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122 community outreach and trainings as well as nurture librarians and library educators with prerequisite skills to actively be involved in a collaborative and free knowledge space such as Wikipedia, contributing to knowledge, and accurately amplifying Africa’s voice (AfLIA, 2019, 2020f; Lubbock, 2018).



Figure 1 Editing Wikipedia at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Attribution: Kaizenify, CC BY-SA 4.0. < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

The Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN), managed by Olushola Olaniyan as the president, has been engaging Nigerian librarians in Wikipedia campaign activities such as a maiden campaign, called Wikipedia for Librarians, which kicked off on April 16, 2019, at Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, to train librarians on how to edit and contribute to Wikipedia and sister projects in various tertiary institutions in Nigeria (Wikipedia, 2019). WUGN also established a Wikimedia Fan Club in 2017. The club targets Nigerian students, to help them better understand the edits in Wikipedia and also change the negative narratives and myths against the use of Wikipedia for learning purposes. Wiki Fan Clubs have successfully been established in up to seven Nigerian universities, including: - Lagos State University;