Maria Sefidari

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María Sefidari Huici (* 1982 in Madrid ) is a Spanish psychologist, lecturer and specialist in digital communication and culture as well as an expert in cooperative management. Sefidari is a free knowledge activist and has chaired the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation since July 20, 2018 .

Live and act

Sefidari was born in Madrid in 1982, where she currently lives. She graduated from Universidad Complutense with a degree in Psychology and later obtained a Masters in Commerce and Tourism from the same university. In 2014 she received a scholarship from the Techweek Women's Leadership Fellows program, which was designed to support women leaders in business and technology. Since 2015 she has been a lecturer for the master's degree in “Digital Communication, Culture and Social Affairs” at the Universidad Rey Juan Carlos in Madrid.

Sefidari - known on Wikipedia under the name "Raystorm2" - began in 2006 to create contributions to the Wikimedia projects. In a few interviews, she said she discovered Wikipedia when her little sister pointed out that there was a website that anyone could write or edit. “It all started with you getting involved in a topic and spending hours and hours improving articles, and you realized that there were guidelines that needed to be changed.” Shortly thereafter, she started the LGBT project in Spanish Wikipedia to give visibility to these groups and to improve and organize all content on the subject, inspired by a similar movement that existed in the Anglo-Saxon encyclopedia.

In addition to her content work, she was involved in the Wikimedia movement. In 2011 she was a founding member of Wikimedia Spain and became the first vice-president of that organization. In 2015, the project "Wikimujeres" focused on a group of Wikimedia users who wanted to strengthen the presence of women in the Wikipedia project and to overcome the gender gap there. Sefidari served on several steering committees of the Wikimedia movement, including the association committee and the board of directors, both of which she chaired. In 2013 she was the first Spanish woman to be elected to the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, of which she was a member until 2015. In 2016 she moved again to the Wikimedia Foundation to fill a position advertised by the community; she took over the vice-presidency of the organization. In 2017 she was confirmed as Vice President. During these years she has participated in numerous events for open and free knowledge as well as the inclusion of diversity and equal treatment in the content of Wikipedia.

In July 2018, she was elected President of the Wikimedia Foundation at the 14th Wikimania Annual Meeting.

Individual references and comments

  1. ↑ The article is based on the article of the same name on the Spanish language Wikipedia. The version history of the Spanish-language article is included as the first version in the German-language article history.
  2. ^ Techweek: Chicago's Woman leadership program. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Wikimedia Argentina: Publicaron los resultados de las elecciones de la Fundación Wikimedia. June 25, 2013, Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  4. ↑ Juanma Rodríguez (The Objective): La Wikipedia al descubierto. March 21, 2017, Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  5. ↑ a b Lucia Caballero (eldiario.es): La española que ha llegado a vicepresidir Wikimedia defendiendo al colectivo LGBT. March 15, 2017, Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  6. ↑ LGBT stands for Spanish for "Lesbianas, Gais, Bisexuales y Transgénero."
  7. ↑ Tomàs Delclós (El País): Wikipedia: 10 años y 278 ediciones. January 11, 2011, accessed June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  8. ↑ http://eventum.usal.es : Wikipedia como Herramienta de Aprendizaje basada en Nuevas Tecnologías. Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  9. ↑ Jessica M. Puga: Wikipedia se llena de nombres de mujer. October 18, 2016, Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  10. ↑ a b The link on lavanguardia.com given here in the Spanish Wikipedia is no longer valid.
  11. ^ Wikimedia Foundation: Board of Trustees. Retrieved June 24, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Iniciativa Open Data: Iniciativa Open Data reivindica el papel y la importancia de los datos abiertos en la sociedad actual. 2017, Retrieved June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  13. ^ Sara Calvo Tarancón (Público): Nosotras creamos, nosotras editamos. July 8, 2016, accessed June 24, 2019 (Spanish).
  14. ↑ genderit.org: Mapping the feminist internet: the Whose Knowledge? campaign at the AWID Forum. October 3, 2016, accessed June 24, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Wikimedia Foundation: Wikimedia Foundation announces Tanya Capuano as new Trustee, alongside leadership appointments at 14th annual Wikimania. July 20, 2018, accessed June 24, 2019 .

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SURNAME Sefidari, María
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish psychologist, university professor and Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid