Grants:TPS/Islahaddow/Wikimania/2019/Report

Welcome back from Wikimania 2019!

Participant

User:Islahaddow

commons.wikimedia.org

en.wikipedia.org

meta.wikimedia.org

Outcome

ISA inspired by Wiki Loves Africa project, presented by Anthere

At Wikimania, we didn't create something new, but we did have the opportunity to launch a project we have been working on for a while ... the ISA tool. At Wikimania we adapted the tool for the event and launched a campaign specifically around the photographs that were under the Wikimania 2019 category. You can see the results of the campaign here: Wikimania photos described on ISA

Connections

• I reconnected with African Wikimedians and met new people who are interested in participating in African-based projects at the Africa Meetup;
• I was asked to contribute to a documentary on 20 years of Wikipedia by independent filmmakers.
• As always, it was a pleasure to reconnect with friends (and make new ones!!) from Wikimedia around the world!

Anything else

Gender gap across Africa panel

Isla presenting at the Gender Gap Panel

The Wikimania 2019 poster session showing posters for Wiki Loves Africa and Wiki Loves Women

Wikimedia Strategy Working Group members meeting at Wikimania 2019

• I was attending Wikimania wearing several "hats":

• Sharing information about Wiki In Africa projects was very important. I participated in the following presentations:

• A panel on gender-equity projects across Africa
• A workshop/discussion on the Open Knowledge Curriculum
• Panellist on the Gender Gap session by Rupika (User:Wikilover90)
• Support for the team delivering the Structured Data on Commons panel
• Finally, we also had a few poster sessions that we presented:

• WikiFundi : Editing Wikipedia offline across Africa
• 5 years of Wiki Loves Africa
• WikiChallenge African Schools
• Wiki Loves Women across 6 countries

• Advocacy Working Group member: presenting and discussing with the community the recommendations for Advocacy as prepared for Wikimania