Librarians as Wikipedians

Wikimedia, through its various projects especially Wikipedia, is endeavoring “to empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content under a free license or in the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively and globally”. Libraries, though their respective mandates, envision a world where there are no barriers to knowledge. This paper will outline the mutual actual and potential benefits that can be derived from using Wikipedia as a means for knowledge creation and diffusion, especially aimed at contributing towards the decolonisation of content on the Internet.