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
Wiki Loves Women, only started less than 1 year ago but also has great projects: creating a User Group in Cameroon. After several months and several training sessions, Cameroon can finally take part in the Wikimedia Foundation community. Indeed, through the Wiki Loves Women project, people have worked hard in showing what Wikipedia is, and … Read More
During the 2nd édition of theWikiIndaba held in Accra in Ghana, from the 20th to the 22nd of January 2017, a Wiki Loves Women project assessment session took place on Monday 23rd of January 2017 at theGoethe Institute with sponsors or some managers from Wikimedia Foundation. The 4 countries: Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria … Read More
Being part of these volunteers who work daily to improve Wikipedia with great articles, was one of the cherished dream of this young 22 years old student, who became a Wikimedia Cote d’Ivoire volunteer in September 2016. En effet, Keita Moussa is used to use Wikipedia for his Uni research. He wanted to go further … Read More
The Management of Blackface Media, one of the leading broadcasting organizations in Nigeria has partnered Wiki Loves Women (Team Nigeria) to support the work of the group in Nigeria. The partnership is one of the numerous efforts of Wikimedia UG Nigeria and Wiki Loves Women Team to create awareness for the event and Wikimedia activities … Read More
Two days were earmarked to celebrate Nigerian women in the month of January 2017, 16th and 17th to be precised. The event was c0-organized by Goethe Institut, Wikimedia UG Nigeria and She Writes Woman. The program was tagged “Mental Illness among Nigerian Women: Taking back the Initiative. The program involved arrays of stake holders in … Read More
Understanding the gender gap on Wikipedia and more importantly, knowing how to bridge it, these were the goals of a workshop held on the 17 of January at Wikimedia Côte d’Ivoire headquarters in Abidjan. From 15 January to 03 February across the world, librarians are working to improve Wikipedia. During this campaign called #1Lib1Ref (One … Read More