Below you will find the documentation of Wiki In Africa's programs as part of our final report for Year 2 of the Wikimedia Community Fund/Wiki in Africa Multi-Year General Support 2023-25.

Link to results and best practices page

Wiki Loves Women is a key initiative by Wiki In Africa, focused on closing the content gaps about women and Africa across Wikimedia projects. Our mission has two main goals: expanding the available content on women and fostering broader community participation in contributing to Wikimedia. In 2024, we worked along 4 directions:

1. ISA Challenge - Tell Us About Herː Women In Art (March - April 2024)ː A special campaign used the ISA tool to add descriptions to images on WikiCommons, improving how women are shown. Held in March, this project aimed to give a clearer and fuller story to images of women in art.
2. Wiki Loves Women Focus Group (January - December 2024)ː The Wiki Loves Women Focus Coaching programme is a practical, mentored online training initiative aimed at supporting community leaders. It is designed to empower participants by sharing skills and knowledge, helping them create gender-equity programs within the Wikimedia and Open movements.
3. SheSaid campaign (October - December 2024): The SheSaid drive celebrates and honors women by increasing their representation and visibility on Wikiquote.
4. The Open Inspiring podcast (2024): It showcase the exceptional women leaders across Africa and beyond, by hearing, in their words, their journey and achievements, challenges and motivations.

Tell Us About Her ISA Drive:

• Run one online image description improvement drive run on ISA Tool during 2024
• A minimum of 30 participants
• A minimum of 50,000 contributions

WLW Focus Group:

• A minimum of 4 additional African-based individuals join the Wiki Loves Women Focus Group.
• Focus Group members run at least 12 WLW events with Wiki in Africa in 2024.
• A minimum of 4 gender-gap-related webinars are presented and published to consistently transfer knowledge and inspire further action.
• Feedback is collected and collated from the Focus Group members about the program, and includes constructive improvements to further develop and enhance the programme for 2024.

SheSaid Campaign:

• Onboard a minimum of 2 new language communities
• A minimum of 5 communities are inspired to participate
• Support the application of 12 communities or individuals for rapid grant support
• Host 5 office hours and training sessions throughout the project
• SheSaid central portal updated
• SheSaid redlists and queries reconfigured for 2024
• Global social media campaign sees 10% increase in engagement across Wiki Loves Women social platforms
• 5 blog posts
• 2 DIFF articles created
• Encourage documentation of events hosted by organisers
• Experience Feedback Survey conducted with organizers and participants
• All metrics collated and analyzed
• SheSaid event targets, a minimum of ...
• 18 Wikiquote language projects impacted
• 10 national, regional or theme-focused teams (usergroups or volunteer groups) participate
• 8 000 entries created or improved

Inspiring Open Podcast:

• Produce 12 new episodes

• ISA Tell Us About Her campaign: Women in Art
• Wiki Loves Women Focus Group
• SheSaid campaign 2024
• Inspiring Open Podcast 2024

• SheSaid was mentioned as one of the 2 biggest campaigns in the african movement at WikiIndaba 2024. The end of the year edition was even bigger than previous year, with over 10k entries to Wikiquote made in 19 languages;
• The Wiki Loves Women initiative was featured in a special edition of WikiAfrica Hour, a three-part series dedicated to highlighting efforts aimed at bridging the gender gap within the Wikimedia movement, including some work within education.
• This year, the WLW Focus Group members have made significant changes to the leadership program by preparing for the launch of a new global campaign in 2025; Wiki OTO will be organized and managed entirely by the members themselves, according to a Learning by Doing approach. Additionally, the working sessions will adopt a hands-on learning approach, enhancing engagement among participants and increasing the group's visibility within the broader community.

• Wiki Loves Women Focus Group Feedback Survey
• SheSaid 2024 Feedback survey
• SheSaid was presented at WikiArabia 2024
• Shesaid 2024 local events on Commons

As part of the global gender gap community, the Wiki Loves Women (WLW) initiative not only runs its own projects but also (very) actively participated in various global events:

• WikiWomen Summit at Wikimania 2024
• WikiWomen Launch at Wiki Indaba 2024
• WikiWomen Summit at WikiArabia 2024

• Link to visuals
• Link to Wiki Loves Women poster - presented at Wikimania 2024
• Link to SheSaid poster - presented at Wikimania 2024

Xː

• Followers: 1,856 (^1%)
• New Followers: 20
• Mentions: 202 (^20%)
• Tweets: 40
• Engagement rate: 5.49%
• Impressions: 5,741 (-71%)
• Retweets: 77
• Post link clicks: 29 (-6.5%)
• Post media views: 140 (^637%)

Facebookː

• Page fans: 8,973 (-0,5%)
• Page new fans: 74
• Page followers: 9,075
• Page new followers: 97
• Page impressions: 23,764 (^109%)
• Page reach: 16,709 (^110%)
• Posts: 55
• Post engagement: 406 (-4.2%)
• Post impressions:7,757 (-15.9%)
• Post reach: 7,176 (-16.2%)
• Post reel plays: 0 (No reels created for WLW)

Instagramː

• Page followers: 706 (^19.1%)
• Page new followers: 176 (-46.7%)
• Posts: 54
• Post engagement: 17.35% (^6.306%)
• Post impressions: 3,045 (-32.9%)
• Post shares: 36
• Post reactions: 396 (-0.5%)

ISA Tell Us About Her: Women in Art:

• 32,826 contributions
• 38 Contributors
• 8,158 Images worked on

Wiki Loves Women Focus Group:

• 12 new members
• 28 total members
• 12 working sessions
• A new wikidata campaign Wiki OTO is starting in 2025 run by the WLW FG members

SheSaid 2024:

• 19 participating languages (Arabic, Banjar, Bengali, Central Bikol (bcl) and Tagalog (tl), Dutch, English, Fante (Incubator), French, German, Gungbe, Igbo, Italian, Serbian, Setswana (Incubator), Spanish, Swahili, Telugu and Ukrainian).
• 15 participating communities
• 3 new languages joined
• 14 grant applications submitted
• 9 diff posts shared
• 11 029 new or improved articles (detailed results per language are here)
• Top 3 languages are:
  • Setswana with 3,039 new or improved articles
  • Hausa with 1,921 new or improved articles
  • English with 1,592 new or improved articles

• SheSaid 2024 in Senegal
  SheSaid 2024 in Senegal
• SheSaid 2024 in RDC
  SheSaid 2024 in RDC
• SheSaid 2024 in Chad
  SheSaid 2024 in Chad
• SheSaid 2024 in Nigeria
  SheSaid 2024 in Nigeria
• SheSaid 2024 in Netherlands
  SheSaid 2024 in Netherlands
• SheSaid 2024 in the Philippines
  SheSaid 2024 in the Philippines

Inspiring Open podcast:

• Several episodes have been recorded and prepared and will be published in 2025

• 27 109 new articles created or edited on Wikiquote
• 22 different language communities participate in the SheSaid campaign
• 41 working sessions were hosted by the Focus Group members
• 173 381 contributions through the ISA Tell Us about her campaigns
• 31 125 Images described during the ISA challenges

Diff posts

• The #SheSaid campaign is back – Join the 5th edition!
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#1 Florence Devouard]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#2 Ciell]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#3 Bashir ]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#4 Essenam]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#5 Masana]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#6 Abigali]
• #SheSaid 5th Edition Interviews: [#7 Nanour Garabedian]

Blog posts

• What’s New and Exciting in SheSaid 2024?
• Celebrating Three Years of Empowerment: The Focus Group’s Journey!
• Women in Art – ISA Tell Us About Her 2024 Results

Link to: results and best practices page

WikiAfrica Hour is a monthly vodcast to support the activities of the WikiAfrica movement and wikimedians across Africa. It is published by Wiki in Africa. WikiAfrica Hour intends to increase the cohesion of the Wikimedia Movement by :

• Increasing the understanding of and sharing opportunities within the global Wikimedia Movement
• Showcasing the global movement through an African lens by offering alternative perspectives, applications and solutions
• Providing a platform where African solutions, contributors and leaders are showcased to the regional and global movements

• Host a minimum of 10 WikiAfrica Hour episodes in 2024
• Have a minimum of 24 guests discussing their experiences
• Pre-record the news before the livestream
• Increase the viewership in youtube to 40% of 2023 levels
• Engage with and increase WikiAfrica audience by 30%

WikiAfrica Hour intends to:

• Share current updates, and highlights of Africa Wikimedians activities
• Interact with guest(s) (if any), and take questions from community members
• Promote synergy within the Wiki community by discussing topics, projects, constraints, collaborations, and opportunities.
• Provide the Wikimedian community with out-of-the-box topics and constructive conversations directed by experienced speakers from the community or the wikimedia foundation
• Introduce an in-focus section in each episode to shed light on a project, someone, or event

