The Focus Group In 2022, the Focus Coaching programme comprised of 14 women from across Africa (and southern France) who participated in: A monthly thematic working session with the group (private recording for group members). Bi-monthly Office Hours on Thursdays; we have hosted about 8 informal office hours. More than 5 Office Hours in French … Read More
On 1st March 2022, Wiki Loves Women’s ISA campaign Tell Us About Her was launched for the third year running. This year, the drive looks at the theme “Women in Architecture” to improve the visibility (and descriptions) of women in architecture, construction and building by adding relevant Wiki-data linked information to the images depicting women … Read More
The wisdom of 2,432 women made visible via WikiQuote Wiki Loves Women’s 2021 #SheSaid campaign was launched in October. SheSaid is a drive that encourages an increase in visibility for notable women’s voices online by adding their notable quotes to various language WikiQuote sites. For 2021, nine different language communities contributed – Italian, Ukrainian, English, … Read More
The last few months I have been training on Wiki Loves Women Focus Group programme through monthly online meetings which has made me have a better understanding of Wikipedia Movement and its projects. It’s been a journey of intense learning a lot about the #SheSaid Campaign and I recently embarked on a journey to bring … Read More
ISA campaign Tell Us About Her In March 2021 the ISA campaign Tell Us About Her was launched once again under the theme for the Wiki Loves Women’s March drive called “ Women at work “aimed at adding relevant Wiki-data linked information to the images depicting women at work. The Isa is a user-friendly tool, … Read More
On the 20th October, at the Gender Gap panel for the Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit, the Wiki Loves Women team launched the #SheSaid campaign. The brainchild of Wiki In Africa‘s Florence Devouard, #SheSaid is an online drive across the Wikimedia Community to balance the representation of gender in the entries of Wikiquote. Over the … Read More
On the 20th October, at the Gender Gap panel for the Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit, the SheSaid campaign was launched. The SheSaid drive is aimed at improving the visibility of women across Wikimedia projects by creating new or improving already existing Wikiquote entries that are related to them. Why the SheSaid campaign? One reason … Read More
Throughout March 2020, Wiki Loves Women celebrated Africa’s women leaders with the Tell Us About Her drive on the ISA tool. The drive improved the visibility of political leaders, activists, and feminists across Africa on Wikimedia projects by asking players to add relevant information to images that represent or include Africa’s female leaders. Over the … Read More
Throughout March 2020, Wiki Loves Women is celebrating Africa’s women leaders with the Tell Us About Her drive on the ISA tool. The drive improves the visibility of political leaders, activists, and feminists across Africa on Wikimedia projects. Tell Us About Her ask players to add information to images that represent or include Africa’s female … Read More
In June 2019, Wiki Loves Women celebrated all of Africa’s sportswomen through the Women in Sport drive. The drive asked participants to add information across several language Wikipedias (English and French), WikiData and Wikimedia Commons. Participants could upload images, translate existing articles, add WikiData items or create new articles about their favourite female sportswoman. The drive was … Read More