Wikipedia:Meetup/International Women's Day, India/2015

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8th March is International Women's Day and to celebrate, women in India are organizing edit-a-thons and meetups to create and expand articles of importance to women in Wikipedia in English and various Indian languages. The goal of the month-long event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in Wikipedia. The event aims at creating new articles, expanding the existing stubs and translating English articles to various Indic languages.

Event details

 * Dates: 1 to 31 March 2014
 * IRC: #wikimedia-gendergap
 * Twitter hashtag: #Wikiwomen
 * Facebook page: WikiWomen's Collaborative
 * Facebook group: WikiWomen's Collaborative India (closed group)

Suggested articles

 * Indian women in Politics
 * Women's sport in India
 * Indian women at Asian games
 * Chimmy Nanjappa Link 1,Link 2
 * Mehr Tarar, Pakistani journalist
 * Chameli Devi Jain, freedom fighter (Link
 * Sujatha V Manohar, Supreme Court
 * Lakshmikkutty, Kerala High Court
 * Hari Rani, Kerala High Court
 * Abadi Begum, freedom fighter (Link)
 * Women in Indian freedom struggle, (Link)
 * Minal Sampath, systems engineer of mars mission (Link)
 * Padmavathy Bandopadhyaya, The first woman Air Vice Marshal
 * Muthamma Chonira,The first Indian woman to sit in civil services exam, to join IFS, to be a diplomat, to become the ambassador/High commissioner (She also to sue the Indian government for gender bias)
 * Saudamini Deshmukh, The first Indian woman captain to command a Boeing 737

All day Edit-a-thon on March 7, 2015

 * An all day event (10:00AM to 5:00PM) held at Wikimedia Office, Bangalore was attended in person by 4 participants and 38 other participants joined online to contribute to 224 edits which resulted in the creation/expansion of 10 women specific articles.
 * The most edited article was India's Daughter with little over 150 edits.
 * The event was covered by media - Official Press Release and Event Report

Articles created

 * 1) Durba Banerjee, first Indian woman to command jet engine aircraft
 * 2) Shubhada Chiplunkar
 * 3) Anubha Bhosle, journalist (This article was once created and then deleted. Please help expand and add more citations)
 * 4) Sonali Kulkarni (Businesswoman), CEO of Fanuc India

Articles expanded

 * 1) Vrinda Grover
 * 2) Janani Suraksha Yojana, a scheme for women by the Govt. of India

Participants
Sign up here if you are interested in writing articles for Women's History Month events on English Wikipedia. If you are interested in participating in individual edit-a-thons, please sign up under the respective sections.


 * 1) -- Netha   (talk)  19:24, 24 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 2) --Parul Thakur (talk) 17:53, 7 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 3) Tito Dutta (talk) 05:47, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 4) BengaliHindu (talk) 17:37, 9 March 2015 (UTC)
 * 5) Yohannvt (talk) 05:46, 10 March 2015 (UTC)

Resources

 * Women members of Lok Sabha
 * Women members of Rajya Sabha
 * Indian businesswomen
 * Top Indian women

Resources

 * For new users:
 * Getting started on Wikipedia
 * Editing toolbar help
 * For organizers:
 * How to run an edit-a-thon

Message from Women wikipedians
While working on Bangalore event in 2013, we came out with a wonderful idea of capturing some moments with Indian Wiki Women. Here is some of the videos that we have received so far. We would love more such video, So join your hands to add more.
 * Bishakha Datta
 * Netha Hussain
 * Poongothai_Balasubramanian
 * Your video goes here

Title:Women's History Month:Come join us!
Don't forget to sign with four tildes at the end of the message!