Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania

The Wiki Loves Women project is a content aggregation project that is being implemented in six sub-Saharan Africa countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda and Tanzania. It started at the beginning of 2016.

Core Team

Project Participants

First name	Last name	Username
Mwanafuraha	Adinani	Mwanafuraha
Anael	Kisanga	Anaeli Kisanga
Invioleta	Mwakiwene	Invioleta
Fredrick	Musalika	Fredrick Musalika
Julius	Hatibu	Julius Hatibu
Obadia	Deonathus	Obadia Deonathus
Mwanaharusi	Selemani	Mwanaharusi Selemani
Godfrey	Ndyanabo	Godfrey Ndyanabo
Danford	David	Danford David
Michael	Ditrick	Michael Ditrick
Matinde	John	Matinde John
Digna	Gasper	Digna Gasper
Elizabeth	Mandele	Elizabeth Mandele
Habibu	Mrisho	Habibu Mrisho
Patience	Abraham	Patience Abraham
Hadija	Shabani	Hadija Shabani
Dennis	Kibahila	Dennis Kibahila
Nsajigwa	Ephraim	Nsajigwa Ephraim
Robert	Kamunde	Robert Kamunde
Ally	Hashimu	Ally Hashimu
David	Nanage	David Nanage
Jema	Ngajilo	Jema Ngajilo
Partick	Simon	Partick Simon
Elizabeth	Joseph	Elizabeth Joseph
Mwinuka	Stella	Mwinuka Stella
Emmanuel	Mangu	Emmanuel Mangu
Upendo	Peter	Upendo Peter
Blessings	Rweikiza	Blessings Rweikiza
Paul	Emmanuel	Paul Emmanuel
Annabel	Itadi	Annabel Itadi
Aneth	David	Aneth David
Lucas	Sammuel	Lucas Sammuel
Aika	Masawe	Aika Masawe
Ebenezer	Mlay	Ebenezer Mlay
Lulu	Sameer	Lulu Sameer
Edwin	Bakalemwa	Edwin Bakalemwa

Accounts created

Partners

The Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania would not be possible without several key partners. These partners include;

April 2019

Wiki Loves Women The FINALE (10th Event 30th April 2019)

Finally we are here!
We are both excited happy and sad that we have closed one of the cool project ever done in Tanzania as we got used to host and have fun in writing, collaborating and facilitating Wiki Loves Women. We are happy that many volunteers who participated from the beginning, partners and without forgetting notable women did show up. We had a great time concluding the project as we had a chance to reflect and look back where we came from since the first event on September 2018 to the finale (10th) event on April 2019. One of the inspiring moments was listening to the Wiki Loves Women project founders (Isla and Florence) VIDEO they send us, on that Video they explained on how did they come up with the idea of Wiki Loves Women Project. Participants were given a chance to listen to the video, then a number of follow up questions about Wiki Loves Women was asked and the respondents to the questions who was given some gifts.
At the end we had the cool individual and group photos as well as short video clips featuring what the participant had to say about Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania. You can find more of the info such as cool photos and timeline events and sessions on our facebook page Here or you can listen to what they had to say Here, Here and Here also

Finally We would like to use this opportunity to give our sincere thanks to both the project directors (Isla and Florence) for their endless support and mentor ship and the Wikimedia Foundation for supporting this project to happen in Tanzania.

Wiki Loves Women Her 2 Her Chat (9th Event, April 6th 2019)

This was our 9th event before the last one which will happen on last weekend of this month of April 2019. We asked ourself, why seating down and write only ? How can we make sure there is a room for women to be part of this journey, by inviting them. Her2Her event was designed for a positive purpose, connecting women with other women from different experiences and background, hear out loud their story and their views. Wiki Loves Women is also platform that cares and gives a community a form of investment in the project (Wiki Loves Women ), and how women are viewed and their voices are heard within the society.

We managed to invite six powerful, notable women who are successful within their fields, in many ways, and their impact within the society is seen everyday within Tanzania and beyond.

Over 50 people showed up with rate of 72% number of women.

Towards International Women's Day: 07th March 2019 (8th Event)

Event summary

This was the 8th Wiki Loves Women event in Tanzania since its Launching in August 2018. With the collaboration between Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania and WikiWomenTz (WikiGap) organized by the Swedish Embassy in Tanzania.

The event was held at the residence of the ambassador for Swedish Embassy in Tanzania and with focus on getting some insights, views ,suggestions on possible ways on how to overcome the Challenge of lack of enough reliable sources to write about Tanzanian women as well as uploading some women bios into Wikipedia.

Over 20 notable women living in Dar es Salaam will were invited to attend, and share the journey, success, failure and how they overcome challenges, this also built a good interaction between them and local Tanzania Wikimedians editors.

