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Discussing educational resources at WikiCon Brasil 2025

Author: TCarvalho (WMB) and AHilsenbeck (WMB)

Summary: To promote educational activities in the Wiki ecosystem, WikiCon Brasil 2025 held multiple activities to discuss education and scientific dissemination. Check below how they went, as well as other projects organized by WMB in July.

Alexander Hilsenbeck presenting the study about editors in the Portuguese Wikipedia at WikiCon Brasil 2025.

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WikiCon Brasil 2025

WikiCon Brasil 2025 was held from July 19th to 20th in Salvador, Bahia. The program included discussions and presentations on education.

On the first day, a panel about education on Wiki was held with Hector Corrale, Rafael Ghidini, Túllio Franca, Juan Mattheus, Gil Costa, Cândido Domingues, and Joana Medrado. They discussed the use of Wikimedia projects as a pedagogical and outreach strategy, based on initiatives developed at institutions such as USP, UFRJ, UFSC, UFRN, UNEB, UNIRIO, among others.

There was also a panel about scientific dissemination on Wiki. Simone Vieira da Silva, Marcus Vinícius Pereira da Silva, Tiago Lubiana, and Paulo Perneta spoke about initiatives aimed at scientific dissemination and the strengthening of open knowledge on Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects, offering reflections on promoting reliable access to scientific knowledge and strategies to expand Wikimedia's impact on cultural and scientific dissemination.

Finally, Alexander Hilsenbeck, education manager at Wikimedia Brazil, gave a presentation showing a preliminary overview of the 2025 survey on the social profile of Portuguese-speaking Wikimedians.

Wikidata Training for Libraries and Research Centers

To showcase the possibilities of Wikidata for libraries and research centers, Wikimedia Brazil organized a training session on July 15th.

Adriano Arrigo, Wikimedian in Residence at RIDC NeuroMat, presented to 14 researchers and librarians from institutions such as USP, UNIFESP, and Fiocruz how to integrate research collections and journals to Wikidata to promote open data visualization, using NeuroMat as a case study.

Center for Metropolitan Studies

CEM members discussing their work on Wikipedia.

Since February, Wikimedia Brasil (WMB) has partnered with the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CEM) to improve political and social science content on the Portuguese Wikipedia.

In July, a meeting was held between members of CEM and WMB to discuss the project's progress, presenting the results achieved so far, obstacles encountered, and possible paths for continuing the partnership.

Edit-a-thon NEMkipédia

This month, the second part of the NEMkipédia Edit-a-thon took place. In this online activity, promoted by the NEM with Science project at Sesi Barra Mansa, in partnership with WMB, editors were able to choose which Wikipedia articles to improve. The goal of the edit-a-thon was to promote digital literacy and encourage students to take a more active role in the digital environment through Wiki.