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 blog . (Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women topics and recently coordinated the first women's
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 story; it's really inspiring!
Noopur Raval