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AfroCreatives WikiProject

Jat AfroCreatives WikiProject jija yet á̱ li̱n a̱ma a̱wot á̱ tung á̱nietnghwut ma̱ng nkyang nfai ma̱ng a̱yaagwak-nta̱m dundung neet da̱ a̱ka̱vwuonta̱m taada ma̱ng mumwang nyian nkyang nfai Afi̱rika, mbeang á̱nietcat mban taada Afi̱rika ba, ba̱ jhyet a̱wot ba̱ mban lyen di̱ Wukipedia tazwa tungzwa nyian nkyang nfai Afi̱rika. Á̱ ku tyan nyia̱ á̱nietnjhyet Wukipedia 1.5% bya ma̱nyin ma̱ng 15% a̱mgba̱m nkyang nang á̱ jhyet a̱ja neet a̱ bai mi̱ Afi̱rika, ma̱nang 5.5% a̱mgba̱m a̱yaati̱kut geotagged mi̱ a̱mgba̱m lilyem bya byia̱ a̱meang ma̱ng Afi̱rika (ca̱caat ma̱ng Wikipedia Diversity Observatory).

(Wikimedia Community Insights Report 2020).

ACWP was launched with an initial focus on African Film and Television, serving as a foundation for learning and future growth across other cultural and creative industries. In 2026, ACWP is expanding its scope to include African fashion, literature, and photography, alongside film.

ACWP is spearheaded by The Africa Narrative (TAN), a non-profit working to empower African creatives and strengthen Africa's cultural soft power.

Ka̱la̱nda naat mbwuot

ACWP+film 2025 Edit-a-thon activities
In the lead up to the ACWP+film edit-a-thon campaign scheduled from 2nd August - 30th September, 2025, the following activities are scheduled:

Train-the-Trainer workshops

  • English: Saturday, 26th July
  • French: Saturday, 26th July
  • Arabic: Saturday, 26th July

Wikipedia workshops
All campaign participants are encouraged to attend a Wikipedia training workshop.

i. Online workshops:
The online workshop, Mastering the Essentials of Contributing Film & Television Content to Wikipedia, is offered in one format: It's split into two sessions over two days. To accommodate as many people as possible, including those from the diaspora, multiple workshops are scheduled.

ii. Local training sessions

  • Where: Cities across Africa (A list of participating local Wikimedia communities will be listed in July).
  • Dates: Starting in August
  • Language: Based on local context

ACWP+film 2025 Edit-a-thon

  • 2 Zwat A̱ni̱nai 2025—30 Zwat A̱kubunyiung 2025

More details

2026

ACWP Campaign

  • September: Month-long campaign covering African fashion, film, literature and photography.

ACWP Commons drive

4th quarter: Wikimedia Commons workshops aimed at cultural and creative industry stakeholders held on site at key events covering film, fashion, literature, and photography. Details forthcoming

Scope

AfroCreatives WikiProject +film

The inaugural focus of the AfroCreatives WikiProject was focused on African film with the aim to:

  • Build capacity within the African film industry to contribute knowledge to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects.
  • Increase African-generated content about the continent’s film sector on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects through a network of community organizers.
  • Generate awareness and interest among the general public on Wikipedia as a source of valuable information on the African film industry.
  • Use this first ACWP to learn how best to expand activities into other creative sectors.

ACWP+film launched its first campaign in July of 2022, featuring edit-a-thons in Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal. In 2024 the initiative expanded with a 16-country campaign in partnership with Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision Ouagadougou (FESPACO), Africa’s largest film festival, and other partners that included national film authorities, industry guilds and associations, and US embassies.

Key outcomes of the 2024 campaign included:

  • Number of organizing communities: 20 (from 16 African countries: Benin Republic, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, South Sudan, Togo, and Tanzania)
  • Number of events organized: 30
  • Number of editors: 229
  • Number of Wikipedia articles created: 620
  • Number of Wikipedia articles improved: 660
  • Number of Commons uploads: 293

In 2025, ACWP+film continued to expand its reach with a Wikipedia edit-a-thon campaign from 2 August to 30 September in over 2 dozen countries. [results forthcoming]

In 2026, ACWP activities—including its anchor campaign—will broaden its coverage of African cultural and creative industries to include fashion, literature, and photography, alongside film. The ACWP program will also launch a dedicated Commons drive in the fourth quarter.

The ACWP Commons drive will be carried out in collaboration with organizers of key cultural and creative industry events serving African fashion, film, literature and photography. The onsite workshops, targeted at creative industry stakeholders, aim to enrich the visibility of these industries through improved image representation on Wikipedia.

An October 2024 survey conducted by ACWP of over 2,580 articles of African actresses, actors, and directors on English Wikipedia found that:

  • Less than a third (29%) of articles have an image
  • 1 in 4 (43%) had a low-quality image
  • Almost a quarter (23%) have an image over 10 years old

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