Visibility Project/East Africa

The Visibility Project for East Africa is one of our drives to improve the visibility of African Women and increase the number of female contributors on Wikipedia. The project will focus a month-long Wikipedia training for women journalists in East Africa.

Background

African Women in Media, with support from UNESCO within the framework of the IPDC' is implementing the project “Risk Communication and Community Engagement training for East African Women in Media.” The resource hub will house six MOOCs, a research centre, and a database of East African women global health journalists. AWiM considers the capacity development of women journalists, and the development of research into the lived experiences of African women in media industries as two of its five core priorities. This project contributes to achieving these. The resultant journalistic outputs will also contribute to improving the representation of African women in media content, another key priority area for AWiM. The project will also see Wikimedia teams in Nigeria, Uganda and Tanzania, train 200 East African women journalists to create Wikipedia profiles for East African women journalists specialised in health reporting.

Wikimedia User Group Nigeria (WUGN) is one of over 165 international affiliates of Wikimedia Foundation Inc, headquartered at Sanfrascico, 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.

Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania is one of the officially recognized user groups of Wikimedia projects contributors who serves to extend the reach of Wikimedia Foundation projects and activities in Tanzania. The aim of this group is establishing the presence of the Wikimedia Movement in Tanzania as well as creating awareness of Wikimedia projects to Tanzanians, editing and adding contents to Wikimedia projects which includes editing Swahili Wikipedia (swwiki) and English Wikipedia (enwiki). Also the group serves on recruiting and training people on how they can be a part of Wikimedia movement through editing and adding contents to Wikipedia and its sister projects. Although the group deals with both Wikipedia ya Kiswahili and English Wikipedia, much focus is on Swahili Wikipedia. Apart from those activities, the group plays the roles of hosting different online and offline events such as Editathons (Wikipedia editing sessions), Workshops, entering partnership with free knowledge entities as well as hosting Trainings that seeks to extend and improve the reach of Wikimedia projects to Tanzanians and elsewhere whenever needed.

Scope of Work

Training: Collation of resources for training and release of licenses under CCBYSA, design and launch of program dashboard for measuring project metrics, communication channel and design of project landing page ( Meta).
Webinar Session: Four (5) online Wikipedia hands-on training will be organized to focus on different areas of Wikipedia module. Details of focused areas are listed in the table above.
Mentorship: Attending to feedback from students, allocation of assignment to students, tracking of articles, review and rating of article before publication to avoid harassment and nomination of articles for deletion.
Reporting: Project reporting, number of editors participated, number of bytes contributed, number of articles created, number of articles edited, the total number of photos uploaded to commons.

Project Time-Lines/ Work Plan

Activities	Specific Activities	Time Lines	Expected Outcomes	Remarks
Awareness	Collation of Resources Release of content under CCBYSA) Design and launch of Program dashboard for measuring Project metrics Design of project landing page ( Meta) Registration of participants on and off-wiki. Social media engagement eg Facebook, Instagram, twitter etc	05 -11 June 2020	Participants are expected to visit the project landing page and partner’s website for the uploaded Videos for a self-pace training session.
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 Jifunze kuhariri Wikipedia (Learn how to edit Wikipedia)	8-12 June 2020	Participants will be engaged in live training sessions ( 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 from students per previous sessions Allocation of assignment to students	15-19 June 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	22-25 June 2020	At least over 50 articles about African women will be created on Wikipedia At least 0ver 70 participants will become Wikipedian editors
Reporting	Project Reporting Number of editors participated Number of Bytes contributed. Number of articles created Number of articles edited Total number of photos uploaded to commons	26 June-05 July 2020	The overall report of the event as mentioned in the column for Specific activities are presented to AWIM and Publish on landing page

