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Expanding Wikipedians in Kenya WikiProject, Kenyan Circle

Hello and welcome!

The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women WikiProject is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content pertaining to the lives of Kenyan and African cisgender and transgender women who are notable as scholars, activists and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions, more specifically in Kenya and other African countries. We are an offshoot/daughter project of WikiProject Women in Religion and closely work with them to reach our goals.

All are invited to contribute and join in our activities; there are many ways to help and no specialized knowledge of content or editing is required. Trainings and edit-a-thons are held regularly for new editors interested in learning to edit Wikipedia or Wikidata.

The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women WikiProject organizing committee, in conjunction with Women in Religion, will post meetings and give contact information and links in this space.

History

This WikiProject was launched in January 2024 to further expand the work WikiProject Women in Religion is doing to increase the content both on Wikipedia and in the general scholarship about women in religion in Kenya and other African countries. The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women is a chapter of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is a pan-African ecumenical organization supporting scholarly research of African women theologians.

Upcoming events

We have many editing sessions per month, both virtually and in-person, including an international virtual session that occurs weekly, every Wednesday at 6 pm EAT, which is open to all. Bring your own project to work on, or any questions you have about editing. All levels are welcome!

For Zoom meeting details and more information, contact RosPost.

Join Zoom Meeting here

Participants

Please add your username below to demonstrate your willingness to participate in our project.

Working lists

How you can help

  • Add a name to this list.
  • Add a sentence to the opening paragraph in an article.
  • Add a sentence about the subject's religion or faith in the body of an article.
  • Add a link to other Wikipedia pages (a city where the subject lived, or worked, for example).
  • Add links from other pages to these women's articles. (Add their name to a list of famous people from a town, for example.)
  • Add a reference to an article.
  • Add an info box to an article.
  • Add categories to the bottom of an article.
  • Write a new stub article for a woman who does not have a page.
  • Create red links in other articles to new bios that need to be written.

Other working groups

Guides for newcomers

Wikimedia Projects

Help

Use these resources to find help anytime, anywhere.

Guides and check lists

Sandbox help

Everything you need to know

Wikipedians are always available to help you!

  • Find your answer at Wikipedia:Help
  • Click Show on the templates at the bottom of the page for a number of helpful links.

Tutorial videos

  • Account creation tutorial (2 min 35 sec)
  • Starting a sandbox article tutorial (2 min 11 sec)
  • Article creation tutorial (7 min 50 sec)
  • Copyright licenses involved in uploading files (3 min 28 sec)
  • HotCat and categories explanation (5 min 43 sec)

Images and photos

  • Uploading images – tutorial, general overview
  • Image use policy – rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
  • Picture Tutorial – technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good
  • Free image resources – where to find free images for use in Wikipedia (in addition to holdings of the library that you could photograph and upload to Wikimedia Commons)

Editing tools and tips

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