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_a…
Thanks!
Regards
Netha Hussain
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Dear all,
On October 16th, free knowledge enthusiasts all over the world are
celebrating Ada Lovelace day, in memory of Augusta Ada
Byron<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace>ce>,
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s…
theLibrary of Royal
Society<http://royalsociety.org/library/>in London as a part
ofWikiproject: Women's
History<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_His…ry>.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_Histor…on>.
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_Histor…ts>.
More details can be found on the event page
here<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_Histor…on>.
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*