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Today, we are at the beautiful campus of @jncasr Bangalore for our #Wikipedia edit a thon for Indian Women in Science 
Smita Jain begins the proceedings with an overview of IndiaBioscience and its activities in the area of networking, communication, skill building, resources, data and policy discussions
Shobhana Narasimha begins her talk on "Women in Science - Enigmas, Challenges and Successes" asking people to close their eyes and visualize the picture that comes to mind when they think of "Scientist".
Most science academies around the world have >80% male members. Within Asia, only Nepal ranks lower than India in the percentage of women scientists, says Shobhana Narasimha, during #WISWikithon19 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
Shobhana Narasimhan concludes her talk with the success stories of some pioneering women scientists which should be more widely known #WomenInSTEM #womeninscience
Nandita Jayaraj @nandita_j from The Life of Science talks about lessons learned from four years of @labhopping and how the issue of representation of #womeninscience is not just about the numbers
Ananth Subray from the Center for Internet and Society begins the post-tea session with an introduction to #Wikipedia, #Wikimedia and #Wikidata.
Post lunch, we continue our editing session. Participants select women scientists whose pages they wish to contribute to and begin playing with the sandbox #WISWikithon19
Shyamal L, independent researcher and prolific Wikimedian, invites greater engagement from the community in #Wikipedia in science. #WISWikithon19
Thank you to all the participants who were part of today's effort. Please continue contributing to #womeninscience pages on Wikipedia and engaging with us.
