WikiIndaba conference 2018/Lists of ideas

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Here is a list of ideas of events that you'd like to see happening during the WikiIndaba conference 2018

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List of ideas

  • Wikimania 2018 discussion topics: this is a list of discussions we could have at Wiki Indaba that would support the theme for Wikimania in Cape Town.
  • Improving the awareness of Wikipedia in Africa, how to grow our audience in the continent?
  • Supporting African language Wikipedias, how to grow their editing communities and inform people about them?
  • African knowledge on Wikipedia, how to encourage more editors from Africa to edit African related content on Wikipedia?
  • African knowledge on Wikipedia, what areas of African knowledge are not adequately covered on Wikipedia and why?
  • What Africa related presentations and discussions to host at Wikimania 2018?
  • Changing the African perspective of volunteering!
  • Growing Wikipedia editing communities in Africa through academic institutions.
  • How to integrate the African University and to make credible the contents of Wikipedia with the University actors.
  • Best practices for retention of volunteer Wikimedians in various domains of contributions;
    • Technical contributions such as developers
    • Editors that write Wikipedia from Africa
    • Participants in Wikimedia User Groups (such as UG leaders etc)
  • Crafting organizational structures of Wikimedia User Groups to better manage the sharing of responsibilities and the growth the UG and its activities in general across the respective countries.

Visit

Visiting the Cape Angela point. Dyolf77 (talk) 21:53, 22 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]