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Open Access Week celebrations and an edit-a-thon to increase the visibility of black lusophone communities
Wikimedia Portugal joins Open Access Week with webinars on copyright and Creative Commons
To commemorate International Open Access Week, Wikimedia Portugal organized a couple of webinars in collaboration with two different universities, NOVA FCSH and University of Algarve. Focusing specifically on the copyright exceptions for teaching and research, the sessions highlighted the latest updates to the Portuguese copyright law (due to the most recent European Union copyright directive), framing Creative Commons licences as the default options for retaining rights while ensuring the best practises for open access. The webinars had a combined attendance of nearly 50 people, mostly researchers and librarians, as well as science managers and other support staff working with scientific publishing.
The slides are available on Commons (in Portuguese).
Wiki Editoras Lx partner with BANTUMEN for an edit-a-thon dedicated to black lusophone women, trans and non-binary people
On October 28th, local user group Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx) organized an edit-a-thon dedicated to black lusophone women, trans and non-binary people. The meeting was curated by Vanessa Sanches, from BANTUMEN, a local news outlet focusing on the black lusophone community. The group welcomed various new editors, who travelled long distances to reach Lisbon on that (very!) rainy day.
This was the second time that WELx partnered with BANTUMEN. Expanding on the work started in 2022, the group used BANTUMEN's annual Power List 100, a list of influential black people in lusophone countries, to create new biographies on Wikipedia in Portuguese. Furthermore, a proposal for a new external identifier of the list was submitted on Wikidata, widening its potential to increase the visibility of these marginalized groups. If you can, make sure to support the creation of this new property.
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