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Wikipedia Academy: South Africa
Heather Ford · Johannesburg (South Africa) · Aug 15th, 2007 3:12 pm
The goal is to increase participation in South African languages other than English by running Wikipedia Academy workshops to teach people how to edit Wikipedia.
The main activities include raising awareness of the academy, running the events and sustaining activity in local language Wikipedias. Based on experience of the German Wikipedia Academies. [more]
Category: Media/events
Project end date: 31/12/2007 (189 days ago)
Creation date: Aug 15th, 2007 3:12 pm
Development stage: active
city: Johannesburg
country: South Africa
Other countries:
Main Language: English
Number of people involved: 9
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love to help H, holler if you need it!
By max kaizen
ask 20 average educated urban South Africans what's a wiki - and you'll get at least 15 different answers. Bravo to training...
By Mahala
co.creating knowledge and interpreting shared reality opens REAL communication in a country that desperately needs to think...
By max kaizen
This is going to be an awesome event - spreading the news about how Wikipedia can change the daily lives of South Africans...
By Daniela Faris
I was present at the first Wikipedia Academy which saw an exciting array of folk get together with students at CIDA City...
By Kerryn McKay
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go Heather, go SA Wikipedians!