Our Facilitators and Mentors

Name	Title	Profile
Ayokanmi Oyeyemi	Experienced Trainer from Wikimedia Nigeria	Ayokanmi Oyeyemi is an experienced Wikipedia editor and trainer within the wikimedia movements from Nigeria. His penchant for documenting African story and profiling various remarkable African women has given him the opportunity to travel wide organizing and facilitating various trainings. He is very passionate about the works of women and had worked closely within the last 3 years to give voice to women. Aside leading women projects, he is also an award winning professional photographer and co-lead for Wiki Loves Love International project. He resides and work from Lagos, Nigeria
Antoni Mtavangu	Co-founder \| Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania	Antoni Mtavangu is a tech enthusiast & entrepreneur, Wikimedia projects volunteer & contributor since 2016, Women advocate and a Co-founder of Wikimedia Community User Group Tanzania. His main focus is on expansion of Swahili Wikipedia through editing it, starting new articles as well as facilitating, sharing knowledge and leading Wikipedia training to his fellow Wikimedians on how to contribute to Wikimedia projects. Through collaboration with his community members, He has championed various projects such as Wiki Loves Women, Wikigap, Wiki Loves Africa, Afrocine project, #1Lib1Ref, organizing East Africa Wikipedia Training, local editathons and Wiki-Workshops. Currently he is also a Universal Code of Conductor facilitator working with the Wikimedia Foundation on creation of the Universal Code of Conduct policy, a projects that is expected to create an environment where every Wikimedian and any other open knowledge enthusiasts will feel free to contribute to WMF projects without having any fear of being harassed.
Sam Oyeyele	Founder of The AfroCine Project	Sam has been a Wikipedian since 2011. He is a founding-member of Wikimedia Nigeria, and since its inception has served as the Outreach Coordinator, coordinating and facilitating dozens of Wikimedia outreach events, workshops, contests, edit-a-thons and campaigns. He is also the founder of The AfroCine Project, a multi-country and multi-faceted WikiProject which aims to encourage the contribution of content that relates to the historical and contemporary cinema, theatre, and arts sectors of several African countries, the Caribbean and the diaspora to Wikimedia projects."
Medi Ashioma	User Experience Designer.	Ashioma Medi is a User Interface and User Experience Designer. He is a graduate of Chemistry from the Delta State University, Nigeria and holds a Master's degree in Organic Chemistry from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Ashioma has been an active contributor to the Wikimedia projects (English Wikipedia, Commons, Meta and Wikibooks) since 2017. He holds the New Pages Reviewer right on the English Wikipedia. Outside the Wikimedia movement, he is a Visual & User Experience Designer and self taught programmer, as well as a Data Analyst. He loves basketball and video games.
Uzoma Ozurumba	Co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group	Uzoma Ozurumba is a Co-founder of the Igbo Wikimedians User Group one of the recognised Wikimedia community in Nigeria. Since 2017, she has been contributing primarily to Meta, Commons, Igbo Wikipedia as well as Igbo Wiktionary, of which she is a founder. Uzoma serves as the Igbo Wiki User Group co-ordinator and a Strategy Liaison for the group. She is very passionate about bridging the gender gap online and has been WikiGap ambassador for 3years.
Isaac Olatunde	Co-founder of Wikimedia Nigeria	Isaac Olatunde is a long-time Wikipedia editor, Co-founder and the Trustee Secretary, Wikimedia Nigeria Foundation Inc. He was a member of the Individual Engagement Grant Committee, WMF (2015-2016) and a serving member of the Project Grant Committee, Wikimedia Foundation. He co-chaired the Wiki Indaba Conference 2019 and chaired the Scholarship Review Committee. He served on the Scholarship Committee, Creative Commons Global Summit 2020. Isaac is an Associate Editor, WikiJournal of Medicine (2020 to date). He has led over 30 Wikimedia training/workshops. He is an administrator on Yoruba Wikipedia and a Copyright License Reviewer on Wikimedia Commons.
Alice Kibombo	Librarian and trainer from Wikimedia Usergroup Uganda	Alice is a member of the Wikimedia Community User Group – Uganda. Over the last 4 years she has coordinated and facilitated a number of Wikimedia campaigns, workshops, contests and edit-a-thons in Uganda. Her main interests are in projects that aim to decrease the gender gap, GLAM and history and she regularly contributes to both English and Luganda Wikipedias as well as WikiData.

Resources for Self-pace Training

Wikipedia Training slides by Wikimedia Nigeria

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Webinar Sessions

S/n	Agenda	Date	Time (EAT)	Facilitator
1	Wikimedia Commons: Licenses and the Use of Freely Licensed Images on Wikipedia	8 June 2020	2pm-4pm	Olatunde Isaac
2	Basic Wikipedia Editing and How to Cite a Wikipedia Article	9 June 2020	2pm-4pm	Uzoma Ozurumba
3	Work-Flow of Creating Wikipedia page	10 June 2020	2pm-4pm	Ayokanmi Oyeyemi
4	Five Pillars of Wikipedia and The Cheatsheet of Wikipedia Editing	11 June 2020	2pm-4pm	Sam Oyeyele
5	Jifunze kuhariri Wikipedia (Learn how to edit Wikipedia)	12 June 2020	2pm-4pm	Antoni Mtavangu

Video Gallery for the 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

Mentorship Class

S/n	Menotor	Dashboard
1	Olaniyan Olshuola	Class A
2	T Cells	Class B
3	Kaizenify	Class C
4	SuperSwift	Class D
5	Uzoma Ozurumba	Class E
6	Jadnapac	Class G
7	AKibombo	Class H

Metrics

Proposed names of remarkable women from East Africa for the Visibility Project

This paragraph serves as a nominating point for the names of East African women ( alive or dead ) that have done tremendous things in their chosen profession. It will also include existing names on Wikipedia that needs some improvement.

S/n	Name	Image	Occupation	Date of Birth	Date of Death	Wikidata	Notability Check

List of participants by User Names

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Project is supported by UNESCO
The program was designed by Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
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