English subtitles for clip: File:Tec-de-monterrey-student-activities-in-wikimedia.webm

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Imagine a world

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in which every
person on the planet

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is given free access 

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to the sum of all human knowledge.

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That's what we're doing.

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Wikipedia is a very
special encyclopedia

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an encyclopedia in which

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all of us collaborate to
construct knowledge together.

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I think that it is one of the
objectives to which academic institutions

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should direct themselves nowadays

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The Tec de Monterrey is
the first institution in Mexico

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to officially incorporate Wikipedia

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as a learning tool.

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We are convinced that
collaboration with Wikipedia

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is a contribution to the
collective production of knowledge

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the diffusion of Mexican culture

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and in general the diffusion of
knowledge in the Spanish language.

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As a professor I encourage my
students to look over (Wikipedia)

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as a basic, first
source of information

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which helps to clear up
the questions that they have.

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When we have questions about

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a specific topic

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or when they want
to go deeper into a topic.

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It's a great benefit to me because

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in this way, I don't
have to consult other sources

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and it saves me a lot of time

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in doing my preparations.

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Using Wikipedia in school

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has become one of the my most

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important tools.

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It is a very simple way
to collect information there

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You simply look for
what you want to know

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and it's your first
source of information.

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Amino acid synthesis is
a topic that didn't exist before.

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What I did was collect sources

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in books as well as
specialized medical articles.

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I wrote the article

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and I left it as a school assignment

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and I left it after that class.

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A few months later I checked it

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at the beginning of 2015

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and it is impressive
how much it has changed

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People have edited
it and expanded it a lot.

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When this began three,
four years ago,

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the idea was that Wikipedia

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was not very appropriate
for an academic environment

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The first thing we began to do,
through conferences

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and participation
in a number of forums

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is to change the focus

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and get people familiar
with working with Wikipedia

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not just as a source of information

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but also in collaboration
with Wikipedia.

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I am Jordi. I study sustainable
development engineering

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In October, I went to take
photos in Mixquic for Day of the Dead

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for the contest called
"Day of the Dead Wiki Style" (2014)

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where I learned for the first time

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how to share photos
in Wikimedia.

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One of these photos was selected
as "best photograph" of the contest

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This experience really

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made me feel great
because the photo wound up

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in the official article on Day of
the Dead in Wikipedia (in Spanish)

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It's a photo that people
can see at any time

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giving great exposure

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and furthermore permits
you to transmit your ideas

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and your feelings about an event

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with the whole world.

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This project was done
by Natalia Pérez Cinencio

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with the aim of recording
words in Spanish

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related to the history
and culture of Mexico.

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Barbacoa

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This project was
recorded in a studio

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by students of the Tec de Monterrey

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Now, these same words are
available in Wikimedia Commons

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for the whole world and all users.

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Pozole

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My name is Naomi Iwadare Akachi

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a student of digital animation

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fourth semester, and I
study at the Tec de Monterrey

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I began looking in Wikipedia
and found no animation, as such.

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I began investigating and
talking to my medical (student) friends

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First I created an arm animation,

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triceps and biceps

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and with this I worked on
animations of the leg and hand.

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I did eight videos in total,
animations of muscles.

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I think that many animators
could work with Wikipedia

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to do these types of images

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and kinds of video to help explain

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what words cannot.

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We are bringing knowledge

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beyond the institution.

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Students from the
moment of graduation,

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to the moment they begin
their professional lives

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will continue to return to
Wikipedia to get information.

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It is not that we stop studying

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or stop using Wikipedia.

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At the moment we
visualize this as a tool

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we are making it acceptable
to use Wikipedia as a reliable source.

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In the cases where it is not,

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it is used as an academic tool

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to add to and improve the information.

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Hello, my name is Martha Gómez,

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a professor at the
Mexico City Campus.

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I give classes in Spanish,

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I have given classes in basic
Spanish to advanced Spanish,

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my name is Artemisa Martínez.

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We decided to arrange a trip

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The first day we went
to take photos in Tepoztlán

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and decided to gather foreign
students with Mexican students

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to take photographs
on this Wiki expedition

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the second day we spent working

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on the descriptions of the photos.

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What we did was upload the
photos to Wiki Images (Commons).

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They wrote the descriptions
of the photos in Spanish

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then translated them into English,

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and since we had a wide
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we sought to have a
third language version

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There were translations
to Swedish, Russian

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Portuguese, German, Spanish

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or English,

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French,

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and even the Filipino language.

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The contributions to Wikipedia,

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were precisely these unedited,

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photos of Tepoztlán

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and the most important was that

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they were photos that
really were from Tepoztlán.

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It was a way to get my
students used to the idea,

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that they can publish,
upload text or images.

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"Innovative Week" was an experiment
that the Tec (de Monterrey)

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where matriculated students

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worked on various projects
related to their area.

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In the case of Wikipedia, there was
an editathon, where students

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were dedicated to translating,

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modifying and creating new articles,

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also uploading photos, audio files,
videos, animations to Wikimedia.

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It was really a
challenging experience

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because it made you
realize that behind Wikipedia

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they do a lot of work
to make this information

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organized and understandable
to the general public.

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and it was a pleasant experience

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because one could also help
and contribute to the cause.

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There is so much
information in Wikipedia

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that we can use not only
in our studies, but in daily life

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I would like to make articles

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so that others can use them

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and make their tasks
and work easier in the future.

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I would like to contribute

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helping to improve
articles that already exist

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or publish new ones

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so that articles

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have better information,
true and reliable.