Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda/WikiGap 2021 in Uganda

W I K I G A P 2021 Uganda

Background

Wikipedia is the world’s largest online and user-generated encyclopaedia. Knowledge is power, and Wikipedia has the potential to colour our view of the world. But there is great imbalance between men and women on the website, like in society at large.

Ninety per cent of those who add content to Wikipedia are men. There are four times as many articles about men as there are about women. The figures vary regionally, but no matter how you look at it, the picture is clear: the information about women is less extensive than that about men. Regardless of which language version of Wikipedia you read. We want to change this.

WikiGap is an event during which people around the world gather to add more content to Wikipedia about women figures, experts and role models in various fields. Similar events have already been arranged worldwide to improve women’s representation on the internet.

Together, we want to bring about a more gender-equal internet – and a more gender-equal world.

Wikimedia Community User Group Uganda, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented through the Swedish embassy to Uganda, and Internet Society of Uganda Chapter are planning to organize a Wikigap Contest starting on 8th March to 8th Apri 2021.

Events

This year we are organizing 4 regional events in Kampala, Mbarara, Tororo and Gulu as well as an online event.

8th March - Kampala: Embassy of Sweden

Programme

Time	Activity
8.30 - 9.00	Arrival and Registration of participants
9.00 - 9.30	Welcome Remarks – Hosting University, Embassy of Sweden Representative
9:30 - 10:30	Introduction to WikiGap and the WikiGap Challenge Navigating Wikipedia Pages Basic Rules of Editing Wikipedia User Pages and Sandbox Presentations Adding Citations Adding Images to Wikipedia
10:30 - 11:00	Tea break
11:00 – 12:30	Edit-at-thon
12.30 – 1:30	Lunch
1:30 - 3:00	Completion of Wikipedia articles
3:00	Closure

Participants

10th March - Gulu University

Program

Time	Activity
8.30 - 9.00	Arrival and Registration of participants
9.00 - 9.30	Welcome Remarks Hosting University Embassy of Sweden Representative Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda Q&A
9:30 - 10:30	Introduction to WikiGap and the WikiGap Challenge Basic Rules of Editing Wikipedia Navigating Wikipedia Pages User Pages and Sandbox Presentations Adding Citations Adding Images to Wikipedia
10:30 – 11:00	Tea break
11.00 – 1:00	Edit-at-thon List of Women with existing articles List of Women in Uganda with missing articles List of members of the eleventh parliament of Uganda
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00	Completion and review of updated Wikipedia articles
3:00 - 3:30	Closure and next steps

Participants for Gulu

No	(User) name	Role
1	1Thessalonians	Student
2	Trevour Kiiza	Student
3	Kisembo Willyz	Student
4	kansiimekingcs	Student
5	Nangendo cate	Student
6	AMOSWIKIDRE	Student
7	Birungi Hope	Student (to check against sign up sheet)
8	Caroline Apio	student
9	Douglaseru	Facilitator (Usergroup)
10	Alvinategyeka	Facilitator (Usergroup)
11	Patrick Okot	University Lecturer
12*	Daniel Johansson	Swedish Embassy

• ^* Guest speaker for event opening, not full day's participation.

13th March - Mbarara University of Science and Technology

Programme

Time	Activity
11.00 - 11.30	Arrival and registration of participants
11.30 - 12.00	Welcome Remarks Host Institution Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda Q&A
12:00 - 13:00	Introduction to WikiGap and the WikiGap Challenge Basic Rules of Editing Wikipedia Navigating Wikipedia Pages User Pages and Sandbox Presentations Adding Citations Adding Images to Wikipedia
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch break
14.00 – 16:00	Edit-at-thon List of Women with existing articles List of Women in Uganda with missing articles List of members of the eleventh parliament of Uganda Review of written articles Closure and next steps

Register here

Slides are here

13th March - Busitema University

Program

Time	Activity
8.30 - 9.00	Arrival and registration of participants
9.00 - 9.30	Welcome Remarks Host Institution Wikimedia Community Usergroup Uganda Q&A
9:30 - 10:30	Introduction to WikiGap and the WikiGap Challenge Basic Rules of Editing Wikipedia Navigating Wikipedia Pages User Pages and Sandbox Presentations Adding Citations Adding Images to Wikipedia
10:30 – 11:00	Tea break
11.00 – 1:00	Edit-at-thon List of Women with existing articles List of Women in Uganda with missing articles List of members of the eleventh parliament of Uganda
1:00 - 2:00	Lunch break
2:00 - 3:00	Review of work done
3:00 - 3:30	Closure and next steps

Register here

Slides are here

Participants

No	User (name)
1.	Kiige Jasper Titus
2.	Micheal Kaluba
3.	Claudy22
4.	Ahereza Owen Onex
5.	Titus Smiles
6.	Naleebi
7.	Benjaminokeyoh1
8.	OkwiiS
9.	Akjose
10.	Jobchelangat
11.	Sandra Aceng
12.	AKibombo

Missing articles/articles need to improve on notable Women in Uganda

• List of members of the 11th Parliament of Uganda - Create articles for women members of parliament with red links
• List of women in Uganda with missing articles
• List of women with existing articles

Get started

5 minutes

Step 1: Create Wikipedia account or Log in to Wikipedia Step 2: Join the Outreach Dashboard Step 3: Assign your self article in the Spreadsheet

Choose one of the activities

	Improve and expand an article	Help make improvements to Women's biographies on Wikipedia.	20 minutes
	Improve with a reference	Improve Women's biographies with citations.	20 minutes
	Translate articles to other languages	Translate Wikipedia articles from one language to another.	45 minutes
	Create a new Wikipedia article	Choose a person you want to write a new Wikipedia article about.	60 minutes

Extra activities

	Share!	Share your contribution in social media. Use #wikigap as hashtag.	5 minutes
	Upload to Commons!	Upload your event photos under a free license on Wikimedia Commons. Please add them to the category c:Category:WikiGap 2021.	10 minutes