As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite its collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive. We interviewed two native Brazilians, Victão (Victor) Lopes and Felipe Menegaz.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Brazil? Do you currently or have you previously lived in Brazil? Have you contributed to any of the project's Featured or Good Articles?
Are some aspects of Brazil better represented on Wikipedia than others? Are there any significant gaps in coverage with which the project could use some help?
How does the Brazilian community on the English Wikipedia compare to the community on the Portuguese Wikipedia? Do you frequently borrow or translate information from one to the other? Have there been any collaborations between the two?
Has the project struggled to remain active? What kind of challenges does the project face when attracting and retaining editors? Are there any plans to revive some of the project's dormant initiatives, like the collaboration, peer review, or outreach departments?
Do you contribute to articles about other countries in South and Central America? What can be done to improve Wikipedia's coverage of these parts of the world?
What are WikiProject Brazil's most urgent needs? How can a new contributor help today?
Next week, we'll poke our head out of our shell. Until then, flap or crawl your way through our previous reports in the
archive.
As promised, we're expanding our horizons by featuring projects that cover underrepresented areas of the globe. This week, we headed to WikiProject Brazil which keeps track of articles about the world's largest Portuguese-speaking country. The project has shown spurts of activity and continues to serve as a hub for discussions, despite its collaborations, peer reviews, and outreach activities being largely inactive. We interviewed two native Brazilians, Victão (Victor) Lopes and Felipe Menegaz.
What motivated you to join WikiProject Brazil? Do you currently or have you previously lived in Brazil? Have you contributed to any of the project's Featured or Good Articles?
Are some aspects of Brazil better represented on Wikipedia than others? Are there any significant gaps in coverage with which the project could use some help?
How does the Brazilian community on the English Wikipedia compare to the community on the Portuguese Wikipedia? Do you frequently borrow or translate information from one to the other? Have there been any collaborations between the two?
Has the project struggled to remain active? What kind of challenges does the project face when attracting and retaining editors? Are there any plans to revive some of the project's dormant initiatives, like the collaboration, peer review, or outreach departments?
Do you contribute to articles about other countries in South and Central America? What can be done to improve Wikipedia's coverage of these parts of the world?
What are WikiProject Brazil's most urgent needs? How can a new contributor help today?
Next week, we'll poke our head out of our shell. Until then, flap or crawl your way through our previous reports in the
archive.
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