Something to be very aware of is that, at least on English Wikipedia, not every act will meet the notability threshold, and the Biography of Living Persons policy requires very, very solid sourcing for articles that involve crimes or allegations of crimes. Caution needs to be taken to ensure that our article doesn't re-victimize the individual(s) at the receiving end of the violence; remember, our article will likely become their #1 google-hit. Watch the article closely in the weeks to come, and do not hesitate to ask for semi-protection if unregistered or newly registered accounts start adding BLP-violating material.

On 4 December 2013 03:40, Rohini Lakshané <rohini@wikimedia.in> wrote:

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@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@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.

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Chairperson (Special Interest Group), Gender gap,
Wikimedia Chapter (India)

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