2021:Submissions/Documenting social movements through the Wikimedia Projects: Argentina, Chile and Colombia experiences

Documenting social movements through the Wikimedia Projects: Argentina, Chile and Colombia experiences

Session Notes (etherpad)

Speakers

• Patricia Díaz-Rubio, Executive Director at Wikimedia Chile
• Luisina Ferrante, Education and Rights Manager at Wikimedia Argentina
• Juan Carlos Vargas, Culture Manager at Wikimedia Colombia

Abstract

In South America, Wikimedia community is very engaged in documenting local political phenomena, especially in countries facing social mobilizations.

In this presentation, we will highlight three cases -the green handkerchief movement in Argentina, the Constitutional change process in Chile, and the current mobilizations in Colombia-, where Wikimedia chapters have developed collective strategies to promote participation and social contingency content development. Through these three experiences, we will analyze at least two cross-cutting elements: the use of Wikimedia projects as a trusted space to disseminate content that is underrepresented or even censored by other information platforms and media, and user’s appropriation strategies of the Wikimedia ecosystem, as a place for a new type of cyber-activism.

Session Outcomes

We expect that after this session audience and listeners could:

• Have a better understanding of South American's Wikimedia communities and their current contexts.
• Learn about how Wikimedia projects could play a major role in documenting and disseminating underrepresented voices and narratives through the Internet.
• Have a new perspective on Wikimedia projects as a trusted and safe place for social activism within some determined territories.

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