Congrats, this is very encouraging and motivating! Hoping to see more of these articles.
On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 7:09 AM, Tejaswini Niranjana <t...@cscs.res.in>wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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