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At Wikimedistas de Bolivia, we work with our academic idol, and this is what happened

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Editors stare intently at their monitors, watching material travel to the other side of the world.

These days, writing is complex. Writing well is even more so. Through various activities and workshops, we discovered that the community of editors in Bolivia was eager to take their Wikipedia edits a step further.

If we think of it as a craft—because our work is a craft—our writing will always be something that can be refined and improved. Virginia Ayllón at the workshop for Wikipedians

As passionate editors, we often joke that having an article deleted or receiving a warning from a librarian for not following certain conventions is part of an editor’s résumé—let’s say a small bump in the road on the path to becoming a Wikipedian on the Spanish Wikipedia.…

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