Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid/SheSaid 2021
SheSaid 2021
The Wiki Loves Women initiative celebrates women leaders with the SheSaid drive. The drive is aimed at improving the visibility of women in creating new or improving already existing Wikiquote entries related to them.
First launched in October 2020, the #SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote has been an amazing success! Across 7 languages, by the 5th January 2021, it resulted overall in 867 new or improved articles (the majority new). Italian Wikiquote was the clear language winner (405 articles) with Ukraine (187) and French (105) coming not so close behind. This is an amazing result - thank you for getting women’s voices heard.
The second edition was yet again a success with 1500+ Wikiquote entries created (and more improved) in 9 languages ! Italian and Tagalog were the most active languages. Congrats to all :)
Given its first and second editions success and noting that there is still a lot to do, the #SheSaid drive will run again end of 2022.
Why the SheSaid campaign
To balance the representation of gender in the entries of Wikiquote.
To illustrate the situation, here are a few interesting figures:
- On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in the Selected people section... 29 men are featured and only 4 women (check out the screenshot on the right...)
- There are 233 women who have a featured article on either French or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquote check it out
- There are 141 women featured article on the English Wikipedia with no wikiquote entry check it
- There are 519 women listed on the French wikiquote check it and 3117 men listed check it out
Obviously, not all women said good quotes that would make a wikiquote entry worth it. Still...
Wiki Loves Women's Focus Group members across Africa
Find the list of local events here:
- SheSaid events in Zimbabwe – Matebeleland
- SheSaid events in Zimbabwe – Mashonaland
- SheSaid events in Sudan
- SheSaid events in Nairobi, Kenya
- SheSaid events at Kenya Libraries
- SheSaid events in Kigali, Rwanda
- SheSaid events in Cameroon
- SheSaid events in Botswana
- SheSaid events in Nigeria
Outcomes of the #sheSaid drive in 2021 !!!
- SheSaid on the italian wikiquote: 609 new articles, 227 improved articles 🎉.
- Tagalog Wikquote: 308 new articles (currently in incubator status)
- SheSaid on the Ukrainian Wikiquote: 169 new articles, 55 improved articles
- SheSaid on the English wikiquote: 157 articles created and 18 improved.
- SheSaid on the Central Bikol Wikquote: 138 new articles (currently in incubator status)
- SheSaid on the French wikiquote: New : 65 / Improved : 7 (final data from January 3rd !)
- On Igbo incubator: 40 entries created so far ! (though not all listed ?)
- SheSaid on the Catalan wikiquote: 20 article created and 2 improved articles
- SheSaid on the Spanish wikiquote: 9 entries created.
Total improved: 1823 entries on Wikiquote!
Some Focus Group members inspired their communities to Wikipedia articles about women such as the Rwanda Usergroup which made 638 Wikipedia article entries about women that is an outstanding contribution.You can use Quarry to find out more