Wiki Editoras Lx
Wiki Editoras Lx (WELx) is a feminist user group of wikimedians in Portuguese that meet twice a month since may 2019 - in person at PENHAS CO, in Lisbon, and online since march 2020 - to edit (create, improve and extend articles/ pages) about cis and trans women, non-binary people and other matters of interest.
Committed to action based on anti-colonial, decolonial, anti-racist, anti-capacitist and anti-discrimination values and principles, we create and improve pages, and insert images and data to promote knowledge equity.
At the same time, we contribute to more people underrepresented in the Wikimedia Movement being able to edit and increase their representation on this digital platform, reducing bias and promoting a more plural community.
Reunimo-nos quinzenalmente desde maio de 2019 — presencialmente na PENHAS CO, em Lisboa, e online desde Março de 2020 — para editar (criar, melhorar e ampliar verbetes/páginas) sobre mulheres cis e trans, pessoas não binárias, e questões de seu interesse.
The group prioritises editing content linked to Portuguese-speaking communities, in particular black, migrant, indigenous, rural, Roma/traveller and LGBTQI+, among others. Another priority of this group is to increase the number of editors within Wikipedia, and for that purpose, it opens its meetings twice a month to those who have never edited and would like to learn.
History
The Wiki Editoras Lx group emerged from the Editatona Visibility of Margins, which took place at the 2nd Lisbon Feminist Festival, in May 2019, and had 10 participants who received training on how to edit on Wikipedia, led by Patricia Horrillo, coordinator of the user group Wikiesfera, then based at Medialab-Prado, Madrid. Since then the Wiki Editoras Lx group meets regularly, twice a month, on Mondays.
In December 2019, the group was invited to organize an editatona in 2020 by Art+Feminism. It was held on March 8, International Women's Day, and it was supported by the Wikimedia Foundation:
The event brought together 24 women and people of non-conforming gender; during the event 26 biographies were created and over 110 editions were made in the Portuguese-language Wikipedia:
Participants, articles created and improved, and other results can be checked at the event's event dashboard.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, meetings that had taken place in Lisbon, at PENHA SCO (co-operative for artistic production and dissemination) became available online. As was the case when they happened in person, these took place once a month.
In early 2023, WELx secured their first annual funding with the Wikimedia Foundation and since then, in addition to two monthly editing meetings (one online and one face-to-face), they have organized a series of activities such as competitions, training and editing.
Ongoing activities
Próximos eventos 2024
- WWW: WELx Wiki Walk - MAAD Tour Feminista do Porto
Caminhada Fotográfica
Data: 29 de junho, das 10h às 13h
Ponto de encontro: Largo Amor de Perdição, Porto (em frente à estátua)
Inscrições: editoraswikipedialx @ gmail.com
- WWW: WELx Wiki Walk - Presença Africana em Lisboa com Batoto Yetu
Caminhada Fotográfica
Data: 6 de julho, das 14h30 às 19h
Ponto de encontro: Estação de metro do Parque, Lisboa
Inscrições: editoraswikipedialx @ gmail.com
- Campanha #WikiforHumanRights 2024
Encontros online de edição
Datas: 8 e 25 de julho, das 19h às 21h
Inscrições: editoraswikipedialx @ gmail.com
- Editatona Visibilidade Negra, 3ª edição
Maratona de edição
Data: 20 de julho, das 11h às 16h
Local: PENHA SCO, Rua Neves Ferreira, 10B, Lisboa
Inscrições: editoraswikipedialx @ gmail.com
- Editatona Coleção Ana de Castro Osório
Maratona de edição
Data: 21 de setembro, das 15h às 19h
Local: Biblioteca de Belém, Lisboa
Inscrições: informações em breve
Fortnightly meetups
In these meetings, which have an average of 10 participants per session, articles (biographies) on women and non-binary people are created collaboratively. Currently they take place twice a month, alternating between face-to-face and online. They're open to anyone who has never edited on Wikipedia and wants to learn. The meetings are based on learning by doing, knowledge sharing and mutual help among participants, so new people are trained on how to create a Wikipedia article by the more experienced users. Sign up: editoraswikipedialxgmailcom.
Recent activities
Editatona Ativismo PcD em Portugal
Mesa Redonda Gravação no Canal Wiki Editoras Lx Página do Evento no Meta
Editatona Visibilidade Negra, 2a Edição
Editatona Transnarrativas Negras
Open Call: Illustra-thon Visible Women in Wiki
When?
- Between 02 and 29 May 2023: campaign period and online acceptance of illustrations.
