Open GLAM Africa/Projects

Open GLAM Africa

Promoting GLAM projects in Africa    

[Website: #OGA] · [<https://www.openglamafrica.org/]    

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Wiki Herbal Medicine Project (WHMP)

This intends to work with Herbal Medicine practitioners and connect with Wikimedia affiliates to identify and document Medicinal Herbs to enrich Wikimedia projects with freely licensed content, e.g., photos, audiovisuals, texts, etc.

Goal

To identify and document medicinal Herbs to enrich Wikimedia projects with freely licensed content.

Focuses

1. Build a repository of audiovisual files, images, etc, of medicinal herbs
2. Identity and partner with researchers, practitioners, and mission-aligned organizations within the field of herbal medicine across the globe.
3. Organise regular activities that help to bridge the identified knowledge gap in this field. e.g., Transl-a-thon, photo walks, etc
4. And any other activities intend to support the overal objective.

Partners

1. Wikimedians Yoruba User Group
2. Wikimedia User Group Nigeria

Technical advisors

Proposed Partners

1. Wiiki Med Foundation