The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) continues strengthening its electronic outreach platform to expand access to its vast academic assets among the Member States and the population in general. Its two main electronic communications tools —the www.cepal.org website and the Digital Repository— are now more tightly integrated and their capacity has been expanded, offering easier navigation and access to and downloads of the Commission’s publications and official documents.
An updated version of the Digital Repository —which houses more than 37,000 documents publish…
Officials, mostly from the ECLAC Library throughout the region, participated in their first-ever wiki-editating marathon, held during the week of 31 August – 4 September. The trilingual effort culminated in the launch of three articles on the ECLAC Library in Wikipedia - in Spanish, English, and Portuguese. But what exactly is an editing marathon or editathon, in Wikipedia lingo?
According to Wikimedia Chile, an Editathon is an editing marathon in which new editors participate by learning how to create and edit Wikipedia articles. This work is carried out massively, collectively and simultaneo…
On 31 May, fourteen experts, including noted Chilean architects and officials of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, participated in an edit-a-thon .…