Happy #InternationalWomensDay!
Let's celebrate with action. We present the #ProjectRewrite Checklist: ten steps you can take to get involved and help us close the gender gap on —and beyond. #IWD2022
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👩🏽💻El martes y hoy compartimos con más de 60 mujeres un Taller de Introducción a rumbo a la 1º DGB.
💪🏾Entre todas decimos ¡Nunca más Wikipedia sin nosotras!
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Free expression & access to reliable information are essential during times of crisis.
, , , and 30+ others are calling on to ensure people in Russia and Belarus are not cut off from the global internet.
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Write about your local folk culture and women in folk during the Feminism and Folklore writing competition on . Contest runs this March.
Check your local community participation using the project page 👉 w.wiki/4fvG
#FeminismAndFolklore #writingcompetion
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Today, the app is featured as App of the Day in the US as part of a series for #WomensHistoryMonth!
Discover favorite tips and features about the app, and meet Toni Sevener, one of our software engineers who brings the app to life.
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We, together with , , & a number of other organisations are calling on the and other govt's to carefully consider the impact of restricting the Russian public's access to the #internet:
freepressunlimited.org/en/current/let
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Its that time again! I am looking forward to speaking at the #WikiGap #Nigeria Conference tomorrow via . Help close the knowledge gap about #WomensHistory on /, more below!#WomensHistoryMonth #WHM #blackwomenintech
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Let the countdown begins!!
Registration for this year's conference in partnership with the Swedish embassy is on. We have distinguished female panelists who are ready to share their thoughts on issues that affects women. Register 
bit.ly/3Cpdq0o
#breakthebias
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Don’t cut off internet access in Russia or Belarus 🗣️
Further restricting the internet will only accelerate violence and repression.
Our letter with + more to : accessnow.org/US-government- #KeepItOn
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Only 18% of content in all Wikimedia projects, including biographies on , are about women. This #WomensHistoryMonth, help close this gender gap.
Take a look at the events that are planned for this month, and sign up! #ProjectRewrite
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Every time finishes a new article about a notable woman who was previously not on , it's a collective success. "We are communicating with these women from the past, who opened the doors for us, and we say 'Here you are, what you have always deserved, sis'."
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. highlighted that is a space under construction, but also a "source of information to meet, to be inspired by, to follow in the footsteps of other women."
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When talking about reaching out to young people, said: "You are inspiring them, but you are also making these topics relevant to them currently, in their situation. You are also making it a safe space, and fun, interesting."
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"I'm hopeful that someone out there who is listening to us and is hearing our different perspectives becomes inspired today by what they heard, and that they take that inspiration and they transform it into action, in whatever way is comfortable for them."—
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The Wikimedia movement celebrates "the full non-binary specter of gender," pointed out. "And we talk about gender diversity in its broadest form."
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. expressed sorrow that in Mexico and other Latin American countries, "women live permanently in a state of alert." The silver lining is that there are solutions, and Wikimedia projects play a large role in closing the gender gap: "when we go as a group, we are stronger."
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Official numbers prove the gender gap, as noted by – according to the UN "Women in Science" report, only 30% of science researchers in the world are women. Colombia "occupies the position 15 out of 20 in Latin American countries in themes of gender and research".
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. of @WikiUgandadiscussed the importance of seeing all women. "It's a community that needs support from all angles. We had to look beyond and diversify, and consider an African woman." Erina also mentioned a barrier to be considered and overcome: technical literacy.
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Recalling a conference in 2015, of asked the audience to help "increase the percentage of women's biographies to something more substantial than 15.5%. Let's move the needle." Today, 19.16% of English biographies are about women.
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Our CEO kicked things off by welcoming "a few of our leaders, volunteers and community members around the world who have responded to the movement strategy's call to action for knowledge equity and gender diversity on Wikimedia projects." #OpenTheKnowledge
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In celebration of #IWD2022, we hosted a panel with Wikimedia movement leaders working to improve gender equity on and beyond.
See highlights from the convo with our CEO + , , , and .🧵👇🏽
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Last day to upload your media for Wiki Loves Folklore International contest. Contest ends today 23:59:59 UTC.
Upload your media now :
w.wiki/4f6S
In frame: Women at a traditional carnival in Malta.
#Wlf2022
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🔥 2022 TELL US ABOUT HER is open! 🔥
Celebrate Women in Architecture and Construction this #WomensMonth by adding descriptions to images on Wikipedia. Easy peasy ...
Enter here: bit.ly/WLW_ISA2022
#InternationalWomensDay #gendergap #VisibleWomen
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Since 2014, has provided unique ways for 9,000+ photographers to share *their* Africa with the world.
This year's theme is Home and Habitat—and you can join the competition. #WikiLovesAfrica
wikilovesafrica.net
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How would you visually depict art and feminism?
Commissioned by , see new, original works by three artists from Brazil, India, and Kenya — now available on Wikimedia Commons.
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Only 18.3% of the content in all Wikimedia projects are of women. And only 15% of Wikimedia contributors are women. #ProjectRewrite is calling attention to this gender gap and promoting the people and efforts working to fix it. You can get involved, too.
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What do you discover if you analyse estimated historical living standards and ALL the literature on “love” (from )?
Economic development begets desire for romance!!
As people move to towns, mix & mingle more freely, fiction valorises romance!
nature.com/articles/s4156
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The benefit of working on is "knowing you are doing the right thing," says a Russian Wikipedia volunteer, one of 4,000 who contributed to the online encyclopedia last month.
Russian Wikipedians share why they are risking freedom for truth. 👇🏽
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Those "seeking to stem the Russian government’s cyber-attacks & disinformation campaigns must consider the technical & social complexities of the global internet—and avoid unintended consequences." READ: Our Global Advocacy VP in ⬇️
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NEW: With + more, we're urging the administration to ensure that people in Russia + Belarus stay online.
We are concerned the US or like-minded gov’ts may disrupt internet access through new sanctions: accessnow.org/US-government- #KeepItOn
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All truth-tellers in Russia deserve huge credit right now. Volunteers of the ?? movement are truly inspiring. ?? ??
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📢Marzo con m de mejorar artículos de mujeres en , anímate a editar en la Mujeres y cultura que organizamos con
Registro: ccemx.org/evento/mujeres
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Want to do something AMAZING this #InternationalWomensDay #IWD2022 ??
Yes, anyone can edit Wikipedia BUT too few do and only 19% of biographies are about notable women.
You can write new pages (50-100 words+ with citations) about the lives & contributions of women. #WeCanEdit
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Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the amazing and trailblazer women who come together to bring about change, who give us hope & help us collectively heal ✊🏾
Today, we’re launching #VisibleWikiWomen 2022! Here’s what you need to know about this year’s theme & why it matters 🧵
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🎧¿Cómo surgió la iniciativa que busca reducir la brecha de género en ?
Carmen Alcázar() fundadora de nos cuenta más en el podcast Se Oye libre.
open.spotify.com/episode/4G42fE
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13 editors have added 31.5 thousand words to Wikipedia & Wikidata since 9am today. Making the internet less sexist.
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