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The American Women's History Initiative (AWHI) aims to transform the narrative of history to better reflect a diversity of women's and girls' stories. We will highlight the stories of those who identify as women and girls, and those who were designated female but self-identify differently. It includes programming and events, initiative focused curators across nine museums, and a digital-first strategy to reach 1 billion people a year.
The Open Knowledge Coordinator (User:KellyDoyle) will assist with the Smithsonian's digital and educational strategies as part of the American Women's History Initiative (AWHI). A portion of this project was funded through a Wikimedia Foundation grant. Effie Kapsalis (User:Digitaleffie) is the Senior Digital Program Officer for the Smithsonian and AWHI.
Effie Kapsalis / Digitaleffie: Created the infrastructure for Kelly's role and advised on the project through December 2022
Andrew Lih / Fuzheado: Wikimedian at Large, within AWHI and Office of Digital Transformation (ODT) 2021 - 2023
User:CarCai: AWHI Intern, then contractor (Wikimedia Coordinator), assisting + supervised by Kelly with outreach and events around AANHPI (Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander) women's history related topics and gaps
Over 2.2 million words about American women were added during the period of February 2019 - October 2023
Words added were from a various of outreach means: edit-a-thons, courses taught, intern and contractor work, trainings and information session, and facilitator / organizer edits
Over 50 millions views of Smithsonian images of American women on 22 language Wikipedia versions
