Wikimedia Blog/Drafts/Indian language Wikimedia communities joined hands all for the Women's History Month
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- Indian language Wikimedia communities joined hands all for the Women's History Month
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- Indian language Wikimedia communities recently collaborated online for the "Women's History Month" edit-a-thon. Apart from organizing edit-a-thons many community leaders actively encouraged new and existing contributors to create and enrich women-related articles. This initiative also helped the communities to coach new women editors and fill the gender gap in the respective communities.
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On the day of the International Women's Day on March 8, 2015 the Wikimedia community globally organized many edit-a-thons and created awareness campaigns to invite more women contributors to edit and enrich women-related articles in Wikipedia, in their native languages. In South Asia, this was vibrant where nine language communities collaborated on the International Women's Day edit-a-thon and many extended an this one day edit-a-thon to a month long one in the respective language Wikipedias. That's quite a leap from "International Women's Day" to "Women's History Month"! Already some communities like Nepali have created/enhanced about 75 new articles and have grown the communities to a significant level by bringing new editors. Communities that are small like the Odia Wikimedia community have done their bit in adding quality content. "Social media played a vital role in bringing contributors based in India and Nepal together where offline events that happened in the past helped strengthen community bonding and cross-community collaboration", says Wikimedia India's program director Ravishankar A..
Subhashish Panigrahi, Odia Wikimedian and Programme Officer at the Centre for Internet and Society's Access To Knowledge program (CIS-A2K).
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