Wiki Education

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  • Atelier de développement de WikiSavoirs, le réseau Wikimédia collégial et universitaire de la francophonie canadienne

    Montreal, Canada Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    WikiSavoirs sera un réseau décentralisé de personnes œuvrant dans et autour des institutions collégiales et universitaires, et il sera dédié au déploiement des savoirs libres à travers les projets Wikimédia : Wikipédia, Wikidata, Wikimédia Commons, Wikisource, etc. Objectifs : 1) Faire participer la communauté collégiale et universitaire au développement du Réseau Wikisavoirs; 2) Explorer l’intérêt, les […]

  • Trying Something New: Faculty reflect on first time teaching with Wikipedia

    Join Wiki Education's upcoming Speaker Series on Tuesday, March 10! Each term, hundreds of faculty across the U.S. and Canada return to the Wikipedia assignment, ready to empower their next term’s students to improve public knowledge as part of their coursework. But what’s it like running a Wikipedia assignment for the first time? Join us […]

  • Inside the Wikipedia Assignment: Student Perspectives (WikiEdu Speaker Series)

    What’s it like to work on a Wikipedia assignment? Hear directly from the students themselves! In Wiki Education’s next Speaker Series webinar, student editors from across the country will join Wikipedia Expert Brianda Felix for a live conversation about their experiences improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework. Together they’ll explore the challenges and surprises […]

  • Persistence & Progress: Confronting Wikipedia’s gender imbalance (Wiki Education)

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    As the world's go-to encyclopedia, Wikipedia's content should reflect the diversity of the real world, but in areas like gender representation, it can still fall short. The persisting gender gap on Wikipedia extends from its content across subjects and biographies to its content contributors themselves – a gap that individual editors, organized groups of contributors, and […]

  • Beyond the Classroom: Student editors improve Wikipedia (Wiki Education Speaker Series)

    Online from Multiple Locations

    At the center of Wiki Education’s work are the thousands of postsecondary students across the United States and Canada we support each term. Tasked with improving Wikipedia as part of their coursework but often new to editing, the students work through Wiki Education’s series of trainings and exercises to successfully contribute to thousands of articles […]