Dear all,
To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to celebrate an Indian woman editor's story. A short story on User: Netha Hussain was posted on the WMF bloghttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/ . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women topics and recently coordinated the first women's edit-a-thonhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon in India.)
While I was preparing this, I was wondering if we could make story-telling of this nature a regular feature, and see how it can support community building. We could do a series of short profiles of editors - in the form of stories - covering your life as well as your wiki journey. The intent is to reflect the diversity of our community - language, age, profession, projects. I am going to try and bring out at least one such story every month - but we can always try and work on as many more as we can get.
I am already looking for new story ideas and would love to hear from interested community folks. Here is how it works. I prepare a short set of questions and points for the story and send it across to you. Once you reply, I draft out a story and send it back for your approval. After we make necessary changes to the draft, I can publish it. If you are ok, we can also look at forwarding these stories to the local media as well. Please do write to me at nraval@wikimedia.org and let's start working on your story!
Don't forget to go through the Netha's storyhttps://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/; it's really inspiring!
Regards,
Noopur Raval