Commons:UG Wikimedia in Brazil

UG Wikimedia no Brasil (UGWB) is a Brazilian group formed by active members of the Wikimedia movement in Brazil that aims at the strengthening of the Brazilian Wikimedia community and the promotion of and participation in projects that the Wikimedia Foundation hosts. See this category for all materials produced by the UG Wikimedia no Brasil.

Links

— br.wikimedia.org/ (wiki)
— wikimedianobrasil.org (WordPress)
— Wikimedia Community User Group Brasil equipments logbook

UGWB members and partners

Members

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UG Wikimedia in Brazil is formed mostly by long time users with solid contributions to Wikimedia projects, including stewards and projects administrators, university professors participating in the Education Program, free-knowledge activists, and people who have dedicated and devote their time to build a "world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge". That's what we're doing!!!

Partners

The UGWB has its own column within ARede, one of the largest organizations to promote studies on and renewed practices associated to education and technology in Brazil. Official partnership letter.
UGWB systematically supports the wiki initiative promoted by NeuroMat, a research center dedicated to integrating mathematical modeling and theoretical neuroscience. Official partnership letter.
Since 2014, the UGWB has supported the Faculdade Cásper Líbero Wikipedia Education Program, in one of the best school of communications science in Brazil
Since 2016, the UGWB has established a formal partnership with Open Knowledge Brasil, to share resources and promote common projects.
Since 2016, the UGWB has launched a GLAM initiative with the University of São Paulo Museum of Veterinary Anatomy, featured as a case study on Outreach Wikimedia
The UGWB has sustained a GLAM initiative with University of São Paulo Museum of Mathematics, in order to develop what has been called a wiki-museum, uploading images, educational resources and improving associated content.

UGWB activities

Edit-a-thons

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UG Wikimedia no Brasil promotes edit-a-thons and also supports edit-a-thons promoted by other groups or individual wikimedians.

Rafael Moretti during the very first Edit-a-thon das Minas, in 2014. This initiative was later published inside de Galileu magazine.
Edit-a-thon on Brain Science, in May 2015
The second Edit-a-thon das Minas, in 2015
In 2015, we promoted an edit-a-thon inside the Museum of Tomorrow, in Rio de Janeiro city.
Edit-a-thon Woman and Media, in March 2016
Edit-a-thon on Neuroscience and Mathematics, in August 2016
Edit-a-thon on Veterinary Anatomy, in September 2016

GLAM initiatives

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UG Wikimedia no Brasil promotes GLAM initiatives and also supports these initiatives promoted by other groups or individual wikimedians.

Bovine anatomic model, Museum of Veterinary Anatomy (GLAM)
Camel skull, Museum of Veterinary Anatomy (GLAM)
Dehydrated foal, Museum of Veterinary Anatomy (GLAM)
Scarlet ibis, Museum of Veterinary Anatomy (GLAM)
Diaphanized fish, Museum of Veterinary Anatomy (GLAM)
On August 2016 the journal of the largest university in Brazil reported our GLAM initiative.

Education program

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UG Wikimedia no Brasil facilitates workshops and training activities in schools and universities.

In 2014, UGWB promoted educational activities inside Colégio Porto Seguro, one of the most recognized German schools in Brazil
On July 2014, the Fórum magazine published an article about one of our educational activities
Faculdade Cásper Líbero, in 2015
In 2016, the Year of Science spreads to Brazil.
Faculdade Cásper Líbero, in 2016
Regarding to the wiki education activities using its extension in Brazil, the two top ones on students number are conducted by members of the UGWB