- May 02, 2023 at 18:00 UTC ([your local time]): online opening of the illustration contest that is part of the #VisibleWikiWomen2023 campaign.
Program:
Presentation of the Visible Wiki Women campaign and What Is an Illustra-thon, with Mariana Fossatti
How to Illustrate Portraits, with Barbara Fonseca
How to insert images in Commons with Rute Correia
- May 30, 2023: online editing marathon at 6pm UTC (check your local time) to illustrate Wikipedia articles with images received during the Ilustra-thon.
How to participate? (soon)
In-person platform editing meeting Wikimedia Commons
When?
- 15 May 2023 at 19h at PENHA SCO in Lisbon, Portugal
How to enter? (soon)
Online training workshops set within Editathon Territory body-ground in partnership with WikiMulheres+
- Introduction to the creation of articles in Wikipedia in Portuguese.
- Insertion of elements from Wikimedia Commons and Wikidata into Portuguese Wikipedia.
- Gender and de-colonial perspectives on writing in Wikipedia in Portuguese.
How to enter? (soon)
Guest curators
These arise from the desire to collaborate in order to address the lack of representation of communities and specific knowledge in Wikipedia. Their purpose is to hold a Wiki Editoras Lx editing meeting in which the content to be edited is defined by an invited curator (person or organization). The meeting is not regular and takes place when there are opportunities for partnerships and the possibility of organisation. You don't have to know how to edit to participate, and can receive training at the event.
Partners of the Guest Curatorships carried out between 2020 and 2023:
- curatorship #1 - Mulheres na Arquitectura Association and the academic project W.ARCH.PT
- curatorship #2 - Poet Raquel Lima
- curatorship #3 - Collective Faca
- curatorship #4: Vanessa Sanches, journalist and CEO of the magazine Bantumen
- curatorship #5 - Lolo Arziki, film-maker
Edit-a-thons
Marathons of article creation on Wikipedia in Portuguese, about and of interest to cis- and trans- women, and gender non-conforming people, with a focus on Portuguese speaking, Black, Indigenous, migrant and LGBTQI+ population. Participation is free and you do not need to know how to edit, training is provided.
- 2019 - Edit-a-thon Visibility of Margins, together we edit Wikipedia
- 2020 - Edit-a-thon 8M: Artivism. Together we edit Wikipedia
- 2020 - Portugal: Women for the Conquest of Rights and Freedoms, online edit-a-thon in partnership with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation Portugal and the Women Without Borders Association
- 2021 - Special editing meeting on "Women for Freedom" within the context of the celebration of the Carnation Revolution / 25 April.
- 2021 - Edit-a-thon Arts+Feminisms - Women's Struggle, online event in partnership with the collective NaPupila and Wiki Movimento Brasil.
- 2022 - Black Visibility Edit-a-thon: together we edit Wikipedia curated by journalist Vanessa Sanches, of Bantumen. [summary]
- 2023 - Women in Culture Edit-a-thon. online event in partnership with Wikimedia Portugal, where the image suggestion tool was tested.
- 2023 - Earth-body Territory Edit-a-thon, online event in partnership with the WikiMulheres+ user group, as part of the WikiforHumanRights 2023 campaign
- 2023 - [Transnarratives Edit-a-thon] curated by Lolo Arziki
- 2023 - Editatona Ativismo PcD em Portugal, gravação da mesa redonda de introdução ao tema
Other events
As part of the organization
- 2021 - Weaving nets: in partnership with Wiki Movimento Brasil as part of the Wiki-lusophonia Festival
- 2021 - Wiki-lusophonia festival
As guest speakers, facilitators or trainers
- 2020 - WikiCon Portugal 2020 - Round table about the Gender Gap in the Wiki
- 2020 - Opening debate "The World We Have and the World We Want - Actions and Voices of Warning", Feminism desk | Artivism Academy
- 2021 - Round Table: Wikipedia and diversity, Wiki-lusophonia Festival
- 2022 - LGBTQIAP+ gaps in History Theory and Wikimedia Projects Webinar | Project + History Theory on Wiki
- 2022 - WikiCon Brasil 2022 - Diversity Panel
- 2023 - WikiCon Portugal 2023 - Workshop How to organize an Edit-a-thon
- 2023 - Oficina: Ferramenta de tradução de verbetes da Wikipédia organizado pelo Mais Teoria da História na Wiki.
