From 25 August to 25 September 2026, Wiki OTO brings together contributors to help close the gender gap in Wikimedia’s free knowledge and improve the representation of African women on Wikidata. Wiki OTO is a campaign dedicated to creating and improving Wikidata items about women, helping to address the gender gap in Wikimedia’s free knowledge. […]
What better way to celebrate a decade of championing women’s voices than by putting them into people’s hands? To mark the 10th anniversaries of both les sans pagEs and Wiki Loves Women, a new card game, FrancAutrices, invites players to discover remarkable French-speaking women writers through play. Created through a collaboration between les sans pagEs, […]
Wiki In Africa was formally established in November 2016 as a South African-based non-profit to create a legal framework for the WikiAfrica movement that was already being shaped through impactful initiatives that amplify African voices on global knowledge platforms. Projects like Wiki Loves Africa, launched in 2014, and Wiki Loves Women, initiated in 2016, laid […]
The #SheSaid campaign wrapped up its fifth edition at the end of 2024, and it’s safe to say — this was its most impactful year yet. Launched in September 2024 as part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative, the campaign has been bringing together volunteers from around the world since 2020 to give more visibility […]
2023 was a year of growth, collaboration, and powerful storytelling—cerebral, visual and encyclopedic— across Wiki In Africa’s seven core projects. From harnessing the energy of volunteers in more than 54 countries, involving 263 individual organisers and 270 partner organisations and Wikimedia user groups, to elevating African content on global platforms, our community has continued to […]
Wiki Loves Women‘s #SheSaid campaign, which aims to redress the imbalance of gender representation on Wikiquote, continues to impact the visibility of women with new and improved articles being added in 12 languages since the 2022 project launched in October. In early December, over mid-way through the campaign and heading towards its end in December, Wikiquotes added […]
