Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Meetup/50

 Celebrating Women from India, July 2017



 Welcome!

Women in Red is hosting a virtual editathon from July 1 to 31, 2017, on Women from India. Also, this is our 50th editathon!!!

The virtual edit-a-thon allows enthusiasts from around the globe to participate in the work. The main goals of the event are:
 * to encourage inexperienced editors and show them how they can contribute to Wikipedia by creating biographies of some of the world's most prominent women
 * to draw the attention of more experienced editors to the need for concerted action on a specific area
 * to support Wikipedia in combating the systemic bias against the coverage of women and women's works
 * to promote the new/improved articles and images through social media (Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter)

Redlists (lists of redlinked articles to be created)
Add other red links here, if possible with a source:
 * Hemalatha Balaram, protein engineering
 * Mahtab Sohrab Bamji, nutritionist
 * Kasturi Datta, environmental scientist
 * Madhu Dikshit, medical research
 * Jaya Naganathan Iyer, mathematics
 * Manikuntala Kundu, medical researcher
 * Asha Mathur, actress
 * Apurva Sarin, biologist
 * Namita Surolia, malaria research
 * Andezhath Kumaran Susheela, health scientist
 * Sucheta Tripathy, genomics

Participants

 * 1) Megalibrarygirl (talk) 17:14, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 2) Ipigott (talk) 06:13, 22 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 3) Camelia (talk) 19:57, 25 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 4) Penny Richards (talk) 02:15, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 5) PersnicketyPaul (talk) 17:25, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 6) Victuallers (talk) 20:29, 28 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 7) Fitindia (talk) 08.45, 01 July 2017 (UTC)
 * 8) Pam  D  21:34, 4 July 2017 (UTC)

Promote our work
Key:
 * Add FB after the article if you mention it on Facebook
 * Add PIN after the article if you pin the image on Pinterest
 * Add TW after the article if you tweet it on Twitter

New or upgraded articles

 * Add the titles of your new or upgraded articles here created in July – most recent at the top, specifying upgraded if not new


 * 1) Kanta Kumari Bhatnagar, stub
 * 2) Tara Rani Srivastava new TW DYK
 * 3) Swapna Barman TW, PIN
 * 4) Priya Jhingan - new TW DYK
 * 5) Nimali Liyanarachchi Sri Lanka revised & new pic (taken in India), PIN
 * 6) Liksy Joseph new pic
 * 7) Nirmala Sheoran new pic plus TW, PIN
 * 8) Jisna Mathew new pic plus TW, PIN
 * 9) M. R. Poovamma new pic plus
 * 10) Tintu Lukka new pic, PIN
 * 11) Debashree Mazumdar upgrade TW, PIN
 * 12) Nayana James new, PIN
 * 13) PU Chitra pic
 * 14) Guo Tianqian pic, PIN
 * 15) Neena Varakil new, PIN
 * 16) Sanjivani Jadhav new TW, PIN
 * 17) Mitali Madhumita - New
 * 18) Dutee Chand TW upgrade, PIN
 * 19) Manpreet Kaur TW upgrade, PIN
 * 20) Annu Rani upgrade TW, PIN
 * 21) Zia Mody - pic TW, PIN
 * 22) Rano M. Shaiza - New TW, PIN DYK
 * 23) Yashodhara Mishra, PIN
 * 24) Sanghamitra Mohanty upgrade TW, PIN
 * 25) Pearl Goss
 * 26) Mithuben Petit - New, PIN TW DYK
 * 27) Amruta Patil - PIN
 * 28) Shanno Devi - New DYK

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


 * 1) Mithuben Petit - 28 July 2017
 * 2) Shanno Devi - 23 July 2017
 * Mitali Madhumita - 01 August 2017

New or improved pictures
We have loaded over 100 pictures of women who competed at an event in Odisha. All notable - those who are from India of Sri Lanka are below.

Press about the event

 * Community digest: Odia Wikipedians document the Asian Athletics Championships, blog.Wikimedia.org]

Event templates

 * Invitation: July 2017
 * Editathon banner for talk pages: Template:WIR-50: