Brazil Program/Reports/March Report 2013

Institutional

Institutional Partnerships

A debate on governance with Ação Educativa, WMF and a member of the community took place to trigger a debate on meta. The report on the meeting has been published and is now open for debate. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013/Parcerias/Governan%C3%A7a

Data & Experiments

• Translatation of the Meta Page Research:Data into Portuguese ongoing: Tradução
• Prototype of Data Center pt:Wikipédia:Central_de_pesquisas/Portal_de_dados has been developed and is being debated: the proposal is to have a central page with data and tutorials for anyone to work on data creation and analysis
• IRC Meetings to debate proposals for Analyses and Data Center page: pt:Wikipédia:Projetos/Wikipédia/Reuniões
• Initial proposal for data analyses and experiments has been published on Meta and is being debated - Programa_Catalisador_do_Brasil/Planejamento_2012-2013/Análise_de_Dados_e_Experimentos
• Henrique’s onboarding in SF: Henrique took the Python conference and attended various meetings in SF re-his onboarding

Education

Partnerships with universities

• FGV SP (Getulio Vargas Foundation): Lecture at FGV Law School in São Paulo for about 70 people has taken place, with the participation of WMF team and one volunteer. The university has tried to implement actitivies at Wikipedia but faced difficulties in having the content accepted. They’re restructuring the project with our support now.

  

  Wikipédia na Universidade - FGV SP (direito)

• Gama Filho: video to invite students from the University to engage in the translation course/partnership with Wikimedia Foundation has been produced http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L4wHRGXHI-A

• We’ve catalyzed and provided first translation version for online tutorials. The community has imported the pages and is customizing the material: wpt:Wikipédia:Training

Medicin Wikiproject

• Bot: improvements have been made and it’s ready to be tested on the real environment by the community http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikip%C3%A9dia:Rob%C3%B4s/Pedidos_de_aprova%C3%A7%C3%A3o/wikiprojetosbot

Community and High School

• Follow-up on the bridge reported last month built between community and High School Peretz became object of an article at Folha de S.Paulo -

  

  Wikipédia nas Escolas - Folha Tech

  . The newspaper has also produced an online tutorial: http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/tec/1251093-colegio-em-sp-estimula-alunos-a-editar-e-melhorar-a-wikipedia.shtml