Wiki Update

Celebrating International Podcast Day With The Wikimedian Communities


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We rap-up the year with an episode which has been pending;thus International Podcast Day. Wiki Update as a community podcast seeks to celebrate the day by inviting lead speakers from the open community and beyond to tell engaging stories that has led to impact of the open community and beyond.

We had Dave Lee the founder of International Podcast Day giving the keynote address for the day, We had Maxwell Beganim who is a climate activist given us insights on the importance of podcasting and climate activities, We had Ruby Damenshie-Brown the executive director at Open Foundation West Africa giving us insights on the Universal Code of Conducts & it's importance & the African Wiki Challenge which is an annual campaign that seeks to promote African culture by engaging contributors to ensure that at the end of the day more contribution are made in relation to the African context and skills are acquired at the end of the day, We also had a Mohammed Sadat Abdulai who also spoke extensively about wikidata birthday and it's benefits to the community at-large,Collins Ohene Aboagye a Dr.in training gave us insight on Wikipedia and how it has affected health and it having a good number of articles on health related issue and how it has now become a useful tool to the ordinary person to access, finally we spoke to Amire where he share insights on language and how language is important for doing podcasting.

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Wiki UpdateBy Jesse Asiedu-Akrofi