WikiEmbrace

It is a project to grant access and inclusion of persons with disabilities PWD in South West and North Central region of Nigeria. We are looking at embracing them into the Movement as a whole, not limiting it to editing or edithatons but assisting in maximizing opportunities in the Wikimedia Movement. WikiEmbrace is all about Accessibilty, Social Inclusion and Empowerment of PWDs. WikiEmbrace aims to fufill the slogan of Wikipedia and other sister project, an encyclopedia everyone can edit as we embrace and acknowledge the community of as part of the movement.

Event details

Location: Physical socially distanced event in Lagos and Ilorin with online follow up.

Date: 6th and 24th August 2021

Registration

Kindly register for the two-day online event here [1]

How to participate

Sign in or Create a New Account on Wikipedia.

Enroll on the WikiEmbrace 2021 Outreach Dashboard to track your contributions. (coming soon).

Sign up in the participants section on this page. (coming soon)

List the articles created or improved under the Articles created/improved section.

Attend the opening session on Thursday, 10th and closing session on Friday, 12th August, 2021

Action Points

1.Teaching participants how to access Wikipedia with assistive technology how to set up an account and general rules of Wikipedia.

2 Improve or create an article(s) of a notable young persons living with disabilities. Then, in a sentence or two, state why you choose the article and why it matters to you, under your username in the Action completed section on this page.

3 Upload image(s) of people living with disabilites, their daily life or images representing this).

4 State and share link of an article you have written or image you have uploaded and why it matters to you under your username in the Action completed section on this page.

5 Create awareness of Wikiembrace on Socialmedia .

Participants