Gender gap

Gender gap Special Interest Group

 * 24.5% of Wikimedia India chapter members are women.
 * We have members from 4 states and 10 cities.

Members

 * 1) Netha Hussain 21:19, 26 October 2014 (IST)
 * 2)  Abhishek Suryawanshi 16:16, 27 October 2014 (IST)
 * 3) Priyanka Tiwari 7:34, 30 October 2014 (IST)
 * 4) Arunram
 * 5) Ssandrathomas 22:18, 30 October 2014 (IST)
 * 6) Nikita Belavate
 * 7)  Sanket Oswal

Priorities

 * 1) Encourage more women members of the chapter to participate. IRC for connecting.
 * 2) Target at least 3-4 active women members in each city and language wikipedia.
 * 3) Mentor new women editors and help them through the initial paces.
 * 4) Create 10 very active editors and 30 new editors across India.
 * 5) Encourage more women leadership in the Chapter (EC, SIGs).
 * 6) Participate in events like WikiWomen's Collaborative, Ada Lovelace editathons and AdaCamp Bangalore (nominations open, please participate).
 * 7) Create visibility for active women editors and members of the chapter for others to emulate.



Projects

 * 1) The 100 women project - List the most important 100 women in India (current and historically)
 * 2) Ensure that the 100 women project articles have GA quality pages within a year.
 * 3) Translate these to 10 languages across the country in respective wikipedias.

Outreach

 * 1) "Get 1 new women member" campaign - Each member to get one new women member.
 * 2) Identify one women focal point for cities: Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Bangalore, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Pune & Trivandrum.
 * 3) City specific campaign / outreach in colleges or fora.
 * 4) Target students to join. Target homemakers to join (many are very educated and have bandwidth).
 * 5) Twitter and Facebook campaign #WeareWomenWikipedians

Social Media

 * 1) Twitter and Facebook campaign #WeareWomenWikipedians

Media coverage

 * 1) Need to have Articles focused on creating awareness and bridging gender gap in mainstream and indic language newspapers.