Dear all,
The Ada Lovelace Day Edit-a-thon was conducted on 19th October 2012. Six users signed up for the event. 6 articles were created, and one article was copy-edited and expanded. [[User:Bishdatta]] created the article about [[Kamal Ranadive]]. [[User: Hisham]] created the article about [[Shubha Tole]]. [[User: Djembayz]] created the biography article about [[Darshan Ranganathan]]. [[User: Netha Hussain]] created articles about [[Anna Mani]], [[Bindu Bambah]] and [[Kamala Sohonie]], and copy edited the article [[Janaki Ammal]].
[[User:Gobonobo]] added images to these articles. [[User: Victuallers]] copy-edited the articles. Razibot, operated by [[User:Razimantv]] added interwiki links to the articles in English and other languages. Administrators and other interested users also joined the edit-a-thon by adding categories, references and inter-wiki links. A new category, [[Category: Indian women scientists]] was created.
A similar event happened in Malayalam Wikipedia, which spanned over 3 days, during which 9 new articles about women scientists were created.
The event was covered by the latest issue of The Signpost. Link to the Signpost article : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-22/News_an...
Thanks!
Regards
Netha Hussain
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:21 PM, Netha Hussain nethahussain@gmail.comwrote:
Dear all,
On October 16th, free knowledge enthusiasts all over the world are
celebrating Ada Lovelace day, in memory of Augusta Ada Byronhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace, the world's first computer programmer. Wikimedians all over the world are celebrating the day by conducting edit-a-thons, workshops and conferences mostly aiming to increase female participation in all wikiprojects. Women Wikimedians in UK are organizing an edit-a-thonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Royal_Societyat theLibrary of Royal Societyhttp://royalsociety.org/library/in London as a part ofWikiproject: Women's Historyhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History. Ms. Daria Cybulska, the coordinator of the event, has welcomed international participation from women Wikimedians around the world. I have pitched in to run a parallel online edit-a-thon in India.
It gives me pleasure to invite you to participate in this one day long online edit-a-thon on *19th October* for creating and expanding articles about women scientists. I have created a list of the pages herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Royal_Society/International_participation#Articles_needing_creation. Please feel free to expand the list by adding more names to the list. The edit-a-thon is open to anybody interested in women's history. Women editors and newcomers are particularly encouraged to attend. Interested participants may kindly add your names herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Royal_Society/International_participation#Participants. More details can be found on the event page herehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women%27s_History/Royal_Society/International_participation.
Thank you!
Regards
Netha Hussain
[[User: Netha Hussain]]
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