Wikipedia:Indian Women in Science Edit-a-thon/2019

On 31 August 2019, Indian Women in Science Edit-a-thon has been planned to be conducted at JNCASR, Bangalore. This is the fourth iteration where a group of like-minded people will be joining their hands to develop the women related articles on English Wikipedia. In this event, participants will be encouraged to create articles on Indian Women in Science while also introducing the new participants to Wikipedia.

Event details

 * Date: 31 August 2019
 * Time: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
 * Venue: Instructional Computing Classroom, TUE-CMS, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research (JNCASR), Bengaluru
 * For the unfamiliar, the venue location can be found here

Entries on Wikipedia
If you are new to Wikipedia, this page is an important page to start with, which provides guidelines on how to create an article, what to include and what to avoid. In particular, editing or creating biographies of living persons requires extra care. This page addresses important issues and questions to think about when writing biographies.

Notability is a critical criterion for an article to be deemed suitable for inclusion in Wikipedia. Make sure you are aware of what is required for an article to be accepted. To establish notability, research the scientist whose page you want to work on thoroughly and gather your references ahead of time. It helps if you understand the field of research in which case it is useful to include a summary of the subject's key research contributions to the article on the subject citing their major publication using the citation templates and including the parameter  |authorlink= author name .

Pages should essentially follow the style followed in other scientist biographies - particularly those that are featured or good articles. There is also helpful information at WikiProject_Biography.

Typical articles have a lead that (is ideally written last and summarizes the remainder of the article) with sections on early life, career, research contributions followed by references. The lead typically includes the full name in bold followed by the life dates in parentheses and a summary of the person's life and contributions. Make sure that these lines are enough for anyone to see that the subject is notable enough.

One may also add summarizing information into an "infobox template" - see Template:Infobox_person.

Make use of categories to group the subject by areas of research interest, alma mater and so on.

Ensure that the Wikidata links are updated so that the subject entries in other languages appears alongside.

Make sure that the article has inbound links - that is it is not connected to other articles in Wikipedia and not an "orphan".

Articles created / improved

 * Shreyagh (talk) 12:53, 31 August 2019 (UTC) edited Manju Ray
 * Shreyagh (talk) 12:53, 31 August 2019 (UTC) edited Aditi De

Parallel online sessions

 * Wikidata items of Scientific articles connected to Wikidata items of scientists


 * 2014 edition


 * 1) Vineeta Bal -
 * 2) Radha Balakrishnan -
 * 3) Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay -
 * 4) Bimla Buti - X
 * 5) Anju Chadha -
 * 6) Dipshikha Chakravortty -
 * 7) Aruna Dhathathreyan -
 * 8) Chitra Dutta -
 * 9) Rupamanjari Ghosh -
 * 10) Rohini Godbole -
 * 11) Rama Govindarajan -
 * 12) Gaiti Hasan -
 * 13) Yamuna Krishnan -
 * 14) Anita Mehta - not sure
 * 15) Indira Nath -
 * 16) Aditi Pant - not sure
 * 17) Mythily Ramaswamy -
 * 18) Vijayalakshmi Ravindranath -
 * 19) R. Rajalakshmi - not sure
 * 20) Veronica Rodrigues -
 * 21) Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta -
 * 22) Priti Shankar - X
 * 23) Ajit Iqbal Singh - not sure
 * 24) Saraswathi Vishveshwara -
 * 2015 edition
 * 1) Vidita Vaidya - X
 * 2) Shobhana Narasimhan -
 * 3) Neelima Gupte -
 * 4) Renuka Ravindran - X
 * 2016 edition
 * 1) Rohini Balakrishnan -
 * 2) Padmavathy Bandopadhyay - NA
 * 3) Rashna Bhandari -
 * 4) Shinjini Bhatnagar -
 * 5) Sudhira Das - X
 * 6) Gagandeep Kang -
 * 7) Sandhya Koushika -
 * 8) Kamala Krishnaswamy -
 * 9) Anuradha Lohia -
 * 10) Rentala Madhubala -
 * 11) Kusala Rajendran -
 * 12) Manju Ray -
 * 13) Suniti Solomon -
 * 14) Soumya Swaminathan -
 * 15) Qudsia Tahseen -
 * 16) Sandhya Srikant Visweswariah -

Onsite participants
Add * ~ after the last line (but ensure that you are logged-in to Wikipedia).
 * Gheyerfan (talk) 08:37, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Sumathi Rao (English)
 * Pallabidgp (talk) 08:39, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Geeta Narlikar
 * Revathe Thillaikumar (talk) 08:43, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Krishna Kamini Rohatgi-Mukherjee
 * Saralajsk (talk) 08:44, 31 August 2019 (UTC), saralakumari
 * Shreyagh (talk) 08:46, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Manju Ray
 * Neelaanjanam (talk) 08:55, 31 August 2019 (UTC),T. A. Sarasvati Amma(Malayalam)
 * DivyaC JNC (talk) 08:56, 31 August 2019 (UTC), T. A. Sarasvati Amma - te:Anna_Mani
 * JANaky95 (talk) 08:58, 31 August 2019 (UTC), T. A. Sarasvati Amma(Malayalam)
 * DivyaC JNC (talk) 08:59, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Anna Mani(Telugu)
 * Anishafishtoe (talk) 09:13, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Uma Ramakrishnan
 * Suryaabbur (talk) 09:14, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Sumati Rao(Kannada)
 * Shreyagh (talk) 09:42, 31 August 2019 (UTC), Aditi Sen De

Online participants

 * 1) Bodhisattwa (talk) 04:30, 30 August 2019 (UTC) (will work on linking scholarly articles with the Wikidata items of the scientists.)

Report
In spite of policy advances and rising awareness, gender issues continue to plague Indian science - women scientists are fewer in number, occupy fewer positions of power, are more likely to drop out of academic career tracks, and face distinct issues by virtue of their gender, including hostile work environments and societal pressures.

Women scientists in India also tend to be less visible than their male counterparts, and public awareness of Indian Women Scientists and their scientific contributions is low.

On 31 August 2019, a public event in Bangalore was organised at JNCASR, Bangalore with the collaboration of Indiabiosience & CIS-A2K. to raise the quality of the content related to Women scientists on Indic language Wikipedia. The day started with two lightning talks to understand the reason behind the lower representation of women in science, which was followed by Wikipedia learning and Editing session lead by a CIS-A2K representative. We had around 11 participants working in 4 different languages and few of them worked on developing the content on Wikidata.