WikiAfrica Art encourages the expansion of African artists and African art on Wikipedia. By linking existing networks and supporting new analogue and digital nets, WikiAfrica Art facilitates the production and editing of articles on artists, curators, critics, collectors, artworks, galleries, biennales, art spaces and museums. WikiAfrica Art wants to activate artists, students, experts and cultural institutions.
The WikiAfrica Art project encourages the production and upload of site-specific artworks, quotations, books, essays, audio files, videos and images on all the different Wikimedia projects, in every language. Create new articles for WikiAfrica Art!
Articles needing expansion
WikiAfrica has seen that the following pages are stubs and need expanding. Please feel free to add to the list; and add your knowledge of these subjects to these areas.
WikiAfrica has identified that the following artists, artworks or art subjects are not yet on Wikipedia. Please feel free to add to the list, and to help expand WikiAfrica and the information on literature in Africa by creating an article on the following:
WikiAfrica Art invites artists to produce a site-specific artwork for Wikipedia.
How to participate
To participate, please directly upload your work onto Wikimedia Commons writing your name and “WikiAfrica Art - A site-specific artwork for Wikipedia" in the description space; please select the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike. The image you donate will enrich the open documentation of multilingual Wikipedia. See also the Wikipedia chart about copyright.
Click on Wikimedia Commons.
Create an account on Commons, click on the Log in, in the upper right corner.
On the left of the toolbox, click on Upload file.
Click on the appropriate link: It is entirely my own work.
Write a good description of the contents of the file and select a Free Content license for your work.
Write WikiAfrica Art - A site-specific artwork for Wikipedia" in the description space.
WikiAfrica supported the first edition of the Digital Art Festival AfroPixel, organised by the association "Kër Thiossane, Villa pour l'Art et le Multimédia" on multimedia art and free software, event that took place during the Dakar Biennal, Dak'art, May 2008 1st-18th. During the event, WikiAfrica Art was launched and the art critic Elio Grazioli introduced questions about free sharing of artworks on the net: An artwork for Wikipedia: a free artwork? What artwork for the web?
In 2007 WikiAfrica Art supported Ars&Urbis international Workshop at Douala and the publication Douala in Translation promoted by Doual'Art Art Center in collaboration with iStrike Foundation and Fondazione lettera27. During the literature festival at Mantova 2007 the curator Simon Njami, the artist Bili Bidjocka and the cultural producer Sylviane Diop gave space to Contemporary Art inside WikiAfrica Workshop.
WikiAfrica Art and WikiAfrica Literature also supports Chimurenga Library, an online archiving project that profiles independent pan African paper periodicals from around the world. The South African Chimurenga magazine, promoter of the project, involves artists and intellectuals to collaborate with videos and texts. Chimurenga Library, together with lettera27, attended at the Cape Town Book Fair 2008 with all documentation able to tell the strength of these historical reviews that still belong to the present.
Borders/Confini is a project, born in 2008, which aims to collect stories, memories and testimonies on migration, to document the African routes and border migrants and to provide information on their processes and outcomes, using the procedures at Wikipedia and the participation network on Internet. Borders/Confini aims to create a network of human resources capable of enhancing cooperation and sharing knowledge amongst all the organizations, operators and people involved in migration processes.[1]
