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{{Timeline Africa | type = | date = | event = | where = | sources = | notes = }} Timeline Type Date Event Where Sources Notes Languages 2001 Wikipedia in English (en), French (fr), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt), Afrikaans (af). Wikipedia Languages 2002 Wikipedia in Yoruba (yo), Amarico (am), Kinyarwanda (rw), Hausa (ha), Oromo (om). Wikipedia Languages 2003 Wikipedia in Arabic (ar), Swahili (sw), Wolof (wo), Zulu (zu), Sesotho (st), Twi (tw), Xhosa (xh). Wikipedia Languages 2004 Wikipedia in Malgascio (mg), Somalo (so), Lingala (ln), Shona (sn), Kongo (kg), Igbo (ig), Tswana / Setswana (tn), Bambara (bm), Swati /Swazi (ss), Ewe (ee), Kikuyu (ki), Tigrinya (ti), Tsonga (ts), Sangro (sg), Venda (ve), Kirundi (rn), Akan (ak), Tumbuka (tum), Ganda (lg), Chichewa / Nyanja (ny). Wikipedia Languages 2004 The page African languages is created on Meta. Meta Presentations 2005 Achal Prabhala, An overview of the access to learning materials situation in Southern Africa, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005. Germany http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-AP1 Presentations 2005 Kasper Souren, Wikimedia projects and African languages: Thoughts on the Bambara Wikipedia, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005. Germany http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-KS1 Presentations 2005 Florence Devouard, How to get Wikimedia into the developing world, Series: Wikimedia in the Developing World, 05/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005. Germany http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-FD1 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/meta/f/f4/Wikimedia_in_the_developing_world_-_Anthere_-_Wikimania2005.pdf Presentations 2005 Isam Bayazidi, Technology in schools and Open-Content Awareness in Arab Countries, Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005. Germany http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-IB1 Presentations 2005 Milton Ainehuranga, Women of Uganda Network, Global Voices panel, 07/08/2005, during Wikimania 2005, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, 04-08/08/2005. Germany http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania05/Presentation-MA2 Presentations 2005 FLOSS and Free Knowledge Conference in South Africa, April 2005, Pretoria 2005. South Africa Workshop 1 with a report by Angela Beesley and Erik Möller Presentations 2005 Conference FLOSS, South Africa 2005. Presentation of WMF and Wikiversity by Florence Devouard (Anthere). South Africa http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Conference_reports/FLOSS,_South_Africa_2005/Workshop_2 report Projects 2006 WikiAfrica promoted by lettera27 Foundation in collaboration with Wikimedia Italy. Wikipedia http://www.wikiafrica.org. Presentations 2006 Benjamin Martin, Huru na Bure: Swahili collaboration and the future of African languages on the web, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006. USA http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:MB1 Presentations 2006 Kasper Souren, The Bambara Wikipedia, one year later, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006. USA http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:KS2 Presentations 2006 Roland Burger, Wikivoices - Culture and Language, Wikimania 2006 International Projects Session, Cambridge Massachusetts, 2006. A project for the preservation of the languages and cultures of Nigeria and cultural exchange. USA http://wikimania2006.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:RB1 Events 2006 WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2006. Italy Presentations 2006-09-12 Digital World African Conference - Conference presented by Florence Devouard (Anthere), Wikipedia: Empowering, Abuja (Nigeria), 12-13/09/2006 Nigeria Languages 2007 Wikipedia in Taqbaylit / Cabilo. Wikipedia Events 2007 Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007 South Africa and http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Academies. Projects 2007 The Africa Project. Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/The_Africa_Project 2007 proposal Events 2007 Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Cape Town, 2007. South Africa https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Cape_Town Events 2007 Wikimania 2008 Official Bids: Alexandria Egypt https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2008/Bids/Alexandria Projects 2007 Chimurenga Library, an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. The research was supported by WikiAfrica and released with a GNU Free Documentation License and later on with the cc by-sa license. South Africa http://chimurengalibrary.co.za Iolanda Pensa,La bibliothèque de Chimurenga in The Chimurenga Library: An Introspective of Chimurenga Magazine, Cape Town Platform, 2009, pp. 4-6. Events 2007 Wikipedia Academy in South Africa 2007. South Africa http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Academy#Wikipedia_Academy_Johannesburg_2007 http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Wikipedia_Academies Presentations 2007 WikiAfrica at ACASA-Art Council of the African Studies Association, University of Florida, April 2007. USA ACASA-14th Triennial Symposium on African Art http://conferences.dce.ufl.edu/acasa Presentations 2007 Achal Prabhala, Wikimedia in the offline world, 04/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007. Taiwan http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Presentations 2007 Gerard Meijssen, Languages, small projects, the language committee, fund raising, signwriting, 03/08/2007, during Wikimania 2007, Taipei, Taiwan, 03-05/08/2007. Taiwan http://wikimania2007.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proceedings:GM1 Presentations 2007 WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, 09/10/2007. Germany Litcam http://www.litcam.org/litcam/en/index Frankfurt Book Fair http://www.frankfurt-book-fair.com/en/portal.php Events 2007 5 WikiAfrica Workshops at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2007. Italy Presentations 2007 Presentation of Wikipedia, Ars&Urbis International Workshop promoted by doual'art and iStrike Foundation, Douala, March 2007. Cameroon Events 2007 Workshop with Cornell University. report. Zambia. Novembre 2007. Zambia Languages 2008 Wikipedia in Arabic (Egyptian). Wikipedia Events 2008 Wikimania 2008 at Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org Events 2008 Wikipedia training within the digital festival Afripixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, May 2008. Senegal GLAMs 2008 The Festival di cinema africano of Verona supports WikiAfrica by releasing its archives in cc by-sa. Italy GLAMs 2008 The Festival Cinema Africano, Asia e America Latina of Milan, at its XIX edition supports WikiAfrica by releasing a selection of its archive in cc by-sa. Italy http://www.festivalcinemaafricano.org/ Events 2008 WikiAfrica Workshop in Pisa, Pisa, 18/03/2008 Italy http://wikiafrica.it/index.php/Wikiafrica:Pisa_2008. Presentations 2008 WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Paris, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 24/04-19/05/2008. France http://detour.moleskinecity.com/index.php/category/exhibition-in-paris/. Events 2008 Workshop to contribute to African articles on Wikipedia, within the course Internet for social sciences curated by Marco Guadagnino, Faculty of Political Sciences, Università degli Studi di Napoli "L'Orientale", 8-9-15-16/10/2008. Italy Events 2008 WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008. Senegal http://www.ker-thiossane.com/article.php3?id_article=548. Events 2008 WikiAfrica is presented within the digital festival Afropixel, Kër Thiossane, Dakar, 01-18/05/2008. Senegal http://www.ker-thiossane.com/article.php3?id_article=548. Presentations 2008 Philipp Schmidt, Rishab Ghosh, Ruediger Glott, The Global Survey of Wikipedia Contributers and Readers, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Dror Kamir, Cross-cultural dialogue through Wikipedia, 17/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Hussein Ghaly, Building Arabic Engineering Knowledge, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Iryna Kuchma, Open Access: How to Create Change, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Teemu Leinonen, Open educational resources and globalization, 18/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Merrick Schaefer, Making MediaWiki Usable for Youth in Africa, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Jay Walsh, Telling our global wiki story, 19/07/2008, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt http://wikimania2008.