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funders • partners • allies • collaborators
HOW WE WORK
HOW WE WORK
Wiki In Africa is a small team that works collaboratively with NGOs, civil society organisations and Wikimedia volunteer groups to bring projects to life across Africa and beyond.
TOGETHER FORWARD
TOGETHER FORWARD
We believe that change does not happen in isolation. That together, collectively, we can give a voice and a platform to shift and forever change the single story of Africa.
COLLECTIVE PURPOSE
COLLECTIVE PURPOSE
has the transformative power to overcome the digital skills divide and provide free access to decolonised knowledge, information, and education in all its forms
Grant Funding
Grant Funding
Wiki In Africa is extraordinarily grateful for the following funding. For more about our Funders, Parners and Collaborating Communities please view our website.
Wikimedia Foundation Funding
Wikimedia Foundation Funding
Wiki in Africa is currently under a one-year General Support Grant.
Previous grant funding from Wikimedia Foundation includes:
2023-2025:
Wikimedia Community Fund: Wiki in Africa Multi-Year General Support 2023-25
Year 1 Reports:
Year 2 Reports:
Year 3 Reports:
2025 (Year 3): Wiki In Africa’s Report on Activities, Stories and Impact during Year 3
General Support 2023-25: 2023 (Year 3) Narrative Report (to be linked)
General Support 2023-25: 2023 (Year 3) Financial Report (to be linked)
2021: Simple APG grant 2021
2020: Simple APG grant 2020
Project and Rapid Grants (prior to 2020)
Access all WMF Grant reports since 2017 here.
2018: Wiki Loves Africa 2018
2018: WikiFundi 2.0
2017: Wiki Loves Africa
Event Scholarship
Grant Funding Beyond Wikimedia
Grant Funding Beyond Wikimedia
2017- : WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique funded by Fondation Orange
2023: Africa Environment WikiFocus – an African Knowledge Initiative funded by the African Union and WMF
2021-22: Inspiring Open podcast series funded by the Goethe Institut’s International Relief Fund for Culture 2021.
2020: French-language Introduction to Copyright Teaching Resources funded by the Creative Commons’ Education Platform
2020: Descendents of Slavery – a Finding GLAM collaboration with Simon’s Town Museum, South Africa, funded by Wikimedia Sweden
2019: ISA Tool funded as a GLAM pilot for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons
2017: WikiAfrica Schools funded by the Moleskine Foundation
2017: WikiPack Africa: WikiFundi & WikiChallenge African Schools funded by the Orange Foundation
2016: Wiki Loves Women funded by the Goethe Institut
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