Wikimedians of Ecuador

Wikimedistas de Ecuador
Wikimedistas de Ecuador
Location	Ecuador
Affiliate code	WMEC
Country code	EC
Approval date	September 18, 2015; November 2, 2023
Main office	Guayaquil
Official language(s)	español
Other language(s)	English
Key people	Sageo, Freddy eduardo, Ceibos
Reports	Reports
E-mail address	wikimedistas.ecuador@gmail.com
Mailing list	wikimedia-ec
Twitter	wikimedistasec
Facebook	Wikimedians.Ec
Instagram	wikimedistasec

This page is a translated version of the page Wikimedistas de Ecuador and the translation is 100% complete.

Ecuador Wikimedians is a user group [recognized] as affiliate member inside the Wikimedia Foundation. It was recognized by a resolution from the Affiliations Committee on September 18, 2015. Ecuador Wikimedians is a group of people editing and participating in Wikimedia projects. Their main purpose is to perform outreach activities, promote, foster, and improve the Wikipedia usage and its multiple sister projects within the Ecuadorean territory.

Ecuador Wikimedians group has been actively leading outreach activities fostering Wikipedia edition. Those activities continued until 2020, as Ecuador turned into an infection cluster from the COVID-19 pandemic and on-site activities had to be stopped. The sudden change in everyday activities for the involved volunteers lead to the abandonment of the meeting notes listed inside the user group. Hence, the affiliation lost its official status. Nevertheless, a rise in Good Articles and Featured articles were achieved within such period.

After a waiting period and fulfilling the prerequisites, the 2nd of November of 2023 the affiliation was officially recognised.

Group objectives

Iberocoop

This Wikimedia movement affiliate is a member of Iberocoop.

Disseminate the projects of the Wikimedia Foundation within Ecuador.
Develop educational programs for schools and universities in Ecuador that involve Wikipedia and its sister projects as the main protagonists of change in digital education.
Organize, disseminate and promote activities such as editathons, wiki meetings and workshops to involve the Ecuadorian community in the use of Wikimedia projects.
Collaborate with other communities and organizations in the development of education based on free knowledge.

Activities

The activities that we normally make are:

Editathons.
Talks, workshops and confererences.
Promotion of Wikimedia projects.
Organise edit and photography contests.
Organise and plan cooperation initiatives with educational and cultural institutions.

Meetings

2023: March 18.

Reports

Our last annual report (2024) can be found here (content in Spanish language).

List of projects

WikiCafé. Meeting space for wikimedians across different cities of the country.
Clubes Wikipedia. Groupmaking of Wikipedia editors in universities, shools and community development centres..
Wiki Loves Cemeteries. Preserve our graveyards further beyond memory.
OfflinePedia. Social action program of scientific divulgation whose purpose is to donate low-cost computers made of recycled materials (such as old TVs) with totally downloaded branches of a Wikimedia project for residents in rural areas to access offline.