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

The main coordination page for International Women's Day events in India can be viewed on meta here.

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.

• 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

Please add [[Category:Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014]] to all the articles you create as a part of Women's History Month (India) edit-a-thon.

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

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.

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

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 :)

Sign up for the edit-a-thon here!

1. --Netha Hussain (talk) 18:18, 2 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
2. Rohini (talk) 15:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
3. Parul :) (talk) 15:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :)[reply]
4. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
5. --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]

• Women members of Lok Sabha
• Women members of Rajya Sabha

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)[reply]

Present members of the Lok Sabha

Complete list Y

Articles needing expansion

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 :)

Sign up for the edit-a-thon here!

1. -- Netha (talk) 13:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC)[reply]
2. -- Parul :) (talk) 13:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :)[reply]
3. Rsrikanth05 (talk)
4. --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
5. --Vishnu (talk) 02:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
6. -- Tito☸Dutta 12:41, 8 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
7. -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 06:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
8. --Kavya Manohar (talk) 10:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
9. ----Nvvchar. 12:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC)[reply]
10. -- Harriet (talk)

Please add [[Category:Articles created or expanded during Women's History Month (India) - 2014]] to all the articles you create as a part of Women's History Month (India) edit-a-thon.

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

A real-time stat counter of the results of the event can be viewed on http://wikiwomen.in.

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)

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

For new users

• Getting started on Wikipedia
• Editing toolbar help

For organizers

• How to run an edit-a-thon

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

We need you!

Hi Meetup! 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. Read more about the event on our project page: Women's History Month (India), 2014. Get involved by: Signing up for the event and writing articles about notable Indian women Conducting an edit-a-thon or a workshop for women Participate at and "like" our Facebook group Reading and writing for our global blog channel Visit our stat counter : http://wikiwomen.in/ We look forward to your contributions. Thank you!

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