Event:WikiData for African Sports Personnel: Bridging Africa Sports Knowledge Gaps

Project Overview

WikiData for African Sports Personnel: Bridging Africa Sports Knowledge Gaps aims to improve the representation of the African Sports Professionals on wiki data. This project will equip participants / contributors both old and new with basic knowledge and practical skills required to create and improve Wiki Data items, such as adding values, references, qualifier statement etc in accordance with the Wikimedia policies for African Athletes, coaches, officials, sport administrators, Analysts and sport Writers. We will be adding biographical information, affiliations, and awards from reliable sources. This will help to increase the visibility of African Sport professionals, improve data quality that can be reuse across other Wikimedia sister-projects. We will be training, Sport Writers Association of Nigeria (SWAN), Akwa Ibom State Chapter, members of the Wikimedia user group Nigeria-Akwa Ibom network, and other Sports Enthusiasts to help in bridging the systemic knowledge gaps, promote open access to reliable sports data and bring the sports personnel to limelight in Africa.

Work List

Find the List of sport personale and sports institution you can work on using the links below:

• List of African Athletics Championships records
• African Women Footballers if the year
• List of Stadiums in Africa

• List of African Games Medalists in athletics (Men)

• List of African Games Medalists in athletics (women)

• List of African Youth best in athletics

• African Game Medalist in Athletics

Organizers

• Andikan Eduok - Facilitator
• TessiDon - Project Lead
• Utibe Noah Silas - Technical Supporter