[ciência aberta] Fwd: [Wiki-Edu] Year of Science spreads to Brazil

[Felipe G. Nievinski]

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Eryk Salvaggio posted: "Wikipedia is the go-to source of knowledge for
human beings around the globe. That's why the Wiki Education Foundation's
Year of Science campaign works with science classrooms in US and Canadian
universities. Together, we're bringing clearer, more compreh"

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<https://wikiedu.org/?author=6> The Year of Science spreads to Brazil
<https://wikiedu.org/blog/2016/08/02/brazil-year-of-science/> by Eryk
Salvaggio <https://wikiedu.org/?author=6>

Wikipedia is the go-to source of knowledge for human beings around the
globe. That's why the Wiki Education Foundation's Year of Science campaign
works with science classrooms in US and Canadian universities. Together,
we're bringing clearer, more comprehensive knowledge about science to the
public.

But just as knowledge transcends borders, so does Wikipedia. So we were
excited to watch the Year of Science take on a life of its own in Brazil.

João Alexandre Peschanski is the Cásper Líbero Professor of Political
Science and communications supervisor for a Sao Paulo research foundation,
FAPESP, working in the Research, Innovation and Dissemination Center for
Neuromathematics (RIDC NeuroMat) at the University of São Paulo. He's been
guiding a campaign inspired by Wiki Ed's Year of Science, through the USP's
Center for Research, Innovation and Diffusion (Cepid). Media there has
dubbed their initiative the "Brazilian Year of Science."

"Our focus has been on the mathematical theory of the brain ... We choose
interesting concepts in papers our research team have produced, and in a
collective effort with scientists, journalists and students, create or
improve the pertaining content on Wikipedia."

João says there was about a 30-year gap between the the science reflected
in the sources on Portuguese Wikipedia, and the cutting-edge developments
being made in that field.

[image: Wikipedia_editing_workshop_-_Faculdade_Cásper_Líbero_01]
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipedia_editing_workshop_-_Faculdade_C%C3%A1sper_L%C3%ADbero_01.jpg>

*Workshop on editing Wikipedia with students of Social Communication at
Faculdade Cásper Líbero, with David Alves, member of the User Group
Wikimedia Brazil. Photo
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=49425819> by Joalpe
<http://Joalpe> - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>.*

The Brazilian initiative has added thousands of words on topics pertaining
to mathematical properties of neural dynamics to the Portuguese Wikipedia.
For example, they've expanded the Portuguese language article about
Alzheimer's disease, and more complex topics such as brachial plexus
injury. They also created the entry on biological neuron models, and
created a video that explains "Spike sorting" — a way of tracking and
measuring the electrical properties of cells — which appears on both the
Portuguese and English editions of Wikipedia.

In their model, experts and researchers work to explain concepts to
volunteers from theWikimedia Community User Group Brasil
<https://br.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposta_de_grupo_de_usu%C3%A1rio>. They go
on to write articles based on that expert engagement. Many of the authors
are postdoctoral researchers.

"At this point, we are the largest research organization to have a clear
commitment to disseminate science through Wikipedia in Brazil. And we are
growing: the University of São Paulo has just awarded us four undergraduate
positions to work on fostering a broader engagement with Wikipedia on our
campus."

João, alongside Wikipedian-in-Residence David Alves and long-time Wikipedia
volunteer Célio Costa Filho, have been drawing on Wiki Ed's US-Canadian
Year of Science model to expand the program in their own country. David is
a journalism graduate who started editing Wikipedia for a class project
taught by João. He's now the first person to receive a state grant to
promote Wikipedia in Brazil, thanks to the São Paulo Research Foundation.

"Researchers supply qualified, technical knowledge, and we transform the
content to a more comprehensible and clear one," Alves said.

We're excited to see the idea and tools we're creating to help take
knowledge beyond classroom walls are, themselves, reaching across borders.
The Wikipedia Year of Science really is a global phenomenon, and we're
excited to see the work that volunteer Wikipedians and groups are taking on
around the world!
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*Photo: Flag of Brazil
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=361734> by Governo do
Brasil. Similar file available at Portal of the Brazilian Government
<http://www2.planalto.gov.br/presidencia/simbolos-nacionais/bandeira>
(accessed in November 4, 2011), Public Domain. *

*Eryk Salvaggio <https://wikiedu.org/?author=6>* | August 2, 2016 at 10:00
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