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Last Thursday, April 29, 2021, within the practical training aimed at young people of the Second Baccalaureate IES Polytechnic Las Palmas (@IES_POLI) and next to the Astronomical and Educational Association of the Canary Islands "Henrietta Swan Leavitt" (@aaecastro), an editatona was organized in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria to create content about astronomers on Wikipedia.

The objective of this meeting was to publicize Wikipedia among students and improve and increase the content related to astronomers and scientists. The coordinator of the activity She was the poet and Wikipedian Josefa Molina This helped them in the collective creation of the biography of a Canarian astronomer (Julia de León) and then introduced them to the Wikipedia translation tool, with which they ended up publishing in Spanish the biographies of several astronomers and scientists from other countries.