Wiki Women for Women Wellbeing Event - Bengali Wikimedians/Report

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Project Goal
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As we have always seen in our personal lives that women have the tendency of ignoring their needs and health concerns and have always been a nurturer in the family, this time we've thought of an initiative for showing our acknowledgement and concern towards all such amazing women in our lives by doing something for them.

The event was focused on women health concerns and creating content related to the same in the month of October and November, 2018. Along with this, in this project an attempt has been made to train some interested women wikimedians of different communities for outreach activities by guiding them and making them organize the event in their respective communities. The basic training has been given about planning, proposing, performing and reporting. Which help in exploring and promoting women leadership in different languages, thus helping in bridging the gender gap along with the usual accomplishment of content creation.

Activities
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Online Event[edit]

Event Page: উইকিপিডিয়া:মহিলা স্বাস্থ্য বিষয়ক নিবন্ধ অভিযান ২০১৮

The Editathon was started from 1 October 2018 and closed on 24 November 2018. 30 participants enlisted their name. The articles were expanded and created by 10 editors in which 4 are Females.

Participants and their number of articles[edit]

  1. User:Nettime Sujata 12
  2. User:Sumasa 7
  3. User:Sumita Roy Dutta 6
  4. User:Dolon Prova 3
  5. User:Iq0001 3
  6. User:খাঁ শুভেন্দু 3
  7. User:রাহিব 2
  8. User:Che12Guevara 2
  9. User:S Shamima Nasrin 1
  10. User:Fahim fanatic 1


Statistics[edit]

Detail is here Additional statistics can been seen on dashboard here

  • Articles created: 37
  • Articles edited: 3
  • Total articles created/expanded:40 Detail is here
  • Total edits:
  • Editors: 10
  • Words added:
  • Commons uploads: 7
  • Most review articles

Learning
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  • What worked well?
  1. We succeeded in bringing the editors from non-science background for contribution in WWWW.
  2. Notifying all the local Indic language communities, for making sure that the news is spread to as many as possible to took part in the contest and created quality articles.
  3. Around New women editors join and contribute and decrease some ratio of gender gap. (Maximum article creator started her article writing in this program only) pls watch here
  4. women organiser improved communication, confidence, motivation level, dedication while providing training to new editors and organising this event locally.
  • What did not work so well?
  1. List of articles should have been made much before.
  2. All the Bengali medical terms available in Bengali we should have uploaded in Wiktionary here prior to this project
  3. Involvements of all organisers were not there due to various reason.
  4. All categories needed for this project we could hv create prior to the starting of the project.
  5. Data analysis and other output like number of articles created/expanded in Dashboard is not updated till 30th dec 2018
  • What would you do differently next time?
  1. List of articles to be made one month prior to the event.
  2. Medical terms available in Bengali to be added prior to event.
  3. Addition of medical terms in Indic languages can be done through another motivational drive like this event.
  4. A hands on training on how to handle dashboard as admin to at least one organiser from all participating Indic community.
  5. All women Train the trainer program much prior to main event as suggested by main organiser Manvpreet here
  6. Area of responsibility as organiser to be divided
  7. Interested organiser should tick the areas in which she want to engage herself in organising

Offline Event[edit]

An offline Workshop cum Editathon event took place at Calcutta University on 10th October 1018 Wiki_Women_for_Women_Wellbeing_Workshop_-_Kolkata No of participants(New editors from Calcutta University) 18 pls see here

Learning
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  • What worked well?
  1. We succeeded in bringing the editors from non-science background for contribution in WWWW.
  2. Notifying all the local Indic language communities, for making sure that the news is spread to as many as possible to took part in the contest and created quality articles.
  3. Around New women editors join and contribute and decrease some ratio of gender gap.
  4. In offline event the basic training has been given about writing, editing and reviewing.
  • What did not work so well?
  1. Confused with long list of articles in short time, new editors
  2. Due to time constraint and lack of follow up with new editors did not provide us any article expanded or created up to 9000bytes.
  3. Forgot to tell them add their name in main participant's list here after creation of their account in Wikipedia
  • What would you do differently next time?
  1. After signup in Wikipedia new editors should add their name in main participant's list
  2. We will short list the main list of articles with easer articles translation to encourage new editors
  3. One interactive session for mentors and trainers to carry out workshop efficiently and hands on optimum way.
  4. First workshop for new editors with emphasis on problems with machine translation and hands on in their respective sandboxes, then after some online mentoring, consecutive at least two offline editathon with interested new editors from the group who had attained workshop