Hi,

I’ve updated the article on Deraniyagala and will have a look at the others.

D.

On Sat, 16 Feb 2019 at 1:56 pm, Blackknight 12 blackknight12.wiki@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all, this is User:Blackknight12,

I have a small list of Sri Lanka women I think is in real need of coverage on Wikipedia.

• Minnette de Silva https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnette_de_Silva,

First Sri Lankan woman architect (and possibly first in South Asia), and first Sri Lankan modernist architect. (I have been working on this slowly for Wikipedia:WikiProject Women/Women in Green https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Women/Women_in_Green/Goal_Tracking/2019 )

• Cissy Cooray https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cissy_Cooray, first woman

Senator

• Ezlynn Deraniyagala https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezlynn_Deraniyagala

, first female Sri Lankan barrister, 5th President of the International Alliance of Women

I'm sure there is many more who deserve to be on this list, but if I were to choose 1 I would say Minnette de Silva is one of the most important characters in Sri Lankan history and culture.

Happy to help with anything else.

Blackknight12

On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 3:54 PM Abhinav srivastava abhinav619@gmail.com wrote:

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Thanks Rehman for this.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WikiProject:United_Nations/UNESCO/Workshop/I...

Please find the meta page.

On Tuesday, 12 February 2019, Rehman Abubakr rehman.wikimedia@live.com wrote:

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Hello Abhinav,

Thank you for your email. It's nice to hear from you again.

I'm copying our mailing list in this email. I'm sure someone interested in this subject would be pleased to reach back to you.

Do you have a on-wiki page for this? I could also try to refer it onsite for a wider audience.

Best wishes.

Yours truly,

*Rehman Abubakr (Roy) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman*

OTRS agent, Admin (English Wikipedia, Commons), Contributor (Wikidata, Meta) User:Rehman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rehman *|* Talkpage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Rehman *|* rehman.wikimedia@live.com *|* UG-LK https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Community_User_Group_Sri_Lanka/English

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*From:* Abhinav srivastava abhinav619@gmail.com *Sent:* 08 February 2019 09:39 *To:* rehman.wikimedia@live.com *Cc:* Sailesh Patnaik; Manavpreet Kaur *Subject:* UNESCO : Wiki4Women : New Delhi

Dear Rehman,

My Name is Abhinav Srivastava with User ID: Abhinav619. I was previously with Wikimedia India and we met at Wiki Conference India in Chandigarh.

I am happy to inform you that UNESCO Delhi Office is hosting a women-edit-a-thon this women's day on 8th March. This Delhi Office is, in fact, a SAARC Office having coverage across Srilanka, Bhutan, Maldives etc.

We in India also wish to make it a workshop recognizing Women from SAARC and not just India. We seek your assistance on the following.

(a) A Small Potential List of Women Biographies From Sri Lanka which you could suggest. They should not be present on any Wikipedia.

(a) UNESCO similar to Paris experience (slides attached) wants to put four women posters (2 India, 1 Bhutan, 1 Sri Lanka). Happy to have suggestions here.

Please share this mail with the wider Wikimedia Community from Sri Lanka. Looking forward to hearing from you.

Abhinav

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