 Our next speaker will be Kira and Sadik for Art and Feminism West African Indigenous Language Program. Let's give them a round of applause please. So lovely. Welcome, Kira. So good morning, good evening, good afternoon. This is Kira speaking. I am an East Asian appearing woman. I have short dark hair. I'm wearing a K-95 mask and I have glasses. I have the distinct honor and privilege of being the Executive Director of Art and Feminism. Oh, how does this work? This one? Nope, that's not my slides. Hi everyone. How's it going? What's a conference about some technical difficulties, you know? It's fine. I'm chilling. Sure. Sorry for technical difficulties, Kira and audience. And we're trying to resolve it with the AV folks. This is it. Hey, thanks y'all. Hey. So I was also for access, I'm going to remove my mask right now. So on the screen right now there's a slide that has a screenshot from the artandfeminism.com website that has a bunch of different events and it says Art and Feminism West African Indigenous Language Program. This slide has the Art and Feminism abbreviated Brave Friendly Space Agreement. And so we start all of our Art and Feminism events with this. The goal of this session is to create an encouraging space for collective learning. This requires intentional behavior, wherein participants are conscious of and accountable for the effect of their statements and actions on others, respect our experiences and the experience of others and recognize we can't do this work without one another. We agree to hold each other accountable to foster a brave and friendly space. So we have 12 minutes. So I'm going to try to be as brief as possible. I know a lot of you are already familiar with Art and Feminism. So thank you for already being community with us. And if you're not, allow us to please introduce ourselves very briefly. This is a slide that has the Art and Feminism mission and vision statement. It also has our one of our logos on it on a blue black blue background. So we realigned our mission and vision in part of strategic planning in 2020 and 2021. And so I'm just going to read this to you. Art and Feminism builds a community of activists that is committed to closing information gaps related to gender, feminism and the arts, beginning with Wikipedia. Art and Feminism envisions an internet that reflects diverse global histories of art making where communities who have often been written out of history feel welcomed and empowered to participate in writing and writing our stories. So I just want to point out something here and it's related to the main presentation that Sadiq's going to do about language and words. So we think about language and words a lot in our movement in Art and Feminism. And you might notice that in our mission and vision, the words marginalized and underrepresented aren't present. And that's very intentional because we recognize that those terms center whiteness. And that's what we're trying to fight up against. And it's not perfect, but this is just something that we're doing intentionally about language. So when we say Art and Feminism, we don't just mean women, we mean feminism, full stop, which is something that Who's Knowledge told me about yesterday. And something in 2020 that we started is we piloted an Indigenous language initiative. And this has evolved into the West African Indigenous language community. Oh, I'm sorry, I didn't describe this slide. This slide is a blue background. It says West African Indigenous languages. It has a picture on the right hand side of it of Sadiq and at an event in Tamiligana as part of the satellite event for the Art and Feminism 10-year anniversary, which happened in April. So with that, I do want to pass the mic to Sadiq, who is going to tell you more about the West African Indigenous language program at Art and Feminism. Thank you so much, Kira. And thank you everyone for being here. I'm really privileged to be here. And as Kira mentioned, most of us here knows about Art and Feminism to be contributing content to bridging the gender gap on Wikipedia. But in 2020, we started this program called Art and Feminism West Africa Indigenous Language Program to help uplift smaller language community communities. So I will be talking to you about what we've been doing since 2022 and the language communities that we've been working with. My name is Sadiq Shahadu from Tamiligana and I'm the West Africa Language Coordinator at Art and Feminism. I'm wearing an African print and a glass. Okay. So the goal of the program was to like provide resources for smaller language community communities and also to support West Africa Indigenous language programs that do not get like real support from the main Wikimedia resource team. So we try to provide technical support. We try to help them connect to each other so that they can share and learn from their experiences. And we started with Dagbani, Grini, Mori, Ghanian, Pijin, Chap, Wikipedia. And recently we had Kusal, Dagari and some few other languages coming up, which is tree and the rest. So since 2022, there has been a lot of impact since we started the program. And one of the top most impact that we have created is the Dagbani Wikipedia. The Dagbani Wikipedia was incubated in 2015 and the project was laid dormant until 2017. And then because of inactivity we couldn't proceed because so many people had so many, those who started it were involved in so many other activities, schools and other stuff like that. And in 2020 when COVID started, I am a speaker of Dagbani myself. So this slide talks about impact of art and feminism and then the background is white. So I speak Dagbani and I was like what if we could just use this COVID period to mobilize online contributors, special language activists to come together to uplift the Dagbani Wikipedia incubator because it's been like a very long time since a lot of people contribute to it. So I started with a few students at the University of Education. We basically started by organizing like online activities because there was COVID and by 2021 on July we were approved. So since 2021 we have created over 7,468 articles on the Dagbani Wikipedia. And if you want to know more about the Dagbani Wikipedia, you can just go to dag.wikipedia.org. And then from there we moved to Gruny Wikipedia which is also one of the mutually intelligible languages from the Northern region of Ghana. So by 2023, as of January 27th, the Gruny was also approved. So these were activities that cuts across like campuses and also art and feminism campaigns which are organized all year around in Tamali and Accra and the Upper East region of Ghana. And other languages that we've been working with are the Tiab Wikipedia and then the Ghanian Pijin. And I'm also happy to share that the Tiab Wikipedia from Nigeria was also approved recently last year and then the Ghanian Pijin was also approved this year. Now we've added a few more languages which is the Mori Wikipedia which is currently being incubated. And Mori is spoken by people of the Mori community in both Ghana and Burkina Faso. And it's one of the largest language groups among the Mori Dagban languages. And from Mori we also have the Kusar language which is spoken by people. We call them Kusasi in the Northern region which is also like a mutually intelligible language among the Mori Dagban languages. And then the Dagari. Dagari is slightly different from Dagban. So these are the languages that we've been working with since we started this program. And as part of the program we've been able to support community leads to become like more active contributors and also become organizers of art and feminism campaigns. So some of them contribute content about women in their various language groups. And also they improve the biographies of feminism-related articles on Wikipedia in these languages. Yeah so if you want to learn more about the art and feminism campaign you can go to artemphemism.org and then you search a West Africa language program. And I also like to invite all those who especially those who are currently working on West Africa language programs to join us and you know learn more about how they can be supported through our programs. At this point if you have any question please let me know. I don't know if I'm within the time. And you can also reach out to me if you have any concern about our work at sadikartartemphemism.org. Thank you Sadik and Kira. Now we go to the next topic. Next slide please.