Talk:Wikimedia Brasil

About

Overview

Wikimedia Brasil
Location	Brasil
Country code	BR
Main office	Sâo Paulo
Official language(s)	Português
Incorporation paper	Bylaws
Affiliations	Wikimedia Foundation
Website	br.wikimedia.org
E-mail address	wikimediabrasil@wikimedia.org
Twitter	@WikimediaBrasil

Wikimedia Brasil is a group of volunteers from Wikimedia movement engaged in promoting activities with the aim of developing and disseminating free content in Brazil.

People

We are 18 identified people (and 39 generally interested) in different projects and with different levels of activity. Most of us are more active in pt.wikipedia. There are also contributors from pt.wikiversity, pt.wikiquote, en.wikipedia, eo.wikipedia, other projects in Esperanto, and Wikimedia Commons. Ten of us already attended regional meetings, and 8 of us already attended Wikimania or other international meetings (e.g. Iberocoop Conference). Eight of us are living in São Paulo or in its nearby cities.

Time path

In early 2008, the Brazilian community started a process for establishing a local organization to promote the WMF projects within the country. In September of that year, we submitted to the ChapCom a proposal for creating the chapter Wikimedia Brasil, which was approved. Nevertheless, in the same year, the volunteers have chosen not to establish a formal chapter in that time. The reasons were pointed out in the Chapter Report 2008, but this discussion was never concluded.

In 2011, the whole Brazilian community has finally reached an agreement, in order to create a minimum legal structure to support and expand our activities across the country. Those activities will keep being freely created and driven by volunteers, but with legal, institutional and financial support by WMBR Board. With such model in mind, we have re-written our bylaws, which is now completely reviewed by lawyers. The next step will be submitting it to the ChapCom and asking for the new recognition as a chapter. All our steps are being widely announced, either in our mailing-list as in social networks and also discussed in our wiki and in many IRC-meetings.

Activities

We have made several activities over this time, including community meet-ups, meetings with chapters/WMF staff and with partners, presentations, photo scavenger hunts and editing contests.

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  São Paulo (2006)
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  São Paulo (2007)
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  São Paulo (2008)
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  São Paulo (2009)
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  São Paulo (2010)
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  São Paulo (2011)
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  Brasília (2011)
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  Wikimania Haifa (2011)
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  Iberoconf Buenos Aires (2011)
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  Campus Party São Paulo (2012)
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  Rio de Janeiro (2012)
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  Curitiba (2012)
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  Iberoconf Santiago (2012)
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  Salvador (2012)
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  Wikimania DC (2012)
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  São Paulo (2012)

Planned activities

With the formalization, we expect to have the possibility to manage funds and therefore expand the actual projects, as well as to organize other kind of activities, e.g. GLAM partnerships, our own outreach events and an annual national community meet-up.

Future members

By looking to the other chapters, it would be reasonable to reach 100 volunteers at the end of the first year.

Lawyer review

The Portuguese text of our bylaws was reviewed by a lawyer from Instituto Pro Bono (http://www.probono.org.br/), a non-profit association that is kindly providing law assessment to our group.

To-do tasks

#	Step	Status
1	Gathering the people	Done
2	Goals and Structure	Done
3	Pilot program	Done
4	Fundamental documents	Done
5	Apply to be approved	Done
6	Register with the authorities	Not done
7	Get some money	Doing...
8	Go!	Doing...

See also

Grants Start-up Grant request (2012) Others Brazil Program Brazil Catalyst Project/August 2011 Update Proposed letter of agreement between Wikimedia Foundation and Brazilian volunteers Programa Catalisador do Brasil Discussion with AffCom about founding the Brazilian chapter

Ideas for chapters in Brazil Wikimedia Brasil (Capítulo) Wikimedia São Paulo Previous proposal Chapters Committee Approval (2008) Chapters Committee Recission (2009) Chapters Committee Advice (2010)

Wikimedia LGBT

		Wikimedia LGBT+
		Wikimedia LGBT+ is a proposed thematic organization that seeks to promote the development of content on Wikimedia projects which is of interest to LGBT+ communities. Proposed activities include outreach at LGBT events, Wikimania and other Wikimedia events, an international campaign called Wiki Loves Pride, and work on safe space policies, among other collaborations and interwiki projects. Active Wikimedians are welcome to join this cause! Please consider adding your name as a participant/supporter. Current tasks include translating pages, building a strong framework here at Meta, and achieving user group status (with the eventual goal of becoming a thematic organization). Your feedback is welcome on the discussion page.

--Another Believer (talk) 17:43, 1 November 2013 (UTC)