Wikipedia Articles created by the group
Articles created and expanded on by the group, as well as their geographical distribution can be visualised by using this link:
News, publications and interviews
- March 11, 2020 | Público por Sofia Matos Silva | Porque a Wikipédia precisa de mulheres, há uma maratona de edição no Porto
- June 5, 2020 | Gerador by Carolina Franco and Raquel Botelho Rodrigues | History is open with all hands: contemporary feminist projects
- June 30, 2020 | Polígrafo by Inês Catarina Pinto | Gender inequality: are women underrepresented in Wikipedia?
- July 15, 2020 | Público por Andreia Friaças | They were there, but with strange destinies. How to (re)write feminine architecture in Portuguese History
- October 7, 2020 | Shifter by João Gabriel Ribeiro | Wikipedia and the search for perfect representation
- 2020 | Academia de Ativismo | The work of Wiki Editoras Lx as feminist and intersectional online activism
- March 26, 2021 | RDP International by Andreia Rocha | Dois dedos de conversa
- May 19, 2021 | Wikinotícias | Wikipedia in Portuguese celebrates 20 years of existence
- August 2021 - September 2021 | Revista Brotéria, seção Ágora, pg. 205 | Resistance and care work in Wikipedia
- January 27, 2022 | #twitterchatpt #63 with philosopher Joana Rita Sousa
- January 2022 | প্রশংসনীয় পডকাস্ট- নতুন ভবিষ্যৎ (দ্যি নিউ ফিউচার) | Episode One - Wiki Editoras Lx
- April 19, 2022 | Bantumen | Wiki Editoras Lx deliver Wikipedia editing marathon with focus on "Black visibility"
- May 4, 2022 | Bantumen | Wikipedia gained new profiles of black Portuguese-speaking women
- May 4, 2023 | Al Jazeera | How are Wikipedians fighting gender bias on the internet's encyclopedia? Vanessa Sanches of Bantumen, member of Wiki Editoras Lx, takes part in the article.
- July 14, 2023 | Bantumen | Wikipedia: Lolo Arziki leads “Black Transnarratives Edit-a-thon” in Lisbon
- July 28, 2023 | Público P3 | Wiki Editors organise new Wikipedia editing marathon: biographies of Black Trans artists
- October 4, 2023 | Público Ipsilon | Etceteras: um festival feminista para expandir o que pode ser o design. Wiki editora Lx Flavia Doria facilita uma oficina de edição na Wikipédia
- October 27, 2023 | Público P3| Nesta maratona de edição podes criar mais páginas sobre mulheres negras na Wikipédia
- November 15, 2023 | Portal Vozes | Wiki Editoras Lx - O grupo Wiki Editoras Lx introduz mulheres cis, trans e pessoas não binárias da lusofonia na Wikipédia
- December 15, 2023 | DIFF | Gender gap event helped to shape the Image Suggestions tool for editors on Wikipedia in Portuguese
Social Media
Members
- Contaminadas, desde 2019
- MariaCurista, desde março de 2020
- Girassolei, desde 2020
- XenoF, desde março de 2020
- Danielly Campos Dias, desde 2021
- Bantuwords, desde fevereiro 2022
- Anita Braga, desde maio de 2019
- RitaFMatos, desde 2019
- Categcc, desde 2020
- BlitzkriegBoop, desde 2023
- Maitesob, desde 2023
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Contact
For more information, please get in touch with us via the talk page or email us: editoraswikipedialxgmailcom
Photos and videos
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8M Artivism Edit-a-thon by WikiEditorasLx (2020) - Group editing Wikipedia
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8M Artivism Edit-a-thon - Group
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8M Artivism Edit-a-thon by WikiEditorasLx (2020) - Group editing
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8M Artivism Edit-a-thon by WikiEditorasLx (2020) - Participants celebrating published article
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Wiki Editoras Lx on the 25 April (2021)
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Wiki Editoras Lx celebrating the Carnation Revolution (April 25th) during the meeting "Women for Freedom" at Penhasco, Lisbon.
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Wiki-Lusophonia Festival 2021 - Round table: Wikipedia and diversity
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Presentation of groups of lusophone users - Wiki-Lusophonia Festival 2021
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Black Visibility together we edit Wikipedia - moment of article publishing
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Black Visibility together we edit Wikipedia - moment of article publishing
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Group picture for Wiki Editoras Lx Editathon on April 30th 2022 in Lisbon
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Weaving Nets Wiki Editoras Lx and Wiki Movimento Brasil (2021)
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Wiki Editoras Lx is 4 years old (2023)
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Foto de grupo. Caminhada fotográfica "Presença Africana em Lisboa", promovida pelas Wiki Editoras Lx em parceria com a Batoto Yetu, em Lisboa, Portugal em julho de 2024