WikiWomenCamp/FAQ/Biographies/Béria Lima

Béria Lima

Béria Lima is one of the primary organisers of WikiWomenCamp. Outside of Wikipedia, she is a twenty-six year old Brazilian woman who speaks three languages: Portuguese, Spanish and English. She currently lives in Brazil. Her involvement with Wikimedia is three-fold: She is involved behind the scenes as an active part of the Chapters movement, she is involved on various wikiprojects like Wikipedia, and active in Foundation related issues.

Beria's first involvement with chapters was with Wikimedia Brazil in 2008. When she moved to Portugal, she connected with the local Wikimedia community and became a founding member of Wikimedia Portugal and has been on the board continually since 2009. In her role as a chapter board member, she has taken the lead, organised or been involved with several projects including Wikipedia Academy, 10th Wikipedia birthday , Wiki Loves MonumentsWiki Loves Monuments Portugal, and wrote many chapter reports Wikimedia Portugal Financial, Activities and Annual Reports, Outside her chapter, she has been involved with IberoCoop and helping to set up new Wikimedia chapters. In 2011, she became a member of Wikimedia Argentina. She has provided some assistance to Wikimedia India and its members. At the request of Tanvir, she gave advice on how Bangladeshis could establish a chapter.

Outside of chapters, Beria is involved on various WMF wikis, having started editing on 5 October 2007 on the Portuguese language Wikipedia. Since that time, she has made over 45,000 edits to Portuguese Wikipedia and created over 1,100 articles. She was an admin, bureaucrat and CheckUser on the project. She became active on Commons in 2008, and has over 14,500 edits on the project and has shared over 1,700 pictures, she is also a adm in this project. Beria is also active on Meta, where she has made over 2,200 contributions and is admin. In 2011, she ran to be a steward on Meta. Beyond that, she is a sysop on Strategy, a sysop on Wikimedia Portugual at wikimedia.pt, has flags for account creator and roll backer on English Wikipedia and is flagged as an editor and review on Portuguese Wikisource and Wikinews. She helps behind the scenes as a OTRS agent, a position she has held since December 2008. She has assisted in closing over 800 tickets, making her the most active Portuguese language OTRS agent.

Beria is involved with the Foundation as a volunteer. One of her roles is being a part of GAC, where she helps to review grants submitted by the community. In this role, she generally helps to review around sixty percent of all grants submitted. She has participated in fundraising as a Portuguese translator for banner ads.

The community has been supportive of Beria's work, demonstrating this by giving her barn stars and other forms of recognition. Sadly, not all of Beria's experiences have been positive. As a result of her involvement, she been subjected to death threats, threats of rape, bullying and other harassment from men who represent a wide spectrum of the leadership inside WMF projects.

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