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

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Em 03/08/2016 13:15, "Felipe G. Nievinski" <fgnievinski em gmail.com> escreveu:

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> Subject: [New post] The Year of Science spreads to Brazil
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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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> New post on *Wiki Education Foundation*
> <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.
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> [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>
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> *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>.*
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> 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. *
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> *Eryk Salvaggio <https://wikiedu.org/?author=6>* | August 2, 2016 at
> 10:00 am | Categories: Uncategorized
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