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This Month in GLAM – Volume XIII, Issue III, March 2023

Brazil report

Wiki Loves Pará, Women's month and a huge upload for biologists

Wiki Loves Pará is an initiative organized by Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB), with support from the Wikimedia Foundation. It aims to highlight Pará's cultural, historical, and natural heritage on Wikimedia projects, including Wikipedia in Portuguese. In 2023, Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) will mobilize volunteer editors, institutional partners and Pará communities to improve coverage of Pará on the free internet!

Although the state of Pará is two times larger than France in terms of territorial extension and is all covered by the Amazon Forest and all its richness, it is still a desert of information on Wikimedia projects. This means that there is not enough content about Pará in Wikipedia in Portuguese, the sixth most accessed site in Brazil. The little emphasis on social and environmental issues of Pará in the Wikimedia projects affects the relevance of the state in the free knowledge ecosystem:

66% of the 144 municipalities in Pará have less than ten photos in Wikimedia Commons.
4 cities (Afuá, Belém, Marabá, and Terra Alta) represent 77% of the images of the state on Wikimedia Commons.
There are 39 federal areas of environmental preservation in Pará. 23 (58%) of them have no images on Wikimedia Commons and 18 (46%) have no articles on Wikipedia.
Only 38 Wikipedia entries are dedicated to ethnic groups and peoples of Pará, and 81% of them have less than 10 thousand characters.
247 GLAM institutions from Pará have items on Wikidata. None of them have digitized collections available on Wikimedia platforms.

All along 2023, WMB will carry out a series of activities to include the environmental, cultural and social diversity of Pará in the Wikimedia projects, which go far beyond Wikipedia.

NEW GLAM PARTNERSHIP

This is the first GLAM-Wiki partnership between Wiki Movimento Brasil (WMB) and an institution that is part of Instituto Brasileiro de Museus (IBRAM).

Museu da Abolição (MAB) is a federal public museum whose mission includes to preserve and disseminate the memory and the cultural heritage of African descendants. It also aim to stimulate reflection and critical thinking about the enslavery abolition in Brazil and other transversal themes related to human rights, such as: access to work, public inclusion policies, religious intolerance, racism, prejudice, exclusion, gender etc.
See the GLAM-Wiki partnership's page here.

This partnership is an action related to two axes of WMB's strategic planning to be implemented between 2023 and 2025:

	Foster and diversify partnerships for open knowledge in Brazil Expand the list of collaborations within cultural and educational institutions, activist groupss, government entities and open knowledge organizations, spread throughout the different regions of Brazil.
	Promote knowledge equity Articulate individuals and groups to act on knowledge gaps or on the systemic bias in the content of Wikimedia projects.

BBC 100 WOMEN EDIT-A-THON

Since January, our community is working on enlarging and improving information about women on the Wikipedia in Portuguese, focusing on the BBC 100 Women list. Now you can see the results on the gender bias on Wikipedia:

377 Articles created
413 Articles edited
1.07K Total editions
18 Editors
3.77M Bytes added
28.5K Articles' views

This huge work includes turning the 2022 and 2020 lists all blue!

And we want to thank the groups that supported this amazing action: WikiMulheres+, Wiki Editoras Lx e Art+Feminism.

EVERY BOOK ITS PUBLIC CAMPAIGN

And one new campaign begins!!!

Every Book Its Reader (#EveryBookItsReader) is a campaign to increase quality content about books, literary works, and oral stories in Wikipedia, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, Wikibooks, and Wikisource.

From April 1st to April 30th 2023, Every Book Its Reader encourages participants to contribute with content under the hashtag #EveryBookItsReader.

The campaign name is the third law in Ranganathan’s five laws of library science.

This is an international event organized by ten librarians from seven countries:

Botswana, in Southern Africa - organized by the University of Botswana
Brazil, in South America - organized by the University of São Paulo
Canada, in North America - organized by the Québécois and Canadian Francophonie
México, in North America - organized by Alequihdez and the University of Guadalajara
Romania, in Europe - organized by delia2 and Elena Ancu Damian
Spain, in Europe - organized by the University of Barcelona
United States, in North America - organized by the Oregon State University

In Brazil, the campaign is organized by Lilian Viana (Library of ECA/USP) and Stela Madruga (Library of IME/USP), and the five greater contributors will win a small gift.

