W I K I G A P Tunis

WikiGap 2018

WikiGap is an international event that happens simultaneously in more than 40 countries in the world to celebrate International Women’s Day in the 8th of March.

Background

In Tunisia, more than 60% of Wikipedia articles related to celebrities are about leading men in the national history. Only 30% of the articles talk about the feminine leaders. In 2018, 131 articles were written about famous tunisian men, while only about 60 were written about women.

Also, in the Tunisian User group, the gender gap is unfortunately important. Only 25% of the members are women.

WikiGap Tunisia

In Tunisia, for this year, the Wikimedia TN User Group partnered with the Swedish Embassy, The CREDIF, Asswat Tounes and Ericsson to organize the WikiGap workshop in the headquarters of Ericsson, where during 4 hours, participants wrote, translated and updated Wikipedia articles about feminine leaders in the history of Tunisia and Sweden.

Partners

Wikimedia TN User Group
Swedish embassy
Ericsson
Aswat Nissa

Trainers

Afek Ben Chahed, Houssem Abida and Marwen Bouassida

Houssem Abida
Afek Ben Chahed
Marwen Bouassida

Structure

1st part : Introdcution to Wikimedia

Participants got a small presentation about the different Wikimedia projects and how they can contribue in each one.

2nd part : Introduction to Wikipedia

Trainers organized a small technical training about how to use the Wikipedia tools to edit articles in Wikipedia.

3rd part : The Edit-a-thon

For two hours, participants wrote articles about more than 15 feminine leaders in human rights, women rights, arts, medicine, sciences and other fields.

Participants during the workshop
Wikimedia TN UG Team with the Swedish ambassador, Ericsson's country manager and Aswat Nissa's team
Mentors explaining the Wikipedia tools
The Swedish ambassador giving a speech

Participants

The workshop gave the opportunity for more than 15 man and woman from different ages and backgrounds, to gather, join the Wikimedia movement, and fight for a noble cause : Filling the gender gap