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimania 2008. Presentations 2008 Samuel Klein, Offline Wikipedia and OLPC, during Wikimania 2008, Alexandria, Egypt, 17-19/07/2008. Egypt Video http://archive.org/details/wikimania2008_Offline-Wikipedia-and-OLPC. GLAMs 2008 The radio station Afriradio presentes all the events related to Africa at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, September 2008. Italy Presentations 2008 WikiAfrica Art is presented in the exhibitions Detour Berlin, Museum der Dinge, Berlin, 20/10-16/11/2008. Germany http://detour.moleskinecity.com/index.php/2008/10/14/detour-berlin-the-moleskine-notebook-experience. Presentations 2008 WikiAfrica at the annual meeting of the African Studies Association, Chicago, 13-16/11/2008. A WikiAfrica Moleskine special edition was distributed to all the scholars attending the conference with questions related to Africa on Wikipedia linked to the theme Knowledge of Africa: The Next Fifty Years. USA http://www.lettera27.org/index.php?idlanguage=2&zone=9&idprj=47&idnews=1427&pag=0. Presentations 2008 WikiAfrica at LitCam Literacy Campaign promoted by Frankfurt Book Fair, October 2007. Germany Mouvement 2009 Lourie Pieterse (LouriePieterse) candidate for the Board elections 2009, 10/08/2009 Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en#Lourie_Pieterse_.28LouriePieterse.29 My main goal is to get South Africa, but also Africa, to become more involved with the Wikimedia Foundation https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Candidates/en#Lourie_Pieterse_.28LouriePieterse.29. Presentations 2009 The Ars&Urbis Curatorial Meeting is supported by lettera27 foundation within WikiAfrica project, Douala, Cameroon, 19-24/01/2009. The gathering focuses on Douala and it involves international architects, curators and intellectuals; the programme also includes a presentation of Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. Cameroon Presentations 2009 Afriradio and the Festival di cinema Africano di Verona present WikiAfrica Cinema at Fespaco, the major Panafrican cinema festival, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, 28/02-07/03/2009. Burkina Faso Presentations 2009 WikiAfrica Art is presented within myDetour 5x5. Italy http://www.moleskine.com/it/events/mydetour_5x5_1.php. Presentations 2009 WikiAfrica is presented within Detour Istanbul, 22/05-21/06/2009. Turkey http://www.moleskine.com/events/detour/detour_istanbul/. Events 2009 Chimurenga magazine organises 4 workshops WikiAfrica during the biennale Cape Africa Platform 2009 and in collaboration with several local schools, Cape Town Public Library, Cape Town, South Africa, June, 2009. South Africa http://www.chimurengalibrary.co.za/ctlibrary_sessions.php Presentations 2009 Wikimania 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 26-28/08/2009. Argentina http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Portal Presentations 2009 WikiAfrica is presented at Festivaletteratura in Mantua, 12-13/09/2009. Italy Presentations 2009 WikiAfrica and Wikipedia are presented in the conference Mobile A2K: Resources, Interfaces and Contents on Urban Transformation, Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, 05-09/10/2009. Italy Events 2009 Workshop within the Festival di cinema africano of Verona Cinema and Wikipedia in the schools: new access to African cinematography. Italy Projects 2010 Africa Project promoted by Wikimedia Israel and the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, from 2010. Israel http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Presentation of the project at Wikimania 2011 Projects 2010 Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010. South Africa https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/WitsWorkshop http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/State_of_the_Chapter_2011 Mouvement 2010 Abbas Mahmood contributes to the Fundraising Campaign with an appeal. Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fundraising_2010/Abbas_Appeal/en Projects 2010 WikiAfrica sets the milestone 30,000 African contribution to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects by 2012. Wikimedia Events 2010 Wikimedia Sweden participates at the Göteborg Bookfair focussed on African literature, 23-26/09/2010. Sweden http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mall:Afrika_har_ordet_2010. GLAMs 2010 The magazine about Africa Nigrizia, in collaboration with Fondazione Lettera 27, releases all its archive in cc by-sa to contribute to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. Italy http://www.nigrizia.it GLAMs 2010 The Festival del Cinema Africano di Verona contributes to WikiAfrica with a WikiCatalogue, 12-21/11/2010. Italy http://festivalafricano.altervista.org/festival/ offline 2010 Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French. Cameroon http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/17/wikimedia-chapters-work-together-to-bring-more-free-knowledge-to-africa/ Dror Kamir, [http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Going to Africa, presentation at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. Ben Kaminsky, Students to Take Computers and Wikipedia to Africa in "The Epoch Times", 17/09/2010. offline 2010 Distribution of computer with installed open software and Wikipedia. An initiative of the Africa Center at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev in collaboration with Wikimedia Israel and Hamakor the Israeli Free and Open Source Software NGO and with the support of Wikimedia CH and Wikimedia France to produce an up-to-date static version of Wikipedia in French. Benin http://blog.wikimedia.org/2010/09/17/wikimedia-chapters-work-together-to-bring-more-free-knowledge-to-africa/ Dror Kamir, [http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Going to Africa, presentation at Wikimania 2011 in Haifa. Ben Kaminsky, Students to Take Computers and Wikipedia to Africa in "The Epoch Times", 17/09/2010. Events 2010 Wits Workshop, organized by Wikimedia South Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, August 2010. South Africa http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_South_Africa/State_of_the_Chapter_2011 Presentations 2010 The Festival del Cinema Africano, d'Asia e America Latina di Milano presents and supports WikiAfrica, 15-21/03/2010. Italy Presentations 2010 Achal Prabhala, Erik Möller, Delphine Ménard, Lodewijk Gelauff, Phoebe Ayers, Arne Klempert, Milos Rancic, Allow, Invite, Encourage: Growing Wikimedia in the World, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010. Poland http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Allow,_Invite,_Encourage:_Growing_Wikimedia_in_the_World Presentations 2010 Asaf Bartov, A Proposed Agenda for the Wikimedia Movement in Developing Nations, 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010. Poland http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Proposed_Agenda_for_Wikimedia_in_Developing_Nations.pdf Presentations 2010 Mayo Fuster Morell, Wikipedia eco-system: Power embedded in the governance infrastructure, 2010, 2010, during Wikimania 2010, Gdańsk, Poland, 09-11/07/2010. Poland http://wikimania2010.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Wikipedia_eco-system_governance:_Power_embedded_in_the_governance_infrastructure Presentations 2010 WikiAfrica presented at Festivaletteratura di Mantova 2010, 11-12/09/2010. Italy Mouvement 2010 Growing Wikimedia in Developing Nations working group Wikimedia https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Growing_Wikimedia_in_Developing_Nations Events 2010 The event Biography of a continent: Africa, 1960-2010 promoted by Officina GRIOT presents a WikiAfrica workshop on Creative Commons and Wikipedia, 6/10/2010. Italy http://www.africatralerighe.com/workshop Languages 2011 Wikipedia in North Sotho (nso). Wikipedia Projects 2011 WikiAfrica launches Share Your Knowledge in January to involve African institutions and institutions with African contents in contributing to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia outreach:GLAM/Case_studies/WikiAfrica/Share_Your_Knowledge Projects 2011 French-speaking Africa (stub) Meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/French-speaking_Africa. Mouvement 2011 Wikimedia South Africa/State of the Chapter 2011 South Africa Wikimedia South Africa/State of the Chapter 2011 Mouvement 2011 Recognition of Wikimedia South Africa, Provisional 26/03/2011. South Africa https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Recognition_of_Wikimedia_South_Africa Events 2011 Wikimania 2012 Official Bids: Stellenbosch, 2011 South Africa https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2012/Bids/Stellenbosch Events 2011 The project Share Your Knowledge: Creative Commons and Wikipedia for cultural institutions (2011-2012) is launched to facilitate the contribution of cultural institutions to Wikipedia and the Wikimedia project.. South Africa en:Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Share Your Knowledge Projects 2011 Wikipedian in residence at lettera27 Foundation to contribute to WikiAfrica. Italy w:it:Progetto:GLAM/Wikipediano in residenza presso Fondazione lettera27 Events 2011 Edit-a-thon Share Your Knowledge, 2-4/06/2011. Wikimedia Edit-a-thon Share Your