Wiki Loves Women/Focus Group/Wiki Loves Women 2021 in Cameroon/Atelier Wikipedia et Wikidata

The first worskshop of the Wiki Loves Women 2021 in Cameroon Project took place on Saturday September 11, 2021 in Douala. The aim of this workshop was to present the project Wiki Loves Women and the #SheSaid Campaign and provide new and unexperienced editors with the knowledge and skills to get started on Wikipedia and Wikidata.

Date and Venue edit

Date: Saturday September 11, 2021
Venue: ActivSpaces (Akwa), Douala
Time: 9:30 am - 3:00 pm

Activities edit

Introduction edit

Gender Gap on Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Projects, About WikiLoves Women, About to the #SheSaid campaign, Account Creation for first-time editors

The Various Wikimedia Projects edit

Presentation of the Wikimedia Foundation (creation, mission, how it is financed)

A brief presentation of Wikimedia projects

Introduction to Wikidata edit

What is Wikidata
What is structured data
How Search Engines used data from Wikidata
How to Contibute in Wikidata
Creation of new Wikidata entries for 12 Cameroonian Women

Introduction to Wikipedia edit

The Five Pillars
How to make an edit on Wikipedia
The structure of a Wikipedia article
Eligibility Criteria for new article for a
How to get started in the Sandbox

Outcomes edit

13 participants (7 women and 6 men. 10 of them had exisiting Wikimedia account. 7 have only contributed once on Wiki. 3 made some edits this year on a Wiki).
12 prominent Cameroonian women identified for their Wikipedia articles to be created
9 Wikidata entries of Cameroonian Women created
Each participants made at least 2 edits on Wikidata
Each participant made at least one edit on Wikipedia
Each particpant create a sandbox and wrote the first few lines of her/his assigned article