Event:16 Days Of Translation 2025
#16DaysofActivism - #16DaysOfTranslation
[edit]From 25 November to 10 December 2025, feminists around the world unite to demand an end of gender-based violence. This year, this UN global campaign #16DaysofActivism focuses on technology-facilitated gender violence (TFGBV), and calls organizations, collectives and individuals to advocate and take action for safer and joyful spaces for women and girls online.[1]
Did you know that the Wikipedia article on Online gender-based violence only exists in 6 languages? During the 16 Days of Activism 2025, we have a call to action to our Feminist Community: let’s translate into different languages this essential article that doesn’t exist yet in many Wikipedias.
The issue
[edit]As of November 2025, Wikipedia exists in 343 languages. Wikipedia is a digital public good that serves millions of articles every day about almost everything in the world. But the majority of Wikipedias are much smaller than the biggest one - the English Wikipedia. Many important articles are still missing in the majority of the languages of Wikipedia. This is the case for Online gender-based violence, which is only available in English, Chinese, Bahasa Indonesia, Hausa, Kiswahili, and Nepali. On Wikidata, the free and multilingual knowledge base that represents hundreds of millions of entities, this item only has labels and descriptions in 7 languages.
Why is it important?
[edit]This conspicuous lack of representation for a problem that disproportionately affects women and LGBTQI+ people is yet another manifestation of the Wikipedia gender gap. And it is also a proxy of the still-limited global awareness about this particular form of gender violence, which has been well documented by a broad range of actors, from global institutions to local feminist collectives.[2]
This gap impacts users looking for reliable information (especially victims and their supporters), both through web searches and chatbots that make use of Wikipedia extensively in the attempt to offer accurate and reliable outputs. But depending on the languages you speak or can understand, there might be significant problems in the results you get,[3] including inaccuracies, biases, misinformation, and chatbot hallucinations.
How can you help to solve this issue?
[edit]As we join feminists and everywhere to commemorate the annual #16DaysOfActivism, join us in the #16DaysOfTranslation to create or improve Wikipedia articles in different languages, and add more structured data on Wikidata about online gender-based violence.
You can start your translation from scratch, or you can use the Content Translation Tool, and then expand, contextualize, and update information. Optionally, you can create or improve other articles in your language to bring an intersectional gender perspective to topics like doxxing, cyber-bullying, and more. Also, we’d love to see more articles and Wikidata items about feminist organizations and collectives that make the internet safer and joyful for everyone, every day. And don’t forget to bring pictures to the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign on Commons!
How to participate?
[edit]- Create your Wikimedia account or log in to your existing account.
- Register as a campaign participant on this page.
- Choose a language to work with from the work list, or add another language to the list. You can let other editors know that you are working in a specific translation adding your username in the column "Who?".
- You can work directly on the wiki of your choice by creating the article there, or you can use the Content Translation Tool (just follow the "Translate" link and log in to access to this tool).
Work list
[edit]This is a suggested work list with the aim to facilitate a coordinated effort. Feel free to edit the table below to add more (from and to) languages.
| From Wiki | To Wiki | Content translation tool | Who? (join to volunteer in this article) | Status |
| English | Español (es): Violencia de género en línea | Translate | Señoritaleona (talk) 13:56, 24 November 2025 (UTC) |  Done
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| English | Português (pt): Violência de gênero online | Translate | Isisrf (talk) | Anita Braga (talk) | Girassolei (talk) | Mwvh (talk) | Lucecú (talk) 13:09, 02 December 2025 (UTC) | Done
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| English | Français (fr) | Translate | ||
| English | isiZulu (zu) | Translate | ||
| English | العربية (ar): العنف القائم على النوع الاجتماعي عبر الإنترنت | Translate | Mervat | Done
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| English | हिन्दी (hi) | Translate | ||
| English | বাংলা (bn) | Translate | ||
| English | Luganda (lg): Okutulugunya abantu ku mikutu gya yintaneeti okusinziira ku kikula | Translate | Done
| |
| English | Rukiga | |||
| English | தமிழ் (ta) | Translate |
Wiki editing session
[edit]We will host an online editing session on December 4 at 14:00 UTC for those who need help or want to learn more about translations.
Register in this page, and we will send you a calendar invite soon!
Helpful links and resources
[edit]- Translation
- Citations
- Quality
- Measure article quality using LQP tool
Need more help?
[edit]Contact us via email to visiblewikiwomen[at]whoseknowledge.org
References
[edit]- ↑ "16 Days of Activism 2025: End digital violence against all women and girls.". unwomen.org. UN Women. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ "Facts and figures: Ending violence against women". unwomen.org. UN Women. 19 November 2025. Retrieved 24 November 2025.
- ↑ Judaharchive, Jacob. "How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved 2025-11-21.