User:Islahaddow

I live in Cape Town, South Africa and am a proudly African Wikipedian. I co-lead the open movement advocacy organisation Wiki In Africa in support of the WikiAfrica movement that develops and grows the open movement across Africa.

I have been a member of the Simple APG committee (since May 2017), previously served on the GAC committee, and was an Advocacy Working Group member during the Movement Strategy 2030 process from 2018 until end of 2019.

With Anthere and under the banner of the Wiki In Africa NPO organisation, I co-lead the annual Wiki Loves Africa competition, the Wiki Loves Women project, and the WikiFundi offline editing solution that has given rise to the WikiChallenge African Schools and, from 2017-8, WikiAfrica Schools.

For more information on my Wikiwork go to my Userpage on Meta. To see all the images, videos and other cool stuff I have uploaded, head to my Userpage on Commons.

Here is a partial list of the things I have been working on since 2016:

• Wiki Loves Women
• Wiki Loves Africa 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017
• WikiFundi
• WikiChallenge African Schools, and
• WikiAfrica Hour - a monthly live programme focused on sharing insights into and for the Wikimedia community in Africa.
• WikiAfrica Heritage - a GLAM training project pilot.

• Several outreach activities across Africa.

Past projects since 2011 have included:

• WikiAfrica Schools
• Wikipediaproject WikiAfrica portal and WikiAfrica Wikipedia article
• m:Wikimania 2018 host local communications liaison

• Wikipack Africa
• Wiki Loves Women Writing Contest
• #OpenAfrica15
• WikiAfrica Incubator
• #OpenAfrica14 Training Course and Toolkits
• Kumusha Takes Wiki
• Wikipedians in Residence Africa
• Kumusha Bus
• Share Your Knowledge
• Wiki Indaba 2017 and 2014
• Wikimania Bid Cape Town 2015
• Wiki Loves Monuments South Africa in 2012 and 2013
• Curate Africa and Public Culture Course at UCT in 2013