Grants:Simple/Applications/Wikimedia Chile/2018/Outcomes
Education Programs
Wikimedia Chile continued and deepened its work with educational institutions, especially universities and other higher education institutions, during 2018.
Wikimedia Chile implemented Wikipuentes, a MOOC based on the experience of Wikimedia Argentina that was designed in 2017. After adaptation and trial, WMCL launched the project in April 2018 and a second round was released on September 2018. In total, ten teachers, mainly from secondary schools, joined the project. However, the experience showed that there has to be more support for the participants while doing the course so they can finish it and the project must be linked to tangible impact in their work environment (for example, certifictions). This will be considered by the new Education Manager to be hired in 2019.
The chapter continued the "Wikipedia en la universidad" project. WMCL participated in two university classes during the first semester: "Anthropology of Southeast Asia" (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile) and "Interactive Communication" (Alberto Hurtado University), both in Santiago. We also had some workshops and editathons with the Institute of Communications and Image (ICEI) of the University of Chile and INACAP Maipú. During the second semester, WMCL worked with the Metropolitan University of Technology and the Writers Society to create and improve content related with Chilean literature, and then with the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of the Universidad de Chile, trying to promote the creation of articles about female Chilean architects biographies in Wikipedia. In this last activity we also joined forces with "Mujer Arquitecta" (Women in Architecture), a local initiative that works to highlight female presence and contribution in this field. Wikimedia Chile also organized the first Wikipedia en la Universidad activity in Concepción (second largest city in Chile), working with the Universidad del Desarrollo. Other activities included a presentation in the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso (PUCV) and the conference made by Katherine Maher in the University of Chile's ICEI on August 2018.
In all of these activities we not only achieved the creation of more and better content for the Wikimedia projects, but we managed to establish alliances with more than 120 students and several professors and educational institutions, which we hope will continue to grow during next year.
Finally, we also participated in the diffusion of the Spanish version of the edition contest "1lib1ref", organized by Iberocoop. In this activity we had more than 20 participants and a total of 55 editions.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
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| Wikipuentes | Launch the Wikipuentes platform. | 100% |
Wikimedia Chile released the first version of Wikipuentes in March 2018. |
| Make a diffusion campaign in two periods (April and August) | 100% |
The first campaign was launched in April, while the second was released in August-September. | |
| Have ≥15 teachers registered to participate during the year | 100% |
8 teachers joined the platform for the April-May period, and 10 more for the September-October period. | |
| Wikipedia in the University | Make 6 Wikipedia in the University activities in different institutions. | 100% |
Wikimedia Chile organized activities in the Pontifical University of Chile, the University of Chile, Alberto Hurtado University, INACAP professional institute, Metropolitan Technological University (UTEM) and the Universidad del Desarrollo. |
| At least 3 of these activities will be related to the Wikipedia Education Program. | 100% |
6 courses were part of this initiative: "Anthropology of Southeast Asia" (PUC), "Interactive Communication" (UAH), "Information Analysis I" (UTEM), "Labor and new technologies" (UAH), "Journalism and Technology" (UDD) and "Fundamentals of Architecture" (UCH) | |
| Reach 120 students participating in the activities. | 100% |
156 students participated in our main activities (not including participants for #1lib1ref). | |
| Reach 80 new/vastly improved articles by the end of the term. | 100% |
152 Wikipedia articles were created or improved (more than 200 bytes added), 88 of them were new articles. Also, 15 of them were new Wikidata entries created. | |
| Reach 30 participants in #1lib1ref activity. | 70% |
The first edition of the contest had 21 registered participants, editing a total of 55 articles. |
Outreach - Mass activities
Several editathons were organized to support the promotion of Wikipedia and increase its content during this last year. We organized the southernmost workshop and editathon in the new Aysén Regional Museum in Coyhaique and we signed an agreement to continue collaborating with the museum in the future. This way we are supporting decentralization of the activities of the chapter (going to the less populated and second southernmost region of the country) and increasing local contents and perspectives available on the Wikimedia projects.
