Wikipedia:WikiProject Wiki Loves/16 African Women Translate-a-thon
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In honor of African women, especially women of Nigerian descent,
Wikimedia UG Nigeria in collaboration with , Goethe Institut and WikiAfrica will be co-hosting Wiki Loves Women in Nigeria with the objective of translating 16 articles of African women on wikipedia.The event is conceptualized to improve the coverage of women on Wikipedia and her related projects. The event is tagged: 16 African Women Translate-a-thon
THANK YOU!
A giant thank you to all the NGOs that are joining us for this event. Keep editing |
Wiki Loves Women Edit-a-Thon 2017
[edit]Event Page on Meta
[edit]Goals
[edit]- To make articles about African women available in many languages on wikipedia
- To encourage the Nigerian women community to learn how to contribute to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects.
Wiki Loves Women’s Partners
[edit]- Goethe-Institut, Lagos Nigeria
- m:WikiAfrica
- Wikimedia France
- Wikimedia User Group Nigeria
Participation details
[edit]- When
- Saturday, March 4th 2017
- 3:00pm
- Who
- Wikipedians
- Interested member of the society
- No advanced technical skills required – those with experience will help
- What to bring
- Laptop computer with power cable
- If you’ve been part of the data-gathering exercise leading up to the edit-a-thon, bring your files and photos
- If you have not been part of the preparatory research work, there will be an ambitious task list for you to work on.
- Where
- Bantu Studio,
- 14 Fez Street,
- Off Kumasi Crescent, Wuse 2 (Landmarks: Domino Pizza and Wakkis Restaurant)
- Abuja
- Nigeria
- RSVP
- Sign up directly below or send mail to: olaniyanshol15@gmail.com
- This event is free of charge but we need an advance count of attendees.
If you don’t need the tutorials, you can just start/keep editing!
Wikipedia Editing Resources
[edit]- Wikipedia's criteria for academics
- Biographies of Living Persons on Wikipedia
- Wikipedia's Manual of Style for Biographies
- Wikipedia Image use policy
- Wikipedia Editing Cheatsheet
Attendees
[edit]Please add your name below
- Olaniyan Olushola (talk) 07:26, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Blossom Ozurumba (talk) 13:29, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- DonCamillo (talk) 14:19, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Wikinaija (talk) 16:08, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Kabusa16 (talk) 16:08, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- MOAdanu (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Tochiprecious (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Tunde_adegoke (talk) 16:28, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
- Demson93 (talk) 17:03, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
List of Tasks
[edit]Please add the following code to the talk pages of all articles created or improved: {{WikiProject Wiki Loves Women|class= |importance= }}
Pages which could be improved:
Lists of articles translated
[edit]- Chinwendu Ihezuo (Yoruba)
- Frances Ames (Hausa)
- Fatima Massaquoi (Hausa)
- Benin ivory mask (French)