Editatona of Galician writers #16M | [WikiMorada]

  • Edited group photo of Galician writers #16M
  • Silvia Penas in the ditatone of Galician writers #16M
  • A Cooperative Abode

> Theme

The past Saturday 16 May, Vigo once again became a meeting point for free knowledge with a gender perspective with the Editatona organized by Wikisphere, in coordination with A Cooperative Abode and subsidized by the Ministry of Culture under the project “Creating free knowledge communities with a feminist approach”, co-financed by the Wikimedia Foundation.

The day, focused on the creation and translation of articles about Galician writers, was held at the headquarters of A Morada Cooperativa in Vigo, coinciding with the activities of the Galician Literature Day, dedicated this year to the writer Begoña Caamaño.

This activity was the second editatona organized by Wikiesfera in Vigo and is part of the drive to local editing communities. The day also sought to give continuity to the local node WikiMorada, which emerged in June 2024, and contribute to its maintenance Active Network of Publishers committed to free knowledge with a gender perspective. Precisely, during the day also the importance of these Feminist spaces for collective encounter and learning, fundamental to share knowledge, generate networks and sustain publishing communities from the collective.

In addition, with this project we connect the different nodes through the exchange of participants in the different activities, strengthening the network and shared learning. On this occasion we were accompanied by Mar Sevillano, from Madrid node (Wikisphere) who was able to devirtualize and share knowledge with the editors of the node of Galicia (WikiMorada). This diversity made the participants work in 2 languages, publishing their articles in 2 encyclopedias: Spanish Wikipedia and Galician Wikipedia. In addition, tokens were created and completed in Wikidata.

> Dissemination

This activity, apart from its dissemination by the institution in which it was developed, A Morada Cooperativa, and that carried out by the social networks of Wikiesfera and WikiMorada, had impact on regional media:

> Expert

The day began with an intervention of the Galician writer Silvia Penas, who reflected on the relationship between poetry, language and memory from a feminist perspective. Through different texts, he addressed issues such as orality, daily rituals and the importance of creating own spaces from which women can narrate and share experiences. Penas also claimed Galician writing and poetry as tools of creation, community and cultural transmission.

During her speech, the author also evoked the idea of poetry as something that “runs through the house”, imagining domestic and everyday spaces as places of memory, conversation and collective construction. Faced with the acceleration and disappearance of rituals in contemporary life, these voices and spaces appear as shelters from which to sustain shared experience and cultural transmission.

These reflections served to contextualize the editatone and open a conversation about the gender gap in Wikipedia and the difficulties in representing Galician writers when their trajectories continue to be underrepresented in archives, media and other public sources of documentation.

> Results

  • Number of PARTICIPANTS: 18
  • Number of articles PUBLISHED: 15
  • Languages: 2 (Spanish and Galician)

>> Articles published on Wikipedia in Spanish: 14

Biographies

  1. Mercedes Tella (1868-1934)
  2. Maria Rei Vilas (1964)
  3. Eli Rios (1976)
  4. Dores Tembras (1979)
  5. April Road (1980)
  6. Iria Collazo (1981)
  7. Maria Neves Soutelo (1982)
  8. Cristina Ferreiro Real (1983)
  9. Cecilia F. Santomé (1984)
  10. Rosalia Fernandez Rial (1988)
  11. Arancha Nogueira (1989)
  12. Nerea Pallares (1989)

Literary works

  1. On the banks of the Sar, Rosalia de Castro 's
  2. The students, by Paula Carballeira

>> Articles published on Wikipedia in Galician: 1

  1. Lieders, by Rosalía de Castro

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