User:Rohini/Wiki things

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 scholarships

• Co-recipient of grant by the Wikimedia Foundation for a project entitled "Community Toolkit for Greater Diversity", 2017-18. https://wikiinclusivity.in
• Wikimania 2018
• Wikimania 2016
• Wikimania 2015
• Travel and Participation Support (TPS) Grant, Adacamp 2015

Talks/ Public Speaking

• Doing GLAM projects in India, Train-the-trainer 2015, Bengaluru, India, February 2015
• Patterns of Gender Aggression and Harassment in Open Tech and Open Culture Communities Online, Adacamp, Montreal, Canada, April 2015
• Edit-a-thons for bridging the gender gap, Wikimania, Mexico City, Mexico, July 2015
• Gender gap in the global south -- Lessons from policy making and outreach, Wikimania, Esino Lario, Italy, June 2016 (Slide deck)(Video)
• The Art of Community Review: Best practices for community members to write and review grant proposals, Train-the-trainer 2018, Mysuru, India, January 2018 (Slide deck)
• Intellectual property barriers to GLAM projects in the global south, Wikimania, Cape Town, South Africa, July 2018
• 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

Recognition

• Featured Wikimedian in India, May 2013.
• Barnstars

Blog

• WikipeDNA www.dnaindia.com/blogs/wikipeDNA (2013-2014)

WikipeDNA chronicled all things Wikipedia in India. This included events, activities, and issues of interest to Wikipedia editors and users. This blog has been discontinued.

• 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
• With 3 billion monthly pageviews, Wikipedia Mobile drives open access, Tech2, February 2013

• Around the world with Wikivoyage, Tech2, January 2013
• Wikipedia Gadgets: Tools that simplify editing, Tech2, January 2013
• 7 Free mobile apps for Wikipedia readers and contributors, Tech2, December 2012
• Wikidata: Summing the sum of human knowledge, Tech2, December 2012

See also

• 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.

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

Other outreach events

• 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.

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