WikiWomen's User Group/Reports/2020

The WikiWomen’s User Group was recognized as a Wikimedia user group in July 19, 2015. This report outlines the accomplishments and activities supported by the group between July 1, 2018 and June 30, 2019.

Activities

• Sharing news, advice, and resources via Telegram Page. We share news about women-centered projects, programs, and events they're organizing, to help others know what's happening.
• 10 new members joined the User Group in the last year.

Virtual edit-a-thons

August-December 2019

• (Continuous) #1day1woman2019
• (Year-long) Suffrage

August 2019

• Sports
• Indigenous Women
• Film and Stage
• Geofocus: Millennial countries

September 2019

• Law
• Military history
• Writers
• Geofocus: Defunct countries
• Interwiki Women Collaboration

October, November, December 2019

• Stub contest

October 2019

• STEM
• Fashion
• Geofocus: Landlocked countries

November 2019

• Libraries and archives
• Leadership
• Geofocus: Wikipedia Asia Month

December 2019 - January 2020

• 2019 deaths

December 2019

• Parliamentarians
• Classical musicians
• Geofocus: Arab world

January - December 2020

• #1day1woman2020
• Sports

January 2020

• Activists
• Public domain
• Geofocus: Central America

February 2020

• Explorers
• Black Women
• Horror

March 2020

• Art+Activism
• Wiki Loves Folklore
• Aviation
• Geofocus: Great Britain and Ireland

March - April 2020

• Visible Wiki Women

April 2020

• Gender Studies
• Dance
• Geofocus: Caucasus

May 2020

• Healthcare
• Women and their animals
• May Mays
• Geofocus: Central and Eastern Europe

June 2020

• Pride
• Gender imbalance
• Juneteenth
• Geofocus: United Nations

July 2020

• July Julies
• Disability
• Geofocus: Women from Where?

July - December 2020

• BLM/Anti-discrimination

Presentations

• 
  August 2019, "Modeling the reception of pre-XX-century works by women writers", Wikimania, Stockholm
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  October 2019, "Working on gender gap on Wikimedia projects", CEE Meeting, Belgrade
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  October 2019, "Cultures of reception associated with trans-Atlantic English language women's writing (1770-1830)", Wikidatacon, Berlin
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  November 2019, "Wikidata-fying, Women Writers in Review", WikiConference North America, MIT, Boston
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  February 2020, "Knowledge and participatory gaps on Wikpedia, using the example of women scientists", National Academy of Science workshop, Washington, D.C.
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  February 2020, "Knowledge gaps & systemic bias at Wikipedia", Misinfocon, National Academy of Science workshop, Washington, D.C.
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  April 2020, "Wikipedia's Content Gender Gap", Wiki Education Foundation, online
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  May 2020, "Wikipedia’s gender gaps in the COVID-19 era", OzgurKon, online
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  July 2020, "Women Writers in Review, integrating special collections into Wikidata", LD4 conference, online