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WikiDonne User Group
LocationRome
Affiliate codeWDG
Country codeITA
Legal statusAssociations for social promotion (non profit)
Approval dateNovember 7, 2016
Main officeRome
Official language(s)Italian
Other language(s)English
Key peopleCamelia
Incorporation paperStatutes
ReportsReports Page
AffiliationsIberocoop
Wikimedia Europe
WebsiteOfficial site
E-mail addresswikidonne(_AT_)gmail(_DOT_)com
Mailing listwikidonne(_AT_)googlegroups(_DOT_)com
Telegramgroup & @WikiDonneRoadmap channel
Twitter@WikiDonne
Facebookgroup & page
Instagram@WikiDonne
YouTubechannel
TikTok@wikidonne
MottoRendiamo le donne visibili nei progetti Wikimedia!
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w.wiki/3bH8
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WikiDonne User Group is a group of users who work on issues related to women and more generally to diversity (territorial, cultural, linguistic, generational, gender, attitudinal and ability, etc.) within the movement wiki.

Goals

The main objective is to increase diversity of any kind and reduce the "gender gap" within Wikipedia and the Wikimedia movement in general:

  • enrich the contents concerning women and non- and under-represented groups in Wikimedia projects (especially in Italian)
  • offering space and support to people who want to collaborate on projects
  • coordinating people in order to involve more women to write on Wikipedia and to improve the quality of the entries
  • creating events, meetings, edit-a-thons, conferences, campaigns aimed at raising awareness of women's biographies and issues and increasing the Wikimedia movement worldwide
  • collaborating with other groups that have our same goals: WikiWomen, WikiMujeres, Les sans pagEs, Art + Feminism, Whose Knowledge?, Wiki Loves Women, Wikimedia LGBT+ etc.

History

Awareness of the huge gender gap during presentations (especially by Rosiestep and FloNight) in Wikimania Esino Lario 2016, the idea of doing something was born. After the creation of WikiDonne project (4 August) for the participation in the HerStory editathon organized by May Hachem together with the UN (12 August), on 14 October 2016 Camelia begins the procedures for the recognition as user group affiliated to Wikimedia Foundation by AffCom. The group, based in Rome, has the following description:

We are a group of users who aim to increase diversity and improve the coverage of topics concerning women in Wikipedia, drawing up lists of entries (to be created from scratch, to be improved and translated) and organizing events. Men are always welcome, our intention is not to transform Wikipedia into "Donnepedia" but to make everyone aware of the reality of the gender gap in content and participation.

Two other wikimedians are involved in the group: Susanna and Beatrice for insertion as active users of the user group.

On November 7, 2016, WikiDonne is officially recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation as an affiliate of the Wikimedia movement, with the code WDG.

WikiDonne UG managed the Diversity Space during Wikimania 2019 in Stockholm and in November 2021 created the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Hub (DEIH).

Activities

With the WikiDonne project in Italian Wikipedia and WikiDonne project in Wikibooks in Italian, WDG participate in the global project Women in red and the projects created by Iberoccop. WDG collaborate with other user groups to increase the content concerning the groups represented below (women, LGBT world, Africa, South America, Asia): Les sans pagEs for the insertion in Wikipedia of biographies of Mediterranean women, Art + Feminism, Whose Knowledge?, Wiki Loves Women; and with the chapters: Wikimedia Sverige and the Swedish Embassy in Rome for the Wikigap campaign, with Wikimedia Italia, Wikimedia Switzerland and Wikimedia Deutschland. The Women in Islam project for women in the Arab-Islamic culture, Women in STEM (itinerant edit-a-thons) and Women and Shoah. To reduce the "gender gap" in Wikimedia projects, it collaborates with national and international bodies and institutions, organizing in person and online edit-a-thons in Italy and abroad, awareness of the problem of diversity in Wikimedia projects (launching campaigns such as Interwiki Women, Wiki Loves Sport, Wiki Loves Fashion, Bauhaus Women), introductory meetings to the wiki world, mapping days in Open Street Map. It provides free mini-courses in writing and encyclopedic culture to professional associations and schools, as part of the school-work alternation activity. The activities page in detail.

Policy

Strategy, recommendations and CoC

  • On April 4th, 2017, WikiDonne User Group adopted the Code of Conduct of the technical environments of MediaWiki for carrying out its activities on line and off line(in presence)
  • May 27, 2017 started a discussion on the Wikimedia 2030.
  • On 25 October 2020, discussions on recommendations and their prioritization began.


