Wikipedia:WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women

The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women WikiProject is an initiative to create, update, and improve Wikimedia content pertaining to the lives of Kenyan and African cisgender and transgender women who are notable as scholars, activists and practitioners in the world's religious, spiritual and wisdom traditions, more specifically in Kenya and other African countries. We are an offshoot/daughter project of WikiProject Women in Religion and closely work with them to reach our goals.

All are invited to contribute and join in our activities; there are many ways to help and no specialized knowledge of content or editing is required. Trainings and edit-a-thons are held regularly for new editors interested in learning to edit Wikipedia or Wikidata.

The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women WikiProject organizing committee, in conjunction with Women in Religion, will post meetings and give contact information and links in this space.

Here's our project banner. Please place it on the talk page of any new article or bio you create.

Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women, a collaborative effort to improve Wikipedia's coverage of women in religion in Kenya and other African countries. If you would like to participate, you can visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks.Kenyan Circle of Concerned African WomenWikipedia:WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African WomenTemplate:WikiProject Kenyan Circle of Concerned African WomenKenyan Circle of Concerned African Women

History

This WikiProject was launched in January 2024 to further expand the work WikiProject Women in Religion is doing to increase the content both on Wikipedia and in the general scholarship about women in religion in Kenya and other African countries. The Kenyan Circle of Concerned African Women is a chapter of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians is a pan-African ecumenical organization supporting scholarly research of African women theologians.

We are, as of February 2025, applying for a second rapid grant from the Wikimedia Foundation. See here for the google folder that contains more information about our project.

As of January 2026, we are applying for a third rapid grant. Watch this space for more information.

Upcoming events

We have many editing sessions per month, both virtually and in-person, at our editing hub at the University of Nairobi. Bring your own project to work on, or any questions you have about editing. All levels are welcome! For Zoom meeting details and more information, contact RosPost.

Participants

Please add your username below to demonstrate your willingness to participate in our project.

Rapid Grant 1: Expanding Wikipedians in Kenya WikiProject, Kenyan Circle

Rapid Grant 2: Expanding and Retaining Wikipedia Editors in Kenya

The primary purpose of Rapid Grant Two is to expand, retain and strengthen the community of Wikipedia editors in Kenya, with a particular focus on increasing the representation of African women in the field of religion. The project targets a diverse group of participants, including the first cohort of Kenyan Wikipedia editors, students and faculty from the University of Nairobi, and members of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians (Kenya chapter).

Rapid Grant 3: Building Sustainability for Kenyan Wikipedia Editors at the University of Nairobi

The purpose of Rapit Grant 3 is to establish a sustainable community of Wikipedia editors at the University of Nairobi by creating an editing hub. This initiative aims to address systemic content and gender gaps by generating knowledge on underrepresented topics, such as women in religion. Ultimately, the project seeks to transform the editing culture into a self-sustaining movement for knowledge equity in Kenya.


Minutes

Continuing and new participants

Working lists

How you can help

  • Add a name to this list.
  • Add a sentence to the opening paragraph in an article.
  • Add a sentence about the subject's religion or faith in the body of an article.
  • Add a link to other Wikipedia pages (a city where the subject lived, or worked, for example).
  • Add links from other pages to these women's articles. (Add their name to a list of famous people from a town, for example.)
  • Add a reference to an article.
  • Add an info box to an article.
  • Add categories to the bottom of an article.
  • Write a new stub article for a woman who does not have a page.
  • Create red links in other articles to new bios that need to be written.

Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians

Circle members with Wikidata items

Circle members with lacking or unclear Wikidata items or VIAF numbers as of August 2025

Other working groups

Guides for newcomers

Wikimedia Projects

  • Resource about our sister project, WikiProject Women in Religion: See video at Commons and YouTube.

Help

Use these resources to find help anytime, anywhere.

Guides and check lists

Sandbox help

Everything you need to know

Wikipedians are always available to help you!

  • Find your answer at Wikipedia:Help
  • Click Show on the templates at the bottom of the page for a number of helpful links.

Tutorial videos

  • Account creation tutorial (2 min 35 sec)
  • Starting a sandbox article tutorial (2 min 11 sec)
  • Article creation tutorial (7 min 50 sec)
  • Copyright licenses involved in uploading files (3 min 28 sec)
  • HotCat and categories explanation (5 min 43 sec)

Images and photos

  • Uploading images – tutorial, general overview
  • Image use policy – rights, licenses, is it okay to use the image
  • Picture Tutorial – technical details of getting image uploaded and displaying in a way that looks good
  • Free image resources – where to find free images for use in Wikipedia (in addition to holdings of the library that you could photograph and upload to Wikimedia Commons)

Editing tools and tips

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