As one of the world’s top 10 most visited websites, Wikipedia is a source of knowledge for billions of people across the world.
Anusha Alikhan, senior director of communications at the Wikimedia Foundation, said the campaign will invite these content creators to explore Wikipedia as a place to “freely share knowledge, and introduce them to its model of open collaboration, which allows anyone, anywhere to add well-sourced, neutral content to the site”.
Alikhan said out of more than 280,000 global volunteer contributors to Wikipedia, only 1.5% of these editors are based in Africa, and an even smaller percentage are South African. “South Africans have a role to play in shaping this global resource, telling their own histories, and creating content about SA by South Africans,” said Alikhan.
Amogelang Maledu, an art practitioner interested in popular culture who will share a video essay reflecting her work on sound cultures in Southern Africa and their influences;
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