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Edit Histories

July 30, 2018
by editor
1 min read
A sepia toned collage of photos of famous Indian women from history. In the centre, the text 'a lack of knowledge about women'

A collage of sepia toned photographs of various famous Indian women from history. A button with the word ‘Delete’ in the centre. The button presses down, and a black screen appears. The title ‘edit histories’ gets typed out, with the following text below- ‘Story- Aarthi Parthasarathy Art- Mira Malhotra Additional Animation- Chaitanya Krishnan Based on interviews with women members of the Wikipedia community in India’

2010

In a Google search bar, ‘women poets’ gets typed out, followed by ‘enter’

A woman sits at a desk facing a computer. Her hair, lips and top are from a black and white photo, the rest of her is drawn. In a speech bubble she says: ‘I’d always wondered why…’

A google search results page. The word ‘Indian’ is added before ‘women poets’ in the search bar. The page moves down through the search results. A circle of text on the page says: ‘There was so little information online on my favourite Indian women poets’

With a blue cursor and the Google search page in the background, the text: ‘No matter how much I looked…information was sorely lacking’

Against the background of a Wikipedia page for Ajit Cour, the text: ‘But it wasn’t my imagination’. On the top of the Wikipedia page, it says ‘This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.’

Orange hands drawn typing on to a photograph of a keyboard and a computer screen with the Wikipedia page. Text below the image: ‘This is something I feel strongly about’.

A Wikipedia web page. The title: ‘Wikipedia: Your first article’ Below, a blue box, with the text- ‘Writing an article. Learn how you can create an article.’

A puzzle piece, with text on it: ‘There’s a lack of knowledge on the world’s largest open-source encyclopedia’

The same sepia toned collage of photographs of famous Indian women from history. In the centre it says: ‘A lack of knowledge about women’

A puzzle piece, with text on it: ‘This lack amounts to erasure, which means our voices aren’t heard’

A GIF- on a white background, three lips appear, cut out from photographs, followed by fingers on each lip, followed by the word ‘ssshh’

A woman drawn on an orange and yellow background, with a black and white image of a hand pasted over her mouth. Text below: ‘And erasure is a type of violence’

Orange hands drawn typing on to a photograph of a keyboard and computer, with text below the image: ‘Wikipedia has a gender problem. There aren’t enough women editors and that results in a lack of information on women’. On the computer screen, the following text has been typed: ‘Ajit Cour (born 1934) is an Indian writer. She has written novels and short stories in the Punjabi language on social-realist themes such as the experience of women in relationships and their position in society.’

On a sheet of white paper, the text: ‘Knowledge is a responsibility… it is a powerful thing’

A GIF that says: ‘Knowledge = power’. A line appears over the word ‘knowledge’, followed by a line over the word ‘power’.

A GIF. The text ‘Erasure is a deliberate weakening’ slowly fades into the white background

A GIF with an image of an Indian man dressed in a dhoti with a speech bubble. An image of a white man in official uniform holding a sword appears above him, his speech bubble covering the first man’s. The word ‘racism’ appears.

In the same style, a bent over man who looks like a labourer gets covered by a Brahmin priest, followed by the word ‘casteism’.

In the same style, a woman in a sari gets covered by a man dressed in traditional Indian wear, followed by the word ‘patriarchy.

A puzzle of the world map, with text below: ‘This is what we think we know…’. Some pieces of the puzzle, covering the continents of South America, Africa and Asia disappear and the text changes to: ‘This is what we actually know’.

Drawing of a brain that changes into a speech bubble, and then changes into a bent arm and fist. The text below changes accordingly: ‘And when you know…your mind changes…your speech changes…your action changes.’

‘You change’ written on white paper.

‘We can change things by putting our knowledge into systems of information’. Arrows emerge from the text, pointing to a computer, a tablet and a mobile phone.

Three black and white photos of people. One looks at a newspaper, one a computer, and the third a billboard, all of which are coloured yellow, and a glow goes from their eyes to the objects. Cogs turn in their head. Below, the text: ‘That’s where this comes in’

2018

A Facebook event page, with the title- ‘Wikipedia Editathon- Women in Literature’. The Point of View logo in the corner.

The same woman from the second image, with the text: ‘So it made sense to do this in a group, with other like-minded people…’

A count of people ‘Interested’ and ‘Going’. Numbers increase. Text below: ‘And people do come. The numbers are small, but they are growing.’

Two people sit at two computers. The image of the people and the computer are photographs, but their hands and faces are drawn on. Text- ‘It’s not necessary that you should know about these topics…you just need a laptop, a space, and an Internet connection’

‘A good bunch of people helps too’. Two other people in the same style sit facing a laptop. The female sex sign is drawn on the laptop.

‘Within a topic, we create a list of specific entries that need creation or updating. So when people come, everything is ready for them to start.’ Orange hands drawn typing on to a photograph of a keyboard, with text below the image: ‘Wikipedia has a gender problem. There aren’t enough women editors and that results in a lack of information on women’. On the computer screen, the same text about Ajeet Cour. The same image, with the text: ‘Yes, in essence, it’s just research and writing, but…’

The same woman’s face. Her eyeballs move from left to right. Text: ‘It feels like you’re changing the world…you know?’

The woman sits before a laptop, a big smile on her face. Text: ‘You may not realise it then. It’s just…work. But…’

On different documents (titled ‘Wikipedia Editathon’), it says: ‘Slowly, but surely… We’re changing… The landscape of the internet.’

Three people, two of whom are at computers, their conversation shown in white speech bubbles: ‘Who’s doing this one?’ ‘Me! I’m on it.’ ‘And this one?’ ‘Already done!’ ‘Great! Thank you!’

On a Google page, ‘indian women poets’ gets typed out

A Google search results page

A Wikipedia page, with the title: ‘Category: Indian women poets’ and an alphabetical list of names

Three people with laptops. Their hair and clothes cut out of black and white images, their face and arms drawn on and coloured in orange. In a thought bubble emerging from one of them, it says: ‘Hmm…Kamala Saraiyya’

A GIF with the text: ‘It may find its way into someone’s newspaper article…’ with an image of a newspaper ‘…or a school essay’ accompanied by a sheet of paper titled ‘The works of Amrita Pritam’ ‘maybe a bookmark on a phone or saved page’ along with a yellow start and ‘My Role Models- Kamala Saraiyya’

A black and white photo of Sarojini Naidu. A mobile phone appears on her face. The screen is pixelated at first, and then clears up to reveal her face underneath. Text below: ‘Gradually…something is changing.’

Three people talking to each other. Their conversation in speech bubbles: ‘Have you read the powerful poems of Kanhopatra?’ ‘Never heard of him…’ ‘Her. You should. She’s a woman poet from the 15th century. In one poem she says…’

From black and white pixels, photographs of three women appear- Toru Dutt, Sarojini Naidu and Amrita Sher-Gil. They each have a speech bubble that says: ‘My name is Toru’ ‘Hello, mine is Sarojini’ ‘Hi, I’m Amrita’ Text below: ‘And just like that, those women come alive…their legacy living on’

 

 

 

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