Amazing blog post Pavithra, great job! More power to Women and glad to Kannada shining!
On 28-Mar-2013, at 10:01 AM, Pavithra H wrote: > Thanks everyone for your wishes and encouraging words. > > > On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Nitika Tandon <nit...@cis-india.org> wrote: > Congratulations to Pavithra and the entire Bangalore community for such a > great initiative. > > Here's a blogpost about the Wiki Women's workshop we had organised at Nirmala > Institute of Education, Goa. Special thanks to Rohini and Harriet for all > their support and help. > > More power to Wiki Women! > > Nitika > > > On 24-Mar-2013, at 6:39 PM, Pavithra H wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> Here is my blog post on Wiki Women Workshop that we conducted on 9th March. >> >> As we all know, Wikipedia is the world’s biggest encyclopedia and recognized >> as the 5th most website accessed by people across the globe. Being one of >> the biggest community driven project, Wikipedia has pooled in millions of >> articles which have been added/edited/monitored/ by people like you and me. >> By nature, gender has not only been the distinguishing factor for human >> being but also acts as a barrier to perform limited set of activities from >> the ages. At various stages of evolution, men and women have been >> continuously striving to overcome their boundaries which were set by >> themselves or by the society. It’s the same story when it comes to >> statistics of Wikipedians and the ratio of men and women participation is >> 9:1. To bridge this gap Wikipdedia has been organizing many activities to >> bring in more women participants around Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. >> On the occasion of International Women’s Day 2013, many of the volunteer >> Wikipedians conducted workshops with dedicated focus to women across the >> India. >> >> On this occasion, I got an opportunity to organize the workshop in Bangalore >> as well for women with ideas floated by Nikita (EC member of India Chapter) >> and Radhakrishna (SIG chair Bangalore). With guidance and support by Sowmyan >> (EC member of India Chapter), Arun (founder member of India Wikipedia) and >> Omshivapraksh (Kannada SIG chair of Bangalore), we could conduct Wikipedia >> Women’s Workshop successfully for the first time in Bangalore on 9th of >> March at Servelots Infotech Pvt. Ltd. As mentioned in the event page, the >> workshop was started with giving an overview of Wikipedia and introduction >> of participants along with their interests. Continuing further participants >> were able to found their answers for their initial set of questions like >> what is Wikipedia all about? Why do we participate? Who all will edit? in >> about an hour session by Omshivaprakash. >> After a small tea break and a press byte organized by Pavanaja, the sessions >> were continued by introducing the next step to Wikipedia. i.e., How do we >> edit? To make our hands on session more interactive, we made one of our >> participant, Dr. A Sumitra to create an account live and explained various >> steps to edit Wikipedia like start a new page, edit a page, formatting, >> preview, adding references, history, etc. In between we played the recorded >> videos of Bishakha Datta and Netha Hussain who shared their experience with >> Wikipedia and their message on Women’s Day. >> >> With excited participants, we extended the session and took some more time >> to explain what else we can do beyond editing by giving a brief overview on >> other wiki projects like Commons, WikiBooks, Wikisource, Wikinews, >> Wikiquote, Wikitionary, MediaWiki, etc. >> >> New items on the cards: >> 1. During the event, Dr. A Sumitra based out of Bangalore did add the >> page on Nalini Nayak who is famous as India’s Fisher Women. >> 2. We have compiled a list of topics for Kannada Wikipedia for which >> women can participate in adding/enhancing the content on Wikipedia. >> 3. Our participant, Lakshimi Chaitanya has come forward to introduce many >> female achievers by adding content in Kannada Wikipedia. >> 4. Sumana from Sanskrit Wikipedia and other Wikipedians have been working >> on making audio files for Sanskrit Shlokas since few days and they are very >> happy to welcome volunteers who would like to join them in adding their >> content to Commons. >> Couple of other women who could not make it to the event also got in touch >> to be part of the celebrations by contributing to Kannada Wikipedia: >> 5. Recent Wikipedian, Shyamala Janardhan has been trying to add contents >> of HariKathamrutha Saara to WikiSource. >> 6. Savitha S.R. from Bangalore celebrating this occasion by adding >> contents of Vyasa Bharata -Kumara Vyasa to Wikipedia. >> I have created a new Facebook group called WikiWomen Bangalore to gather >> all women participants of Wikipedia and other Wiki projects. The space can >> be used to discuss and interact about topics around Wikipedia and to bring >> in more women participants to share their knowledge. I request all of you to >> join the group and share your thoughts. >> Also refer to event page International Women’s Day, India which lists all >> the events happening in India in March 2013 on the occasion of Women’s day >> and participate in the area of your interest. >> As a personal note, it gave immense pleasure and was a great learning >> experience for me interacting with new excited Wikipedians. Thanks to >> everyone who were part of the event and make it a big success. >> Press Release: >> Kannadaprabha Daily report on Event,ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದತ್ತ ಮಹಿಳೆಯರು ಆಕರ್ಷಿತರಾಗಲಿ 10th >> March, 2013 >> ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾಹಿತಿ: ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರ ಪಾತ್ರ ಇರಲಿ Prajavani, 11th March, 2013 >> Photo credits goes to: Pavanaja >> >> -- >> Thanks, >> Pavithra >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > > > > -- > Thanks, > Pavithra > _______________________________________________ > 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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