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This Month in GLAM – Volume XI, Issue III, March 2021

Brazil report

The Brazilian House is the theme of new GLAM dissemination activities

Wikicontest: The Brazilian House

For the second year in a row, Wiki Movimento Brasil is leading a wikicontest on Portuguese Wikipedia related to the Museu Paulista GLAM initiative. The main theme for 2021 is the Brazilian House in which the participants improve and create articles on subjects associated with the museum's exhibition and research. There are five main topics being covered: The Modern House, Decoration and Female and Masculine Identities, Kitchen objects, Interpreters of the Brazilian House and São Paulo dishware. As the Paulista Museum is an university museum, research and education are in its core activities. Wiki Movimento Brasil received support from museum scholars for curating the Wikipedia entries valid for the contest, totaling more than 800 entries available.

Participants that add images from the Museu Paulista GLAM to illustrate Wikipedia entries will receive a special score at the contest. There are more than 28 thousand images available on Wikimedia Commons. All edits on Wikipedia are being daily evaluated by the organization team.

Only three weeks after the start of the contest on March 15th, 490 already editors subscribed for the activity, creating 122 articles and improving 285 more -- with many more contributions to come until May 15th!

Edit-a-thon: The Modern House

On March, 26th the second edit-a-thon promoted by Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) user group and Museu Paulista in 2021 took place online. The main topic of The modern house edit-a-thon was the houses built between the late 19th century and the early 20th century in Brazil in the context of the rise of bourgeoisie society in the country. Historian Vânia Carneiro de Carvalho, who holds a PhD in Social History and works as curator and researcher at Museu Paulista, delivered a speech about domestic space and material culture.

Part of Museu Paulista GLAM-Wiki initiative, the event contabilized 14 editors, 22 entries edited on Wikipedia and 6 media files uploaded on Wikimedia Common. We invite you to join us on the next edit-a-thons:

April, 23rd: Decoration and female and male identities
May, 28th: Kitchen and its stuff
June, 18th: Interpreters of the Brazilian house
July, 9th: São Paulo dishware

Click here to watch the full event.

New objects collection batch uploaded

Wiki Movimento Brasil uploaded more 1777 images on Wikimedia Commons from the objects collection of the Museu Paulista. They resemble the visuals of daily objects in Modern Houses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in São Paulo, a moment in which the architecture style changed from the colonial productive usage to a bourgeois aesthetic and functioning of the domestic private spaces. You can find below some of the new images uploaded:

An iron
A cookies can
An armchair
A piece of lace
Commemorative crockery for the 4th centenary of São Paulo
Commemorative crockery for the 4th centenary of São Paulo

GLAM Partnerships

Centro de Memória da Unicamp (CMU)

A partnership between Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) user group and Centro de Memória Unicamp (CMU) has been established recently, allowing the development of a new and prosperous GLAM-Wiki initiative. Founded in 1985, CMU gathers a vast collection of audiovisual, iconographic, sound, textual and three-dimensional documents related to Campinas and its metropolitan area from late 18th century until nowadays. The period pieces, in particular, have a great educational value to different fields of study, since they reflect the changes in the region from the sugarcane and the coffee economic cycles to the industrialization period in São Paulo. Besides, CMU also manages a library located at University of Campinas (Unicamp) that keeps rare titles and historical publications, such as antique magazines, newspapers and pamphlets.

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