{"id":1131,"date":"2013-05-26T20:42:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=1131"},"modified":"2013-05-26T20:42:06","modified_gmt":"2013-05-26T18:42:06","slug":"wiki-cape-town-joe-slovo-and-a-storyteller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=1131","title":{"rendered":"Wiki Cape Town, Joe Slovo and a storyteller"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was a Cape Town Wikimedia meetup this week, and I got to meet a couple of new people. Victor<\/a>, a Wikimedia storyteller from San Francisco, is in Cape Town, mainly to document the inspiring story of a school in Joe Slovo Park<\/a> that have successfully lobbied FNB Connect for free access to Wikipedia pages. A few people from Wikimedia ZA will be going to the school this week to tell people more about the project, and teach people to edit.<\/p>\n

I also finally got to meet Dumisane Ndubane, who’s the president of Wikimedia South Africa<\/a>. We’ve interacted online for quite a long time, so it was great to meet in person. Dumisane lives in Jhb and is passing through Cape Town after coming back from the Chapter’s Conference in Milan<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Oarabile Mudongo was also there, one of the few active Tswana editors. He’s hoping to get a Botswana Chapter started. Here’s a great video of Oarabile speaking about the impact Wikipedia has had on his life.<\/p>\n