Wikimedia ZA
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Mission Statement
Wikimedia ZA is the national open knowledge charity and non-profit membership organisation that supports and promotes Wikipedia and its sister projects, such as Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons, in all South African languages.
About This Cause
Wikimedia South Africa is a not-for-profit membership organisation that exists to actively participate in knowledge dissemination and the promotion of access for all to free knowledge. Both as in free of cost and as in free speech. The organisation also exists to promote the contribution of free knowledge by anyone to the body of free knowledge held on the internet. This includes, but is not limited to, access to the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia as well as to sister projects such as Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata and many others. The chapter's activities include supporting volunteer chapter members in activities to grow and contribute to these free knowledge projects as well as encouraging members of the public to make likewise contributions and so grow the volunteer contributing community. This involves running events that support the growth of the community of volunteers that participate in the free knowledge movement and that grow the body of free knowledge that is freely accessible to the public. Activities are either done by the volunteer community that forms the base of our membership or are done by appointed administrative representative(s) on behalf of the organisation. The chapter members elect a board of trustees on an annual basis to direct the day-to-day activities of the organisation. These trustees are elected from the community of volunteer chapter members and perform their tasks on behalf of the organisation as unpaid volunteers in service of the free knowledge mission. The scope of Wikimedia South Africa's activities is primarily focused on activities in South Africa, secondarily focused on supporting free knowledge movement in the rest of Africa, and thirdly focused on supporting the free knowledge movement in the rest of the world. Wikimedia South Africa is a non-partisan non-political organisation that operates within the prescripts of the South African bill of rights. The main object of the Wikimedia ZA is: To support a vibrant multilingual and multicultural content community that generates and disseminates content that is used and understood by local and global community. In doing so, the project will provide a channel for communication between the Wikimedia community, other free culture and open software communities, and institutions and repositories that are the guardians of local content, with goal to further awareness and understanding of the Wikimedia projects; and ultimately to ensure access to knowledge for all South Africans. Other Objectives include: To develop and support the South African Wikimedia Communities To protect, preserve and promote local cultures, other African Wikimedia communities To support and facilitate the sharing of knowledge in all South African languages, thus contributing to the development of local language on Wikimedia; To spread awareness of the Wikimedia projects as a significant resource within universities, archives, museums and other relevant communities, and to also actively engage with them; and Act as the conduit between editors, writers and specialists within the community to support the growth and sustainability of high quality local content.