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== Our Story ==

== Our Story ==

In December 2015, Goethe Institute requested technical support from the [[أضف:الصفحة_الرئيسية|Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF)]] to build a website serving as a directory for institutions and active groups working on gender and women’s issues. With [[أضف:مشروع_ويكي_دراسات_الجندر|a preposition from ADEF, the project evolved into a knowledge base in fields of gender and women studies]], in addition to the original organisations' directory.

In December 2015, Goethe-Institut Kairo requested technical support from the [[أضف:الصفحة_الرئيسية|Arab Digital Expression Foundation (ADEF)]] to build a website serving as a directory for institutions and active groups working on gender and women’s issues in Egypt. With [[أضف:مشروع_ويكي_دراسات_الجندر|a preposition from ADEF, the project evolved into a knowledge base in fields of gender and women studies]], in addition to the original organisations' directory.

Currently, the platform stores and categorizes original and collected content covering gender, and women-related issues, which is edited and updated by individuals who are active and/or professionally working in the field as well as anyone else interested in the topic.

The first year of the project's life saw was about laying the foundations of the platform; studying the nature of knowledge to be captured, and bringing together a core community of contributors who began to explore the possibilities of working with the wiki platform.

The first year of the project's life saw the laying the foundations of the platform, studying the nature of knowledge to be captured, and bringing together a core community of contributors who began to explore the possibilities of working with the wiki platform. The Wiki Gender website was officially launched in December 2016. Collaborative work is going on; developing content plans and pages, building our editorial policies, and holding regular meetings and intensive camps to learn new wiki techniques and make major decisions together.

The Wiki Gender website was officially launched in December 2016, following the the first Wiki retreat in November 2016, during which a core group of interested individuals gathered in ADEF and collaboratively set the preliminary vision, mission, objectives, and logo for Wiki Gender, as well as started seeds of pages in several indexes such as terminologies, organizations, persons, films and others.

In August 2017, [[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الأول - القاهرة - أغسطس 2017|the first Wiki Training]] took place in Cairo and a group of 10 participants was formed. During 2018, the work was focused on developing and creating pages in different and new indexes including, terminologies and concepts, Books, Incidents and cases, campaigns, and individuals working in the gender field. In parallel to this, three working retreats took place during which the team worked collaboratively in developing the Wiki's editorial policies and the wiki was developed as a platform by developing templates for different indexes and enhancing our categorizing strategies.

Few months after the launch, the group of co-founders saw the necessity to gauge and involve more people in Wiki Gender. Hence,[[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الأول - القاهرة - أغسطس 2017|the first Wiki Training]] took place in August 2017 in Cairo, forming a group of 12 contributors. After the training and throughout 2018, the work on the wiki was focused on developing and creating pages under different and new indexes including: terminologies and concepts, books, public incidents and cases, campaigns, organizations, and persons working in the gender and women rights related fields. In parallel to this expansion in content, the wiki platform was quickly growing on a technical level, developing customized templates for the different indexes, enhancing our categorization strategies as well as the interface of the main pages. During this time period, the team met weekly for editorial meetings, and three more working retreats took place during which the team collaboratively discussed and developed the Wiki's editorial policies, and collectively applied necessary changes to pages and indexes responding to new technological developments on the wiki platform.  

In November 2018, the [[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الثاني - بيروت - نوفمبر 2018|second Wiki Training]] took place in Beirut and a group of 12 volunteers was formed. And in December 2018, a [[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الثالث - تونس - ديسمبر 2018|third small wiki training]] took place in Tunis and a group of 6 volunteers was formed. Since the beginning of 2019, the work has been focused on developing the content and our archiving index. Plus the developing of organizing policies and rethinking our structural formation as a regional project in two retreats in [[مشروع:معتكف ويكي الجندر الأول في بيروت - آذار/مارس 2019|Beirut]] and [[مشروع:معتكف ويكي الجندر الخامس في القاهرة - مايو 2019|Cairo]].  

Towards the end of 2018, Wiki Gender took its first steps into becoming a regional project, responding to increasing interest in collaboration from different countries in the Arab speaking region. In November 2018, the [[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الثاني - بيروت - نوفمبر 2018|second Wiki Training]] took place in Beirut bringing in a group of 12 contributors from Lebanon as well as Palestine and Syria. Then in December 2018, a [[مشروع:تدريب من الجندر إلى الويكي الثالث - تونس - ديسمبر 2018|third small wiki training]] took place in Tunis and a group of 6 contributors was formed. The two new groups formed their own system of editorial meetings, coordinating with the Wiki Gender core team and collaborating within group and across groups on different pages and indexes.

 

Since the beginning of 2019, the work has been focused on further gardening and enhancing our original content, and  curating and archiving efforts. We are also responding to the growth of the project - on regional, contribution, and content levels - by collectively rethinking our structural formation and organising tools and policies, an effort we started during two recent retreatsl, one in [[مشروع:معتكف ويكي الجندر الأول في بيروت - آذار/مارس 2019|Beirut]] and the other in [[مشروع:معتكف ويكي الجندر الخامس في القاهرة - مايو 2019|Cairo]].

 

 

==Our objectives==

==Our objectives==