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

International Women's Day, India

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. Indian woman with a plate of fruits 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. -- Netha (talk) 16:02, 27 February 2014 (UTC) -- Bishdatta (talk) 04:04, 28 February 2014 (UTC) -- Parul Thakur (talk) 13:58, 28 February 2014 (UTC)Parul Thakur --Advjuvairianv (talk) 15:49, 28 February 2014 (UTC) --Nicke.me (talk) 17:44, 28 February 2014 (UTC) Rsrikanth05 (talk) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:06, 6 March 2014 (UTC) -- Niyaz Kannanchery (talk) 08:39, 11 March 2014 (UTC) --Kavya Manohar (talk) 09:52, 15 March 2014 (UTC) --Shyamsunder (talk) 18:46, 15 March 2014 (UTC) -- 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! --Netha Hussain (talk) 18:18, 2 February 2014 (UTC) Rohini (talk) 15:59, 8 February 2014 (UTC) Parul :) (talk) 15:10, 12 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :) Rsrikanth05 (talk) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:05, 6 March 2014 (UTC) Resources Women members of Lok Sabha Women members of Rajya Sabha Suggested articles 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 Complete list Y 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! -- Netha (talk) 13:42, 24 February 2014 (UTC) -- Parul :) (talk) 13:44, 24 February 2014 (UTC)Parul :) Rsrikanth05 (talk) --Rahmanuddin Shaik (talk) 06:45, 6 March 2014 (UTC) --Vishnu (talk) 02:17, 8 March 2014 (UTC) -- Tito☸Dutta 12:41, 8 March 2014 (UTC) -- Abhijeet Safai (talk) 06:38, 15 March 2014 (UTC) --Kavya Manohar (talk) 10:24, 15 March 2014 (UTC) ----Nvvchar. 12:59, 16 March 2014 (UTC) -- 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 Somdatta Sinha Sulabha K Kulkarni Kamal Ranadive Kamala Sohonie Yamuna Krishnan Maharani Chakravorty 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, wikidata:Q15730355 Rani Chithraleksha Bhosale, wikidata:Q15730356 Kim Gangte, wikidata:Q15730357 Satwinder Kaur Dhaliwal, wikidata:Q15730359 Usha Meena, wikidata:Q15730364 Beatrix D'Souza, wikidata:Q15730366 Geeta Mukherjee, wikidata:Q15730379 Bhagwati Devi, wikidata:Q15730372 Omvati Devi, wikidata:Q15730368 Sukhda Misra, wikidata:Q15730372 Naznin Faruque Vukkala Rajeswaramma, Reena Choudhary, wikidata:Q15730374 Krishna Bose, wikidata:Q15730377 Lakshmi Panabaka, wikidata:Q11050320 Rama Devi, wikidata:Q15730347 Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah, wikidata:Q15940945 Rajkumari Ratna Singh, wikidata:Q7295840 Sarada Tadiparthi, wikidata:Q7421961 Alka Nath, wikidata:Q15940986 Ketki Devi Singh Maharani Divya Singh Bimla Kashyap Sood Renu Kumari Purnima Verma Ramya Divya Spandana Gundu Sudha Rani Sandhya Bauri Malti Devi, wikidata:Q15730338 Bhavna Kardam Dave, wikidata:Q15730339 Nisha Chaudhary, wikidata:Q15730340 Kailasho Devi, wikidata: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 Indian woman smiles 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 Templates Invitation Title:Women's History Month:Come join us! 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! Don't forget to sign with four tildes at the end of the message!