Wikipedia:WikiProject WikiFundi

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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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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 [http://www.fondationorange.com/en 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 [http://www.wikiinafrica.org Wiki in Africa] association and was supported by the [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiInAfrica/WikiFundi 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

= News=

Recent news on meta : m:WikiFundi
October 2021: WikiFundi received the [https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/winners-of-the-open-assets-awards-2021-for-open-infrastructure/3174 Open Infrastructure] from Open Education Global Awards 2021
Spring 2021: the work on the new version starts. English and French will be minor updates mostly oriented toward improving the Offline Resources. Spanish version will be brand new !
November 2020: presentation of WikiFundi during the Open Education Global 2020 Conference. [https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/wikifundi-an-open-source-platform-to-learn-new-skills-and-collaborate-on-wikipedia-like-articles/396/5 Presentation and full record of the session]; [https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Education/News/January_2021/Open_Education_Global_2020_Conference Report on Edu Newsletter].
August 2019: presentation during poster session at Wikimania [https://wikimania.wikimedia.org/wiki/2019:Poster_session/WikiFundi_Poster_:_editing_Wikipedia_offline_across_Africa]
May 2019: presentation of WikiFundi and the WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique during the Creative Commons Summit
January 2019: release of an explainer video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzcyi9vi82Q&t=23s
December 2018 : [https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/98/185329.html a media article to get a full picture]
Novembre 2018: V2 release is officially out
October 2018: Presentation of WikiFundi during Wikiconvention francophone
July 2018: beta version of WikiFundi featured during Wikimania Cap Town in various panels and throughout the poster session :File:WikiFundi Generic Poster-A2.jpg
May 2018: [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2018/05/10/offline-access-wikipedia-wikifundi/ Exploring offline access to Wikipedia: WikiFundi, an editing tool for remote schools, by Anne Gomez, Wikimedia Foundation]
December 2017: new funding offered by Wikimedia Foundation for the new version of WikiFundi [https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/WikiInAfrica/WikiFundi]
September 2017 : [https://opensource.com/article/17/9/wikifundi-leader-florence-devouard Interview of Florence on Opensource.com]
Summer 2017 : le [https://fr.vikidia.org/wiki/Projet:WikiChallenge_Ecoles_d%27Afrique WikiChallenge Ecoles d'Afrique], a writing contest using WikiFundi is launched in 4 countries of French speaking Africa
March-July 2017 : distribution of the Wikipack (a distribution package constituted of raspberry PI + WikiFundi + resources)
March 2017 : [https://blog.wikimedia.org/2017/03/10/digest-wiki-fundi/ WikiFundi is mentionned on the Wikimedia Foundation blog]
January 2017: WikiFundi V1 is released
November 2016: the [https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/african-wikimedians/2016-November/000857.html call for interest] to receive a Wikipack is open. Applications [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScSUii3zFbwiYESbpT69-UMSBDHXloGdH64QNkI4QSK7DuN0w/viewform may be filed here]
October 2016: the WikiFundi website http://www.wikifundi.org is launched
September 2016 : the first version of WikiFundi is released (Wikipedia:WikiProject Wikipack Africa/FO Release) and is distributed on the Raspberries of the [http://www.fondationorange.com/Digital-schools-the-story-behind-the-project Fondation Orange Digital Schools Programme].
June 2016 : WikiFundi is in the works during the [http://www.kiwix.org/wiki/Hackathon_Wikimania_2016 Wikimania 2016 Hackathon]
May 2016 : funding of the Wikipack project is confirmed by Fondation Orange

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Report on GitHub : https://github.com/offspot/wikifundi

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