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The Africa Narrative Launches AfroCreatives WikiProject

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July 13, 2022
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The Africa Narrative Launches AfroCreatives WikiProject

The Africa Narrative, a non-profit focused on supporting African creatives, has launched the AfroCreatives WikiProject, funded by the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit that supports Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. The AfroCreatives WikiProject is the first of a series of initiatives and programs that The African Narrative will be announcing over the coming months.

Initially established as a research-driven project aimed at generating greater public knowledge of Africa, The Africa Narrative is relaunching as a non-profit with a mission squarely aimed at strengthening capacity in the African creative economy and amplifying global visibility of African cultural soft power.  Registered as a tax-exempt non-profit in the United States and in South Africa, TAN will be based in Johannesburg and led and staffed entirely by Africans on the continent.

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Not only are creatives increasingly on the front lines of shaping the continent’s image on the global stage, they are also drivers of the increasingly vital African creative sector, one that nonetheless is vastly underfunded, underdeveloped, and capturing less than 3% of the global creative economy. In response, The Africa Narrative has developed a dozen initiatives, including the AfroCreatives WikiProject, to support African creatives and amplify the global visibility of Africa’s extraordinary creative genius.

Michelle van Gilder, Founder and Interim Executive Director, The Africa Narrative

The AfroCreatives Wikiproject was developed to support and mobilize people from the African cultural and creative industries, as well as African cultural enthusiasts, to contribute and enhance knowledge on Wikipedia about Africa’s creative economy. Its inaugural effort, launching this month, is centered on the film industries of Egypt, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal.

On July 16, The Africa Narrative will launch a three-week campaign, AfroCreatives WikiProject +film, encouraging new and established Wikipedia contributors, including film industry creatives, professionals and film enthusiasts in each of these countries, to add film-related content to Wikipedia.  On the same day, The Africa Narrative will host four online training sessions in French, Arabic, and English for those new to editing Wikipedia. The training sessions will provide easy and essential editing know-how that will enable anyone to start contributing to Wikipedia.

We are incredibly bullish on what will be a long-term commitment from The Africa Narrative to engage creatives and cultural enthusiasts to make a notable impact on growing African-generated content on Wikipedia and are deeply grateful for the Wikimedia Foundation’s support in helping to spearhead this effort.

Michelle van Gilder, Founder and Interim Executive Director, The Africa Narrative

The Foundation’s support includes a Wikimedian in Residence dedicated to the AfroCreatives WikiProject. Daniel Damoilola Obiokeke has been contributing to English and Simple Wikipedia, Commons and Wikidata for the last six years. He has started over 200 articles on the English Wikipedia and facilitated several Wikimedia campaigns, contests and edit-a-thons in Nigeria.

Our partnership with The Africa Narrative reflects a wider commitment by the Wikimedia Foundation to make Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects a true reflection of the world’s knowledge. With only 1.5% of Wikipedia editors coming from the African continent, this partnership presents a necessary opportunity to not only add missing content about African creatives, but also to increase the number of Africans contributing knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

Rudolph Ampofo, Senior Regional Partnerships Manager, Wikimedia Foundation

The Entertainment and Creative Industry in Africa is huge in terms of revenue and production output and yet, there isn’t much said about it on the world’s biggest encyclopedia. With the Afrocine Project already bridging this gap with its past campaign, this project is important to collaborate and achieve more in ensuring more African creatives get involved with Wikimedia projects and bridge the systemic bias and gap that exist.

Ayokanmi Oyeyemi, Advisory Support to the AfroCreatives WikiProject

Source: Pascaline Icyizere
Via: africabusinesscommunities
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