Wikimedia Argentina

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Wikimedia Argentina (legally, the Civil Association of Wikimedia Argentinia) is the independent civil association affiliated to the Wikimedia Foundation that serves as a local chapter in Argentina. Founded in 2007, its aim is to run programs and initiatives that promote citizens' use of and participation in Wikimedia projects.

Wikimedia Argentina promotes education and access to culture, generates training spaces on Internet Human Rights and works to incorporate more diverse voices that represent the reality and perspective of Latin America, especially Argentina, in the construction of free knowledge.

After a year of informal meetings, the inaugural meeting of Wikimedia Argentina took place on 1 September 2007, with 28 founding members. During the creation of the chapter they drew up statute that were approved by the assembly and the first board of directors was elected. On 11 December 2007 it was recognised as an official chapter by the Wikimedia Foundation Board.

Management

Board

President: Nicolás Federico Giorgetti
Vice president: Miriam Lilian Bobadilla
Secretary: Juan Kulichevsky
Pro-secretary: Ivana Luz Molena
Treasurer: Malena Lorente
Pro-Treasurer: Jorge Ezequiel Martins de Abreu
Members: Juan Martin Muguerza
Financial auditors: Anabela Plos, Juan Esteban Zarate and Andrea Patricia Kleiman.

Our team

Executive Director: Gonzalo Bazgan
Culture and Open Knowledge Manager: Luisina Ferrante
Digitization Project Coordinator: Angie Cervellera
Education and Human Rights Manager: Mauricio V. Genta
Education and Human Rights assistant: Florencia Guastavino
Cooperation and Inclusion Manager: Vic Sfriso
Cooperation and Inclusion Assistant: Maju Planas
Press and Communication Manager: Lucía Medina
International Cooperation Manager: Carolina Padró
Administator: Marco Bianchini
Public Policy Manager: Margarita Trovato

Join us

Wikimedia Argentina works to consolidate free access to knowledge and culture. You can support our mission as part of the Wikimedia Argentina community of partners, or choose to make unique, one-time contributions with cash or credit card through Mercado Pago. https://wikimedia.org.ar/sumate/

Projects

Open Culture and Open Knowledge Program

The Open Culture and Open Knowledge Program is a collaborative effort with cultural institutions and organizations to democratize and make visible Argentina's history, culture and science through the digitization and preservation of the local cultural heritage. Through free culture practices, it places special emphasis on the valuation of historically underrepresented heritage, incorporating a plurality of voices in collaborative knowledge building.

Cooperation and inclusion Program

The Cooperation and Inclusion Program seeks to create a collaborative space to make knowledge accessible, working with volunteer communities and civil society organisations. It seeks to identify content gaps and incorporate a diversity of voices and perspectives that ensure the equal inclusion and representation of all identities in Wikimedia projects.

Education and Human Rights Programme

The Education and Human Rights Program designs proposals for the dissemination and collaborative creation of knowledge from a pedagogical and human rights perspective. It aims to promote Wikimedia projects as educational and memory building tools in digital territories.

Activities

Wikimania 2009 was held in Buenos Aires on 26–28 August.
The first Iberoconf was held in Buenos Aires in 2014
I am a Wikimedian, a short documentary of Wikimedia Argentina
The digitalization project at the National Museum of Fine Arts
Editathon: "Grandmothers at the Plaza de Mayo"
Editathon in the Columbus Theatre
Editathon: Wikilesa ex-ESMA in 2016
First day of the editing club in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, 2017.
Editathon: Arts and Memorial Places in 2017
Iberoconf 2017
Editathon in the Hotel de Immigrantes in 2017
Unicef–WMAR workshop in 2018
Scientific editathon in 2018
DHCONF 2019
Wiki LGBT+ Human Rights workshops, given by Agencia Presentes and Wikimedia Argentina in 2019
Editathon on Human Rights with ACNUDH and WMAR in 2019
Editathon: "Adding female cultural leaders" in 2019
Photographic Archives days in Santa Fe in 2022
Workshop with the Municipality of Concordia, in the framework of the "2022 Digitalisation Fund"
Wikimania 2022 in Empalme San Carlos, Santa Fe
Open cartographies: Qom, Wichi, Moqoit
First Wikimedia Congress of Education and Digital Cultures (WECUDI) in 2023
GLAMWiki2023 Montevideo, Uruguay