Hi everyone!

Please see below - a really great opportunity for Wikimedians to participate in a project to help improve women's rights about India and beyond on Wikimedia projects! The project team (fellow Wikimedians) are looking for volunteers from around the world to help out so that the project can come into fruition! (Again, you do /not/ have to live in India!!!)

-Sarah

On 2/23/12 8:45 AM, wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com mailto:wheredevelsdare@hotmail.com wrote:

Hiya,

This is to inform you that Bishakha (WMF Trustee, in cc) and I had
a meeting with the team at the Akshara Centre
(http://www.aksharacentre.org/), a Mumbai based NGO that works on
womans rights and runs a library in Mumbai earlier today. The
meeting was organised by Bishakha, who knows some of the people
running the organisation, as there was some interest from their
end to see if they could collaborate with us in any way. I was
asked to join in as a Wikipedian to conduct a small workshop for
the team at Akshara so that they could understand the principles
and basics of editing.

The scope is unimaginably big. As we realised, rights issues in
India are not covered much, even on English Wikipedia. We have
proposed starting of a "Collaboration of the Month" initiative
with them, wherein we will choose a topic where both Wikipedians
involved and the NGO are comfortable with - using Akshara's
library resources as references. They sounded excited about
running such a COTM on a pilot basis and have suggested we
organise a WikiAcademy for which they will invite interested
persons to come and attend, thus making it easier for them to
start off.

From our end, we are looking for atleast a couple of Wikipedians
who can help support such a project online on a regular basis - we
will be sending out an email to various lists once things are
formalised.

Inputs on the above are most welcome.

Kind Regards,




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