Knowledge Presentations 2011 The Africa Project - Bringing Wikipedia to Africa, session Wiki Academy: Wiki Technology: Uses in Education and Business, 04/08/2011, during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011. Israel Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV6qJmGaMU8 Presentations 2011 Achal Prabhala, Mohau, Shijualex, Mayur, Asaf Bartov, People are Knowledge, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011. Israel http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/People_are_Knowledge Presentations 2011 Iolanda Pensa and Isla Haddow-Flood, WikiAfrica: Call for last mile operators, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011. Israel http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/WikiAfrica:_Call_for_last_mile_operators Presentations 2011 Dror Kamir, Going to Africa, session Global South activities, 05/08/2011 (video), during Wikimania 2011, Haifa, Israel, 4-11/08/2011. Israel http://wikimania2011.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/Going_to_Africa Event 2011 Arabic Wikipedia Roundtable, Doha, Qatar, October 2011. Qatar http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_–_final_report#Preparation Mobile 2011-10 Launch of Wikipedia Zero. Wikimedia Mani Pande, Wikipedia at no data cost is appealing to mobile readers in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 19/02/2012. Amit Kapoor, The countries in which mobile matters most in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 20/12/2012. Events 2012 Wikimedia Education. Training in Cairo Egypt http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education_Portal http://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cairo_Pilot_–_final_report Cairo pilot Languages 2012 The project Wikimedia Indigenous Languages is launched on meta. Meta Wikimedia Indigenous Languages Projects 2012 First Wikipedian in residence in Africa; Francis Awinda is the Wikipedian in residence at the Africa Centre in Cape Town to support to WikiAfrica. South Africa Projects 2012 Launch of the WikiAfrica Incubator. Wikipedia http://www.wikiafrica.it/wiki/WikiAfrica_Incubator Projects 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Ghana. Ghana Projects 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments organised in South Africa. South Africa Matthew Roth, Wiki Loves Monuments 2012: the South African finalists in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 30/11/2012. Projects 2012 Wiki Loves Monuments organised in Kenya. Kenya Zoe Bernard, Wiki Loves Monuments 2012: the Kenyan finalists, in Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 22/11/2012. Projects 2012 Wikimedia France launches Afripédia. France w:fr:Projet:Projet_Afripédia http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia http://www.bulletin.auf.org/index.php?id=1336 https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/28/afripedia-collaboration-expands-offline-wikipedia-in-africa. Projet_Afripédia Projects 2012 In June Afripedia provides offline access to Wikipedia at the Maison des Savoirs, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso w:fr:Projet:Projet_Afripédia http://www.wikimedia.fr/afripedia; http://www.bulletin.auf.org/index.php?id=1336; https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/06/28/afripedia-collaboration-expands-offline-wikipedia-in-africa. Projects 2012 List of the institutions involved by WikiAfrica within Share Your Knowledge (2011-2012) in contributing to African contents on Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects. Wikimedia List of the institutions involved Mobile 2012 Partnership between Wikimedia Foundation and Orange mobile phone company within the frame of Wikipedia Zero project; the company provides access to Wikipedia for free on mobile phones in Africa and Middle East. Wikimedia * Amit Kapoor, Wikipedia Zero grows readership in Africa and Asia in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 29/10/2012. Projects 2012 November 2012: WikiAfrica reaches its 30,000 milestone. Wikimedia Events 2012 Yoruba Edition - Jimmy Wales Prize at Wikimania 2012 in Washington DC. Wikipedia Projects 2012 WikiAfrica Cameroon (2012-2013) is promoted by doual'art in collaboration with Orange Foundation, Orange Foundation Cameroon, lettera27 and the Africa Centre. Cameroon Guillaume Goursat, WikiAfrica project welcomes and trains Cameroonians to contribute to Wikimedia sites in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 15/03/2013. Projects 2012 Start-up of