Gender gap/Initiatives
Gender GapProjects and Campaigns
You don't have to join the mailing list or read the recent press to help correct the gender gap. You don't need to have edited before either! If you're interested, the following projects need the help of women and men alike to be successful, so don't be shy about joining in.
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The project aims at working towards filling the gender gap, both on editorial and content level in the French speaking world
Primary languages: French
When runs different campaigns and projects regurlarly
Status: active as of 2024
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Facebook: les sans pagEs
Twitter: lessanspagEs
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/lessanspages/
E mail ː lessanspages@lists.wikimedia.org
Hashtags: #LSP
Wikimedia Sverige and the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs help to organize several Wikipedia edit-a-thons around the world in partnership between Swedish embassies and local Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers. #WikiGap invites broad and diverse participation, and allows for local adaptations to the overall theme of closing the gender gap and other gaps relevant for diversity on Wikipedia.
When: Was run in 2020, 2019 and 2018.
Status: active as of 2021
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Hashtags: #wikigap
Women in Red is a WikiProject and community whose objective is to increase the representation of women on Wikipedia. (In October 2014, 15.53% of EN-WP's biographies were about women; in July 2021, the percentage is up to 19.003%.) The project focuses solely on "content gender gap" and welcomes editors of all genders to participate. Its name refers to the goal of turning "redlinks" into bluelinks. The scope includes women's biographies (real and fictional women), women's works (e.g. their paintings, books, etc.), and women's issues (e.g. health, activism, etc.).
When: since July 2015, active
Primary language: English (For links to the other 31 Wikipedia language versions, see d:Q23875215.)
Status : active as of 2024
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Facebook: WikiWomeninRed
Twitter: WikiWomenInRed
Instagram: WikiWomeninRed
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An attempt to bring core articles on women up to minimum Wikipedia:Good article status. At present this is just a loose project page dedicated to GA listings rather than an active sub project. We currently have just 529 articles out of 25,437 Good Articles on the site, roughly 2%. Our first target is to have 1000 Good Articles about women on English Wikipedia.
When: launched 2015.
Status: active as of 2020
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Art+Feminism is a non-profit organization that leads an international campaign to improve coverage of cis, and trans women, gender and the arts on Wikipedia through organizing in-person training and editing events. The majority of Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thons take place in March of each year but groups also organize independently under the banner of Art+Feminism throughout the year. Since 2014, over 20,000 people at 1,500 events around the world have participated in our edit-a-thons, resulting in the creation and improvement of nearly 100,000 articles on Wikipedia and sister projects.
When: September 2016
Status : active as of 2021
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/artandfeminism/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/artandfeminism
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/artandfem/
Hashtags: #NowEditingAF #ArtandFeminism
An international writing contest organized at Wikipedia annually in the month of February and March to document folk cultures and women in folklore in different regions of the world on Wikipedia. This project is the Wikipedia edition of the photography campaign Wiki Loves Folklore (WLF) that is organized on Wikimedia Commons to document folklore traditions around the world.
Status : Active
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Facebook: https://facebook.com/feminismandfolklore
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WikiFolklore
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wikilovesfolklore/
Hashtags: #FeminismAndFolklore #FNF
Editatona es el proyecto para reducir la brecha de género en Wikipedia creado por Wikimedia México que consiste en un maratón de edición temática dirigida exclusivamente para mujeres y que se ha extendido por varios países de Iberoamérica. Ganadora del Premio FRIDA y la Medalla Omecíhuatl en 2018 por sus aportes en la materia de género y tecnología.
Inicio: 2015
Lengua principal: Español/Spanish
Status : activa
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#Wiki4Women is a joint project of UNESCO, Wikimedia Foundation and other partners that aims to promote better representation of committed women of knowledge in the digital sphere through the creation, editing, and translation of women profiles and lists on Multilingual Wikipedia. Contributors get UNESCO issued participation certificates.
When: 2018, 2019, no 2020, no 2021 (due COVID-2019)
Status : active
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unesco/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/unesco
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unesco/
Hashtags: #Wiki4Women
Several campaigns since 2015: SheSaid campaign on WikiQuote (2020-2023), TellUsAboutHer (eg in 2021; in 2020), #19Women in Sport (2019), #18Women Occupation Drive (2018), #17African feminists (2017), #16WikiWomen Translation Drive (2016), #15Challenge Concours d’écriture (2015)
When:Since 2015.
Primary languages: French and English
Where:Wiki Loves Women/Drives
Status: active as of 2024
- Social Media links
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
Hashtags: #wikiloveswomen #WLW
The Inspiring Open Women podcast series has been funded as part of the Goethe-Institut's International Relief Fund 2021. This podcast series is a showcase to celebrate Inspiring Open Women. It will showcase the exceptional women leaders across Africa and beyond, by hearing, in their words, their journey and achievements, challenges and motivations. It is available on all the usual podcast platforms.
