Wikipedia:Meetup/India-Sweden Women's Day edit-a-thon

{|style="background:#ffdeb5; border:1px solid #f60; margin:0.5em; padding:0.5em;border-radius:8px;; width:100%" !colspan=2 style="font-size:150%;"|International Women's Day Edit-a-thon 8th March is International Women's Day and to celebrate, women in India and Sweden are organizing an edit-a-thon to create and expand articles about notable Indian and Swedish women. The goal of this event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in science on Wikipedia.
 * This is the project page for International Women's day events happening in the India and Sweden on 4 March 2017. The co-ordination page can be found on meta here.
 * This is the project page for International Women's day events happening in the India and Sweden on 4 March 2017. The co-ordination page can be found on meta here.

Participants
Everyone is welcome edit Wikipedia with us at the offline events or online. Women, transpeople, and those who are interested in articles related to Indian and Swedish women are particularly encouraged to attend.
 * -- Netha   (talk)  (Online co-ordination : nethahussain@undefinedgmail.com)
 * --Sara Mörtsell (WMSE) (talk) 09:21, 13 February 2017 (UTC)
 * Please add your name here

Suggested articles
The list of suggested articles is given below. Pick an article below, or another one you feel is suitable, and start editing! Please make sure to list the articles you created or expanded under the section below.

Articles needing creation, expansion or copyediting
This is the list of suggested articles for India-Sweden edit-a-thon. Participants are welcome to create and expand articles out of this list also. The articles that are already taken (or being worked on) by participants are marked with a sign. Please suffix the article with a ✅ sign once it is completed.


 * Bindu A Bambah Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Shawna Pandya Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Supurna Sinha Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Aparna Dutta Gupta Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Anuradha Mishra Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Annapurni Subramaniam Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Uma Ramakrishnan Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Sampa Das Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Kavita Shah (scientist) Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Kavita Babu Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Renu Khanna-Chopra Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Sangita Mukhopadhyay Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Ashima Anand Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Chitra Mandal Symbol intermediary vote.png


 * Poonam Salotra Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Soniya Nityanand Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Sipra guha-Mukherjes Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Sowdhamini R Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Ritu Karidhal Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Nandini Harinath Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Anuradha TK Symbol intermediary vote.png
 * Signe Brunnström
 * Gunila Axén
 * Ingrid Pramling Samuelsson
 * Pam Fredman
 * Pernilla Wittung Stafshede
 * Katharina Sunnerhagen

A list of more Swedish and Indian women can be found here and here respectively. Please re-check that there is no existing article about the listed individuals before creating a new article.

Results
This section will be updated during the edit-a-thon on March 4. However, if you'd like to write articles before the edit-a-thon, please feel free to do so!

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