Force-2017-Wikimania-in-Africa.md

About

This is a submission to the Force 2017 conference to be held on October 25-27 in Berlin.

Title

Wikimania in Africa - an opportunity for engaging communities of researchers, practitioners and Wikimedians

Type of activity

Session: 30-45 min time slot

Abstract

Africa is often neglected in scholarly discourse, be it as a source of expertise, ideas, and technology or as a topic for study. Wikimania - the annual meeting of the people behind Wikipedia and its sister projects - will take place in South Africa in July 2018, hosted by the University of Cape Town. In this session, we want to explore ways in which this event could be used to catalyze new interactions between researchers, practitioners and Wikimedians from Africa and around the world.

URL to existing project

https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/Force-2017-Wikimania-in-Africa.md (i.e. this page here on GitHub)

Format

Landscape mapping

Preferred length

60-75 min

Themes

• Increasing diversity
• New forms of communication
• Outreach

Force11 working groups (where applicable)

• Scholarly Commons Working Group

Presenters

• Daniel Mietchen, University of Virginia, http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9488-1870

Additional information

https://github.com/Daniel-Mietchen/events/blob/master/Force-2017-Wikimania-in-Africa.md

• session notes