I am eager to convene an editathon at the 2014 War Resisters International conference in Cape Town (4-8 July 2014).
Well, that never happened. Now, however (2016), I'm preparing to post an academic survey of Wireless Community Networks in Africa.
Now it's 2018 and I'm helping prepare to host this year's Wikimania. I have just submitted a dissertation about South Africa's Wikipedias to the University of Cape Town, and hope to present my work at Wikimania. Postscript: just got back from WMCon in Berlin; Wikimania preparations are hotting up (I also attended the Celtic Knot languages conference in Aberystwyth).
Remembering why I'm not that active editing Wikipedia: trigger-happy deleters who can't be bothered to respond to attempts to negotiate. However, I feel my best contribution is not in content creation, but in promoting access - both through promoting internet access (e.g. through community networks) and by promoting offline Wikipedia access (e.g. in set-top boxes).
Enjoying the online Celtic Knot under lockdown, and given the mission of Wikimedia-ZA to nurture local smaller language Wikis, have raised the idea that those languages should also benefit from the AI/machine-learning boom.
