FYI
Here is a report of the events conducted in India during the Women's History
Month in 2013.
Regards
Netha Hussain
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From: Netha Hussain <nethahussain@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 8:52 PM
Subject: [Report] International Women's day events in India
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Cc: Ditty Mathew <dittyvkm@gmail.com>, Pavithra H
<pavithra.chihan@gmail.com>, Rohini Lakshané <rohini.lakshane@gmail.com>,
Out of India Managing Editor <outofindia@gmail.com>
Dear all,
The Women's History Month events, which ran during the month of March in
India, has concluded. The event happened in Malayalam, English, Telugu,
Kannada and Hindi language Wikipedias.
Events:
The inagural event of the Women's day celebrations happened in Nirmala
Institute of Education, Goa. The workshop was led by Nitika Tandon and
Rohini Lakshane and arranged by Harriet Vidyasagar.
Two online edit-a-thons were conducted on English Wikipedia during the
second and third weekends of March. 14 users participated in the first
edit-a-thon and 5 users in the second.
A Wikipedia workshop for women was conducted in Ernakulam, Kerala to
familiarize women with Malayalam Wikipedia. The workshop was conducted by
Ernakulam Wikimedians and led by Ditty Mathew.
Free Software Movement of Karnataka conducted a workshop for women in Jyothi
Nivas College, Bangalore on 9th March 2013. Eight volunteers and 26
participants signed up for the event. Nine new articles were created as a
part of the workshop.
Led by Pavithra, Wikimedians from Bangalore organized a Wikipedia Workshop
for Women at ServeLots Infotech. 14 participants registered for the event,
and 9 of them participated.
A women for Wikipedia event was conducted in IIT-M, Chennai by FSFTN and
Wikimedia India on 31 March 2013. The event was coordinated by Anupama
Srinivas and Bala. Three new articles were created during the
hands-on-workshop conducted as part of this event.
Outcomes:
In Malayalam Wikipedia, 26 users signed up for the event. 107 new articles
were created and 13 articles were significantly expanded. 14 users
participated in the event in English Wikipedia, 19 new English articles were
created and one article was expanded. Two users signed up on Telugu
Wikipedia for the event.
Press:
The women's day events were given good coverage by the media. Links to the
articles on various newspapers are given below:
1. Times of India: http://goo.gl/t3E8d
2. Times of India Crest:
http://www.timescrest.com/society/world-wide-wiki-womens-web-dot-com-9981
3. Prajavani (kn): http://goo.gl/NSssJ
4. Loksatta (mr):
http://www.loksatta.com/mumbai-news/wikipedia-celebrate-international-womens-day-75560/
5. Kannada Prabha (kn) : http://archives.kannadaprabha.com/pdf/1032013/3.pdf
Led by Srijana Timsina, Nepali Wikiwomen are conducting Women's day
edit-a-thon in English and Nepali language Wikipedias. Articles which are
primarily of importance to Nepali women will be created during the
edit-a-thon.
Thanks to all Wikimedians who helped us to make this event a grant success.
All of you who created or significantly expanded articles would soon receive
barnstars from us!
In WikiLove
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
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