Following Africa's first ever Wikipedia academy, held at CIDA City Campus in Johannesburg over the weekend, the Zulu version of the online encyclopedia has passed the 100 article mark.
Heather Ford, the iCommons executive director, said that entries were added in five or six different languages. While she acknowledged that 100 articles was not particularly huge, she was happy with the progress that the Zulu version was making.
Excluding English and other colonial languages, this is the third highest ranking of an African language, following behind Swahili and Afrikaans.
Positive about the response at CIDA, she said that they were planning to carry on at the campus and that details were being worked out for future events. She hopes to make the academy events a more regular occurrence.
Ford said that Taddy Blecher, the founder of CIDA, had expressed interest in the idea of introducing a Wikipedia class.
In addition to the Saturday academy, a meeting was held on Sunday to promote the Afrikaans version of Wikipedia. Standing at 8 700 articles, this is the largest African language version of the encyclopedia. Ford said that they hoped to surpass 10 000 articles early next year.
On Tuesday afternoon Wales will be at the iCommons offices in Rosebank to give a talk on his latest project, Wikia, as the first installment of the Innovation Series of talks.