Wikipedia:Meetup/India-Sweden Women's Day edit-a-thon

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International Women's Day Edit-a-thon
This is the project page for International Women's day events happening in the India and Sweden on 4 March 2017. The co-ordination page can be found on meta here.

8th March is International Women's Day and to celebrate, women in India and Sweden are organizing an edit-a-thon to create and expand articles about notable Indian and Swedish women. The goal of this event is to encourage more women to contribute to Wikipedia and increase representation of articles related to women in science on Wikipedia.

Event details[edit]

Details India
Sweden
Venue Embassy of Sweden, New Delhi (website) Swedish Institute, Stockholm (website)
Date 4 March 2017, Saturday
Time 10 am to 5 pm IST 10 am to 3:30 pm CET
Theme Women in Science
Facebook India edit-a-thon Sweden edit-a-thon
Twitter #Wikiwomen Wikimedia SE
IRC #wikimedia-gendergap
Contact us Sara Mörtsell (sara.mortsell@wikimedia.se)

Participants[edit]

Everyone is welcome edit Wikipedia with us at the offline events or online. Women, transpeople, and those who are interested in articles related to Indian and Swedish women are particularly encouraged to attend.

Suggested articles[edit]

The list of suggested articles is given below. Pick an article below, or another one you feel is suitable, and start editing! Please make sure to list the articles you created or expanded under the #Results section below.

Articles needing creation, expansion or copyediting[edit]

This is the list of suggested articles for India-Sweden edit-a-thon. Participants are welcome to create and expand articles out of this list also. The articles that are already taken (or being worked on) by participants are marked with a sign. Please suffix the article with a checkY sign once it is completed.

A list of more Swedish and Indian women can be found here and here respectively. Please re-check that there is no existing article about the listed individuals before creating a new article.

Results[edit]

This section will be updated during the edit-a-thon on March 4. However, if you'd like to write articles before the edit-a-thon, please feel free to do so!

Resources for getting started with Wikipedia[edit]