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ACWP

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The AfroCreatives WikiProject (ACWP) seeks to support and mobilize African cultural and creative industry stakeholders and cultural enthusiasts from across Africa and the diaspora to enhance knowledge on Wikipedia about the continent’s creative economy and cultural contributions.

Only an estimated 1.5% of Wikipedia’s contributors and 15% of its contributions originate from the continent, and just 5.5% of all geotagged Wikipedia articles across all languages are related to Africa. (Wikimedia Community Insights Report 2020)

ACWP was launched with an initial focus on African Film and Television, serving as a foundation for learning and future growth across other cultural and creative industries. In November 2025, ACWP is expanding its scope to include African literature, followed by further expansion into African fashion in 2026.

ACWP is spearheaded by [https://www.theafricanarrative.org/ The Africa Narrative (TAN)], a non-profit dedicated to building capacity in the African creative economy and amplifying the global visibility of African cultural soft power.

AfroCreatives WikiProject+film is the inaugural effort of AfroCreatives WikiProject. By mobilizing African film creatives, professionals, experts, and film enthusiasts, ACWP+film aims to measurably enhance information on Wikipedia about the art and industry of African film, including:

• The history of African cinema
• Biographies of notable African creatives and professionals that span the industry
• Notable African movies and television series
• African studios, streaming platforms, awards, festivals, guilds, film schools, and other institutions that form the industry ecosystem
• Developments in animation, AR, VR, and other technologies shaping the African film industry
• Film financing, government policies, skills development, and other key industry issues

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Don’t know where to start contributing to existing articles on African Film and TV?

Start with your country of interest and then select one of the tasks using the Petscan Tool.You can also [https://bambots.brucemyers.com/cwb/bycat/AfroCreatives.html click here] to search using the CleanUp tool and search by category.

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Want to contribute new articles related to African Film and TV? Start your search by country (below) using automatically-generated lists created with Wikidata of notable subjects that don’t have a Wikipedia entry.

You can also explore this curated “red list” of missing articles on industry creatives, professionals, films, TV programs, organizations, and other various topics.

Feel free to add to the list, just make sure the topic meets Wikipedia notability requirements!

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Can't decide? Go with the luck of the draw: Wikipedia:WikiProject AfroCreatives/Missing articles by country/{{#invoke:random. Click {{purge|here}} for another dice roll!

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A stub is any article that has only basic information while omitting important aspects of the topic. There is no exact size that defines a stub, but most articles under 250–300 words are considered stubs. Articles with more than 500 words are rarely stubs. You can identify and expand stubs into useful articles by first searching by country.

Note: stubs are often tagged with a stub template at the bottom of the article; when the article is expanded, this template should be removed

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See what African film and TV-related articles are getting the most attention from Wikipedia readers

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Need a refresher or quick tutorial on how to do some basic and essential tasks? Here’s a good place to start.

• Avoid and Manage Getting Blocked thumb
• Add/Expand film and tv-related infoboxes
• How to locate existing African Film and TV Wikipedia articles
• Create a stub article
• Add a stub template to an existing article
• Add a citation
• Add a category
• Add an image to infoboxes and articles
• Use Petscan to find an issue
• Create external links to film databases
• Upload film and tv related media Wikimedia Commons (to be used on Wikimedia){{clr}}

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