• Identification of interesting themes (sometimes suggested by communities, UG or WMF)
• Identification and reach out to host and guests
• Carefully preparing each episode
• Collating news in advance, and recording news summary to present at the launch of the episode
• Preparing an in-focus section in advance, to present at the end of the episode
• Onboarding Guests and Host to use Streamyard
• Live streaming once a month
• Post editing the episode if required + description on Youtube
• Communication campaign conception and implementation
• Final survey of all guests/host
• Documentation through the creation of a Results and Best Practices page

During 2024, WikiAfrica Hour became a community platform to show up the wikimedia communities’ projects, achievements, personals, attendance and feedback in regional and international conferences. There are examples of episodes (or part of episodes achieved that)

• Raise African voices and feedback from some African attendees in WikiIndaba 2024 and WikiArabia 2024, this was achieved via conducting interviews with them and edit a video to be shown in the in focus section in episode (In focus section of Ep 41 WikiAfrica Hour Ep#41 Let’s celebrate our community projects’ achievements!)
• Host a whole conversation about Wikimania and its partnerships with some of Wikimania Organising experts. (Ep 38 Wikimania as a collaboration on the Open)
• Share some African attendees feedback about Wikimania 2024 and present this echoes video in the In Focus section of Ep38 Wikimania as a collaboration on the Open
• End up the year with hosting some African leaders to talk about their projects. (Ep 41 Let’s celebrate our community’s projects & achievements!)
• Show up Africa Baraza and Wiki Causerie and their goals for all Wikimedia communities (the episode that encourage some members of other communities to think of prepare some sort of connect) Ep 37 Bringing people together: Africa Baraza & Wiki Causerie

• 2 Prep meetings for each guest host for onboarding
• Poster at Wikimania 2024
• End of the year feedback survey from the guests and guest hosts of 2024 episodes
• Event page on meta for each episode (example of ep#37)

We have 2 communication campaigns for each episode; before & after

• Sharing the episode details (the topic, description, guest host, and guests) on our social media platforms:
  • WikiAfrica Facebook page (An example of 39 episode)
  • Wiki In Africa in LinkedIn
  • WikiAfrica on X
• Announce the episode on Wikimedia mailing lists:
  • African Wikimedians
  • Wikimedia L
  • variant mailing lists according to the topic of each episode.
• Announce the episode on relevant Telegram channels, for example:
  • Wikimedia General Chat
  • Wikimedia announcement channel
  • African Wikimedians
  • WikiFranca
  • other variant telegram groups according to the topic of each episode.
• Write a blog post on Wiki In Africa website about the upcoming episode
• Create an event page on meta and share the link with community members (example of ep#37)

• We post post-episode diff post (example of ep#37)
• Re-write the blog post on Wiki Ain Africa website (to be in past tense) (Link to blog posts about WAH)
• Share some quotes of episode’s guests on our social media pages (listed above), (example from #ep41).

WikiAfrica Hour does not have its own social media platforms, and posts from Wiki In Africa’s X and Facebook accounts, and when relevant to the episode, from Wiki Loves Africa’s 3 social media platforms.

• WAH tweets on X have got 2976 impressions in 2024
• WAH posts on Facebook have got 9845 impressions in 2024 and 10049 reach.

• 9 episodes hosted with 45 guest speakers and 9 different guest hosts
• We had a different guest host for each episode who is expert in the episode’s topic which provides more professionality and enrichment in the new format.
• Collected and recorded 58 news items and showed them during the episode (some of community members contacted us to announce some important news in this section for example, we were contacted to announce the deadline of Ombuds and Affcom committees participation)
• In 2024, WAH entered a new section, the In focus section, which enabled us to highlight:
  • Persons in inspiring open interview (as in Ep 36 Does the Wikimedia movement contribute to the SDGs?, interview Ruby D-Brown to highlight her work in open movement)
  • Events such as echoes from conferences (as in Ep 38 Wikimania as a collaboration on the Open Echoes from Wikimania and Ep 41 Let’s celebrate our community’s projects & achievements! echoes from WikiArabia and WikiIndaba)
• The WAH playlists on youtube had a 5% increase in the number of non-subscriber audiences compared to the previous year.

• Published Diff posts for each episode
• Published blog posts on wia website for each episode.

