Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid
The SheSaid is a drive run by Wiki In Africa as part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative. The campaign aims to celebrate and recognize women by focusing on enhancing their representation and visibility on Wikiquote. Through this drive, the WLW initiative encourages the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to these influential women, thus contributing to a more inclusive and diverse representation of their voices and perspectives.
The impact of the #SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote has been truly remarkable, with over 15,555 new articles created or edited in 18 different languages across the last three editions. This impressive achievement reflects the collective effort and dedication of the Wiki Loves Women initiative and the different participating communities in celebrating and increasing the visibility of women leaders.
The continuous growth in the number of articles created or edited with each edition showcases the sustained success of the campaign. It indicates a growing awareness and commitment from contributors around the world to bridge the gender gap in representation and recognition.
Given to this success and noting that there is still a lot to do, the #SheSaid drive will run again in 2024 and will run from the 1st of September till 31st of December 2024
Why the SheSaid campaign?
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 were featured and only 4 women (see the screenshot on the right).
- There were 260 women who had featured articles on either French or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquote.
- There were 162 women who had featured articles on the English Wikipedia with no wikiquote entry.
- There were 777 women and 3504 men listed on the French wikiquote.
As a matter of comparison, in September 2024 there are 1450 women as opposed to 3879 men listed on the French wikiquote.
Obviously, not all women say good quotes that would make a wikiquote entry worth it. Also note that notability rules depends on language Wikiquotes.
- Women ?
The primary and most important goal of the drive is to collect quotes « from women ». Occasionally, the quotes may be « about women » or they may be in tight relation with female gender topics; that’s ok but not the primary goal.
"Woman" must be understood as "person self-identified as a woman". Some participants do sometimes add quotes from non-binary people; that’s ok but not the primary goal.
Who can join ?
- Who can participate ?
Everyone is welcome to join the effort, regardless of gender, age, mother language, nationality.
Emphatically, all genders are very welcome.
Individual participation is welcome. Groups are welcome as well.
Impact
The #SheSaid campaign, launched in October 2020 on Wikiquote, has been an astounding success! Spanning across 7 languages, by January 5th, 2021, the campaign led to a total of 867 new or improved articles, with the majority being new contributions.
- Following Italian Wikiquote's remarkable contribution of 405 articles, Ukraine comes in the second place with 187 articles, and French takes the third spot with 105 articles.
The second edition was a resounding success, with 1500+ new Wikiquote entries created and improved in 9 languages!
In 2022, the 3rd edition of the campaign run from the 1st October to 31st December 2022 and resulted in 4158 articles created or imported and 1918 articles improved.
Social Media and contact
- Website: www.wikiloveswomen.org
- Twitter: @Wikiloveswomen
- Instagram: @WikiLovesWomen
- Facebook page: @WikiLovesWomen
- Facebook group: Mind The Gender Gap group
- Telegram group: WikiGenderGap
Communications and design
Creating visuals to promote the campaign and Wikiquote each edition is an effective way to engage the audience and generate interest in the initiative.
Visual materials like postcards, bookmarks, and banners which can serve as eye-catching reminders of the campaign's mission and encourage people to take part. They can be distributed at events, conferences, and other gatherings to attract attention and spark interest in Wikiquote and the importance of recognizing and celebrating women.
For help and access to templates on Canvas, please get in touch with Afek
Link to the categories: SheSaid 2024 visuals and SheSaid all visuals
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Blogposts
To know more about our impact, you can read the following blogpostsː
- Wiki Loves Women’s #SheSaid Campaign Gives Notable Women a Voice on Wikiquote
- #SheSaid20 Gives Women a Voice on Wikiquote
- #SheSaid20 Amplifies the Voices of 867 women
- #SheSaid Campaign Launch
- Launches : getting women’s voices heard
- Carol hosts SheSaid in Kenya
- WLW: Let women’s voices be heard through #SheSaid
- #SheSaid 2021 Global Campaign Results!!!
- SheSaid in Nairobi – an eye-opening experience
- #SheSaid Campaign Results
- Cape Town #SheSaid event adds 25 South African women to Wikiquote over 3-day workshop
- My #SheSaid Experience
- She has a lot to say! #SheSaid
- SheSaid 2022–2023 in Zimbabwae
- The #SheSaid campaign is back – Join the 5th edition!
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#1 Florence Devouard]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#2 Ciell]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#3 Bashir ]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#4 Essenam]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#5 Masana]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#6 Abigali]
- #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviewsː [#7 Nanour]
External media coverage
- Empowering Women through Wiki-Media: 11 Journalists Trained in Kaduna State, article on People Gazette. 14th January 2024
- Foundation trains 11 women journalists on Hausa wiki-quote in Kaduna, article on People Gazette. 14th January 2024
- Foundation trains 11 women journalists on Hausa wiki-quote in Kaduna, article on Wikki Times. 14th January 2024
- WIKIPEDIA: NAWOJ, Others Set to Raise Women’s Voice Across Northern Nigeria, article on Trace Reporters. 14th January 2024
- Embrace Internet for Development, Herald.co.zw. 28 Sept 2021
- #SheSaid Amplifies Women’s Voices via WikiQuote from Diff
- #SheSaid : rendre compte de la parole des femmes, sur WikiQuote par Antoine Oury, publié le 22/02/2021.