2019:Diversity/Interwiki Women Collaboration, a cross-wiki global campaign
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Title
Interwiki Women Collaboration, a cross-wiki global campaign
Description
The session aims to share experiences from different affiliates (cultural diversity) from countries and different continents (geographical diversity) that speak various languages - Italian, Armenian, Spanish, French, Arabic (language diversity). A case use of collaboration to improve women biographies (gender diversity) in Wikipedia and involve partners (GLAM & Education). It is also a way to share tools (Dashboard tool) that helps to take care about metrics registeing participation, written articles, number of edits etc.
Relationship to the theme
This session will address the conference theme — Wikimedia, Free Knowledge and the Sustainable Development Goals — in the following manner: The session is related to quality education, gender quality, reduced inequalities, partnership for the goals.
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Session outcomes
At the end of the session, the following will have been achieved:
Session leader(s)
- Camelia Boban
- Arminé Aghayan
Usernames
Affiliation/country
E-mail contact
- camelia.boban@gmail.com
- arminehaghayan@gmail.com
Session type
Each Space at Wikimania 2019 will have specific format requests. The program design prioritises submissions which are future-oriented and directly engage the audience. The format of this submission is a:
- Lightning talk
- Roundtable discussion forum
- Panel with audience Question & Answer session
- Lecture
Length of session
If other than 20 minutes, specify how long
- 10 minutes for lightening talk
- 30-40 minutes for Panel Discussions (including the Question & Answer session)
Supporting work
Optional:
Requirements
The session will work best with these conditions:
- Room:
projector + screen + wifi
- Audience:
30 people
- Recording:
recording allowed