Social attitudes for Wikipedia in Latin America

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Damian Finol

The Wikipedia project has had limited growth in the past few years and is one of the most active in the free knowledge world. It has been evolving in the Hispanic world and statistics prove that its growth has been steady but with oddities such as being in the second place for enrolled editors but ninth place in articles written.

The Wikipedia project has had limited growth in the past few years and is one of the most active in the free knowledge world. It has been evolving in the Hispanic world and statistics prove that its growth has been steady but with oddities such as being in the second place for enrolled editors but ninth place in articles written.

This talk its dedicated to analyze topics such as:

A) How latin america sees the Wikipedia project B) How do latin americans contribute to the project C) How has been, statistically speaking the evolution of the project in Latin America?

Statistics and surveys from different editors and users from Latin America are used.

Track: Wikimedia Communities Event type: workshop Information about the speaker:

Hector Colina, (hcolina@gmail.com), Venezuelan free movenment activist for almost 10 years, involucred in severals proyects like debian, Wikimedia Venezuela projects and others.

Damian Finol, wikipedia projects, Wikimedia Venezuela project founder.