South African Wikipedia

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BrilliantMaps have analysed the most commonly-occuring word on each country's Wikipedia page. "Cape" tops the lot for SA. ... It’s not just South Africa throwing up some intriguing results, either. A lot of countries can’t escape their past thanks to their Wiki entries – yes Britain, we’re looking at you – the most featured word for the UK is "Ireland".

The South African

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Last year, the Competition Commission found that Vodacom and MTN were over-charging customers by as much as 30% to 50% as part of its Data Services Market Inquiry report. ... Among its recommendations the report found mobile operators must offer all prepaid subscribers a ‘lifeline package’ of daily free data. They must also give free access to content from public benefit organisations and educational institutions to ensure broad application. This means Wikipedia and other educational resource sites like Siyavula.com could be free to all South Africans

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Jimbo always said he wants to help the little girl in Africa.

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The Wikimedia Foundation has announced a campaign in collaboration with the South African creative community promoting the right of access to knowledge and encouraging locals to contribute to Wikipedia. They launched the campaign on 28 September, the International Day for Universal Access to Information. The Wikimedia Foundation, which operates Wikipedia, said that over the next four weeks it will release online multimedia content created by South African creatives. ...

The foundation notes that only 1.5% of the encyclopedia’s 280 000 global volunteer contributors are based in Africa. Wikimedia’s statistics for active editors by country show 430 active editors in SA for August 2021 for the English version of Wikipedia. Nigeria, despite its larger population than South Africa, had 390. When compared with wealthier countries with lower populations, the discrepancy in active editor numbers becomes noticeable

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