As discussed on the phone, I'm up for organizing something in Mumbai this Oct.
More later, Bishakha On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 12:00 AM, Pradeep Mohandas <pr...@outlook.com>wrote: > Hi, > > It would be great to know if the women wikipedians in India have gotten > together and are doing something on this issue. I had expressed last year > an intention of doing a Wikipedia Women's Workshop in Mumbai, but this > became part of the WikiConference India program. Has there been any > specific actions taken beyond that? > > warm regards, > Pradeep Mohandas > > ------------------------------ > Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2012 21:23:28 +0530 > From: nethahuss...@gmail.com > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Wikipedia's gender gap > > > Interesting. > > *Only 9% of Wikipedia editors are females* - The number could be a bit > more or a bit less, as this conclusion is based on the gender preferences > given by the user in their account. [1] I am pretty sure that the figures > in most Indian language Wikipedias would be even lesser, considering that > women in our country have lesser access to the internet than those of the > West. > > We are yet to tap the potential of the millions of e-literate women of our > country who are have the basic skills to contribute to Wikipedia. > Considering that women can create more impact on other women, we need to > have more women from the community be active in outreach activities. I am > still hopeful that a day will come when the gender ratio in all Indic > Wikipedias would be close to 1:1! > > I'd request all Indian women Wikimedians on this list to add their names > to > this<http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians>[2] > page so that we could plan for online and offline activities for > increasing the participation of women in Wikiprojects. > > > [1] http://grouplens.org/system/files/wp-gender-wikisym2011.pdf > [2] > http://wiki.wikimedia.in/Geographical_distribution_of_Indian_Wikipedians > > > Thanks! > > Cheers > > Netha Hussain > [[User: Netha Hussain]] > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 7:07 PM, Frederick FN Noronha फ्रेड्रिक नोरोन्या > *فريدريك نورونيا <fredericknoro...@gmail.com> wrote: > > http://visual.ly/wikipedias-gender-gap > -- > FN +91-832-2409490 or +91-9822122436 f...@goa-india.org > Books from Goa,1556 http://scr.bi/Goa1556Books > Audio recordings (mostly from Goa): http://bit.ly/GoaRecordings > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > > > -- > Netha Hussain > Student of Medicine and Surgery > Govt. Medical College, Kozhikode > Blogs : *nethahussain.blogspot.com > swethaambari.wordpress.com* > > > > _______________________________________________ Wikimediaindia-l mailing > list Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from the list / > change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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