Wikipedia:Meetup/International Women's Day, India (2014)

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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)
 * List of suggested articles :To do list

Suggested articles
For the list of Indian women Parliamentarians and Indian women scientists, see the respective sections below.
 * Indian women in Politics
 * Women's sport in India
 * Indian women at the Olympics
 * Chimmy Nanjappa Link 1,Link 2
 * Saritha S Nair, solar scam accused (Link)
 * Sujatha V Manohar, Supreme Court
 * Lakshmikkutty, Kerala High Court
 * Hari Rani, Kerala High Court

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)  16:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) -- Bishdatta (talk) 04:04, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) -- Parul Thakur (talk) 13:58, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Parul Thakur
 * 4) --Advjuvairianv (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) --Nicke.me (talk) 17:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 7) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) -- Niyaz Kannanchery (talk) 08:39, 11 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 9) --Kavya Manohar (talk) 09:52, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 10) --Shyamsunder (talk) 18:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 11) -- Gomathyaiyer (talk) 18:22, 22 March 2014 (UTC)

Women Parliamentarians Edit-a-thon
This event is aimed at increasing the number and quality of articles related to women members of legislative bodies in India. Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, transwomen, Indians and those who are interested in articles related to Indian women are particularly encouraged to attend. Feel free to edit articles in the language of your choice. If you have any questions, contact User:ParulThakur who is leading this event.
 * Dates: 8 and 9 March 2014
 * Time: throughout the day (Can't be there on all two days? No problem, join us as long or as little as you can)
 * Location: At your homes, over a cup of tea or coffee!
 * Organizer(s): Parul :)

Participants
Sign up for the edit-a-thon here!
 * 1) --Netha Hussain (talk) 18:18, 2 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) Rohini (talk) 15:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 3) Parul :) (talk) 15:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :)
 * 4) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 5) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC)

Resources

 * Women members of Lok Sabha
 * Women members of Rajya Sabha

Suggested articles
Complete list ✅
 * Articles needing creation
 * Subhavati Devi
 * Seema T.N, Rajya Sabha - Created under a different title, T. N. Seema. Anupmehra  - Let's talk!  18:23, 22 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Present members of the Lok Sabha
 * Articles needing expansion


 * Dimple Yadav
 * Usha Verma
 * Seema Upadhyay
 * Meena Singh
 * Pratibha Singh
 * Rajesh Nandini Singh
 * Harsimrat Kaur
 * Killi Krupa Rani
 * Deepa Dasmunsi
 * Ratna De


 * Priya Sunil Dutt
 * Darshana Vikram Jardosh
 * Paramjit Kaur Gulshan
 * Preneet Kaur
 * Sumitra Mahajan
 * J. Helen Davidson
 * Chandresh Kumari Katoch
 * Kaisar Jahan
 * Susmita Bauri
 * Bijoya Chakravarty


 * Raj Kumari Chauhan
 * Shruti Choudhry
 * Santosh Chowdhary
 * Meira Kumar
 * Ingrid Mcleod
 * Ranee Narah
 * Meenakshi Natarajan
 * Mausam Noor
 * Saroj Pandey
 * Jayshreeben Patel


 * Kamla Devi Patle
 * Daggubati Purandeswari
 * Putul Kumari
 * Satabdi Roy
 * Agatha Sangma
 * Sushila Saroj
 * J. Shantha
 * Vijayashanti
 * Supriya Sule
 * Annu Tandon


 * Prabha Kishor Taviad
 * Krishna Tirath
 * Girija Vyas
 * Bhavana Pundlikrao Gawali
 * Sarika Singh
 * Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar
 * Aswamedh Devi
 * Jyoti Dhurve
 * Tabassum Begum
 * Poonamben Veljibhai Jat
 * Botsa Jhansi Lakshmi
 * Bentla D'Coth

Women Scientists Edit-a-thon
This event is aimed at increasing the number and quality of articles related to Indian women scientists. Everyone is welcome to come edit Wikipedia with us at this event. Women, transwomen, Indians and those who are interested in articles related to Indian women are particularly encouraged to attend. Feel free to edit articles in the language of your choice.If you have any questions, contact User:ParulThakur who is leading this event.


