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 - Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com*