You can learn more about the entire campaign or see the Brazilian page of the event.

APESP'S BIRTHDAY

On March 10, the Public Archives of the State of São Paulo (APESP) celebrated 131 years of its officialization. As part of this celebration, between mid-February and early March, some APESP collections were added to Wikimedia Commons as part of the actions related to the GLAM-Wiki partnership between APESP and Wiki Movimento Brasil.

The uploaded batch was composed by more than 400 documents and photos of great importance to the history of the State, including parts of these collections:

MUSICA BRASILIS FOR WOMEN'S MONTH: FORGOTTEN COMPOSERS

Ernestina Índia do Brazil
composer and pianist of whom very little is known. She was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro in the late 19th century, and throughout her life adopted the surname Guimarães. She was a contemporary of another great national composer and musician: Chiquinha Gonzaga. Ernestina composed waltzes, polkas, and quadrilles.
See her category on Commons here.

Amanda Tenreiro Aranha
was born in the state of Amazonas and died in the state of Pará, and used an alias to publish his compositions: E. Feuillet. She studied piano, singing and harp at the Carlos Gomes Institute in Belém, and had as masters Meneleu Campos, Virginia Sinay Bloch and Esmeralda Cervantes.
See her category on Commons here.

Cecília Ierecê de Lemos
was born in the state of Pará and was daughter of the Brazilian politician Antonio Lemos. From childhood, she was educated in the Fine Arts, having studied Piano and Violin and composed a collection of songs. Cecilia was even instructed by the Brazilian master Carlos Gomes, with whom she had lessons about harmony.
See her category on Commons here.

Júlia Cesaria Ribeiro Cordeiro
was born in the state of Pará and composed religious songs. Unfortunately, we could not find any further information about the composer.
See her category on Commons here.

INSTITUTO DE ESTUDOS BRASILEIROS FOR WOMEN'S MONTH: GREAT WOMEN

Dona Veridiana Prado
born in 1825, she was the matriarch of one of the famous São Paulo families and one of the great patrons of the modernist movement. It is said that she was the one who introduced the habit of the evenings in her mansion in Higienópolis, gathering artists and intellectuals. She was a great owner of land that was allotted during the industrialization process of the city of São Paulo (in the 20th century) and today comprises some entire São Paulo neighborhoods. Veridiana died in 1910.
See her category on Commons here.

Júlia Lopes de Almeida
was born in 1862, in the city of Rio de Janeiro. She was the daughter of doctor Valentim José da Silveira Lopes, later Viscount of Saint Valentine, and Adelina Pereira Lopes, both Portuguese who emigrated to Brazil. She was a writer, chronicler, theatrologist, and abolitionist, and was one of the founders of the Brazilian Academy of Letters. And all this at a time when literature was not seen as an activity suitable for women. Julia died in 1934, in her hometown, from complications of yellow fever.
See her category on Commons here.

Käethe Köllwitz
German artist born in 1867 whose work in printmaking reflects her view of human conditions in Germany in the first half of the 20th century (the period around World War I). She depicts the working class, famine, war, and poverty in her works. Before she died in 1945, she still produced several pacifist posters.
See her category on Commons here.

A HUGE UPLOAD FOR BIOLOGISTS

Especially for people who love plants and for Biologists!

The Instituto Nacional da Mata Atlântica (INMA) made available its collection from the system Reflora and we uploaded 10,000 images that are part of the Museu de Biologia Mello Leitão (MBML) Herbarium collection.

INMA is our partner since last year, when we held the Wiki Loves Espírito Santo. And now we are harvesting the fruits (leaves, flowers, roots and all other plant parts) of this partnership.

See the INMA's GLAM page and the uploaded media.

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