Lightning talk on students writing Wikipedia articles in Bogotá: transcript

Key points

• Bogotá has many undocumented sites and monuments, and part of their digital record was made by people from outside the country.
• Barragan worked with students from peripheral, low-income neighborhoods, who found a monument to Policarpa Salavarrieta in the Las Aguas neighborhood.
• Policarpa Salavarrieta, known as La Pola, is a symbol of gender empowerment and equality in Colombia.
• New Spanish Wikipedia articles can easily be marked or deleted, and several of the students' IP addresses were blocked.
• He asked librarians for support and patience, and the article about the monument still exists after passing reviews.
• The group now works with Wikimedia Colombia, which he thanked for its support.

Chapters

1. 0:03Introduction and outline of the project
2. 0:40Context: Bogotá's sites and digital territory
3. 2:16Policarpa Salavarrieta, La Pola
4. 2:57Community building and blocked IP addresses
5. 4:09The surviving article and thanks to Wikimedia Colombia

Full transcript

0:03In 2023, Wikimedia East, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific half. It's wonderful to be here and thank you very much for organizing this wonderful event. My name is John Barragan and I will present this humble yet meaningful experience from Colombia. So let's start. The name of our presentation is the Collaborative Production of Cultural Heritage in Bogota City.

0:40We have three items, the context, the digital territory, and the community building. For starting with, we can present the context, it's in the city of Bogota. We have numerous undisclosed sites and monuments. A portion of the digital territory behind this has been documented by people and individuals external to our country.

1:12So we believe that we can sum in this effort. We believe that Wikimedia provides a platform where we can showcase our communities through through processes of information and information literacy. In the presentation, we have collaborated with students facing issues with problems in distribution and recognition, of course. They belong to the peripherical neighborhoods and favelas with really big problems and low-income issues. The territory behind this is the Las Aguas neighborhood is located in the head of the city. Our student discovered a monument commemorating an iconic woman in the history of both our country and our nation. The name of this heroine

2:16is Policarpa Zalabarrieta and colloquial name of her was La Pola and La Pola is used today for our beer so if you come to Colombia you are welcome and you ask for a Pola they will give you a beer so be proud of that. Policarpa Zalabarita has become a powerful symbol in gender empowerment and various emerging groups. Championing equality in our country, I encourage you to explore the Wikipedia article Monumento a Policarpa Salavarrieta.

2:57And this is a sticker from La Pola in the middle and past 1950. So La Pola commemorates a really history of our country. In the community building point, it is not a secret how difficult it is for an article created on Wikipedia to survive, so it could be marked or deleted, at least in Spanish as I know.

3:37Nevertheless, with our students, we try to do the right thing. Despite this, several IP addresses we used were blocked due to protocols. When this occurred, I reached some different librarians and shared our work with and asked for support and patience. So I tried to empower the group I was responsible for.

4:09After all, the Wikipedia article about Polycarpa still exists. It is a kind of encyclopedic fact. It has passed some of the Vought and Librarian reviews, and most importantly, it was a collaborative downward. With the intention of contributing to the Wikipedia landscape in our city, our students will never forget that it was they who constructed the Wikipedia article about the heroine in the history of our country.

4:39Colombia. Now, we work hand in hand with Wikimedia Colombia to whom we express our gratitude for their support in these processes. And I will appreciate this time for the organizers. So thank you very much.

Source and licence

Recording: File:Wikimania 2023 - Plenary - 18 August - Lightning Talk - La construcción colaborativa del patrimonio científico y cultural en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia, a través del uso de Wikipedia.webm by Wikimania 2023 (2023-08-18), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. The transcript, summary and chapters on this page are shared under the same licence (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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