AWA Inclusion and Climate Justice Project 2025/Overview & Training schedule
Overview
[edit]The AWA Inclusion and Climate Justice Project 2025 is designed to close content gaps and amplify African voices on Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons by creating, reviewing, expanding and improving core topics relating to gender equity, climate awareness, LGBTQ+ rights, and other sustainability effort in Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
The project will run from June 2025 – November 2025.
How to participate
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Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia if you haven't.
Register on the dashboard
to track your contributions and join the WhatsApp group.
Attend virtual training sessions, participate in the edit-a-thon and complete the reimbursement form to qualify for monthly data reimbursements.
Create, expand and/or translate articles and Wikidata items related to the focus area from the topic list. Edits to articles outside this scope will not count.
While publishing your edits, include this hashtag to your edit summary: #AWA-ICJ
Activities
[edit]Edit-a-thons: Virtual edit-a-thons which will focus on creating and improving articles/items about gender equity, climate awareness, LGBTQ+ rights, and other sustainability effort in Namibia, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe.
Image and Multimedia Uploads: To enhance visual representation and coverage, this activity will focus on uploading images and relevant media files related to the focus topics.
Content Translation: To promote language diversity and inclusivity, selected articles will be translated into various African local languages. This will help bridge the language gap, and bring visibility to wider audiences across the region.
Training schedule
[edit]| Date/Time | Activity | Trainer | Zoom/Recording Link | Presentation Slides | Status |
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Virtual Launch/Onboarding | Bukola James | Zoom link | slide |  Done
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Wikidata and Beyond:Fundamentals and best practices | King ChristLike | zoom link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Introduction to Wikipedia | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Understanding Wikipedia policies and guidelines | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Article translation using the content translation tool | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Office hour | King ChristLike | — | — | Done
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Creating new articles on Wikipedia | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | slide | Done
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Introduction to Wikimedia Commons | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Mastering media licensing and use cases | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Office hour | King ChristLike | — | — | Done
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Structured data on Wikimedia Commons | King ChristLike | Meet link
and recording |
slide | Done
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Exploring Wikidata tools | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | slide | Done
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Office hour | King ChristLike | — | — | Done
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Understanding Wikimedia queries 1 | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | Done
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Understanding Wikimedia queries 2 | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | Done
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Office hour | King ChristLike | — | — | Done
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Wiki fact checking | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | slide | Done
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Translatewiki | King ChristLike | Meet link and recording | slide | Done
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Office hour | King ChristLike | — | — | Done
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