Wiki Loves Women/SheSaid

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The SheSaid is a drive run by Wiki In Africa as part of the Wiki Loves Women initiative. The campaign aims to celebrate and recognize women by focusing on enhancing their representation and visibility on Wikiquote. Through this drive, the WLW initiative encourages the creation and improvement of Wikiquote entries related to these influential women, thus contributing to a more inclusive and diverse representation of their voices and perspectives.

The impact of the #SheSaid campaign on Wikiquote has been truly remarkable, with over 15,555 new articles created or edited in 18 different languages across the last three editions. This impressive achievement reflects the collective effort and dedication of the Wiki Loves Women initiative and the different participating communities in celebrating and increasing the visibility of women leaders.

The continuous growth in the number of articles created or edited with each edition showcases the sustained success of the campaign. It indicates a growing awareness and commitment from contributors around the world to bridge the gender gap in representation and recognition.

Given to this success and noting that there is still a lot to do, the #SheSaid drive will run again in 2024 and will run from the 1st of September till 31st of December 2024

Get Involved!

Why the SheSaid campaign?

Screenshot of the English Wikiquote on 2020-10-06. The list of people contains only three women (Helen Keller, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Emily Brontë).

To balance the representation of gender in the entries of Wikiquote.

To illustrate the situation, here are a few interesting figures:

On the English Wikiquote main page on 6th of Oct 2020, in the Selected people section, 29 men were featured and only 4 women (see the screenshot on the right).
There were 260 women who had featured articles on either French or English Wikipedias... with no entry on the French Wikiquote.
There were 162 women who had featured articles on the English Wikipedia with no wikiquote entry.
There were 777 women and 3504 men listed on the French wikiquote.

As a matter of comparison, in September 2024 there are 1450 women as opposed to 3879 men listed on the French wikiquote.

Obviously, not all women say good quotes that would make a wikiquote entry worth it. Also note that notability rules depends on language Wikiquotes.

Women ?

The primary and most important goal of the drive is to collect quotes « from women ». Occasionally, the quotes may be « about women » or they may be in tight relation with female gender topics; that’s ok but not the primary goal.
"Woman" must be understood as "person self-identified as a woman". Some participants do sometimes add quotes from non-binary people; that’s ok but not the primary goal.

Who can join ?

Who can participate ?

Everyone is welcome to join the effort, regardless of gender, age, mother language, nationality.
Emphatically, all genders are very welcome.
Individual participation is welcome. Groups are welcome as well.


Language	Female representation on Wikiquote	Male representation on Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Arabic Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Assamese Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Bengali Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Catalan Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Central Bikol (bcl) and Tagalog (tl) Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Dutch Wikiquote
SheSaid on the English Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Fante Wikiquote (Incubator)
SheSaid on the French Wikiquote
SheSaid on the German Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Gungbe Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Hausa Wikiquote (Incubator)
SheSaid on the Igbo Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Italian Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Serbian Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Slovene Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Spanish Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Swahili Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Telugu Wikiquote
SheSaid on the Ukrainian Wikiquote

Impact

SheSaid 2022 in Botswana

The #SheSaid campaign, launched in October 2020 on Wikiquote, has been an astounding success! Spanning across 7 languages, by January 5th, 2021, the campaign led to a total of 867 new or improved articles, with the majority being new contributions.

Following Italian Wikiquote's remarkable contribution of 405 articles, Ukraine comes in the second place with 187 articles, and French takes the third spot with 105 articles.

The second edition was a resounding success, with 1500+ new Wikiquote entries created and improved in 9 languages!

Italian, with 836 new or improved articles and Tagalog with 308 new or improved articles, were the most active languages.

In 2022, the 3rd edition of the campaign run from the 1st October to 31st December 2022 and resulted in 4158 articles created or imported and 1918 articles improved.

The first place goes to the Italian Wikiquote with 1212 new or improved articles, followed by Tagalog with 1514 new or improved articles and English with 1003 new or improved articles.

See all the results of the previous editions from here.

Social Media and contact

Website: www.wikiloveswomen.org
Twitter: @Wikiloveswomen
Instagram: @WikiLovesWomen
Facebook page: @WikiLovesWomen
Facebook group: Mind The Gender Gap group
Telegram group: WikiGenderGap

Communications and design

Creating visuals to promote the campaign and Wikiquote each edition is an effective way to engage the audience and generate interest in the initiative.

Visual materials like postcards, bookmarks, and banners which can serve as eye-catching reminders of the campaign's mission and encourage people to take part. They can be distributed at events, conferences, and other gatherings to attract attention and spark interest in Wikiquote and the importance of recognizing and celebrating women.

For help and access to templates on Canvas, please get in touch with Afek
Link to the categories: SheSaid 2024 visuals and SheSaid all visuals