It is important and necessary to improve the coverage of all countries
topics in Wikipedia.
My effort in English Wikipedia is on this path. Some years ago I started
adding Spanish municipalities, because I'm from Spain. Later, I started to
create lists and stubs on topics from other countries, sometimes African
ones, like museums in Lybia and similar stuff. Also, I have added stubs on
national archives and libraries from many countries. While I wrote that
stubs I used to think how many knowledge hold that institutions, which
until that moment were present in Wikipedia only as a red link, if any.
Some links:
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_museums_in_Angola (probably
incomplete list, see the navbox for more lists)
*
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_Angola (see navbox for
other national libraries)
I encourage you to create stubs on these topics and expand the coverage.
I enjoyed the article.
2014/1/3 phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Following a talk I gave at Northwestern University
this fall, a nice
little article about African-language Wikipedias appeared in the newsletter
of the Africana Libraries Newsletter:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libsalc/african/aln/ALN132.pdf (2nd page)
I'm especially pleased about this because I would love to see African
studies departments (and especially African language classes) to
incorporate contributing to Wikipedia into their curriculum, and I think
librarians are well-placed to encourage this and do the training. Thanks to
Marcia Tiede at Northwestern for writing the article.
best,
Phoebe
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