the project WikiAfrica Primary School. Feasibility study focussed on Wikipedia African languages editions, Italy, Cameroon and South Africa. Wikimedia Events 2012 Wikipedian in residence training course, Milan, 03-05/2012. Italy Wikipedian in residence training course Presentations 2012 Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda). Nigeria Presentations 2012 Presentation of WikiAfrica at the Lagos Black Heritage Festival (Francis Awinda). Nigeria Presentations 2012 Isla Haddow-Flood, A mutually beneficial partnership: Wikipedia and Africa, session WikiCulture and Community I, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012. USA http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_mutually_beneficial_partnership_:_Wikipedia_and_Africa Presentations 2012 Iolanda Pensa, The Power of Wikipedia: Legitimacy and Territorial Control, session GLAM II, 12/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012. USA http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_Power_of_Wikipedia:_Legitimacy_and_Territorial_Control Presentations 2012 David Mugo Kariithi, The African Story, session WikiCulture and Community XI: Small Languages, 14/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012. USA http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/The_African_Story Presentations 2012 Meetup African language Wikipedias, 15/07/2012, during Wikimania 2012, Washington DC, 12-15/07/2012. USA http://wikimania2012.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meetups/AfrophoneWikis#Un-meetup Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny in Cocody (Ivory Coast) thanks to Afripedia Project. Côte d'Ivoire Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Events 2012 First international training organized by Afripedia, Université de Cocody, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, 5-9/11/2012. The participants of the training are around 15 people working in the francophones digital campus (Campus Numériques Francophones), librarians and archivists from around 12 francophone West African countries; the participants will learn of to edit Wikipedia and how to use the documentation and the offline Wikipedia for leaning and teaching activities. Côte d'Ivoire Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of N’Djamena thanks to Afripedia Project. Chad Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the University of Nouakchott thanks to Afripedia Project. Mauritania Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the University and the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Niamey thanks to Afripedia Project. Niger Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Bamako thanks to Afripedia Project. Mali Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Dakar thanks to Afripedia Project. Senegal Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Offline 2012 Wikipedia offline available at the Campus Numérique francophone (CNF — French-speaking digital campus) of Ouagadougou thanks to Afripedia Project. Burkina Faso Adrienne Alix, Afripedia project increasing off-line access to Wikipedia in Africa in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Events 2012 WikiAfrica workshop during the Festival of African cinema of Córdoba in collaboration with the University of Cadiz and Wikimedia Spain. Spain Events 2012 Training at the Médéa University within the Arabic Language Initative. Algeria Haitham Shammaa, Algerian university students contribute their first Wikipedia articles in "WIkimedia Foundation Blog", 11/05/2012. Mobile 2013 Agreement between Wikimedia Foundation and the company VimpelCom (Wikipedia Zero) - in Africa, Algeria, Burundi, Zimbabwe and Central African Republic. Wikimedia https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/VimpelCom_partners_with_the_Wikimedia_Foundation. Amit Kapoor, VimpelCom partnership grows the reach of Wikipedia Zero to 330 million mobile users in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 24/01/2013. Events 2013 Wikipedia training in Gogabis, capital of Omaheke Region. Namibia Peter Gallert, Teaching rural teachers in Namibia how to edit Wikipedia, in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog, 02/04/2013. Projects 2013 WikiAfrica Cameroon established an Espace WikiAfrica (WikiAfrica Hub) in Douala c/o doual'art and with the support of the Orange Foundation. Cameroon Guillaume Goursat, WikiAfrica project welcomes and trains Cameroonians to contribute to Wikimedia sites in "Wikimedia Foundation Blog", 15/03/2013.