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There was like a percentage

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that 85% of the editors
on Wikipedia are males

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and only 15% are females.

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So that was like a spark.

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My name is May Hachem.

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I'm from Egypt.

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I'm a Wikipedia
Education Program

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leader in 3 universities.

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And how I started my
journey with Wikipedia--

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Wikipedia Education Program
is a global Initiative

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around the world which aims
at encouraging students

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in universities and schools
to edit Wikipedia.

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I was a student, a participating
student to translate articles

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from English
Wikipedia into Arabic

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to enrich the Arabic
content on the internet.

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After that, the Wikipedia
Education Program in Egypt

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was expanding very fast
and they needed someone

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to help others and teach
others how to add to Wikipedia.

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So I became a campus
ambassador in my university.

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At that time, WikiWomen
project was very successful

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so I thought that I would
start that project in Egypt

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and it would be the first of
its kind of in the whole Middle

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East.

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Actually, in Egypt, we have
a very good environment

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for WikiWomen because
most of the college--

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or the university-- concerned
with language translation

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and this kind of
humanities studies--

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most of them are girls,
and this is our target.

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I remember that in 2013, 88%
of the contributions for Wiki

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Education Program
Egypt was females.

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They were translating
articles about women.

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It was the end of 2014.

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They achieved the highest
contributions ever

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in the history of Wikipedia
Education Program in Egypt.

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I love what I do and
I love Wikipedia.

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I love the community.

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And I'm so honored
and it's my pleasure

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to be a part of
something like that.

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