African women’s stories matter, yet too often, their achievements are missing from the world’s most widely used knowledge platforms. Many remarkable contributions go undocumented, not because they don’t exist, but because they haven’t been recorded or shared in ways that everyone can access. To change this, in 2025, members of the Wiki Loves Women Focus […]
We’re thrilled to kick off the 5th edition of the #SheSaid campaign! The #SheSaid campaign is all about celebrating women and giving their words the recognition they deserve. Thanks to the dedication of our global Wikimedia communities, we’ve been closing the gender gap by adding +15 555 of women’s quotes in 18 languages. In 2023 … Read More
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
Under the tagline “Give her a voice”, the #SheSaid campaign was started in 2020 in order to elevate the voices of notable women on Wikiquote in different languages. After 3 editions, the drive has resulted in 7376 new or improved articles. When first launched, the campaign resulted in +867 new or improved articles in 7 … Read More
The Focus Group celebrates its second year anniversary. An amazing amount of work continues to be done by the members. A Coaching program has been instituted to help the participating members in all stages of the programme to develop their skills and helped them find ways to build their capacities. “I have been able to … Read More
It was exciting to receive the email that I’ve become one of the 12 African women selected for the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group at the beginning of 2021. It was the start of a learning curve for me. I learnt a lot of new things like: revamping my User page, writing a better report … Read More
I am Faith Mwanyolo, a 24-year-old member of the Wikimedia Community in Kenya. My interactions with the Wikimedia Foundation began in 2017 when I got to find out about the foundation’s projects and was approached to organize WikiGap in Nairobi. Since then, I have continued to contribute to the various projects with my forte being … 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
This year the 5th Wiki Indaba annual conference was held virtually under the theme of Rethink +Reset: Vision & Future. It was hosted by the Wikimedia Community Uganda Usergroup and ran from the 5th – 7th November 2021. The main goal of this conference was to give the Wikimedia communities in Africa and the diaspora the platform … Read More
Join the Wiki Loves Women’s annual #SheSaid campaign over October and November! Wiki Loves Women’s annual #SheSaid campaign focuses on bridging the gender divide and unearthing women’s voices by celebrating them and increasing their visibility online through Wikiquote. #SheSaid is a Wiki In Africa campaign for Wiki Loves Women. it is run by members of … Read More