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We are all aware of the large reach and popularity of Wikipedia. However, what most people dont know is that, according to astudyconducted in 2011, only 9% of the editors at Wikipedia were women. And the percentage for India is even lower, just 3%.

Wikipedia recognises the systemic gender bias that is created because of factors such as these and thus enables its diverse range of users to edit and create Wikipedia pages, with reliable and authentic sources.

For June, Pride Month,Feminism In Indiaalong with Gaylaxy Magazine and India HIV/AIDS Allianceco-organised a Wikipedia Editathonon Queer Pride Marches in Indiaat India HIV/AIDS Alliances office,to increase the representation of queer pride marches in various cities and towns of India as well as to teach a new skill of creating and editing articles on Wikipedia to the youth.

Accordingly, we created a list of Indian queer pride marches and looked at their representation on Wikipedia. A lot of the names on the list did not have any Wikipedia pages, while the ones which did, had very basic and limited information (stub pages).

We were a group of 11 participants in total.The event began with a discussion on the whys and hows of Wikipedia editing for new-comers.

After that, each participant chose one or more pride march/city absent from Wikipedia, and started digging through the internet looking for interviews, news reports and e-books that mentioned their chosen march/city to write comprehensive Wikipedia articles on them.

By the end of the day, the participants had created a total of about 14 Wikipedia pages.

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Queer Pride Marches In India: Wikipedia Edit-a-thon - Feminism in India (blog)