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iCommons is collecting South Africa's heritage
Daniela Faris, Johannesburg (South Africa) · 23/9/2007 22:13

The South African Police long rifle shooting team in 1950. , Piet Dreyer, CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)
The South African Police long rifle shooting team in 1950. , by Piet Dreyer
A bunch of incredible volunteers and the iCommons staff are at a shopping mall
today recording stories and scanning images for Wikimedia Commons in
celebration of Heritage Day weekend in South Africa.

We've had some incredible stories that volunteer translators are translating into
Sotho, Xhosa, Afrikaans and Zulu - check it out as it happens on our Jaiku channel. Also check out our contributions so far on the iHeritage page for WikiMedia Commons.

Thank you so much to everyone who has helped out

tags: culture wikipedia wikimediacommons iheritage heritage history south africa




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jtbower1850 Ive just found this site and I'm still educating myself on all that is happening ,So glad to have found it there is so much to read about, never
been this close to the world before ( thank you, iCommons.)

Joel Bower
jtbower1850 (United States) · 27/9/2007 08:05
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