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Edit-a-thon at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo
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Editatona Santa Casa de Misericórdia
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On November 17th, Wiki Movimento Brasil held an editing marathon entitled "Open Science: Wikipedia in the construction and dissemination of scientific knowledge". The event was part of a discipline called Thematic Seminars of the Post Graduation Course in Human Communication Health at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of Santa Casa de São Paulo (FCMSCSP - Brazil). The event was promoted by FCMSCSP in partnership with Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB), with support from the Bauru School of Dentistry at USP (FOB-USP - Brazil) and the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC - Brazil).
The event aimed at training the students to create and publish articles on Wikipedia. After a morning of lectures with remote guests, the students participated in a workshop on Editing Wikipedia and understanding the Wikimedia universe. During the afternoon, the group participated in an edit-a-thon on content related to the course theme.
The event began with the speech "Open Science: a two-way road", by Prof. Dr. Alexandre Hannud Abdo (LISIS). Then Prof. Dr. Thais Morata (CDC USA) spoke about "Promoting the implementation of our services and knowledge: how we ended up on Wikipedia". Prof. Dr. Fernanda Zucki (UFSC) was the third presenter and spoke about "Wikipedia, teaching, and outreach in Speech Therapy: contextualization of a partnership", followed by Prof. Dr. Lilian Jacob (FOB-USP) with the speech "Wikimedia at the University: teaching, research and extension actions".
The event was a success and everyone left super motivated to share their knowledge freely on Wikipedia.
WikiConecta launch live
On October 27th, Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) held a live launch of WikiConecta, a free course aimed at educators who want to know how to use Wikimedia projects in university outreach courses. The presentation was done by Amanda Chevtchouk Jurno, WMB's manager of Education and Scientific Dissemination. She explained how the course works and answered questions from participants of the live.
During the event, participants got to know how Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects can contribute to university outreach; what tools and resources are available to educators; and learn how to create and manage outreach courses with Wikimedia projects.
WikiConecta is an online, asynchronous and free course developed at Wikiversity that can be taken in the order and speed that best suits the participant. With it, educators can see how Wikimedia projects are an incredible space to develop outreach courses and create free knowledge to circulate widely, impacting society in a positive and meaningful way.
Capacity building at the Federal University of Paraíba
On October 10th and 24th, 2023, two training sessions were held for professors and students of the Federal University of Paraíba (UFPB - Brazil) as part of an outreach activity. The two workshops were promoted by the InovEH Research Group and the History Innovation Laboratory – UpgradEH, both linked to the UFPB History Department, in partnership with Wiki Movimento Brasil.
The first training, "Introduction to the Wikimedia Universe", aimed to give participants an overview of the Wikimedia Universe's dimensions and all the possibilities involving education. At "Oficina UFPB - Introduction to editing on Wikipedia", the second activity part of the action, aimed to train participants to create and publish articles on Wikipedia.
Wiki Movimento Brasil's partnerships with Brazilian universities involve carrying out training on Wikimedia projects with students and teachers. At meetings, the team presents basic editing tutorials on Wikimedia projects so that students can develop the activities proposed by educators with confidence and guidance.
Photo tour of Lapa neighborhood - Rio de Janeiro
On November 16, members of the WikiDesign outreach project of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) promoted the activity Wiki Encontro Lapa-RJ. In partnership with Professor Barbara Necyk and with Wiki Movimento Brasil's support, they took a photo tour through Lapa, a historic neighborhood in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
The event was held as part of the “Image Theory and Technique” course, taught by Professor Barbara Necyk, and gathered 24 participants, most of whom were students on the design course at the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). The in-person activity sought to develop the participants' perspective on the architecture found in the neighborhood where the Escola Superior de Design Industrial (Esdi/UERJ) is located. After the tour, the WMB team carried out a capacitation workshop in the Esdi/UERJ computer room and trained students on how to upload images taken during their photo tour to Wikimedia Commons.
You can find the results of the activity carried out by the students through the program page on the dashboard and in the Wiki Encontro Lapa-RJ category on Wikimedia Commons.
Participants concluded the activity excited about the prospect of learning more about the Commons categories, enabling the dissemination of their photographs within the free knowledge ecosystem.
Wikimedia & Education Workshop
The XXIX Wikimedia & Educação Workshop had the participation of professor Cesar Bublitz, professor of Mathematics at the Federal Institute of Education, Science, and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS - Brazil) who presented the speech “Mathematics on Wikipedia: a project developed at IFRS”.
On the occasion, the educator spoke about the project that aims to evaluate and improve the quality of some Wikipedia pages about mathematics content in primary and higher education. Next, the participants heard the speech “GLAM-Edu-Wiki Partnerships: collections and extension on Wikipedia”, by Sandra Soster, GLAMs and Culture Manager at Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) who explained the process for creating partnerships with institutions of culture and how these partnerships can be useful for educators.