In view of the activity scheduled for Saturday, March 7, a editathon on the occasion of International Women's Day, the group set out to do a collaborative editing experiment on a pad and then create the Wikipedia entry. One of the participants spoke about the importance of a woman jurist, Maria Telo (disambiguation), and that at the time of raising it had no article in the free encyclopedia (after the various editathons by March 8, someone had already created the entry, so the experiment could not be finished).
The six of us organized ourselves as a working group (as we talked about at Saturday's editathon) and began to see what was needed to produce the content.
The first thing that was done was open a collaborative pad in the Titanpad tool. As some did not know this process, it was done step by step so that they could see how easy and fast it is to do it: without having to have an account and with the convenience of being able to choose a name so that the rest of the participants could access the document immediately and intuitively, regardless of the email address of each one (or even without having one) since in the case of GDrive both conditions occur that translate into difficulties.
In this way, it was created https://titanpad.com/MariaTelo where, almost exclusively, a work of collection of references. All that documentation helped to see how overflowing it is to research someone's life to create a biographical entry: despite the amount of information found on the internet, we must discriminate primary sources (most relevant in encyclopedic terms: official documents, pages of institutional bodies, etc.) of secondary schools (media articles, personal blog posts,...) more abundant and easy to locate but less reliable.
We were able to verify that, in less than an hour, we were able to collect enough references to configure a biography. However, we also realized that the complicated part came when creating the content itself: Tone, structure... At this point, it is not about being creative, but about following a preconfigured format that allows us to add the information we have and edit an entry that is not questioned in terms of relevance.
> Sensations during the process
For the participants of this meeting, the experiment resulted interesting and fun. They also saw how easy it is to start collecting links and how difficult it is to put a limit on that process and start writing. Being curious, time is reading what you find about the character in question.
They commented how important such an exercise is to sensitize and highlight the invisibility of women in supposedly open spaces such as Wikipedia. Also, going into another woman's article (Clara Campoamor) we detected a vandalism, which we corrected at the moment, and we could see how easy it is to manipulate the story told if we are not aware and attentive.
Another positive assessment that was made at the end of the mini experiment was the fact that do it in a group and develop the entry in a collaborative way, sharing findings and also sharing doubts. In this way, the information that is created is horizontal and, with practice, it is easier to feel autonomous in the creation of new content.
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