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talked with you about our Wikipedia Education Program to bring Wikipedia into higher
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Education project improves Catalan Wikipedia
Esther Solé from Amical Viquipèdia wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog about
the "Viquimoderisme" project to improve articles related to modernism on the
Catalan Wikipedia. Around 100 art history students at the University of Barcelona are
working with researchers to create new articles on Catalan modernism, a topic important to
the cultural history of Catalonia. Esther's report highlights their learnings from the
initial phase, and they're currently embarking on the second phase, in which a museum
in Barcelona will also offer students access to resources they can use in their articles.
Read more about the project.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/ba/Sagrada_Familia_n…
Online student trainings deemed a success
A post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog highlights the successful development of an online
training for students piloted on the English Wikipedia with the United States and Canada
programs. In the post, author Sage Ross describes how early feedback and user testing has
led to iterative improvements to the content of the training. This term, more than 400
students (about one third of all students participating in the program) have successfully
completed the training. Read more about the online training.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Education Program featured in video
Wikipedia Education Program Communications Manager LiAnna Davis and former Program Manager
Annie Lin were featured in a video describing the basics of the education program. In the
short video, Annie and LiAnna describe how the program works and talk about the impact the
program has had in the last three years. Watch the video.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Brazil professor featured on Wikimedia blog
Professor Ruy de Queiroz of Brazil is one of the pioneers of using Wikipedia in his
classroom. In 2005, he was browsing the Portuguese Wikipedia in logic and theory of
computation — his study areas — and found the Portuguese version lacking in comparison to
the English version. Over the last seven years, he and his students have added content to
more than 125 articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia in an effort to improve access to
information. Read more about his work.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
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