Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves Women

The project is designed to leverage Wikipedia’s role as a global repository for the dissemination of information to achieve accessible and fair online representation of notable women in countries in Africa.

It encourages the contribution of existing researched and verified information by civil society organisations to Wikipedia with the intent of redressing the systemic bias online about women.

The project works with organisations and public institutions to draw their existing information onto Wikipedia, and via this platform be made available to millions of people every day.

In 2016-2017 the project was run in collaboration with the Goethe Institute and was active on the ground in four West African countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Cameroon and Nigeria.

Anthere (talk) For 2021 we have a project plan jam-packed with exciting new elements that build on Wiki Loves Women’s success so far.

Over the year, we will be focusing on the following: On the 20th October, at the Gender Gap panel for the Creative Commons Virtual Global Summit, the SheSaid campaign was launched.

The drive is aimed at improving the visibility of political leaders and activists across Africa on Wikimedia projects.

Since the most basic aim is to improve the quality of existing articles by providing relevant citation, each of the participants was able to contribute over and above our target.

We are both excited happy and sad that we have closed one of the cool project ever done in Tanzania as we got used to host and have fun in writing, collaborating and facilitating Wiki Loves Women.

At the end we had the cool individual and group photos as well as short video clips featuring what the participant had to say about Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania.

You can find more of the info such as cool photos and timeline events and sessions on our facebook page Here or you can listen to what they had to say Here, Here and Here also Finally We would like to use this opportunity to give our sincere thanks to both the project directors (Isla and Florence) for their endless support and mentor ship and the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting this project to happen in Tanzania.

We managed to invite six powerful, notable women who are successful within their fields, in many ways, and their impact within the society is seen everyday within Tanzania and beyond.

With the help of Kawempe Youth Centre Library staff ,we were able to mobilise quite a number of mainly young people but this also came with its associated challenges .We started with account creation and were ably assisted by individuals who had opened accounts prior to the event as per email instructions.In the course of some very lively discussions ,we discovered that notability and women were perceived differently .

With the collaboration between Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania and WikiWomenTz (WikiGap) organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tanzania.The event was held at the residence of the ambassador for Swedish Embassy in Tanzania and with focus on getting some insights, views ,suggestions on possible ways on how to overcome the Challenge of lack of enough reliable sources to write about Tanzanian women as well as uploading some women bios into Wikipedia.Over 20 notable women living in Dar es Salaam will were invited to attend, and share the journey, success, failure and how they overcome challenges, this also built a good interaction between them and local Tanzania Wikimedians editors.

A group of Young students at Makerere University Studying Luganda in the department of Languages came together to honor our invitation to hold a translator-thon.

The general feeling was that it was much easier translating online with that tool than going offline to translate content in word documents In conjunction with High sound Uganda, Wikimedia user group hosted an event that brought together journalist from both print and broadcast media.

WikiData (which feeds many Wikipedia articles) hosts a huge list of professional occupation entries... in English.

So our call was simple... we wanted to get many occupation labels translated in various languages and we would like to have both male and female form available (when relevant).

Full process and report available here : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women_Occupation_Drive The event brought together Tanzanian Wikimedians and some of the Tanzanian notable women.These notable were given some time to give brief presentation on themselves and shared their opinions on how we can overcome the challenge of "Lack reliable referencing materials to write about Women in Tanzania".

Part of the this event was to prepare the Tanzanian Wikimedians for the upcoming Wiki Loves Africa 2019.Finally the the participants had a time for hands on step-by-step practice on how to upload photos in Wikicommons.

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