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Africa Wikipedian Alliance Upcoming community Events
[edit]Date | Community | Topic/Theme | type of Event | Trainer/Speaker/ Facilitator (s) | Registration Link/ Zoom Link |
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Anglophone | Advance Wikisource training Part 1& 2 | Monthly Meet-up |
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Registration form/ |
Mardi 13 Mai à 13h00 UTC | Francophone | Introduction à Mediawiki | AWA Francophone meetup | Nkolo Ntyam, Wikimédien (Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group) | registration form / Zoom link |
Africa Wikipedian Alliance community Past Events
[edit]Date | Community | Topic/Theme | type of Event | Trainer/Speaker/Facilitator (s) | Recording | Courses/Slide |
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30th April 11:00 am UTC | Anglophone | Introduction to Solution Journalism for all | Quarterly Conference |
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session recording | photos |
Mer. 23 avril (13h UTC) | Francophone | Introduction à Wikiquote | Monthly meetup | Bile Rene F. | session recording | session slide |
Wed. 9th April (1:00pm UTC) | Anglophone | Wikipedia: Understanding Notability Guidelines with practical examples | Monthly meetup | Muib Shefiu, Founder Afrodemics | session recording | session slide |
Jeu. 20 mars 2025 (12:30 UTC) | Francophone | Méta Wiki: Comment créer des navigateurs de Portail | Monthly meetup | Kano TchapiUsername : KaniBeat
Wikimedia République du Congo |
session recording | session slide |
Fri. 14th Mar. 2025 (1:00pm UTC) | Anglophone | Introduction to Wikiquote | Monthly meetup | OTENG TIRO SANDRA KOLOBETSO Wikimedia Community User Group Botswana | session recording | session slide |
Fri. 14th Feb. 2025 (1:00pm UTC) | Anglophone | Wikiversity: Workshop to Create the Africa Course | Monthly meetup | Mariam Titilope Olugbodi (Ph.D.)
Staff Adviser, KWASU Wikimedia Fan Club, Nigeria |
session recording | session slide |
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Francophone | Améliorer l'impact grâce à l'expérience : Leçons des boursiers et collaborateurs de l'AWA | AWA Francophone Quarterly Conference |
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Anglophone | The Importance of Open Source to Human Knowledge | AWA Anglophone Quarterly Conference |
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Francophone | Introduction à WikiSource et son utilité | Rencontre |
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Francophone | Wikinews : Guide pratique pour créer et améliorer des articles sur Wikinews | Rencontre |
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Anglophone | Introduction to MediaWiki | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Anglophone | Wikivoyage: Practical Workshop to Enhance Entries | Bi-weekly Webinar |
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Webinar recording | |
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Anglophone | Wikidata: Practical Workshop to Improve Items | Bi-weekly Webinar |
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Webinar recording | |
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Francophone | Renforcer le cadre africain au sein des communautés Wikimedia | conférence trimestrielle |
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Enregistrement de la conférence | |
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Anglophone & Francophone | How to Tackle Mis/Disinformation on African Content on Wikipedia | WikiIndaba 2024 |
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Francophone | Wikivoyage : Guide pratique pour améliorer les articles | Rencontre |
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Enregistrement du webinaire | |
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Anglophone | Wikisource: Identifying Books and Publications for Documentation | Bi-weekly Webinar |
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Webinar recording | |
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Anglophone | Strengthening the African Framework within Wikimedia Communities | AWA Anglophone Quarterly Conference |
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Conference Recording | Photos |
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Francophone | Introduction to Wikivoyage | Meet-up |
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Introduction à WikiVoyage 101 recording | |
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Anglophone | performing major edits on WikiSource | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Performing major edits on Wikisource | Performing major edits on Wikisource |
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Anglophone | Introduction to WikiSource | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Introduction to Wikisource | |
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Anglophone | Performing major edits on Wikivoyage | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Webinar recording | |
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Anglophone | Introduction to Wikivoyage | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Webinar recording | Introduction to Wikivoyage |
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Francophone | Introduction to WikiNews | Meet-up |
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Francophone | AWA Community Bi-annual Townhall Session | TownHall meeting |
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Webinar recording | Town-Hall slide with mentimeter link |
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Anglophone | AWA Community Bi-annual Townhall Session | TownHall meeting |
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Webinar recording | Town-Hall slide with mentimeter link |
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Anglophone | Creating courses on Wikiversity | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Webinar recording | |
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Anglophone | Introduction to Wikiversity | Bi-weekly webinar |
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Webinar recording | Training Slide |
Tues, 11th June | Francophone | Introduction à Wikimedia Commons | Meet-up |
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webinar recording | Training Slide |
Thursday,March 21 2024 | Francophone | create a Wikipedia article from Zero. | Meetup | Ronny Ezin/Christelle Pandja | Webinar recording | Training slide |
Wednesday,March 13 2024 | Anglophone | Performing edits on Wikipedia III | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Bukola James | Webinar recording | Training slide |
