Hi all!
As many of you probably know, WikiGap <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap> is organized annually around International Women's Day 8 March. It is an initiative aiming to close the gender gap in Wikipedia, and is organized as a cooperation between Wikimedia Sverige, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Swedish embassies and Wikimedia affiliates and volunteers around the world. It was first organized in March 2018 and now we would like to do it for the third time! We are planning to organize several Wikipedia edit-a-thons around 8 March 2020. The purpose of the edit-a-thons is to create more articles about women, as a way of building a more gender-equal Internet and a more gender-equal world (a manual can be found here <http://www.swemfa.se/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/manual-2019.pdf>). At this point, we have started the preparations for WikiGap 2020 <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap>! I have reached out individually to previous organizers, but if there are affiliates or volunteers who haven't taken part in the initiative before but would like to – you still have the chance! Feel free to reach out to me for any questions. If there are previous organizers who I have missed to contact, feel free to reach out then too! If you have already decided upon a date and started the preparations, please fill in the Events <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap/2020/Events> list at Meta. In that way, we know if you are planning an event and can reach out to you with more information. WikiGap Challenge and Photo Exhibition As last year, we will also initiate a WikiGap Challenge, encouraging article creation on women throughout the Spring. Last year, the winner Andriy Hrytsenko <https://si.se/en/wikigap-has-brought-us-27-000-articles-closer-to-a-gender-equal-internet/> , from Ukrainian Wikipedia, got a Wikimania scholarship as a reward. The challenge will be online and coordinated on Meta, as last year <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiGap_Challenge>. For the first time this year, we are aiming to produce a photo exhibition, in digital and physical form, to highlight several of the great articles that have been written. Reach out to us if you have interest in hosting it! Our preliminary idea is to produce it with A4 photos to print and text in two languages, the original and English, besides. Best, *Eric Luth* Project Manager, Wikimedia Sverige eric.l...@wikimedia.se +46 (0) 765 55 50 95 Stöd fri kunskap, bli medlem i Wikimedia Sverige. Läs mer på blimedlem.wikimedia.se _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
