Thank you, Sarah for sharing. A detailed report about the events that
happened in India during the Women's History Month can be read on the Times
of India newspaper here :
Regards
Netha
On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Sarah Stierch <sarah.stierch(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
I'm getting an onslaught of WikiWomen stuff all
the sudden...so pardon
the many emails. Awesome to see Netha quoted and when I visit India I want
to know how to pronounce the city name where this was reported :)
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-05/thiruvananthapuram/3…
Malayalam Wikipedia takes a gender turn
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As part of this year's women's day celebrations,
Malayalam Wikipedians have launched a month-long edit-a-thon, a drive to
expand articles of importance to women. The project aims to introduce more
women to Malayalam Wikipedia, create new articles related to women, expand
the existing stubs and translate English articles to Malayalam.
Launched in tune with Wikipedia's Wiki Women's History Month projects,
Wikipedians worldwide are organizing similar events.
Though Malayalam Wikipedia is one of the most active languages Wikipedia,
the number of women editors are below a dozen. Of these, only one or two
are active editors.
Netha Hussain, Kozhikode-based medical student, who is the torchbearer of
project in Malayalam, agreed that only a few women are active in Malayalam
Wikipedia. "The project aims to introduce more women to Wikipedia. A list
of topics, which needs to be expanded, edited etc, has been prepared.
Biography of prominent women and translation of biographies are all part of
the event," Netha said.
Usha Titus, M T Padma, K K Lathika, J Arundhati, Malethu Sarala Devi,
Rosamma Chacko, Jameela Prakasham are some of the prominent women included
in list of personalities to be included in Wikipedia as part of the drive,
which will conclude on March 31. Articles of a number of women, including
Tessy Thomas, Mercy Ravi, Ajitha, Parvathy Omanakuttan etc, will be
expanded. Biographies of award-winning women, people's representatives, etc
will be translated from English to Malayalam. Surprisingly, except Netha
and Ditty Mathew from Kochi, all others who have joined the edit-a-thon so
far are men.
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