Dear all,

To celebrate Women's History Month, I thought it would be really nice to
celebrate an Indian woman editor's story.  A short story on User: Netha
Hussain was posted on the WMF
blog<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/>
.
(Netha is an editor on Malayalam Wikipedia, has been involved in women
topics and recently coordinated the first women's
edit-a-thon<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/India_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon>
in
India.)

While I was preparing this, I was wondering if we could make story-telling
of this nature a regular feature, and see how it can support community
building.  We could do a series of short profiles of editors - in the form
of stories - covering your life as well as your wiki journey. The intent is
to reflect the diversity of our community - language, age, profession,
projects.  I am going to try and bring out at least one such story every
month - but we can always try and work on as many more as we can get.

I am already looking for new story ideas and would love to hear from
interested community folks.  Here is how it works.  I prepare a short set
of questions and points for the story and send it across to you. Once you
reply, I draft out a  story and send it back for your approval. After we
make necessary changes to the draft, I can publish it.   If you are ok, we
can also look at forwarding these stories to the local media as
well. Please do write to me at nra...@wikimedia.org and let's start working
on your story!

Don't forget to go through the Netha's
story<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/03/27/wiki-women-joining-indic-languages/>;
it's really inspiring!

Regards,

Noopur Raval
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