Wikimedians of Nepal/Wiki Gender Gap Program Nepal/BBC 100 Women Editathon

BBC 100 Women Wiki Edit-a-thon
BBC 100 Women Wiki Edit-a-thon
	BBC 100 Women Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Logo
Begins	December 8, 2016
Location(s)	BBC Media Action Office, Sanepa, Lalitpur
Years active	2016
Inaugurated	2016
Coordinator	Nabin K. Sapkota
Previous event	Wiki Women Edit-a-thon Nepal 2016
Participants	All BBC Journalists & Wikipedians
Patron(s)	Ahmen Khawaja - Producer, BBC 100 Women 2016
Organised by	British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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An edit-a-thon organized by BBC in collaboration with Wikipedia with the aim to creating awareness about gender related issues and value the being of women .

History

100 Women is a BBC series established in 2013. The series examines the role of women in the twenty-first century and has included events in London^[1] and Mexico.^[2] The 2016 theme was "Defiance".^[3] Read more: 100 Women (BBC)

Event detail/Venue

Date: December 8, 2016

Venue: BBC Media Action Office, Sanepa, Lalitpur

Time: 11 AM to 4 PM NST

Organizer: British Broadcasting Corporation

Local organizer: BBC Media Action, Nepal

Global Supporter: Wikimedia UK

Local Supporter: Wikimedians of Nepal/Maithili Wikimedians User Group/Doteli Wikipedia

Organizers/Roles

Nabin K. Sapkota – Coordinator/Presenter
Administrator - Nepali Wikipedia, Member - Wikimedians of Nepal

Nirmal Dulal – Mentor/Demonstrator
Bureaucrat - Nepali Wikipedia, Member - Wikimedians of Nepal

Janak Bhatta – Instructor
Editor - Nepali Wikipedia / Doteli Wikipedia

Nirjal Shrestha - Instructor
Administrator - Nepali Wikipedia

Bijay chaurasia - Editor/Photographer
Editor - Maithili Wikipedia/ Wikimedia Commons

Logistics and Support

Ahmen Khawaja - Producer, BBC 100 Women
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Jitendra Raut - Senior Producer
BBC Nepali Service

Dipak Bhattarai - Senior Editor
BBC Media Action, Nepal

Objectives

Aim to creating awareness about gender related issues and value the being of women
To increase Wikipedia articles in women related topics/issues
To improve existing articles about women and women related issues
To familiarize BBC journalists to contribute in Wikipedia and Wikimedia Projects

Contribution Language and topics

Language

Participants are free to choose the language they want to contribute.

Topics

The edit-a-thon is about women, therefore articles related to women and gender shall be created/improved. Participants are free to choose topic they want to contribute. Please feel free to write a new article or improve any existing articles. Be bold, don't get afraid. Even if you deleted important part of an existing article, that can be easily reverted. Community members and admins will do that work for you

Write about biographical articles on most influential or inspiring women of the world.
Burning issues related to women and their development.
Write articles in Wikipedia about the 100 women in past years.

The following links may give you some idea to choose topics.

Participants

Please enter the page to signin you participation for the edit-a-thon

BBC 100 Women Editathon Badge

Participants can add {{100 Women (BBC)}} badge on their userpage to support BBC 100 Women Editathon.

Help Us

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Share on your social networks (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc) using Our social media hashtags: #100womenwiki
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Contact us

Please join our facebook page and twitter page for updates and other news. For any queries regarding the eit-a-thon and technical support please contact at
wikipedia-nelists.wikimedia.org or nepaliwiki@gmail.com