Editing Kilinux (section)

== History ==
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The Kilinux project began in 2003 with the development of a glossary and a [[spell checker]] for OpenOffice.org.<ref name="pambazuka" />

The Kilinux Project received an award in May 2006 as the best [[Information and communication technologies|ICT]] project in the category [[Information and communication technologies in education|education]] of the 2006 [[Stockholm challenge]].<ref name="award">{{Cite web|url=http://www.stockholmchallenge.org/project/data/kilinux |accessdate=2 January 2011 |title=Kilinux |publisher=[[Stockholm Challenge]] |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120425030956/http://www.stockholmchallenge.org/project/data/kilinux |archivedate=25 April 2012 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.kilinux.udsm.ac.tz/kiblog/archives/permalinks/2006-05-15T15_50_46.html|publisher=Kilinux|accessdate=2 January 2011|title=Winners Stockholm Challenge 2006|first=Ulrick|last=Mkenda|date=15 May 2006|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20120804044522/http://www.kilinux.udsm.ac.tz/kiblog/archives/permalinks/2006-05-15T15_50_46.html|archivedate=4 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060925125152/http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1005|accessdate=2 January 2012|archivedate=25 September 2006|title=African localisation wins at Stockholm|url=http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?src=rss&id=1005|first=Richard|last=Frank|date=24 May 2006|publisher=tectonic.co.za}}</ref>