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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Beta testers for new MediaWiki extension needed
The Wikipedia Education Program needs your help in testing a new MediaWiki extension that
will replace the current course page and Ambassadors system! Beginning in fall 2012,
professors, Ambassadors, and students will associate themselves with courses through a
MediaWiki database, meaning it will be much easier to create course pages and generate
dynamic lists of courses. The new extension will help us all be more transparent about the
work being done in the Education Program. We're looking for a handful of professors
and Ambassadors who are willing to create fake course pages to make sure the system works
smoothly before we deploy it on the English Wikipedia. Learn more about how to join the
beta test group today:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
Czech Republic students edit articles on protected areas
Thirty students at Charles University in Prague edited the Czech Wikipedia for class last
term through an education program led by volunteers from the Czech WikiProject Protected
Areas. Wikipedians served as Ambassadors for the class, helping students learn how to
contribute to Wikipedia. Students took photographs and wrote articles about protected
areas. User:Chmee2, one of the Ambassadors leading the project, wrote about their
experiences on the Wikimedia Foundation blog. Read the post:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
Classes start editing in Cairo Pilot
Students at Ain Shams University and Cairo University have begun to edit the Arabic
Wikipedia for class as part of the Cairo Pilot of the Wikipedia Education Program.
Mathematics students are going to be writing articles on famous mathematicians, while
French students will be translating articles from the French Wikipedia to the English
Wikipedia. Want to find out what the first article the students chose to translate was?
Read this blog post about the program:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
Welcome, Faris El-Gwely!
Faris has joined the Wikipedia Education Program team half-time as the Education Program
Coordinator, Cairo. In this position, Faris will help coordinate and monitor on-the-ground
and on-wiki activities in the Cairo Pilot. A long-term Arabic Wikipedian, Faris lives in
Sadat City near Cairo. He graduated in 2011 from Menoufia University where his specialty
was Engineer of Survey and Maps, although he now approaches geography as a hobby rather
than as a professional pursuit. Faris is very happy about his position as the Education
Program Coordinator, Cairo, and sees it as a continuation of his involvement in the
Wikimedia movement. Leave Faris a welcome message on his user page:
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6…
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