This special WikiAfrica Hour is a three-part salute to the gender-gap-busting work (some of it within education) within the Wikimedia movement in celebration of International Women’s Day. This special session will be hosted by Nigerian Wikimedian, Tochi Precious.
In a world where women’s voices have often been muted or disregarded, it’s astonishing to realize that, despite their wealth of wisdom, inspiration, and distinctive perspectives, there’s a glaring absence of their quotes in our cultural narrative. This obvious void not only mirrors the historical sidelining of women but also underscores the necessity for a […]
This episode is dedicated to celebrate the International Women’s month 2023, through spotlighting some initiatives working to close the gender gap on Wikimedia projects, their successes, lessons, challenges and prospects.
The Wiki Loves Women team continues celebrating women around the world by increasing their visibility on Wikipedia and its sister projects. For the fourth year in row, the WLW launched the ISA Tell Us About Her campaign which encourages participants to add relevant Wiki-data linked information to the images depicting women in the fields that […]
December started with a workshop in Cape Town as WikiAfrica Heritage joined the SheSaid campaign. The workshop took place at the District Six Museum’s Homecoming Centre and focused on training heritage and culture professionals in adding the notable quotations of their icons to Wikiquote. Before the event, 27 of the 3,462 women listed as notable […]
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 […]
The Wiki in Africa team flew to Rwanda last month to Wiki Indaba, where some team members met in person for the first time after working together for almost a year. Although the team has a wonderfully synergistic professional relationship, bonds of friendship were cemented over wine from Cape Town and Tunisia, and project ideas for […]
Wiki Loves Women continues to celebrate African women with the launch of a new #SheSaid WikiQuote drive, while the first series of our Inspiring Open podcast continues to gain popularity as we near the final episode of the season. With guests in a wide range of fields, from the creative, to the cultural curators and […]
In episode 11, Ceslause chats to some of the leading ladies who are not only using their podcast platforms to share their experiences in Open and Wikimedia, but are also helping to bring to light key people and practices that are moving us forward.
In episode 11, Ceslause chats to some of the leading ladies who are not only using their podcast platforms to share their experiences in Open and Wikimedia, but are also helping to bring to light key people and practices that are moving us forward.