Global education program wikimedia

Frequency: monthly Duration: not more than one hour Led by: rotating we encourage participants from different countries to lead one of the meetings; this is your meeting — so, take ownership! Type: in-person audio call, video if possible Technology: Webex. Categories : Wikipedia Education Program metrics Regular meetings. Namespaces Page Discussion. Views Read Edit View history. Some of them are librarians, some are students, and some are teachers. They all share a common goal: to help newcomers with their first steps on Wikipedia.

Professors who fulfill the Teaching Fellow requirements are able to put the distinction on their C. Global Education Program : The class-based university program as explored in the Public Policy Initiative has been highly successful in turning students into Wikipedia contributors.

We have built a strong knowledge base about running a class-based program as well as the tools needed to implement it training handbooks, brochures on how to start editing, how-to videos, sample syllabi, etc. We are now at a point to make these investments pay off. More than teachers, librarians, Wikipedia Ambassadors, and Foundation staff members came together in Boston to celebrate the successes of the Public Policy Initiative.

For the participants, the three days were a great opportunity to share their skills, best practices and success stories with each other. We received a lot of positive feedback and we hope that this was the first of many Wikipedia Higher Education Summits to be held in different countries around the globe.

Pune is a vibrant university city with more than a hundred educational institutes. We quickly learned that the interest from Indian teachers in our program is as big as the interest in the U. Most of them will edit the English Wikipedia, but some of them are also planning to write articles on the Maharati Wikipedia. K : We know that university students make great contributors to Wikipedia. Numbers : In the first two semesters of our educational program activities, more than students contributed about 5, pages of high quality content to the English Wikipedia.

Our research has shown that Wikipedia articles written by those students improved by an average of percent. By , we are planning to have more than 10, students enrolled in our Education Program.

Most of our Online Ambassadors are long-term Wikipedians who can answer almost every question related to the technical aspects of editing, Wikipedia culture and processes.

This is an archive of the Wikipedia Education Program Update, which was produced by the Wikimedia Foundation's education team from September until March Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Program Update -- a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation about efforts to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms.

The newsletter is released on the first and third Tuesday of each month. To be notified of the latest issue, add this page to your watchlist or email LiAnna Davis ldavis wikimedia.

In an effort to consolidate our communication, we will suspend publishing the Wikipedia Education Program Update while we review our overall communication strategy.