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Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Wikimedistas de Uruguay
Location Uruguay
Country codeURY
Approval dateDecember 8, 2020
Official language(s)Uruguayan Spanish
AffiliationsIberocoop
WebsiteWikimedistas de Uruguay
Mailing listWikimedistas de Uruguay
Twitterwikimedistas_uy
FacebookWikimedistasDeUruguay
Instagramwikimedistasuy
YouTubeWikimedistas de Uruguay




Wikimedians of Uruguay (Spanish: Wikimedistas de Uruguay) is a user group that promotes the Wikimedia projects and boosts the Wikimedia movement in Uruguay.

Our mission is to build an open, equitable and diverse knowledge about Uruguay and Latin America in Wikimedia projects. We promote open tools to generate knowledge about the social challenges of our time, such as socioeconomic, racial and gender inequalities, and the environmental and climate crisis.

Our vision is an open knowledge ecosystem and Wikimedia projects that represent the diversity of knowledge and realities of Uruguay and Latin America.

Wikimedia Uruguay consists of a community of volunteers, a volunteer advisory board and a working team that leads the implementation of programs.

Goals

  • Position to the projects Wikimedia like fundamental tools for the education and the learning of skills of the 21st century in Uruguay, through forming, lean and offer resources to the communities and institutions of knowledge.
  • Create robust communities that incorporate multiple diversities, including the geographic, identitarias, of gender and age, that maintain the vitality of the projects Wikimedia and do them more representative.
  • Promote and generate initiatives that position Uruguay and Latin American knowledge on global issues and with social impact within Wikimedia projects.

Workflows

Community Engagement

The goal of the Community Engagement Program is to Generate strategies for communities of volunteers to feel empowered, enabled and supported to actively participate in the Wikimedia movement.

Heritage and education

In this axis, the general aim is to promote and generate opportunities of formation and support for the digital transformation of the institutions of knowledge through the tools that offer the projects Wikimedia.

Knowledge equity

The main aim is to implement initiatives that generate contained with perspectives subalternas and south Global, that answer to the needs of knowledge of the communities of Uruguay and Latin America.

Contact info

Contact us https://wikimedistas.uy/contacto/

Contact with WMF