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
Promoting Africa and its values on the Net. So is the main objective of Wiki Loves Africa (WLA) and Wiki Loves Women (WLW)projects. Wiki Loves Women works towards the appréciation of the african woman on Wikipedia – the free encyclopedia. Through articles and images…, the project allows to highlight the essential role of women in african … Read More
The instigators of the Wiki Loves Women project are meeting up in Accra on Monday the 23rd of January. During this meeting, hosted by the Goethe Institute, they will evaluate the actions who have been taking place since 2016 and their outcomes, just before the end of the initiative promoting African women on Internet and … Read More
The biannual regional conference of African Wikipedians ‘’Wiki Indaba’’ will begin in Accra, Ghana from the 20th – 22nd January 2017. This will be the second edition of the conference after the first edition was initiated and hosted by Wikimedia South Africa (WMZA). It was first held in Johannesburg South Africa from June 20th … Read More
On the 8th of December 2016, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) organised edit-a-thorn with Wikimedia community across the globe. The news is the growing popularity of Wiki loves women among Nigerian women. This was put to play when WLW was invited to coordinate the proceeding at the event in Abuja at BBC office The event created … Read More
The Wiki loves women (WLW) team was in Abuja for a 2-day event starting on the 18th and ended on the 19th of November as an on going activities to honor women of Nigerian descent. The event was co-hosted by Techher , Wikimedia UG Nigeria (WUGN), Wiki Africa and Goethe Institut. This is the second … Read More
On 29th November, Ashesi University charted a new cause by embracing Open Movement activities.The Wiki Loves Women Team as part of its outreach activities their outreach to Brekuso Hills where Ashesi University is located. This was a follow up to an earlier conversation with Ashesi University by the Team Lead and WIR about having a collaboration … Read More
On Thursday 20th of October 2016, a meeting took place between the Wikimedia User group team, the Caucus of the parliamentarian women and the Archive service from the National Assembly of the Ivory Coast, to discuss the Wiki Loves Women project. ‘Being able to produce quality content and illustrated by fiable sources on Ivorian Parliamentary … Read More