Wikipedia Edit-a-thon: Online Social Movements | Feminism in India

"Feminism in India and Punjabi Wikimedians have joined hands for a series of monthly Wikipedia edit-a-thons exploring various facets of gender in India, thus increasing content on women and marginalized communities on Wikipedia as well as training women to create and edit Wikipedia pages and hence increasing the number of women editors. This partnership serves dual purpose, since we not only help reduce the gender gap with each Edit-a-thon, but also edit both in English and Punjabi, hence promoting the use of vernacular languages in India.

In October, we held our first Wikipedia Editathon with Breakthrough India on Indian Women Poets and Authors. And then, in November which is the Pride month in Delhi, we decided to focus on the LGBTQIA+ community, more specifically on LBT women in collaboration with Nazariya, an NGO that works with LBT women, to help us with the research. The topic was Indian Queer Feminists. December 10 being World Human Rights Day, we edited articles on Human Rights Activists in India.

This month, we got together with Punjabi Wikimedians at our New Delhi office to co-host a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon on Online Social Movements. The edit-a-thon was aimed at creating/editing Wikipedia pages of online social movements in India across issues of caste, gender, sexuality among others who lack representation on the platform currently."