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WikiProject WikiFundi

WikiFundi received the Open Infrastructure Award from OE Global in 2021

The WikiFundi is a software that provides off-line editing environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment. WikiFundi allows for training and contribution when technology, access and electricity fail or are not available at all. It enables individuals, groups and communities to learn how to edit Wikipedia or Vikidia, and to work on articles collaboratively. Once completed and connected to the internet, these articles can be uploaded to Wikipedia.

How WikiFundi can help you ?

WikiFundi has been designed to facilitate three distinct sectors:

  • Education : as an easy-to-use teaching tool for schools and education programmes to teach how to read and analyse Wikipedia or Vikidia articles, or to teach how to create and contribute, transferring digital and academic skills. There are resources in the pack to assist students and teachers.
  • Outreach: as a tool that facilitates usergroups and volunteers when building the Wikimedia movement by providing a way to collectively edit in offline situations. RThere are resources are included in the package to assist Wikimedia leads.
  • Entrepreneurship : as a simple wiki platform used by individuals or small groups of digitally skilled entrepreneurs in poorly connected areas to create CVs, business plans, take meeting notes, produce reports etc..

For up-to-date info, check out m:WikiFundi

History of the project

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Poster presented during Wikimania 2018
The WikiFundi website: http://www.wikifundi.org

The WikiPack Africa Project is a m:WikiAfrica project launched in 2016. It amalgamates:

  • the coding of a software, WikiFundi, that provides off-line editing environment that mimics the Wikipedia environment.
  • the creation of action packs for use by local Wikimedia chapters, user groups or isolated individuals in Africa, and
  • a Wikipedia Writing Contest that run in African Schools, WikiChallenge African Schools

It rolled out in two phases :

  • Phase 1 involved the creation of the Wikipack Africa. Wikipack Africa is a digital kit located via a local network device (Raspberry PI). The local network device provides access to an off-line editing platform (WikiFundi) that mimics Wikipedia, and provides related materials and additional OER resources. The Wikipack Africa will both facilitate the outreach work of Wikimedia chapters, User Group and individuals, and encourage the growth of digital skills and content contribution by teachers and students across Africa.
  • Phase 2 featured a writing contest, the #WikiChallenge African Schools used the WikiFundi software to facilitate an entertaining, powerful, collaborative and interactive content creation competition between schools in Guinée, Mali, Tunisia, and Madagascar.

The project has been conceptualised and conceived by Florence Devouard and Isla Haddow-Flood.
The project is run in partnership with Wikimedia CH and has the support of Fondation Orange and has been primarily implemented by Florence, Isla and Emmanuel Engelhart from May 2016 until Spring 2018.
The project proposal, its documentation and its outcomes are under a CC BY SA 4.0 licence.

The second version of the project launched early 2018. It was carried by Anthere (Florence Devouard) and Isla from the Wiki in Africa association and was supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.

A third version of the software is under work in 2021. The French and English versions are updated and the navigation in the software improved. A brand new language is added : Spanish. It is carried by Anthere (Florence Devouard), Renaud Gaudin from Kiwix and some Spanish editors. It is supported by Wikimedia CH. All details about this version at m:WikiFundi/2021.

Read more on meta : m:Wikipack Africa and m:WikiFundi

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FRENCH VERSION : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiFundi/Contenu
SPANISH VERSION : m:WikiFundi/2021

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