Thank you, Sarah for sharing. A detailed report about the events that happened in India during the Women's History Month can be read on the Times of India newspaper here : http://www.timescrest.com/society/world-wide-wiki-womens-web-dot-com-9981
Regards Netha On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Sarah Stierch <[email protected]>wrote: > I'm getting an onslaught of WikiWomen stuff all the sudden...so pardon > the many emails. Awesome to see Netha quoted and when I visit India I want > to know how to pronounce the city name where this was reported :) > > > http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-05/thiruvananthapuram/37469373_1_prominent-women-active-editors-parvathy-omanakuttan > > Malayalam Wikipedia takes a gender turn > > THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: As part of this year's women's day celebrations, > Malayalam Wikipedians have launched a month-long edit-a-thon, a drive to > expand articles of importance to women. The project aims to introduce more > women to Malayalam Wikipedia, create new articles related to women, expand > the existing stubs and translate English articles to Malayalam. > > Launched in tune with Wikipedia's Wiki Women's History Month projects, > Wikipedians worldwide are organizing similar events. > > Though Malayalam Wikipedia is one of the most active languages Wikipedia, > the number of women editors are below a dozen. Of these, only one or two > are active editors. > > Netha Hussain, Kozhikode-based medical student, who is the torchbearer of > project in Malayalam, agreed that only a few women are active in Malayalam > Wikipedia. "The project aims to introduce more women to Wikipedia. A list > of topics, which needs to be expanded, edited etc, has been prepared. > Biography of prominent women and translation of biographies are all part of > the event," Netha said. > > Usha Titus, M T Padma, K K Lathika, J Arundhati, Malethu Sarala Devi, > Rosamma Chacko, Jameela Prakasham are some of the prominent women included > in list of personalities to be included in Wikipedia as part of the drive, > which will conclude on March 31. Articles of a number of women, including > Tessy Thomas, Mercy Ravi, Ajitha, Parvathy Omanakuttan etc, will be > expanded. Biographies of award-winning women, people's representatives, etc > will be translated from English to Malayalam. Surprisingly, except Netha > and Ditty Mathew from Kochi, all others who have joined the edit-a-thon so > far are men. > > > > -- > *Sarah Stierch* > *Museumist and open culture advocate* > >>Visit sarahstierch.com <http://sarahstierch.com><< > > _______________________________________________ > Gendergap mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap > > -- Netha Hussain Student of Medicine and Surgery Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com swethaambari.wordpress.com*
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