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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Blog profiles design professor in Brazil
The Wikimedia Foundation blog recently published a profile of Iara Camargo, a professor of
design in Brazil who participated in the Wikipedia Education Program last term. She joined
students in her Editorial Design course in improving articles on the Portuguese Wikipedia
about subjects such as designers, design concepts, and publishing houses. Iara wrote an
article on book design as part of her work with her students. Learn more about her
experiences by reading the post.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Program update from Wikimedia Argentina
Wikimedia Argentina has been hard at work on encouraging the use of Wikipedia in education
for several years. In 2010, they published a brochure in Spanish titled "Wikipedia en
el aula", or Wikipedia in the classroom. Last month, they released a translated
version of the brochure in Guarani, an indigenous language spoken by people in
northeastern Argentina, southern Brazil, western Bolivia, and Paraguay. The Spanish
version is so popular that the Argentine government highlighted it in a space on their
education website. See more about the program.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
U.S. student achieves Good Article on Mu wave
Ingrid Haugen, a recent graduate of Roosevelt University in Chicago, was excited to learn
that in her final term of work, she would be taking a class participating in the
Association for Psychological Sciences Wikipedia Initiative. Ingrid's professor, Lisa
Lu, asked Ingrid and her classmates to work together to improve articles related to brain
and behavior on the English Wikipedia. Ingrid chose to work on the article Mu wave, and
though her and her classmates' efforts, the article achieved Good Article status in
December. Learn more about Ingrid's work.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
Final call for spring U.S. and Canada participants
The new term is upon us, and many professors and Ambassadors have already begun using the
new MediaWiki education extension. If you are a professor who plans to use Wikipedia in
the classroom this term, please make sure you have been in touch with a Wikipedia
Education Program representative for the next steps. To finalize your assignment, create a
Course Page, and pair with an Ambassador for your students, please fill out this Google
Doc interest form by Thursday, January 17.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
If you are an Ambassador, even if you will not be active this term, you must receive the
appropriate user rights and create a profile as either an Online Ambassador or a Campus
Ambassador with the new extension. Then you will be able to sign on to any courses you
will be supporting and monitor student contributions. To request user rights, please see
this page.
https://contacts.wikimedia.org/sites/all/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=8…
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