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.
Results from med school pilot in Israel released
The first academic course in Israel dedicated to Wikipedia editing to offer full academic credit has wrapped up at the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University — and the results are astounding. Sixty-two students improved nearly 130 medical-related articles on the Hebrew Wikipedia. Course leader Shani Evenstein wrote a detailed description of her course's successes for the Wikimedia blog, including her learning points and results. Read the blog post.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/13/wiki-med-israel-wikipedia-education-co…
Louisiana State U faculty Becky Carmichael profiled
If you teach in the science department at Louisiana State University and want to incorporate a Wikipedia assignment into your classroom, Becky Carmichael is the person to meet. She began volunteering as a Wikipedia Ambassador in the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States in 2011, during her graduate studies and work as a teaching assistant for a Conservation Biology course. Now, she's helped 13 classes at Louisiana State University use Wikipedia as a teaching tool. Read a profile of Becky on the Wikimedia blog.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/10/louisiana-state-university-faculty-mem…
Frank Schulenburg selected as Wiki Ed executive director
Frank Schulenburg was the driving force behind the pilot edition of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States, and his dedication to the program led the Wiki Education Foundation's board to select Frank as the first executive director of the organization. Frank left the Wikimedia Foundation last week, and today is his first day as executive director of the Wiki Education Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation and Wiki Education Foundation put out a joint release announcing the move and thanking Frank for his great work on the program over the years. Read the release.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Press_releases/Frank_Schulenburg_named…
Welcome, Floor Koudijs!
A warm welcome to Floor Koudijs (pronounced cow-dice)! Floor has joined the Wikipedia Education Program team at the Wikimedia Foundation to assist on program management duties. She's a native of the Netherlands who has worked for the Dutch National Government as a program manager with the Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Ministry of Justice. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and daughter, and is looking forward to learning about the Wikimedia world and helping support Wikipedia Education Program activities around the globe. Send her a welcome message at fkoudijs(a)wikimedia.org.
Celebrating 100 editions of this newsletter!
A note from the author of this newsletter, LiAnna Davis: The newsletter you're reading right now is the 100th edition of the Wikipedia Education Program Update! I've been publishing this newsletter (first weekly, then twice a month) since September 2010, and I'm thrilled that you're still reading it! Thanks for all the feedback over the years. As always, I welcome suggestions for the newsletter at ldavis(a)wikimedia.org.
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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.
Interactive elements added to editing tutorials
This term, we've started enhancing the Wikipedia training for students with interactive editing tutorials. Using the "guided tours" framework that was introduced to help newcomers find productive ways to get started, student editors can practice formatting text, creating links, and adding citations, with step-by-step instructions from [edit] to [Save page]. So far, feedback from the student editors has been very positive; many note the interactive tutorials as their favorite part of the training. Log into your Wikipedia account, then click the link below to try the first interactive tutorial.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Training/For_students/My_sandbox
US, Canada students fill 1/3 Encyclopedia Britannica
Quantitative success numbers are in for the fall 2013 term of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States and Canada. In the fall term, 1,347 students added 11.6 million bytes to Wikipedia, including creating 251 new articles. In the seven terms of the program, students have added enough words to the English Wikipedia to fill 1/3 of Encyclopedia Britannica. And qualitative research projects have found students in the United States and Canada program have added high-quality content to Wikipedia. Learn more about last term's student work.
http://blog.wikimedia.org/2014/02/04/wikipedia-education-program-us-canada-…
Online screencast of workshop helps Arab students
The academic term in the Arab world has come to an end, and students at Ain Shams University in Cairo are finishing up their Wikipedia assignments. Over the course of the semester, Campus Ambassadors help each group get familiar with Wikipedia and editing on-wiki. One ambassador for students the Korean Faculty made a screencast walking new students through the basics — from creating a username to editing in a sandbox and in the article namespace. Especially given the disruptions in classes due to the political situation in Egypt, video screencasts are an important learning tool for students who may not be able to attend in-person workshops. Watch the Arabic screencast here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reSKMEEpkJo
New features for course pages released
Several much-requested features have been added to Wikipedia's course page system: instructors and course volunteers can now add batches of students to a course all at once, assign articles to students, and send a message to everyone in the class at once by posting to the course Talk page. You'll also be able to identify students and see which courses they are in whenever you look up their contribution history. To keep up with the latest improvements to course pages, you can sign up for periodic technical updates, delivered straight to your Talk page.
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Global_message_delivery/Targets/Wikipedia_E…
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