Dear all,
The Women's History Month
events<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_Women…_India>,
which ran during the month of March in India, has concluded. The event
happened in Malayalam, English, Telugu, Kannada and Hindi language
Wikipedias.
*Events:*
The inagural event of the Women's day celebrations happened in Nirmala
Institute of Education, Goa. The workshop was led by Nitika
Tandon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Nitika.t>and Rohini
Lakshane <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rohini>and arranged by Harriet
Vidyasagar.
Two online edit-a-thons were conducted on English Wikipedia during the
second and third weekends of March. 14 users participated in the first
edit-a-thon and 5 users in the second.
A Wikipedia workshop for
women<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%…
conducted in Ernakulam, Kerala to familiarize women with Malayalam
Wikipedia. The workshop was conducted by Ernakulam Wikimedians and led by Ditty
Mathew<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%89%E0%B4%AA%E0%B4%AF%E0%B5%8B…
.
Free Software Movement of Karnataka conducted a workshop for
women<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Women%27s_Workshop_by_…
Jyothi Nivas College, Bangalore on 9th March 2013. Eight volunteers
and
26 participants signed up for the event. Nine new articles were created as
a part of the workshop.
Led by Pavithra <http://wiki.wikimedia.in/User:Pavithra>, Wikimedians from
Bangalore organized a Wikipedia Workshop for
Women<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Wikipedia_Women%27s_Workshop_Bangalore_2013>at
ServeLots Infotech. 14 participants registered for the event, and 9 of
them participated.
A women for
Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Women%27s_Workshop_by_F…
was conducted in IIT-M, Chennai by FSFTN and Wikimedia India on 31
March 2013. The event was coordinated by Anupama
Srinivas<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Anupama_Srinivas>and
Bala <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sodabottle>. Three new articles
were created during the hands-on-workshop conducted as part of this event.
Outcomes:
In Malayalam Wikipedia, 26 users signed up for the
event<http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%…13>.
107 new articles were created and 13 articles were significantly expanded.
14 users participated in the event in English Wikipedia, 19 new English
articles were created and one article was expanded. Two users signed up on
Telugu Wikipedia for the
event<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/te:%E0%B0%B5%E0%B0%BF%E0%B0%95%E0%B1%…
.
Press:
The women's day events were given good coverage by the media. Links to the
articles on various newspapers are given below:
1. Times of India:
http://goo.gl/t3E8d
2. Times of India Crest:
http://www.timescrest.com/society/world-wide-wiki-womens-web-dot-com-9981
3. Prajavani (kn):
http://goo.gl/NSssJ
4. Loksatta (mr):
http://www.loksatta.com/mumbai-news/wikipedia-celebrate-international-women…
5. Kannada Prabha (kn) :
http://archives.kannadaprabha.com/pdf/1032013/3.pdf
Led by Srijana
Timsina<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:%E0%A4%B8%E0%A5%83%E0%A4%9C%E0…BE>,
Nepali Wikiwomen are conducting Women's day
edit-a-thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/International_…
English and Nepali language Wikipedias. Articles which are primarily
of
importance to Nepali women will be created during the edit-a-thon.
Thanks to all Wikimedians who helped us to make this event a grant success.
All of you who created or significantly expanded articles would soon
receive barnstars from us!
In WikiLove
User: Netha Hussain
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Netha Hussain
Student of Medicine and Surgery
Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode
Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com
swethaambari.wordpress.com*