Visibility Project/Labour Migration in Africa

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The Visibility Project is one of our drives to improve the visibility of African Women and increase the number of female contributors on Wikipedia.

Background

African Women in Media (AWIM), with support from African Union (AU), International Labour Organizatin, UN Migration and Sverige Sweden in collaboration with Wikimedia affiliates in Nigeria, Algeria, Cameroon, and, Uganda are working on improving the visibility of notable African women and related content within the space of Labour Migration in Africa. The training runs over three weeks. Week one will focus on live webinars training taken trainees to various aspects of the development of Wikipedia pages with a higher chance of approval by Wikipedia. During weeks two-three, trainees will be split into small groups and assigned a mentor that will guide their development of Wikipedia articles and profiles relevant to Labour Migration in Africa. A dashboard will be created to track all activities of the project.

Wikimedia Affiliates

Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) is one of over 165 international affiliates of Wikimedia Foundation Inc, headquartered at San Francisco, United States of America. It was registered as Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. as a non-profit organization in Nigeria with the aims of promoting open license initiatives in Nigeria through the promotion of Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda is a team of self-motivated individuals who volunteer to facilitate the creation and improvement of Ugandan content on Wikimedia Foundation project websites and promote free and open access to knowledge locally. The team also invests in projects that sensitize and train communities about Wikipedia and its sister projects.

Wikimedians of Cameroon User Group is a Wikimedia User Group (UG) that has the goal of supporting Wikimedia projects in Cameroon, supporting Cameroonian Wikimedians, and becoming the recognised chapter in Cameroon.

The Algerian Wikimedians User Group (also known as WikiDZ) is a local user group officially recognized by the Wikimedia Foundation. Its mission is to promote Wiki projects in Algeria. Mainly to help and encourage people to collect, develop and disseminate knowledge and other educational, cultural and historical content under free licenses that allow everyone to freely use human knowledge.

Scope of Work

Webinar Session: Five (5) online Wikipedia hands-on training will focus on different areas of the Wikipedia module. Details of focused areas are listed in the table above.
Virtual Mentoring Class: The mentoring class will be hosted via a communication platform e.g Whatsapp, Telegram, or any other popular communication platform. The class will coordinate the engagement of activities between mentors and mentees.
Editathon We plan a 5-day writing competition on Labour Migration in Africa. The competition will focus on African Women in the Workforce in Africa and Diaspora.

Project Timelines/ Work Plan

Activities	Specific Activities	Timelines	Expected Outcomes	Remarks
Self Pace	Collation of Resources Release of content under CC-BY-SA Design and launch of Program dashboard for measuring Project metrics Design of project landing page (Meta) Translation of landing page (Meta) from English to Arabic and French Registration of participants on and off-wiki. Call for participation Social media engagement (e.g. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc.)	30 October – 9 November, 2020	We plan to recruit 100 participants for this training. The number will be divided into three classes: English, Arabic, and French.
Live Training	Basic Wikipedia Editing and How to Cite a Wikipedia Article Wikimedia Commons: Licenses and the Use of Freely Licensed Images on Wikipedia Work-Flow of Creating Wikipedia page Cheatsheet of Wikipedia Editing Application of Neutral Point of View (NPOV) on Wikipedia	10 – 15 November 2020	The Virtual Training will take place concurrently in English, Arabic and French and it will focus on basic modules on Wikipedia (hands-on)	Duration (2hrs) per Webinar session. Each session will be recorded and make available before the next session on the landing page
Mentorship Class	Attending to feedbacks resulting from the virtual training Allocation of assignment to students Tracking of articles Review and correction of articles before publishing to avoid harassment of newbies on-wiki and speedy deletion of articles	16 – 23 November 2020	The following modules are expected to be covered: Wikipedia Essentials Editing Basic Evaluating Article and Sources Sandbox and Mainspace Sources and Citation Plagiarism + Copyright Violation Editing Journalism Tools Contributing Images and Media Files
Editathon	New editors to create their account before the event (if it has not been earlier created) Assign an event creator for the event Participants to sign up to the event dashboard Revision of all submitted names to confirm their notability status. Participants are assigned with names that satisfy Wikipedia's notability guidelines Articles review by a mentor before publication	24 – 31 November 2020	At least over 50 articles about African women within the space of Labour Migration in Africa will be created on Wikipedia At least over 30 participants will become Wikipedian editors

