Good news from Argentina. :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Patricio Lorente <patricio.lorente(a)gmail.com> Date: Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:39 PM Subject: [Internal-l] brief update wikipedia10 To: "Local Chapters, board and officers coordination (closed subscription)" <internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Dear friends: This last week we had exciting events in Argentina regarding outreach with the educational system and the celebrations of Wikipedia 10. # On May 17th we signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires province. They want us to help them to develop some skills with teachers and librarians regarding the new digital enviroment. This is probably the largest educational system of Latin America [[citation needed]] and we are very happy to have a voice there. More info (in spanish) in our site: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/30 # Yesterday we celebrated the first 10 years of the spanish Wikipedia with a large conference: http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/28 ## We launched a wikicontest about Iberoamerican women: the idea was to write about remarcable women of Argentina, but the community of Wikipedia asked us to extend the challenge to Iberoamerican women. As you know, the gender gap is not only about editors but also about content; this wikicontest pretends to help to fill this gap. ## Educ.ar, the official site of the Argentinian Ministry of Education, launched their site "Wikipedia in the classroom": http://wikipediaenelaula.edu.ar, with resources for teachers. ## Mariano Blejman, from Página/12 (the third national newspaper) and Ariel Torres from La Nación (the second national newspaper -sorry, but the first one doesn't like us :P) made a great presentation about Wikipedia and journalism. ## To end the journey, we had a conference about Wikipedia and education, with several academics as you can see in http://www.wikimedia.org.ar/node/28. And then, we went for a wine and a barbecue! As you can imagine, we are exhausted but happy. We will update you as soon as we upload the photos and videos. Patricio -- Patricio Lorente Blog: http://www.patriciolorente.com.ar Identi.ca // Twitter: @patriciolorente _______________________________________________ Internal-l mailing list Internal-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/internal-l -- Steven Walling Fellow at Wikimedia Foundation wikimediafoundation.org