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Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality
Let’s talk about Wiki + GLAM + gender!
Dear Wikimedians,
TL;DR: Invitation to collaborate with project on partnerships between Wiki and GLAM that tackle gender inequality.
We are happy to announce the project Wiki and GLAM: Harnessing Knowledge to Foster Gender Equality!
During the GLAM Wiki Conference in Lisbon last year, we took part in the workshop “GLAM and Gender – Harnessing Knowledge and Practices to Shape Our Collective Future,” organized by Tila Cappelletto and Lucy Hinnie. We learned about initiatives aimed at closing the gender gap in the Wikimedia movement that were developed in partnership with GLAM institutions. There, we realized that many Wiki organizers around the world have been involved in similar projects, but that these experiences are scattered and not easily accessible. This led us to see the need to collect and share these cases, learn from them, and support other gender organizers in developing their own initiatives.
The project was born from the desire to create a space where people can share information about initiatives that promote gender equality within Wikimedia and beyond, developed in collaboration with GLAM institutions. Our goal is to foster exchange and collective learning from both past and ongoing experiences.
We have started to collect these in our page — for example, the partnership between Wiki Editoras LX and the Belém Library in Portugal as well as numerous initiatives led by Wikiesfera in Spain and by the Wikimedia Community User Group in Sénégal. We know there are many more projects throughout the world. We are interested in events, encounters, and any other movement (short-, medium-, or long-term) connecting GLAMs and the Wiki world towards gender equality, ongoing or past.
If you have been involved in any event or project connecting Wikimedia, GLAMs, and gender, we would love to hear from you! We also invite anyone thinking about organizing these kind of initiative in the future to join us, so we can learn from each other. We will have our first meeting on February 13, and will love to see you there!
Connect with us on our Telegram channel, send us an email (wikiglamgender@gmail.com), follow us on Instagram (@wikiglamgender), and subscribe to our Meta page.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!
Mariana and Essenam
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