The project WikiAfrica Archive wishes to Africanize Wikipedia by producing 30.000 articles in 3 years. The project relies on the collaboration with international archives, magazines, databases and cultural institutions.
WikiAfrica Archives aims at generating a new approach to knowledge, which is fully inclusive, mainstream and intercultural. It contributes to building a free and open encyclopaedia and giving greater access and visibility to contemporary and historical archives.
WikiAfrica Archives concentrates on contents related to art, cinema, literature and migration. It invites cultural institutions to adopt the copyleft, which is the most powerful distribution system. The project involves experts, students and volunteers, who will publish articles, upload images, write essays, quotations, review books and archives, allowing these contents to be fully accessible online.
Partner:
- Italy: lettera27 Foundation; Wikimedia Italia; Laboratory GRIOT/Rome; Nigrizia Multimedia – Afriradio – African Film Festival of Verona; African, Asian and Latin American Film Festival of Milan; Festivaletteratura di Mantova Mantua Literature Festival/Mantua
- Switzerland: SUPSI/Lugano
- South Africa: Chimurenga Magazine/Cape Town; African Centre for Cities – University of Cape Town
- Cameroon: Doual’art/Douala
- Senegal: Kër Thiossane/Dakar
- USA: Museum for African Art/New York, Asa - African Studies Association