Recognized for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
From the nominator:
WikiDonne’s internship with University Roma Tre empowers students to engage directly with Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Commons, and Wikidata to produce and improve content that highlights underrepresented voices, especially women and marginalized communities. It’s not just about learning digital skills, it’s also about rewriting the narrative of who gets represented in public knowledge spaces. WikiDonne doesn’t just participate in open education – it redefines wiki projects as tools for education.
Over the past six months, eight students from the master’s degrees in E-learning and Media Education (LM93) and Journalism and Digital Publishing (LM19) have learned the principles and pillars of Wikimedia projects, how licensing works, and encyclopedic writing (source-based, with a neutral point of view, a gender-respectful approach, and inclusive language), and have used Wikimedia projects as a collaborative, knowledge-sharing, and open education platform.
I love everything about this project: their use and choice of platform, the topic, their caring, their supporting each other and working together, their generosity, their exposing new voices, their willingness to have a better world, their “let’s keep doing this” attitude… It’s so simple yet so powerful.
Award Reviewer
This is such an important project, giving voice and agency to those who are often not heard and/or are marginalised while developing digital skills. Amazing! Writing up impact stories would inspire others as the scheme will continue it seems.
Award Reviewer
Learn More
- Wikidonne-APS (web site)
- Wikidonne User Group (WikiMedia Meta-Wiki)
- Storia del femminismo italiano (WikiBooks)
- Progetto:WikiDonne/Tirocinio Roma Tre 2025 (WIkiBooks)
- Progetto:Coordinamento/Università/UNIROMA3/LM/Storia del femminismo italiano 2025 (WIkipedia)
