Dear Rohini,
Just to extend this fantastic initiative, here's
some more good news! The Hindi bloggers' club at IIT-Bombay called
'Vaani' wanted to have a Hindi Wikipedia workshop in March.
Coincidentally, it is organized on March 9th from 5 to 9 pm. I will be
attending the editing session. We are also planning to have a small
workshop before that to make sure everyone's comfortable. We've proposed
to make the editing session around women's articles!
I've listed some
of the Hindi articles that need expansion on the page you've made. It
would be awesome if you or anyone else who is in Mumbai wants to join!
There are a few Marathi Wikipedians from IIT who have also shown
interest but I am yet to receive a confirmation. Just wanted to tell you
that the good word's spreading :)
Best,
Noopur
On Mon, 4 Mar 2013
21:57:20 +0530, Rohini Lakshané wrote:
A few online and offline
events are being
conducted in on the occasion of International Women's
Day on March 8. The events continue thereafter too as March has been
declared as Women's History Month.
There is a Wikipedia editing
workshop in Goa on March 8 at Nirmala Institute of
Education from 3 pm
to 5 pm. It is followed by an offline and online editathon.
The online
editathon is a month-long affair,
which will be held every weekend
starting with the weekend after March 8. Details here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_…
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The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to
contribute to
Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related
to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles,
expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various
Indian languages.
Members are requested to start edithons in
regional language Wikipedias.
Regards,
Rohini Lakshane
Links:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women%27s_Day,_…