Wednesday,Febraury 21 2024 | Anglophone | Performing edits on Wikipedia II | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Yusuf Adamu/Bukola James | Webinar Recording | Training slide |
Tuesday,Febraury 13 2024 | Francophone | Making edits on Wikipedia I | Meetup | Alfred Nadjere / Christelle Pandja | Webinar recording | Training slide |
Wednesday,Febraury 07 2024 | Anglophone | Performing edits on Wikipedia I | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Muib Shefiu/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Training slide |
Wednesday,January 24 2024 | Francophone | Peer to Peer session | Meetup | Christelle Pandja/Bukola James | Meetup recording | |
Wednesday,January 17 2024 | Anglophone | Getting Started on Wikipedia:Joining Wikipedia, creating a userpage, and outreachdashboard | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Miracle James/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Training slide |
Wednesday, December 6th 2023 | Francophone | Establish better collaboration between African contributors | Conference |
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Conference Recording | Photos |
Tuesday, December 5th 2023 | Anglophone | Advancing the Africa Agenda among African Wikimedia Communities | Conference |
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Webinar Recording | Photos |
Wednesday, November 22 2023 | Anglophone | Introduction to Wikipedia and its Misconceptions | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Barakat Adegboye/Bukola James | Webinar Recording | |
Monday, 20 November 2023 | Francophone | Comment Éditer sur Wikipedia II | Meet-up | ArnoBOUJIKA / Christelle Pandja | meetup recordings | Trainer's Slide |
Thursday, 26 October 2023 | Francophone | Comment Éditer sur Wikipedia | Meet-up | Christelle Pandja/Bukola James | Meetup recordings | Trainer's Slide |
Wed, 25 October 2023 | Anglophone | Mastering Infoboxes & Enhancing Articles with short description | Bi-weekly Webinar | Daniel Obiokeke/Bukola James | Mastering Infoboxes & Enhancing Articles with short description | |
Fri, 13 October 2023 | Anglophone | Categorisation on Wiki | Bi-weekly Webinar | Iwuala Lucy/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Categorisation on Wiki |
Wed, 20 September 2023 | Anglophone | Customising Wiki page | Bi-weekly Webinar | Rhoda James/Bukola James | Webinar recordings | Customising Wiki page |
Tues,19 September 2023 | Francophone | Renforcer une présence africaine durable sur Wikipedia : Renforcement des capacités et approches collaboratives | Conference |
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enregistrement du webinaire | Photos |
Mon,18 September 2023 | Anglophone | Empowering a Sustainable African Presence on Wikipedia through Capacity Building and Collaborative Approaches | Conference |
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Conference Photos | |
Fri, 08 September 2023 | Anglophone | Customising your Wiki Userpage | Bi-weekly Webinar | James Popoola/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Creating and customising your Wiki Userpage |
22nd, August 2023 | Francophone | Do you want to become a travel guide for tourists? | Meet up | Allouche OBAME/ Christelle Pandja | Webinar recording | |
18th August 2023 | Anglophone | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Creating a list of articles using citation hunt tools | Precious Obiorah/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Creating a list of articles using citation hunt tools |
10th August 2023 | Fracophone | WiR Anglophone Onboarding Session | Onboarding | Christelle/ Bukola | slide | |
9th August 2023 | Anglophone | WiR Anglophone Onboarding Session | Onboarding | Bukola James/Christelle | Webinar recording | Slide |
3rd August 2023 | Anglophone | Using Petscan tool on Wikimedia projects | Bi-Weekly Webinar | Mohammed Hijjawi/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Using Petscan tool on Wikimedia projects |
20/07/2023 | Anglophone | Creating Wikistories on EduWiki newsletter | WiR Bi-Weekly Webinar | Ruby Brown/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Amplifying Eduwiki work through letters |
14/07/2023 | Francophone | Do you want to become a contributor on Wikipedia? | Meet up | Mbe Ndetatsin Landry/Christelle Pandja | Webinar recording in french | |
06/07/2023 | Anglophone | Unlocking the act of Storytelling using Wikimedia Diff | WiR Bi-Weekly Webinar | Chris Koerner/Bukola James | Webinar recording | Unlocking the act of Storytelling using Wikimedia Diff |
23/06/2023 | Anglophone | Enhancing African Representation on Wikipedia: Tackling the Content Deficit and Strategies for Progress | WiR Conference |
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16/5/2023 | Francophone | how to put an image on Wikicommons, Wikipedia, WikiData? | WiR Meetup | Azogbonon/Christelle | ||
15/5/2023 | Anglophone | how to organize working sessions on a Wikimedians project? | WiR Meetup | Ruby Brown/Bukola James | how to organize working sessions on a Wikimedians project? | |
24/03/2023 | Francophone | The lack of enough content about Africa on Wikipedia and how to deal with this challenge | WiR Conference | Christelle Pandja | ||
17/2/2023 | Francophone | How to be an effective editor on Wikipedia | WiR Meetup | Rene Bile/Christelle Pandja | ||
16/2/2023 | Anglophone | How to be an effective editor on Wikipedia | WiR Meetup | Winnie Kabintie/Christelle Pandja | ||
02/12/2022 | Anglo/Francophone | Mis/disinformation on Wikipedia | WiR Conference |
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18/10/2022 | Anglo/Francophone | Introduction to the Fact-checking | WiR Meetup | Cathy Wamaitha/ Jesse | ||
21/11/2022 | Anglo/Francophone | Introduction to the Fact-checking | WiR Meetup |
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List of Africa Wikipedian Alliance in Residence/Programs
[edit]N/A | AWA Inclusion and Climate Justice Project | Southern African Region | May 1st- 30th October 2025 |
N/A | AWA Digitalise Youth Project |
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May 1st- 30th October 2025 |
N/A | AWA Strengthening Resilient Information Ecosystems in West Africa (SRIEWA) Project |
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May 1st- 30th October 2025 |
N/A | EmpowerHer Edithathon 2024 | Regional (AU States) | 2024 |
Ayokanmi Oyeyemi | Climate Project | Nigeria | 2022 - 2023 |
Carol Mwaura | Climate Project | Kenya | 2022-2023 |
Marie Gaye | Climate Project | Senegal | 2022-2023 |
Reda Benkhadra | Climate Project | Kenya | 2022-2023 |
Bile René | Climate Project | Cameroon | 2023-2023 |
Raymond Chepkwony | Elections Project | Kenya | 2022-2023 |
Terry Boke | Elections Project | Kenya | 2022-2023 |