Re: Celebrate Women 2026: welcome session and new materials

Hello,

This is a kind reminder that our Celebrate Women 2026 Welcome Session is
happening tomorrow! Let's kick off the campaign together 🎉

- *Date: *March 5 (Thursday)
- *Time: *13:00-14:00 UTC (check your timezone here
<https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1771851600>)
- *Registrations:* here
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2026_Welcome_Session>
- *Live interpretation: *French, Spanish, and Portuguese

Attendees will:
- Understand more about the 2026 campaign and how it was organized.
- Learn about the events being organized by the Wikimedia community in
March 2026.
- Participate in a movement reflection and understand Wikimedia's Gender
Gap milestones.
- Get an overview of the previous training sessions and learn about two new
tools that help organizers with small but powerful edits during
events: Wikipedia
Microtask Generator <https://microtask-generator.toolforge.org/> and Gender
Bias Detector
<https://nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-gender-bias-detector/>.

Please help us publicize this event by sharing it with your friends,
communities, and networks.

Best,
Giovanna

Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)

Program Officer, Content Enablement
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Advancement/Community_Growth/Content_Enablement>

Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>


On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 12:15 PM Giovanna Fontenelle <
[email protected]> wrote:

> *[Apologies for cross-posting] *
>
> Hello,
>
>
> A few weeks ago, we shared the upcoming Celebrate Women 2026
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women> campaign. Now, we
> want to use this opportunity to talk about its Welcome Session
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2026_Welcome_Session> and
> some materials we put together.
>
>
> Celebrate Women <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women> is
> a campaign that runs from March 1st to 31st. Every year, in celebration of
> International Women’s Day, Wikimedia organizers use this campaign to list
> gender-related events happening during the month.
>
>
> 💻 How to participate
>
> To take part, check this page
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women#Events> for all
> events. Register for them individually by choosing those that suit your
> interests. More events will be added to the page in the next few days and
> weeks.
>
>
> And don't forget to register here
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women> (using the
> registration at the top of the page) to keep track of information relevant
> to the overall campaign.
>
> *⭐ Welcome session*
>
> Kick off the Celebrate Women campaign with us! This
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2026_Welcome_Session>
> session
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2026_Welcome_Session> will
> share logistical information on how to participate, highlight different
> gender activities happening throughout the month, and discuss the Wikimedia
> gender community and its milestones.
>
> - *Date: *March 5 (Thursday)
> - *Time: *13:00-14:00 UTC (check your timezone here
> <https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1771851600>)
> - *Registrations:* here
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women_2026_Welcome_Session>
> - *Live interpretation: *French, Spanish, and Portuguese
>
>
> This will be aimed at anyone who wants to take part in the campaign.
>
>
> 📚 *New materials*
>
> We are happy to share that we published a Diff post about the campaign.
> Please share it with your networks: *Celebrate Women* 2026 is coming!*
> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/02/24/celebrate-women-2026-is-coming/>
>
>
> And we also created a *press toolkit*
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Celebrate_Women/Press> for gender
> organizers who might want to contact journalists and media outlets, and
> need quick access to stories, materials, numbers and facts about Wikimedia
> + Gender in one place.
>
> Join us for Celebrate Women 2026
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Celebrate_Women> and help us make
> the Wikimedia movement and projects more equitable!
>
> Best,
>
> Giovanna
>
> Giovanna Fontenelle (she/her)
>
> Program Officer, Content Enablement
> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation/Advancement/Community_Growth/Content_Enablement>
>
> Wikimedia Foundation <https://wikimediafoundation.org/>
>

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