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/
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