On August 5, 2025, in Nairobi, Kenya, #VisibleWikiWomen brought together feminist activists, community organizers, tech-builders, researchers, and Wikimedians. The Soiree was a joyful, relational, and hands-on gathering aimed at challenging and reimagining structured data practices through a feminist and decolonial lens.
🔗 Download the summary report! https://whoseknowledge.org/resource/the-visiblewikiwomen-feminist-data-soiree-summary-report/
As feminists world over commemorate the 2025 #16DaysOfActivism, under the theme, “UNITE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”, we feel like we have been summoned.
This #16DaysofActivism, join us for #16DaysOfTranslation - a #VisibleWikiWomen challenge, where we are asking our feminist communities to translate the Wikipedia article on online gender-based violence into multiple languages.
How can you join our #16TranslationDays? Continue reading this thread!
I love that two amazing map-makers won MacArthur Foundation genius grants this year: Tonika Lewis Johnson, and Margaret Wickens Pearce.
Pearce's work in particular I've been following for years, and according to Wikipedia she is the first awardee in history with "cartographer" as a title: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Fellows_Program#2025
But unfortunately neither Johnson or Pearce has their own #Wikipedia article. Seems like something we could fix!
Are you attending the #AWIDForum2024? 🌍
Stop by our #VisibleWikiWomen photo booth, where we'll be taking pictures and documenting women and non-binary folks in feminist movements. This is a space to create feminist memories, bring them online via Wikimedia Commons, and show how online imagery plays a role in reimagining a decolonized feminist internet.
Come say hi, hang out, get your photo taken, and talk more about feminist memory-making 📸
Our Decolonizing Wikimedia Coordinator, Mariana Fossatti, and the #VisibleWikiWomen coordinator Sunshine Fionah Komusana joined conversations in the re:shape project with a webinar on open licenses and the politics of sharing knowledges from marginalized communities.
Read the reflections about #reshape from Riham Abed-Ali (Wikimedia Deutschland) 🔗 https://diff.wikimedia.org/2024/08/17/share-knowledge-change-narratives-key-learnings-and-changes-for-the-re%c2%b7shape-program/
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Alan McConchie
Sussex Humanities Lab (UoS)