Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/288

This November, to coincide with the Wikipedia Asian Month contest, Women in Red's geofocus is on women from the Indian subcontinent, including women from Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

You are welcome to sign up below and for the Wikipedia Asian Month contest (rules apply).

We hope both inexperienced and seasoned editors will join us in creating biographies and other articles about notable women from or associated with these countries.

This virtual editathon allows enthusiasts wherever they may be to participate in our initiative. Contributors are of course also welcome to add articles on any other women who deserve to be covered, for example under the topics of the month or our comprehensive #1day1woman priority.

The main goals of the event are:
 * to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of prominent women
 * to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
 * to promote the new and improved articles and images through social media and via nominations to Main Page features "Did You Know?" and "In The News".

What else?
 * Below, you'll see a section where you can list the articles you create month by month, and another section where you can add the images you have uploaded to Commons.
 * This essay on creating women's biographies and our Ten Simple Rules might be helpful to newer editors.
 * If you share any of the articles or images on social media, or successfully nominate for Main Page, please indicate you have done so next to the article name.

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Red-link lists of women from a wide variety of fields can be accessed from the WiR Redlink index. Those which might be most useful for women in the Indian subcontinent are listed below. Please note: listing does not guarantee qualification for inclusion in the encyclopedia. Please read Primer for creating women's biographies.

Redlinked names not currently included in a Women in Red redlist

 * Syeda Henna Babar Ali, Pakistani poet and composer
 * Urvashi Bahuguna, Indian poet and essayist
 * Maria Chaudhuri, Bangladeshi writer
 * Fayeza Hasanat, Bangladeshi-American writer and academic
 * Zareefa Jan, Kashmiri "coded" poet
 * Razia Sultana Khan, Bangladeshi writer, artist and academic
 * Sharanya Manivannan, Indian poet and writer
 * Amra Raza, Pakistani academic and poet
 * Taj Begum Renzu, Kashmiri writer
 * Sanya Rushdi, Bangladeshi-Australian novelist
 * Rumana Siddique, Bangladeshi poet
 * Lala Shrinivasdas, author of Pariksha Guru
 * Sridala Swami, Indian poet
 * Ilona Yusuf, Pakistani poet and designer
 * Zeba Zeenat, Kashmiri mystic poet
 * Gita Dharampal-Frick Indian historian and professor, ,

Participants

 * Chocmilk03 (talk) 03:16, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
 * Curbon7 (talk) 19:23, 31 October 2023 (UTC)
 * gobonobo + c 00:22, 1 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Marluliaq (talk) 09:20, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Pam D  18:06, 4 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Abishe (talk) 15:44, 5 November 2023 (UTC)
 * Beccaynr (talk) 00:12, 19 November 2023 (UTC)

Outcomes (articles)
Please add the biographical dictionary, if used:

New or upgraded articles
Most recent on top, please, specifying upgraded if not new


 * 1) 🇮🇳 Divya Dwivedi - upgrade
 * 2) 🇮🇳 Vasudha Dalmia - upgrade
 * 3) Sarangi Silva - PIN
 * 4) Akila Thirunayaki
 * 5) 🇵🇰 Afroze-Numa - BBC 100
 * 6) 🇳🇴🇵🇰 Saida Begum
 * 7) 🇮🇳 K. P. A. C. Leela
 * 8) 🇳🇵 Jane Dipika Garrett
 * 9) 🇮🇳 Radhika Rao - upgrade, PIN
 * 10) 🇳🇵 Ruby Khan
 * 11) Ruwanthie de Chickera
 * 12) Veronika Dassanayake
 * 13) 🇲🇻 Azmiralda Zahir
 * 14) /🇺🇸 Yamuna Sangarasivam
 * 15) 🇮🇳 Gouri Bhanja
 * 16) Indu Kadariya (also 287/289)
 * 17) 🇵🇰 Sadia Danish (also 289) TW
 * 18) 🇮🇳 Himanshi Rathi
 * 19) 🇮🇳 Virkar (name)
 * 20) 🇮🇳 Katayun Virkar - PIN
 * 21) Sakuntala Sachithanandan
 * 22) 🇧🇹 Tshering Tshomo
 * 23) Daphne Attygalle
 * 24) 🇳🇵 Indira Joshi (singer) - also WIR-287 -PIN
 * 25) 🇺🇸🇮🇳 Charlotte C. Wyckoff - PIN
 * 26) 🇧🇩 Maleka Khan
 * 27) 🇮🇳 Renjusha Menon - PIN
 * 28) 🇮🇳 Jyotsna Milan – also WIR-287

Promote our work
Key:
 * Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
 * Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter
 * Add IG after the article if you post in on Instagram
 * Add LI after the article if you post it on LinkedIn
 * Add ITN after the article if it was posted on the main page via WP:In The News

Did You Know features
New/expanded articles featured in the Did you know... column of the Wikipedia Main page
 * Add here – most recent at the top with date of publication

Outcomes (media)
Add here – most recent at the top
 * Please add this category to the image if you're uploading it to Commons: Media supported by WikiProject Women in Red - 2023

Event templates

 * Invitation: November 2023
 * Editathon banner for talk pages – Geofocus: Indian Subcontinent Template:WIR-288: