{"id":8906,"date":"2025-05-19T18:57:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T18:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wikiesfera.org\/?page_id=8906"},"modified":"2026-04-15T11:06:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T11:06:43","slug":"mujeres-de-zarzuela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wikiesfera.org\/en\/mujeres-de-zarzuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Women of Zarzuela"},"content":{"rendered":"
A project of Visibility of women in lyrics on Wikipedia<\/strong> in cooperation with the Teatro de la Zarzuela<\/strong><\/em><\/pre>\n\n\n\n
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In July 2024, since the coordination of educational and cultural activities in the Teatro de la Zarzuela <\/strong>(INAEM, National Institute of Performing Arts and Music, Ministry of Culture), contacted Wikisphere with a specific concern: many relevant women in the history of Spanish lyrics did not have an article on Wikipedia<\/strong>, despite the fact that the theater's documentary collection kept a lot of information about them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
From Wikisphere we saw right away that This proposal was fully aligned with our goal of reducing the gender gap in the free encyclopedia.<\/strong>. For us, it was key to connect this institutional knowledge with the community of editors, generating a collective learning space with a real impact on access to knowledge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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> Project design<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n
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From the beginning, we proposed the project Women of Zarzuela<\/em> as a collaboration between cultural institutions, experts in the history of Spanish lyrics and the community of Wikipedia editors. The first step was identify women whose artistic career should be visible<\/strong>, using the specialist knowledge of a \"Council of Wise Men\" coordinated from the Teatro de la Zarzuela itself<\/strong>. This mapping and curating work made it possible to define a set of priority biographies that, for the most part, did not yet have entry in the free encyclopedia or presented little information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, we set out to train people interested in the subject so that they could create, translate or improve those articles. From the Teatro de la Zarzuela, who have contact with the music degrees of various universities, they thought of offering students and researchers the possibility of receiving this training. This is how the collaboration with six universities: University of Alcal\u00e1 (UAH), Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), Complutense University of Madrid (UCM), University of Granada (UGR), University of Oviedo (UO) and University of Salamanca (USAL)<\/strong>, whose departments facilitated the participation of students linked to music research, musicology and the digital humanities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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We design a training process consisting of four virtual sessions<\/strong> in which the keys to editing Wikipedia with a gender perspective, the use of reliable sources, the translation of content and the correct structuring of an encyclopedic article were addressed. As a closure of the process, we organize a virtual editatone<\/strong> in May 2025 in which participants applied what they learned by creating, translating and improving entries on women in zarzuela, thus contributing to expanding accessible and free knowledge about Spanish lyrics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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