GLAM/Newsletter/September 2024/Contents/Argentina report
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GLAM and communities
Finding new topics
Since July, Wikimedia Argentina has been collaborating with Wikimedistas UNLP and WikiAcción Perú in a pilot proposal about archeological heritage and open knowledge. The aim is to start thinking on respectful ways of making arqueological content (mainly photos of objetcs, pieces, places) accesible in the wikimedia projects while at the same time they improve Wikipedia related articles. So far, more than 100 people have participated virtually, mainly people related to archeology, antorpology, archives and indigenous communities. In the third and last session, participants will learn how to upload content and improve structured data so images are more findable and information more accurate.
Supporting "Seraxañí" project
After years of working together, community member Shailili Zamora Aray applied for a rapid grant to develop her own wiki project in Chaco province, Argentina. Her goal was to improve wikidata and wikicommons content related to wichí indigenous people. Angie Cervellera joined onsite activities helping with organization and carrying out several workshops, aimed for students and teachers linked with the wichí talking community. This was a very interesting experience as it helped us understand how to engage with this community, what does it matter to them, what do they learn easily and what is really difficult about wikimedia ecosystem. We will share more results soon!
Building community
From July to now, we've been designing several activities to engage different communities:
- For librarians, we've worked with Editorial y Casa Ampersand to offer a two-day onsite session about editing Wikipedia and adding references using book collections in the library, specially those referred to written culture history.
- For local communities we carried out virtual events to work with digitized content with all the wiki projects (Concordia City, Entrerríos), use wikidata to search for turistic information (Rosario city, Santa Fe) and at the moment, to learn registering and sharing local heritage (Córdoba province) in Wikimedia Commons.
- For museum related professionals we participated from the international CECA LAC (ICOM) meeting in Neuquén city introducing the Código Cultura working experience with one of our community members, Sol Cabezas.
- We continued offering the thematic Desafío GLAM for wikimedians to contribute to Wikipedia, Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons with small but powerful edits.
