View source for Submissions:2024/Women in Religion: Expanding the Crossroads Across Continents using Rapid Grants, the Case of Kenya

{{WCNA 2024 Session Submission
|status=Accepted
|type=Panel
|theme=Community Engagement, Diversity & Inclusion, GLAM (Galleries/Libraries/Archives/Museums), Partnerships, Reliable Sources
|abstract=Women in Religion is partnering at the crossroads of the U.S. and Kenya  in an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content of  women identified activists and practitioners in Africa's, spiritual, indigenous and wisdom traditions beginning with Kenyan Wikipedians. We will address the mutual  participation in writing a rapid grant that develops a solid partner Wiki working group in Kenya that overcomes their local challenges from lack of Wifi infrastructure and need for travel to lack of secondary and online resources.  U.S. and Diaspora members will share a session to explain the partnership challenges and benefits of the partnership. They will discuss strategies used to overcome challenges, train Wikipedians and improve and create high quality articles on Wikipedia and extend the program after the life of the grant.  We  will discuss new partnerships the benefits of new partners and alliances and  the stated benefits of working with Wikipedia for young scholars in religion.
|author=Rosalind Hinton; Ruth Amwe, Colleen Hartung, Christine Meyer
|username=RosPost (Rosalind), Zubawa006 (Ruth), Dzingle1 (Colleen), Figureskatingfan (Christine)
|email=rosalindhinton{{@}}mac.com; ruth.amwe{{@}}ptsem.edu
|affiliates=Wiki Women inReligion Project; Women in Religion User Group Wikimedia;  Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women; Women in Red
|scholarship=No
|time=30 to 45 minutes; 15 to 30 minute lecture is possible
|livestream=Yes, you may livestream my session
|presented=NO, this is a new grant and while the partnership is from 2021, the grant has created new strategies for work.
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