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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
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Egypt program produces great results
The results from the second term of the Egypt program are in, and students are
dramatically improving the Arabic Wikipedia for the better. Students at Ain Shams
University and Cairo University added nearly 6 million bytes of content to the Arabic
Wikipedia last term, and the are now making up 10 percent of the total active editors on
the Arabic Wikipedia. The program has now expanded to Jordan, Algeria, and Saudi Arabia as
well. Learn more about the program.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
U.S. Ambassador featured on WMF blog
Chanitra Bishop, a librarian at Indiana University Bloomington, started volunteering for
the Wikipedia Education Program in its pilot phase in fall 2010, and she's been active
in the program ever since, serving as a Campus Ambassador and Regional Ambassador. As a
librarian, Chanitra interacts with students in teaching them both how to use and how to
edit Wikipedia. Learn more about Chanitra's views on Wikipedia by reading this profile
of her.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Program leaders gather to share learnings
More than 40 people gathered in Milan, Italy, last month for an Education Program Leaders
Workshop. Participants shared progress and plans for education efforts happening in more
than 25 countries worldwide. The enthusiasm for Wikipedia Education Program efforts is
large, and participants were happy to discuss the breadth of activities happening
worldwide. Learn more.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Canadian professor assigns translation
Julie McDonough Dolmaya, a professor at York University in Canada, asked her students last
term to translate articles from the French Wikipedia into the English Wikipedia as part of
their coursework. She's written a blog post reflecting on the pedagogical aspects of
such an assignment for her blog. Read the post.
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