Resources for Self-pace Training

Webinar Sessions by community

Webinar Sessions for the English Community

S/n	Agenda	Date	Time (WAT)	Facilitator
1	Work-Flow of Creating Wikipedia page	16 November 2020	2pm-4pm	Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
2	Five Pillars of Wikipedia and The Cheatsheet of Wikipedia Editing	17 November 2020	2pm-4pm	Sam Oyeyele
3	Application of Neutral Point of View in a Wikipedia article (NPOV)	18 November 2020	2pm-4pm	Olaniyan Olushola
4	Basic Wikipedia Editing and How to Cite a Wikipedia Article	19 November 2020	2pm-4pm	Uzoma Ozurumba
5	Wikimedia Commons: Licenses and the Use of Freely Licensed Images on Wikipedia	20 November 2020	2pm-4pm	Isaac Olatunde

Webinar Sessions for the Arabic Community

S/n	Agenda	Date	Time (UTC)	Facilitator	Tuto Video links1	Tuto Video links2
1	History and how Wikipedia works / How to create an account on Wikipedia	16 November 2020	17h to 19h	B. Mekkia / bachounda M	https://w.wiki/maP	https://w.wiki/maR
2	Five Pillars of Wikipedia / Interface Article	17 November 2020	17h to 19h	B. Mekkia / bachounda M	https://w.wiki/maN	https://w.wiki/maV
3	Editing tools in Wikipedia / Basic Wikipedia Editing	18 November 2020	17h to 19h	B. Mekkia / bachounda M	https://w.wiki/maW
4	How to Cite a Wikipedia Article /What is the meaning of the source?	19 November 2020	17h to 19h	B. Mekkia / bachounda M	https://youtu.be/34MpLLGzHiY	https://youtu.be/nsC1PrV1KlM
5	Wikimedia Commons: Licenses and the Use of Freely Licensed Images on Wikipedia	20 November 2020	17h to 19h	B. Mekkia / bachounda M	https://youtu.be/tI9b0-lXwFI

Webinar Sessions for the French Community

French Community
S/n	Agenda	Date	Time (UTC)	Facilitator
1	Présentation générale; Présentation de Wikipedia (les principes fondateurs) et ses projets frères; Création de comptes et la page utilisateur	16 Novembre 2020	15h-17h	Georges Fodouop
2	Les critères de notabilité; Session pratique : Modifier un article, ajouter des sources	17 Novembre 2020	15h-17h	Georges Fodouop
3	Création des catégories, sous catégories; Création d’infoBox; Découverte de Wikimedia Commons; Lier les catégories d’images aux articles Wikipedia	18 Novembre 2020	15h-17h	Georges Fodouop – Minette Lontsie
4	Introduction à WikiData et la création d’entrées WikiData (Article et image)	19 Novembre 2020	15h-17h	Georges Fodouop
5	Création des articles	20 Novembre 2020	15h-17h	Minette Lontsie

Video Gallery of previous Webinar sessions

Visibility Project (East Africa) Day 1-Wikimedia Commons: Licenses and the Use of Freely Licensed Images on Wikipedia
Visibility Project (East Africa) Day 2-Basic Wikipedia Editing and How to Cite a Wikipedia Article
Visibility Project (East Africa) Day 3-Work-Flow of Creating Wikipedia page
Visibility Project (East Africa) Day 4-Cheat Sheet of Wikipedia Editing
Visibility Project(East Africa) - Day 5 Jifunze kuhariri Wikipedia (Learn how to edit Wikipedia)

Mentoring Class

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S/n	Class	Mentors	Dashboard
1	Arabic	Bachounda Gêt_Fenyan	Virtual Class
2	English	Kaizenify AKibombo	Virtual Class
3	French	Geugeor serieminou	Virtual Class

List of remarkable Africa women operating within the space of Labour Migration in Africa

This paragraph serves as a point for showcasing names of East African women (alive or dead) that have done tremendous things in their chosen profession by community.

