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Spanish specialist in digital culture, chair of Wikimedia Foundation Board (born 1982)
In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Sefidari
and the second or maternal family name is
Huici
María Sefidari
Sefidari in 2023
Born
María Sefidari Huici
1982 (age 43–44)
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) is a
Wikipedian
who was the chair of the
Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees
from July 2018 until June 2021,
having been re-elected to the position in August 2019.
Sefidari was named a
Techweek
"Women's Leadership Fellow" in 2014.
In 2018, an essay she wrote about the upcoming European copyright reform was widely covered, including by
TechCrunch
and
Boing Boing
Wikipedia experience
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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."
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.
She has also worked to close
Spanish Wikipedia
's
gender bias
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
King Juan Carlos University
on their Digital Communication, Culture and Citizenship program.
11
In 2017–2018, she was in charge of the discipline "Communities in Network: Cooperative creation at the Internet", provided by
Wikimedia Spain
, as part of a master's degree on communication, culture and digital citizenship, at the same university.
12
Wikimedia Foundation Board
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In June 2013, Sefidari was elected to the
Wikimedia Foundation
Board of Trustees by the community of Wikipedia editors. Her term expired in June 2015. In 2016, she was appointed to the Board to fill a vacancy.
She was elected to the position of chair in July 2018,
13
a position she held until her resignation from the board in 2021.
14
In March 2020, Sefidari requested a four-month leave from the Board, in preparation for her upcoming
maternity
, being replaced in the role by Nataliia Tymkiv, as acting vice-chair of the board.
15
Professional career
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Sefidari received a
bachelor's degree
in psychology and a
master's degree
in management and tourism from
Complutense University of Madrid
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References
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"María Sefidari"
Wikimedia Foundation
. Archived from
the original
on 11 July 2019
. Retrieved
2 September
2019
"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
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
"Wikimedia: otras formas de colaborar para compartir conocimiento"
Medialab Prado
. Archived from
the original
on 2 September 2019
. 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
. Archived from
the original
on 2 September 2019
. Retrieved
26 June
2020
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