 * Dates: March 15-16, 2014
 * Time: throughout the day
 * Location: At your homes, over a cup of tea or coffee!
 * Organizer: Parul :)

Participants
Sign up for the edit-a-thon here!
 * 1) -- Netha   (talk)  13:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)
 * 2) -- Parul :) (talk) 13:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :)
 * 3) Rsrikanth05 (talk)
 * 4) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 5) --Vishnu (talk) 02:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 6) -- Tito ☸ Dutta 12:41, 8 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 7) -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 06:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 8) --Kavya Manohar (talk) 10:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 9)  Nvvchar . 12:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)
 * 10) -- Harriet (talk)

Articles needing creation

 * B Vijayalakshmi
 * Prabha Chatterji
 * Shubhada Chiplunkar
 * Renu Khanna-Chopra
 * Joyanti Chutia
 * Tanusri Saha-Dasgupta
 * Deepti Deobagkar
 * Saraswathi Vishveshwara
 * Sumati Surya
 * Sarala K Subbarao
 * Reshmi Pal
 * Paushali Bal
 * Prajval Shastri


 * Rohini Godbole
 * Srubabati Goswami
 * H Ilah (nee' Bhatnagar)
 * Chanda Jog
 * Sangeeta N Kale
 * V Kalpagam
 * P Mohanty Hejmadi
 * Gaiti Hasan
 * R J Hans-Gill
 * Usha Barwale-Zehr
 * Paramjit Khurana
 * Aruna Dhathathreyan


 * Neelima Gupte
 * Anuradha Lohia
 * Vinod Krishan
 * Medha Khole
 * Pushpa Khare
 * S K Khanduja
 * Priyadarshini Karve
 * Chitra Mandal
 * Kusum Marathe
 * Minnie M Mathan
 * Dipika Sur
 * Satyavati M Sirsat

Articles needing expansion

 * 1) Somdatta Sinha
 * 2) Sulabha K Kulkarni
 * 3) Kamal Ranadive
 * 4) Kamala Sohonie
 * 5) Yamuna Krishnan
 * 6) Maharani Chakravorty
 * 7) Dr. Rani Bang

Results
Please add the articles you created or expanded during the Women's History Month (India) events here.
 * O. V. Usha (possible DYK candidate)
 * Sharada Ramanathan
 * Gail Tredwell
 * Asma Rahim
 * Nisa Godrej
 * Rama Govindarajan
 * Mitali Mukerji
 * Abortion in India
 * Rajani Pandit (hit DYK)

Women Parliamentarians edit-a-thon
These are the articles created as a part of the women Parliamentarians edit-a-thon. Please label them in your language on Wikidata.


 * Vimla Verma, Q15730355
 * Rani Chithraleksha Bhosale, Q15730356
 * Kim Gangte, Q15730357
 * Satwinder Kaur Dhaliwal, Q15730359
 * Usha Meena, Q15730364
 * Beatrix D'Souza, Q15730366
 * Geeta Mukherjee, Q15730379
 * Bhagwati Devi, Q15730372
 * Omvati Devi, Q15730368
 * Sukhda Misra, Q15730372
 * Naznin Faruque
 * Vukkala Rajeswaramma,


 * Reena Choudhary, Q15730374
 * Krishna Bose, Q15730377
 * Lakshmi Panabaka, Q11050320
 * Rama Devi, Q15730347
 * Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, Q15940945
 * Rajkumari Ratna Singh, Q7295840
 * Sarada Tadiparthi, Q7421961
 * Alka Nath, Q15940986
 * Ketki Devi Singh
 * Maharani Divya Singh
 * Bimla Kashyap Sood
 * Renu Kumari


 * Purnima Verma
 * Ramya Divya Spandana
 * Gundu Sudha Rani
 * Sandhya Bauri
 * Malti Devi, Q15730338
 * Bhavna Kardam Dave, Q15730339
 * Nisha Chaudhary, Q15730340
 * Kailasho Devi, Q15730343
 * Vijayalaxmi Sadho
 * Dumpa Mary Vijayakumari
 * Hema Gamang

Women Scientists edit-a-thon

 * Radha Balakrishnan
 * Bindu A Bambah
 * Meenakshi Banerjee
 * Manju Bansal
 * Sudha Bhattacharya
 * Archana Bhattacharyya
 * Rajani A Bhisey
 * Renee M Borges
 * Qudsia Tahseen
 * Usha Vijayaraghavan
 * Priya Davidar
 * Rama Govindarajan
 * Sudeshna Sinha


 * Bimla Buti
 * Anju Chadha
 * Shikha Varma
 * B K Thelma
 * Charusita Chakravarty
 * Prabha Chatterji
 * Rajeshwari Chatterjee (possible DYK candidate)
 * Mitali Mukerji
 * Shashi Wadhwa
 * Annapurni Subramaniam
 * Vidita Vaidya
 * Supurna Sinha
 * Purnima Sinha

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!
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