Hello everyone!
The annual report of Whose Knowledge? User Group is available in Meta. We are glad to
share with all of you our journey from September 2020 to September 2021.
Please find the report here:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Whose_Knowledge%3F/Reports/2021
We recognize that 2021 was a year to build up resilience after all that 2020 brought to us
and our communities. Even though we continued to face the effects of Covid-19, and of
other intersecting pandemics of racism, patriarchy, and the climate crisis, we also
started to get our strength back and to embrace the future with joy and hope:
- Whose Knowledge? celebrated five mighty years of its existence in Sep 2021 with a
special social media campaign.
- WK? incorporated in the State of CA, as a public benefit corporation in June 2021. We
have worked with our esteemed Board in the last few months as well, to move WK? in the
direction of its mission.
- The #VisibleWikiWomen campaign 2021 brought over 1700 images to Wikimedia Commons,
illustrating pages in 38 different Wikipedia languages.
- We have successfully designed and developed a fully tailored website that will present
the State of the Internet's Languages report to our wide audience in a user-friendly
manner.
- We hosted a multilingual event on Decolonising Structured Data as a pre-WikidataCon
event and we did a keynote at WikidataCon itself.
You can learn more about our activities, access the materials and resources created, and
see photos and presentations in the full report.
In the next few weeks we will be sharing a multilingual, accessible and multimedia website
for the State of the Internet's Languages, and we will launch our next
#VisibleWikiWomen campaign. Stay tuned through our website (
https://whoseknowledge.org/),
social media channels (@whoseknowledge on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) and consider
subscribing to our newsletter (
https://whoseknowledge.org/join/), or reach out us in our
discussion page on Meta (
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Whose_Knowledge%3F).
In solidarity,
Mariana and the Whose Knowledge? team