WikiAfrica is an international movement across the African continent and beyond. It encourages individuals, interested groups and organisations to contribute online content about Africa by creating, updating or expanding articles about local communities, histories, peoples and innovations on the world’s most used encyclopaedia, Wikipedia.
In its various guises and hosted at several institutions (including Wiki In Africa, Lettera27, Africa Centre, Yorg, Short Story Day Africa and Wikimedia CH), the WikiAfrica movement has consistently instigated and led multi-faceted innovative projects. These projects have activated [WikiFundi: Wikimedia Projects] Wikimedia communities across Africa and driven content onto Wikipedia.
Over 2016-2021, the WikiAfrica projects guided by Wiki In Africa include Wiki Loves Women (in collaboration with the Goethe-Institut and Wikimedia Foundation), WikiAfrica Hour (A monthly vodcast), WikiPack Africa, WikiFundi and the WikiChallenge African Schools (funded by the Orange Foundation), Wikipedia Primary (funded by SUPSI), Wiki Loves Africa (funded by Wikimedia Foundation), WikiAfrica Schools (funded by the Moleskine Foundation) and WikiFundi 2.0 (funded by the Wikimedia Foundation).