Exciting report! Thanks Netha and to all involved and who contributed.
-sarah
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
Dear all,
The Women's History Month
events<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain/Women%27s_Hist…th>,
which ran through the month of March in India, has concluded. The events
happened in Malayalam, English, Telugu, Konkani and Marathi languages.
Jeph <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeph_paul> and I have put
together a report of the month-long event, which we are pleased to share
with this list.
*Languages:*
The project pages were created on
English<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Wom…14>,
Malayalam<https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B…14>,
Marathi<https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E0%A4%…
Telugu<https://te.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%8…guages.
The coordination was done on meta
wiki<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Netha_Hussain/Women%27s_Histor…
.
In English, a total of 77 articles were created or expanded as a part of
the edit-a-thon. 16 editors signed up for the event. The statistics,
including the list of articles created/expanded, can be viewed on the
website here:
http://wikiwomen.in/
A total of 174 articles were created on Malayalam Wikipedia as a part of
the edit-a-thon. The number of signed-up participants was 32. The outcomes
of the event can be viewed here:
http://ml.wikiwomen.in/
In Telugu, 108 new articles were created. 6 existing editors and 13 new
editors signed up for the edit-a-thon.
*Online events:*
-
Women Parliamentarians
edit-a-thon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International…
at increasing the number and quality of articles related to women
members of legislative bodies in India. Five participants signed up for the
event and 35 new articles were created. The edit-a-thon was led by Parul
Thakur <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:ParulThakur>.
-
Women Scientists
edit-a-thon<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International…
at increasing the number and quality of articles related to women
scientists and academicians. 10 participants signed up for the event and 28
new articles were created. This was also led by Parul Thakur.
-
Wikidata
Label-a-thon<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_History_Month,_In…
labeling articles related to women had 4 signed up participants.
*Statboard:*
A dynamic statboard was created by Jeph
paul<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jeph_paul>ul>,
Harsh Kothari <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Harsh4101991> and Aarti
Dwivedi <https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Rtdwivedi/2> at
http://wikiwomen.in/ The UI was done by Parul Bhatti. The statboard for
Malayalam language was created by Manoj and Nandaja Varma, with help from
Jeph Paul. The design for Malayalam was done by Animesh Xavier. The code
can be found
here<https://github.com/harshkothari410/argetlam_wiki/tree/deploy>
.
At the end of the event, the statboard recorded 1015 edits and
participation of 90 users articles belonging to Category: Articles
created or expanded during Women’s History
Month<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_created_or_expande…
English. In Malayalam, 1885 edits were recorded from 46 participants at Category:
2014_വനിതാദിന_തിരുത്തൽ_യജ്ഞത്തിന്റെ_ഭാഗമായി_സൃഷ്ടിക്കപ്പെട്ട_താളുകൾ<http…
*Offline events:*
-
Roshni
Nilaya<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Social_Work_Roshni_Nilaya… of
Social Work, Mangalore hosted the First Introductory Presentation
on Wikipedia Editing on 26th Feb 2014 at the college. This was an led by Harriet
Vidyasagar <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Outofindia>.
-
Wiki Women's Day at International Center
Goa<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wik…
held on Sunday, March 9, 2014 from 3:30pm - 6:00pm IST. The workshop
was organized by Nitika Tandon.
-
Wikipedia talk and edit-a-thon at Womoz
Festival<https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:WOMOZ14>14>,
Indira Gandhi College of Engineering and Technology, Kothamangalam, Kerala.
Link: w:ml:WP:WOMOZ14 <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ml:WP:WOMOZ14>.
The workshop was led by Malayalam Wikimedian Abhishek
Jacob<https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B…
.
-
Wikipedia talk and edit-a-thon at College of Engineering,
Guindy<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Engineering,_Guindy>dy>, Chennai. The
event was coordinated by User:Commons sibi
-
Wikiwomen's Day at
CBIT<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/India_Access_To_Knowledge/Events/Wi…IT>,
Hyderabad on 8th March 2014, coordinated by CIS-A2K.
-
Wikipedia edit-a-thon in Delhi
https://www.facebook.com/events/285700978254131/ on 29th March, 2014
-
Wikipedia talk and edit-a-thon at Barcamp Bangalore
https://www.facebook.com/events/294495160708164/ on 29th March, 2014
-
Marathi Wikipedia
Sampadnethon<https://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%95%E…A#>,
coordinated by Selva Rani
-
A Wikiparty at Wikimedian Harriet’s residence to mentor her friends to
edit Wikipedia on 16 March, 2014.
Thank you for supporting Women's History Month events!
Regards
Netha and Jeph
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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs :
*nethahussain.blogspot.com <http://nethahussain.blogspot.com>
swethaambari.wordpress.com <http://swethaambari.wordpress.com>*
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