Open Knowledge South Sudan

29/12/2025

After harvest, farmers select the best maize cobs, tie them together, and hang them under a tree to dry. The breeze passes through, the sun warms just enough, and the seeds are ready for next planting. These simple methods keep families growing year after year. Documenting them on Wikimedia ensures that future generations know these smart, traditional ways of preserving life.

02/07/2025

In collaboration with Reliable Refugee Storytellers we are documenting 750 South Sudanese names, in consultation with community elders of 15 South Sudanese Dialects, this is an excise with an intent to continue preserving, archiving and documenting our stories and culture!

We are having all of this content available on the various Wikimedia Foundation platforms/projects but this one specifically will be on Wikidata.

Take time and visit the site to have access to the various tribes and maybe also know the meaning of your name!

10/03/2025

You join in our quite various programs!

10/03/2025

Let’s grow content on our south Sudanese women on Wikimedia

10/03/2025

The Wikipedia Teahouse is a many-to-many support space, designed specifically for new editors. The Teahouse project was launched in February 2012 by Wikimedia Foundation Fellows and WMF staff in partnership with volunteers from the English Wikipedia community

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:Teahouse

08/03/2025

Open Knowledge South Sudan via the Wikimedia Community user group South Sudan began by launching the Oral History 2024/25 project to preserve the voices of our communities. The project was based on preserving stories, songs and creatives from the various cultures in South Sudan, we have had an interaction with 11 tribes already and hope to continue with the rest and this has been with amazing support from the Wikimedia Foundation and partners Reliable Refugee Storytellers Association

I grew up being told oftentimes by the elders, ‘If our stories are not told, we do not exist.’ This resonated deeply with me as I watched one aspect of our history, languages, and tradi…

08/03/2025

As a Wikimedia community, our contributions and participations are not limited, we still and will embrace the participation of women in either contributing or being written as far as contribution about South Sudan content is concerned! You are welcome