We also had the WikiGap editathon hosted in the La Moneda Palace Cultural Center with the support of the Embassy of Sweden in Chile. We created 22 articles in order to improve women presence in the Spanish and Swedish Wikipedia, reduce gender gaps in this platform, and promote cultural and content exchange and collaboration between Chile and Sweden.
On May 3rd, we had a workshop and editathon at the Museum of Memory and Human Rights as a part of the "Wiki Derechos Humanos" project that is coordinated by Wikimedia Argentina. The activity, in which we also collaborated with Amnesty International, did not only had a great outcome on terms of content (21 new and 16 improved articles in Wikipedia); it also was a catalyst for a larger agreement with the Museum that was signed a few months later during Katherine Maher, WMF executive director, visit en August.[1]
Continuing our efforts to decentralize activities, we visited the Coquimbo Region to host the first workshop and editathon in the Gabriela Mistral Regional Library, as a way to promote local perspective and the creation of articles related with the regional history. During this activity we also launched the "Mes de Mistral", a 30 days contest dedicated to the Nobel Prize winner Gabriela Mistral, who was born in this region, which had the objective of highlighting her legacy and its presence in Wikipedia.
Finally, in November, we participated in the second version of "Editafem: Women in visual arts", an editathon organized by the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Ministry of Culture, and the Museum of Contemporary Art. In this activity, WMCL was on charge of training 40 new female editors -mostly with arts and gender studies backgrounds- in the use of Wikipedia, in order to create and improve 40 female Chilean artists' biographies. Editafem was also organized in other two cities at the same time: Concepción and Valdivia; there, we as WMCL had a role in the preparation and training of those editors.
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Editathon at the new Regional Museum in Coyhaique, Aysén Region. -
Wiki Derechos Humanos editathon. -
Signing of the cooperation agreement with the Museum of Memory and Human Rights. -
Editathon in the Gabriela Mistral Regional Museum (La Serena, Coquimbo Region)
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Outreach mass activities | Make 5 outreach mass activities (as workshops or edit-a-thons). | 100% |
6 Outreach activities were hosted: WikiGap, Wiki Derechos Humanos at the Museum of Memory, editathon at the Aysén Regional Museum, editathon at the Coquimbo Regional Library, Editafem in the National Fine Arts Museum (Santiago), Concepción and Valdivia. |
| Reach at least 150 participants in those mass activities. | 74% |
111 participants: 20 in WikiGap, 16 in the Aysén Regional Museum, 17 in Wiki Derechos Humanos, 10 in Coquimbo, 48 in Mujeres Artistas (42 in Santiago, 6 in Concepción). | |
| Reach at least 100 new/vastly improved articles as a product of those activities. | 100% |
126 articles were created or vastly improved in the activities mentioned before. Of those, 90 were new articles. |
Outreach - Wiki Loves Earth
Wikimedia Chile joined the Wiki Loves Earth contest for the very first time. For the contest, Wikimedia Chile had the support of two important public entities in the country: the Tourism National Service (Sernatur) and the National Forest Corporation (Conaf), institutions in charge of the promotion of tourism and the administration of national parks and reserves, respectively. 1,067 images were uploaded for the contest by 168 photographers; most of them (91%) made their first contribution through this activity.
By March 2019, 54 different images have been used in different Wikimedia projects (according to GLAMorous), totalling 65,767 monthly pageviews.
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2nd place: San Rafael Lake, Aysén Region. -
3rd place: La Portada, Antofagasta Region. -
File with largest number of pageviews: Araucaria araucana (10,972 in March 2019).
