As we continue celebrating 10 years of Wiki Loves Women, we are looking not only at what has been achieved, but also at how the initiative continues to evolve and create new opportunities for people to learn, create, and share their knowledge. After a decade of making women more visible through initiatives such as SheSaid, […]
Image attribution: Claire Gaudriot in partnership with Les Sans PagEs For more than a decade, the late Deror Lin’s legendary Coolest Projects session has celebrated the bold, creative, unexpected, and sometimes wonderfully quirky, ideas that make the Wikimedia movement so inspiring. This year, Coolest Projects returned for a special 25th-anniversary edition event at Wikimania, celebrating […]
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, […]
From 16 to 18 October 2025, the 4th United Nations Open Science and Open Scholarship Conference convened in Tokyo, Japan, at the United Nations University and online, bringing together policymakers, researchers, librarians, publishers, and civil society to accelerate the transformation of science and scholarship in line with the UN Pact for the Future. I had […]
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 […]
The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group is expanding! The Wiki Loves Women Focus Group is a pan-African community of women leaders who collaborate to close the gender gap in open knowledge. Launched in 2021 by Wiki In Africa, the group provides training, mentorship, and peer support to help members grow their skills and confidence. Together, […]
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 […]
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 […]
As the Focus Group marked its third anniversary in 2023, we reflect on the incredible progress made by our members. An impressive amount of work continues to be accomplished, thanks in part to the introduction of a Coaching program designed to support participants at all stages of their development. This program has empowered members to … Read More