles, Upload pictures to close the picture gap on WikiCommons, and Introduce old editors to Wikimedia project-Wikidata
WikiLockdown
[edit]Wiki Lockdown is an online initiative for increasing awareness on the use of Wikipedia, Sign Up, edit articles, Upload pictures in Commons, Contribute to the community and Wikipedia Projects. Basically, the idea behind this is to train some undergraduates who are affected by COVID19 lockdown on a new skill as they await for the resumption of their various schools.
WikiInteract
[edit]After a successful WikiLockdown, WikiSanta and WikiActivate, WikiInteract is proposed to consolidate, Interact and discuss with both old and new editors on the successes gained and also improve on the shortfalls of the previous projects. We also intend to have a session of discussion on the implementation phase of the Wikipedia movement Strategy. This project aims at Signing Up of new editors, improve/edit articles, and discussing the Implementation phase of the ongoing Wikipedia movement Strategy to our growing community. Happened on 10-24 July 2021 online. It was a one day, 8-hour event focusing on getting people together to hack on stuff related to all Wikimedia projects
WikiSanta
[edit]We have mentioned in our goal that we wanted to involve students in this Hackathon. This helped us to create new volunteers for Wikipedia. These students are now having knowledge of Wikimedia technologies
- WIKIACTIVATE TRAINING AND COMPETITION FOR 9-5 WORKERS
- Wiki Interact 2024
You can connect with us in the talk page of this page, or by email to the sysops at wikiactivate@gmail.com. We are also active on Twitter and Facebook group and page.
- Wikiactivate - wikiactivate@gmail.com (Primary contact)
- Dike Chukwuma - Project Lead
Social Media
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