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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Cairo class creates Spanish literature portal
Dr. Abeer Abd El-Hafez teaches Spanish at Cairo University, and her class has participated
in both terms of the Wikipedia Education Program in Egypt so far. Last term, her students
excelled at adding content related to Spanish literature to the Arabic Wikipedia. This
term, her students have added three Featured Articles and one Good Article, but they
didn't stop there. Students also created a portal on the Arabic Wikipedia about
Spanish literature, and they've nominated that for Featured status as well. Check out
the portal.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Brazil program organizes Campus Party activities
Wikimedia Brasil together with the Wikimedia Foundation organized activities supporting
the use of Wikipedia in education in Brazil through Campus Party. Mateus Nobre, a
Wikimedia Brasil volunteer, talked about Wikipedia and Free Culture, giving a general
panorama on the history of encyclopedias, from the medieval to the information age, where
we have Wikipedia as part of the free culture movement. The coordinator of the Wikipedia
Education Program in Brazil, Everton Zanella Alvarenga, also talked about Wikipedia and
the Future of Education. Learn more about the Campus Party activities.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
U.S., Canada Thematic Organization proposed
A group of Wikipedia Ambassadors and program instructors known as the Working Group have
developed a plan for supporting the Wikipedia Education Program in the U.S. and Canada
starting in Summer 2013. The group is in the process of applying for Thematic Organization
approval through the Affiliations Committee. All current instructors and Ambassadors are
encouraged to stay up-to-date on the next few months' progress. If you plan to
continue using Wikipedia in the classroom in the U.S. and Canada and would like to become
a member of the new organization, please sign up on the interest list linked from the
proposal! To read more about the current plans, see the current proposal and feel
encouraged to provide and feedback or ask questions on
the talk page.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Czech Republic students improve content
Petr Brož from Wikimedia Czech Republic wrote a post for the Wikimedia Foundation blog
about the status of Studenti píší Wikipedii, the Czech branch of the Wikipedia Education
Program. Petr worked as an Ambassador with Jiří Reif's class at Charles University in
Prague again last term to create articles and take photographs of Protected Areas in the
Czech Republic. A total of 36 students participated this term from this class, and
Petr's blog post contains before and after views of each of the articles the students
worked on. The course is one of 10 that participated in the Czech program last term. Learn
more by reading the blog post.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Welcome (back), Rod Dunican!
Rod Dunican re-joined with Wikimedia Foundation family last month as the director of the
Wikipedia Education Program. Frank Schulenburg, the former director, has been promoted to
Senior Director of Programs. Rod was previously the project manager for the Public Policy
Initiative, the pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program in the United States, so he is
extremely familiar with the program and the Wikimedia projects. In his new role, Rod is
responsible for building systems that enable quality at scale in different educational
environments. Leave a welcome note for Rod on his talk page.
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