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wiki Loves Earth | Launch the Wiki Loves Earth contest in the months of May-June. | 100% |
The contest was held between June 15th and July 16th, 2018. |
| Get the support of at least two local tourism or photography institutions. | 100% |
The contest was supported by the Tourism National Service (Sernatur) and the National Forest Corporation (Conaf). | |
| Have 500 valid photographs for the contest. | 100% |
1,067 images were uploaded as part of the WLE contest. | |
| Have 100 different participants. | 100% |
168 photographers uploaded valid images to the contest. | |
| Have 40 new users participating in the contest. | 100% |
153 users, 91% of the total of participants, uploaded their first photo to Commons as part of WLE. |
Outreach - Jornadas de Wikimedia Chile
On the internal side, we had the 1st Jornadas de Wikimedia Chile, a meeting for Chilean wikimedians and other regular participants in our activities. It was an opportunity to present the activities that the chapter has done in the last years and increase the engagement of the Wikimedia local community in our activities. More than 20 Wikimedians joined the event, come of them coming from other cities like Concepción and Coyhaique. We also had the participation of Anna Torres (Wikimedia Argentina ED), Jorge Vargas (WMF representative for Latin America) and Diego Sáez-Trumper (WMF researcher), who explained different aspects and current projects of Wikimedia, as a way to approach our activities to our inner and external community.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
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| 1st Jornadas de Wikimedia Chile | Organize the meeting in the month of April. | 100% |
The meeting was held on April 7th, 2018. |
| Have 25 participants, including partners and assistants. | 100% |
A total of 28 participants joined the Jornadas along the day. | |
| Bring 4 members living outside of Santiago. | 100% |
We had 4 participants from outside the Metropolitan Region: 2 from Concepción, one from Chillán and one from Coyhaique. |
Content creation
Wikimedia Chile organized the second edition of Bridges across Cultures, the editing contest about Latin American, Middle Eastern and Northern Africa culture. The contest was held between December 5th, 2018 and January 20th, 2019. In total, 948 articles were created; even though there was an increase in the number of articles created, the number of participants was reduced compared with the previous edition, especially in the MENA edition. On the other hand, the contest tried to increase the quality of the articles created and improved, announcing a "quality prize" for the best article created. In the Latin American projects, the winner was "Alfombra turca" regarding Turkish carpets.
Wikimedia Chile has supported the incorporation of new content to Wikimedia Commons. During this year, we obtained press cards to assist and photograph all the matches of the Primera División, the most important football league in the country. As such, we uploaded 381 photos from 12 matches played by 15 different teams (missing just one from the total participants).
Also, we had participate in several cultural and entertainment activities, such as Billboard Latin Music Showcase and its gala, that included the participation of various Latin American artists, like Gente de Zona and Juan Magán. We participated in some events related to TV shows like the Copihue de Oro Awards, the Telethon inauguration night and the official announcement of the 2019 Viña del Mar International Song Festival artists.
Of the 354 images uploaded by Wikimedia Chile, 28 have been promoted as "Quality images" in Wikimedia Commons. 335 diferent files are in usage, and in February 2019, they had a total of 1,046,380 pageviews.
| Sub-Project | Goal | Status | Description |
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| Bridges across Cultures | Participation of 5 countries in Latin America and 5 countries in the MENA region. | 100% |
Lists from 12 MENA countries and 11 Latin American countries were available for the contest. |
| Participation of 100 contestants with at least one article valid in the contest, at least 40 from Latin America and 40 from the MENA region. | 65% |
56 users signed and submitted a valid article for the contest: 30 from Latin America (75% from the expected number) and 26 from the MENA region (65% from expected). | |
| Creation of 750 articles, at least 300 in Latin America and 300 in the MENA region. | 91% |
While the number of total articles and those from Latin America exceeded the expected numbers (958 articles in total, 731 from LatAm), the number of articles from the MENA region was lower, reaching 217 articles. | |
| Sports and other events coverage | Obtain press credentials to photograph at least 3 high-interest events. | 100% |
Accredited to all matches of the Chilean Football First Division, the 2018 Billboard Latin Music Showcase, the Copihue de Oro Awards Ceremony and Teletón. |
| At least 350 photographs of high-interest events uploaded to Wikimedia Commons. | 100% |
623 images have been uploaded between March and December 2018. | |
| 30 of these photographs should be highlighted as quality images in Wikimedia Commons. | 100% |
51 images have been highlighted (most of them as "Quality image"). |