Link to: results and best practices page

The project is a training&writing program and a contest, designed for primary schools in Africa. The contest run for kids 9-13 in at least 8 francophone countries across Africa. It is targeted at the education community to develop various skills of the youth and of their teachers, such as digital skills, collaborative skills, critical thinking etc. It is also meant to provide the opportunity to share knowledge since the content produced is shared through the Vikidia platform as well as through Wikimedia Commons. Awards are offered to schools with the best productions.

All goals envisioned for 2024 were reached.

• Run the WikiChallenge Écoles d’Afrique successfully.
• At least 10 countries participating
• At least 50 schools participating
• Introduce for the first time an English edition
• At least 100 articles produced and published on Vikidia
• Winners selected, announced, celebrated and gifted
• Experience of liaisons sought and incorporated in following edition
• All results and impact added to the WikiChallenge page.

To be noted : the main funder of this initiative is the Fondation Orange.

Some activities included

• Production of training material (videos, slides, docs)
• Training and supporting local facilitators to run the programme locally
• Reviewing and compiling all articles produced and all media published
• Prepare and implement a jury process
• Celebrate ! ceremonies etc.
• Run a communication campaign around the contest
• Coordinate all stakeholders

• For the first time, the contest took place in an English speaking country (Sierra Leone). This meant a lot of translations, new trainings, new portal, new partners etc.
• The 12 winning schools (9 national prizes and three international prizes) were announced on the 18 of June 2024 in the introduction of the Prix Orange du Livre Afrique (POLA) in Morocco.
• In September 2024, Open Education Global was awarded the "Open Pedagogy Award for Excellence" at the WikiChallenge competition.

• Jury report
• WC 2024 ceremonies
• WC 2024 Selected images
• WC 2024 in Pola

Communication on the contest is done by several partners, in collaboration. Wiki in Africa run its own campaign around the year (using massively Facebook, Twitter, Diff, Education Newsletter, WIA Newsletter). Fondation Orange runs it own campaign, using a small website, promotional messages, videos from Brut, International ceremony... Local Fondation Orange partners are more occasionally posting about the contest activities and results in their country.

About Wiki in Africa social media

• Link to visuals

From January to December 2024, 49 posts were shared on social media (5 campaigns), which resulted in:

On Facebook:

• 422 réactions
• 10.8K Couverture
• 79 clicks sur les liens

On X:

• 28 publications
• 252 réactions
• 5763 impressions
• 492 engagements

• 9 participating countries (Cameroun, Côte d’Ivoire, Guinée Conakry, Madagascar, Mali, RDC, Sénégal, Tunisie and Sierra Leone).
• 337 registered schools
• 151 texts submitted by the students
• 715 Photos and 38 videos produced by the students
• 12 winning schools
• Visibility for the initiative and Vikidia after WikiChallenge was awarded the Open Pedagogy prize by OE Global

• WikiChallenge Ecoles d’Afrique remporte le prix « Open Pedagogy » 2024 décerné par OE Global (Fr)
• https://diff.wikimedia.org/fr/2024/10/17/wikichallenge-ecoles-dafrique-remporte-le-prix-open-pedagogy-2024-decerne-par-oe-global/ (En)
• The contest is presented in Vikidia Gazette ! la gazette
• Poster presented at Wikimania Katowice : The poster
• A video by Brut Afrique on Facebook in October 2024 : The video
• In the Education Newsletter
• Announcing the winners of the 6th edition of WikiChallenge African Schools! (WIA blog post)
• A press article : https://cameroon-eco-business.info/2025/01/27/concours-wikichallenge-ecoles-dafrique-lecole-primaire-dapplication-1-de-mokolo-sacree-laureate-au-cameroun/

• Fondation Orange has decided to continue the WikiChallenge in 2025, with an expansion in 2 additional English speaking countries
• Fondation Orange has agreed to increase the funding to get more support from local wikimedia entities when relevant

Link to the "Propriété Intellectuelle et Creative Commons" Course

The project is a new course published on WikiLearn, to train French speaking wikimedians in Intellectual Property and Creative Commons.

• Create the first iteration of content
• Publish the course

• Production of training material (videos, slides, docs)
• Creation of a visual to introduce the course

• WikiFranca and the discussion mailing list of Wikimedia France have been informed.
• Volunteers interested in reviewing the content have been identified and will be contacted in 2025

• Improve based on initial reviews
• Add content and exercises
• Promote

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