User:Rohini/Wiki things
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Positions I have held
- Chairperson (Special Interest Group) of Gender gap at the Wikimedia India Chapter. (March 2013 - July 2014)
- Drafted the Gender gap India policy and work plan
- Wikipedian in Residence (pilot programme), Bombay Natural History Society, Mumbai (June-August 2013)
- Member, Simple Annual Plan Grants Committee, 2017-2021
On-wiki roles
- Contributor to the Wikimedia Commons, Wikidata, Wikivoyage in English, and Wikipedia in English.
- Pending changes reviewer and event coordinator on English Wikipedia
Grants and travel scholarships
- Co-recipient of grant by the Wikimedia Foundation for a project entitled "Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity", 2017-18.
The project was hosted at the now-defunct WikiInclusivity.in. It was later moved to Meta Wikimedia and the Wikimedia Commons at Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity.
- Wikimania 2019
- Wikimania 2018
- Wikimania 2017
- Wikimania 2016
- Wikimania 2015
- Travel and Participation Support (TPS) Grant, Adacamp 2015
Talks/ Public Speaking
This list is indicative, not exhaustive.
- Talk entitled "Doing GLAM projects in India", CIS-A2K Train-the-trainer 2015, Bengaluru, India, February 2015.
- The CIS-A2K TTT was the annual train-the-trainer event of the Access to Knowledge programme of the Centre for Internet and Society, India. I participated in a few editions of it over the years.
- Talk entitled "Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online, Adacamp, Montreal, Canada, April 2015
- Speaker at a panel discussion entitled "Edit-a-thons for bridging the gender gap, Wikimania, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2015
- Talk entitled "Gender gap in the global south -- Lessons from policy making and outreach", Wikimania, Esino Lario, Italy, June 2016 (Slide deck), (Video on YouTube).
- Talk entitled "The Art of Community Review: Best practices for community members to write and review grant proposals", CIS-A2K Train-the-trainer 2018, Mysuru, India, January 2018 (Slide deck)
- Talk entitled "Intellectual property barriers to GLAM projects in the global south, Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018
- Talk entitled "Lessons from creating a diversity toolkit", Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018.
- Talk entitled "The Art of Community Review", Deoband Community Wikimedia (DCW) Conversation Hours, April 2023
- Facilitator of a panel discussion entitled "How do we become more diverse as a movement?", Wikiconference India 2023
- Speaker at the roundtable discussion entitled "Tackling the challenges of community-source fact checking" at MisinfoCon India, March 2025. Event report.
Recognition
- Featured Wikimedian in India, May 2013.
- Barnstars
Blog
- WikipeDNA www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipeDNA (2013-2014)
WikipeDNA chronicled all things Wikimedia in India. This included events, activities, and issues of interest to Wikimedia editors and users. This blog was discontinued sometime in 2014. It has been partially archived at: Archive.org
For detailed information, refer to Rohini's archived blog posts.
- Contributor to the official blog of the Wikimedia Chapter (India), 2013-2014
Published works
- Making events safe and welcoming, Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity, 2019. (Co-authored with Tanveer Hasan)
- Five tips for a successful edit-a-thon on gender, GenderIT, December 2018.
- Spanish translation (Traducción en español): El conocimiento es poder: consejos para una editatona exitosa by Andrea Patricia Kleiman.
- With 3 billion monthly pageviews, Wikipedia Mobile drives open access, Tech2, February 2013. [Dead link], [Archived version].
- Around the world with Wikivoyage, Tech2, January 2013. [Dead link], [Archived version].
- Wikipedia Gadgets: Tools that simplify editing, Tech2, January 2013. [Dead link], [Archived version].
- 7 Free mobile apps for Wikipedia readers and contributors, Tech2, December 2012. [Dead link], [Archived version].
- Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge, Tech2, December 2012. [Dead link], [Archived version].
See also
- Archiving feminist research as a method of preserving integrity and openness, GenderIT, July 2024.
- The trouble with being a woman in FOSS, Deep Dives -- Sexing the Interwebs, November 6, 2015.
- Widening access to educational resources, Economic and Political Weekly, September 14, 2013.
- Aaron Swartz and the cost of open access, Tech2, January 2013, and Intelligent Computing CHIP magazine (India), March 2013. [Dead link], [Archived version]
Outreach
Wikimedia outreach activities I have organised, conducted, or supported (in chronological order)
Workshops
- Training workshop on Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity, Goa, October 2018.
- CIIPC-NLUD Workshop on Wikipedia Editing and Open Source Knowledge Sources, National Law University-Delhi, November 2016
- Ally Skills workshop, WikiConference India, August 2016
- Guest lecture on using and editing Wikipedia for students of Community Media, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, 2013
- Wikipedia_Workshop_Mulund,_Mumbai, August 2013
- Wikipedia workshop for journalism students of Sophia Institute of Social Communications Media, Mumbai, July 2013
- Wikipedia Workshop in Mulund, Mumbai, May 2013
- Wiki Women's Day Workshop for students of the NIE, Nirmala Institute of Education, Goa, March 2013
- Wikipedia Workshop for Women in Mumbai, November 2012
Outreach events
Outreach and content-building events that I organised or co-organised.
- WikiWomen's History Month, March 2013
- Online edit-a-thons for International Women's Day in India, March 2013
- "Lilavati's Daughters" edit-a-thon
- Wikipedia edit-a-thon for editing articles on violence against women, Wikimedia Chapter (India) and Breakthrough, New Delhi, December 7-8, 2013. This was a part of #Hack4Change, a thematic hackathon.
- WikiWomen's History Month, March 2014
- Women's History Month edit-a-thon organised collaboratively by Breakthrough, Wikimedia Chapter (India) and Women in Free Software, New Delhi, March 29, 2014.
Meetups organised
WikiConference India 2016
- Member of the Diversity and Inclusion team. The team drafted the Code of Conduct, Friendly Space Policy, and Diversity and Inclusion guidelines for the organisers of the national conference.
- Member of the "Response Team". The chief responsibility of the team was to handle complaints about violation of the Code of Conduct and Friendly Space policy.
- Organiser and facilitator for the Ally Skills workshop.
- Leader of the gender gap track.
Participation in events
- Wikiconference India, Hyderabad, 2023
- Wikimania, Stockholm, Sweden, 2019
- Wikimedia Summit, Berlin, Germany, March 2019
- Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa, 2018
- Wikidata workshop, Kolkata, 2017
- Wikimania, Montreal, Canada, 2017
- WikiWomen Camp, Mexico City, Mexico, 2017
- Wikimedia Conference, Berlin, Germany, 2017 (Strategic Direction track)
- WikiConference India, Chandigarh, 2016
- Wikimania, Esino Lario, Italy, 2016
- Wikimania, Mexico City, Mexico, 2015