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!