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Egyptian students help close gender gap
The Wikipedia Education Program Egypt is successful not only in adding a large quantity of high-quality content to the Arabic Wikipedia, but it's also successful at challenging the gender gap. Three female students, May Hachem, Eman Sawabi, and Amira El-Gamal, were profiled in a post on the Wikimedia blog written by Samir El-Sharbaty, the volunteer leader of the Wikipedia Education Program Egypt. Samir's post explains how May, Eman, and Amira are adding articles about women to help close the systemic bias that comes from a significantly male contributor base. Read the article.
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Students in Mexico contribute to Wikipedia, Commons
Leigh Thelmadatter, a Wikimedian, Regional Ambassador, and Professor at ITESM Campus Ciudad de México, contributed a post to the Wikimedia blog about the activities on her school's campus last term. International Baccalaureate students contributed content to Wikipedia as part of their coursework, and undergraduate students also wrote articles on Wikipedia, translated articles to the Spanish Wikipedia, and added photos and sound files to Wikimedia Commons. See more about the busy term by reading Leigh's post.
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Ole Miss offers open education class
A new graduate-level course at the University of Mississippi will be the first to add open components to a traditional course. Taught by Robert Cummings, the course features a two-week module covering open educational resources, or OER, and a six-week module in which students will learn to collaborate on Wikipedia articles. The course is open to Ole Miss students for course credit as well as to anyone who wants to participate in the course online. Learn more about the course.
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Wiki Ed Foundation seeks executive director
The Wiki Education Foundation is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The Wiki Education Foundation's principal initiative is the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada, which connects Wikipedia editors with professors interested in using Wikipedia in their classrooms. The Wiki Education Foundation is now accepting applications for the post of Executive Director. See details of the job and how to apply.
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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.
Education program kicks off on English Wikinews
Wikipedia isn’t the only Wikimedia project students contribute to as part of their coursework. Over the last few terms, more and more journalism classes have started doing classroom projects on English Wikinews. In a post on the Wikimedia blog, The Wikinewsie Group’s Laura Hale offered an explanation of what students can accomplish on Wikinews and why the students benefit from this learning opportunity. Read Laura’s post.
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Planning the future of course pages
Have you used the Education Program MediaWiki Extension? If so, you may notice there’s room for improvement with course pages. With our new developer Andrew Russell Green, we've started planning out the future of our course pages and other software features for Wikipedia assignments. Let us know what improvements to the software you would most like to see. Check out the planning page.
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Arabic Web Days video features education program
Arab World Education Program Manager Tighe Flanagan was invited to participate in a Google Hangout conversation as part of an Arabic Web Days program. Arabic Web Days is an initiative of tech companies across the Arab World to improve the availability of information in Arabic on the internet; while more than 5 percent of the world’s population speaks Arabic, only 3 percent of the digital content available today is in Arabic. The Wikipedia Education Program Arab World is trying to change that by adding more content in Arabic to Wikipedia. Watch the video of the Hangout (in Arabic).
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