Wiki Soccerthons Launched, aiming at Documenting Local Football
By: kayiirajackson@gmail.com
Finding authentic information about Uganda’s football and other sports disciplines is a tag of war which keeps Uganda’s sports a bit behind despite the talent the pearl of Africa harbors.
Wikipedia is one of the top five visited platforms on Google.
In a bid to create awareness about the documenting Uganda’s football, Wikipedia has launched a three months campaign dubbed Wikipedia Soccerthons that is targeting local people and journalist to write enough information about the clubs, players, coaches and administrators in football.
This community project was launched on
Saturday at Hive Colab – Kanjokya House and the campaign started running on 1st August and it’s ending on 30th November 2024.
“Wiki Soccerthons is a project aiming at documenting Uganda’s football, anything related to football; players, clubs, coaches and stadiums.” Said Mubiru Shafik, the project leader.
“Today we have launched the campaign here in Uganda such that different people start to feature in it. So what we want in this campaign is that, when you go at the pitch to watch football, you can capture the photos and upload them to Wikipedia Commons.”
“So we request jounrnalists to continue writing and profiling clubs, players, coaches and administrators. We found out that these clubs have not enough information as well as the players which is another problem in our football, if they do, we can use those articles as references when having Wikipedia for them.” Mubiru Shafik added.
According to Mubiru, this campaign is also a competition, people who shall upload the most files (videos and photos) on Wikimedia Commons, Articles on Wikipedia, translation of existing articles from English to Luganda or any other language, and do Wikidata items for Federations, Associations, Football Clubs, Players, Stadiums and Coaches shall win items from Wikipedia at the end of the campaign.
“We want to ensure that Wikipedia documents you, tournament and sports facilities, associations.”