The exciting part

At least 15 articles were successful created and published, picture of notable women and videos were taken for a future use.

Event details

Hosted Dates: 07th March 2019
Hosting partner: Residence of the ambassador for Swedish Embassy in Tanzania
Event purpose: Hearing from Notable women as learning experience
Registration here (event closed):

https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Tanzania/Towards_International_Women's_Day

Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania (Wikieditors vs Notable Women): 26th January 2019

Event summary

The event brought together Tanzanian Wikimedians and some of the Tanzanian notable women from different fields to have a discussion on trending matters that relates to Women such as the content gender bias existing online.These notable women will be given some time to give brief presentation on the pressing issues for women from their respective fields (arts, technology, politics).After that there will be some for the editors to interact with the notable women to have some discussion to come up with ways on how we can overcome the challenge"Lack reliable referencing materials to write about Women in Tanzania"

The exciting part

Five notable women showed up and they gave their story, this also included number of 20 participants.

Event details

Hosted Dates: 26th of January 2019. (9 am to 2 pm)
Hosting partner: Buni Innovation Hub
Event purpose: Hearing from Notable women as learning experience
Click here for more info about this event

WLW - Wikicommons Editathon Training: 12nd January 2019:

Event summary

The event will focus on training of Wiki-commons project by sharing knowledge on how to contribute to it especially photo uploading as one of the capacity building towards upcoming Wiki Loves Africa project in Tanzania. Also the event will focus on sharing knowledge on how to use the uploaded photos in info boxes as preparation of next upcoming event which will specifically focus on photo addition to the already written Women articles in Tanzania.

The exciting part

Over 43 editors participated on this training.

Event details

Hosted Dates: 12nd of January 2019. (9 am to 16 pm)
Hosting partner: Seed space
Event purpose: Wikicommons Editathon Training
Click here for more info about this event

Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania - Training 15th December 2018

Event summary

The event was designed to have two parts / phase, with a main focus of running a workshop focused on training volunteers and editors both new and past, by adding value to their editing skills. The second phase was focusing on keeping writing about notable women, where by we looked into past published women articles on Wikipedia under Wiki Loves Women and refining them. This is our fifth and last event for 2018 in Tanzania, due to coming holidays, other event will start from second week of January.

The exciting part

On this event about 8 new articles were made, and 13 old articles were edited with a total of 70 edits from 35 participants, this event was held at Buni Innovation Space, Dar es salaam Tanzania.

Event details

Hosted Dates: 15th of December 2018. 9 am to 16 pm
Hosting partner: Buni Innovation Hub
Event purpose: Wiki Loves Women Workshop and Editathon-Tanzania
Click here for more info about this event

Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema-I

Event Summary

This was the fourth Wiki Loves Women event in Tanzania as continuation of the previous third event which focused on writing about Women Swahili Wikipedia biographies related to Tanzanian cinema with its corresponding updation of cinema roles labels in wikidata.

The exciting part

On this event we repeated the quick explanations of how Wikidata works, we assisted new comers through account creation then later we focused on creating Women Swahili Wikipedia biographies relating to Cinema.In this event we were excited to participate in AfroCine project 2018 by doing some improvement of WikiData occupation labels by translating the wikidata cinema related labels from english to Swahili.This event was able to pull out a total number of 40 people including organisers and volunteers.This event was able to pull out a total number of 40 people including organisers and volunteers.In this event at least 33 women articles were created, and 47 articles were edited with total edits of 220.

Challenges

On part of organizing this event it was difficulty to get names as well as contents of women relating to Cinema.Also the technical it was a bit challenge to get the exact swahili vocabularies which fit the english cinema occupational roles to be feed in wikidata.

Event details

When: 01st of December 2018. 9 am to 16 pm
Where: Buni Innovation Hub
What: Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema-I
Partner: Buni Hub
Click here for more info about this event

17th November 2018:Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema

Event Summary

Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema was a third Wiki Loves Womenevent in Tanzania. The event was focusing on training and sharing knowledge on what is Wikidata, how Wikidata works and how it can be used in line with swahili articles.Also during this event we introduced ongoing Afrocine project whereby some of the wikidata english labels related to Cinema was translated into Swahili.

The exciting part

In this event we started with introduction of what Wikimedia projects are and how are all interlinked to wikidata.The few attended editors was excited to learn the basics of how wikidata works.It was interesting event due to inclusive discussion on the names of the occupations related to cinema.The editing of these women occupation labels into wikidata was interesting and quite easy to the editors.

