Hello Everyone,
Wiki Loves Women India 2019 has ended officially! And the results are out!. The contest was organized organically without any offline edit-a-thon! 12 language communities from India, Bangladesh and Nepal participated with over 81 participants and 816 articles from 10th February - 31st March to bridge gender gap on Wikipedia.
Hindi Wikipedia - 172
Bengali Wikipedia - 152 articles
Assamese Wikipedia - 111 articles
Malayalam Wikipedia - 95 articles
Santali Wikipedia - 81 articles
Maithili Wikipedia - 60 articles
Oriya Wikipedia - 49 articles
Kannada Wikipedia - 47 articles
Punjabi Wikipedia - 35 articles
English Wikipedia - 12 articles
Telugu - 2 articles
Thanks to all our organizers and very passionate participants. This was a project for Women by Women & Men. Walking hand-in-hand with members of all genders, we can truly bridge the gender gap in Wikipedia! Thank you Sumita Roy Dutta for being the national mentor and co-organizer for this contest.
Special thanks to CIS A2K, WLL Team and WMDE who were our sponsoring partners for the project!
Also, Special shout out to our Bangladesh and Nepali friends for the participating with such fervour! :)
Thank you everyone! We will be back later this year with more exciting projects!!
[1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women_India_2019
[2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Women_India_2019/Project_Pages
Best Regards, Rupika Sharma Co-ordinator, WLWI Strategy Liaison, WMF https://wikimediafoundation.org Member, Ombudsman Commission https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ombudsman_commission