These are excellent criteria sent by Dr Mani - carefully thought out. It might be good to adopt them while deciding on notability.
All best to the women in science editathon. Tejaswini On 16 March 2014 00:37, A. Mani <a.mani....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Parul <sri.pa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > India has a lot of successful women scientists who have made a mark in > their > > respective fields. However, it is unfortunate that these women still do > not > > have an existence on Wikipedia. Read this blog post to know a little > more. > > > > > > > > We are organizing a Women Scientists edit-a-thon tomorrow and day after. > > Join us by editing as many articles as possible during these the two > days. > > Apart from creating articles, you could also help us by correcting or > > expanding existing ones. Adding names to the existing list of scientists > > would go a long way too. > > > > What criteria (relative academic accomplishments) is being used for > qualifying as a "women scientist"? > Some days ago, I saw some entries for fresh people with a couple of > publications (it was part of an earlier round of editing). > One cannot really go by the few awards (politicized) and such. > > If that is the criteria, then I know at least 95 women who would fit > in. If I set the cut off point at 5 years in research, then the number > would be 60 - 72+ (I am not sure ). > > If the criteria is 100pp of publication in refereed international > journals or 10 years in research or some high impact work (requires > peer review), then the number would be much less. > > ps. I don't want an article on myself as I have enough publicity :) > > > Best > > A. Mani > > > > A. Mani > [Last_Name. First_Name Format] > CU, ASL, AMS, ISRS, CLC, CMS > HomePage: http://www.logicamani.in > Blog: http://logicamani.blogspot.in/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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 > -- Tejaswini Niranjana, PhD Lead Researcher - Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA) Senior Fellow - Centre for the Study of Culture and Society (CSCS) Visiting Professor - Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Humanities, Lingnan University, Hong Kong Advisor, Access to Knowledge Programme, Centre for Internet and Society Visiting Faculty - Centre for Contemporary Studies, Indian Institute of Science (CCS-IISc) t: 91-80-41202302 http://heira.in www.cscs.res.in
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