Challenges

Some of the challenges was the low level of attendance of volunteers due to multiple events that were happening on the same date “(including a popular Google developers festival [GDG]) which led to some of the Wiki Loves Women volunteers and editors to attend.Also there was some other technical challenges we had which were:

In some occupations there were no male editing section on wikidata which led us to skip the swahili label for the particular section.
Lack of single exact Swahili vocabularies to meet the mentioned english labels except by shor explanatory words.

Event details

When: 17th of November 2018. 7:00 am to 06:00 pm
Partner in Hosting: Seed Space
What: Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema

Click here for more info about this event

Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania (Women in Politics) 20th October 2018

Event summary

This was the second Wiki Loves Women event in Tanzania. This event was focusing on writing all about women in politics in Tanzania, the event was done on 20th of October and about 15 editors participated.

The exciting part

22 new articles of women were created, and 24 articles were edited with total edits of 71. The event was again held at Seed Space and this time we used a Seed Space at free of charge, due to a relationship we have started building between our team and Seed Space managers.

Challenges

On this event the case of missing of enough references on women were listed on the database of editors was mentioned, this includes images and data that can be used to write articles. Another challenge raised was the accessibility of templates that can be helpful to new editors to write acceptable articles.

Suggestions from volunteers

Training and editors should work on designing best templates and guidelines that could lead on how articles could be written on Wikipedia.
Having a periodical time dedicated on capacity building on technical issues and how to search for reliable informations to write about.
List of more women with enough references

Event details

Hosted Dates: 20th of October. 9 am to 16pm
Hosting partner: Seed Space, Tanzanite Park Building, 7th Floor.
Event purpose: Training and Edit-athon event - Writing about women in politics.
Registration here (event closed) :https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wiki_Loves_Women/Wiki_Loves_Women_Tanzania_Women_in_Politics

8th September 2018: Launching of the Wiki Loves Women project

Event Summary

Wiki Loves Women 2018 Launch was the first event which was done on 08th September 2018. This event awareness was early been announced though Wiki Tanzania Community User group social media channels including WhatsApp group where most of members are active.

The duty was to explain to the audience and volunteers participated about Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania and its goals and what will be done on each event.

The exciting part

After the power blackout we had to find an alternative option for hosting, Seed Space responded and accepted us, even though we had to pay for the space but it was worth it, facility and all other support. This event was able to pull out a total number of 40 people including organizers and volunteers. About 33 articles of women were created, and 47 articles were edited with total edits of 220.

What went wrong

The event was to be held at Buni innovation hub which we had to change the spot due to power cut, Buni hub is one of our partner in hosting, but at sometimes they might have power cut cases during weekends.

Event details

Hosted Dates: 8th of September. 10am till 16pm
Partner in hosting: Seed Space, Tanzanite Park Building, 7th Floor.
Event purpose: Launch / Training and Edit-athon event
Registration here (event closed) : https://outreachdashboard.wmflabs.org/courses/Wikimedia_Tanzania/WLW_Tanzania_08th_of_September_launch_event_(08th_of_September)?enroll=thuzypoi
notes: training new attendees. Creation of Swahili articles relating to notable women in Tanzania.

PROJECT ANNUAL SUMMARY (2018 - 2019)

This part describes events, articles and activities that has been conducted with the Wiki Loves Women Team in Tanzania since the launch of the project in 8th September 2018 to the end of project, which is expected to be somewhereApril 2019.

Event Covered

For over 7 months series of events have been conducted with number of volunteers and organisers for Wiki Loves Women Tanzania chapter, this included having few partners precipitating and even inviting notable Women to speak and share their view on how project could be improved and even inspire women volunteers editors within WLW as we understand some of volunteers are also running different activities off WLW or Wikipedia projects.

Articles published

Over 50+ articles have been published, since started.

Challenges

Working on editing and building lis of women to write it has been a challenge in many ways, finding supportive content such as references, as well free lincese images for articles has been a challenge our end. For the case of partnership, proposal of partnership were suppose to be sent early to organization we were focusing to reach, as most of organization year starts on July here in Tanzania, and all proposal suggested from that time they'll be applicable on the new year of operation. Which mostly reached out partners

Remaining Events

Wiki Loves Women Notable (Expected: April 2019)
Wiki Loves Women Final closing Event (Expected: April 2019)

Completed events

Launching of the Wiki Loves Women project in Tanzania
Second Wiki Loves Women in Tanzania (Women in Politics)
Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema
Tanzanian Women in Wikidata and Cinema-I
Wiki Loves Women Workshop and Editathon-Tanzania
Wikicommons Editathon
Wiki Loves Women - Notable chats
Wiki Loves Women - International Women Day

Key project focus areas and links

The activities are organized around ediathons open to all for the general presentation of the project, the writing of articles and the uploading of the sources.

Press coverage