María Sefidari
María Sefidari | |
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Born | María Sefidari Huici 1982 (age 41–42) Madrid, Spain |
Alma mater | Complutense University of Madrid |
Title | Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees |
Board member of | Wikimedia Foundation |
María Sefidari Huici (born 1982) was the chair of the
Wikipedia experience
Sefidari discovered Wikipedia when her little sister explained that it was a website that anyone can edit. "Everything begins," she said in an interview with online newspaper elDiario.es, "when you start to get involved in a topic and spend many hours improving articles, and you see that there are Wikipedia policies that should be changed."[7] Shortly afterwards, she launched Wikiproyecto:LGBT to give visibility to these groups and improve and organize all the contents related to this topic, taking inspiration from English Wikipedia's WikiProject LGBT studies.[7] She has also worked to close Spanish Wikipedia's gender bias.[8][9]
Sefidari is also a founding member of Wikimedia España (WMES), the Spanish chapter of the Wikimedia movement, and she served on its Board as its first vice president.[10]
In 2015, she gave a conference on Wikimedia at
Wikimedia Foundation Board
In June 2013, Sefidari was elected to the
Professional career
Sefidari received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master's degree in management and tourism from Complutense University of Madrid.[16]
References
- ^ a b "María Sefidari". Wikimedia Foundation. Archived from the original on 11 July 2019. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ a b "Wikimedia Foundation announces Shani Evenstein Sigalov as new Trustee, as well as leadership appointments at fifteenth annual Wikimania". Wikimedia Foundation. 16 August 2019. Retrieved 29 August 2019.
- ^ "Women's Leadership Fellows". Techweek (conference). Archived from the original on 20 July 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ Sefidari, Maria (6 September 2018). "Your internet is under threat. Here's why you should care about European Copyright Reform". Medium. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Lomas, Natasha (4 September 2018). "Wikimedia warns EU copyright reform threatens the 'vibrant free web'". TechCrunch. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Doctorow, Cory (5 September 2018). "Wikipedia's warning: EU copyright changes threaten the internet itself". Boing Boing. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ a b Caballero, Lucía (15 March 2017). "La española que ha llegado a vicepresidir Wikimedia defendiendo al colectivo LGBT" [The Spanish Woman Who Has Become Wikimedia Vice President Defending the LGBT Community]. elDiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Puga, Jessica M. (18 October 2016). "Wikipedia se llena de nombres de mujer" [Wikipedia is Filled with Women's Names]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Oviedo. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Calvo Tarancón, Sara (8 July 2016). "Nosotras creamos, nosotras editamos" [We Create, We Edit]. Público (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ Delclós, Tomàs (11 January 2011). "Wikipedia: 10 años y 278 ediciones" [Wikipedia: 10 years and 278 Editions]. El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- Medialab Prado. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- ^ King Juan Carlos University. "Table of disciplines on the Masters in Digital Communication, Culture and Citizenship 2017-18" (PDF). Retrieved 8 October 2019.
- ^ "Wikimedia Foundation announces Tanya Capuano as new Trustee, alongside leadership appointments at 14th annual Wikimania". Wikimedia Foundation. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ Sefidari Huici, María (3 June 2021). "Update from the Wikimedia Foundation Board chair". Diff. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
- ^ "Minutes/2020-02 - Wikimedia Foundation Governance Wiki". Wikimedia Foundation. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
- ^ "María Sefidari Huici | Medialab-Prado Madrid". www.medialab-prado.es. Retrieved 26 June 2020.