 Hi everyone. I'm very excited to be here today. My name is Lalith. I'm from Israel and I'm going to talk more about it. So I wanted to begin. You probably most of you knew Droll. So this is in the loving memory of Droll. He was a good friend of mine. He wrote more than 8752 articles. He won the Wikimedia Prize last year and he actually wrote over 2% of the entire Hebrew Wikipedia, which is a lot. So I really miss him. He taught me many things I know about Wikipedia. He gave me a warm welcome and we'll talk more about him. So I believe we all have a story to tell. I'm going to be telling you a little bit of mine. We're going to talk about local community, not just the virtual one. Of course the gender gap and women writing, but first I want to introduce myself. You all know what Bard is. It's a generative AI developed by Google. Lalith Gow is a Wikipedia editor, blogger and marketing professional from Israel. She is currently the manager. Lalith Gow is a Wikipedia editor, blogger and marketing professional from Israel. She is currently the manager of digital marketing and content creation at Clowant Health Services, Israel's largest health maintenance organization. She is also a managing editor at the Wikimedia Foundation, the non-profit organization that operates Wikipedia. In addition to her work in marketing and technology, Lalith is also a passionate advocate for social justice and inclusion. Okay, so you heard her. Yeah, that's me. Wikipedia editor, social media manager, passionate advocate. He said that actually in Hebrew it's female voice. I like it even more. So I started in 2016 writing Wikipedia. I write about many different subjects, women, art and food. So here's the situation in the world. I know it has been changed, but today we're going to be talking about Israel. So that's the situation in Israel. And now I want you to think about what could be the reason for that. I just want to say that my talk is mainly about women editors mostly and not about the article itself. So I want you to think about what could possibly be the reason for that. And here is one idea, size matters. And I'm talking about a country size, of course. And of course, community matters. Has anyone ever been to Israel? Okay, so it's going to be easier for you to answer that. How many people live in Israel? You have three options. Who thinks number one, raise your hand. Who thinks number two, please raise your hand. And number three. Okay, yeah, most of it got it right. 9.7. What is the area size? Who thinks number one? Who thinks number two? And the last one? Yeah, you got it right. That's the last one. 22,000. How long does it take to drive from north to south approximately? Two and a half hours, seven hours or 14 hours. Who thinks number one? Number two? And number three? You got that right too. Yeah, it's seven hours with traffic, I would say. So we all know that we have some historic reason for the gender gap. It used to be before that you needed to know how to write code in order to write articles in Wikipedia. It's not really like that anymore, but the gender gap still exists, right? So, yeah, that's me with my sister. I have four other siblings. I grew up in a keyboard. So do you know what a keyboard is? Anyone know? Yeah, so according to Wikipedia, there is an international community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. According to me, this is something which is really hard to explain from someone from the outside. But the main thing was and actually still is a community. Okay, so for me, it always mattered. I always wanted to feel part of something. Yeah, that's me right here. And this is something else I have in Wikipedia. I always love to write and I actually had my blog. And I kind of have that feeling that I put lots of efforts in my post, in my blog, and no one really read that. And one day someone told me, why don't you join Wikiwoman? I mean, number five website in the world, people will probably read what you write, right? So, yeah, that's what I did. I joined Wikiwoman. And today, it's not only that I write, I also feel that I'm part of something bigger. Again, this word community. I know many editors, some of them are my friends, not just WikiFriends, and we really meet. So, Wikimedia Israel, aware of the importance of us of getting together. So we meet at least twice here. We have Hebrew Wikipedia birthday and Wikipedia birthday. Okay, so you can see January 2020. Yeah, I'm here. July 2021. I'm here. And again, we always have cake. 17K. Yeah, we love the cake. Israel is, yeah, it's all about food. And so why do so many people show up? Because they can. Remember that map? So if we meet in Tel Aviv, it won't take us more than an hour or two to get there for most of us. I don't live in Tel Aviv, so we just chill out. For us, Wikiwoman, we meet actually at least three times here because we have art and feminism. I know we've talked about it before and we do it along together with Artboard. It's been going on since 2017. And we meet every March 8th, around March 8th for Women's Day. More than 20 new articles be written every year. In average, 20 to 30 women are coming to write articles together. And it's a great tradition. So one more thing about community. Do you know that girls go to bathroom together? They have those women at work that they sit at the same office every day long, but they still go to bathroom together, right? Because we, I mean, I myself, I like to know that if I'm going somewhere, I'm going to meet people that I know from before, right? So try to invite friends for a party. If it's a man who just probably say, I'm bringing the beers, right? Maybe he'll ask what's there to eat. And a woman, she will probably ask you who else is going to be there, right? So when I know I'm going to meet people that I know from before, it's easier for me to show up. One more thing about language. Using unbiased language can be helpful. And this was actually draw initiative. He suggested to change it. It used to be before C also for the female use of it. And now it's plural, both men and women. And this is the user. It says user in female. You added the last character and it's for female. Community manager matters in my day job. I'm a social media manager and I combine this in my Wikipedia life as well. Along with Danny, I'm the administrator of Facebook group. We also have a telegram group and a few other what's up because as well as what's up a lot. I also do that. When I need something, I like to use the wisdom of the crowd. I posted up on my social media channels and then I ask people for help. That's a cake that I wrote about here. I needed some examples and they were all in English and not just relevant, not so relevant for Israeli culture. People help me out. As you can see, 68 comments and now it's in Wikipedia. That's one more thing. And yeah, so that's us like months ago. And those are the women that's me and those are the women in Israel. Give them some love.