Grants:Project/Whose Knowledge/VisibleWikiWomen2019/Timeline

This project is funded by a Project Grant

Timeline for Whose Knowledge

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

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

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

Created new campaign logo.
Created landing page for the campaign on WhoseKnowledge? website as well.
Updated Meta page of the campaign.

February

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

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

April

Uploaded 3000 Women’s Photos in the first 50 Days.
Coordinated a butch upload with the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Drafted a new resource on image donation from GLAM institutions to get feedback from key partners (work in progress).
Designed new #VisibleWikiWomen stickers and postcards.
Published a guest blog post by The Black Lunch Table: "Portraits of women artists".
Edited the Whose Knowledge? Podcast Series Episode 3: “On the question of representation and consent: reflections from Bangalore after a Wikipedia edit-a-thon”.
Sent the WhoseKnowledge? Newsletter Issue #3 on: "Visibility": Are all women equally (in)visible?.
Launched the #WomenofColors mini-campaign.

May

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

Midpoint report.
Learning pattern: Have a photographer present at edit-a-thons to photograph notable women with consent.
Online interview with Alissandra Cummins (Director of the Barbados Museum & Historical Society and UNESCO chairperson), with the aim to write and introduction for the VWW GLAM guide, and to draft a blog post on partnerships with cultural and memory institutions from the Global South.

July

Blogpost: “I will only stop when my eyes close” – Why we must keep WHRDs’ stories alive, honouring women human rights defender, in collaboration with our partner AWID.

August

Submitted a proposal to participate on the Gender and Diversity Panel of Conferencia de Derechos Humanos en Entornos Digitales, organized by Wikimedia Argentina.

September

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

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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