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U.S. student profiled on Wikimedia blog
Washington University senior Kevin Li's work on Wikipedia was featured on the Wikimedia Foundation's blog earlier this month. Kevin, a student in Joan Strassmann's Behavioral Ecology course, contributed an article on worker policing to the English Wikipedia. Kevin started the article, and it has now achieved Good Article status. Read more about Kevin's experiences.
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Education Program kicks off in Sweden
Sophie Österberg, the education manager for Wikimedia Sverige, has written a detailed update on the kick-off of the Wikipedia Education Program in Sweden. She and the rest of the team in Sweden have been meeting with instructors and institutions to determine the best ways of working Wikipedia into the curriculum in Sweden. Wikimedia Sverige has also produced T-shirts and brochures for the program, and they're excited about the results so far: many instructors have expressed interest in being part of the program, and they've started to build relationships. Learn more about the Swedish education program's activities.
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Brazilian professor's work featured on blog
Professor Yuri Leite of the Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo in Vitória, Brazil, has been using Wikipedia in his courses since 2009, when he taught a class on the Charles Darwin book "The Origin of Species" and had his students update the article on the book on the Portuguese Wikipedia as he went along. Now, his students have contributed to improving the information on evolution available on the Portuguese Wikipedia for several terms, and Yuri looks forward to continuing to grow the available articles. Read more about his motivations for doing the project.
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Fundraiser highlights program participant
Adrianne Wadewitz is a pioneer in teaching with Wikipedia. She asked her students to contribute articles as part of coursework before there was a formal program, and she has participated in the program as both a professor and a Campus Ambassador. This year, Adrianne's work is being recognized as well by the Wikimedia Foundation fundraisers, who featured her in a blog post and video interview about the impact of Wikipedia. Adrianne talks about her experiences teaching with Wikipedia in the interview. Watch the video.
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Cairo student creates "class struggle" article
A student in Dr. Hoda Abaza's French translation class at Ain Shams University in Cairo created the article on the Arabic Wikipedia on "class struggle" as part of her coursework. User:Sherine_ashraf translated the extensive article from the French Wikipedia, including 42 citations. Read the article.
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Hi, Ambassadors!
Sorry to ping you so late on a Friday. A few community members have made a
request for examples of good student work, and some Ambassadors have
mentioned a desire to create a trophy case so we can notify editors in our
program that we've seen their great work.
I've added a few examples to this page[1], but I'd like to see some
contributions that you, as Wikipedia contributors, have found to be good
quality! You take a much closer look at a lot more student work, and you'll
know what students have improved the articles they've worked on.
Thank you ahead of time for everyone working together to add to this page!
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ambassadors/Courses/Trophy_case
Jami
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Jami Mathewson
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Wikimedia Foundation
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Welcome to the Wikipedia Education Update — a newsletter from the Wikimedia Foundation that is distributed the first and third Tuesday of each month. Someone from our staff has talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher education classrooms around the world, and we wanted to keep you in the loop on all of our exciting activities. If you would prefer not to receive these messages, simply reply to the email and ask for your address to be removed. Learn more about subscribing or read the archives.
Call for Spring 2013 courses opens in US, Canada
The United States and Canada branches of the Wikipedia Education Program are now accepting applications for instructors interested in formally participating in the program in Winter and Spring 2013. Instructors who participate in the program have access to Wikipedia Ambassador resources and support from the Wikimedia Foundation. A new integrated course page system will also be available for instructors in 2013. Program participation is limited due to support resources available, so interested instructors are encouraged to apply today by filling out a simple form expressing your interest. See the form.
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Ambassadors in Cairo hold many student workshops
Campus Ambassadors in the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt spent the month of November holding workshops for participating students to train them how to edit Wikipedia. Several Ambassadors at both Cairo University and Ain Shams University held workshops for students, and students responded in large numbers. The latest news about students' work and Ambassador workshops is always available by checking out the running Updates page on the Arabic Wikipedia.
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Brazil student creates important chemistry article
Students in Professor Regina de Almeida Santos's class at the University of Sao Paulo have been active in the main space of the Portuguese Wikipedia over the last few weeks. The students are taking a class on experimental general chemistry, and they have been writing articles on course-related topics. One student created a new article on the valence shell electron pair repulsion theory, which had articles in 20 language versions but not Portuguese until the student started the article. Read the student's article.
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Canadian Ambassador featured in Maclean's article
Online Ambassador David Purdy was recently featured in an article in Canadian publication Maclean's. David has more than 130,000 edits on Wikipedia, and he is active in supporting courses in the Canada Education Program. Read the feature on David.
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