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 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 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
To celebrate International Women’s Day on the 8th March 2018, Wikimedia Sweden and the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs in support the Swedish Government’s Feminist Foreign Policy facilitated WikiGap events in collaboration with Swedish Embassy’s around the world. More than 50 countries took part in WikiGap with over 1600 participants and more than 2,000 articles about notable women … Read More
99 articles on Africa’s female activists created and improved during #17AfricanFeminists Wikipedia is a treasure trove of information. However, for a number of reasons, African subjects are not covered with nearly as much depth, nuance and layers as subjects from the “global north”. This not only perpetuates the “single story of Africa” but also means that people … Read More
On the 4th of March 2017, the Wiki Loves Women Ghana Team held a satellite node of the Arts and Feminism Edit-a-thon in Accra. Arts and Feminism is a international campaign within the Wikimedia movement aimed at promoting contents around Women in the Arts and Feminism across the globe. This year’s intervention saw over 2500 people … Read More
In a room gently perfumed with lemongrass scent, with wide screens showing slide shows of women from diverse horizons and conditions, stands the perfect decor to welcome the event « Femmes De Nos Vies/Women of our lives » organised by Team Jeune Africain Moderne (JAM), as a pretor before the International Women Day. Saturday 4th of March … Read More
352 multimedia files uploaded, more than 200 participants to the 30 organised events, 82 articles improved, translated or created, 13 media releases… For its 1st phase in Côte d’Ivoire, Wiki Loves Women had a massive impact well beyond Numbers recorded by the Ivorian User Group. Young wikimedian women becoming responsible in Côte d’Ivoire. From the … Read More
February 8th, 2017 in the city of Lagos, Nigeria . Wiki Loves Women gathered representative of female farmers in Lagos to add quality information to Wikimedia in the area of Agriculture. Event was tagged: Women in Agriculture. The event is part of the ongoing program by Wiki Loves Women in Africa to introduce, train and … Read More
She Writes Woman (SWW) is a movement of love, hope and support for women living with mental illnesses. We seek to ensure that people living with mental disorders are believed, understood and supported. It is no longer enough that mental health is left only to mental health professionals to speak about. We believe that warriors … Read More