Dear all,

   The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon was conducted on 19th October 2012. Six users signed up for the event. 6 articles were created, and one article was copy-edited and expanded. [[User:Bishdatta]] created the article about [[Kamal Ranadive]]. [[User: Hisham]] created the article about [[Shubha Tole]]. [[User: Djembayz]] created the biography article about [[Darshan Ranganathan]]. [[User: Netha Hussain]] created articles about [[Anna Mani]], [[Bindu Bambah]] and [[Kamala Sohonie]], and copy edited the article [[Janaki Ammal]].

[[User:Gobonobo]] added images to these articles. [[User: Victuallers]] copy-edited the articles. Razibot, operated by [[User:Razimantv]] added interwiki links to the articles in English and other languages. Administrators and other interested users also joined the edit-a-thon by adding categories, references and inter-wiki links. A new category, [[Category: Indian women scientists]] was created.

A similar event happened in Malayalam Wikipedia, which spanned over 3 days, during which 9 new articles about women scientists were created.

The event was covered by the latest issue of The Signpost. Link to the Signpost article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-22/News_and_notes

Thanks!


Regards

Netha Hussain




On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Netha Hussain <nethahussain@gmail.com> wrote:
Dear all,

      On October 16th, free knowledge enthusiasts all over the world are celebrating Ada Lovelace day, in memory of Augusta Ada Byron, the world's first computer programmer. Wikimedians all over the world are celebrating the day by conducting edit-a-thons, workshops and conferences mostly aiming to increase female participation in all wikiprojects. Women Wikimedians in UK are organizing an edit-a-thon at the Library of Royal Society in London as a part of Wikiproject: Women's History. Ms. Daria Cybulska, the coordinator of the event, has welcomed international participation from women Wikimedians around the world. I have pitched in to run a parallel online edit-a-thon in India.

It gives me pleasure to invite you to participate in this one day long online edit-a-thon on 19th October for creating and expanding articles about women scientists. I have created a list of the pages here. Please feel free to expand the list by adding more names to the list. The edit-a-thon is open to anybody interested in women's history. Women editors and newcomers are particularly encouraged to attend. Interested participants may kindly add your names here. More details can be found on the event page here.

Thank you!


Regards

Netha Hussain

[[User: Netha Hussain]]









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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com