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Wikipedia is turning 25! 🎉

For the occasion, we're in Paris for Wikimania 2026.

On Saturday, July 25th 🗓️ our beloved Mariana who co-leads the Decolonizing Wikimedia program, will host a Lunch meetup to share key lessons and inspiration on the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign that has been running for 10 years, and is a rich hands-on experience of challenging the systemic erasure of marginalized bodies and knowledge within digital spaces ✊🏾

If you're attending, come say hi! https://wikimedia.eventyay.com/wm/wikimania2026/talk/EM3AJZ/

New report alert! 🚨

Our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign has been running for almost a decade, so we wanted to pause and examine its impact, through an intersectional feminist, anti-racist, queer, and decolonial lens.
The result is a powerful collective reflection on knowledge production, community-led documentation, and the power of decentralized organizing in the age of generative AI.
Grab your copy here ➡️ https://whoseknowledge.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Whose-Images-Tell-Our-Stories-VisibleWikiWomen-Whose-Knowledge-2026.pdf

:underheart: Sumate a la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen durante todo el año recopilando y subiendo imágenes de calidad que se encuentren en el dominio público o bajo una licencia libre a Wikimedia Commons, en la categoría «VisibleWikiWomen». Pueden ser fotografías o dibujos de mujeres, así como imágenes de su obra, siempre que se cuente con el consentimiento correspondiente.

Además de subir imágenes a Commons, puedes participar en la campaña de otras formas, entra aquí👉🏿 https://whoseknowledge.org/es/visiblewikiwomen-2026/

👉🏿 Apoyamos la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen que sigue desafiando la hegemonía blanca, occidental, cisgénero y sin discapacidad que predomina en los archivos de conocimiento digitales, aporta más de 23 000 imágenes a Wikimedia Commons, el repositorio de Wikimedia para contenidos multimedia libres y de alta calidad. Esfuerzo colectivo cuyo objetivo es dar protagonismo a las mujeres negras, morenas e indígenas, así como a las mujeres trans y a las personas no binarias. 🧵

🏳️‍🌈 This Pride Month, we celebrate our Queer comrades, siblings and community members from the Global Majority!

As part of the 9th edition of #VisibleWikiWomen campaign, we invite queer communities, LGBTQIA+ organizations, Wikimedia contributors, archivists, activists, photographers, and allies to join us!

Together let’s ensure that Queer knowledge is searchable, connected, and remembered: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:VisibleWikiWomen_Curation_-_Pride_Month

¡Estamos muy emocionadas de lanzar la novena edición de la campaña #VisibleWikiWomen! 🥳

Te invitamos a unirte a nosotras no solo para resistir, sino también para reinventar y construir sistemas de datos estructurados donde nuestras historias no solo sean visibles, sino también debidamente nombradas y valoradas, haciendo que la pluralidad de nuestros cuerpos y conocimientos sea imposible de ignorar ➡️ https://lnkd.in/epjdf4Xd

@whoseknowledge Looked it up and it seems all good! Image added #visibleWikiWomen! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dickenson

it's @whoseknowledge's #VisibleWikiWomen campaign again!

copyright question:

i just went through the list of people from hulme and found this person: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Dickenson

of which this seems a good candidate for a photo from the local archive: (https://www.gmlives.org.uk/): https://www.gmlives.org.uk/imu/request.php?request=Multimedia&method=fetch&key=50968&filter=height:bf:692;width:bf:1211;kind:ne:thumbnail

any idea where i stand legally with uploading it to wikimedia? the photo is more than 70 years old so ex copyright but im guessing this scan of it is not?

We’re so excited to launch the 9th edition of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign! 🥳

You’re invited to join us to bring justice to the gender visibility gaps online, reshape and build structured data systems where our stories aren’t just visible, but properly named & valued, making our selves and knowledge plurality impossible to ignore. Start contributing here: https://whoseknowledge.org/visiblewikiwomen-2026/

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/

Also, we’d love to see more articles and Wikidata items about feminist organizations and collectives that make the internet safer and joyful for everyone, every day. And don’t forget to bring pictures to the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign on Wikimedia Commons! 👉🏾 Visit the Event page to learn more and join! https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:16_Days_Of_Translation_2025

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!

#Cartography #mapstodon #VisibleWikiWomen #Wiki4Women

We are excited to announce that our 8th edition of the #VisibleWikiWomen campaign is live 🎉 This year's theme is, “It Takes a Village!! Finding, Strengthening, and Sustaining Feminist Community” #FeministCommunity #VisibleWikiWomxn2025
https://whoseknowledge.org/visiblewikiwomen-2025/

#VisibleWikiWomen Lab hosted by Whose Knowledge
FREE ONLINE event https://www.sussex.ac.uk/research/centres/sussex-humanities-lab/news-and-events/events?id=66672
“The whole endeavor of collecting images, categorizing them, and labeling them is itself a form of politics, filled with questions about who gets to decide what images mean and what kinds of social and political work those representations perform” - Kate Crawford and Trevor Paglen, Excavating AI. The Politics of Images in Machine Learning Training Sets

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/

It’s our 8th birthday! We are proud of our work - from bigger initiatives like our Decolonizing The Internet gatherings and bringing thousands of images of women and non-binary people to Wikimedia Commons through #VisibleWikiWomen, to our intimate learning circles about knowledge and tech justice issues. We're grateful to our partners, funders and friends who make this work possible – and to our communities for grounding our work in care, and towards liberation. Images taken by Federico Zuvire.

RT @WhoseKnowledge: Welcome to the 6th edition of our #VisibleWikiWomen campaign!

This year's theme is “#BodyPlurality: Celebrating the uniqueness of our body sizes, shapes & identities online”.