Antoni Mtavangu
Antoni Mtavangu is a Tanzanian Wikimedia projects volunteer and contributor since 2016, a Co-founder of Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania, and one of the Swahili Wikipedia administrators.
His main focus is on the expansion of Swahili Wikipedia through editing it, starting new articles, as well as facilitating, recruiting Wikimedians, sharing Wikipedia editing knowledge and training to his fellow Wikimedians. Mtavangu is also a Women's advocate who contributes his efforts to bridge the gender gap between Men and Women on Wikipedia, and through collaboration with his community members he has championed various projects such as Wiki Loves Women, Wikigap, Wiki Loves Africa,
He is working to expand the Wikimedia activities in his home country as well as collaborating with other Wikimedians from African Wiki communities especially East Africa and its neighboring countries in the implementation of Wiki projects that affect the East Africa region and Africa.
He is currently one of the Leads behind organizing the Wikimedia Global conference (Wikimania 2025) which will happen on 6-9th August 2025 in Nairobi Kenya, and the African Wikimedia Conference (WikiIndaba 2025) which will happen in Dar es salaam (21-13 November 2025).
Session
This session will spotlight the great effort being made by Wikimedia Tanzania User Group through creation and improvement of articles on Wikipedia. Open Street mappers will get an opportunity to capture key steps involved in making new articles or creating new ones on Wikipedia, that might be a supplement to places that they map. More information about the areas being mapped via the usage of Wikipedia will help data consumers not only to know the location and names of such places, but also the relevant articles about those places.Wikimedia Tanzania has been training volunteers to contribute to free and open knowledge through Wikipedia and its sister projects for over 9 years. Open street mappers through session will benefit by learning from experienced Wikipedia editor on key steps involved in article writing and improvement of the existing one to make relevance to the communities and consumers we serve.