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In addition to contributing to articles on Wikipedia, Roxana immersed herself in behind-the-scenes outreach work. As a program coordinator for the Wikipedia Education Program in Uruguay, she promoted the use of Wikipedia in teaching linguistic and digital competences by contributing to education magazines and running outreach projects for trainee teachers. "We ran a project for secondary school trainee teachers, where participants were asked to improve existing articles in the English Wikipedia and create new ones in the Spanish Wikipedia", she describes. "As a result, many teachers who were reluctant about using Wikipedia have participated in our Wikipedia editing workshops and are now exploring it as a teaching resource."

Organisers of the Wikipedia Education Program in Uruguay. Photo by Fernando da Rosa, freely licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0.

"Writing articles to education magazines has also helped spread the word that Wikipedia can be used in the teaching arena", Roxana says. "As a consequence, the Wikipedia Education Project we ran at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas in Montevideo has received the Sembrando Experiencias award from the National Administration of Public Education of Uruguay," she adds proudly.