Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid/Results and best practices 2022

The Wiki Loves Women initiative celebrates women leaders with the SheSaid drive. The drive is aimed at improving the visibility of women in creating new or improving already existing Wikiquote entries related to them.
First launched in October 2020, the #SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote has been an amazing success! Across 7 languages, by the 5th January 2021, it resulted overall in 867 new or improved articles (the majority new). Italian Wikiquote was the clear language winner (405 articles) with Ukraine (187) and French (105) coming not so close behind. This is an amazing result – thank you for getting women’s voices heard.
The second edition was yet again a success with 1500+ Wikiquote entries created (and more improved) in 9 languages! Italian and Tagalog were the most active languages.

Background

To balance the representation of gender in the entries of Wikiquote.

To illustrate the situation, here are a few interesting figures:

On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in the Selected people section, 29 men are featured and only 4 women (see the screenshot on the right).
There are 260 women who have featured articles on either French or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquote.
There are 162 women who have featured articles on the English Wikipedia with no wikiquote entry.
There are 777 women and 3504 men listed on the French wikiquote.
As of December 2022 there were 374 women as opposed to 2876 men listed on the German wikiquote.
There were 264 women who have featured articles on either the German or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the German Wikiquote.

Obviously, not all women said good quotes that would make a wikiquote entry worth it. Still...

SheSaid Grants in 2022

Approuved: Rwanda
Approuved: Zimbabwae
Approuved: Nigeria
Approuved: Philippines

SheSaid Events in 2022

SheSaid 2022 in Nigeria
SheSaid 2022 in Botswana
SheSaid 2022 in Philippines
SheSaid 2022 in Cape Town
SheSaid 2022 Rwanda
SheSaid 2022 in Nigeria
SheSaid 2023 in Philippines

Participationg Communities

SheSaid communication materials

The following are the newsletters that have been published on the Wiki Loves Women website about the #SheSaid campaign:

#SheSaid Campaign Results

Social Media campaigns

Between October 1st and December 31st 2023, we runned many campaigns on our social media accounts in purpose to raise awarness about the gender gap inequity in terms of content.

Visuals

Metrics

During 91 days, our social media campaigns on twitter resulted in:

18.6K impressions (204 per day)
3,2% engagement rate
55 link clicks
153 retweets
11 replies

#SheSaid campaign bookmarks to encourage participation

To celebrate influential women, the Focus Group members designed the below bookmarks to print and share with their communities.

Results

The SheSaid 2022 resulted in +4158 articles created or imported and +1918 articles improved. The first three places go to the Italian, English and Ukrainian Wikiquotes. Below are the stats:

Italian : 919 created, 293 articles improved
Ukrainian : 347 created, 78 improved
French : 89 created, 19 improved
Spanish : 124 created, 8 improved
English : 863 created, 137 improved
Catalan : 13 created, 3 improved
Bengali : 6 created, 2 improved
Igbo : 484 created, 731 improved
Philippines : 183 created, 252 improved
Tagalog : 1120 created, 394 improved
German : 10 created, 1 improved

Lessons learnt & Challenges

We got entirely brand new and great queries to track the participation thanks to the help of a wikiquote editor.
The usual Ukrainian and Italian communities were very active with experienced editors. The English version was very active with new comers.
This year, the English community reacted a bit negatively to the project, because some very new editors were a bit disruptive (did not read the rules in particular) and made mandatory a lot of post-editing clean-up.
Discussions were very active on the talk page of the English Wikiquote and several ideas to improve the contest (welcome newcomers…) were already laid out for next year
This year, SheSaid had a Site notice banner!