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
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Egypt program celebrates end of second term
The second term of the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt wrapped up last month with a
celebration conference at Cairo University. Dr. Abeer Abd El-Hafez, a professor of Spanish
from Cairo University, opened the conference and spoke about the spirit of the program and
its importance in the lives of students and teachers in terms of skills development and
new experiences. Faris El-Gwely, the education program consultant who runs the program in
Egypt, shared results from the second term, and the best students and Ambassadors from the
program received certificates recognizing their hard work. Students and professors also
shared information about their experiences in the program. Check out photos from the
event.
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U.S. student shares special Wikipedia story
University of San Francisco master's student Jacqueline McCrory wrote the Wikipedia
article on habitat conservation plans for her class with Professor Aaron Frank in spring
2012 — and was then astonished to discover that she'd been assigned to read the
article in a different class in fall 2012! Jacqueline talks about how her Wikipedia
article experience gave her additional responsibility at work and kudos from professors in
her department in a post on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Read the post.
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Quebec professor's work featured in WMF blog
Professor Simon Villeneuve of physics and astronomy at Cégep de Chicoutimi, a college in
Quebec, has been using Wikipedia as a teaching tool in his classroom since 2008. Overall,
his students have created more than 150 articles on the French Wikipedia on topics related
to astronomy and physics, and Simon has learned a lot about the best ways of doing
Wikipedia assignments. Read a post he wrote for the Wikimedia blog about his work.
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P2PU Wikipedia course kicks off
A free online course, Writing Wikipedia Articles: The Basics and Beyond, kicked off this
morning, as part of the launch of Peer to Peer University's School of Open. The course
is taught by longterm Wikipedia editor Pete Forsyth, who helped design the model for the
pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program. The course will teach students how to edit
Wikipedia articles, with an emphasis on Open Educational Resources and related topics. The
first webinar was held this morning, so students enrolling now should watch the archive of
the first lesson. Learn more and enroll in the class.
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News coverage highlights Poland, Ukraine programs
An article in the Global Post published today highlights the work being done in Poland and
Ukraine related to the Wikipedia Education Program. The Ukraine program ran a pilot last
term that produced 23 improved articles. The Poland program is working with a university
to replace a bachelor's thesis with a Wikipedia article. Learn more by reading the
article.
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