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Wikipedia is expanding in Africa. The founder Jimmy Wales has big ambitions for the developing world according to this BBC article Article. And why is that? Well a continent that has with 53 countries, more than 2000 estimated Languages spoken needs to be considered and given attention on Wikipedia. I think its very wise that Jimmy has announced this move. Not only this expansion will bring an enormous value on content management and archive for Africa but it will help African people to move from an oral tradition to online written tradition. Africa is content, African people can take this opportunity to write world class stories about their continent, re -brand it and make contents more credible and accurate. They are no many African leaders biographies, stories on Wikipedia, the one you read is not written by African people or has a little African input. Real stories needs to start emerging, and I think Wikipedia can collaborate with Africans to make this happen. African People are today using the clouds to make themselves heard. This Wiki addition is just awesome.
This is an excellent move!
Thank you Jimmy and Wikipedia!
From @mjamme!
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Interesting article! You talk about Africans effecting positive change
Adrian
Truly excellent! And a great opportunity for communities across the continent to gather in schools and community centres – wherever there is a connected computer – to have the elders recount the history and the youngsters capture it into the ‘Net as a series of wikis.
Peter Lobo
Despite your interesting article I have to put a clear comment: Is Africa a dying continent? The nightmare of hungry people, killing machines and war seems to be endless. I´s hard to listen to the news without having the feeling that Africa is the worst place in the world. So good you speak about it. But will it really change? We can only leave our whishes for the moment, as long as african tribal wars are more important for the people there than the nucelar weapons of US.