The term Pool Strategic is inspired by the idea of the Wikimedia strategy within the Pool Malebo, that is, an organized pool of resources and talents mobilized from two countries linked by the Pool around a shared key objective. In the Wikimedia context, this means bringing together a structured community of contributors, knowledge, and experiences in order to sustainably strengthen the presence of local languages in the digital space. *Pool-Strategic* is therefore both a project and a strategic core: it transforms initiatives that were previously scattered into a coordinated movement, capable of giving new momentum to free knowledge in Congolese languages. ## A project at the heart of local languages The *Pool-Strategic* project took place from 10 August to 31 December 2025 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of the Congo, as a collaboration supported by the Wikimedia Foundation.…