Metrics

To see the metrics - events organised, number of participants, number of new articles edited (new and improved), number of sources added, page views etc. - here the link on the tool Dashboard.

Contacts

For any information, enter a new section on the discussion page, subscribe to the mailing list wikidonne (_AT_) gmail.com or write directly to camelia.boban (_AT_) gmail.com.

Foundresses
Primary contacts declared to WMF

Board

Election of Board of Directors

Resolutions

Resolutions of the Board of Directors of WikiDonne

Social media

Resources

Media Coverage

Detail: Media Coverage (press release)

Logos

Details: Logos

Participants and supporters

Right now we have a policy of maximum openness to anyone who wants to actively participate in our projects, but signing up to be part of the user group commits its members to fully accept and respect the Code of Conduct (CoC).

From 2021, following the attainment of non-profit status (Associazione di Promozione Sociale APS) legally recognized and inserted in the Registro Unico Nazionale del Terzo Settore (RUNTS) and the related legal obligation to keep a register of subscribed members, the membership is deliberated after compiling the request form with the personal data requested by Italian law (tax code, identity document, personal data, physical address, telephone number), payment of the subscription fee of €10 and subsequent approval by the board.

  • Participants to the project on Italian Wikipedia.
  • Other people interested in participating:
  1. --Alexmar983 (talk)
  2. --Kaspo (talk) 21:18, 31 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Rajeeb (talk) 05:44, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Mascha2013 (talk) 07:14, 21 April 2019 (UTC)...[reply]
  5. --Manavpreet Kaur (talk) 16:55, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  6. --Netha Hussain (talk) 20:01, 30 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  7. --Rosiestep (talk) 17:01, 2 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  8. --Marcmiquel (talk) 22:44, 12 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  9. --Wikilover90 (talk) 08:07, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  10. --Geoide (talk) 16:56, 17 May 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  11. --Brapacc (talk) 16:45, 11 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  12. --Ferdi2005[Mail] 18:03, 24 September 2019 (UTC)[reply]
  13. --Ettorre (talk) 15:17, 29 February 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  14. --Lorenza Colicigno (talk)
  15. --Slowking4 (talk) 02:01, 3 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  16. --EricaAzzellini (talk) 01:14, 8 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  17. Suyash Dwivedi (talk) 10:42, 16 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  18. -- Chinmayee Mishra (talk) 11:29, 19 March 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  19. --Mickey83 (talk) 16:36, 21 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  20. --Nessma Elaassar (talk) 00:34, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  21. --Fcarbonara (talk) 15:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  22. --Kiran Gopi (talk) 06:05, 10 September 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  23. --Epanto (talk) 11:53, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  24. -- SHISHIR DUA (talk) 20:28, 4 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]
  25. --LorManLor 2.37.161.52 18:23, 20 January 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  26. -- Nehaoua (talk) 15:01, 28 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  27. -- daSupremo 15:14, 20 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  28. --Don Stroud (talk) 09:50, 30 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  29. --Dolon Prova (talk) 04:35, 16 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
  30. Kani Beat (talk) 23:32, 13 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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April 2025 CEE Hub Newsletter Now Available

Good morning,

The latest edition of the CEE Hub Newsletter is now available, bringing you updates from across the region and beyond. This issue features new initiatives, event highlights, and opportunities for engagement.

In This Issue:

  • Meet Karolina Gruszczyk – Introducing the new Community & Communications Specialist at CEE Hub, working to strengthen communication and support communities across the region.
  • International Wikimedia Updates – A look at key global events and discussions shaping the movement in 2025.
  • Next CEE Catch-up (April 23, 2025) – A Foundation Annual Planning Workshop focused on global trends affecting Wikimedia communities.
  • Wiki Loves Food in Latvia – The Latvian Wikipedia community successfully revives engagement with a culinary writing competition.
  • Czechoslovakia 2024 Challenge – Over 210 articles and 498 photographs contributed to document history, culture, and everyday life.
  • WikiGap Tirana 2025 – The 8th edition of this initiative continues efforts to improve the representation of women on Albanian Wikipedia.
  • Wikipedia for 55+ in Ukraine – A new program supporting senior citizens in becoming active Wikipedia editors.
  • Cultural Heritage Under Threat – A photography exhibition in St. Petersburg showcasing endangered cultural heritage sites.
  • Open Calls & Consultations – Opportunities for community members to share their perspectives and participate in movement-wide discussions.

Read the full newsletter here. Happy reading!

On behalf of the CEE Newsletter team,

--janbery, 08:43, 2 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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