Commons:Whose Knowledge?/VisibleWikiWomen
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Wikipedia (and the broader internet) are still missing many images of women, especially black, brown and indigenous women. Welcome to the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign 2022! Join us for the fifth edition of the campaign.
Let’s combat online invisibility by creating a shared and collective feminist memory that gives us hope and healing! |
Women’s knowledge and contributions to the world are invisible in so many ways. When we look at women’s invisibility online, Wikipedia is a good proxy to explain why this is such a critical issue. Less than one quarter of Wikipedia biographies represent women. Many biographies of notable women don’t exist or are incomplete. More often than not, women biographies don’t have images. We estimate that less than 20% of Wikipedia articles of important women have pictures. And, when women’s faces are missing from Wikipedia, that invisibility spreads. Half a billion people read Wikipedia every month,[1] and it is the 5th most visited website in the world, so gaps in Wikipedia have a big impact on the broader internet. The theme for this 2022 campaign is Hope and healing: Creating feminist memory online. For this year’s campaign, our communities of marginalized women/non-binary folks who are often at the core of genuine hope, care and healing work, remind us that we can still find hope and create reparative healing — of ourselves and the planet. When we document our lives, legacies, and struggles, we are actively creating our collective memory and healing in community and solidarity. We are also impacting the kind of futures we want to create. The visual narratives we build today have the potential to change how we experience and are portrayed on the internet, the media, the cultural and memory preservation institutions and, of course, Wikipedia.
Once again we will be “Celebrating the colors of #VisibleWikiWomen” with a targeted effort to increase the images of influential black, brown and indigenous women that are being uploaded to Wikipedia as part of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign.
To reach this goal, we invite you – women’s and feminist organizations, culture and memory institutions, Wikipedia editors, user groups, chapters, and anyone who would like to give women the visibility and acknowledgment they deserve. We are excited to collaborate with previous year’s super amigxs and friends again and to welcome new partners from around the world. |
You can join the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign by gathering and uploading quality images in the public domain, or under free license, to Wikimedia Commons under the VisibleWikiWomen category. These images could be photographs or drawings of women, as well as images of their work, with proper consent.! Use the Upload Wizard or add the VisibleWikiWomen 2022 category to your uploads. Besides uploading images to Commons, you can also participate in the campaign by:
If you need extra support for participating in the campaign, please email us at visiblewikiwomen[at]whoseknowledge[dot]org. |
