Grants:Project/Whose Knowledge/VisibleWikiWomen2019/Timeline


Timeline for Whose Knowledge edit

Timeline Date
Establishing connections with partners. 30 January 2018
Creating communication and graphic elementos (logo, landing page, etc.). 30 January 2018
Creating the 2019 campaign: Meta page update, Commons category and Campaign page. 15 February 2019
Updating resources kit. 25 February 2019
Featuring the campaign on WhoseKowledge? blog and newsletter. 25 February 2019
Creating a social media countdown for campaign launch. 1 March 2019
Coordinate with partners to support the launch. 1 March 2019
Translations: adding Portuguese to the resources kit. 8 March 2019
Campaign launch. 8 March 2019
Creating a cheatsheet to support edit-a-thon organizers. 15 March 2019
Creating a model to help edit-a-thon organizers make Wikidata query. 20 March 2019
New resource on image donation from GLAM institutions: first draft to review with partners. 8 April 2019
Blogpost, podcast and newsletter on Visibility. 22 April 2019
Launch #WomenofColors mini-campaign. 22 April 2019
Presenting #VisibleWikiwomen in panel Women and the Commons: visibility strategies, in the Creative Commons Summit 2019. 9 May 2019
Closing 2019 campaign with a blogpost. 15 May 2019
Publishing: "Guide for Cultural Institutions to make women more visible on Wikipedia". 30 May 2019


Monthly updates edit

Please prepare a brief project update each month, in a format of your choice, to share progress and learnings with the community along the way. Submit the link below as you complete each update.

January edit

  • Created a list of 50 potencial partners.
  • Sent invitations to potencial partners.
  • Scheduled first meetings with partners that decided to join the campaign.

February edit

  • Created the VisibleWikiWomen_2019 category on Commons.
  • Updated Upload Wizard and Campaign Page.
  • Created a mailing list to communicate with partners.
  • Coordinated the launch with partners.
  • Published a pre-launch blogpost.
  • Created a social media countdown.
  • Updated the content of the resources kit in English and Spanish.
  • Translated the resources kit to Portuguese.

March edit

  • Sent the Whose Knowledge? Newsletter Issue #2 introducing VisibileWikiWomen.
  • Updated the design of the resources kit.
  • Published resources kit 2019 in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
  • Launched #VisibleWikiWomen campaign on March 8, 2019.
  • In-memoriam honoring of Marielle Franco on March on March 14, 2019.
  • Created a cheatsheet for edit-a-thons organizers in English.
  • Created a model of basic query to identify women articles without images, to be adapted and used by partners.
  • Partners follow up and support.

Edit-a-thons edit

April edit

May edit

  • Presented #VisibleWikiWomen at the CC Global Summit session: Women and the Commons: Visibility Strategies (May 9, Lisbon).
  • Printed the new #VisibleWikiWomen postcards edition.
  • Published a blog post about the story of Petronila Infantes, her biography and photo on Wikipedia.
  • Camapign close. Metrics to May 8:
    • 3700 images uploaded.
    • 1787 total image usages.
    • 861 (23.27%) distinct images used.
    • 71 different Wikipedia languages. Most of the uses were in Wikidata (645) and English Wikipedia (439).

June edit

July edit

August edit

September edit

  • Presented #VisibleWikiWomen at the Conferencia de Derechos Humanos en Entornos Digitales. September 12-14, 2019, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Slides.
  • Contact with Wikimedia Colombia and Wikimedia Mexico to work with indigenous women for the next VWW edition.
  • Contact with indigenous leader from Uruguay (CONACHA).

October edit

  • Contact with indigenous organizations from Honduras and Guatemala.
  • Learning pattern: Simple ways to join the VWW as a campaign organizer in your own local context.
  • Final report.


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