Africa Day is May 25th!

Join us as this year, in celebration of Africa Day, we add articles to Wikipedia about notable African Leaders.

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Your Mission

The goal this Africa Day is to add at least one sentence or item to Wikipedia on a notable African woman.

Don't forget to add a citation/ bibliographical reference and if adding media like a photo, don't forget to be sure it is yours or available for free to the public.

Check out our section on citations and adding images.

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Your mission: Edit or add a sentence to at least one article or item to Wikipedia or Wiki Commons on a notable African Woman.

Once you have your Wikipedia user account and have registered to the Dashboard
Go to the AfroCROWD Tutorials page for a guided tour of Wikipedia with free videos on how to edit Wikipedia.
Then return to this page and browse our editing ideas section and choose your editing topic. Visible Women of Colors or Wiki Loves Women are great places to start for example.
Once you are done with your first edit, sounds off! Let us know via social media using the hashtag #WikiAfricaDay2019 on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram and sharing a pic or telling us about the person you wrote about.

No matter how you edit, remember to have fun! Happy Africa Day 2019!

Ideas for editing

Click below for lists of notable African Women from within the Wikipedia community

Add Your Suggestions Here of African women articles to be improved or created:

Elsie Kanza
Daphne Mashile Nkosi
Maria Luísa Abrantes
Valentine Rugwabiza (for translations)
Folake Coker (for translations)
Queen Ahmose-Nefertari
Dahia al-Kahina, in what is now Algeria, army commander, 690 AD
Ann Nzingha, military commander, pre-colonial Angola
Prof. Chioma Agomo
Kathleen Addy
Oyinkan Braithwaite
Michelle Essome
Angeli Arora
Adesua Dozie
Saratu Atta
Laila Ali Abdulla (edit)
Constance Ikokwu
Mosun Layode
Reni Folawiyo
Aisha Mohammed Oyebode
Jewel Taylor (edit)
Pearl Uzokwe.

Other Useful information/ Resources

Editing contribution types for new Wikipedia editors:

Is this your very first time? Try this:

Add a biographical sentence: Start with a name, a birthday, an occupation or title, what they famously did, and (very importantly) a citation to verify your information from a credible source(s).

How to make a citation (bibliographical reference):

1) First, click on the pencil icon on the right to begin using "Visual Editor". Visual editor makes editing easier - like writing a school paper.

2) In Visual Editor, click on the area you want to add the citation. Then click cite. If you have a website as a source, add the website to the blank area.

If you do not have a website source, click manual and follow the prompts. Then click publish. If you have questions, ask a Wikimedia coach or go to Wikipedia:Tutorial/Citing sources.

3) Then click publish.

Relevant videos and other media

Optional:

Introduction to adding images to Wikipedia via Wiki Commons

More on Wikipedia

Wikipedia is the fifth most visited website on earth (World Economic Forum), and the English language Wikipedia contains nearly 5.5 million articles, more than 40 million worldwide on 265 separate language sites, resulting in 16 billion page views per month.^[7] (See the statistics page for more information.)

Wikimedia Benin
Women's Association for Technology and Innovation (WAFTI)

More on AfroCROWD

Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is an outreach initiative and Wikimedia usergroup which seeks to increase awareness of the Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture, and software movements among potential editors of African descent. Since its launch during Black Wiki History Month in 2015, AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held regular, multilingual edit-a-thons in partnership with educational and cultural institutions, galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM) among and more since it's inception.

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