Hello Lodewijk, I have answered inline :) On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 at 1:58 PM, Lodewijk lodewijk@effeietsanders.org wrote:
Wow, thanks for sharing Sailesh! It's exciting to see such a collaboration with a newspaper on this topic, and to involve journalists in the writing process.
I'm really curious to how you came to work together, and hope you'll share a bit more for learning purposes on that.
I think it's the mutual interest by both Sambad and the Odia Wikipedia community, I remember Asaf's data ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Ijon/Content_gap )helped me to explain the gender gap in the content of Odia Wikipedia. I will share a learning pattern after the event :)
Will this collaboration focus on the newspaper as employer of potential Wikipedians, or will there also be an effort down the line to encourage the readers to follow the example?
The event is mainly focused on improving the quality of articles related to Women on Odia Wikipedia, We hope the journalists will turn into Wikipedians and make it successful. There's an assurance from Ama Odisha, a unit of Eastern Media Ltd. that after the event they'll organise Odia Wikipedia editing camps in different parts of Odisha.
Thank you, please feel free to ask more questions.
Exciting!
Lodewijk
2017-03-17 5:04 GMT+01:00 Sailesh Patnaik sailesh.patnaik007@gmail.com:
Dear All, Inspired by BBC's 100 Women Editathon, The Odia Wikipedia community is organising an "100 Women Editathon" [1]in collaboration with the Sambad newspaper. Sambad is one of the largest circulated newspaper in Odisha
and
its Eastern Media ltd. is also a popular media house. The event is going
to
be organised in Sambad Bhavan on 18th and 19th March 2017. [2]
The theme of this event is to write articles on women achievers of
Odisha.
The Sambad is interested in organising regular events in bridging the gender gap in content and will also provide images of Women from its archive.
http://cis-india.org/a2k/blogs/women2019s-history- month-sambad-collaborates-with-odia-wikipedia-for-a-two-day-edit-a-thon
Media mentions:
http://sambad.in/news/state/sambad-wikipedia-to-host- first-ever-100-women-edit-a-thon-in-india/40857.html 2. http://odishasuntimes.com/2017/03/15/sambad-wikipedia- to-host-100-women-edit-a-thon-in-odisha/
Thanks and Regards Sailesh
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