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Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
July 2025

Recently completed:	LGBTQ+ women Alphabet run: K & L
New this month:	Alphabet run: M & N Women in Red turns 10 Geofocus: Ten for Kenya
Ongoing initiatives:	Music #1day1woman
Upcoming events:	Ideas

Welcome!

This month, Women in Red is focusing on its tenth anniversary and on Kenya. We chose Kenya because it will be the location of this year's Wikimania. It's not our first editathon regarding Kenya. We did one some years back when Women in Red held a 24 hour editathon. Part of the editathon was hosted in Nairobi by Carol Mwaura and she is one of the co-authors of a paper that will be presented at m:WikiWomen* SummitWikiWomenSummit, a Wikimania Day 0 pre-conference.

By all means, donate an improved article or two but the challenge is "Ten for Kenya": a new article for every year of Women in Red.

Below is a collection of a number of redlists that include lots of Kenyan women to write about. Feel free to have a look at these if you want to know where to get started. We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about these notable women. By doing so, we think you will find some interesting insights into life in Kenya and its rich history. An updated/improved article is a very welcome contribution ... one or two might manage "Ten for Kenya!"

The main goals of the event are:

• to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women

to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works

• to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media

What else?

• Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you created this month and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
• This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
• If you share any of the articles or images on social media, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Thank you!

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)

A wide variety of redlink lists can be found on our Redlist index, but the obvious one is the list of Kenyan women in red and there are lots. Remember that this country had a long history before it became a British colony and there were missionaries from many countries.

There are a wide variety of dictionaries and other reference works available, some that editors might consider are: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (WD) Dictionary of African Biography (WD)

Other missing Kenyan women:

• Alesandra Ogeta: Transgender rights activist and Director of Programs for Jinsiangu, a Kenyan organization supporting intersex, transgender, and gender non-conforming people.
• Arya Jeipea Karijo: Women's rights and transgender rights activist ([1])

Participants

• Victuallers (talk) 17:48, 24 June 2025 (UTC)
• Moondragon21 (talk) 15:34, 25 June 2025 (UTC)
• Lajmmoore (talk) 09:47, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
• Rosiestep (talk) 13:05, 30 June 2025 (UTC)
• Curbon7 (talk) 01:33, 1 July 2025 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)

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Key:

• Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
• Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
• Add IG after the article if you post it on Instagram
• Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
• Add Bsky after the article if you post it on Bluesky

New or upgraded articles

• Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new and biographical dictionary, if used:

1. Luna Kamau (also 340)
2. Judy Omumbo
3. Alice Wambui Ng'ang'a
4. Arya Jeipea Karijo
5. Jennifer Shamalla
6. Lilian Gogo (also 340)
7. Rozaah Akinyi Buyu
8. Grace Onyango add pic

List of "Ten for Kenya"

please write your username and articles below

1. Victuallers' = 1 Hamisa Zaja 2 Edith Mukuvilani 3 Sharon Chepchumba 4 Lorine Chebet 5 Veronica Oluoch 6 Lynn Ngugi 7 Juanita Carberry 8 Eunice Kadogo 9 Esther Mbagari 10 Angeline Kavindu Musili

Outcomes (media)

• Please add the special category "Ten for Kenya 2025" to the image if you're uploading a Kenyan image to Commons, it will then be part of Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2025 NOTE: That images only have to be 50 years old to escape Kenya's copyright laws (unless they are artistic) (see the template "PD-Kenya"). You will need a US copyright rationale.

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