English Community

S/n	Article	Citizenship	Gender
1	Agnes Igoye	Ugandan	Female
2	Fatou Jagne	Gambia	Female
3	Reda Shoukry	Egyptian	Female
4	Sophie Otiende	Kenyan	Female
5	Vanaja Jasphine	Cameroonian	Female
6	Amina Oufroukhi	Moroccan	Female

Arabic Community

num	Wikidata	Name	Project	Occupation	Citizenship	Gender	Birth	Death	Word added to Wikipedia	References
1	Q2842631	Amel Bouakba		Journalist	Algerian	Female
2	Q11908844	Baya Gacemi		Journalist	Algerian	Female	1950	24/04/2010
3	Q55057972	Yusra al baker		Journalist	Sudanese	Female	1992
4	Q3260197	Loubna Moussali		Journalist	Morrocan	Female	06/11/1985
5	Q3325949	Mouna Hachim		Journalist	Morrocan	Female	oct-67
6	Q16148711	Atyaf Al Wazir		Journalist	yemenite	Female
7	Q2375311	Naha Mint Seyyidi		Journalist	Mauritanian	Female	1953

French Community

S/n	Article	Occupation	Citizenship	Gender
1	Bwanga Pilipili	Actress	Congolese	Female
2	Rosine Mbakam	Film Director	Cameroonian	Female
3	Mireille Tchengang	Football Player	Cameroonian	Female
4	Nabou Fall	Entrepreneur/Author	Senegalese	Female
5	Farida Bemba Nabourema	Activist	Togolese	Female
6	Waithera Kabiru	Media	Kenyan	Female
7	Joyce Ashutantang	Poet, ACtress	Cameroonian	Female
8	Patricia Monthe	Entrepreneur	Cameroonian	Female
9	Sylvie Fofana	Activist	Ivorian	Female
10	Florelle Manda	Journalist	Congolese Senegalese	Female
11	Celine Fotso	Media	Cameroonian	Female
12	Suzanne BELLNOUN	Labour Migration Activist		Female
13	Rita Bissoonauth	Activist	Mauritius	Female
14	Nathalie Yamb	Politician	Cameroonian – Ivorian	Female
15	Maximilienne C. Ngombe	Activist		Female
16	Constance Ejuma	Actress and Producer	Cameroonian	Female
17	Iselle Akwoue	Entrepreneur	Gabon	Female
18	Gertrude NGO KALDJOP	Politician	Cameroonian	Female
19	Sophy Aida	Media	Cameroonian	Female
20	Reine Dominique Ntone Siké	Aerospace Engineer	Cameroonian	Female
21	Candace Nkoth Bisseck	Entrepreneur/activist	Cameroonian	Female
22	IMIGRAD	Migration Organisation	Malian	Organisation
23	OFAD – Organisation des Femmes Africaines de la Diaspora	Diaspora Women organisation	Cameroonian	Organisation
24	SMIC	NGO	Cameroonian	Organisation working on Migration
25	Charlotte Ntamack	Actress, storyteller, humorist, columnist	Cameroonian	Female
26	Margaret Fombe Fube	Film Director	Cameroonian	Female
27	Jocelyne Constant	Film Director	Cameroonian	Female
28	Isabella Maya	Actress, comedian, humorist, producer, director, screenwriter, drama and improv teacher	Ivorian – French	Female

List of participants by Usernames

Arabic Community

Anglophone Community

Francophone Community

Gêt Fenyan (talk) 09:50, 15 November 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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