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How can scientists support the global movement for access to knowledge while also making discoveries about our social world? This summer, teams of early career scholars with ties to Kenya, Nigeria and Burkina Faso will be linking up with the Wikimedia movement to imagine and develop new research on information, technology, and collective behavior on Wikipedia. These two-week sessions will build bridges between scholars and local Wikimedia movement leaders that we expect will lead to fruitful long-term collaborations of mutual benefit. CAT Lab has collaborated with Wikipedians on research across many languages and regions over the years, and we are excited to support the growth of even more collaborations! Our summer project is the perfect team-up. Every year, the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science support emerging leaders to grow their skills in quantitative research. The South Africa based nonprofit Wiki In Africa activates projects that are designed to ensure that African ways of knowing are valued, visible, and free for the world to access. CAT Lab, with funding from the Templeton World Charity Foundation, is investing in networks and curriculum to grow the movement of community-engaged research on technology and society. So when the Wikimedia Foundation, who host Wikipedia, announced a research fund to support transformative collaborations, we were excited to support the summer institutes and Wiki In Africa to apply for funding on a project to link scientists and regional Wikipedia leaders. Thanks to the help of _Wiki In Africa_ , with funding from the Wikimedia Foundation,__ Wikipedians are joining in-person summer institutes or connecting to them virtually to share perspectives and expertise, and questions that matter to the movement. Groups discuss how Wikipedia, as one of the world’s largest open knowledge systems, can be used for research and shape the research projects that will be implemented at the summer institutes. We at the CAT Lab are providing expertise on Wikipedia-based research, offering trainings on how to work with data from Wiki projects, and producing open access educational materials. Our overall goal is to increase the creativity and breadth of computational research about Wikipedia. The first summer institute, at the African Institute for Capacity Development in Kenya, is already underway. The local Wikimedia Kenya User Group led a day of activities that included introductions to Wiki projects, the local community, and their rich expertise in the norms and ways of contributing, providing invaluable insights to the summer institute participants who are now planning research projects that will make use of those insights. _The Opening Session at the Kenyan Summer Institute for Computational Social Science at the African Institute for Capacity Development. Photo by Bastian Greshake Tzovaras_