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
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The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group, How it’s going
The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group, How it’s going Since the launch of the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group members in members, in June 2021, the focus group has intensively and committed to hosting monthly dedicated working sessions that are packed with a lot of knowledge harnessing the skills of the women in the focus … Read More
ISA campaign Tell Us About Her, Women at Work 2021
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
#SheSaid Amplifies the voices of 867 women during 2020
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
#SheSaid Campaign Gives Notable Women a Voice on Wikiquote
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
Tell Us About Her winners!
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
Wiki Loves Women Tanzania 9th Event – Her 2 Her Chat
Wiki Loves Women Tanzania 9th Event – Her 2 Her Chat 6th of April 2019 First of we’d love to appreciate all of you who made it to this event. You’re amazing and adorable. The fact that you were able to spare time on a day like Saturday, to join us, we truly honor your effort … Read More
Wikipedia workshop with FEMRITE
The goal of the Wiki Loves women project is to see an increase in the content celebrating women achievers while at the same time acting as a mirror to the realities of women and the girls in Africa. Women in Uganda have stood out in several fields. These range from politics, academia, business, Creative Arts, … Read More
Wikimania Capetown 2018
Wikimania started off with the pre -conference learning days which equipped new organizers or starters with a myriad of skills. What stood out , was determining capacities in every group and how to improve on the lacking capacities. I would sum up the learning days as skills imparted to keep a community healthy. Along side the learning days … Read More
Wiki Loves Women to launch in Tanzania and Uganda
Wiki In Africa is excited to announce that the Wiki Loves Women project will launch in Tanzania and Uganda in July 2018. This is an exciting progression for the project that was started in 2016 in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Nigeria. Launching in East Africa The teams in Tanzania and Uganda are excited to get started! The Tanzania country team … Read More