Wikimedia Residencies at UTDT. A WIR experience from an educational program
Speakers
Florencia is responsible for the Wikimedia Argentina Education Program, designing and coordinating the activities carried out by the Program throughout the country. Previously, she worked as an Assistant in the same Program, so since 2018 she has been involved with the Wikimedia Movement, carrying out activities that combine education and Wikimedia projects. She trained as a Professor of Anthropological Sciences (FFyL-UBA) and took several postgraduate courses focused on the creation of teaching materials, online course design, and Artificial Intelligence from humanistic perspectives.
Luisina studied History at the University of Buenos Aires. She completed her Master's Degree in Human Rights and Social Policies at the National University of General San Martín. Her thesis topic was the education of young people and adults in public and popular schools located in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. In 2022, she defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Barcelona. Her thesis topic was the use of Wikimedia projects as tools for teacher digital literacy in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Today, she is the head of the Communication Technologies department at the University of San Andrés, Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been working at Wikimedia Argentina for 10 years and is currently the Program Director.
Abstract
The WIR model is widely used in the Movement, especially within GLAM programs or institutions. Taking this trajectory as a reference, the WMAR Education Program planned a pilot project to implement a WIR program with a focus on education. In partnership with Torcuato Di Tella University, we organized the “Wikimedia Residencies.” In this program, we selected four young people who are about to graduate with degrees in Social Sciences and History to train them in free culture and Wikimedia Projects, and to design and implement projects within the University focused on research and the dissemination of knowledge.
In this lightning talk, we will recount the development of the pilot program in the first semester of the year. We will focus on how the call for applications was conceived, the selection process, the initial training, and the projects designed by each WIR. In addition, we will share the lessons learned so far, as well as the aspects to be developed in the second semester.
Additional information
In this lightning talk, we will present a WIR experience carried out through an educational program in partnership with a university. The aim of the experience is not only to train residents, but also to have an impact on the institution as a whole, seeking to make open knowledge a topic of debate at the university and to encourage the adoption of Wikimedia projects in different ways. With this project, we are trying to work towards making knowledge in universities increasingly free and open, as well as making our projects increasingly reliable, by incorporating partnerships with the university system, which is a great foundation for the reliability of information. Thus, we believe that this presentation can be related to the themes of the event, “freedom” and “reliability.”
We are interested in sharing this pilot with other members of the Movement, especially to get feedback on this experience from others who have already developed it or who want to implement it in their territories. We believe that the talk may be relevant for people interested in educational aspects as well as for those interested in GLAM aspects. We designed the lightning talk as a starting point to spark conversation. Given the limited time available for the lightning talk, our idea is to briefly describe the central aspects of this experience in order to generate curiosity about the details and for that curiosity to lead to possible conversations both with our representatives at Wikimania and via email or virtual communications with those who will not be traveling there.
Everyone can participate in this session