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Overview
- BBC Indian Sportswomen of the Year is an award program run by BBC annually. The winner will be chosen by a group of journalists, experts and editors. The award started in 2020, and in the first iteration P. V. Sindhu won the award. This year, the winner will be announced in March 2021. You can read more about the award at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-55700784.
- Apart from the award, this year, BBC India is collaborating with the Wikimedia community to create articles of Indian sportswomen in various Indic languages. The edit-a-thon is organized by BBC India on 18 February 2021. Journalism students from across India will creating/expanding Wikipedia articles of 50 sportswomen in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi, Telugu, Punjabi and Gujarati, along with a some in English. These articles will be reviewed by Wikipedians from respective communities before the date of the edit-a-thon. Community reviewers will also be conducting introduction sessions to respective language Wikipedians to students, during the week of 8 February.
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