10 Facts About Patricio Lorente

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Patricio Lorente completed the Escuela Numero 18 de Gonnet and high school in the Colegio Nacional de 1 y 49.

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Patricio Lorente supported decentralized cooperation by building horizontal networks of exchange between different cities and regions of Argentina.

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Since 2004, Patricio Lorente has served in the National University of La Plata, first as Prosecretary of Administration, then as General Prosecretary and subsequently as General Secretary.

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Patricio Lorente has devoted his time to outreach activities in education, with particular interest in off-wiki activities.

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Patricio Lorente is the author of a booklet published by Wikimedia Argentina called "Wikipedia in the classroom" and, representing Wikimedia Argentina, he was a member of the Advisory Board of Conectar Igualdad, a government program that is delivering more than three million netbooks to all public high school students in Argentina.

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Patricio Lorente joined the Spanish Wikipedia as an editor April 20,2005.

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Patricio Lorente is a founding member of Wikimedia Argentina and was its president from 2007 to 2012.

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Patricio Lorente was one of the primary organizers of the first Ibero-American Wikimedia Summit, held in Buenos Aires in 2011, which helped bring together representatives from both established Wikimedia chapters and informal working groups throughout Latin America, Spain, Portugal and Italy.

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Patricio Lorente ran for the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation in 2011.

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Patricio Lorente was re-selected in August 7,2014 and served until August 2016.