Primary languages: English
Status: active in 2022-2023
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Episodes maybe found on the website : https://podcast.wikiloveswomen.org
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
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Hashtags: #wikiloveswomen #WLW
The Wiki Loves Women Focus Coaching programme is a practical, action-oriented, mentored online training programme that provides skills and knowledge transfer that is specifically designed to support community leaders as they create gender-equity programmes and drives within the Wikimedia and Open movements. The Focus Coaching programme will provide ideas, guidance, skills transfer and mentorship as each Focus Group Member plans a gender-equity programme within their community, and gathers the resources and skills to implement this programme.
Primary languages: English and French
When: started in 2021
Status: active as of 2024
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Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/wikiloveswomen
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/wikiloveswomen
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Hashtags: #wikiloveswomen #WLW
an international campaign to add content related to the fashion industry (designers and brands, haute couture, clothing, accessories, models, unforgettable dresses, etc.) into Wikimedia projects.
When:Run annually since 2019
Status : 2021
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Hashtags: #wikilovesfashion2020, #wlf2020
Through Project Rewrite, the Wikimedia Foundation is calling attention to gender bias across the information landscape, highlighting the movement's efforts to close these gender gaps, and inviting everyone to get involved.
Status : active
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Website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/project-rewrite/
Facebook: @wikimediafoundation
Twitter: @Wikimedia
Instagram: @WikimediaFoundation
Hashtags: #ProjectRewrite
You can help to close the gender gap on Wikipedia and beyond! Looking for a place to start? Explore the Project Rewrite Checklist for ten ways to get involved. Every action counts.
Status : active
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Website: https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/project-rewrite/#a2-project-rewrite-checklist
Facebook: @wikimediafoundation
Twitter: @Wikimedia
Instagram: @WikimediaFoundation
Hashtags: #ProjectRewrite
1000 Women in Religion is a project of the Women's Caucus of the American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature. It is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikipedia articles pertaining to the lives of cis and transgender women who are notable as scholars, activists, and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual, and wisdom traditions.
When: since 2018
Primary language: English
Status : active as of 2018
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Feminist support network for editors of the German-speaking Wikipedia founded in 2019 during the Covid pandemia. FemNetz sees itself as a fluid network connecting editors from various groups and projects. The network organizes annually a network meeting.
Primary languages: German
When: 2019
Status: active as of 2023
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E-mailː https://mailing.wikimedia.de/wikipedia.de/info/femnetz
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Conferences[edit]
WikiWomenCamp 2023 (October 19-22) brought together individuals who identify themselves as women from different countries of the Wikimedia movement, leaders of their respective communities and with strong experience and proven engagement with the gendergap topic. The year's theme for the conference in New Delhi, India, was "Map Up, Rise Up".
A Wikimedia conference that covers the topic of diversity within and beyond the Wikimedia movement.
Techstorming is like brainstorming in a technical environment. To participate, you do not have to be some ICT genius. We are looking for women, men and gender-diverse people with an interest in ICT at all levels of experience.
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Hashtags: #Techstorm #WikiTechstorm
Conferencia que reunió a mujeres de 17 países con la finalidad de discutir sobre la brecha de género en los proyectos Wikimedia.
Closed projects and Campaigns[edit]
A global campaign to proactively source and support new projects aimed at increasing gender diversity in Wikimedia projects. Ideas were written up in IdeaLab, endorsed by community and matched to advisors and other team-members to help enable success. Proposals in need of funding from the Wikimedia Foundation could be selected for support by a committee composed of staff & volunteers (likely experimenting with some combination of existing IEG & GAC committee members). Initiative led by Wikimedia Foundation and closed.
Status : finished
A volunteer-run project and we need your help to inspire, engage and support more women to be involved in the Wikimedia movement.
When:launched 2012
Status: looks inactive
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WikiD: Women, Wikipedia, Design is an international education and advocacy program working to increase the number of Wikipedia articles on women in architecture and the built environment. The project includes running writing and editing workshops in Melbourne, New York and Berlin and providing architecture-specific guides that build on existing resources. WikiD is a collaboration between groups in Australia, Germany and the United States – Parlour, n-ails and Architexx. There is also a German project page. WikiD: Women, Wikipedia, Design was awarded funds as part of the inspire campaign 2015.
When: launched in 2015
Status : unknown
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As well as (non sorted)[edit]
- on English Wikipedia:
- Catalan:
- Danish:
- Dutch:
- French:
- Italian:
- Polish:
- Wikiprojekt:Kobiety
- (Nie)znane kobiety Wikipedii (annual event, every March)
- Spanish:
- Portuguese:
- Swedish:
- Catalan:
- German
- Bahasa Indonesia
- Republika Srpska: