Hi everyone,
Recently, we organised a Wikipedia editathon on Indian women boxers to commemorate the Women's World Boxing Championship 2018 being held in New Delhi this month.
The editathon was successful, although we had only 5 editors, we were able to create new articles for many Indian women boxers. You can read the report here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/FII_Wiki_Project/Edit-a-thons/Indian_Women_B...
Also, Outlook Magazine did a video feature on our editathon and I wanted to share it with all of you. Please do watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-knUOsh7cT0
Thanks, Japleen
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 at 12:45, Japleen Pasricha japleenpasricha@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
I recently saw an email from Odia Wikimedia that they are organising month long editathons for Men's Hockey World Cup. This is a great initiative!
And also gave me the idea to do something similar in November. As many of you may know Delhi https://www.firstpost.com/sports/womens-world-boxing-championships-to-start-in-new-delhi-on-15-november-5233551.html will host the Women's World Boxing Championship from 15 - 24 November.
Could we all hold online and offline events around this topic editing and creating pages of women boxers etc across several Indic languages.
I will definitely organise one Wikipedia editathon in Delhi in November on this topic and would love if other people can join us and/or organise their own in their language communities.
Tito/CIS, can we get some help for this?
Let me know your thoughts.
Best, Japleen -- Japleen Pasricha Feminist Activist Founder & Editor-in-chief of Feminism in India http://feminisminindia.com/ Personal Blog http://japleenpasricha.wordpress.com/| Facebook https://www.facebook.com/japleen.pasricha | Twitter https://twitter.com/japna_p