SBAbigstan
Stanley Boakye-Achampong works with AfLIA, the continental association of library and information institutions and professionals in Africa, where he leads research and communications. He has been contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects since 2020, and he’s especially interested in Wikidata because of his love for research and data. Stanley helps organize the African Librarians Week, which brings librarians together every year to add and improve references on Wikipedia as part of the #1Lib1Ref campaign. He has trained and supported many librarians across Africa to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata, and Wikimedia Commons. Stanley has also been part of several Wikimedia Foundation-funded projects run by AfLIA, including Wikipedia in African Libraries, Promoting Open Knowledge in African Libraries through Wikidata, and Integrating Wikimedia Projects into African Libraries.
Session
Wikibase provides an avenue for libraries to turn their Authority files and library metadata into discoverable databases. The African Library and Information Associations and Institutions working with a Knowledge Equity Fund from Wikimedia Foundation and through the support of Wikimedia Deutschland created a Wikibase cloud for the National Library of Nigeria. The workshop will showcase the nlnsnar.wikibase.cloud and lead the participants of the workshop through practical steps to creating a Wikibase cloud for their libraries