This weekend I'm remotely participating in an edit-a-thon for editing
articles pertaining to violence against women. (The text of the event
announcement is attached.) Has anyone else conducted or participated in
events specific to articles on violence against women, sexual violence,
sexual harassment, and similar topics? I'd like to hear your experiences.
Regards,
Rohini
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Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)
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From: Rohini Lakshané <rohini(a)wikimedia.in>
Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Wikipedia edit-a-thon on Dec 7-8 in Delhi for articles on violence
against women
To: Wikimedia India Community list <wikimediaindia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Breakthrough, a global human rights organisation that runs campaigns such
as Bell Bajao, and Wikimedia Chapter (India) are conducting a Wikipedia
edit-a-thon in Delhi on December 7 and 8 for editing articles pertaining to
violence against women. Facebook page of the event:
http://www.facebook.com/events/181325168737101
*Basic idea behind this session*: A crucial problem with several Wikipedia
articles on sexual violence, especially in the Indian context, is that
often there are no articles or that articles have been deleted. It would be
a knowledge advocacy session to increase gender sensitive editing in
Wikipedia.
The session will involve editing of articles pertaining to various aspects
of violence against women in India. A list of about 10 Wikipedia articles
has been drawn up for editing. The session will be live-blogged. Remote
participation will be enabled through IRC channels.
The edit-a-thon is a part of the "16 days of activism against gender based
violence" starting 25th November (International Day for the Elimination of
Violence against Women) to 10 December (International Human Rights Day).
This is a global campaign that aims at raising awareness about gender-based
violence as a human rights issue. This hackathon will be mainly focussed
towards data visualisation and several organisations are providing us with
statistical datasets and other kinds of data including audio and video.
--
Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)